Chapter Summaries

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.

Hyūga Tenshu and two other Hyūga were badly injured by members of the Ōtsutsuki branch family, revealing a deep conflict on the moon and the branch family’s plan to destroy and restart the Shinobi World. Hashirama and Ryuto resolved to protect the Shinobi World’s right to shape its own future, while Ryuto sensed that hostile watchers were closing in.

• Hyūga Tenshu and two injured Hyūga returned after branch family members defeated them in three moves, and Hashirama treated their injuries.
• Ōtsutsuki Jing explained that the branch family considered the Hyūga an impure offshoot and wanted to destroy the Shinobi World, while the Main Family struggled to restrain them.
• Tenshu described the branch family’s faster, stronger Gentle Fist and wondered whether the Hyūga Byakugan could evolve to match theirs.
• Hashirama, Madara, Izuna, Tobirama, and Ryuto agreed to stay in groups, observe the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and investigate the branch family and a way back to the Shinobi World.
• Hashirama told Ryuto that the Shinobi World had to change through its own people, and Ryuto agreed that outsiders had no right to reset it.
• Ryuto sensed that more people were watching the building and that several of them carried hostility.

Ryuto and the others witnessed the Ōtsutsuki Main and Branch Families accuse each other of betraying Hamura’s wishes and agree to separate. At the Ancestral Shrine, the Branch Family demanded a share of Hamura’s power, reigniting the dispute.

• Hyūga Tenshu told Ryuto that the Main Family refused to share Byakugan secrets and the Branch Family insulted his bloodline.
• Ōtsutsuki Jing and the Branch Family argued over whether the Main Family had colluded with the Shinobi World and how Hamura’s legacy should be used.
• A Branch Family elder proposed that the two sides formally split, and Ōtsutsuki Jing agreed to take everyone to the Ancestral Shrine as witnesses.
• At Hamura Otsutsuki’s Spirit Tablet, both sides announced their separation and the Main Family said it would continue protecting the shinobi world and guarding the seal.
• A young Branch Family member demanded that the Main Family share the power Hamura left behind, and the shrine grew tense again.

Ōtsutsuki Jing revealed Hamura’s sealed Tenseigan ocular power and offered one portion to each family, but a poison-smoke ambush let the Branch Family and Hyūga Tenshu steal the bottles. Tenshu confessed that his clan had allied with the Branch Family to gain power, leaving Ryuto and the others facing their betrayal.

• Ōtsutsuki Jing showed the two sealed Tenseigan eyes and let the Branch Family elder choose one.
• Purple poisonous smoke filled the Ancestral Shrine, and Ryuto, Hashirama, Madara, Tobirama, and Izuna struggled to defend themselves in the confusion.
• Ōtsutsuki Jing dispersed much of the smoke and found the bottles missing, while the Branch Family elder stood with one and Hyūga Tenshu beside him.
• The Branch Family elder revealed that his family had worked with people from the lower world, and Hyūga Tenshu admitted his clan had agreed to serve the Branch Family in exchange for Byakugan advancement techniques.
• Hyūga Tenshu explained how his clan’s smoke bombs impaired the other clans’ vision, then handed the stolen bottle to the Branch Family elder.

Hyūga Tenshu stole the Tenseigan, used it to overpower the Branch Family, and fled with captives to pursue his plan of restoring his Otsutsuki bloodline. Ryuto and the others prepared to track him down and stop him, while Tenshu promised to return as their enemy.

• Hyūga Tenshu used poison and a Hyūga secret technique to immobilize the Branch Family elder, then took the fused Tenseigan and implanted it in himself.
• Tenshu demonstrated the Tenseigan’s powers, subdued the Branch Family members, and captured several Kaguya Clan members to use in his plan to restore his Otsutsuki bloodline.
• Tenshu declared that he would unite the Shinobi World through absolute power, then escaped through the Ancestral Shrine’s roof with the elder and his captives.
• Ōtsutsuki Jing said the Main Family could track the Tenseigan, and he planned to pursue Tenshu the next day after addressing the Branch Family’s situation.
• Ryuto, Hashirama, Tobirama, Madara, and Izuna discussed Tenshu’s threat and agreed to kill him if they found him, or wait for him to come to them.

Hyūga Tenshu used stolen Branch Family knowledge to transform himself and create a force of Byakugan-equipped puppets. He trapped Ryuto, Hashirama, Madara, Tobirama, Izuna, and Jing in an underground laboratory, where they struggled to fight back without risking Kaguya’s seal.

• Ōtsutsuki Jing told the group that Hyūga Tenshu had stolen texts and materials and was likely hiding in an abandoned underground base on the moon.
• Jing led Ryuto, Hashirama, Madara, Tobirama, and Izuna through the base’s traps to a laboratory where they found dead Kaguya Clan members and Tenshu with horns and a Tenseigan.
• Tenshu revealed that he had used forbidden techniques to strengthen his Ōtsutsuki bloodline and created more than a hundred puppets combining Byakugan and Kaguya bone abilities.
• The puppets attacked, and Hashirama, Madara, Ryuto, Tobirama, and Izuna struggled to fight them while avoiding large-scale attacks that might damage Kaguya’s seal.
• Tobirama used Flying Thunder God Slash to save Izuna from three puppets, then fought beside him as Tenshu declared that the group would be sacrifices before his new era.