Chapter Summaries

Madara revealed how he awakened the Rinnegan by combining his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan with Hashirama’s cells, then absorbed Kaguya’s chakra to gain more power. He challenged Ryuto and summoned a meteorite with Tengai Shinsei, leaving the battlefield facing its impact.

• Madara explained that he had deliberately let Hyūga Tenshu wound him so Hashirama would use the Symbiosis Technique and transfer his cells.
• Madara revealed that the cells awakened his Rinnegan and granted him the Absorption Seal, which could absorb ninjutsu and chakra.
• Madara admitted he had absorbed Kaguya’s chakra after Ryuto wounded her, and declared himself stronger than her.
• Madara formed a four-winged Perfect Susanoo and used Tengai Shinsei to summon a flaming meteorite toward the battlefield.

Ryuto destroyed Madara’s falling meteor with a Kamehameha, saving the battlefield, and accepted Madara’s challenge to fight to the death in three days at the Grand Canyon. As the others worried about Madara’s new power, Ryuto said he sought strength and would not regret facing a powerful opponent.

• Ryuto blasted through the meteor with a Kamehameha, and Hashirama and the allied fighters shattered its falling fragments.
• Madara challenged Ryuto to a fight to the death at the Grand Canyon in three days, promising to accept the consequences if he lost.
• Ryuto accepted Madara’s challenge despite Hashirama and Tobirama warning him about Madara’s Rinnegan and unknown abilities.
• Ryuto told Hashirama that he sought strength and wanted to fight powerful opponents, while Hashirama urged him to be careful.
• Izuna recognized that Madara had changed and resolved to witness their fight at the Grand Canyon.

With three days remaining before his battle with Madara Uchiha, Ryuto rested and kept Super Saiyan Full Power active until he appeared to make the form his normal state. He then led the allied fighters to the Grand Canyon, where he faced Madara and prepared to fight.

• Ryuto dismissed Hashirama and Tobirama’s concerns, saying he would spend the next three days resting and eating before the battle.
• For two days, Ryuto slept, ate, and strolled around the Senju compound while maintaining a steady golden aura; Hashirama suspected he was adapting Super Saiyan Full Power into his normal state.
• On the third day, Ryuto’s aura disappeared and his hair turned black again, and he invited everyone to eat before announcing they would leave the next morning.
• Ryuto led Hashirama, Tobirama, and the other elites to the Grand Canyon, where they sensed Madara’s immense chakra.
• Madara appeared with white hair, horns, and Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan, then mocked Ryuto for bringing allies.
• Ryuto said the Spirit Bomb would not work on Madara and challenged him to use his new abilities before Ryuto beat him.

Ryuto transformed into a Super Saiyan and fought Madara, who used his immense power and varied Six Paths abilities to keep him under pressure. After they traded attacks across the valley, Ryuto prepared to take the initiative and charged at Madara even faster.

• Ryuto transformed immediately, and Madara confirmed that absorbing Kaguya had made him several times stronger than her.
• Madara attacked with his Truth-Seeking Orb staff, Rinnegan powers, and summoned beasts, forcing Ryuto to dodge and counter.
• Madara unleashed an Asura Path barrage of bullets, missiles, lasers, and chakra blades, but Ryuto evaded the attacks and tried to strike back.
• Ryuto broke through Madara's barrage with Super Acceleration and knocked him backward, then blasted away the Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Madara summoned poison-spitting lizards and pulled Ryuto toward them, but Ryuto vaporized the creatures and clashed his Ki Blast with Madara's black crescent slash.
• After the explosion left a crater between them, Ryuto declared it was his turn and charged at Madara at even greater speed.

Ryuto fought Madara, who used Limbo: Border Jail and its invisible shadows to overwhelm him with coordinated attacks and ninjutsu. After enduring the barrage and figuring out how the shadows worked, Ryuto declared that it was his turn.

• Ryuto attacked Madara at close range, but Madara used Limbo: Border Jail to strike more frequently with invisible shadows.
• Ryuto condensed his golden aura to sense the shadows, then adapted to their attacks as Madara revealed they could use ninjutsu.
• Madara's shadows trapped Ryuto with attacks from every direction and hit him with Sage Art: Yin Release Lightning Dispatch Lightning Net, wounding him.
• Ryuto deduced that Madara had no more than six shadows and that they took turns attacking to conceal their numbers and cooldown.
• Madara and the shadows bombarded Ryuto with coordinated techniques, leaving him battered and struggling until he steadied himself and said it was his turn.

Ryuto used a combination of the Afterimage Technique and Solar Flare to blind Madara and destroy his Limbo shadows. Madara challenged him to demonstrate an even more forceful way to break Limbo, and Ryuto prepared to show him.

• Ryuto surrounded Madara with afterimages while his real body flew above him.
• Ryuto blinded Madara with Solar Flare, then used his ki to detect and strike all six Limbo shadows, forcing them back into Madara.
• After his vision recovered, Madara dismissed Ryuto's explanation and challenged him to break Limbo with a heavier attack.
• Ryuto agreed, lowered his stance, and let his golden aura surge.

Ryuto transformed into Super Saiyan 2 and fought Madara after Madara sacrificed his Limbo clones to empower himself. Their battle devastated the canyon, and both prepared to launch one final round while badly injured.

• Ryuto revealed his Super Saiyan 2 power and demonstrated a wide-range attack that could erase the ground and defeat Madara's clones.
• Madara used Limbo: Severing Prison to sacrifice his shadow clones and concentrate their power in himself, giving up the ability to use Limbo: Border Jail again.
• Ryuto and Madara clashed in midair and traded blows, flattening the canyon into a plain with their attacks.
• Madara fired black flames with Sage Art: Blaze Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame, and Ryuto countered with a Kamehameha that blasted a huge crater into the plain.
• Ryuto and Madara continued fighting until the basin expanded and both were badly wounded, then charged at each other for one final round.

After a day-long battle, Madara trapped Ryuto with a genjutsu and seemed to have won, but Ryuto used a foot-fired Kamehameha to launch himself back into the air and struck Madara with a decisive kick. Ryuto left Madara semiconscious in the crater and sat down to recover, exhausted but victorious.

• Ryuto and Madara continued fighting until evening, both nearly exhausted and their battle basin widened to nearly five hundred meters.
• Madara feigned weakness, caught Ryuto with a Rinnegan genjutsu, and smashed his arms with his Khakkhara before knocking him into the air and striking his back.
• Madara celebrated what he believed was his victory as Ryuto fell, then prepared to deliver the final blow.
• Ryuto fired a Kamehameha from his foot to reverse his fall and launched a Meteor Flying Kick into Madara's chest.
• Madara crashed into the crater with his chest caved in, and Ryuto told him he had lost before sitting down to rest.

Madara woke sealed in the Senju Clan Compound after Hashirama vouched for his life, and he joined a meeting where the clans debated forming a Shinobi Alliance. Ryuto left the contentious meeting and told Rena Uzumaki he planned to travel the world, ending the chapter ready to depart the next day.

• Madara woke under Mito Uzumaki’s seals, stopped trying to break them after Ryuto warned him, and learned Hashirama had persuaded the clans to spare him.
• Ryuto brought Madara to the Council Chamber, where Hashirama proposed a Shinobi Alliance and the clan leaders argued over its structure and authority.
• Madara and Tobirama called for unified leadership, and Izuna proposed rotating leaders, councils, and checks and balances; the attendees began discussing the details.
• Ryuto slipped out of the meeting and encountered Rena Uzumaki, who had also left because of the noise.
• Ryuto told Rena he planned to travel the world, and she thanked him for saving her and everyone before returning to the meeting.
• Ryuto watched Rena leave and decided to set out the next day.