Chapter Summaries

Minato Namikaze confronted Madara Uchiha, who revealed that he had survived his battle with Hashirama Senju and came to reclaim the Nine-Tails. Madara tried to turn Konoha’s ninja against Minato by demanding they abandon Kushina Uzumaki, but Minato refused and inspired several young ninja to join him.

• Minato attacked Madara with the Flying Thunder God Technique, but Madara blocked his strike and counterattacked before Minato teleported away.
• Madara claimed that his defeat against Hashirama Senju had been part of his plan and that he had survived and grown stronger.
• Madara said he had returned to reclaim the Nine-Tails and urged Konoha’s ninja to abandon Kushina Uzumaki rather than fight him.
• Several Konoha ninja wavered, but Minato insisted that Kushina was their comrade and declared he would face Madara even if he had to go alone.
• A young genin and other young ninja stepped forward to fight beside Minato, prompting Madara to notice the Will of Fire returning.

Konoha’s ninjas rallied behind Minato Namikaze and refused Madara Uchiha’s attempt to divide them, prompting him to unleash a devastating attack. As Minato and the village forces prepared to fight, Madara summoned Perfect Susanoo, and Might Duy charged at the giant after opening the Sixth Gate.

• A scarred middle-aged ninja and a young Jonin rejected Madara Uchiha’s arguments, and other Konoha ninjas joined them in defending Kushina and the village.
• Might Duy stepped forward, resolved to protect his comrades and his son Might Guy, while Madara recalled founding Konoha with Hashirama Senju.
• Madara used Majestic Destroyer Flame to burn several Chunins, and Minato Namikaze ordered the remaining ninjas to form a defensive line.
• Anbu ninjas countered Madara’s flames with Water Release while other Konoha forces raised Earth-Style Walls and sealed the battlefield inside a barrier.
• Minato attacked Madara with the Flying Thunder God Technique, but Madara evaded him and summoned Perfect Susanoo.
• Might Duy opened the Sixth Gate and charged Madara’s Susanoo as the Sage of Six Paths watched and told Hashirama that the Will of Fire had not been extinguished.

Minato Namikaze used the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique and a carefully planned trap to fatally wound Madara Uchiha, then collapsed from his own injuries. Madara secretly activated Izanagi, leaving the battle far from over.

• Minato Namikaze studied Susanoo and used the Konoha ninja as bait while preparing to attack its weak point.
• Madara Uchiha unleashed Majestic Destroyer Flame against the Konoha ninja as Minato continued setting up his formation.
• Minato Namikaze attacked Madara with shuriken and a Rasengan, then used the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique to blind him.
• Madara Uchiha charged at Minato's apparent Rasengan attack, but Minato's real body had been bait and a clone struck Madara from behind with a blade.
• Madara Uchiha and Minato Namikaze collapsed, and the surviving Konoha ninja believed Madara had been killed.
• Madara Uchiha secretly used Izanagi to rewrite his death and vowed not to underestimate Minato again.

Madara Uchiha revived himself with Izanagi, then Minato Namikaze organized an evacuation by drawing Madara away from Konoha with a small group of volunteers. Minato and the volunteers confronted Madara in the forest as another battle began.

• Madara Uchiha used Izanagi to heal his fatal wounds, then gouged out and crushed his blinded Mangekyō Sharingan as the technique’s price.
• Minato Namikaze warned the Konoha ninja that Madara had survived and ordered most of them to withdraw while he and a small group served as bait.
• Might Duy, Inoichi Yamanaka, Shikaku Nara, Chōshū Akimichi, and others stayed to help lure Madara away and protect Konoha’s survivors.
• Minato Namikaze led the volunteers beyond Konoha into the forest, where Madara Uchiha pursued and confronted them.
• The Sage of Six Paths watched the events in the Pure Land and wondered how much strength Madara had left after losing an eye.

Might Duy opened the Eight Gates and took the Akimichi Clan’s strongest secret medicine to fight Madara Uchiha, sacrificing his life to seemingly defeat him. Madara revived through Izanagi, while the Sage of Six Paths considered using Konoha’s Anbu to bring Duy back, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Might Duy asked Minato Namikaze to let him lead the attack, then opened all Eight Gates and requested Chōshū Akimichi’s strongest Three-Colored Pills.
• Might Duy swallowed the pills, unleashed overwhelming speed and strength, and battered Madara Uchiha with a series of blows.
• Might Duy struck Madara with his eightieth punch, apparently killing him, then died in Minato’s arms after asking him to praise Might Guy.
• The Sage of Six Paths watched from the Pure Land and considered using Izanagi through a Konoha Anbu mission to save Might Duy.
• Madara revived through Izanagi at the cost of his remaining Sharingan and vowed to take revenge on Minato.

Madara Uchiha used Izanagi to revive himself, while Anbu member Ao sacrificed his Sharingan to revive Might Duy and hold Madara back. After Madara escaped, the Uchiha clan reacted angrily to the revelation that Tobirama had taken Sharingan and studied their forbidden techniques, and Minato and Duy vowed to find Ao as Madara’s next attack loomed.

• Madara Uchiha revived himself with Izanagi, permanently blinding both Sharingan, and vowed revenge on Minato Namikaze and Might Duy.
• Ao revealed that Tobirama Senju had made him a Sharingan test subject, then used Izanagi to revive Might Duy at the cost of his right eye.
• Ao stayed behind as Minato Namikaze and the surviving ninja withdrew with Might Duy, but Madara overwhelmed Ao and escaped after warning that he would return to destroy Konoha.
• Uchiha Setsuna learned that Tobirama had taken Sharingan and studied Izanagi, then ordered the Uchiha clan to tighten security and vowed to reclaim what outsiders had taken.
• Minato told Might Duy that Ao had saved him and lost an eye; Duy vowed to find Ao and thank him, while Minato prepared to face Madara again.

Uchiha Fugaku tried to calm his clan after they learned Tobirama Senju had taken Sharingan and forbidden techniques, while Root agents stirred suspicion against him and spread a report predicting Uchiha Itachi would massacre the clan. The chapter ended with Fugaku privately wondering about Itachi’s future and resolving to protect his newborn son, even if it meant opposing the Uchiha.

• Uchiha Huo Long and other clan members demanded that the Konoha High Command return the stolen Sharingan and leaked forbidden techniques, but Fugaku urged them to wait for a moment when Konoha would need Uchiha support.
• Two Root ninja infiltrated the meeting and accused Fugaku and his father of helping conceal Tobirama Senju’s theft, but Fugaku exposed them and ordered them out.
• After the Root ninja left, Fugaku denied knowing about the theft and said he believed his father had never wronged the Uchiha, though he noticed that suspicion remained among some clan members.
• A young clan member revealed a report predicting that Uchiha Itachi, Fugaku’s future son, would massacre the Uchiha after a coup, and admitted that Root had told him about it.
• Fugaku called the future report another attempt by Danzo to throw the clan into chaos and insisted that his newborn son would not betray the Uchiha.
• Alone in his study, Fugaku read the report and wondered whether Itachi would become a traitor, resolving to protect his son even if he had to stand against the Uchiha Clan.

Toyotomi Yinglang showed Black Zetsu how Minato Namikaze and Might Duy fought Madara Uchiha in Konoha, then extracted the Nine-Tails from Kushina Uzumaki and implanted her with a Chakra Seed. Black Zetsu left with the sealed beast while Yinglang kept Kushina alive and watched Konoha’s battle continue.

• Toyotomi Yinglang used his Immortal Mangekyō to show Black Zetsu and the Evil God Madara fighting Minato Namikaze and Might Duy in Konoha.
• Minato and Might Duy killed Madara twice, but Madara used Izanagi both times, lost his eyes, and fled after an Anbu ninja revived Might Duy.
• Toyotomi Yinglang extracted the Nine-Tails from Kushina Uzumaki and sealed it in a container for Black Zetsu.
• Toyotomi Yinglang implanted Kushina with a Chakra Seed, and the Evil God sustained her life as she recovered from losing the Nine-Tails.
• Black Zetsu left to report to Madara, while Toyotomi Yinglang carried Kushina to a stone bed and watched the fighting in Konoha continue.

Kushina Uzumaki awoke in Toyotomi Yinglang’s hidden base after he had rescued her, removed the Nine-Tails, and severed her ties to Konoha. Toyotomi Yinglang kept her captive, altered the Nine-Tails’ memories, and declared that her new identity and future belonged to him.

• Kushina Uzumaki awoke in an unfamiliar room and learned from Toyotomi Yinglang that he had rescued her from Madara Uchiha, extracted the Nine-Tails, and implanted a new chakra seed.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that she was no longer a Konoha shinobi or Minato Namikaze’s wife and that she belonged to him.
• The Nine-Tails broke out of its vessel, but Toyotomi Yinglang struck it down and ordered Black Zetsu to reseal it.
• Toyotomi Yinglang rewrote the Nine-Tails’ memories so it would believe Black Zetsu had extracted it and Kushina Uzumaki was dead.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that her name was now Kushina Toyotomi and that her past was dead and her future was in his hands.

Black Zetsu built an intelligence network across the shinobi world and began planning to manipulate Obito Uchiha. In Sunagakure, Toyotomi Yinglang showed Kushina Toyotomi his growing Kage-level army and made clear that her future was under his control, leaving her grieving and convinced she could not return to Minato.

• Black Zetsu assigned White Zetsu to monitor major figures and villages across the shinobi world, including Obito Uchiha, whom he intended to manipulate into awakening Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Toyotomi Yinglang brought Kushina Toyotomi to Sunagakure and introduced her to Sasori, Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan.
• Nagato told Kushina that he had stopped dwelling on Jiraiya’s motives and demonstrated how he could reshape his Black Rod with Gold Release.
• Sasori showed Toyotomi Yinglang fifty modified Elite Warriors who had reached Kage-level standards and said he expected their number to grow to two hundred within six months.
• Toyotomi Yinglang settled Kushina in a secluded courtyard, declared her past dead and her future in his hands, and left her alone as she cried over Minato.

Hashirama Senju learned that Madara Uchiha had devastated Konoha and taken Kushina, while Tobirama Senju took command of the Northern Defense Line after confronting Hiruzen Sarutobi. Jiraiya left to spy on Sunagakure, unaware that Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan were there with a new teacher plotting to overturn the Shinobi World.

• Hashirama Senju learned that Might Duy had driven Madara Uchiha from Konoha and that Madara had taken Kushina and extracted the Nine-Tails.
• Hashirama Senju promised Minato Namikaze that he would find Kushina, dead or alive.
• Tobirama Senju challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi over the Sarutobi Clan's strength and the Senju Clan's decline, then took command of the Northern Defense Line and transferred Hiruzen's men to the reserves.
• Shimura Danzō sent Jiraiya to Sunagakure to gather intelligence and told him Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan were safe in the Land of Rain.
• Jiraiya headed for Sunagakure, unaware that Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan were there calling another man their teacher.

Jiraiya infiltrated Sunagakure to gather intelligence for Danzo, but Nagato confronted him and revealed that they would be enemies. After Jiraiya departed, Nagato began harvesting the souls of Konoha prisoners to replenish his forces.

• Jiraiya approached Sunagakure in disguise, while Sasori detected him and identified him as Jiraiya, sent by Danzo.
• Nagato volunteered to confront Jiraiya, and Kushina worried about the meeting while Toyotomi Yinglang said Jiraiya was still useful.
• Nagato met Jiraiya in the desert, revealed his identity, and said that he, Yahiko, and Konan had found a new path and would be enemies from then on.
• Nagato returned to the laboratory and used Shadow Devouring Extraction to kill a Konoha prisoner and absorb his soul.
• Sasori noted that Nagato could become a one-man army if he gained the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and Toyotomi Yinglang hinted that he could help him advance.
• Jiraiya continued toward the Land of Fire, reflecting on how much Nagato had changed.

In Sunagakure’s core laboratory, Toyotomi Yinglang explained why he considered the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan comparable to the Rinnegan and urged Nagato to follow his own Sharingan path. Nagato committed to mastering his Dōjutsu, while Toyotomi Yinglang hinted that the Sharingan’s evolution continued beyond the Eternal Mangekyō.

• Nagato asked Toyotomi Yinglang whether the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan or the Rinnegan was stronger, and Toyotomi Yinglang said they were on the same level.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that his Eternal Mangekyō arose through ancestral bloodline reversion and granted him two additional Dōjutsu, unlike an Eternal Mangekyō created by transplanting a relative’s eyes.
• Toyotomi Yinglang compared the eyes’ abilities and argued that the Rinnegan’s powers were less useful to Nagato because its abilities were not truly his own.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Nagato that power was strongest when it belonged to him, and Nagato resolved to keep advancing along the Sharingan path.
• Toyotomi Yinglang hinted that the Sharingan’s path extended beyond the Eternal Mangekyō and told Nagato to master Shadow Devouring Extraction and Shadow Instantaneous Movement.
• Kushina reflected on how little she had known, while Sasori wondered what Nagato’s Dōjutsu might become after evolving.

Nagato asked Toyotomi Yinglang how to advance his Mangekyō Sharingan, and chose bloodline reversion after hearing three possible methods. Toyotomi Yinglang agreed to design a method for him and revealed that bloodline reversion aimed at the Sharingan’s fundamental source, which even Indra had not reached.

• Toyotomi Yinglang explained bloodline reversion, Gene Serum body modification, and Yin Release training as three ways to address Nagato’s Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Nagato chose bloodline reversion, and Toyotomi Yinglang agreed to design a secret advancement method while warning him that he must forge his own path.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that Nagato’s former Rinnegan showed he had the strength of soul to attempt bloodline reversion.
• Nagato asked whether Indra had possessed the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and Toyotomi Yinglang said Indra had only reached the Mangekyō.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said bloodline reversion did not return to Indra, but to the Sharingan’s fundamental source, which he would reveal after Nagato advanced.

Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that Konoha had manipulated her abduction and failed to protect the Uzumaki Clan, using those claims to make her distrust her past and depend on him. Kushina broke down in the laboratory, while Toyotomi Yinglang left confident she would eventually accept him.

• Kushina asked Toyotomi Yinglang why he devoted so much effort to her, and he said he wanted her heart as well as her body.
• Toyotomi Yinglang claimed Konoha High Command arranged Kushina's abduction and Minato Namikaze's rescue to secure her affection for Minato.
• Kushina defended Minato, but Toyotomi Yinglang argued that her relationship could have benefited Minato's ambitions.
• Toyotomi Yinglang claimed Konoha was connected to the fall of the Land of Whirlpools and had abandoned the surviving Uzumaki.
• Kushina collapsed in tears as Toyotomi Yinglang told her that Konoha was unworthy of her devotion and called her Kushina Toyotomi.
• After leaving the laboratory, Toyotomi Yinglang said Kushina would come around because she had no other choice, adding that what he had told her was only part of the truth.

In the Core Laboratory, Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Nagato and the others that the Child of Prophecy was an Asura reincarnation backed by the Sage of Six Paths, and suggested the prophecy might be engineered to serve the Sage’s interests. Nagato rejected the role of savior and chose to train for himself, determined not to be manipulated again.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Nagato that the Child of Prophecy was the person with the strongest portion of Asura’s chakra, backed by the Sage of Six Paths, and said Nagato had been only a chosen vessel.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that Naruto Uzumaki from the other world had lost most of his Asura chakra and was outside this world’s Sage of Six Paths network.
• Toyotomi Yinglang speculated that the Sage of Six Paths could make Jiraiya and Tsunade’s child the Child of Prophecy, citing the child’s potential for enormous chakra reserves and Wood Release.
• Toyotomi Yinglang claimed the Sage of Six Paths might use the prophecy to provoke more deaths and send souls to the Pure Land, leaving Kushina and Yahiko shaken and Nagato in tears.
• Nagato told Toyotomi Yinglang that the prophecy and the Sage of Six Paths had nothing to do with him, then returned to training for himself.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained how Nagato's Mangekyō patterns reflected powers related to his own, then grew closer to Kushina in the laboratory. Kushina accepted his affection while still thinking of Minato, and Nagato continued training as the night ended.

• Yahiko asked Toyotomi Yinglang why Nagato's Mangekyō patterns were asymmetrical, and Toyotomi Yinglang explained that his blood had influenced them.
• Toyotomi Yinglang compared his Guixu and Instant abilities with Nagato's Shadow Devouring Extraction and Shadow Instantaneous Movement, linking their patterns to endings and preservation, and to time and space.
• After the others left, Toyotomi Yinglang comforted Kushina about Minato, and she did not resist when he kissed her.
• Toyotomi Yinglang and Kushina shared porridge, feeding each other, and agreed to make it a daily routine.
• Kushina silently thought of Minato and believed she had no way back, while Nagato watched them briefly before resuming his training.

After treating wounded Toyotomi soldiers following a Sunagakure attack, Sakura Haruno learned that Toyotomi Yinglang wanted her to become nine-year-old Tsunade’s disciple. He planned to use the connection to strengthen the Toyotomi Clan’s claim to Konoha’s legitimacy, and Sakura agreed to approach Tsunade.

• Sakura Haruno treated the poisoned and injured Toyotomi Clan members on the battlefield.
• Sakura asked Toyotomi Yinglang why his Mangekyō patterns differed, and he explained that his Sharingan had uniquely mutated.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered Sakura to take Tsunade as her disciple, describing their future teacher-student relationship as a closed loop of inheritance.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that tying Tsunade and the Senju lineage to the Toyotomi Clan would make Konoha’s suppression of them undermine its own legitimacy.
• Sakura agreed to approach Tsunade, while Toyotomi Yinglang said he wanted her to become a true Senju Princess rather than Konoha’s tool.

Toyotomi Yinglang won Tobirama Senju’s approval to marry Senju Tsubaki while Sakura Haruno began mentoring the young Tsunade in medical ninjutsu. Yinglang revealed that he planned to create a Toyotomi heir with Wood Release and seize Konoha’s political orthodoxy, even if he had to kill Tobirama himself.

• Toyotomi Yinglang asked Tobirama Senju for permission to marry Senju Tsubaki, and Tobirama agreed on the condition that Tsubaki consented.
• Sakura Haruno entered the Senju compound under the pretense of giving children checkups and encouraged Tsunade to consider becoming a medical ninja.
• Sakura Haruno told Yinglang that she was growing closer to Tsunade, and Yinglang revealed that he planned to marry Tsubaki and make their child awaken Wood Release.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that he intended to make the child bear the Toyotomi name and place Konoha’s orthodoxy in his clan’s hands.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said he expected Tobirama to die in the war and would assassinate him himself if necessary, then ordered Sakura to keep getting close to Tsunade.

As the war displaced people across the Shinobi World, Toyotomi Yinglang arranged for Rōran to shelter refugees and divide them between its own population and Great Britain, while the empire supplied technology and transport. Rōran began settling the first arrivals, and Yutian required that they receive ideological education honoring Toyotomi Yinglang.

• Toyotomi Yinglang sent Queen Sasha a proposal for Rōran to accept refugees under a thirty-seventy population split, with Great Britain providing technical support.
• Yutian approved designs for larger ocean-going merchant ships and prioritized resources for their construction.
• Sasha planned housing and farmland for refugees, while Toyotomi Yinglang's engineers arrived to build water and sewage systems.
• Sunagakure shinobi escorted the first refugees into Rōran, where officials registered and assigned them housing and work.
• Yutian approved Sasha's request for personnel to build schools and hospitals, on the condition that Rōran's residents receive the empire's ideological education.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reviewed a report on 3,217 settled refugees and described Rōran as a screening point before most were sent to Great Britain.