Chapter Summaries

The three Apostles attacked Mount Myōboku, while the Sage of Six Paths secretly drew Hashirama Senju and Minato Namikaze there to keep the war going. As the sides converged outside the Great Toad Sage’s cave, Toyotomi Yinglang arrived with Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan and ordered them to watch.

• The Apostle of Pain used the Mask of Pain to rise to super Kage level, and the Apostles of Despair and Madness followed him into Mount Myōboku with their weapons still unused.
• The Great Toad Sage sensed the three powerful intruders and told Fukasaku to wait for those who were meant to come.
• The Sage of Six Paths summoned Hashirama Senju and arranged for Minato Namikaze to be transported to Mount Myōboku, hoping they would grow stronger and prolong the war.
• Hashirama left the southern army camp for Mount Myōboku, while Minato was pulled underground after a battle in the eastern Land of Fire and emerged on the mountain.
• The Apostles reached the Great Toad Sage’s cave as Hashirama and Minato approached, and Toyotomi Yinglang told Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan to watch the coming battle.

The Apostles of Pain, Despair, and Madness attacked Mount Myōboku, fighting Hashirama Senju, Minato Namikaze, and the Great Toad Sage. The Great Toad Sage died while Hashirama and Minato remained locked in battle, and Toyotomi Yinglang led Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan away as spectators.

• The Apostles of Pain, Despair, and Madness cornered the wounded Great Toad Sage, and Hashirama Senju and Minato Namikaze arrived to stop them.
• The Apostle of Pain fought Hashirama Senju, using Pain Resonance and Pain Conversion before destroying his Wood Golem Technique.
• The Apostle of Madness attacked Minato Namikaze with Madness Whisper, but Minato entered Sage Mode and countered with a Big Ball Rasengan.
• The Apostle of Despair killed the Great Toad Sage with a beam from the Staff of Despair while Hashirama Senju and Minato Namikaze were held back by their opponents.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Nagato that Mount Myōboku was finished, then led Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan away from the ongoing battle.

Jiraiya arrived at Mount Myōboku to find the Great Toad Sage dead and Hashirama Senju and Minato Namikaze badly wounded. After the Sage of Six Paths guided him toward greater strength, Jiraiya awakened Perfect Sage Mode and faced the Apostles, whose Evil Spirit Black Ice raised them to half-step Six Paths power.

• Jiraiya used the Reverse Summoning Technique to reach Mount Myōboku, where he saw the Great Toad Sage's corpse and the wounded Hashirama Senju and Minato Namikaze fighting the Apostles.
• The Apostle of Despair mocked Jiraiya and struck him with energy threads, while Jiraiya rose again in anger.
• In the Pure Land, the Sage of Six Paths decided that the Great Toad Sage's death could spur Jiraiya's growth and guided him toward Perfect Sage Mode.
• Jiraiya instantly mastered Perfect Sage Mode, but the Apostles of Pain, Madness, and Despair absorbed Evil Spirit Black Ice and rose to half-step Six Paths power.
• Jiraiya attacked with Sage techniques, but the Apostle of Pain absorbed or turned aside his assaults and amplified his painful memories.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Art Chakra Mode and charged the three Apostles, beginning a clash that shook Mount Myōboku.

The three Apostles destroyed Mount Myōboku, killed the Great Toad Sage, and sealed his remains while Jiraiya, Minato, and Hashirama failed to stop them. The Sage of Six Paths guided the survivors to leave, and Toyotomi Yinglang watched the aftermath with Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan.

• The Apostle of Madness told the Apostle of Pain and the Apostle of Despair to use wide-area attacks, and the three Apostles devastated Mount Myōboku while fighting its defenders.
• Jiraiya attacked the Apostle of Madness with a Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan, but the Apostle reflected it and wounded him.
• The Apostle of Pain countered Hashirama Senju's Wood Release, while the Apostle of Despair sealed the Great Toad Sage's corpse into a bead.
• The three Apostles left Mount Myōboku, and Minato persuaded Jiraiya not to pursue them because they could not win.
• The Sage of Six Paths guided Jiraiya, Minato, and Hashirama Senju to leave the ruins, and Fukasaku told Jiraiya that the Great Toad Sage had been waiting for him.
• Toyotomi Yinglang watched the aftermath with Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan, then explained that the toads had been spared for biodiversity.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan that the Sage of Six Paths had secretly nurtured Konoha’s Will of Fire and guided Jiraiya, while the students remained outside his plans. He argued that the Will of Fire’s ideal of protection was sound but its practice exploited lower-ranking shinobi, then sent them to train as he watched the rain.

• Nagato asked whether the Sage of Six Paths had cultivated the Will of Fire, and Toyotomi Yinglang said Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju established it while the Sage secretly sustained it.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Yahiko and Konan that the Sage had also influenced other villages, but favored Konoha as his nursery and experimental field.
• Toyotomi Yinglang described Jiraiya as a pawn whose beliefs and fate the Sage had guided, then said Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan were variables outside the Sage’s calculations.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said the Will of Fire’s protection ideal was not wrong, but its practice was unfair because Konoha did not adequately reward or care for shinobi who sacrificed themselves.
• Toyotomi Yinglang urged Nagato to become strong enough that no one could make him settle for broth, and Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan left to train.
• Alone in the side hall, Toyotomi Yinglang called the Will of Fire a fine tool while watching the rain.

Toyotomi Yinglang won a Mythical Zoan Angel Fruit in the system lottery and considered how to analyze its rules and reproduce Devil Fruit powers for the Empire. He also planned to combine Yin Release with the Three Types of Haki, then took Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan to train.

• Toyotomi Yinglang received the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Angel Form, from the weekly lottery.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reasoned that Devil Fruits embodied unique rules and that his Immortal Mangekyō could analyze them for reproduction.
• Toyotomi Yinglang planned Yin Release versions of Observation, Armament, and Conqueror's Haki.
• Toyotomi Yinglang envisioned creating Devil Fruits as strategic reserves that Empire fighters could earn and that he could counter.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ended his meditation and led Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan out to train.

Toyotomi Yinglang taught Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan about three Yin Release disciplines: Mind’s Eye Style, Shadow Armor Style, and Emperor Style. He revealed that only Nagato had the innate qualifications for Emperor Style, then studied an Angel Form Devil Fruit as he considered the Empire’s growing arsenal.

• Toyotomi Yinglang explained the five levels of Mind’s Eye Style, from sensing nearby chakra to discerning intent and the flow of fate.
• He demonstrated Shadow Armor Style’s progression from body hardening to spiritual force fields and the negation of attacks through Authority Body.
• He described Emperor Style’s levels of overwhelming pressure and told his disciples that only Nagato possessed the kingly qualifications to cultivate it.
• Nagato asked whether he was worthy, and Toyotomi Yinglang said the pressure itself had shown that he qualified.
• Nagato asked whether Toyotomi Yinglang had reached the ultimate level, and Toyotomi Yinglang answered that he had not but was on the path.
• After his disciples left, Toyotomi Yinglang examined the rules within the Angel Form Devil Fruit and remarked that the Empire’s arsenal was growing.

Toyotomi Yinglang tested the Jashin Cult’s thirty thousand Faithful Legion soldiers and three apostles, effortlessly evading their arrow volley and demonstrating his perception and precision. He offered to train the legion for the Empire and left them preparing for a fifty-thousand-arrow test.

• The Evil God summoned the Apostles of Pain, Despair, and Madness with thirty thousand Faithful Legion soldiers to test Toyotomi Yinglang.
• The Apostle of Despair ordered thousands of archers to fire, but Toyotomi Yinglang sensed the arrows and passed through the volley unharmed.
• Toyotomi Yinglang threw three arrows past the apostles’ heads with pinpoint accuracy, frightening them and impressing the Evil God.
• Toyotomi Yinglang critiqued the legion’s tactics and the apostles’ combat weaknesses, and they thanked him for his guidance.
• Toyotomi Yinglang offered to train the Jashin Cult’s forces for the Empire and requested a future test with fifty thousand arrows.

Toyotomi Yinglang tested his combat abilities against all thirty thousand Faithful Legion soldiers, evading every attack and subduing them with the Color of the Supreme King. He explained the Three Colors of Yin Release to Yahiko, then prepared to test himself against the three great apostles together.

• Toyotomi Yinglang challenged all thirty thousand soldiers to attack him at once and used Mind Perception and Flowing Sakura to evade and deflect their strikes for two hours.
• The soldiers collapsed from exhaustion without landing a hit, and Toyotomi Yinglang subdued all thirty thousand with Emperor Style: Divine Punishment.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told the Evil God that the Three Colors of Yin Release let him handle perception, defense, and group combat, but did not make him invincible against stronger opponents.
• Yahiko asked whether the Three Colors made Toyotomi Yinglang invincible, and Toyotomi Yinglang explained that combat between users ultimately depended on their respective levels.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told the three great apostles to rest for an hour before fighting him together, while the soldiers moved aside to make room.

Toyotomi Yinglang tested himself against the three great apostles, evading their attacks with the Color of Observation and easily defeating their ultimate moves. Afterward, he offered to train them and left them with advice on improving their techniques and coordination.

• Toyotomi Yinglang used the Color of Observation to evade the Apostle of Pain, the Apostle of Despair, and the Apostle of Madness as they attacked him from all sides.
• The three apostles launched their ultimate moves, but Toyotomi Yinglang crushed Endless Wailing, snapped the Spear of Finality, and struck the Apostle of Madness with Divine Punishment.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained the flaws in the apostles' ultimate moves and offered the Evil God training methods for the Three Colors of Yin Release to develop qualified commanders for the Empire.
• Toyotomi Yinglang criticized the apostles' rigid teamwork and advised them on coordinating their roles before leaving the Training Ground.

Toyotomi Yinglang taught Nagato that his hundred-meter Perfect Susanoo was too large, inefficient, and vulnerable, then demonstrated by destroying it with one kick. He gave Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan training booklets on the Three Colors of Yin Release, leaving Nagato resolved to develop a smaller, harder Susanoo and master the three colors.

• Yahiko fetched Nagato at Toyotomi Yinglang’s request, and Konan and the three great apostles joined them at the Training Ground.
• Toyotomi Yinglang asked Nagato to activate Susanoo and explained that a hundred-meter Susanoo was useless against powerful opponents.
• Toyotomi Yinglang concealed his movements with spiritual energy and shattered Nagato’s Perfect Susanoo with one kick, then caught Nagato as he fell.
• Toyotomi Yinglang advised Nagato to make Susanoo smaller and harder and to train the Three Colors of Yin Release.
• Toyotomi Yinglang gave Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan booklets containing training methods and assessment criteria, including preliminary ideas for Susanoo: Armor Form.
• Nagato accepted Toyotomi Yinglang’s guidance and resolved to make Susanoo smaller and harder while mastering the Three Colors of Yin Release.

Toyotomi Yinglang created the Empire’s Devil Fruit Tree in the Heavenly Court and used Dragon Essence to grow its first six fruits. He left Sakura Haruno with the promise of a fruit after she reached super Kage, while the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Fruit was set aside for Kushina.

• Toyotomi Yinglang returned to the Imperial Palace, where Sakura Haruno told him Yutian had cleared the Heavenly Court’s core area for his work.
• Toyotomi Yinglang entered the Heavenly Court and explained that his Devil Fruit Tree would produce fruits whose powers returned to the tree when their users died.
• Toyotomi Yinglang created the Frost-Snow Fruit, Turbid Flow Fruit, Bone Blade Fruit, Illusion Eye Fruit, and Underworld Wolf Fruit.
• Toyotomi Yinglang created the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Fruit and chose it for Kushina, saying Jilan’s birth and Kushina’s vitality and experience as a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki made her suitable.
• Toyotomi Yinglang promised Sakura Haruno a Devil Fruit once her Quake Release advanced from peak Kage to super Kage, then left the Heavenly Court.

Toyotomi Yinglang cultivated ordinary and ancient Zoan fruits and nine Paramecia fruits beneath the Devil Fruit Tree to strengthen the Empire’s forces. He organized their future users into the Beast King Legion and the Ability Legion, leaving the Empire’s expanding army poised to grow stronger.

• Toyotomi Yinglang created seven ordinary Zoan Devil Fruits and explained how their beast-enhanced bodies could turn common soldiers into elite fighters.
• Toyotomi Yinglang cultivated three ancient Zoan fruits and planned to award them to the legion’s Centurions.
• Toyotomi Yinglang grew nine Paramecia fruits with abilities suited to different battlefield roles, and Sakura Haruno described how coordinated users could threaten even a Kage Level fighter.
• Toyotomi Yinglang established the Beast King Legion for Zoan users and the Ability Legion for Paramecia users, assigning them complementary military roles.
• Toyotomi Yinglang declared that the Devil Fruit Tree would continue to flourish as its twenty-five fruits awaited future users.

Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that Kushina would eat the Mythical Zoan Nine-Tails Celestial Fox Fruit and challenge her in a public arena. Tsunade accepted the fight, determined to prove herself, as the Empire prepared to watch the contest between human and beast.

• Tsunade discussed her Quake Release training with Toyotomi Yinglang, who explained that improving her Mind Perception would help her master World-Breaking.
• Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that Kushina would receive the Nine-Tails Celestial Fox Fruit, whose nine elemental powers, clones, healing, and Genjutsu could let her fight Tsunade.
• Tsunade questioned whether Kushina, now an ordinary Jonin, could truly challenge her, and Toyotomi Yinglang explained why Kushina was suited to the fruit.
• Toyotomi Yinglang planned for Tsunade and Kushina to fight in the new arena before fifty thousand soldiers to promote Devil Fruits.
• Tsunade agreed to the match and resolved not to underestimate Kushina or lose.

At the Empire Colosseum, Tsunade fought Kushina after Kushina’s Mythical Zoan fruit transformed her into a Nine-Tails Celestial Fox. Their opening exchanges matched Tsunade’s quake release against Kushina’s nine elemental powers, and the battle intensified as both prepared to fight seriously.

• Toyotomi Yinglang explained the match’s rules and described how Kushina’s Mythical Zoan had transformed her body, strength, chakra reserves, and recovery.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told the soldiers that Devil Fruits could grant access to the Empire’s Beast King Legion and Ability Legion, prompting their desire to enlist.
• Tsunade began the fight with Quake Release: Earthquake: Ground Fissure, and Kushina avoided the fissure with her foxfire tail.
• Tsunade’s Air Quake: Shockwave collided with Kushina’s lightning, and Kushina then used fire, ice, and stone defenses that Tsunade shattered with one punch.
• Kushina struck Tsunade’s leg with her shadow-black tail, and both fighters acknowledged the other’s strength before preparing to escalate.
• Tsunade and Kushina charged at each other again as their quake shock waves clashed with Kushina’s nine-colored powers, while Toyotomi Yinglang watched with interest.

Tsunade struggled to land a hit on Kushina’s Nine-Tails Celestial Fox form as its nine elements combined speed, defense, and sensory interference. Kushina revealed the form’s full power, and Tsunade met it with her Mountain-Crushing Fist: Limit as Toyotomi Yinglang watched their clash.

• Tsunade attacked Kushina with Quake Release, but Kushina used her wind and lightning powers, Color of Observation, and nine tails to evade and mislead her.
• Tsunade disrupted the ground to slow Kushina, but Kushina used gravity and Genjutsu to weaken Tsunade’s punch and distort her senses before striking her with foxfire.
• Toyotomi Yinglang remarked that Kushina’s compact form combined high offense, defense, and speed, and Tsunade asked Kushina to show her true power.
• Kushina lit all nine tails at once and formed a towering Nine-Tails Celestial Fox phantom.
• Tsunade activated Quake Release: Mountain-Crushing Fist: Limit, and the two powers collided as Toyotomi Yinglang watched.

Kushina shifted into her Zoan human-beast form and fought Tsunade, whose Quake Release let her withstand the Nine-Tails Celestial Fox’s formidable attacks. The two acknowledged each other without declaring a winner, and Toyotomi Yinglang opened registration for the Beast King Legion and Ability Legion.

• Kushina transformed into human-beast form, and Toyotomi Yinglang explained its combat advantages to Tsunade.
• Tsunade and Kushina exchanged close-range attacks as Tsunade struggled against Kushina’s speed, healing, and unpredictable elemental strikes.
• Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that Kushina had not used the vitality-draining source powers, and Tsunade demanded that Kushina recognize her strength.
• Tsunade and Kushina unleashed their attacks in a final clash, then stood facing each other and agreed that both had earned respect.
• Toyotomi Yinglang urged the fifty thousand soldiers to register for the Beast King Legion and Ability Legion, while Tsunade and Kushina clasped hands.

After Tsunade and Kushina’s battle drew tens of thousands of soldiers to enlist in the Devil Fruit legions, Toyotomi Yinglang organized the Empire’s first Yin Release trainees and outlined new paths for both women to grow stronger. The chapter ended with him reflecting on how Devil Fruits and Yin Release would shape the Empire’s future.

• Sakura Haruno treated Tsunade and Kushina after their fierce battle, while Yutian reported that sixty thousand soldiers had registered for the Beast King Legion and Ability Legion.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered three hundred soldiers with Yin Release aptitude to form a unit under Nagato, allocating Soul Yin Stones to the Color of Armament trainees.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that her Nine-Tails Celestial Fox Mythical Zoan had given her the aptitude to train in the Color of the Supreme King, and urged her to master all Three Colors of Yin Release.
• Toyotomi Yinglang gave Tsunade a booklet on the Color of Armament and explained how she could develop her Quake Release toward the ultimate technique, Core Resonance.
• That night, Toyotomi Yinglang reviewed the trainees’ roster and considered how Devil Fruits and Yin Release would forge the Empire’s strongest fighters.

Toyotomi Yinglang recognized Sasori’s independent will as the makings of a king and gave him a cultivation method for the Color of the Supreme King. Sasori began studying it, while Toyotomi Yinglang promised him a human experiment with undiluted Dragon Essence serum once he reached the intermediate level.

• Sasori presented Toyotomi Yinglang with his Superhuman Warrior Serum blueprints, and Toyotomi praised his solutions to rejection, neural interfacing, and cost.
• Toyotomi told Sasori that his disdain for external authority and devotion to his own art gave him the makings of a king.
• Toyotomi gave Sasori an introductory booklet and explained that he must learn to project his will outward to awaken the Color of the Supreme King’s lowest level, Intimidation.
• Sasori asked whether he scorned Toyotomi, and Toyotomi left the answer to him to guess.
• Toyotomi promised Sasori a complete human experiment with undiluted Dragon Essence serum after Sasori cultivated the Color of the Supreme King to the intermediate level.
• Alone in the laboratory, Sasori began reading the cultivation booklet as the first signs of the Color of the Supreme King emerged.

After three days in seclusion, Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that he had reached top-level in all three colors of Yin Release and fused them into an embryonic unified power. He left with Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan to train, while ultimate-level cultivation remained beyond his reach.

• Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan waited anxiously outside the Quiet Chamber and wondered what level Toyotomi Yinglang had reached.
• Toyotomi Yinglang emerged and demonstrated top-level Color of Observation, Color of Armament, and Color of the Supreme King.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that the three colors had not reached ultimate and described the abilities of their ultimate stages.
• Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that he had reached top-level earlier and spent three days fusing the three colors into an embryonic unified power.
• Nagato asked whether he and the others could reach top-level, and Toyotomi Yinglang said they could with time, effort, and opportunity.
• Toyotomi Yinglang led Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan into the rain to begin training.