Recaps

Madara and Izuna combined their Susanoo against Hashirama’s True Several Thousand Hands, but Ryuto’s Tri-Beam shattered the Susanoo and left all three fighters exhausted. As Hashirama declared the fight over, a battle among the Uzumaki, Hyūga, and Kaguya clans erupted around the canyon.

• Izuna and Madara joined their Susanoo into a thirty-meter Majestic Attire: Susanoo, while Hashirama summoned the True Several Thousand Hands wooden Buddha.
• Hashirama’s thousand wooden hands battered the armored Susanoo as Madara and Izuna struggled to hold it together and Hashirama’s sage chakra dwindled.
• Ryuto unleashed his Tri-Beam from the sky, destroying both Susanoo layers and leaving Madara and Izuna severely weakened before Hashirama caught the falling Ryuto.
• Hashirama approached Madara to declare his defeat, but explosions and fighting broke out around the canyon among the Uzumaki, Hyūga, and Kaguya clans.
• Hashirama prepared for another battle as Madara said they would deal with the factions, while Ryuto lay unable to move and Izuna remained unconscious.

After Hashirama defeated Ryuto and the exhausted fighters prepared to leave, Black Zetsu sparked a five-way battle in the canyon by planting false orders and drawing in the Hyuga, Kaguya, and Uzumaki clans. Hashirama and Mito held off the attackers while Rena carried Ryuto toward safety, as Black Zetsu vanished after furthering his plan to prolong the conflict.

• Black Zetsu disguised himself as Senju and Uchiha ninja and provoked the two ambush forces into fighting.
• Hyūga Tenshu sent the Hyuga Clan after Ryuto, while Kaguya Bone led his clan into the battle, attacking both Senju and Uchiha.
• Mito Uzumaki recognized that someone had leaked false intelligence and led her squad into the canyon to reach Hashirama and Ryuto.
• Hashirama rescued Ryuto and fled toward Mito as Hyūga Tenshu pursued; Madara helped the unconscious Izuna retreat while Black Zetsu secretly saved him from a Kaguya attacker.
• Rena carried Ryuto toward the western exit while Hashirama and Mito stayed behind to face the Hyuga and Kaguya forces.
• Black Zetsu watched the fighting intensify, then disappeared underground as the five-way melee continued.

Rena carried the helpless Ryuto toward the canyon exit while Black Zetsu possessed Izuna and sent him after them. Izuna’s attack killed Rena instead of Ryuto, leaving Ryuto holding her as rage and grief surged through him.

• Hashirama and Mito fought off the Hyūga and Kaguya clans while Rena carried Ryuto toward the canyon exit.
• Black Zetsu used the Spiritual Fusion Technique to take control of Izuna’s weakened body.
• Izuna broke away from Madara and raced toward Rena and Ryuto.
• Izuna killed Rena’s two Uzumaki guards, then thrust his kunai toward Ryuto.
• Rena shielded Ryuto and took the kunai through her back and chest.
• Ryuto caught Rena as she fell, while Black Zetsu withdrew and Ryuto’s rage and grief erupted.

After Rena died in Ryuto’s arms, his grief awakened a powerful golden transformation, and he struck down the attackers who had surrounded them. He then rose above the canyon battlefield and ordered everyone to stop fighting as he gathered a mass of golden energy.

• Rena died in Ryuto’s arms as three Hyuga ninja and two Kaguya ninja charged at him.
• Ryuto transformed, his hair turning gold and his eyes emerald, and blasted the five attackers away with a surge of power.
• Ryuto defeated the scar-faced Hyuga jonin and the Kaguya jonin, then disabled the three fleeing ninja with golden beams.
• Hashirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki sensed Ryuto’s energy, but Hyūga Tenshu’s men kept them from reaching him; Madara Uchiha also noticed the transformation.
• Ryuto tended Rena’s wound, crushed the bloodied kunai, and rose above the canyon as the fighting stopped.
• Ryuto gathered golden energy in his raised palm and ordered everyone to stop fighting.

Ryuto transformed into a Super Saiyan and overwhelmed the fighters in the canyon, then moved to seize the unconscious Izuna. Hashirama convinced him to focus on saving Rena, but Madara still refused to let anyone take Izuna.

• Ryuto ordered the fighting to stop, then knocked seven or eight Hyūga and Kaguya attackers aside with a golden shock wave.
• Ryuto demanded that Madara hand over Izuna, but Madara stood between them and raised his Susanoo.
• Ryuto shattered Madara's Susanoo with one punch and prepared to attack Izuna before Hashirama restrained his wrist with wood vines.
• Hashirama shielded Izuna from Ryuto's blast and warned him that Izuna might have been controlled, then urged him to save Rena, whose life was fading.
• Ryuto's Super Saiyan aura faded, and he lifted Rena and told Hashirama to bring Izuna along for questioning.
• Madara again blocked Izuna and told Ryuto he would have to kill him before taking his brother.

Hashirama Senju persuaded Madara to let him take Izuna for treatment while Ryuto saved Rena. After healing both siblings, Hashirama led Ryuto and Madara away from the canyon, while Black Zetsu began plotting a covert way to deal with Ryuto.

• Hashirama Senju promised Madara he would stake his life on Izuna's safety and convinced him to let Ryuto save Rena while Hashirama treated Izuna.
• Hashirama used Sage Art: Healing Resuscitation Regeneration Technique to save Rena, though she remained in a deep coma.
• Hashirama treated Izuna and concluded that Izuna's weakened mind could have been invaded and controlled by an outside force.
• Black Zetsu sensed Ryuto's Super Saiyan power and decided to target his loved ones or exploit the Senju-Uchiha conflict instead of confronting him directly.
• After resting, Hashirama led Ryuto, Madara, Rena, and Izuna toward his temporary camp.

After Ryuto’s golden power ended the fighting, the Hyūga and Kaguya withdrew, and the surviving clans tended to their wounded. Hashirama secured one month to treat Izuna and investigate who controlled him, while Black Zetsu began preparing a new threat.

• Hyūga Tenshu ordered the surviving Hyūga to retreat, and the Kaguya leader led his remaining ninja out of the canyon.
• Hashirama and Madara arranged for their clans to count casualties and treat the wounded, while Mito confirmed that Rena would live.
• Hashirama promised Madara he would treat Izuna and return him safely within one month; Madara warned that he would come back for Izuna and seek a way to counter Ryuto’s golden power.
• Madara led the Uchiha away, and Ryuto told Hashirama he did not know how to control or summon the golden form again.
• Black Zetsu watched from underground and resolved to prepare a new gift during the month before Hashirama’s deadline.

After Rena was gravely wounded saving Ryuto from Izuna’s controlled attack, Tobirama and Mito investigated the mental technique used to control Izuna and concluded Ryuto had been the intended target. The culprit remained unknown as Ryuto kept watch beside the unconscious Rena and vowed to find them.

• Hashirama and Mito brought the exhausted Ryuto and injured Rena to the Senju Clan Compound, where medical ninja took Rena for treatment and Ryuto waited outside.
• Tobirama ordered a search of Senju and Uzumaki records, while Hashirama and Mito imposed an information blackout about the canyon battle.
• Tobirama and Mito questioned Izuna, who recalled being conscious but unable to control his body after a cold sensation invaded his mind while he was weakened from overusing his Mangekyo.
• Tobirama and Mito compared Izuna’s account with records of Soul Thread Guidance and the Yin Soul Possession Technique, but neither explanation was certain.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, and Mito concluded that someone had deliberately controlled Izuna to attack the exhausted Ryuto, and Hashirama ordered a discreet investigation.
• Ryuto continued waiting outside the medical room, learned that Rena remained unconscious, and vowed to find whoever had targeted him.

Hashirama, Tobirama, Mito, Izuna, and Madara compared ancient Senju, Uchiha, and Uzumaki records and discovered recurring incidents of clan members losing control across all three bloodlines. The chapter left the clans investigating a possible centuries-old conspiracy targeting their bloodlines.

• Tobirama and Mito found no clear explanation for Izuna's control in the Senju and Uzumaki texts, so Izuna urged them to obtain ancient Uchiha scrolls.
• Madara brought the Uchiha scrolls to the Senju compound, visited the recovering Izuna, and shared tofu-skin sushi with him.
• The group compared records and found repeated, similarly timed cases of Senju, Uchiha, and Uzumaki members losing control and attacking their kin.
• Tobirama, Mito, and Izuna noted that the incidents affected only those three clans and considered whether their distinctive bloodline traits were being targeted or collected.
• Hashirama assigned Tobirama to compile timelines, Mito to investigate Uzumaki bloodline records, and Izuna to work with Tobirama.

Tobirama, Izuna, Hashirama, Madara, and Mito pieced together evidence that the Senju, Uchiha, and Uzumaki might descend from the Sage of Six Paths and have been targeted by a hidden mastermind. Madara agreed to temporary cooperation with the Senju while Hashirama and Mito remained determined to uncover the enemy’s identity and protect Rena and the others.

• Tobirama presented ancient records suggesting the Senju and Uzumaki inherited the Sage’s body, while the Uchiha inherited the Sage’s eye.
• Izuna and Tobirama argued that recurring cases of mental manipulation in the three clans pointed to a mastermind that was collecting or weakening their bloodline traits.
• Hashirama proposed that the Senju and Uchiha cooperate against the hidden threat, and Madara agreed to share information with the Senju while the Uzumaki cooperated separately.
• Hashirama assigned Tobirama and Izuna to organize clues, while Tobirama concluded that Ryuto had become an obstacle to the mastermind despite not being among its likely targets.
• Hashirama and Mito worried about the mastermind’s thousand-year history and hoped Rena would awaken as they resolved to discover its purpose.

Tobirama redirected the investigation toward the source of the Sage of Six Paths’ power, but Black Zetsu responded by spreading rumors that the Senju and Uchiha planned to rule the warring states with Ryuto’s power. The rumors fractured the clans’ cooperation, leaving the investigation stalled and Ryuto uneasy about the sudden turn of events.

• Tobirama proposed investigating whether the Sage of Six Paths’ power was innate or acquired, and Hashirama agreed to search the clans’ ancient texts for its origins and methods.
• Ryuto visited the recovering Rena Uzumaki, reassured her that she was safe, and watched her fall asleep again.
• Black Zetsu sensed the investigation approaching the truth and used the Mayfly Technique to spread rumors across the Shinobi World.
• A Senju intelligence ninja reported that the rumors cast the Senju and Uchiha as allies seeking power and Ryuto as a threat, prompting other clans to distance themselves.
• Madara, Izuna, and Mito returned to their clans to contain the unrest, halting the joint investigation while the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi remained allied with Hashirama.

Ryuto learned to transform into Super Saiyan at will, though the form rapidly consumed his Ki. Meanwhile, Black Zetsu arranged for Madara and Izuna to discover a scroll describing the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving Madara tempted by its promise of power.

• Ryuto recreated the calm release that had triggered his transformation and successfully entered Super Saiyan, then tested his control and ended the form after about three minutes.
• Aoki Uchiha brought Madara and Izuna an ancient scroll describing how merging the eyes of a blood relative could grant the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Izuna warned Madara that the scroll's discovery seemed suspicious and offered to give Madara his eyes if a transplant proved necessary, but Madara rejected the idea.
• Madara remained alone with the scroll, thinking about its promise and the power Ryuto had displayed.
• Black Zetsu watched the clan head's residence from the shadows and gloated that Madara's desire for power had begun to take root.

Izuna investigated the suspicious scroll and tested its eye-transplant method, then convinced Madara to exchange their Mangekyo Sharingan. Both brothers awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and Madara resolved to face Ryuto again.

• Izuna questioned Aoki about finding the scroll and suspected something was wrong after noticing his unnatural reaction.
• Izuna persuaded Madara to test the scroll’s transplant method after they discussed Ryuto’s overwhelming strength.
• Izuna arranged for Uchiha Yan to transplant Uchiha Chong’s eyes into Uchiha Xiushu, confirming that the method worked and that closer blood ties improved the result.
• Izuna proposed that he and Madara exchange eyes so both could gain the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and Madara agreed to the surgery.
• Uchiha Yan completed the brothers’ operations, and Madara and Izuna awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Madara tested his stronger Susanoo and vowed to show Ryuto his true power when they met again.

Madara and Izuna tested their newly awakened Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, demonstrating Perfect Susanoo and improved coordination. Their excitement turned to alarm when Five-Tails Kokuō escaped the Uchiha’s secret facility, and Izuna suspected the escape was no coincidence.

• Madara and Izuna discovered their new eyes gave them greater clarity and seemingly inexhaustible ocular power.
• Madara manifested Perfect Susanoo and tested its strength, while Izuna demonstrated his faster, more flexible Susanoo and Yasaka Magatama.
• The brothers practiced fighting together and found their attacks coordinated almost without delay.
• An Uchiha ninja reported that an unknown party had been spying on the secret tailed beast facility.
• A second messenger reported that Five-Tails Kokuō had broken free and fled northwest, prompting Madara to fly after it and summon the Uchiha jonin.
• Izuna followed Madara and wondered whether the spying and Kokuō’s escape had been deliberately timed.

Madara captured the Five-Tails after it escaped, then uncovered spies seeking Tailed Beast power to oppose Ryuto, the rumored “Golden Demon.” After Hashirama reported similar spying around the Nine-Tails, Madara prepared the Uchiha for a wider conflict and ordered the compound’s defenses raised to their highest level.

• Madara used the Perfect Susanoo to knock the fleeing Five-Tails unconscious, and the Uchiha Sealing Squad began sealing it again.
• Madara and Izuna discovered five spies monitoring the Uchiha compound and learned their employer wanted Tailed Beast power to fight the “Golden Demon.”
• Madara warned the spies’ backers to stay away from the Uchiha’s Tailed Beasts and ordered Izuna to strengthen the compound’s defenses.
• Hashirama Senju wrote to Madara that spies had also watched the Senju’s Nine-Tails, suggesting a broader effort to gather Tailed Beasts against Ryuto.
• Madara told Izuna to convene the elders and Jonin captains and raise the compound’s defense level to the highest.

Ryuto agreed to accompany Hashirama and Madara as they released the Tailed Beasts to draw out the hidden mastermind. At the valley, the three men freed the beasts, which immediately began to rampage.

• Ryuto decided to join Hashirama and Madara as a guard, using his Ki sensing to watch for a sneak attack.
• Hashirama received Madara's agreement to the plan, with Madara insisting they fight to settle who was stronger.
• Madara told Izuna to handle the clan's affairs and strengthen the defenses while he was away.
• Ryuto and Hashirama traveled to the valley, where Hashirama explained that they would restrain the Tailed Beasts while Ryuto watched for danger.
• Madara, Hashirama, and Ryuto arrived at the valley and found the Nine-Tails, Five-Tails Kokuō, Two-Tails, and Four-Tails bound there.
• Madara and Hashirama broke the beasts' seals, and the Tailed Beasts awoke and began to rampage.

Madara and Hashirama fought across the valley while controlling four rampaging Tailed Beasts, as Ryuto sensed several hidden groups approaching. The two prepared for a serious clash just as one intruder underground rushed toward the battlefield, and Ryuto aimed a Ki Blast at them.

• Hashirama restrained the Nine-Tails with a Wood Dragon, while Madara used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to control the Five-Tails, Two-Tails, and Four-Tails.
• Hashirama summoned True Several Thousand Hands and clashed with Madara's Perfect Susanoo as Ryuto flew above the valley and sensed hidden groups closing in.
• Madara and Hashirama used the Tailed Beasts against each other, but the Beasts resisted control and turned the valley into a chaotic free-for-all.
• Ryuto tracked an intruder burrowing toward the battlefield and formed a Ki Blast above their position.
• Madara and Hashirama prepared their strongest attacks as the underground intruder suddenly accelerated toward them, and Ryuto aimed his Ki Blast at the spot.

After Madara and Hashirama’s clash leaves the Tailed Beasts weakened, Hagoromo Ninja seal all four and flee with them. Ryuto captures one, and the leaders uncover signs that someone is manipulating the Hagoromo Clan; Madara and Hashirama agree to investigate together while postponing their fight.

• Madara’s Susanoo and Hashirama’s Wood Buddha collided, and the shock wave knocked the four Tailed Beasts unconscious.
• Six Hagoromo Ninja emerged from underground and sealed the Tailed Beasts into scrolls before fleeing in separate directions.
• Ryuto let the leader escape with the scrolls but caught another Hagoromo Ninja and brought him back to Hashirama and Madara.
• Madara questioned the captive, who said the Hagoromo Clan acted on an ancient book claiming that gathering the Tailed Beasts would grant power to rule the world.
• Hashirama, Madara, and Ryuto suspected someone had fed the Hagoromo Clan the information to stir conflict, and Madara and Hashirama agreed to investigate the hidden instigator.
• Madara took the captive to the Uchiha for further questioning, while Hashirama and Ryuto left to report the incident to Tobirama.

After rumors claimed the Hagoromo and Hyuga had gathered all nine Tailed Beasts and discovered the Sage of Six Paths’ ruins, Hashirama and Madara suspected a mastermind was using the story to draw clans into a trap. They assembled a five-person team and teleported toward the rumored ruins in the Endless Desert.

• Ryuto overheard rumors about the Hagoromo and Hyuga alliance, the nine Tailed Beasts, and the Sage of Six Paths’ ruins, then sensed many groups heading northwest.
• Hashirama showed Ryuto intelligence about unusual chakra fluctuations and agreed that someone was manipulating events to draw people toward the supposed ruins.
• Hashirama and Madara arranged to investigate together with Tobirama, Izuna, and Ryuto, avoiding a large-scale deployment that could make the Senju and Uchiha targets.
• Madara told Izuna that he planned to uncover whoever was behind the rumors, while keeping the Uchiha Clan on guard during their absence.
• Three days later, Hashirama, Tobirama, and Ryuto met Madara and Izuna at a secluded valley, where Tobirama gave them Flying Thunder God Guideposts.
• The five activated the guideposts and teleported to a concealed location near the Endless Desert to investigate the ruins and their supposed mastermind.

Ryuto and the others crossed the Endless Desert toward the Sage Eye ruins, where Ryuto swiftly killed waves of coordinated ninja beasts and revealed a new Kamehameha shock-wave technique. As night fell, Madara assessed Ryuto’s growing strength while sensing a more troubling presence moving in the desert.

• Ryuto detected and killed a Sand Scorpion King and three Burrowing Worms as the group began crossing the desert.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, and Izuna concluded that someone had provoked or coordinated the first beasts’ attack.
• Ryuto used a downward Kamehameha shock wave to kill five Sand Scorpion Kings, seven Burrowing Worms, and three Sand Flying Ants at once.
• The group camped for the night, and Madara studied Ryuto’s speed, power control, techniques, and stamina.
• Madara sensed something more troublesome moving in the darkness beyond the camp.

Ryuto and the others fought through increasingly frequent attacks by frenzied ninja beasts as they approached the oasis. When they sensed rival clans gathered there over the Sage of Six Paths Ruins, they paused to prepare, but a battle erupted inside before they could enter.

• Ryuto killed more than a dozen ninja beasts with Destructo Disc, Dodon Ray, and Special Beam Cannon.
• Tobirama found that a person’s Chakra was stimulating the beasts and that their attacks seemed coordinated.
• Ryuto fought off three more waves before Hashirama used Wood Release to crush the tenth wave and give him a break.
• The group reached the oasis and sensed dozens of people from rival clans, including the Hyuga Clan and the Hagoromo Clan, gathered there.
• Hashirama had the group rest before entering, but an explosion and a burst of Chakra signatures signaled that a fight had broken out in the oasis.

Ryuto, Hashirama, Madara, Tobirama, and Izuna fought the Hyuga, Kaguya, and Hagoromo clans at the oasis after a hidden voice turned the groups against them. Hashirama persuaded the surviving clans that someone had been manipulating them, and they agreed to explore the ruins together.

• A hidden speaker accused the Senju and Uchiha of trying to steal the ruins, provoking the clans into attacking Ryuto and his companions.
• Ryuto disabled several Hyuga Jonin, Izuna and Tobirama defeated the Kaguya fighters, and Madara and Hashirama subdued the Hagoromo ninja.
• Tobirama questioned a captured Hagoromo ninja with genjutsu but learned that he had not seen who started the rumor.
• Hashirama and Tobirama told the survivors that someone was spreading rumors about the ruins and tailed beasts to make the clans fight.
• Hashirama proposed that the clans enter the ruins together, and Hyūga Tenshu accepted a temporary truce.

Hashirama’s group activated the ancient array with chakra from all Nine Tailed Beasts and were transported to a strange purple-sky world. Surrounded by more than five hundred white puppets, they prepared to fight as the machines advanced.

• Hashirama’s group entered a vast chamber where an ancient array and unreadable writing emitted energy unlike chakra.
• A Hyūga elder deciphered part of the writing, which said that nine streams of chakra could lead to Heaven’s Summit and the Divine Treasure.
• Hagoromo Takashi and the Hyūga elder guided chakra from all Nine Tailed Beasts into the array’s nine depressions.
• The activated array distorted space and transported the group to a cold city beneath a glowing purple sky.
• The Hyūga elder sensed a large force approaching, and Ryuto detected hundreds of mechanical energy signatures surrounding the group.
• More than five hundred featureless white puppets revealed bone blades and advanced as Madara, Hashirama, and the others prepared to fight.

Hashirama, Madara, Ryuto, and the battered clans were taken in by the Ōtsutsuki Clan on the moon after an ancient teleportation formation transported them there. Ōtsutsuki Jing explained that the clan guarded the Ten-Tails’ husk, and warned that someone had manipulated the clans into gathering Tailed Beast Chakra to reach it.

• Ōtsutsuki Jing stopped the guardian puppets, introduced his people as descendants of Hamura, and led the wary survivors to a guarded hall to rest.
• Ryuto and the others sensed the Ōtsutsuki’s immense chakra and unusual energy, while Hyūga Tenshu learned that the Hyūga were an outside branch of their clan.
• Ōtsutsuki Jing returned and revealed that the group was inside the moon, connected to the Shinobi World by an ancient spatial teleportation formation.
• Ōtsutsuki Jing explained that Hamura’s descendants guarded the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, the Ten-Tails’ husk sealed within the moon.
• Ōtsutsuki Jing said the Nine Tailed Beasts’ chakra could revive the Ten-Tails and suspected someone had lured the clans to the moon to obtain the statue.

Ōtsutsuki Jing explained the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s history and revealed that someone had manipulated the Shinobi clans into gathering tailed beast chakra to revive the Ten-Tails and free Kaguya. Ryuto and the others agreed to remain in the moon clan’s guarded quarters while they recovered and sought information, where Ryuto sensed watchers nearby.

• Ōtsutsuki Jing told the gathered clans that the Hyuga were descendants of Hamura who had remained in the Shinobi World, then explained how Hagoromo and Hamura sealed Kaguya and created the tailed beasts.
• Ōtsutsuki Jing revealed that a mastermind had used rumors and ancient texts to guide the clans into gathering tailed beast chakra and activating the array, intending to revive the Ten-Tails and release Kaguya.
• Ryuto connected the mastermind’s control of Izuna and other historical incidents to the Sage of Six Paths’ descendants, and Ōtsutsuki Jing said the plot might be tied to a contingency Kaguya had left behind.
• Ōtsutsuki Jing ordered the visitors to stay in designated quarters while his clan investigated the threat and arranged a safe return to the Shinobi World.
• Madara, Hashirama, Tobirama, Izuna, and Ryuto agreed to wait, recover, and learn more rather than risk fighting their way out.
• Ryuto entered his assigned room and used Ki Sense to detect at least a dozen chakra signatures watching nearby.