Chapter Summaries

Toyotomi Yinglang demonstrated a compressed Susanoo blade infused with the Three Colors of Yin Release, using Emperor Slash to split the shallow sea and its seabed. After filling the rift with a pulverized mountain, he told Nagato that Three Colors United was only at its embryonic stage and assigned training to his students.

• Toyotomi Yinglang condensed Susanoo power into a handheld great blade and infused its edge with the Three Colors of Yin Release.
• Toyotomi Yinglang used Emperor Slash to cut a deep, hundreds-of-meters-long rift through the sea and seabed.
• Toyotomi Yinglang lifted a distant mountain, pulverized it, and used its fragments to fill the undersea rift.
• Nagato asked whether Toyotomi Yinglang's power was invincibility, and Toyotomi Yinglang said true invincibility lay beyond Ultimate.
• Toyotomi Yinglang sent Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan back to training, emphasizing power density over scale.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained that intelligence mattered to ordinary soldiers despite his overwhelming strength, then showed Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan how Devil Fruits could strengthen the military and solve the Empire’s food, water, and housing needs. The chapter ended with him promising sky-island homes to the Empire’s most loyal and powerful subjects as he led his disciples toward that future.

• Toyotomi Yinglang asked Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan whether intelligence could let them defeat him, and they explained that his defenses, recovery, and attacks made their knowledge useless against his overwhelming strength.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reminded his disciples that intelligence remained vital to the Empire’s soldiers and officers, then took them to see the Beast King Legion’s Devil Fruit users.
• Toyotomi Yinglang showed how Zoan fruits had raised ordinary soldiers to Chunin-level strength or greater, making Devil Fruits a shortcut to rapidly expanding the Empire’s military.
• Toyotomi Yinglang created the Harvest Fruit, Spring Vein Fruit, Cloud and Earth Fruit, and Grass and Grain Fruit, explaining how they could provide food, water, and places to live.
• Yahiko recognized the fruits’ potential to address the Empire’s resource shortages, and Toyotomi Yinglang proposed combining them with technology to increase grain production, produce water, and build sky islands.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan that the Empire’s most loyal and powerful subjects would receive priority to live on the sky islands, and all three agreed to train for that future.

Toyotomi Yinglang designed and built a machine that permanently anchored the Spring Vein Fruit’s water-generating rule, giving New Capital an abundant supply of clean water. After the machine opened, he turned to designing a grain-seed cultivation machine.

• Toyotomi Yinglang analyzed the Spring Vein Fruit and designed a machine to anchor its water-source rule using Dragon Essence Crystals.
• Toyotomi Yinglang and Sasori arranged for the Institute of Technology’s craftsmen to build the machine, with Toyotomi Yinglang engraving its rule-anchoring runes.
• One month later, the Sea Eternal Spring Water Purification and Generation Machine began supplying New Capital with fresh, mineral, and hot spring water.
• Toyotomi Yinglang addressed the gathered people with Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan present, describing production machines as essential to the Empire.
• Toyotomi Yinglang left with Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan to design the Fertile Soil Constant Yield Grain Seed Cultivation Machine.

Toyotomi Yinglang designed machines that used the Harvest Fruit to produce resilient, high-yield perennial grain seeds and the Cloud and Earth Fruit to sustain floating sky islands. After the first rice harvest demonstrated dramatically faster growth and greater yields, he outlined plans for the Empire’s first small sky islands and promised Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan places among their earliest residents.

• Toyotomi Yinglang analyzed the Harvest Fruit’s rules and designed a cultivator that imprinted early maturation, high yield, and stress resistance into seeds, with farmers rejuvenating them every three generations.
• The cultivator was completed, and experimental rice grew to maturity in two and a half months, producing ears nearly twice as long and several times as many grains as ordinary rice.
• Toyotomi Yinglang analyzed the Cloud and Earth Fruit and designed the Sky Island Heart, which would maintain buoyancy while producing clouds and floating soil for sky islands.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that sky islands required substantial Dragon Essence Crystals and would be built in stages, beginning with small islands.
• Toyotomi Yinglang promised the first small sky islands to craftsmen, decorated soldiers, and Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan.

Toyotomi Yinglang grew four Devil Fruits beneath the Devil Fruit Tree and explained how they could expand the Empire’s power. The fruits remained unclaimed, awaiting future users and missions.

• Toyotomi Yinglang created the Void Gate Fruit and explained how it could connect Heavenly Court to marked locations across the Shinobi World, with Heavenly Court able to recall its people instantly.
• Toyotomi Yinglang created the Explosion Fruit and described its ability to turn objects and even air into precisely controlled bombs.
• Toyotomi Yinglang created the Labor Fruit, which could turn fatigue and pressure into burdens for enemies while removing the user’s own exhaustion.
• Toyotomi Yinglang created the Disaster Fruit and explained how it could summon and combine natural disasters, though its wide-area use consumed enormous Spiritual Energy.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan that the four new fruits completed core parts of the Empire’s combat, logistics, and strategic capabilities.

Toyotomi Yinglang arranged for Senju Tsubaki to bear a child whose Forest-Forest Fruit powers would be disguised as Wood Release, making him a future ally for Jilan. The chapter ended with Yinglang telling Kushina that he had impregnated Tsubaki and that the child would help protect Jilan and secure the Empire’s future.

• Kushina cared for Jilan while Toyotomi Yinglang met Senju Tsubaki and Toyotomi Liuli in the Council Hall.
• Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that rules he had placed on Tsubaki prevented her from divulging secrets, then ordered her to bear a child with powers that could pass for Wood Release.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that the child would eat the Forest-Forest Fruit and be named Toyotomi Jinsyokuin.
• Toyotomi Liuli asked whether Yinglang was merely using Tsubaki, and he told her that Tsubaki was a tool while Liuli remained Empress.
• Toyotomi Yinglang’s control rule compelled Tsubaki to attend him in bed, and he later told Kushina that he had impregnated her.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that Tsubaki’s child would help Jilan and make his path safer.

Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli, Kushina, and Tsubaki how he had assigned their children roles in the Empire: Ryukōshi as the heir, Jilan as its blade, and Jinsyokuin as its shield. The chapter ended with Tsubaki sensing the unborn Jinsyokuin as the Empire’s future took shape.

• Toyotomi Yinglang proposed the name Ryukōshi for Liuli’s child and said a boy would become Crown Prince and receive his personal instruction and a Mythical Zoan.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that Jilan would become a powerful vassal king with a Logia Devil Fruit, while Jinsyokuin would become a king whose Forest-Forest Fruit could make him a formidable fighter and ruler.
• Toyotomi Yinglang described the children’s roles to Liuli, calling Jilan the blade, Jinsyokuin the shield, and Ryukōshi the banner.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that Jilan would be the Empire’s strongest vassal king and its sharpest blade, and Kushina told her sleeping son what his father had said.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsubaki that Jinsyokuin would become a king and could use the Forest-Forest Fruit to aid both warfare and his territory.
• Tsubaki accepted Yinglang’s words and rested her hands on her abdomen as she sensed the life of her unborn child.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Tsunade how Color of the Supreme King reflected independent will and described his plan to give Sasori and Nagato authority as vassal kings. He left Tsunade questioning her own potential, then visited Sasori and encouraged him to claim the role of the Empire’s Technology King.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that kings who submit to others risk losing their Color of the Supreme King, and proposed making Sasori the Technology King and Nagato the Shadow King while giving Kushina’s son a royal title.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said Konoha’s culture suppressed independent identity, and named Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru as Konoha’s only people with king’s aptitude.
• Toyotomi Yinglang argued that Konoha’s system and the Will of Fire had no room for Orochimaru, then declared that his empire would let kings and ministers find their own place.
• Toyotomi Yinglang urged Tsunade to train her Color of Armament and left her wondering whether she truly lacked king’s aptitude.
• Toyotomi Yinglang visited Sasori at the Institute of Technology and encouraged him to train his Color of the Supreme King as the Empire’s Technology King.
• Sasori accepted the idea with interest and returned to his research.

In the Heavenly Court, Toyotomi Yinglang created three Devil Fruits for the Empire’s princes and forces, assigning them distinct roles. He and Toyotomi Liuli agreed to build the Empire’s future together as the fruits awaited their bearers.

• Toyotomi Yinglang created the Holy Blood Angel Mythical Zoan Fruit for crown prince Ryukōshi, describing its healing, leadership, and protective powers.
• Toyotomi Yinglang created the Fire Salamander Ancient Zoan Fruit for a subordinate, explaining its fire immunity, durability, and battlefield uses.
• Toyotomi Yinglang created the Logia Storm Fruit for Jilan, whom he intended to become the Empire’s weapon of conquest.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said Ryukōshi would be the banner, Jilan the blade, and Jin Zhiyin the shield, with each having a place in the Empire’s future.
• Toyotomi Liuli took Toyotomi Yinglang’s hand, and they agreed to build the Empire together.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Liuli how he planned to weaken Konoha by guiding Danzo toward rebellion and supplying him with the means and potential allies to fight Tobirama Senju. Later, Yinglang entered Danzo’s dream and reinforced his vision of becoming Hokage, intending for Danzo to become Konoha’s greatest sinner.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli that Tobirama Senju was deliberately wearing down the Uchiha and that Konoha and Kumogakure would eventually negotiate peace.
• Toyotomi Yinglang planned to nurture Danzo’s ambition through dreams, provide him with Asura’s Cinders and a more complete Impure World Reincarnation, and encourage dissatisfied groups to hold back during a rebellion.
• Toyotomi Yinglang described how Danzo’s rebellion would trigger a civil war that would leave Konoha severely weakened.
• Toyotomi Yinglang entered Danzo’s dream and watched him imagine himself as Hokage, praised by Tobirama Senju and deferred to by Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Toyotomi Yinglang withdrew from Danzo’s dream and declared that Danzo would become Konoha’s greatest sinner.

Toyotomi Yinglang planted a dream in Danzo’s subconscious in which Danzo ruled Konoha as a victorious, absolute Hokage. Yinglang planned to use Danzo’s ambition to provoke a failed rebellion, plunge Konoha into internal strife, and disgrace Tobirama Senju.

• Danzo dreamed that he had become the Third Hokage, conquered the other shinobi villages, and made Konoha the dominant power in the Shinobi World.
• In the dream, Danzo suppressed Hiruzen Sarutobi and imprisoned Kagami Uchiha in a brutal labor camp, while Konoha’s people praised him.
• Toyotomi Yinglang watched Danzo’s dream through the seed he had planted in Danzo’s subconscious, as Toyotomi Liuli stood beside him.
• Yinglang explained to Liuli that Danzo would believe the dream because it fulfilled his desires, and that he was guiding Danzo toward rebellion.
• Yinglang told Liuli that Danzo would fail, triggering Konoha’s internal strife and publicly disgracing Tobirama Senju.

Toyotomi Yinglang manipulated Danzo’s dreams to make him imagine seizing the Hokage position and ruling the Shinobi World, then explained that the dream could drive him to attempt it for real. Danzo continued dreaming in the Root base, convinced his imagined future would soon become reality.

• In Danzo’s dream, Tobirama Senju chose Hiruzen Sarutobi as his successor and rejected Danzo as Hokage.
• Root Ninja urged Danzo to seize power, and Danzo agreed to strike first with eight hundred shinobi.
• Danzo killed Hiruzen Sarutobi and Kagami Uchiha in the dream, then declared himself the Heavenly Hokage and conquered the other villages.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli that he had shaped Danzo’s dream to make him crave power and risk starting a civil war against Tobirama Senju.
• Danzo continued dreaming in the Root base, believing that his imagined rule would soon become reality.

Toyotomi Yinglang used the Soul Yin Stone to plant a dream in Danzo in which he avenged Tobirama Senju, overthrew Kagami Uchiha, and restored Konoha. Danzo awoke still dreaming of becoming Konoha’s savior, believing the planted slogan was his own conviction.

• Danzo dreamed that Kagami Uchiha poisoned Hiruzen Sarutobi and Tobirama Senju, seized the Hokage position, and oppressed Konoha’s clans.
• Danzo found Tobirama Senju’s forged letter accusing Kagami Uchiha and secretly gathered Root and the major clans until they overthrew Kagami Uchiha in a battle at the Hokage Building.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Toyotomi Liuli that the dream was meant to make Danzo believe rebellion was his own heroic calling.
• Danzo murmured “Overthrow the false Kage... restore Konoha...” in his sleep, unaware that he was dreaming.

Toyotomi Yinglang planted a dream in Danzo’s subconscious in which the Sage of Six Paths named him a Child of Prophecy destined to lead Konoha. Danzo believed the vision was his future, while Yinglang expected the dream to undermine Danzo’s respect for Tobirama Senju and eventually push him to rebel.

• Danzo dreamed that the Sage of Six Paths called him a Child of Prophecy and declared he would lead Konoha to greatness.
• The Sage gave Danzo a mark of heavenly mandate, and Danzo saw a future in which the Shinobi World honored him as the Heavenly Hokage.
• Toyotomi Yinglang watched Danzo’s dream through the seed he had planted in Danzo’s subconscious, while Toyotomi Liuli observed him.
• Yinglang explained that the dream would make Danzo see Tobirama Senju as an obstacle, Hiruzen Sarutobi as a rival, and Kagami Uchiha as a traitor.
• Yinglang predicted that Danzo would soon act on the ambitions he had experienced in his dreams.
• Danzo continued dreaming, unaware that the golden mark was Yinglang’s shackle rather than a blessing from the Sage of Six Paths.

Tobirama Senju manipulated the war to weaken the Uchiha while pitting Iwagakure against Kirigakure, and Danzo resisted his orders to protect Root. Toyotomi Yinglang planned to secretly strengthen Danzo for a future rebellion, leaving Danzo resolved to claim the Hokage position.

• Tobirama Senju ordered the Uchiha to the Kumogakure front and used a false-flag attack to provoke Hozuki Gengetsu and Mu into fighting.
• The Uchiha complained that Konoha was sacrificing them, while Uchiha En warned them against being branded traitors.
• Hozuki Gengetsu and Mu each ordered their armies to prepare for battle against the other.
• Danzo sent only a few Chunin to reinforce the front, refusing to risk Root's strongest members.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli that he would secretly strengthen Danzo ahead of a future rebellion during the Kumogakure peace talks.
• Danzo reaffirmed his determination to make Konoha recognize him as the true Hokage.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained why Tobirama Senju kept the Toyotomi Clan away from the front lines and waited for Konoha and Kumogakure to begin peace talks before attacking Sunagakure. As Sakura Haruno taught Quake Release theory to Martial Arts Hall students, she wondered whether Yinglang meant to strengthen them or use them as cannon fodder.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli that Tobirama Senju sent the Uchiha to fronts where their abilities were countered, but avoided the Toyotomi Clan because it could devastate Konoha.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said he would wait for Konoha and Kumogakure to start peace talks, then attack Sunagakure, kill Shamon, and help Rōran take over the Land of Wind.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi informed Tobirama Senju that the Second Raikage had proposed peace talks and reported that the Toyotomi Clan was still patrolling the south.
• Tobirama Senju dismissed the Toyotomi Clan's southern patrol as a picnic but let it continue, then wondered what Toyotomi Yinglang and Sakura Haruno were planning.
• Sakura Haruno demonstrated Quake Release to Martial Arts Hall students and told them to master their basic training before they could learn it.
• Sakura Haruno privately wondered whether Toyotomi Yinglang had asked her to teach the students so they could become stronger or serve as cannon fodder.

Kinkaku and Ginkaku planned to rebel against the Second Raikage while Tobirama Senju and the Second Raikage secretly agreed to wear down their clans before peace talks. Kinkaku decided the brothers would strike during the talks, when both leaders let their guard down.

• Ginkaku complained that the Second Raikage was sending the Hagoromo Clan to die, and Kinkaku said they should wait for a chance to rebel.
• Tobirama Senju and the Second Raikage agreed to prolong the war to weaken the Uchiha and Hagoromo clans, while sparing each other's personal forces for a later prisoner exchange.
• Uchiha En told the Uchiha camp that Lord Hokage had ordered an all-out assault on Kumogakure's defenses.
• Kinkaku learned that Tobirama Senju and the Second Raikage would soon hold peace talks and told Ginkaku they would rebel during the talks.

Toyotomi Yinglang manipulated Kinkaku and Ginkaku into abandoning the Sage of Six Paths and eating the Twin Fruits, which bound their souls and gave them powerful shared abilities. He planned to use them to attack the Raikage during future peace talks, then have Danzo rebel against Tobirama Senju while Tobirama was weakened.

• In a shared dream, Taishang Laojun warned Kinkaku and Ginkaku that the Second Raikage and Tobirama Senju intended to wear down the Hagoromo Clan, and the brothers agreed to worship the Three Pure Ones instead of the Sage of Six Paths.
• Taishang Laojun gave Kinkaku and Ginkaku the Twin Fruits, explaining that they would share power, injuries, souls, and thoughts, and could survive unless both were killed at once.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained the Twin Fruits' abilities to Toyotomi Liuli and said Kinkaku and Ginkaku would target the Raikage at peace talks before hunting Tobirama Senju.
• Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that he also planned to strengthen Danzo and have him launch a rebellion in Konoha after Tobirama Senju had been weakened.
• Kinkaku and Ginkaku ate the Twin Fruits together, felt their chakra and senses link, and decided to wait for the peace talks before acting.

Danzo obtained the Dead Soul Manifestation Technique and planned to use Hashirama Senju’s soul to strengthen his rebellion against Konoha. Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that he had fabricated the technique and arranged its discovery to destabilize Konoha and ensure Tobirama Senju’s downfall.

• Danzo found the Dead Soul Manifestation Technique in an ancient cave and learned its strengths, limitations, and ability to summon Hashirama Senju.
• Danzo decided Hashirama’s appearance would shake Konoha’s morale and make his rebellion seem legitimate.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli that he had planted the scroll and controlled the technique, which summoned a soul projection rather than a real soul.
• Toyotomi Yinglang predicted that Danzo’s rebellion would force Tobirama Senju to fight on multiple fronts and lead to his death.
• Danzo studied the scroll at a Root base and resolved to use Hashirama Senju to reshape Konoha.

Kinkaku and Ginkaku planned to attack the Second Raikage and Tobirama Senju during peace talks, while Toyotomi Yinglang prepared to exploit the resulting chaos and Danzo’s planned rebellion. The Kinkaku Force was ordered to enter combat readiness as Kinkaku anticipated the Hagoromo Clan’s rise.

• Kinkaku explained to Ginkaku that the Twin Fruits had raised them to strong Kage level and that fusing would let them challenge Tobirama Senju.
• Kinkaku decided they would surprise and kill the Second Raikage during peace talks, then hunt Tobirama Senju and kill any prisoners.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli that Kinkaku and Ginkaku were ready to strike and expected Danzo to rebel if Tobirama returned weakened.
• Kinkaku ordered Ginkaku to put the Kinkaku Force on combat readiness and prepare to kill the Second Raikage and Tobirama Senju quickly.