Chapter Summaries

Ning Feng’s forces captured Utakata, the Six-Tails Jinchūriki, while Madara extracted the Two-Tails from Yugito Nii. The Two-Tails was the last beast Ning Feng still needed, and he learned that Nagato had found devastation at the Valley of Clouds and Lightning.

• Ning Feng drove the Sunagakure ninja back, then used Flying Thunder God to leave as the Konoha ninja counterattacked.
• Madara Uchiha extracted the Two-Tails from Yugito Nii and set out to search near Kirigakure for the Six-Tails before Ning Feng could claim it.
• Yahiko brought Utakata to Ning Feng after Amegakure sensory ninja and Konoha Hyuga Clan ninja found him near Kirigakure.
• Ning Feng told Utakata he would not extract the Six-Tails at the cost of his life, then had the Anbu escort him away.
• Ning Feng asked Yahiko about Nagato, who reported that the Fourth Raikage had returned to Kumogakure and that the Valley of Clouds and Lightning was left in ruins.

Ning Feng and Minato Namikaze assessed the shifting war as Madara Uchiha prepared an all-out assault on Amegakure. An Anbu brought word of a major breakthrough in Amegakure’s experiments, prompting Ning Feng to return to the village.

• Ning Feng deduced that Kabuto Yakushi had revived the Fourth Raikage and taken him to Kumogakure to pursue the Two-Tails.
• Madara Uchiha learned Ning Feng had sealed several Tailed Beasts inside himself and ordered preparations for an all-out assault on Amegakure.
• Minato Namikaze received battlefield reports showing Konoha had turned the fighting into a stalemate, while Ning Feng warned that the enemy’s limited deployments suggested a hidden plan.
• Ning Feng told Minato to monitor the battlefields and use Flying Thunder God if anything went wrong.
• An Amegakure Anbu reported a substantial breakthrough in the village’s experiments, and Ning Feng hurried back to Amegakure.

Ning Feng and Orochimaru extracted the Three-Tails from Hozuki Zangetsu without endangering its host, and the beast appeared to submit after sensing Ning Feng’s power. Ning Feng began sealing it, while the Seven-Tails extraction and the fate of the hosts remained ahead.

• Orochimaru told Ning Feng that he could extract a Tailed Beast without killing its Jinchūriki, and Ning Feng ordered him to extract the Three-Tails and Seven-Tails.
• Orochimaru led Ning Feng to a large underground base and explained that extracted hosts would lose access to chakra for a week and suffer a severe drop in strength.
• Orochimaru extracted the Three-Tails from Hozuki Zangetsu, and Isobu appeared in the base, startling at its cramped surroundings.
• Ning Feng prepared to fight Isobu, but the Three-Tails lowered its head after sensing the Tailed Beasts inside him and appeared willing to submit.
• Ning Feng decided to seal the obedient Three-Tails and pressed his rune-marked hands against its face.

Ning Feng sealed the Three-Tails and then the One-Tail, bringing the number of Tailed Beasts inside him to eight and greatly increasing his strength. Madara Uchiha ordered an all-out assault on Amegakure as Ning Feng finished sealing the beasts and asked Orochimaru to spar.

• Ning Feng sealed the Three-Tails, felt his strength and healing improve, and told Orochimaru to prepare for more jinchūriki.
• Ning Feng worried that without the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, he could not reach the Six Paths level even after gathering eight Tailed Beasts.
• Madara Uchiha learned that the jinchūriki had been taken into Amegakure Tower and ordered Black Zetsu to launch an all-out assault.
• Ning Feng sealed the One-Tail Shukaku and filled the Underground Base with his strengthened chakra.
• Ning Feng asked Orochimaru to spar, leaving Orochimaru reluctant to face him.

Ning Feng tested his enhanced body by punching Orochimaru through a rock wall, forcing him to escape his ruined body and continue sparring. Meanwhile, Madara Uchiha overwhelmed Amegakure’s forces and unleashed Great Fire Annihilation, pushing back their Water Release defenses.

• Ning Feng struck Orochimaru with enough force to rupture his body and launch him deep into a rock wall.
• Orochimaru escaped his damaged body using his self-created Substitution Technique, then emerged from the wall and praised Ning Feng’s strength.
• Ning Feng assessed his enhanced physique and ordered Orochimaru to keep helping him adapt to it.
• Madara Uchiha scattered Amegakure ninja with his sword and launched Great Fire Annihilation at their battlefield forces.
• Amegakure ninja raised Water Formation Walls, but Madara intensified his flames until they began evaporating the water defenses.

Madara Uchiha slaughtered Amegakure ninja while his Great Fire Annihilation overwhelmed their defenses, forcing Nagato to intervene with Water Release. Madara recognized Nagato and attacked him, leaving him badly injured and flying backward.

• Madara Uchiha charged into the Amegakure ninja encirclement and cut down their fighters while evading their attacks.
• Madara Uchiha dodged the Amegakure ninja's combined elemental techniques with the Body Flicker Technique.
• The Amegakure ninja could no longer contain Madara Uchiha's flames, and Nagato formed a Water Formation Wall to protect them.
• Madara Uchiha recognized Nagato as the bearer of his Rinnegan and resolved to carry out his plan himself.
• Madara Uchiha kicked Nagato through his defenses, sending him flying and causing him to spit blood.

Madara Uchiha overpowered Nagato and used Black Zetsu to control him, forcing him to perform the Outer Path: Rinne Rebirth Technique. As Nagato’s life energy drained away, Madara’s Impure World Reincarnation body began to recover.

• Madara Uchiha attacked Nagato and pinned him against a rock wall, leaving him unable to fight back.
• Madara Uchiha summoned Black Zetsu, who emerged from the ground and merged into half of Nagato’s body.
• Black Zetsu took control of Nagato, and Madara Uchiha allowed him enough chakra to use simple ninjutsu.
• Nagato realized his body was forming the hand seals for the Outer Path: Rinne Rebirth Technique and draining his life energy.
• As Nagato aged and weakened, Madara Uchiha’s Impure World Reincarnation cracks closed and his chakra surged.

Madara Uchiha revived at full strength, took one of Nagato’s Rinnegan, and prepared to claim the other. Yahiko confronted him but could not protect Nagato, and a lightning-wreathed kunai suddenly flew toward Madara.

• Madara Uchiha’s body healed as he returned to life, and Nagato collapsed, aged and drained after Black Zetsu withdrew from him.
• Madara Uchiha removed Nagato’s Rinnegan and placed it in his own empty eye socket, then prepared to take Nagato’s other eye.
• Yahiko arrived and demanded to know what Madara Uchiha had done to Nagato, but he hesitated to attack because Madara was overwhelmingly powerful.
• Madara Uchiha taunted Yahiko and pressed his foot against Nagato’s head, prompting Yahiko to attack with Water Release: Water Shockwave.
• Madara Uchiha absorbed Yahiko’s water technique with the Rinnegan and reached for Nagato’s remaining eye as a lightning-wreathed kunai flew toward him.

Ning Feng arrived as Madara Uchiha took the Rinnegan from Nagato, and the two powerful Uchiha began their first battle. After their ranged attacks and abilities failed to settle the fight, Ning Feng charged into close combat with his Chidori Blade.

• Ning Feng struck Madara Uchiha's hand with a kunai, but Madara chose to remove the second Rinnegan from Nagato rather than protect himself.
• Ning Feng ordered Yahiko to retreat, then used the Preta Path to absorb Madara's Great Fireball Technique and sent Yahiko away with Nagato.
• Madara attacked with the Dragon Flame Song Technique and Limbo: Border Jail, while Ning Feng used Shinra Tensei to repel the assault.
• Ning Feng closed the distance to end their exchange of feints and activated Chidori Blade against Madara Uchiha.

Ning Feng pressured Madara Uchiha until Madara summoned his Perfect Susanoo, prompting Ning Feng to answer with an even larger golden Susanoo wielding the Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror. Their battle escalated into an aerial clash, where Ning Feng’s downward strike drove Madara’s Susanoo into the ground.

• Madara Uchiha used Limbo: Border Jail while testing Ning Feng’s abilities and recovering from his wounds.
• Madara Uchiha summoned his Perfect Susanoo to counter Ning Feng’s attacks.
• Ning Feng formed a golden Susanoo with the Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror.
• Madara Uchiha and Ning Feng’s Susanoo fought with blades and Yasaka Magatama before both took to the air.
• Ning Feng struck downward, forcing Madara Uchiha’s Susanoo into the ground.

Ning Feng overwhelmed Madara Uchiha in a clash of Perfect Susanoo, Fire Release, and blades, forcing Madara to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. As lightning gathered over the battlefield, Ning Feng realized the weather could help him unleash a devastating Ninjutsu.

• Ning Feng used a powerful Great Fireball Technique that overpowered Madara Uchiha's matching attack.
• Ning Feng's blades shattered one of Madara Uchiha's weapons, but Madara repaired it with Visual Prowess and continued fighting.
• Ning Feng pressed his advantage with repeated attacks and taunts, while Madara struggled to keep up.
• Madara Uchiha summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which roared and called down natural lightning.
• As the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's lightning gathered, Ning Feng thought of a Ninjutsu suited to the storm and looked mockingly at Madara.

Ning Feng used the chakra of the eight Tailed Beasts to unleash Kirin against Madara Uchiha, whose Susanoo was engulfed by lightning. In Amegakure, Konan and Fū watched the distant attack and hoped Ning Feng was safe.

• Madara Uchiha ordered the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to bombard Ning Feng's Susanoo with lightning while gathering dark clouds for a powerful final strike.
• Ning Feng controlled the eight Tailed Beasts' chakra and prepared a lightning technique as Madara Uchiha realized he had taken the beasts into his body.
• Ning Feng shaped the lightning in the clouds into Kirin and sent the enormous beast crashing down on Madara Uchiha's Susanoo.
• The lightning engulfed Madara Uchiha's Susanoo, and the nearby Demonic Statue of the Outer Path stopped moving.
• In Amegakure, Konan worried about Ning Feng as she watched the distant lightning, while Fū reassured her and Konan praised Fū's faster training.

Ning Feng overwhelmed Madara Uchiha with a lightning attack on the Amegakure battlefield, but Obito Uchiha arrived and helped Madara retreat. Minato Namikaze sensed the immense chakra and headed toward the battle with an elite force.

• Minato Namikaze sensed two enormous chakra sources near Amegakure and ordered an elite force to join the battlefield.
• Ning Feng's Kirin shattered Madara Uchiha's Susanoo and left Madara badly wounded.
• Ning Feng attacked Madara with lightning-coated swords, but Madara kicked back and forced him to defend.
• Obito Uchiha appeared and helped Madara Uchiha escape, while Madara promised to fight Ning Feng again.

Ning Feng used the Flying Thunder God Mark on Obito Uchiha to ambush him and Madara Uchiha at their cave near Amegakure. He turned Madara’s fire against himself and launched a marked Kusanagi Sword, leaving Madara in danger as Ning Feng rushed in.

• Ning Feng sensed the mark on Obito Uchiha and teleported from the battlefield to the cave where Obito and Madara Uchiha had arrived.
• Obito Uchiha sensed Ning Feng’s spatial fluctuations and blocked his surprise slash at Madara Uchiha with a chain.
• Madara Uchiha counterattacked with fire release, but Ning Feng’s barrier absorbed the flames and replenished his chakra.
• Ning Feng hurled his Kusanagi Sword at Madara Uchiha, then charged in after Madara noticed the Flying Thunder God Mark on its hilt.
• Obito Uchiha realized Ning Feng had opened with a killing move.

Ning Feng used instant Sage Mode to crack Madara Uchiha’s Susanoo and overpower him in a clash of Fire Release inside the cave. Madara escaped the flames badly burned, but Ning Feng pursued him with the Flying Thunder God Technique.

• Ning Feng entered Sage Mode, and his Frog Kata nearly shattered Madara Uchiha’s skeletal Susanoo.
• Obito Uchiha launched a Kamui-enhanced Fire Release attack that engulfed both Ning Feng and Madara Uchiha in the cave.
• Ning Feng and Madara Uchiha countered with powerful Fire Release techniques, but Ning Feng’s flames gained the upper hand as Obito’s Black Rods were deflected by Shinra Tensei.
• Madara Uchiha leaped away from the flames but suffered burns, and Ning Feng threw the Sword of the Thunder God and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to pursue him.

Ning Feng overwhelmed Madara Uchiha in close combat, forcing Obito Uchiha to call for reinforcements from Kabuto Yakushi. Several powerful Impure World Reincarnation ninja arrived and attacked Ning Feng, whose fate was left uncertain beneath the dust.

• Ning Feng struck Madara Uchiha with a series of powerful blows, sending him crashing to the ground and leaving him bleeding.
• Obito Uchiha ordered Kabuto Yakushi to summon all remaining Kage-level or stronger Impure World Reincarnation ninja to Amegakure.
• Kabuto Yakushi agreed and revealed that he had injected himself with material from the White Phosphorus Snake in Orochimaru's body.
• As Ning Feng continued to batter Madara Uchiha, several coffins emerged and released Tobirama Senju, the Second Tsuchikage, the First Mizukage, and the Third Hokage.
• Ning Feng stood his ground as the summoned ninja launched several ninjutsu at him, engulfing him in dust.

Ning Feng drove off Kabuto Yakushi’s forces after Madara Uchiha escaped with Tobirama Senju, then returned to the Hokage’s office to report that Madara had been resurrected and reclaimed his Rinnegan. The assembled ninja were stunned as Ning Feng prepared to reveal the Shinobi World’s greatest secret.

• Madara Uchiha escaped with Tobirama Senju, leaving Obito Uchiha and Kabuto Yakushi’s reanimated ninja to face Ning Feng.
• Ning Feng repelled the Third Hokage’s shuriken with Shinra Tensei, then cut him apart, blasted away his reanimated body, and sealed him after Hiruzen Sarutobi regained consciousness.
• Obito Uchiha and the remaining reanimated ninja stood down, and Ning Feng left the battlefield.
• Ning Feng returned to Minato Namikaze’s office, where Minato, Shisui Uchiha, Kakashi Hatake, and the assembled elite unit questioned his condition.
• Ning Feng told them that Madara Uchiha had been resurrected and had reclaimed his pair of Rinnegan, then prepared to explain the Shinobi World’s greatest secret.

Ning Feng explained the Sage of Six Paths’ history and revealed that the Uchiha and Senju clans descended from his sons, Indra and Asura. He linked Madara Uchiha to Indra’s reincarnation and revealed the Rinnegan technique that could have revived him, then turned the group’s attention to the Eye of the Moon Plan.

• Ning Feng told Minato Namikaze, Kakashi Hatake, and Shisui Uchiha that the Sage of Six Paths sealed the Ten-Tails within himself and later divided it into nine Tailed Beasts.
• Ning Feng explained that the Rinnegan came from combining Uchiha power with Hashirama Cells, and that the Sage’s sons, Indra and Asura, inherited the Sage’s Eye and Sage Body.
• Ning Feng revealed that Indra’s descendants became the Uchiha Clan and Asura’s descendants became the Senju Clan, while Shisui Uchiha struggled with the history of his clan.
• Ning Feng said Indra and Asura reincarnated as Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, and that Madara devised the Eye of the Moon Plan to achieve peace.
• Ning Feng identified the Rinnegan’s seventh ability, Outer Path: Rinne Rebirth Technique, as the means by which Madara Uchiha could have returned from the dead, then introduced intelligence about the Eye of the Moon Plan.

Ning Feng explained Madara Uchiha’s Eye of the Moon Plan and revealed that the masked man behind the Nine-Tails Rebellion was Obito Uchiha, Madara’s successor. Minato Namikaze and Kakashi Hatake struggled to accept that Obito had turned against his former teacher and comrades.

• Ning Feng told Minato Namikaze, Kakashi Hatake, and Shisui Uchiha that Madara Uchiha planned to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and cast Infinite Tsukuyomi over the Shinobi World.
• Ning Feng explained that Madara Uchiha sought peace by trapping everyone in an illusion, shocking Minato Namikaze and Shisui Uchiha.
• When Minato Namikaze asked about the masked man from the Nine-Tails Turmoil, Ning Feng revealed that he was Obito Uchiha, whom Madara Uchiha had rescued and chosen as his successor.
• Ning Feng said Madara Uchiha had manipulated Obito Uchiha by making him witness the darkness of the world, and that Obito had gathered the Tailed Beasts for the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Kakashi Hatake reacted with disbelief and anger, asking how Obito could disregard the bonds he had shared with his teacher and comrades.

Ning Feng and the others learned that Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha had returned to the battlefield, where Madara and Hashirama Senju overwhelmed Konoha’s forces. Ning Feng rushed to confront them as Madara prepared to face him again.

• Kakashi Hatake proposed stopping Obito Uchiha so they could learn what had changed him, while Ning Feng reminded the group to focus on stopping Madara Uchiha’s Eye of the Moon Plan.
• An Anbu reported that Hashirama Senju and a long-haired Uchiha-like ninja had appeared on the Konoha battlefield and could not be stopped.
• Ning Feng used Flying Thunder God to reach the battlefield, while Minato Namikaze began selecting people to accompany him.
• Hashirama Senju rampaged atop a giant Wooden Human as Madara Uchiha fought from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and Madara told Obito Uchiha to pull Uchiha Minato into the Kamui Dimension.
• Ning Feng charged toward Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju as Madara prepared to test whether their combined strength could defeat him.