Recaps

After defeating Blue Sea’s pirate fleet, Nagato and Yahiko made the captured pirates choose between execution and joining the Empire’s Special Forces. Blue Sea and his men accepted, becoming numbered recruits as Nagato began organizing the Empire’s response to Ocean Planet’s awakened.

• Yahiko’s forces captured Blue Sea and forty-six other pirates, and Nagato identified fifteen mutant bloodlines and two Kāma Awakened among the prisoners.
• Nagato ordered the awakened prisoners to be assigned serial numbers and proposed forming an Empire-controlled Special Forces unit to fight other awakened.
• Yahiko offered Blue Sea and his men a choice between execution and enlistment, and Blue Sea chose to join the Special Forces.
• Sasori explained that mutant bloodlines had growth potential beyond Shinobi World Kekkei Genkai, while Kāma marks carried risks of exhaustion and Ōtsutsuki activation.
• Nagato told Yahiko that the Empire would control Ocean Planet’s awakened through military service or laboratory detention.
• At dawn, Blue Sea and the dozen-plus pirates who accepted enlistment received numbers 001 through 017 and were sworn into the Empire’s Special Forces.

Tsunade soaked in a pool of liquor Toyotomi Yinglang had prepared and learned that Ocean Planet had rapidly developed fighting strength comparable to the Shinobi World. Yinglang explained the Empire’s plans to establish order there and keep its resources secret, leaving Tsunade to reflect on the Empire and her place within it.

• Tsunade entered her chambers and found a jade pool filled with fine liquor that Toyotomi Yinglang had prepared for her.
• As Tsunade bathed, Yinglang told her Ocean Planet had gained fighting strength comparable to the Shinobi World, with awakened people appearing throughout its population.
• Yinglang explained that Nagato and Yahiko were helping the Empire register and manage the awakened while the navy, Air Force, and Observation Stations expanded.
• Yinglang told Tsunade that the Sage of Six Paths drained the Shinobi World’s chakra through the Pure Land, prompting her to grieve for her Senju relatives.
• Tsunade asked whether the Empire could hold Ocean Planet and whether Yinglang would inform the Shinobi World; he affirmed the Empire would hold it and said he would keep its advantages secret.

Toyotomi Yinglang created the Soul-Searching Illusionary Realm, a training space in Heavenly Court where one day outside equaled one year inside and trainees faced harsh conditions and switchable environments. He planned to send the Empire’s children and fighters there to prepare for the Ōtsutsuki, and the chapter ended with him and Tsunade resting together.

• Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Tsunade that Ocean Planet’s high Chakra concentration gave its children an advantage the Empire needed to overcome.
• Toyotomi Yinglang used Dragon Essence power to create the Soul-Searching Illusionary Realm in Heavenly Court, where time flowed 365 times faster than outside.
• Toyotomi Yinglang set the realm’s basic trials as low Chakra concentration, oppressive pressure, and dead silence, then added switchable elemental environments and a Sealing Hut for recovery.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade he would send the Empire’s children and powerful fighters into the realm to prepare for the Ōtsutsuki.
• Tsunade asked Toyotomi Yinglang if he was tired, and he admitted he was but could not stop; she took his hand and told him to sleep.

At the Imperial Palace training ground, Mikoto watched Jilan, Ryukōshi, and Jin Zhiyin demonstrate extraordinary abilities and learned their strength far exceeded that of the Shinobi World's young geniuses. The children left to continue training, while Toyotomi Yinglang declared that the Empire had a promising future.

• Jilan pierced a target from three hundred meters away with his sniper rifle, then Ryukōshi formed a Holy Light Sword and Jin Zhiyin grew an oak whose branch crushed another target.
• Mikoto questioned whether the children were even human, and Toyotomi Yinglang answered that they were Toyotomi before listing their ranks: Jilan was ordinary Kage level, Ryukōshi was elite Jonin, and Jin Zhiyin was elite Chunin.
• Jilan criticized Ryukōshi's sword speed and Jin Zhiyin's combat ability, and both promised to train harder.
• Jilan asked when he could enter the Soul-Searching Illusionary Realm, and Toyotomi Yinglang set requirements for his Multiplication Fruit, Sharingan, and Three Colors of Yin Release.
• The three children left the training ground, and Toyotomi Yinglang told Mikoto they could not stop training or they would lose.
• Mikoto asked what Jilan would become, and Toyotomi Yinglang said he did not know but believed Jilan would not turn out badly before calling the Empire's future promising.

Nagato and Yahiko finalized three Kage-level navy admirals and reviewed Ocean Planet’s ten strongest mutant bloodlines as the Empire expanded its military and registration system. The chapter ended with them reaffirming that the Empire would control awakened people to prevent Ocean Planet from descending into war.

• Nagato told Yahiko that Akasa, Zan, and Salim had been selected as admirals, explaining their Lava Release, Ice Release, and Light Release abilities and their different levels of power.
• Yahiko read out ten powerful mutant bloodlines and their registered users, while Nagato described the Empire’s naval and air-force expansion.
• Akasa, Zan, and Salim discussed their new positions at the docks, and Salim argued that protecting Ocean Planet meant supporting the Empire’s order.
• Nagato told Yahiko that awakened people who refused to cooperate would be sent to laboratories, while those who cooperated would enter the military.
• Nagato and Yahiko reaffirmed their belief that the Empire could maintain control and prevent Ocean Planet from becoming another Shinobi World.

Sasori underwent a transformation using Ōtsutsuki immortal cells, a Core Spirit Nucleus, Toyotomi Yinglang’s primordial stem cells, and the All-Mechanism Analysis Crystal. He emerged as the Empire’s first Origin Warrior, a Six Paths-level Lord of All Mechanisms, and began preparing for his next training and work on Mechanical Star.

• Sasori explained to Sakura Haruno and Tsunade that Origin Warriors could not be mass-produced and announced that he would become the first one.
• Sasori described the materials he planned to implant, including Fengshou’s immortal cells, the Core Spirit Nucleus, and Toyotomi Yinglang’s primordial stem cells, then began the operation.
• Three days later, Sasori emerged from the growth chamber transformed, standing two meters twenty tall and declaring that he had succeeded.
• Sasori told Tsunade that he had reached Six Paths level and awakened his Mechanical God Scorpion Devil Fruit, then demonstrated his Mechanical Domain in the Central Hall.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sasori to adjust to his new body and train in the Soul-Searching Illusionary Realm, while Sakura Haruno and Tsunade left the hall.
• Sasori examined his reflection and returned to work on new blueprints and materials at Mechanical Star.

Sasori designed three tiers of Gene Serum modifications and recruited two hundred Ocean Planet awakened for the Dubhe Battle Group’s reserve company. He began their standard-grade transformations on Mechanical Star, leaving them submerged in Growth Chambers for a three-month process that might not leave all of them alive.

• Sasori completed plans for standard-, elite-, and super-grade modifications to build the Dubhe Battle Group.
• Sasori asked Yahiko and Nagato to select two hundred young, capable Ocean Planet awakened for the reserve company, and they agreed to help.
• Nagato and Yahiko assembled two hundred recruits, whom Sasori told they would become Dubhe Battle Group soldiers after three months of modification.
• Sasori brought the recruits to Mechanical Star, gave them standard-grade Gene Serum, and placed them in Growth Chambers, warning that survival was not guaranteed.

Sasori established the Dubhe Battle Group as the Empire’s first fully organized Space Marine force and demonstrated its mechanical armor, weapons, and puppets. He prepared the soldiers for future enemies by ordering intensive training while beginning another round of elite-grade modifications.

• A young officer reported that the Dubhe Battle Group had reached its full strength of one thousand soldiers, including the Cardinal Guard, combat companies, reserve companies, and reconnaissance company.
• Sasori reviewed the thousand soldiers, demonstrated their transforming armor and autonomous puppets, and declared them the Empire’s blade.
• Tiegu reported that the 1st Company was ready to deploy, and Sasori told him to wait for the Empire’s enemies, including the Ōtsutsuki.
• Sasori began the second phase of elite-grade modification for two hundred reserve soldiers from Ocean Planet, while the chief scientist reported that the Battle Group could supply itself.
• Sasori rejected immediate expansion and ordered the entire Dubhe Battle Group to train in the Soul-Searching Illusionary Realm for one year of simulated time.

A thousand Dubhe warriors emerged from a year of extreme training in the Soul-Searching Illusionary Realm and called Sasori their Father, which he accepted. Back at Tianshu Headquarters, Sasori ordered the Dubhe Battle Group to enter level-two combat readiness as he anticipated the Ōtsutsuki and the Empire’s enemies.

• Gangchui emerged from the Soul-Searching Illusionary Realm, knelt before Sasori, and called him Father, and the other warriors joined him.
• Sasori welcomed the warriors back and ordered the Dubhe Battle Group to return to its units.
• Sasori told Tiegu that the warriors were his children because he had made them and they inherited his will.
• Sasori reviewed the Ocean Planet reserve company’s upcoming elite-grade modification and said he would expand it after the current batch finished.
• Sasori ordered level-two combat readiness, warning Tiegu that the Ōtsutsuki and the Empire’s enemies would come.

Sasori demonstrated the Dubhe Battle Group’s coordinated weapons and combat abilities to the Empire, explaining that it could defeat a Six Paths-level opponent only at the cost of hundreds of soldiers. The chapter ended with Sasori telling Nagato and Yahiko that the soldiers had to bear the brunt of such battles, and that he did not regret creating them because they were his children.

• Sasori told Nagato and Yahiko that the Dubhe Battle Group could eliminate a Six Paths-level powerhouse, but might lose hundreds of its soldiers in the process.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered the demonstration to begin, and Tiegu assembled the thousand soldiers in ten companies on the Training Ground.
• The 1st Company demonstrated synchronized artillery fire, thought-controlled puppets, and the three forms of the Cardinal Transforming Blade.
• Toyotomi Yinglang praised the Dubhe Battle Group, and its soldiers declared that they would die for the Empire.
• Senrin asked Tsunade who the soldiers were, and Tsunade told her they were soldiers of the Empire.
• At evening, Sasori explained that Nagato and Yahiko could halve the casualties but could not risk dying as commanders, then said he did not regret making the soldiers because they were his children.

Toyotomi Yinglang asked the children to judge Uchiha Itachi’s role in the Uchiha Clan Massacre, and they condemned his choice to kill his clan instead of protecting them or seeking another way. The discussion ended with Mikoto acknowledging that the Empire and Toyotomi Yinglang were different from Konoha and Fugaku.

• Toyotomi Yinglang asked Jilan, Ryukōshi, Jin Zhiyin, Senrin, Moro, and Yōsa for their views on the Uchiha Clan Massacre.
• Jilan blamed the cycle of poor upbringing passed down from Uchiha Fushan to Fugaku and then to Uchiha Itachi.
• Ryukōshi argued that Itachi should have defended his clan, prevented the conflict, or protected noncombatants and his younger brother; Sasori added that Itachi had done none of those things.
• Moro challenged Jin Zhiyin’s sympathy for Itachi, arguing that Itachi had taken both his clansmen’s lives and the chance for them to be remembered as good people; Yōsa and Moro then discussed killing Itachi.
• Liying asked why he would not grow up to become like Itachi, and Toyotomi Yinglang said he would teach the children to be human and that the Empire would let people live standing tall.
• Mikoto agreed that Toyotomi Yinglang was not Fugaku and the Empire was not Konoha, while Toyotomi Yinglang concluded that Itachi had gained only contempt.

Mikoto struggled with her place in the Empire after hearing cruel remarks about her sons, and Toyotomi Yinglang offered her a child with recognized status. A year later, Mikoto gave birth to Yun Jing and became Toyotomi Yinglang’s mistress, while they wondered what their son would become.

• After returning from the Council Hall, Mikoto worried over accusations against Uchiha Itachi and her uncertain place in the Empire.
• Toyotomi Yinglang offered to let Mikoto bear his child and promised the child would have recognized status; Mikoto accepted.
• In Autumn, Year 27 of Konoha, Mikoto gave birth to Yun Jing, and Toyotomi Yinglang named the baby and declared Mikoto his mistress.
• Toyotomi Yinglang had Mikoto try on several outfits, then took her to the adjoining room after they confirmed Yun Jing was asleep.
• That night, Mikoto asked what Yun Jing would be like, and Toyotomi Yinglang said their son would not turn out badly.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained the three divisions of the Toyotomi Clan and his plan to raise an Empire battle group whose Origin Warrior would be chosen from three candidates, including Mikoto’s newborn son Yun Jing. Mikoto accepted that Yun Jing might lose the chance but believed his Toyotomi name and future would remain; Yinglang then reminded her of her duties.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that the Toyotomi Clan was divided among Konoha, the Country of Roran, and the Great British Empire to conceal the Empire’s true strength.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said he wanted the Empire’s Toyotomi to grow in number and eventually field over a thousand warriors.
• Toyotomi Yinglang named Toyotomi Jilan, Toyotomi Jinsyokuin, and newborn Yun Jing as candidates to become the battle group’s Origin Warrior.
• Mikoto realized Yun Jing had a chance to become an Origin Warrior, while Toyotomi Yinglang stressed that only one candidate would be chosen.
• Mikoto told Toyotomi Yinglang she did not hate him because he had given Yun Jing a chance, and said Yun Jing would still have a family, roots, and a future if he lost.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reminded Mikoto to train by day and keep him company at night, and Mikoto whispered to sleeping Yun Jing about his possible future.

Toyotomi Yinglang distributed six Devil Fruits to the imperial children in the Heavenly Court, explaining their powers as each child ate one and underwent a transformation. He warned them that their lives were bound to their fruits, then led them back from the ceremony.

• Toyotomi Yinglang gave Senrin the Nectar Devil Fruit, which transformed her hair silver-white and her eyes pale blue.
• Moro ate the Mythical Zoan Wind God Crow fruit and gained black wings, night vision, and the ability to move through shadows.
• Shakuzuki received the Blazing Sun Devil Fruit, while Yōsa received the Imperial Sand Devil Fruit, and both changed to reflect their new powers.
• Liying ate the Vine-Vine Devil Fruit, and Chengkong ate the Time-Stop Devil Fruit, gaining vine control and the ability to stop time, respectively.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told the children their bodies, Chakra, and souls were bound to their fruits, warned them not to die, and led them out of the Heavenly Court.

Mikoto learned that Ocean Planet’s Byakugan was a common mutant bloodline, purer than the Hyuga Clan’s, and worried about the clan’s decline. Toyotomi Yinglang said the Caged Bird Seal had caused that decline but refused to save the Hyuga, while Mikoto accepted that Yun Jing’s future belonged to the Empire, not the Uchiha or Hyuga.

• While shopping with Kushina, Mikoto saw an Ocean Planet immigrant with Byakugan and learned that it was an ordinary mutant bloodline there.
• Kushina explained that Ocean Planet’s Byakugan came from Ōtsutsuki Yashū and was purer than the Hyuga Clan’s, whose bloodline had weakened over generations.
• At the palace, Kushina told Mikoto that the Hyuga would likely decline unless they broke the Caged Bird Seal or left the Shinobi World.
• Mikoto asked Toyotomi Yinglang how the Hyuga could be saved, and he said their seal suppressed talent but that he would not help a clan unwilling to change.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reminded Mikoto that Yun Jing had Sharingan, and Mikoto affirmed that he was Toyotomi Yun Jing, not an Uchiha or a Hyuga.

Ōtsutsuki Yandō and Ōtsutsuki Raiga arrived at Mechanical Star to take its Chakra Fruit, and Sasori mobilized the planet’s defenses against them. As the Dubhe Battle Group prepared to encircle the intruders, Sasori launched the next phase of his layered assault.

• Ōtsutsuki Yandō and Ōtsutsuki Raiga emerged from a rift above Mechanical City and declared their intention to take the Chakra Fruit.
• Sasori contacted Kaguya, who identified the Ōtsutsuki’s abilities and Raiga’s weaknesses.
• Sasori launched a missile barrage, and Raiga destroyed the missiles with Light-Speed Instantaneous Charge before landing exhausted beside Yandō.
• Sasori deployed tens of thousands of combat robots, servitors, and Mechanical God Cult believers as an auxiliary army.
• Tiegu led the Dubhe Battle Group into formation, and Sasori ordered the troops to surround and kill the Ōtsutsuki.
• Sasori ordered a second missile salvo and sent the auxiliary army forward as the Dubhe Battle Group prepared to encircle Yandō and Raiga.

Sasori and the Dubhe Battle Group fought Ōtsutsuki Yanchuang and Ōtsutsuki Raiga above Mechanical City, using a devastating beam to kill Raiga before trapping Yanchuang in the Blue-Light Defense System. With the Heavenly Court supplying the system at maximum power, Yanchuang’s energy was suppressed as the soldiers closed in to wear him down.

• Yanchuang endured waves of missiles while Sasori ordered the Dubhe Battle Group to separate him from Raiga and encircle them.
• Yanchuang stopped and detonated thousands of missiles with his force field, but the blast left a crease in his robe and enraged him.
• Sasori fired the Scorpion King Laser Cannon at Raiga, overpowering his Lightning Release Armor and killing him before he could become a Chakra Fruit.
• Sasori activated the Blue-Light Defense System, which trapped Yanchuang and suppressed his chakra, natural energy, and Rinnegan power.
• Sasori asked Toyotomi Yinglang to maximize the Heavenly Court’s AllSpark supply, strengthening the barrier as the Dubhe Battle Group closed around Yanchuang.

Sasori and the Dubhe Battle Group wore Yanchuang down with the blue light net, relentless attacks, and thousands of missiles before Sasori killed him with the Scorpion King Laser Cannon. Sasori and Tiegu celebrated their victory, though Mechanical Star suffered heavy casualties and spent enormous resources.

• Yanchuang used Myriad Images of the Heavy Prison and Earth Vein Sealing Prison, but Sasori tightened the blue light net and Toyotomi Yinglang boosted the AllSpark to suppress his powers.
• As the Dubhe Battle Group rotated through attacks, Sasori destroyed Yanchuang’s attempt to use Stone Realm Heavenly Burial by melting the ground beneath him.
• Sasori and the soldiers repeatedly struck Yanchuang while missiles depleted his stamina, chakra, and eye power until his defenses began to crack.
• Tiegu led a final coordinated slash that wounded Yanchuang, and Sasori then killed him with a Scorpion King Laser Cannon beam to the forehead.
• Tiegu told Sasori, “Father. We won,” and Sasori acknowledged their victory before heading toward the Main Hall.

After Ōtsutsuki Yandō and Ōtsutsuki Raiga died, Mechanical Star’s shifting earth exposed vast deposits of high-purity chakra and Raiga’s lingering power began creating Lightning Release awakeners. Sasori ordered large-scale mining and prepared to turn the planet’s resources and new recruits into military strength, while recognizing the Empire could not afford to stop expanding.

• Sasori told Tiegu that Mechanical Star’s chakra deposits could sustain the Empire for centuries and declared the start of large-scale development.
• Combat engineers found high-purity chakra crystals in the eastern plains and reported that they could be used directly for energy, weapons, and modifications.
• Leishi survived a lightning strike in the western mountains and gained instinctive Lightning Release abilities from Ōtsutsuki Raiga’s source energy.
• Sasori registered Leishi as the Empire’s first mutant bloodline, code-named Thunder God Body, and Tiegu reported seven such awakeners so far.
• Sasori ordered Tiegu to assign mature Thunder God Body awakeners to the Dubhe Battle Group and to notify Yutian to send more engineering teams, miners, and smelters.
• Sasori inspected two hundred growing Celestial Pivot Warriors and agreed with Tiegu that the Empire’s enemies would not wait for it to use its new fortune.

Toyotomi Yinglang approved Sasori’s proposal to create the Star Realm Army and appointed Yutian as its marshal, while Sasori prepared an extensive modification plan to make Yutian an Origin Warrior. Sasori estimated the army could assemble 800,000 soldiers in three years and continued overseeing the Dubhe Battle Group’s reserve company.

• Sasori described Mechanical Star’s rapid changes as an age of great development and argued that the Empire needed an organized regular army.
• Toyotomi Yinglang approved the Star Realm Army proposal, and Sasori recommended Yutian as its marshal because of his experience managing the Underworld.
• Sasori presented the materials needed to modify Yutian into an Origin Warrior, including Ōtsutsuki Yandō’s Rinnegan and Toyotomi Yinglang’s cell solution; Mikoto overheard the discussion.
• Sasori estimated that the Star Realm Army could assemble 800,000 soldiers in three years, and Toyotomi Yinglang told him to prioritize people as well as mining.
• At the underground base, Sasori learned that the Dubhe Battle Group reserve company needed two more months for elite-grade modification and half a year for superpower-grade modification.
• Tiegu said the Dubhe Battle Group would lead the charge wherever the Empire went next, and Sasori agreed.

Yutian completed his transformation into the Six Paths-level Withered Lord and was given command of the Withered Ruins Battle Group and the Star Realm Army. He began preparing the battle group's first recruits for modification, blessing them as they slept in the Growth Chambers.

• Yutian emerged from the Growth Chamber with fused Withered God Eyes and the Quicksand Law Bead, and Sasori named him the Empire's second Origin Warrior, the Withered Lord.
• Toyotomi Yinglang welcomed Yutian at the Heavenly Court and placed the Withered Ruins Battle Group and the Star Realm Army under his command.
• Sasori gave Yutian the Gene Serum designs and told him to revise them and learn to lead the battle group as its Gene Father.
• Yutian told Tiegu that the first recruits would undergo staged modifications beginning the next day and be ready for battle in a year.
• Yutian pressed his palm to the Growth Chamber glass and sent a grayish-brown blessing into the first two hundred sleeping recruits.

Toyotomi Yinglang’s Imperial Council set a one-year deadline for the Empire’s expansion into space, while its leaders prepared troops, warships, and training grounds. The chapter ended with Mikoto imagining her son Yun Jing witnessing the Empire’s coming expansion.

• Toyotomi Yinglang announced that the Empire would begin expanding in one year, after the first Star Realm Army troops and the Withered Ruins Battle Group were ready.
• Sasori, Nagato, Yahiko, Konan, and Yutian outlined plans for warships, military forces, and the Empire’s security as its consorts and officials pledged their support.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli that the Empire’s expansion would reveal its existence to the Shinobi World, though he wanted to avoid becoming entangled with it.
• Sasori reviewed the completed interstellar warship blueprints and ordered construction to begin, declaring that the Dubhe Battle Group would lead the charge.
• Yutian chose Mechanical Star’s western desert as the Withered Ruins Battle Group’s training ground and assigned the group to support the Empire’s expansion.
• Mikoto told Kushina that Yun Jing would witness the Empire’s expansion, then spoke to her sleeping infant about the warships and armies he would see.

Toyotomi Yinglang welcomed his newborn daughter, Toyotomi Tsukihime, and confirmed that the Empire’s forces were ready to march from Mechanical Star. He announced that the invasion of the nearest life planet would begin in three days.

• Toyotomi Yinglang named Kaguya’s newborn daughter Toyotomi Tsukihime and said she could eat her Devil Fruit when she was older.
• Sasori ordered the Dubhe Battle Group and the Starship fleet to enter level-one combat readiness, while Yutian readied the Withered Ruins Battle Group and the Star Realm Army.
• Yutian addressed the 100,000 Star Realm Army soldiers and ordered them to enter level-one combat readiness.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told the Empire’s leaders that they would march in three days to the life planet nearest Mechanical Star.
• Mikoto watched the leaders prepare for the Empire’s first campaign of interstellar expansion and offered Toyotomi Yinglang fresh tea.

The Empire's fleet reached Iron Remains Star, a resource-rich but devastated planet, and Sasori outlined a strategy of negotiation and selective war to control its key sites. The chapter ended as the Dubhe Battle Group and Withered Ruins Battle Group deployed on the planet's surface, with Mikoto watching the Empire begin its expansion.

• Sasori ordered Tiegu to notify Yutian that the fleet would land on Iron Remains Star in three days.
• The fleet arrived above Iron Remains Star, and Sasori explained to Yutian that the Empire intended to claim its metal resources and control key mineral veins, factories, and ruins.
• Sasori assigned the Withered Ruins Battle Group to control battlefields, the Dubhe Battle Group to break strongpoints, and the Star Realm Army to occupy territory, while advocating talks before fighting.
• Mikoto worried that the Shinobi World might suffer the same fate as Iron Remains Star and listened as Toyotomi Yinglang told her the tea was warm enough.
• Sasori deployed the Dubhe Battle Group and Yutian deployed the Withered Ruins Battle Group after their landing pods reached Iron Remains Star.
• Mikoto watched the two battle groups form up and quietly recognized the deployment as the Empire's expansion.

After the Empire defeated the factions on Iron Remains Star, Toyotomi Yinglang began recruiting the surviving Machine Race, Cyborgs, and Scavengers by offering supplies, benefits, and a chance at survival. He outlined plans to enforce discipline, mix the groups together, and unite them against the Ōtsutsuki Clan, leaving the newcomers poised to become imperial soldiers.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Yutian and Sasori that the Empire would recruit the Machine Race, Cyborgs, and Scavengers by binding their interests to the Empire rather than treating the Machine Race as mere robots.
• Toyotomi Yinglang offered the faction leaders centralized survival supplies, military merit rewards, secure territory, and a three-month army trial, and the representatives agreed to join.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Yutian that military law would punish specific offenses through enforcement squads, while collective punishment risked provoking a mutiny.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered the recruits mixed across racial groups, given a shared imperial identity, and united against the Ōtsutsuki Clan, which had repeatedly harvested Chakra Fruits from Iron Remains Star.
• Mikoto watched the recruits line up and compared Toyotomi Yinglang's rule through benefits and fear with Uchiha Fugaku's reliance on bloodlines and tradition.