Recaps

Itachi traveled to Tokyo and used genjutsu to control Japan’s leaders, military chiefs, and financial magnates, ordering them to expand mineral production and send twenty percent of the output to the Uchiha Clan. He then left Japan and spent a month imposing the same tribute policy on countries across Asia.

• Itachi traveled toward Tokyo, observing the country’s advanced technology and prosperous ordinary life along the way.
• Itachi entered Tokyo and placed Emperor Taishō, cabinet ministers, military leaders, and the heads of four financial conglomerates under genjutsu.
• Itachi ordered Japan’s leaders to expand mining and industry and secretly transport twenty percent of the country’s mineral output every three months.
• After completing his mission, Itachi left Japan and crossed the sea toward the Asian Continent.
• Over the next month, Itachi used genjutsu to control leaders and financial magnates across Asia, making their countries adopt a policy of expanding mineral extraction and offering twenty percent of their monthly output as tribute.

Zongyan, Uchiha Fugaku, and Uchiha Itachi returned from another world and learned that Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi had increased pressure on the Uchiha while they were away. Fugaku ordered the clan to limit losses and prepare teams to monitor the other world as the Uchiha planned their next moves.

• Zongyan opened the Multiverse Portal, and he, Uchiha Fugaku, and Uchiha Itachi returned to the Shinobi World.
• Fugaku told Uchiha Mikoto they were safe, then summoned Uchiha Inabi and Uchiha Tekka to discuss the clan's situation.
• Uchiha Inabi and Uchiha Tekka reported that Danzo had deployed Root operatives to watch the Clan Grounds and spread rumors that the Uchiha were plotting rebellion.
• Fugaku ordered the Uchiha to reduce missions and deaths while assigning two elite four-man squads to monitor leaders and Demon Slayers in the other world.
• Zongyan promised the clan could eventually gain control over the Shinobi World, and Uchiha Inabi and Uchiha Tekka left to recruit squad members and prepare for deployment.

Uchiha Zongyan drew the Rumble-Rumble Fruit but decided not to eat it because of its weakness to water. He offered it to Sasuke instead, who eagerly agreed to accept the power and keep it secret.

• Zongyan used his system draw and obtained the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Zongyan rejected eating the fruit because its sea curse could leave him powerless in water, then decided Sasuke could use it to protect their family.
• After breakfast, Itachi went to spend time with Shisui, while Zongyan took Sasuke toward the Ninja Academy.
• Zongyan explained the fruit's lightning powers and its swimming drawback, and Sasuke insisted he still wanted it.
• Zongyan told Sasuke to meet him after his duty and keep the offer secret, and Sasuke promised to obey.

After Uchiha Toru located Muzan posing as a wealthy merchant in Asakusa, Zongyan prepared to go with Itachi to the Otherworld and try to capture him alive. He sent a letter to his father and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to Sasuke, then waited for Itachi.

• A clansman summoned Zongyan from his patrol, and Uchiha Toru reported that his team had found Muzan disguised as the merchant Tsukihiko in Asakusa, Tokyo.
• Toru explained how the team had covertly searched the city and confirmed Muzan's identity after witnessing him turn an ordinary person into a demon.
• Zongyan decided he needed Itachi's help to capture Muzan before he escaped into the Infinity Castle, and sent a clansman to fetch his older brother.
• Zongyan wrote his parents a letter explaining the plan and prepared the Rumble-Rumble Fruit for Sasuke, noting that Sasuke had to eat the whole fruit.
• Zongyan summoned Hachi and paid him to deliver the letter to his father and the wooden box to Sasuke that night, then waited for Itachi.

Zongyan and Uchiha Itachi traveled to Asakusa to capture Muzan Kibutsuji, with Uchiha Ren guiding them. Zongyan used the image of Yoriichi Tsugikuni to frighten Muzan into fleeing, but Muzan attacked the nearby crowd as he escaped.

• Zongyan told Uchiha Itachi that their clansmen had located Muzan Kibutsuji in Asakusa, and Itachi agreed to help capture him.
• Zongyan and Uchiha Itachi crossed the Multiverse Portal, met Uchiha Ren, and persuaded him to guide them to Muzan despite his warning about the demon's strength.
• The three reached Asakusa, joined another clansman in hiding, and watched Muzan leave his home with a woman and a little girl.
• Zongyan revealed himself and shouted Muzan's name, then used his dōjutsu to appear as Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
• Muzan panicked, threw the little girl at Zongyan, injected his blood into people in the crowd, and fled.

Zongyan and the Uchiha pursued Muzan into the Infinity Castle, where they used a chakra mark to track him despite Nakime changing the corridors. Muzan summoned demons and the surviving Twelve Kizuki to block their advance.

• Zongyan cut the demon-blood-infected passersby and chased Muzan as Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Ren, and another clansman moved to surround him.
• Muzan realized Zongyan was not Yoriichi Tsugikuni and ordered Nakime to pull the pursuers into the Infinity Castle.
• Zongyan and the three Uchiha landed in the castle and formed a defensive group before Zongyan revealed he had marked Muzan with chakra.
• Zongyan led the group toward Muzan while they broke through obstacles and ignored Nakime's attempts to redirect the corridors.
• Muzan ordered Nakime to summon demons and the surviving Twelve Kizuki, and they appeared ahead of the group as Muzan commanded them to kill.

Muzan summoned the Twelve Kizuki and countless demons to trap Zongyan and three Uchiha in the Infinity Castle. The Demon Slayer Corps was suddenly transported there and joined the battle, allowing Zongyan’s group to head for Muzan while the Corps fought the demons.

• Zongyan and the other Uchiha defended themselves against the Twelve Kizuki and a swarm of demons, using fire and Murasame to hold back the attackers.
• Rengoku Kyotaro, Shinobu Kocho, Muichiro Tokito, Tanjiro, Zenitsu Agatsuma, Inosuke Hashibira, Giyu Tomioka, and other Corps members appeared in the Infinity Castle after being transported from their hunts.
• Tanjiro and Rengoku charged into the demon tide, and the other Demon Slayer Corps members followed with their Nichirin Blades and Breathing Styles.
• Zongyan recognized the Corps’ arrival as a chance to capture Muzan and told them the Infinity Castle was the Demon King’s stronghold.
• Zongyan withdrew with Zong You and the others, leaving the demons and Twelve Kizuki to the Corps as they hurried toward Muzan.

The Demon Slayer Corps confronted the Upper Ranks to clear the way for Zongyan and his companions to reach Muzan. The Hashira and their allies engaged the demons across the Infinity Castle, while Daki’s decapitation brought Gyutaro into the battle against Tengen Uzui and the three youngsters.

• Akaza, Doma, Hantengu, Gyokko, and Daki blocked Zongyan and his companions, but the Hashira and other Demon Slayer Corps members broke through and engaged the Upper Ranks.
• Kyojuro Rengoku urged Zongyan and his companions onward, and Zongyan led Uchiha Itachi and the others toward the deepest reaches of the Infinity Castle.
• Rengoku clashed head-on with Akaza, Shinobu Kocho attacked Doma, Muichiro Tokito and Obanai Iguro fought Hantengu, and Gyomei Himejima and Sanemi Shinazugawa battled Gyokko.
• Tengen Uzui and the three youngsters fought Daki, and Tengen cut off her head.
• Daki called for Gyutaro, who emerged from her body, lifted her head, and attacked Tengen and the youngsters.

Zongyan and his companions reached Muzan Kibutsuji’s hiding place while Uchiha Itachi stayed behind to fight Kokushibo. Zongyan’s cursed blade forced Muzan to sacrifice infected flesh, but Muzan prepared to fight back after his escape routes were blocked.

• Uchiha Itachi stayed in the corridor to face Kokushibo, and the two began battling with Moon Breathing and ninjutsu.
• Zongyan led Uchiha Ren and another clansman through Infinity Castle to Muzan Kibutsuji’s hall.
• Muzan mocked the intruders, but Zongyan taunted him about fleeing and provoked him into attacking.
• Zongyan cut Muzan’s tendrils with Murasame, and its curse poison spread through the severed flesh.
• Muzan repeatedly discarded infected flesh as Zongyan attacked, while Uchiha Ren and the other clansman blocked his exits with Fire Release Ninjutsu.
• With escape impossible, Muzan’s flesh swelled and tendrils burst from his body as he prepared to slaughter them.

Zongyan defeated Muzan by repeatedly poisoning and weakening him with Murasame, then forced him to submit rather than kill him. Muzan obeyed Zongyan’s first orders, ending the fighting in the Infinity Castle and bringing Uchiha Itachi there.

• Zongyan and the Uchiha fighters coordinated their attacks, while Murasame’s cursed poison destroyed Muzan’s flesh and weakened his Blood Demon Arts.
• Muzan became terrified as he shed poisoned flesh, and Zongyan demanded that he submit or die.
• Muzan agreed to submit, and Zongyan ordered him to stop the demons from fighting, summon his companion, and banish the Demon Slayer Corps from the Infinity Castle.
• Muzan sent his commands, causing the demons to retreat and the Demon Slayer Corps members to be banished; Uchiha Itachi arrived and stood beside Zongyan.
• Muzan reported that he had completed the orders, and Zongyan told him he had more tasks to perform.

After escaping Infinity Castle, Tanjiro and the surviving Demon Slayer Corps learned from Uchiha Zongyan that Muzan had been defeated and demons would disappear forever. Tanjiro then asked whether Nezuko could become human again, and Zongyan said a cure was possible but would take time.

• The Demon Slayer Corps survivors found themselves in mountain woods and wondered how the battle in Infinity Castle had ended.
• Uchiha Zongyan showed them Muzan's head, which crumbled to ash in the sunlight, and confirmed that Muzan was defeated and demons would no longer plague the world.
• Tanjiro and the other survivors wept with relief, while Shinobu Kocho mourned and celebrated that the struggle was over.
• Tanjiro asked whether Nezuko could turn human again, and Zongyan recalled that Tamayo had developed a way to cure demons.
• Zongyan told Tanjiro that Nezuko had a chance to become human but that making the cure would take time, and Tanjiro agreed to wait.

After the Demon Slayer Corps thanked Zongyan for ending Muzan’s reign, he returned to the Infinity Castle to collect Muzan and Nakime. He brought them through a portal to his own world, where Muzan found himself in an unfamiliar stone chamber.

• Shinobu Kocho, Fukuoka Giyu, Kyojuro Rengoku, and the other survivors thanked Zongyan, who left them to return to the Infinity Castle.
• Zongyan opened a rift into the Infinity Castle, where Uchiha Itachi guarded the battered Muzan and Nakime.
• Zongyan waited until night, then ordered Nakime to open a passage to the World of the Living.
• Zongyan, Itachi, and two Uchiha clan members escorted Muzan and Nakime through the passage and into the mountain forest.
• Zongyan summoned the Multiverse Portal, and the group traveled through it to another world.
• Muzan found himself in a stone chamber and wondered where he had arrived.

Zongyan persuaded Shisui to use Kotoamatsukami to rewrite Muzan's will and make him loyal to the Uchiha Clan. After Shisui's genjutsu succeeded, Zongyan welcomed Muzan as an official Uchiha.

• Zongyan brought Itachi, Muzan, and Nakime to Shisui's guarded courtyard.
• Zongyan asked Shisui to use Kotoamatsukami to alter someone's will, and Shisui refused to target Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Zongyan promised Shisui he could avoid the clan-village conflict if he helped the clan, and Shisui agreed.
• Itachi brought Muzan before Shisui, who used Kotoamatsukami to make Muzan forever loyal to the Uchiha and forbid him from harming any clan member.
• Shisui collapsed from the chakra drain, and Zongyan welcomed Muzan as an official member of the Uchiha.

Muzan learned that the Uchiha had brought him to another world and ordered him to raise demons in a controlled hunting ground instead of letting them eat people in the living world. Zongyan offered him the Blue Spider Lily if he cultivated powerful demons to Zongyan's satisfaction.

• Muzan received new clothes and followed a Uchiha clansman to meet Fugaku and Zongyan.
• Zongyan told Muzan that he was in the Shinobi World, which the Uchiha had reached by crossing worlds.
• Fugaku ordered Nakime to create an isolated hunting ground in the Infinity Castle and forbade Muzan's demons from eating people in the World of the Living.
• Muzan agreed to the restrictions because he had no way to resist.
• Zongyan promised Muzan the Blue Spider Lily if Muzan cultivated a group of powerful demons in the hunting grounds.

Zongyan sent Uchiha Toru to retrieve Tamayo and gather the Demon Slayer world's methods of growth, then trained with Sun Breathing enhanced by chakra. When Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi surrounded the Uchiha Clan Compound over captured clansmen, Zongyan urged the Uchiha to fight, and the battle began.

• Zongyan ordered Uchiha Toru to bring back Tamayo and collect the Demon Slayers' Breathing Styles and other methods of growing stronger.
• Zongyan practiced Sun Breathing with chakra in the woods and saw that it greatly improved his strength with less backlash than the Eight Gates of Death.
• An Uchiha clansman warned Zongyan that Danzo had exposed their hidden operatives in the Land of Rice Fields and that Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo had surrounded the compound.
• Zongyan arrived at the main gate and found Uchiha Fugaku facing Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo, with Clan Elder Yashiro and other Uchiha captives battered and bound.
• Zongyan condemned Danzo, called the Uchiha to battle, and led them in launching Fire Release Ninjutsu at the Konoha Ninja.

The Uchiha Clan’s rebellion engulfed Konoha as Zongyan summoned Muzan, Nakime, and the demons of the Infinity Castle to join the battle. Fugaku fought Danzo with Mangekyō Sharingan and Susanoo, and Zongyan’s mysterious bean restored Fugaku’s strength just as Danzo thought he had won.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha’s ninja to help Root and Anbu suppress the Uchiha, and Kakashi Hatake, Might Guy, Kurenai Yuhi, and Asuma Sarutobi joined the fight.
• Zongyan summoned Muzan and Nakime, who opened the Infinity Castle’s doors and sent demons into Konoha; Muzan attacked Might Guy while Kokushibo, Doma, Akaza, and Hantengu engaged other ninja.
• Danzo revealed the Sharingan implanted in his arm and attacked Uchiha Fugaku, who awakened Mangekyō Sharingan and used Susanoo against him.
• Fugaku repeatedly killed Danzo with Susanoo, but Danzo used Izanagi and sacrificed Sharingan to reset his injuries until Fugaku’s ocular power began to fail.
• Zongyan threw Fugaku a beanlike object, which restored his strength and ocular power, allowing Fugaku to strengthen Susanoo as Danzo’s confidence faltered.

Zongyan and Itachi defeated and killed Hiruzen Sarutobi, turning the battle for Konoha in the Uchiha's favor. With Konoha's forces retreating, the brothers charged back into the streets to help their clan eliminate the remaining enemies.

• Itachi joined Zongyan against Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the brothers wounded him with a coordinated attack using Murasame's poison.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi's strength failed as the poison spread, and Itachi's shuriken struck him before he collapsed and died.
• Zongyan cut off Hiruzen Sarutobi's head and announced his death, raising the Uchiha's morale and causing Konoha's battle lines to break.
• Zongyan and Itachi charged through the battlefield, killing enemies and supporting Uchiha clansmen as the clan counterattacked.

Zongyan and the Uchiha subdued Konoha’s remaining battlefield resistance, capturing valuable opponents and assigning Muzan the rest. With the rebellion not yet over, Zongyan sent Uchiha Itachi to purge hidden holdouts and ordered Uchiha Tekka to drive away clans watching the fighting before heading toward another battlefield.

• Zongyan rejected Might Guy and Kakashi’s refusal to surrender and ordered them taken alive; Uchiha Itachi, Kokushibo, and Muzan helped surround them.
• Zongyan knocked out Might Guy before he could open more of the Eight Gates, and Uchiha clansmen sealed him.
• Uchiha Itachi used genjutsu to create an opening against Kakashi, whom Zongyan sealed and bound; the Uchiha also captured Mitaraishi Anko and other valuable rebel ninjas.
• Zongyan handed the remaining rebel ninjas to Muzan, who had Nakime open a passage to the Infinity Castle so the demons could take them away.
• Zongyan ordered Uchiha Itachi to eliminate rebel remnants in the Sarutobi and Shimura clan grounds, then sent Uchiha Tekka to join Inabi and turn away the watching ninjas.
• After giving his orders, Zongyan looked toward the battlefield where fighting was still underway.

Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Zongyan defeated Danzo and returned home after Fugaku claimed Konoha’s leadership. They found Mikoto and the others safe, and Sasuke revealed the power he had used to protect his mother.

• Danzo fled toward Hokage Rock, but Fugaku pursued him and Zongyan cornered him, then beheaded him.
• Fugaku and Zongyan declared the Uchiha would rule Konoha, and Fugaku accepted the Hokage position before they headed home.
• Fugaku and Zongyan found Mikoto, Sasuke, and Uchiha Izumi safe in the bedroom after intruders attacked the compound.
• Sasuke told Fugaku that Zongyan had given him a fruit that let him become an element, resist physical attacks, and summon lightning.
• Zongyan invited Izumi to stay for dinner until Uchiha Itachi returned, and she remained despite denying that she was waiting for him.

Uchiha Fugaku announced new rules for Konoha, opening the Security Force to all clans while requiring each clan to send its strongest young ninja to the Uchiha-led Blood-Eyed Squad. Though the clan representatives objected, they submitted to the Uchiha’s power, and Hyuga Hiashi ordered his clan to prepare its candidates.

• Fugaku announced that the Security Force would no longer be exclusive to the Uchiha and that all registered clans would take turns serving in it.
• Fugaku ordered every clan to send its strongest and most talented young ninja to join the Uchiha-commanded Blood-Eyed Squad within three days.
• Hyuga Hiashi objected to the squad answering to the Uchiha, but Zongyan and Itachi silenced the clan representatives with a show of force.
• The clan representatives agreed to follow Fugaku’s orders and left to prepare their clans.
• Hyuga Hiashi’s elders protested the Blood-Eyed Squad order, but Hiashi reminded them that they could not defeat the Uchiha and told them to send candidates that afternoon.

Zongyan gathered Konoha’s young clan prodigies to form the Uchiha’s Blood-Eyed Squad. After confronting Hyuga Hiashi over Neji’s Caged Bird Seal, he had it removed, then led the recruits into the Uchiha Compound to receive uniforms and forehead protectors.

• More than a hundred young shinobi from Konoha’s clans gathered outside the Uchiha Compound to join Zongyan’s Blood-Eyed Squad.
• Zongyan challenged Hyuga Hiashi for sending Neji Hyuga, whose Branch Family Caged Bird Seal restricted him.
• Under Zongyan’s threat, Hiashi removed Neji’s seal, and Neji thanked Zongyan with tears of relief.
• Zongyan declared the gathered youths members of the Blood-Eyed Squad and led them into the Uchiha Compound.
• Uchiha clansmen handed out uniforms and forehead protectors, and Zongyan ordered the recruits to change before returning.

Zongyan brought the Blood-Eyed Squad into Infinity Castle, where Muzan had transformed the space into a brutal survival trial. After ordering Muzan to keep the young ninja alive, Zongyan left to seek Fugaku’s support for using the castle as a Uchiha training ground, while the squad fell into its first ordeal.

• Zongyan ordered Muzan to open Infinity Castle and announced that it would serve as the Blood-Eyed Squad’s training ground.
• Muzan explained that humans would be divided into groups of ten, scavenge for food, and face demons, with survivors recruited into the Demon Clan and the rest killed.
• Zongyan ordered Muzan to keep the young ninja alive and said the best performer could become their leader and earn rewards from the Uchiha.
• Zongyan left with Uchiha Itachi to discuss turning Infinity Castle into a Uchiha trial ground with Fugaku.
• Muzan welcomed the young ninja to hell, and the wooden floor vanished beneath Neji, Shikamaru, Ino, Choji, and the others, sending them plunging into the castle.

Neji Hyuga fought off demons and gathered supplies in Infinity Castle while the Blood-Eyed Squad struggled to survive. Outside, Rasa moved to exploit Konoha’s upheaval by proposing a joint invasion, but the message to Kirigakure was intercepted by a masked shinobi.

• Neji used the Gentle Fist and Byakugan to defeat three demons, then collected supplies from the battlefield.
• Shikamaru, Ino, and other Blood-Eyed Squad members fought demons and searched for supplies throughout Infinity Castle.
• Rasa reviewed intelligence about Konoha’s collapse and told Chiyo, Ebizo, and Baki he intended to send troops into the Land of Fire.
• Ebizo proposed inviting Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure to invade Konoha together, and Rasa sent secret letters to their villages.
• Iwagakure and Kumogakure agreed to the proposal, but a shinobi in a black robe and spiral mask intercepted the message to Kirigakure and worried about the Uchiha disrupting his plan.

After learning that the Sand, Cloud, and Stone planned to invade, Uchiha Fugaku gave Zongyan the Altar opportunity, and Zongyan awakened a Mangekyō Sharingan with the dōjutsu Control and Divine Descent. He showed his new eyes to Elder Yashiro, who celebrated the Uchiha’s growing power.

• Uchiha Fugaku, Zongyan, and Uchiha Itachi discussed how to repel the Sand, Cloud, and Stone invasion.
• Uchiha Itachi yielded the Altar opportunity to Zongyan, and Fugaku handed him the supplies from the other world.
• Zongyan used the Altar and awakened Mangekyō Sharingan abilities named Control and Divine Descent.
• Zongyan realized his dōjutsu reflected his desire to control his own destiny, then took the remaining supplies to Elder Yashiro.
• Zongyan showed Elder Yashiro his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Yashiro laughed with delight at the Uchiha’s rise.

Zongyan fought through the Kumogakure forces on the eastern battlefield, then faced Darui and Obito Uchiha. As Obito attacked with Kamui, Zongyan awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving Obito stunned.

• Zongyan charged into the Kumogakure assault and slaughtered the shinobi blocking his path with Murasame and Fire Release.
• Darui confronted Zongyan, but Zongyan evaded his attacks and forced him back.
• Zongyan spotted a masked figure in a tree, blasted it with Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame, and identified him as Obito Uchiha.
• Obito claimed to be Madara Uchiha, then attacked Zongyan with a Black Rod and used Kamui to launch a series of lethal strikes.
• Zongyan revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving Obito staring in disbelief.