Chapter Summaries

Madara taught Obito about the Uchiha’s secret techniques and Yin-Yang Release, while Toyotomi Yinglang stole Kakashi’s Sharingan and planned to capture Rin Nohara’s soul. Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina he would resurrect Rin as her maid, and Kushina agreed to take her in.

• Madara gave Obito a scroll and began teaching him the Uchiha’s secret techniques and Yin-Yang Release, telling him he would become a second Madara.
• Toyotomi Yinglang gouged out Kakashi’s left eye and took the Sharingan Obito had given him, leaving Kakashi unconscious beside Rin’s body.
• Black Zetsu reported the theft to the Evil God, while Toyotomi Yinglang announced he would capture Rin Nohara’s soul, resurrect her, and make her Kushina’s maid.
• Toyotomi Yinglang returned to the Imperial Palace and told Kushina about his plan to bring Rin to her; Kushina agreed to take Rin in.

Toyotomi Yinglang resurrected Rin Nohara after erasing her memories and made her a maid in the Empire, where Kushina took her in. Rin began adjusting to palace life as Kushina and Tsunade considered her future and the Empire's.

• Toyotomi Yinglang used Meng Po Soup to erase Rin Nohara's memories, resurrected her, and told her she was Rin of the Empire.
• Toyotomi Yinglang introduced Rin to Kushina as her maid, and Kushina agreed to teach her how to survive in the Empire.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade about Rin and asked her to teach the girl medical ninjutsu; Tsunade agreed.
• Kushina found Rin tending flowers and reminded her that she was now Rin of the Empire, not Rin Nohara of Konoha.
• Kushina asked Rin whether she missed home, and Rin said she did not know because she remembered nothing.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Yutian how the Shinobi World War enriched the Empire and served the shinobi villages, while predicting Konoha would survive under the Sage of Six Paths. He reassured Kushina and Tsunade that the Empire would grow stronger without changing for the worse.

• At the Jashin Cult headquarters, the Apostle of Pain reported that Death Fang had broken the Southern Army's line and was keeping Minato Namikaze occupied, so the Evil God ordered Fear Hammer prepared to confront Hashirama Senju.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reviewed the Triangle Trade report with Yutian and learned that profits had tripled from the previous year.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that war would reduce populations and fighting strength while enriching the powerful, and said Konoha would cling to life but not perish because the Sage of Six Paths would prevent it.
• Yutian asked whether the Empire would remain unchanged, and Toyotomi Yinglang promised it would grow stronger, larger, and wealthier without changing for the worse.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that the Empire's future was also Jilan's future, then reassured Tsunade that the Empire would prosper as the Shinobi World War continued.

Toyotomi Yinglang declared that Great Britain would begin expanding overseas through puppet regimes and colonial exploitation, while Tsunade proved her strength against ten super soldiers. The chapter ended with Toyotomi Yinglang and Tsunade discussing the Empire’s seemingly endless expansion as they went to sleep together.

• Yutian reported that Great Britain had a population of over 1.5 million and a formidable army, ninja corps, and super soldiers, and Toyotomi Yinglang ordered him to prepare for colonization through puppet rulers.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Yutian that puppet regimes would take the blame for colonial exploitation while Britain extracted the colonies’ wealth.
• Tsunade defeated ten standard-grade super soldiers in a training match and earned extra dishes for dinner.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that the Empire would colonize the New Continent, enslaving those who refused to submit, and said Jilan should remember that mercy brought death.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade she would fight twenty super soldiers the next day, and she accepted his explanation that he wanted her strong enough to stay safe.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that the Empire would keep expanding until no land remained to explore, though they would not live to see that end.

Toyotomi Yinglang used Dragon Essence power to stop Jilan from eating hair while Yutian expanded the Great British Empire’s influence overseas by establishing a vassal kingdom and planning to divide a continent among three controlled states. Back in the New Capital, Yinglang praised Yutian’s work and told Sakura Haruno that the Empire would change and grow stronger.

• Toyotomi Yinglang treated Jilan with Dragon Essence power, removing the pica factor that made him eat hair.
• Yutian landed on an island, appointed the native chief Black Horn as king, and made the Black Horn Kingdom a Great British vassal with a restricted army.
• Yutian ordered officials to divide a newly sighted continent into three cold-weapon kingdoms, each bound by a Great Britain East India Company contract.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that the Black Horn people were merely alive and insisted that the Empire would change for the better.
• Toyotomi Yinglang read Yutian’s report and praised him as a Pillar of the Great British Empire.

Yutian established the Thousand Mountains Kingdom, Yellow Sand Kingdom, and Hundred Trees Kingdom on the Three Kingdoms Continent, binding their kings to the Great Britain East India Company and restricting their armies. Back in the New Capital, Toyotomi Yinglang approved the expansion and told Sakura Haruno the Empire would keep expanding until no land remained.

• Yutian divided the continent into three resource-producing kingdoms and planned to keep them dependent on the Empire and unable to wage major wars.
• Yutian forced Mutu to sign the East India Company contract, made him king of the Hundred Trees Kingdom, and ordered Hei Bao to help establish the state.
• Yutian assigned Hei Heishui to help establish the Thousand Mountains Kingdom and told him immigrants from the Shinobi World would supply workers for the Empire’s mining needs.
• Yutian assigned Bashi to help establish the Yellow Sand Kingdom, which would supply salt and gold dust to imperial merchants.
• Yutian returned by fleet with contracts signed by all three kings and named the region the Three Kingdoms Continent.
• Toyotomi Yinglang approved the expansion, told Sakura Haruno that the Empire would expand until there was nowhere left to expand, and sent her to train.

Yutian and Toyotomi Yinglang expanded the Empire’s slave-trading network, targeting white people on a newly discovered continent and using ostensibly independent trading companies as fronts. The chapter ended with Yinglang spending time with Kushina and their young son Jilan, promising to build a future for him.

• Yutian identified white people on the newly discovered continent as valuable slave-trading goods and ordered Takeo to map a trade route while investigating the local tribes and resources.
• At a secret Shinobi World port, Yutian told Takeo to establish at least twenty Imperial-owned trading companies disguised as independent merchants and replace unreliable intermediaries.
• Takeo met Lin De in the Land of Fire, raised the prices of white slaves, and instructed him to find more Imperial fronts.
• Toyotomi Yinglang approved the slave prices in a report and told Sakura Haruno the Empire would stop selling slaves when it no longer needed to.
• Toyotomi Yinglang joined Kushina and Jilan in the palace garden and told Kushina that his growing wealth would secure their son’s future.

Toyotomi Yinglang reviewed the Empire’s growing population and resources, then spoke with Kushina, Pakura, and Karura about their lives in the Empire and its expansion. He left Pakura with orders to resume training her Scorch Release as the Empire prepared to grow stronger.

• Yutian reported that the British Continent had 1.6 million people, described the value of white slaves, and listed the populations and resources of four vassal kingdoms.
• Toyotomi Yinglang learned that the Yellow Sand Kingdom had petroleum and told Yutian to send troops to protect it, though the Empire could not yet use the resource.
• Toyotomi Yinglang joined Kushina and Jilan in the garden, where he joked that Jilan’s large appetite promised a powerful future.
• Pakura and Karura told each other they did not regret coming to the Empire, where they felt they could live as people rather than tools or weapons.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Pakura and Karura that he intended to keep expanding the Empire, then ordered Pakura to practice her Scorch Release because the Empire needed her strength.

Toyotomi Yinglang and Tsunade discussed the Shinobi World War as a cockfighting pit where ninja died for nobles’ benefit, while Yutian continued reviewing intelligence. Yinglang then visited Kushina and Jilan, discovering the child’s extraordinary digestion as he ate five bowls of rice.

• Toyotomi Yinglang compared ninja to fighting cocks and described the Will of Fire as stimulant-laced feed and Konoha as a cockfighting pit.
• Yutian asked what the Empire’s future would be like, and Yinglang assured him it would be good because they were not fighting cocks.
• Toyotomi Yinglang and Tsunade visited Kushina and found Jilan eagerly eating pastry after already having three bowls.
• Yinglang fed Jilan five bowls of rice and used Dragon Essence to discover that the child digested food with extraordinary efficiency.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina and Tsunade that Jilan’s unusual digestion meant he would grow stronger and had a promising future.

Toyotomi Yinglang showed Yutian the Empire’s imperial treasury and its powerful ninjutsu, techniques, medicines, and weapons. He forbade Yutian from taking the most dangerous weapons, and Yutian chose the Unity of Heaven and Humanity scroll before leaving with Toyotomi Yinglang.

• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that the treasury contained the Empire’s inventions, including dangerous forbidden techniques and ideas for reaching Six Paths.
• Toyotomi Yinglang showed Yutian techniques, drugs, and medicines, describing their powers and costs.
• Toyotomi Yinglang displayed the treasury’s weapons and refused to give Yutian the Peerless Cursed Sword, Ten-Thousand Phenomena Mirror Armor, or Meridian-Eroding Greatsword.
• Toyotomi Yinglang invited Yutian to choose a reward, and Yutian selected the Unity of Heaven and Humanity scroll.
• Yutian asked about the Empire’s future, and Toyotomi Yinglang assured him it would be good because the Empire possessed the treasury’s resources.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Tsunade why the Empire’s strategic weapons had to remain under his control, then gave her a scroll teaching Unity of Heaven and Humanity. He rewarded Sasori with the Eight-Headed Serpent Bone Sword and later told Kushina that he trusted his disciple; the chapter ended with him urging infant Jilan to treat his future disciples well.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that the Empire’s treasury held strategic weapons that could undermine his rule if given to outsiders, then gave her a scroll on Unity of Heaven and Humanity.
• Toyotomi Yinglang visited Sasori in the Imperial Palace Institute of Technology and presented him with the Eight-Headed Serpent Bone Sword.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained the sword’s four powers and its weaknesses, while Sasori accepted the weapon and promised to use it well.
• Toyotomi Yinglang joined Kushina and Jilan in the garden and told them that he had given Sasori the sword.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina he trusted Sasori because he was his disciple, then urged Jilan to treat his own future disciples well.

Toyotomi Yinglang gave Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan weapons suited to their abilities and watched them test the weapons at the Imperial Palace. He later told Kushina that strengthening his disciples was an investment in the Empire and in Jilan’s safety.

• Toyotomi Yinglang presented Yahiko with the Reincarnation Prison-Suppressing Staff, Konan with the Pure White Sin-Condemning Kunai, and Nagato with the Infinite Golden Brick.
• Tsunade questioned why Sasori’s Eight-Headed Serpent Bone Sword seemed inspired by Orochimaru, and Toyotomi Yinglang replied that weapons were only tools.
• Yahiko used his staff to shatter an Empire Super Soldier’s shield during training.
• Konan silently defeated an Empire Super Soldier with her kunai, while Nagato used the Infinite Golden Brick to smash a stronger soldier into the ground.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that he treated his disciples well because their growth would strengthen the Empire and help keep Jilan safe.

Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan judged the Uchiha doomed and decided to target Hiruzen Sarutobi, while planning to collect Sharingan and send Uchiha souls to their teacher after the clan’s destruction. They trained together and ended the chapter expecting the Uchiha massacre to happen soon.

• Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan assessed their strength as near the Super Kage threshold and chose Hiruzen Sarutobi as their target.
• Yahiko argued that the Uchiha deserved their fate because of their history and ties to people who had harmed their teacher’s family.
• Nagato said the group would take Sharingan after Konoha wiped out the Uchiha and send collected souls to their teacher for new lives.
• The three trained together with their special weapons, improving their coordination and strength.
• That night, Nagato told Konan he believed the Uchiha would be wiped out soon, and she accepted his warning.

On the Kirigakure battlefield, Nagato discovered that the Uchiha had been poisoned for decades and judged Shisui and Itachi too cowed to resist. Back at the Jashin Cult Headquarters, he said their teacher owed the Uchiha nothing and left with Yahiko and Konan to train.

• Nagato watched Shisui and Itachi fight and called them a coward and a weakling who would not resist.
• Nagato used his Golden Eyes to discover that a slow-acting poison had seeped into the Uchiha’s drinking water for decades, harming their chakra systems.
• Nagato refused to warn Shisui and Itachi, and he, Yahiko, and Konan left the Kirigakure battlefield for the Land of Rain.
• Nagato explained that generations of poison, discrimination, and suppression had changed the Uchiha and left them unable to resist.
• At the Jashin Cult Headquarters, Nagato said their teacher would not deal with the Uchiha because he had repaid Elder Xuan and owed the rest of the clan nothing.
• Nagato said he owed the Uchiha nothing because their teacher had given him his Sharingan, training, weapons, and path, then left to train with Yahiko and Konan.

Madara died, and Black Zetsu informed Toyotomi Yinglang and the Evil God that Obito’s era had begun. At the Jashin Cult headquarters, Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan discussed Obito’s power and plans before recommitting themselves to training and trying to change the Shinobi World.

• Madara died in his underground cavern, and Black Zetsu recovered the sealed Rinnegan from his robes.
• Black Zetsu told Toyotomi Yinglang and the Evil God that Madara was dead, and they planned to support anti-Konoha forces and send three apostles to kill the Great Toad Sage.
• Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan discussed Obito’s Double Kamui and concluded that he would seek revenge when Konoha was weakest.
• Nagato told Konan that Obito would pursue the Eye of the Moon to create a world with Rin, though he believed Obito would ultimately be disappointed.
• Nagato urged Konan to keep trying to change the world, and the three went to rest before training the next day.

Nagato led Yahiko and Konan in an attack on Hiruzen Sarutobi and Tobirama Senju, overwhelming them with Shadow Servants and golden weapons until they retreated. Back at the Jashin Cult headquarters, Nagato defended his harsh accusations as truths that needed to be spoken, and the group settled in for the night before training.

• Nagato confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi and Tobirama Senju, accusing them of harming Konoha and declaring that he had come to kill them.
• Nagato summoned hundreds of Shadow Servants, and Hiruzen Sarutobi and Tobirama Senju fought them off with ninjutsu.
• Nagato attacked with the Infinite Golden Brick and its golden fragments while Yahiko and Konan engaged Tobirama Senju and Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Tobirama Senju ordered a retreat after golden needles damaged his reanimated body, and Nagato let them escape because Tobirama Senju could use Flying Thunder God.
• At the Jashin Cult headquarters, Konan questioned Nagato's words, and he explained that painful facts still needed to be spoken before everyone went to sleep.

Jiraiya learned that his former students Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan had powerful weapons and fought against Hiruzen Sarutobi’s desire to claim them for Konoha. After Tobirama Senju warned Hiruzen against coveting the weapons, he spoke with Jiraiya through the night about how they and Konoha had changed.

• Jiraiya arrived at Hiruzen Sarutobi’s camp and learned that Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan had fought Tobirama Senju and Hiruzen.
• Jiraiya recognized the three as his former students and was shaken by the strange weapons and abilities they now possessed.
• Hiruzen proposed declaring the weapons forbidden ninja tools and placing them in Konoha’s custody, while Jiraiya silently saw through his motives.
• Tobirama warned Hiruzen that weapons were only tools and told him not to pursue them, but Hiruzen resolved to obtain them someday.
• Jiraiya sat alone in the snow, wondering what his former students had endured, and Tobirama joined him to talk about Konoha and how they had both changed.

Jiraiya confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi and Tobirama Senju over their crimes against the Uchiha, then learned Hiruzen’s rationale for clan favoritism and Konoha’s dependence on bloodlines. Jiraiya left questioning Hiruzen’s choices while Hiruzen remained alone, insisting he had no choice.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Tobirama Senju argued over their actions against the Uchiha, and Jiraiya overheard their admissions.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi threatened Jiraiya with the consequences of revealing the truth, then explained why he had prioritized the Sarutobi Clan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Jiraiya that bloodline mattered more than training and revealed that Jiraiya and Orochimaru had Senju ancestry.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi explained how war had eased Konoha’s internal tensions, and Jiraiya concluded that war benefited the village.
• Jiraiya asked whether Hiruzen Sarutobi regretted his choices, and Hiruzen replied that he had no choice.

Nagato listened to Hiruzen Sarutobi discuss Konoha’s policies and condemned the village system as a military dictatorship. Toyotomi Yinglang then taught Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan how a weak Hokage could govern stronger shinobi through legitimacy, divided authority, shared interests, checks and balances, fair rules, and mediation before leading them to train.

• Nagato used the shadow mark on Hiruzen Sarutobi to overhear Hiruzen, Tobirama Senju, and Jiraiya discussing bloodlines, Uchiha techniques, and war as a means of easing Konoha’s internal conflicts.
• Nagato told Yahiko and Konan that the hidden village system perpetuated war and that shinobi needed order, stability, and peace rather than equality.
• Yahiko asked Toyotomi Yinglang how a weak Hokage could rule the strong, and Toyotomi Yinglang explained six methods based on legitimate authority, divided power, loyalty through benefits, checks and balances, transparent rules, and mediation.
• Nagato and Toyotomi Yinglang criticized Hiruzen Sarutobi for calling himself the strongest Hokage, arguing that it encouraged powerful shinobi to covet his position and undermined checks and balances.
• Toyotomi Yinglang left the Side Hall with Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan to begin training.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan how bloodline and the Sage of Six Paths’ chakra system shaped shinobi, and how his alternative resources could help people grow stronger. After revealing his information advantage over the Sage, he led his disciples to train, leaving them to continue developing their strength.

• Konan asked whether bloodline determined chakra, and Toyotomi Yinglang explained that shinobi were mixed-blood descendants of Ōtsutsuki and the Shinobi World’s indigenous people.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said he had used Bloodline Reversion and other methods to awaken the Eternal Eye and Immortal Eye, making himself a pure-blood Toyotomi.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told his disciples that hard work alone was useless without direction, methods, and resources, and described the chakra seeds, Gene Serum, and other resources he had designed.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that the Sage of Six Paths had created a system that shortened shinobi lifespans and concealed resources, while the Sage knew Sunagakure had grown stronger but did not know Toyotomi Yinglang’s identity or plans.
• Toyotomi Yinglang took Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan to the Training Ground, where Nagato enlarged and dropped the Infinite Golden Brick, Yahiko struck it with the Reincarnation Prison-Suppressing Staff, and Konan and Nagato attacked through the golden flecks.