Chapter Summaries

At Jilan’s celebration, Nagato questioned Toyotomi Yinglang about the Empire’s order and his plans for Jilan, while Yinglang defended order and described the resources he gave his son. Later, Sakura Haruno routed Kumogakure’s army by killing Mu Yi with one punch and breaking the battlefield open, leaving Tobirama Senju wary of her and Toyotomi Yinglang’s strength.

• Nagato asked Toyotomi Yinglang whether he would send Jilan to war at ten, and Yinglang said he would raise him with the best resources, including Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid.
• Nagato asked what Yinglang thought of the Empire, and Yinglang argued that order mattered more than freedom for ordinary people.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Sakura Haruno was the only reinforcement sent to the northern front, and she ordered Konoha’s forces to fall back.
• Sakura Haruno destroyed Mu Yi’s Lightning Fang and killed the Two-Tails’ jinchūriki with one punch, then split the battlefield with an earthquake and sent Kumogakure’s forces fleeing.
• The Second Raikage heard that Sakura Haruno had killed Mu Yi, while Tobirama Senju concluded she was a major threat and warned Danzo not to pursue her abilities.

Sakura Haruno discussed shinobi power rankings with Toyotomi Yinglang, who explained why she was already peak Kage and how she could reach super Kage. The chapter ended with Sakura resolving to train until she achieved that rank.

• Sakura Haruno returned from the battlefield excitedly telling Toyotomi Yinglang that Hiruzen Sarutobi had been Little Monkey in front of her.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that Hiruzen Sarutobi had reached strong Kage strength through access to resources after becoming Hokage, and that his claims of being the strongest Hokage and God of Shinobi came after those who knew the earlier Hokage had died.
• Toyotomi Yinglang defined the weak Kage, ordinary Kage, strong Kage, and peak Kage ranks, placing Sakura Haruno, Uchiha Itachi, and the Apostle of Pain at peak Kage.
• Toyotomi Yinglang called Uchiha Itachi stupid for believing that sacrificing his clan would bring peace, then told Sakura Haruno that her abilities made her peak Kage.
• Toyotomi Yinglang advised Sakura Haruno to develop Quake Release and medical ninjutsu and study genjutsu to become super Kage.
• After Toyotomi Yinglang encouraged her, Sakura Haruno sat alone at night and resolved that she would become super Kage.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Sakura Haruno how spiritual energy affected genjutsu and shadow clones, then told Tsunade he intended to distinguish her from the younger Tsunade with tattoos and manipulate events so the younger woman would grow close to Sakura. Tsunade accepted the tattoos, and Yinglang reassured her that she was worth his care.

• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that jinchūriki could be affected by genjutsu if the caster's spiritual energy was strong enough, and that spiritual energy helped Naruto endure the fatigue and memories from many shadow clones.
• Toyotomi Yinglang credited the Soul Yin Stone and his spiritual energy with enabling his kekkei genkai designs, and urged Sakura Haruno to use the stone well.
• Toyotomi Yinglang proposed tattooing the character for “big” on Tsunade's chest and buttocks, and revealed his plan to prolong the war so the younger Tsunade would hear of Sakura Haruno and grow closer to Toyotomi.
• A few days later, Tsunade accepted the tattoos, and Toyotomi Yinglang confirmed that the younger Tsunade would not know she was her counterpart.
• Toyotomi Yinglang promised to keep treating Tsunade well, and she leaned against him in tears.

Tobirama Senju decided Konoha could not risk confronting Sakura Haruno, while Sakura and Toyotomi Yinglang discussed the threats posed by Tobirama’s techniques. Sakura ended the chapter resolved to survive as the world grew more complicated.

• Tobirama Senju warned Danzo that Sakura Haruno could easily kill other Kage Level fighters and ordered him not to provoke her or Toyotomi Yinglang.
• Tobirama Senju said the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu was still being refined and that Toyotomi Yinglang would not rebel yet.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that Tobirama might use Impure World Reincarnation or Flying Thunder God against her, but said the former depended on the Sage of Six Paths.
• Sakura Haruno said she was not afraid because she had Toyotomi Yinglang, then later resolved that she would survive no matter how complicated the world became.

Sakura Haruno taught Little Tsunade about her Strength of a Hundred Technique and Quake Release, then learned Toyotomi Yinglang planned to claim the Senju legacy through Tsunade and Senju Tsubaki’s future child. She accepted the plan and began teaching the Strength of a Hundred Technique to students at the Toyotomi Martial Arts Hall.

• Sakura Haruno showed Little Tsunade how Quake Release worked and agreed to teach her the technique, then took her out for ramen.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura that the Toyotomi Clan could claim to be the New Senju Clan after Tobirama Senju died, using Tsunade’s Senju heritage to legitimize the claim.
• Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that Senju Tsubaki’s child might awaken Wood Release, joining Senju blood with the Toyotomi surname, and said Tobirama did not know about the plan.
• Sakura reflected on Yinglang’s ambitions and resolved to support him because she was part of the Toyotomi Clan.
• Sakura taught students at the Toyotomi Martial Arts Hall how to build up Chakra in the Yin Seal for the Strength of a Hundred Technique.

Sakura Haruno defeated or drove back the four Second Kage at their borders, earning the title of the strongest woman in the Shinobi World. Tobirama Senju prepared to enter the war using Impure World Reincarnation, while Toyotomi Yinglang assured Sakura that he would prevail.

• Sakura Haruno shattered Shamon’s puppets and forced the Second Kazekage to retreat.
• Sakura Haruno defeated A, and the Second Raikage ordered his shinobi to prioritize surviving any encounter with her.
• Sakura Haruno matched Mu’s Dust Release and made him retreat, while he warned Ōnoki to be careful of her long-range attacks.
• Sakura Haruno split the sea and sent a tsunami toward Kirigakure’s fleet, forcing Gengetsu Hozuki to retreat.
• Tobirama Senju ordered Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō to prepare for battle and said he would use Impure World Reincarnation.
• Sakura Haruno told Toyotomi Yinglang about her victories and Tobirama’s plans, and Yinglang assured her that he would win.

Tobirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki fought off the four allied Kage, then Tobirama planned to use the Uchiha and commoners to counter the Toyotomi. He believed Hiruzen Sarutobi would follow his strategy, unaware that he was also part of someone else’s plan.

• Tobirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki battled Shamon, A, Mu, and Hozuki Gengetsu, with Mito protecting Tobirama and striking Shamon with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Tobirama Senju shattered Mu’s force field with explosive tags, forcing the four Kage to retreat, though he and Mito were injured.
• In the medical tent, Tobirama Senju admitted that the Kage’s abilities might require forbidden techniques and expressed frustration about being outlived by younger people.
• Tobirama Senju told Hiruzen Sarutobi that he wanted the Senju integrated into Konoha so commoners could strengthen the Hokage faction against the Toyotomi and Uchiha.
• Tobirama Senju planned to use Kagami Uchiha to make the Uchiha believe he would become Hokage, and insisted the Toyotomi and Uchiha would not ally before his death.
• After Hiruzen Sarutobi left, Tobirama Senju wondered what his student would do, unaware that Hiruzen would later suppress the Senju and that Tobirama was a piece in someone else’s plan.

Tobirama Senju imposed a Will of Fire Reinforcement Plan on Konoha’s clans and ninja, while Toyotomi Yinglang chose to stay out of Konoha’s political struggle and watch it unfold. The chapter ended with Kushina telling her infant son Jilan that Konoha was not worth his loyalty.

• Tobirama Senju announced mandatory Will of Fire classes, public clan pledges of allegiance, and severe punishments for violations, then declared the plan approved when no one objected.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that he did not want to become Hokage and would watch Tobirama Senju, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Shimura Danzō struggle over Konoha’s future.
• Sakura Haruno agreed to watch alongside Yinglang and privately concluded that Tobirama Senju could not defeat him.
• Kushina held Toyotomi Jilan in the Imperial Palace and told him that he was not a Konoha ninja and that Konoha was not worth his loyalty.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Sakura Haruno why he had rescued Elder Xuan’s branch of the Uchiha but would not save the rest, while Kagami Uchiha believed he was on track to become Hokage. The chapter ended with Sakura affirming her loyalty to Yinglang and Kushina teaching Jilan to identify as Toyotomi rather than Uchiha.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that he had repaid Elder Xuan’s favor by marrying his daughter and bringing his branch out, and said the remaining Uchiha were not his responsibility.
• Kagami Uchiha accepted Uchiha En’s praise and believed Tobirama Senju’s promise of support meant he could become Hokage, unaware that Tobirama was using him.
• Sakura Haruno wondered what she was loyal to, then resolved that she was loyal to Yinglang because he had given her everything.
• Kushina told Jilan that Yinglang considered the Uchiha egoists, called Yinglang an altruist, and reminded Jilan that he was Toyotomi Jilan, not Uchiha Jilan.

During the First Shinobi World War, Toyotomi Yinglang volunteered to watch Sunagakure’s southern border so he could avoid the front lines, knowing from history that Shamon would keep his village out of the fighting. He left the story camped in the south with Sakura Haruno, expecting a truce rather than peace and predicting Konoha would grow weaker.

• Tobirama Senju assigned the Uchiha Clan to the Northern Army to scout Kumogakure, while secretly regarding them as cannon fodder.
• Toyotomi Yinglang persuaded Tobirama Senju to let him lead Toyotomi clansmen and Martial Arts Hall students to watch Sunagakure’s southern border.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno he had read the history of Shinobi World No. 1 and was using the assignment to avoid fighting on the front lines.
• Toyotomi Yinglang and his group reached the southern border, where he told Sakura Haruno that Shamon would wait for Konoha and the other villages to weaken each other.
• At camp, Toyotomi Yinglang predicted the war would soon pause in a truce, but said Konoha would continue to grow weaker.

Sakura Haruno defeated Chiyo but spared her, moved by Chiyo’s determination to protect Sunagakure. After the shinobi world recast the encounter as a cruel display of power, Sakura told Toyotomi Yinglang she had spared Chiyo because she was his woman.

• Sakura Haruno told Toyotomi Yinglang she planned to defeat Chiyo, spare her, and call her the “Powerful Puppeteer.”
• Sakura Haruno shattered Chiyo’s puppets with Quake Release techniques and defeated her in battle.
• Sakura Haruno praised Chiyo’s strength and resolve, then let her return to Sunagakure alive.
• Rumors spread that Sakura had spared Chiyo to show the shinobi world she could kill her whenever she chose.
• Sakura Haruno told Toyotomi Yinglang she had spared Chiyo because she did not want to kill Sasori’s grandmother, and he comforted her.

Tobirama Senju assigned the Uchiha to face Kirigakure and grew furious when he learned the Toyotomi Clan was sightseeing in the south. Toyotomi Yinglang refused to leave the southern border, while he explained to Sakura Haruno his views on Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s future.

• Tobirama Senju ordered Hiruzen Sarutobi to send the Uchiha Clan east against Kirigakure, believing the matchup would test how many Uchiha survived.
• Tobirama Senju learned the Toyotomi Clan was at the southern border having a cookout and sent Hiruzen Sarutobi to demand that they reinforce the other battlefields.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Hiruzen Sarutobi he would provide gradual support but could not leave the south unguarded against Shamon, and Hiruzen left without eating.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi privately decided he had learned a way to preserve his clan’s strength during wartime.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that Tobirama Senju trusted Hiruzen Sarutobi’s professed Will of Fire and predicted Konoha would survive but remain half-dead.

Toyotomi Yinglang returned to the Imperial Palace and reunited with Kushina and their son, Jilan. He told Tsunade he planned to claim the Senju identity for the Toyotomi Clan, then agreed with Kushina that Jilan would begin training young and earn merit before inheriting land and status.

• Toyotomi Yinglang and Sakura Haruno used the Dragon Vein to leave the Toyotomi Clan grounds and return to the Imperial Palace.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reunited with Kushina and held Jilan, who reached for him with his Sharingan eyes.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade he would make the Toyotomi Clan the Senju Clan's legitimate successor, and Tsunade accepted his plan.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that Jilan would begin chakra training at three and go to war at ten.
• Kushina agreed to support Toyotomi Yinglang's plan for Jilan to grow strong and earn merit for the Great British Empire.

Toyotomi Yinglang decided to establish a colonial company to explore and exploit the other continents he had sensed, arguing that the Empire needed their resources, people, and land. He assigned Yutian to prepare the Great Britain East India Company and reassured Tsunade and Kushina that colonization served the Empire’s needs.

• Yutian reported that the Great British Empire’s population had passed 1.08 million and could exceed 1.5 million the following year.
• Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that he had sensed other continents and announced plans to colonize them through a company that would keep the Empire formally separate from its operations.
• Toyotomi Yinglang outlined plans to impose colonial and religious rule on black populations and enslave white populations through Triangle Trade, while Tsunade challenged his reasoning and eventually fell silent.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered Yutian to prepare the Great Britain East India Company and told Tsunade that the Empire would stop colonizing only when it no longer needed to.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that he was colonizing for the Empire’s needs and said Jilan would understand when he grew up.

Tobirama Senju spent Konoha’s remaining forces against Kumogakure while ordering more Uchiha to the deadly eastern front. At New Capital, Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Sakura Haruno that Tobirama intended to weaken the Uchiha and install an obedient clan head, while asserting that the Toyotomi would survive him.

• Tobirama Senju ordered Hiruzen Sarutobi to send logistics personnel into battle after Konoha’s reserves ran out.
• Uchiha En tried to hold the Uchiha formation together against Kirigakure’s Hidden Mist Technique, while Kagami Uchiha feared he would die before becoming Hokage.
• Tobirama Senju reviewed the Uchiha casualties and ordered more Uchiha to reinforce the eastern battlefield.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that Tobirama was weakening the Uchiha because the Sharingan could enable Kage-level power and rebellion.
• Toyotomi Yinglang predicted Tobirama would install Uchiha Fushan as clan head after the war and said the Toyotomi’s future was beyond Tobirama’s control.

Yutian launched the Empire’s triangular trade by selling goods in the Land of Fire and buying slaves to transport back across the ocean. After reporting a profit of 11,900 ryo, he and Toyotomi Yinglang expected the trade to expand, while Sakura Haruno questioned the Empire’s use of slavery.

• Yutian explained to Shanbao that the Empire would sell goods in the Shinobi World, use the silver to buy slaves, and avoid the costs of war.
• Yutian sold silk, porcelain, tea, and spices for 14,000 ryo in a Land of Fire port.
• Yutian negotiated with a nobleman and bought 300 slaves for 2,100 ryo.
• Yutian told Shanbao that the trip had earned 11,900 ryo and credited Toyotomi Yinglang’s foresight.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that the Empire would continue the slave trade until it no longer needed it, and Sakura left after questioning his justification.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained how Triangle Trade profits funded the Institute of Technology and domestic improvements, while Sasori completed a more effective, cheaper Gene Serum. The chapter left Yinglang focused on using wealth and technology to strengthen the Empire, as he spent time with Kushina, Jilan, and Tsunade.

• Sasori reported that his improved Gene Serum was thirty percent more effective, had fifty percent fewer side effects, and cost twenty percent less, and Yinglang directed him to develop engines, trains, artillery, and Battle Armor.
• Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that Triangle Trade profits funded technological research and public works, while higher living standards had improved life for freemen and commoners.
• Yinglang visited Kushina and their son Jilan, joked about his profits, and promised Kushina new clothes.
• Yinglang told Tsunade that Sasori had finished improving the Gene Serum and said the Empire's soldiers would become stronger.
• Tsunade asked whether Yinglang would always be pragmatic, and he answered that realists were the ones who survived in the Shinobi World.

Toyotomi Yinglang ordered a sweeping expansion and restructuring of the Empire’s education system to cultivate specialists across many fields. The chapter ended with him reassuring Tsunade that the Empire’s future would be bright because they were nurturing it.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Yutian to build schools across the Empire, establish Royal Academy branch campuses, recruit teachers, and create six-year primary and secondary schools followed by four-year universities.
• Toyotomi Yinglang argued that Imperial education would teach students to fight, farm, trade, and govern, unlike Konoha’s Ninja Academy, which he said focused on fighting and loyalty to Konoha.
• Sakura Haruno visited Sasori at the Institute of Technology, and he told her he would stay in the Empire because Yinglang had given him everything; Sakura said Yinglang had given her everything too.
• Toyotomi Yinglang visited Kushina and their son Jilan, discussed the Empire’s schools and Jilan’s future education, and comforted Kushina as she grew emotional.
• Toyotomi Yinglang visited Tsunade after her training, spoke about the education expansion, and reassured her that the Empire’s future would be good because they were nurturing it.

Toyotomi Yinglang coordinated with Black Zetsu over Obito's role in Kaguya's resurrection and inspected the Evil God's three war colossi. They planned to use the Death Fang to distract Minato Namikaze, while Toyotomi Yinglang assigned the other colossi opponents in the coming war.

• Black Zetsu reported that Obito had given a Sharingan to Kakashi after being crushed and was recovering with White Zetsu at Madara Uchiha's place.
• Toyotomi Yinglang handed Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan to Black Zetsu, explained their authority restrictions, and ordered him to return Kakashi's Sharingan to Obito.
• The Evil God revealed the Fear Hammer, which absorbed wartime fear, pain, and despair and could approach the Ten-Tails in strength.
• The Evil God planned to send the Death Fang against Konoha to distract Minato Namikaze and give Black Zetsu an opportunity to act.
• Toyotomi Yinglang assigned the Fear Hammer to Hashirama Senju, the Death Fang to Minato Namikaze, and the Heavenly Evil God Wings to the other Kage after learning the colossi could not be mass-produced.
• Toyotomi Yinglang later told the Evil God that the war would end soon, but not yet, and reaffirmed his confidence in his planning.

Obito recovered under Madara’s care, then witnessed Kakashi kill Rin and awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, using Kamui to slaughter the Kirigakure pursuers. Black Zetsu and the Evil God regarded Obito as a potential vessel, while Kakashi remained unaware that Obito had seen Rin die.

• Madara told Obito that White Zetsu cells had repaired his body and ordered him to rest until he recovered.
• Black Zetsu reported that Minato Namikaze had been lured away, and the Evil God anticipated Obito witnessing Rin’s death.
• Kakashi rescued Rin from Kirigakure, learned she had been made the Three-Tails’ jinchūriki, and killed her at her request to prevent the beast from endangering Konoha.
• Obito witnessed Rin’s death, awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and used Kamui to make dozens of Kirigakure ninja disappear.
• Black Zetsu called Obito a perfect vessel, while the Evil God and Toyotomi Yinglang discussed making him their vessel.