Recaps

Uchiha Onibi fought Obito and Kisame to give Ryota Uchiha time to escape toward Dragon Release Village. Ryota reached the village outskirts, where the White Snake Sage appeared to intercept him.

• Uchiha Onibi woke Ryota and told him to flee to the Land of Whirlpools and seek Lin Ze while he held off their pursuers.
• Obito summoned Kisame, and Ryota fled across the sea as Uchiha Onibi intercepted Kisame with Divine Crossing.
• Uchiha Onibi battled Kisame and Obito while his chakra and ocular power dwindled and his wounds mounted.
• Ryota reached the Land of Whirlpools at dawn and hurried toward Dragon Release Village despite his injuries and exhaustion.
• The White Snake Sage sensed Ryota approaching and appeared in a grove to block his way.

Ryōta Uchiha sought the White Snake Sage’s help when Obito hunted Uchiha Onibi, and Lin Ze chose a genjutsu-resistant Shadow Clone to intervene. Lin Ze traveled toward the battle, where Onibi was barely maintaining his Perfect Susanoo against Obito and Kisame.

• Ryōta asked the White Snake Sage to save Uchiha Onibi, and she agreed to report the danger to Lin Ze.
• Lin Ze learned that Obito was hunting Onibi and selected his Youying Shadow Clone to avoid the risk of Kotoamatsukami.
• Lin Ze sent a Shadow Clone to reassure Ryōta, then used God Pursuit: Spatial Jump to travel toward Onibi.
• On an island between the Land of Whirlpools and the Land of Fire, the blind and battered Onibi kept his Perfect Susanoo standing against Obito and Kisame.

Lin Ze appeared in a Crescent Moon Mask and saved Ghost Fire from Obito’s finishing attack, using his ocular power to restore Ghost Fire’s wounds and partially rewind his Susanoo. Obito chose to fight Lin Ze and destroy Ghost Fire’s Mangekyō, while Kisame prepared a water-style attack.

• Obito launched a massive fire tornado at Ghost Fire’s battered Susanoo, which could barely withstand the strike.
• Lin Ze descended from the sky and used maximum repulsion to disperse the fire tornado, then restored the Susanoo and partially healed Ghost Fire.
• Obito recognized Lin Ze as the mysterious man who had stolen some of the Nine-Tails’ chakra and warned Kisame about his abilities.
• Obito decided to fight Lin Ze and destroy Ghost Fire’s Mangekyō before it could be restored.
• Kisame formed hand seals and began Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave.

Lin Ze defended himself and Ghost Fire against Kisame and Obito, then revealed his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and summoned a colossal Perfect Susanoo. The chapter left Obito and Kisame confronting Lin Ze’s overwhelming power as he prepared to fight them.

• Lin Ze used spatial repulsion to shield Ghost Fire from Kisame’s water sphere and poured chakra into him, though Ghost Fire’s injuries and failing life force remained severe.
• Kisame attacked with Water Release: Thousand Feeding Sharks, but Lin Ze burned the sharks with Amaterasu and forced Kisame to collapse the water sphere.
• Obito launched a Great Fireball from the front and attacked through Kamui from behind, but Lin Ze repelled both with God Pursuit.
• Lin Ze rejected Ghost Fire’s suggestion to escape and said he intended to kill Obito now that Madara Uchiha was dead.
• Lin Ze revealed the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and summoned a dark red Perfect Susanoo that grew to three hundred meters, shocking Obito and Kisame.

Lin Ze used Susanoo to overwhelm Obito and Kisame, then pierced Obito through the chest with a Spiral Lance that broke through Kamui’s defense. Obito was left pinned to a rocky hill, badly wounded, while Kisame remained on the battlefield.

• Kisame unleashed the Great Shark Bullet Technique as Obito attacked Susanoo with Kamui Shuriken, but Lin Ze shattered both assaults with Susanoo’s Spiral Lance.
• The shock waves from Lin Ze’s strike drove Kisame and Obito back, leaving Kisame injured and Obito near the limit of his ocular power.
• Lin Ze targeted Obito and threw a Spiral Lance infused with God Pursuit’s spatial repulsion at him.
• Obito used Kamui to create a defensive vortex, but the lance’s spatial repulsion resisted its pull and cracked the vortex.
• Kisame summoned a swarm of sharks to weaken the lance, but Amaterasu burned them away and the lance shattered Kamui’s vortex.
• The weakened Spiral Lance pierced Obito’s chest and pinned him to a rocky hill hundreds of meters away.

Obito used Izanagi to survive Lin Ze’s attack and escaped with Kisame, while Lin Ze tried to keep the dying Ghost Fire alive. As Lin Ze carried Ghost Fire toward the Land of Whirlpools, he spotted Ryota Uchiha rushing across the sea to return to his brother.

• Obito activated Izanagi, healed his fatal wound at the cost of blinding his left Sharingan, and escaped with Kisame through Kamui.
• Lin Ze explained that he could not stop Obito from fleeing and used Divine Healing: Rewind to temporarily stabilize Ghost Fire, who had at most three days to live.
• Lin Ze picked up Ghost Fire and used God Pursuit: Space Leap to travel toward Dragon Release Village in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Lin Ze saw Ryota Uchiha running desperately across the sea to reach his brother.

Lin Ze learned that Ghost Fire had only three days to live because his body and soul were failing, and he found no way to save him without the Rinnegan. He left Ghost Fire with Ryōta and went to the Land of Water to confront the Three-Tails, Isobu.

• Lin Ze brought the dying Ghost Fire to Ryōta and explained that his life force and soul were failing, leaving him at most three days.
• Ghost Fire briefly woke and told Ryōta that seeing him was enough, while Lin Ze took them to Dragon Release Village.
• Nonō tried to treat Ghost Fire but could not stop his life force from draining, and she said only immense Yang Release or a forbidden technique might save him.
• Lin Ze considered Hashirama cells, Living Corpse Reincarnation, and the Soul-Devouring Spirit Refinement Technique, but found none could save Ghost Fire in his current state.
• Lin Ze left Ghost Fire and Ryōta together, then returned his consciousness to the Genbu clone at a lake in the Land of Water.
• Lin Ze sent four water clones into the lake and descended toward the sleeping Three-Tails, Isobu, which opened its scarlet eyes.

Lin Ze tested his water and ice techniques against Isobu the Three-Tails before entering Sage Mode and matching a Tailed Beast Bomb with an Ice Dragon Bullet. After his clones disrupted Isobu’s next attack, Lin Ze unleashed a powerful sage-art ice technique.

• Lin Ze attacked Isobu with coordinated water techniques, and Isobu countered with a Tailed Beast Bomb that clashed with the Great Waterfall.
• Lin Ze used ice walls, pillars, and a snowstorm to defend against Isobu’s attacks and wound him, prompting Isobu to cloak himself in chakra.
• Lin Ze entered Sage Mode and summoned an Ice Dragon Bullet that neutralized Isobu’s Tailed Beast Bomb in an even clash.
• Lin Ze’s four water shadow clones disrupted Isobu’s attempt to charge a stronger Tailed Beast Bomb while Lin Ze completed his seals.
• Lin Ze unleashed Sage Art: Ice Release: Thousand-Kill Ice Flight.

Lin Ze severed one of the Three-Tails’ tails and escaped with it, while the wounded Isobu fled into the open sea. Two days later, Uchiha Onibi died in the hospital after asking Ryōta to delay his revenge and awaken his eyes, leaving Ryōta grieving with a new flame in his gaze.

• Lin Ze used ice blades and a giant ice saber to sever the Three-Tails’ rightmost tail, then sealed it in a Sea Dragon Jade vessel.
• Isobu fled toward the open sea, and Lin Ze left the lake with the White Snake Sage after deciding his goal was fulfilled.
• At Dragon Release Village Hospital, Uchiha Onibi warned Ryōta not to pursue the Masked Man until he reached Kage Level and could use the Mangekyō safely.
• Onibi asked Ryōta to apologize to Lin Ze for failing to repay him and urged Ryōta to take his eyes and live on.
• Uchiha Onibi died, and Ryōta wept beside his brother’s bed until a crimson flame appeared in his hollow eyes.

After Ghost Fire died, Ryōta awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Lin Ze went to meet him at a seaside cliff. Ryōta revealed a four-eyed Susanoo carrying Ghost Fire’s Mangekyō, while Lin Ze felt an irresistible urge to take and fuse with the eye that could reverse time.

• Enta Uchiha saw Ryōta’s Mangekyō awaken beside Ghost Fire’s body and left the hospital in sorrow.
• Lin Ze sensed the Mangekyō’s power from the Land of Whirlpools and went to find Ryōta.
• At the seaside cliff, Ryōta told Lin Ze that Ghost Fire had left him a message of apology and summoned a four-eyed Susanoo.
• Ryōta explained that Ghost Fire had intended to leave his eyes to Lin Ze but changed his mind after reading the Uchiha Clan’s stone tablet.
• Lin Ze accepted Ghost Fire’s choice, then felt compelled to take and fuse with Ghost Fire’s time-reversal eye.

Lin Ze gave Ryōta hope that the Rinnegan could resurrect Ghost Fire and brought him to the underground laboratory to stabilize his newly awakened Mangekyō and fuse his brother’s eyes. Ryōta entered the life-support device for a process expected to take three to six months.

• Lin Ze rejected the thought of taking Ryōta’s eyes and told him to preserve his Four-Eyed Susanoo’s potential.
• Lin Ze told Ryōta that Rinne Rebirth could resurrect Ghost Fire and promised to obtain the Rinnegan, giving Ryōta a reason to live and grow stronger.
• Lin Ze’s Genbu Shadow Clone brought Ryota Uchiha to the underground laboratory, where Tagitsuhime asked about the Three-Tails and Kabuto tended a living clone with small hornlike bumps.
• Lin Ze explained that Ryōta’s ocular power needed time to stabilize and that the life-support device would aid the fusion of Ghost Fire’s eyes.
• Ryōta entered the device, and Lin Ze activated its technique formulas for the months-long process.

Lin Ze checked on Kabuto’s work cultivating Ryōta and a new body for Kimimaro, then visited Kurenai Yuhi as she taught Dragon Release Village’s first class of ninja students. The chapter left Lin Ze and Kurenai walking together after a student teased her about him being her boyfriend.

• Kabuto reported that Ryōta’s Kaguya and Hyuga cell fusion was progressing smoothly, while Lin Ze ordered him to monitor Ryōta and Kimimaro’s cultivation.
• Kabuto said Kimimaro was learning Living Corpse Reincarnation so he could receive a new body and serve Lin Ze.
• Lin Ze told Tagitsuhime to train toward becoming a dragon, then left the laboratory to visit Kurenai Yuhi.
• Lin Ze watched Kurenai teach genjutsu to Dragon Release Village’s students and reflected on the village’s gentler approach to educating children.
• After class, a student teased Kurenai by asking whether Lin Ze was her boyfriend, and Lin Ze walked with her as she blushed.

Lin Ze reunited with Asuma and Rei Uesugi, then shared a ramen meal with Kurenai Yuhi. He warned her that Konoha might fall into turmoil and proposed bringing the Yūhi Clan to Dragon Release Village.

• Asuma and Rei Uesugi visited Lin Ze and Kurenai Yuhi, and Rei said she was teaching basic ninjutsu at the village school.
• Lin Ze reflected that he planned to pursue the Rinnegan so he could truly resurrect Rei Uesugi and Uchiha Onibi.
• Lin Ze and Kurenai Yuhi ate ramen together, and Kurenai told him that being with him made anything taste good.
• Lin Ze warned Kurenai that conflict in Konoha could endanger the Yūhi Clan and proposed relocating its members to Dragon Release Village.
• Kurenai considered the move, noting that her clan was small and had few assets to relocate.

Lin Ze and Kurenai Yuhi grew closer as they walked through Dragon Release Village, while Obito returned outside Konoha and reported his encounter with the mysterious masked man. Obito concluded that the man was likely focused on helping Lin Ze revive Rei Uesugi rather than interfering in Konoha.

• Kurenai Yuhi agreed to consult her parents and clan members, and Lin Ze offered to have Ichikishimahime and Qingtian bring them to safety.
• Lin Ze held Kurenai Yuhi's hand as they walked through Dragon Release Village and promised to take her to see the real stars once things settled down.
• Obito Uchiha emerged outside Konoha, still injured from his fight with Crescent Moon, and told White Zetsu and Black Zetsu that Kisame had returned to Amegakure and Uchiha Onibi was dead.
• Obito described Crescent Moon's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, spatial repulsion, state-reversion ability, and enormous Susanoo, admitting that Izanagi had saved his life.
• Obito reasoned that Crescent Moon was unlikely to interfere in Konoha soon because he was probably helping Lin Ze find a way to revive Rei Uesugi.

Obito resolved to take back his left Mangekyō from Kakashi for Rin, while Lin Ze watched Gaara in Sunagakure and waited for Shukaku’s chakra to leak out. As Shukaku preyed on Gaara’s loneliness and doubts about Yashamaru, the seal began to loosen.

• Obito dismissed Lin Ze as a concern and ordered the Zetsu to continue the plan to destroy the Uchiha Clan.
• Obito decided he would take his left eye back from Kakashi for Rin’s sake.
• Lin Ze watched Gaara and Yashamaru in Sunagakure, planning to gather Shukaku’s chakra when Gaara went berserk.
• Lin Ze waited near Gaara’s isolated home, expecting his distress and Shukaku’s influence to weaken the seal.
• Shukaku taunted Gaara and made him doubt Yashamaru’s care, causing the seal to begin loosening.

Gaara’s grief and distrust loosened Shukaku’s seal, sending him into a rampage that Chiyo, Ebizo, and Sunagakure’s ANBU tried to contain. Lin Ze watched from a nearby tower and decided he had time to act before Rasa returned, as Shukaku swallowed Chiyo’s puppets in quicksand.

• Gaara’s doubts about Yashamaru triggered Shukaku’s laughter and caused the seal to break, leaving Gaara in a violent partial transformation.
• Shukaku’s sand pinned Yashamaru and formed spears to kill him, but Chiyo and her team arrived and broke the spears with kunai.
• Chiyo’s puppets trapped Gaara behind a light shield while Ebizo rescued Yashamaru, and ANBU escorted him away for treatment.
• Lin Ze observed the battle from an abandoned watchtower and noted that Rasa would take at least two hours to return.
• Chiyo, Ebizo, and the ANBU captain attacked the nearly transformed Shukaku, but Shukaku turned the floor to quicksand and swallowed Chiyo’s three puppets.

Lin Ze activated Sage Mode and attacked Shukaku with powerful Ice Release techniques while his water clones held Chiyo, Ebizo, and the Anbu Captain at bay. The chapter ended as Lin Ze’s Thousand Killing Ice Soaring formed over a thousand blades aimed at Shukaku.

• Shukaku fought Chiyo, Ebizo, and the Anbu Captain until both sides were badly worn down.
• Lin Ze entered Sage Mode, created four water clones, and sent them to interfere with Chiyo and the others.
• Lin Ze struck Shukaku with ice pillars, slowing him and surprising him with Ice Release in the desert.
• Lin Ze summoned an ice dragon, which Shukaku blocked with layered sand walls.
• Lin Ze completed Thousand Killing Ice Soaring, freezing moisture around Shukaku into over a thousand blades pointed at him.

Lin Ze defeated Shukaku, extracted part of its chakra, and escaped Sunagakure. Meanwhile, Yuhi Shinku decided to move the Yūhi Clan to Dragon Release Village as Konoha’s tensions grew.

• Lin Ze pierced Shukaku with senjutsu-enhanced ice blades, froze its movements, and severed its tail, forcing Shukaku back into Gaara.
• Lin Ze absorbed the severed tail’s chakra into the Sea Dragon Jade shell, escaped Sunagakure, and headed for his next destination.
• Chiyo and Ebizo found Gaara alive and unconscious, and Chiyo decided to wait for Lord Kazekage before choosing what to do.
• Yuhi Shinku told Yuhi Aoki and Yuhi Harano that the Uchiha had repeatedly provoked other clans and suspected someone was inciting them or controlling them.
• Qingtian and Ichikishimahime relayed Lin Ze’s warning that Konoha was nearing an explosion and offered the Yūhi Clan a place in Dragon Release Village.
• Yuhi Shinku chose to relocate all fifty-three members of the Yūhi Clan and asked Qingtian and Ichikishimahime to help with the evacuation.

Yuhi Shinku began evacuating the Yūhi Clan from Konoha, while the Ino-Shika-Cho leaders agreed to destabilize the Uchiha from within before destroying the clan. The plot left Shikaku Nara preparing to contact Uchiha radicals and trigger internal chaos within a week.

• Yuhi Shinku ordered Aoki to gather valuables and money and Harano to organize the clan's evacuation, prioritizing the elderly and children.
• Ichikishimahime reassured Yuhi Shinku that leaving Konoha would eventually prove wise for the Yūhi Clan.
• Shikaku Nara reported that Crescent Moon had left a battle near the Land of Whirlpools in that direction, strengthening the leaders' suspicion that Dragon Release Village was connected to the Uchiha.
• Shino Yamanaka urged the clans to strike against Uchiha Fugaku, and Shikaku agreed they could not afford to wait.
• Shikaku proposed secretly recruiting Uchiha radicals by claiming they would target only Fugaku, then exploiting the resulting infighting to wipe out the Uchiha.
• Shino, Choza Akimichi, and Torifu Akimichi accepted the plan, and Shikaku vowed to plunge the Uchiha into internal chaos within a week.

As the Uchiha faced growing hostility and a plot to destroy them, Uchiha Fugaku decided to evacuate the clan’s vulnerable members to Dragon Release Village while the fighters stayed behind to buy them time. He assigned Uchiha Itachi to lead the evacuation, which would also include Naruto.

• Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Inabi, and Uchiha Tekka urged Fugaku to retaliate against clans provoking the Uchiha, but Fugaku warned that their remaining forces were vastly outnumbered.
• Uchiha Itachi reported that the Yūhi Clan was secretly evacuating to Dragon Release Village and revealed a letter outlining Shikaku Nara’s plan to use the three elders against Fugaku before destroying the Uchiha.
• Fugaku told the clan that their chance of defeating the major clans was below ten percent and ordered Itachi to take the children, elderly, women, and young ninja who could not fight to Dragon Release Village.
• Fugaku included Naruto in the evacuation and declared that he and the other fighters would remain in Konoha to draw the major clans’ attention and protect the clan’s future.

Uchiha Fugaku ordered the clan to evacuate in three days and accepted that he might not survive, while Black Zetsu watched the Uchiha's preparations from the shadows. Meanwhile, Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga uncovered the damaged Giant Tenseigan and prepared to replenish it with Byakugan, as Hiashi recalled how the Main Family had killed the gifted Hikaru Hyūga.

• Uchiha Fugaku united the clan and ordered Itachi to prepare an evacuation for midnight three days later.
• Fugaku told Itachi to protect Sasuke, Naruto, and the Uchiha's future, while accepting that some would have to die.
• Black Zetsu watched the Uchiha gather in secret and judged that their destruction was already underway.
• Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi Hyuga entered their clan's abandoned ancestral shrine and descended to the chamber containing the Giant Tenseigan.
• Hiashi found cracks in the Tenseigan and brought out ten containers holding pairs of Byakugan to replenish it.
• Hiashi recalled that the Main Family had killed Hikaru Hyūga, a gifted Branch Family member, because they feared his talent.

Hiashi used ten pairs of Byakugan to restore the Giant Tenseigan to about twenty percent of its power and revealed his plan to abolish the Hyuga Main Family and make the Caged Bird Seal equal for all. He intended to die after destroying the seal’s control formula, leaving Hizashi to lead the clan as Konoha’s unrest continued.

• Hiashi told Hizashi that five pairs of Byakugan came from battlefields and five came from Main Family members he had secretly killed.
• Hiashi fed all ten pairs of Byakugan to the Giant Tenseigan, restoring about thirty percent of its cracks and roughly twenty percent of its power.
• Hiashi explained that he would keep the Caged Bird Seal but change its meaning by placing it on every Hyuga and abolishing the Main Family.
• Hiashi said he would kill the Main Family members who knew the control formula, then die himself so the formula could never be used again.
• Hiashi told Hizashi that his wife supported his decision and asked him to lead the new Hyuga Clan after his death.
• Hizashi accepted Hiashi’s plan through tears as Hiashi declared that the clan would act once the Tenseigan’s power stabilized.

Lin Ze infiltrated Iwagakure to target Deidara’s Explosion Release and watched Ōnoki confine the young shinobi after one of his explosive demonstrations. As Lin Ze waited for Deidara to try escaping, he considered how to capture him without confronting Iwagakure directly.

• Lin Ze arrived outside Iwagakure, intending to obtain Deidara’s Explosion Release Kekkei Genkai for an Earth Release Clone.
• Deidara demonstrated his clay dragon to Kurotsuchi, then Ōnoki reprimanded him for causing an explosion in the village and ordered him confined.
• Ōnoki took Deidara to a secluded courtyard, sealed it, and left four ANBU to guard him while Kurotsuchi followed.
• Lin Ze watched from a distance and decided a direct attack would be too risky with Deidara, Ōnoki, and Iwagakure’s forces nearby.
• Deidara used a clay bird to scout the guards, then pretended to rest as he planned a way to escape; Lin Ze sensed that he would not stay confined.

Lin Ze weighed the race to reach Six Paths-level power and received encouraging news from Kabuto about Hashirama Cell fusion and the Rinnegan research. As he planned to obtain Deidara’s cells, the Yūhi Clan fled Konoha toward the coast to meet ships from Dragon Release Village.

• Lin Ze had a summoned snake watch Deidara’s courtyard while he considered how to obtain Earth Release material and develop his remaining clones.
• Lin Ze concluded that awakening the Rinnegan and the Azure Dragon Fruit were both uncertain paths to reaching Six Paths-level strength before the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Chinchilla delivered Kabuto’s message that Hashirama Cell fusion had a success rate above ninety percent and that the Soul Shadow Clone Technique would be ready for practical use within six months.
• Lin Ze decided to pursue Deidara’s cells and paid Chinchilla five thousand ryō for delivering the message.
• Yuhi Shinku led more than fifty Yūhi Clan members toward the coast, where ships from Dragon Release Village were waiting to carry them to safety.

Shikaku Nara and the clan leaders were summoned to a tense late-night meeting after the Yūhi Clan evacuated Konoha. Meanwhile, Itachi led Uchiha civilians toward a secret escape passage as Obito and Black Zetsu prepared to provoke the clans and begin another Nine-Tails attack.

• Shikaku Nara learned that the Yūhi Clan had left Konoha and worried that the Uchiha’s unusual silence signaled trouble.
• Itachi gathered the Uchiha elders, women, and children, including Sasuke and Naruto, and led them toward a secret passage in Konoha’s southern wall.
• Obito Uchiha, Black Zetsu, and White Zetsu watched the evacuation, while Black Zetsu revealed that they had spread news intended to turn Konoha’s clans against the Uchiha.
• Obito confirmed that Naruto was among the evacuees and opened a space-time vortex as Black Zetsu announced the start of a second Night of the Nine-Tails.
• Uchiha Fugaku told the assembled clan leaders that an outside force was plotting to attack Konoha, drawing hostility from Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura.
• Shikaku sensed something was wrong when Hyuga Hiashi remained unusually withdrawn and Hizashi Hyuga’s seat was empty.