Chapter Summaries

Might Guy opened the Gate of Healing and used Daytime Tiger to break through Suikazan Fuguki’s Water Rage Waves, but Juzo Biwa attacked before Guy could finish the fight. Might Duy arrived, killed Juzo with Night Guy, and prepared to face the six remaining swordsmen with the Eight Gates.

• Might Guy opened the Gate of Healing and launched Daytime Tiger, smashing Fuguki’s water pufferfish and piercing his Water Rage Waves.
• Juzo Biwa took advantage of Guy’s attack and swung an enormous Kubikiribōchō at the Daytime Tiger.
• Might Duy appeared between Guy and Juzo, used Night Guy to shatter Kubikiribōchō, and killed Juzo.
• Might Duy praised Guy and told him to rest while Fuguki and the surviving swordsmen were immobilized by his pressure.
• Might Duy unleashed blazing blue chakra steam and told Guy to watch the true power of the Eight Gates.

Might Duy used the Eight Gates to defeat the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and reunited with Might Guy, while Gengar collected their weapons for Uchiha Gen. On the moon, Asura confronted the sealed Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and realized she was repeating commands through her body's instincts.

• Might Duy unleashed the Eight Gates’ crimson steam and killed Suikazan Fuguki and the five remaining members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• Might Duy explained the Eight Gates to Might Guy, and the two embraced in tears as Gengar secretly collected Samehada and the other Ninja Blades.
• Gengar showed Uchiha Gen the collected blades in the Fake World, where Uchiha Gen planned to make them available to the Uchiha Clan.
• Asura used a Wood Clone to test Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s mental intrusion, then appeared in his real body after Hashirama’s power blocked it.
• Asura told Kaguya Ōtsutsuki he could not undo her seal and realized she was speaking through her body’s instincts after her will had been taken away.

Asura sealed himself away to keep from interfering with Indra and the others, while Uchiha Hikari decided to leave the Land of Whirlpools and find Uchiha Gen in Konoha. In the Land of Grass, Ōkuninushi prepared to leave Yahiko and offered to tell him, Nagato, and Konan about his era.

• Asura watched Kaguya Ōtsutsuki repeat her plea to be released, then closed his eyes and plunged his alternate dimension into darkness.
• Uchiha Hikari resolved to go to Konoha but realized she did not know the way, so she followed the direction she sensed through [Yachihoko].
• Yahiko shared hard biscuits with children in a war-scarred village and reaffirmed his determination to end war.
• Ōkuninushi told Yahiko that he was about to depart and urged him to keep pursuing his dream without grieving their parting.
• Yahiko asked Ōkuninushi to describe his era, and Ōkuninushi invited him to bring Nagato and Konan to listen.

Ōkuninushi told Yahiko how Shiba’s seed drained the ancient world, triggered disasters, and transformed him into Ōtsutsuki Shibai, a being wielding omniscience and omnipotence. Ōkuninushi was unsure how the final battle ended and warned Yahiko that some of his memories might have been fabricated.

• Ōkuninushi described the peaceful ancient world and the Heavenly Flood and other disasters that followed.
• Ōkuninushi explained that the god Shiba planted a seed in the world’s ley lines, draining the world and causing the disasters.
• Amaterasu Ōmikami, Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, Ōkuninushi’s father, and two Mysterious Existences fought Shiba, but the seed took over his body and became the Calamity Tree.
• The tree revealed itself as Ōtsutsuki Shibai and gained power that could make his thoughts and words become reality.
• Ōkuninushi said the gods later gave themselves to restore the world and became Fallen Gods, but he could not recall the battle’s outcome clearly.
• Ōkuninushi told Yahiko that Indra had sealed his memories and that some of the memories might be false.

Yahiko and Konan asked Ōkuninushi about Indra and the history behind his contract. Ōkuninushi described the Calamity Tree's return and the rise of a new god, ending with the world's consciousness asking the surviving gods for help.

• Yahiko asked whether the person who altered Ōkuninushi's memories had also tampered with Nagato's, but Ōkuninushi said Nagato's memory problem was connected to his eyes and left the rest unresolved.
• Konan asked about Indra and Ōkuninushi's contract, prompting Ōkuninushi to recount events from thousands of years earlier.
• Ōkuninushi said Shibai Ōtsutsuki was divided and his father banished the divided body, but Shibai was not completely dead.
• People from Beyond the Stars brought a Calamity Tree Seed, awakening the true Calamity Tree and turning fallen gods, including Amaterasu Ōmikami, Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, and Ōkuninushi's father, into Tainted.
• One of the two People from Beyond the Stars betrayed the other and took the Calamity Tree's fruit and things Shibai had left behind, becoming a god who defeated the Tainted and ruled the world while planting more offshoots.
• Ōkuninushi said the world's consciousness later appeared and asked the surviving gods for help.

Ōkuninushi explained how Ōtsutsuki Shibai merged with the world’s consciousness, leading to the Sage of Six Paths and his brother sealing away the deity. He revealed that Indra later devised a way to deal with the world’s corruption, but stopped before explaining the method.

• Yahiko reacted in shock when Ōkuninushi revealed that the Shinobi World was alive.
• Ōkuninushi explained that Ōtsutsuki Shibai had used the Calamity Tree to merge with the world’s consciousness and pursue Ascension, causing widespread disaster.
• Ōkuninushi said the world’s consciousness used humanity’s faith to create the Sage of Six Paths within the deity, who raised him and his younger brother.
• Ōkuninushi recounted how the Sage of Six Paths and his brother sealed away the deity, after which evil spirits returned and spread corruption across the world.
• Nagato recognized Indra as the genius Ōkuninushi was describing and remembered the strange feeling the name gave him.
• Ōkuninushi said Indra had devised a way to absorb all the corruption and began to explain how he made that method work.

Ōkuninushi explained how Indra made the Tainted’s power into the Sharingan and warned Yahiko’s group that many Fallen Gods remained sealed or had escaped. When Little Douzi and other children disappeared, Nagato traced them to Iwagakure ninja heading toward Kusagakure, and Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan flew after them.

• Ōkuninushi explained that Indra absorbed the Tainted into the Sharingan and warned Yahiko’s group about Fallen Gods still scattered across the world.
• Cheng Qian told Yahiko that Little Douzi and several other children had gone missing and showed him a hair ribbon found nearby.
• Nagato used his ocular power on the ribbon and saw Iwagakure ninja abducting the children.
• Yahiko told Konan to prepare their flight and arranged for Cheng Qian and the others to continue toward the Land of Rain.
• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan flew toward Kusagakure to rescue the children.

After Cheng Qian died, Danzō entered the Dream World seeking the legendary God's Eye. In Konoha, Hiruzen tried to recruit Uchiha Gen for a mission, but Gen walked away despite Hiruzen offering techniques from the Scroll of Seals.

• Cheng Qian collapsed lifelessly after Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan flew away, while Danzō entered the Dream World and declared his intent to obtain the God's Eye.
• Hiruzen approached Uchiha Gen and Hatake Sakumo at Ichiraku, wary of Gen's strength, Mangekyō Sharingan, and control of two Tailed Beasts.
• Gen teased Hiruzen, and Sakumo abruptly fled using the Body Flicker Technique after taking Hiruzen's change.
• Hiruzen told Gen he meant no harm and wanted to offer him a mission, but Gen rejected him and stood to leave.
• Hiruzen offered Gen one technique from the Scroll of Seals, then raised the offer to two, but Gen vanished without responding.

Uchiha Gen discussed his plans with Hatake Sakumo and revealed that he wanted to visit Sunagakure to study the One-Tail’s Sealing Jutsu. He left without a clear way to learn the Uzumaki Clan’s techniques from Kushina Uzumaki, whom he considered one of his own.

• Uchiha Gen sensed Hiruzen Sarutobi’s concealed malice and questioned Hatake Sakumo about the danger it posed to him and Kakashi.
• Hatake Sakumo said his presence in Konoha protected Kakashi and advised Uchiha Gen to seek support from Tsunade, the Nara Clan, and others for his plans.
• Uchiha Gen said he planned to collect Tailed Beasts while the war weakened the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
• Hatake Sakumo suggested the Land of Lightning and explained that Kakashi and Minato had returned to the Land of Fire and gone to the Kirigakure front.
• Uchiha Gen said he planned to visit Sunagakure to research jutsu, and Hatake Sakumo guessed that he wanted to learn the One-Tail’s Sealing Jutsu.
• Uchiha Gen confirmed his interest in Sealing Jutsu but considered himself too close to Minato Namikaze to use force against Kushina Uzumaki or ask her casually for the Uzumaki Clan’s techniques.

Uchiha Gen learned that Kushina Uzumaki’s restricted freedom was tied to her role as a vessel chosen by the Shinigami, and Hatake Sakumo revealed that there was more than one Shinigami. Meanwhile, Tobirama Senju worked in Rōran to build a stable time-travel machine as Uchiha Izuna watched Obito Uchiha and complained about being bored.

• Hatake Sakumo told Uchiha Gen that Kushina Uzumaki had hoped to join his mission and could advise him on sealing jutsu, but she could only travel freely through tailed-beast alternate dimensions.
• Uchiha Gen questioned why Kushina was restricted from leaving Konoha despite being able to back him up, and Hatake Sakumo explained that her circumstances imposed limits on where she could go.
• Uchiha Gen asked whether the Nine-Tails caused Kushina’s restrictions, and Hatake Sakumo revealed that she was also a vessel chosen by the Shinigami.
• Uchiha Gen wondered how Minato could have used the Reaper Death Seal if the Shinigami was inside Kushina, and Hatake Sakumo replied that there was more than one Shinigami.
• In Rōran, Uchiha Izuna complained about Obito Uchiha while Tobirama Senju adjusted a machine designed to create a stable passage through time using the Ryūmyaku’s power.
• Tobirama Senju continued building the time-travel machine, and Uchiha Izuna watched Obito Uchiha search for Mukade through their alternate-dimensional barrier.

In Rōran, Izuna and Tobirama decided to seek Orochimaru’s help with stabilizing the Ryūmyaku, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to travel to the Land of Wind. Meanwhile, Nagato was trapped in a place that regenerated whenever he destroyed it, and he struggled to escape and find Yahiko and Konan.

• Izuna noticed Obito searching Rōran for Mukade without first gathering intelligence, while he sensed Mangekyō Sharingan influence over the queen.
• Tobirama admitted that building machinery to stabilize and harness the Ryūmyaku would take too long without outside help.
• Tobirama proposed visiting Orochimaru, whose laboratories beneath Hokage Rock had impressed him.
• Izuna and Tobirama used the Flying Thunder God Technique to travel to the Land of Wind.
• In the Land of Grass, Nagato repeatedly used Shinra Tensei to destroy the place trapping him, but the surroundings restored themselves each time.
• Nagato realized that destroying the place temporarily silenced the voices in his mind, though he remained separated from Yahiko and Konan.

Yahiko realized Ōkuninushi’s memories were unreliable as he tried to escape a reality-warping trap, while Nagato continued feigning exhaustion to draw out his enemies. Nagato awakened the Six Paths-Naruson Domain, and Shimura Danzō recognized it as a new complication in his plan to acquire the God's Eye.

• Yahiko questioned the strange region trapping him, and Ōkuninushi warned that his memories were damaged and urged him not to trust his earlier stories.
• Yahiko hurled his golden spear to break apart the surrounding illusion, while Ōkuninushi sensed that someone had arrived.
• Fuhai Si and Qunhun Kui mocked Nagato’s apparent exhaustion and offered to retrieve his eyes for Shimura Danzō, who saw through Nagato’s act.
• Nagato kept destroying his surroundings while the Preta Path’s hell spirit replenished his chakra, and he suspected Konoha was behind the trap.
• Madara Uchiha’s six Limbo Clones appeared beside Nagato and unleashed ocular power as Nagato received information about the Six Paths-Naruson Domain.
• Nagato activated the Six Paths-Naruson Domain, causing the space within a thousand-meter radius to shake and begin unfolding into the Rinnegan’s otherworldly space.

Nagato broke free of the Dream Illusion Domain and summoned Yahiko and Konan to his side. Uchiha Hikari confronted Yahiko, asking Ōkuninushi where Konoha was, while the chapter ended with an author’s leave notice.

• Nagato shattered the Dream Illusion Domain with his Six Paths-Naruson Domain and summoned Yahiko and Konan beside him.
• Shimura Danzō watched from the Dream World as Fuhai Si and Qunhun Kui discussed the true owner of Nagato’s eyes and their failed plan.
• Uchiha Hikari appeared above Yahiko and the others, sensed her [Yachihoko] connection to Ōkuninushi, and asked where Konoha was.
• Shimura Danzō reacted with killing intent to Uchiha Hikari’s question, while Ōkuninushi sighed and took control of Yahiko to speak with her.
• The author announced a day off, answered reader questions, and shared Uchiha Gen’s status panel.

Uchiha Hikari asked Ōkuninushi for directions to Konoha and left after he told her the route. Shimura Danzō escaped a dream and returned to his laboratory, while Hikari sensed ten approaching sources of malice at the Land of Fire’s border.

• Uchiha Hikari stopped Ōkuninushi from explaining further and asked only for directions to Konoha.
• Ōkuninushi pointed out a straight route, and Uchiha Hikari thanked him and vanished; Nagato and Konan wondered whether Ōkuninushi could stay with them.
• Yahiko regained control as Ōkuninushi’s consciousness returned to him, summoned a spear, and warned that their hidden enemy was still nearby.
• Shimura Danzō followed Uchiha Hikari into a dream, where Hiruzen Sarutobi’s clone confronted him; Danzō dismissed him and disappeared as ten cultivation pods opened in Root’s laboratory.
• Uchiha Hikari emerged at the Land of Fire’s border, reflected on the Uzumaki Clan and her past, then sensed ten hostile, vigorous beings approaching.

Uchiha Hikari fought ten masked clones with awakened Wood Release and destroyed the forest they created with compressed Amaterasu. After killing a surviving Senju Nawaki clone, she absorbed its life force, which began transforming her Mangekyō Sharingan and restoring her vitality.

• Ten masked figures used Wood Release to surround Uchiha Hikari with a vast forest and attack her with Wood Dragons.
• Uchiha Hikari used Yachihoko to seize control of the trees and dragons, then compressed Amaterasu into a black dot and detonated it over the battlefield.
• Uchiha Hikari spared one Senju Nawaki clone and used her ocular power to turn him to ash, while the other nine were apparently vaporized.
• The clone's life force, containing Hashirama Senju's Yang Release power, erupted within Uchiha Hikari and caused saplings to sprout around her.
• Uchiha Hikari felt her Mangekyō Sharingan begin evolving and her depleted vitality replenishing.

Uchiha Hikari encountered Uchiha Gen, whose Mangekyō Sharingan awakened a new Dōjutsu. In Sunagakure, Ebizo urged Chiyo to accept the Incarnation Plan as the village’s last hope against Konoha, leaving her asking whether the Kazekage approved.

• Uchiha Hikari recovered her ocular power and met Uchiha Gen, admiring his appearance.
• Uchiha Gen awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan’s Dōjutsu when a green flame appeared behind Uchiha Hikari.
• Chiyo questioned Ebizo about the enormous Solar Disc and the Incarnation Ritual he planned to use to strengthen Sunagakure.
• Ebizo revealed that the ritual had transformed his body and greatly increased his strength, while insisting it had caused no other side effects.
• Ebizo explained that the Solar Disc would purify Cursed Spirit power, transfer it to selected creatures, and leave Shukaku inside Bunpuku to absorb the residue.
• Ebizo called the Incarnation Plan Sunagakure’s last hope, and Chiyo asked whether the Kazekage agreed.

Rasa ordered Sunagakure to pursue victory by lifting the restrictions on a dangerous biological magnetic field, overruling Chiyo’s objections. In Konoha’s camp, Orochimaru completed his Satellite Orbital Cannon and met the returned Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna, who had come to see him.

• Rasa arrived beside Chiyo and declared he would release the abnormal biological magnetic field, then assigned Ebizo the Incarnation Ritual project and gave the Jonin Commander deployment authority.
• Chiyo protested that Rasa was gambling with Sunagakure’s future, but Rasa vanished without changing his decision, leaving Ebizo silently watching the enormous disk in the sky.
• Orochimaru confirmed that he had completed the Satellite Orbital Cannon and chose Impure World Reincarnation as his next research project while reading Tobirama Senju’s notebook.
• Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna emerged from a spatial rift in Orochimaru’s laboratory after Orochimaru noticed their presence.
• Orochimaru showed Tobirama surveillance footage of him examining the laboratory’s reports, and Tobirama realized that the modern device had no detectable chakra signature.
• Orochimaru asked Tobirama whether he needed help and inferred from his closeness with Uchiha Izuna that the two were friends.

Uchiha Izuna, disguised as Orochimaru and acting as commander of Konoha's camp, faced a sudden Sunagakure attack and eagerly charged into battle against Ebizo. Ebizo's armor was damaged by Izuna's flames, and the fight continued after Ebizo realized his opponent was not Orochimaru.

• Tobirama Senju agreed to Orochimaru's request on the condition that someone take over command, and Orochimaru looked to Uchiha Izuna.
• Uchiha Izuna disguised himself as Orochimaru and prepared to burn the Hokage's sealed scroll before sensing an approaching enemy force.
• Ebizo attacked Konoha's camp with missiles and a laser, shattering its defensive barrier as Uchiha Izuna confronted him.
• Uchiha Izuna countered Ebizo's laser with Great Fire Destruction and charged through the flames while Ebizo's armor unleashed a barrage that wrecked nearby tents.
• Uchiha Izuna struck Ebizo with scarlet flames that damaged his armor and disrupted his chakra, then attacked with Orochimaru Style: Fire Blade after Ebizo exposed his disguise.

Uchiha Izuna forced Ebizo out of his armor and discovered that he had transformed into a curse-powered creature. After ordering Konoha’s ninja to withdraw, Izuna faced Ebizo and the Sunagakure fighters alone, and their battle resumed.

• Uchiha Izuna struck Ebizo’s tailed beast chakra reactor with his flaming Kusanagi Sword, and Ebizo emerged from his damaged armor in an altered form.
• Ebizo recognized that Izuna’s flames could burn his chakra and soul, while the other curse-powered Sunagakure ninja arrived and Konoha’s forces gathered around Izuna.
• Mitarashi Shisui reported that the medical and logistics divisions had evacuated, and Izuna used his Sharingan to make Shisui lead the remaining Konoha ninja away.
• Ebizo attacked Izuna with a curse-powered blade-like strike, and Izuna blocked it with his sword.
• Izuna unleashed Blaze Release: Fire Thunder God, burning several Sunagakure ninja, then fought off more attackers as Ebizo charged again.

Uchiha Izuna battled Ebizo and the Sunagakure shinobi, then trapped Ebizo in the Bringer-of-Darkness genjutsu and unleashed a chain of Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags. The explosions engulfed Ebizo in a vast sea of fire, leaving his fate unclear.

• Ebizo and the Sunagakure shinobi coordinated their attacks to surround Uchiha Izuna.
• Ebizo pierced Uchiha Izuna with his Reverse Curse: Dragon Star Spear, but the apparent wound was an illusion.
• Uchiha Izuna revealed the genjutsu and used the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique to isolate Ebizo from the other shinobi.
• Ebizo summoned the blood pelican with Reverse Curse: Blood Pelican to shield himself.
• Uchiha Izuna triggered Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, engulfing Ebizo and the blood pelican in continuous explosions.