Chapter Summaries

Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade why he had once considered reincarnating Tobirama Senju as an Uchiha, but decided Tobirama’s death during the Danzo rebellion was already punishment enough. As Konoha began rebuilding under Hiruzen Sarutobi, Yinglang questioned whether the village could still be the one Hashirama Senju had dreamed of.

• Tsunade asked Toyotomi Yinglang whether he still planned to let Tobirama Senju live again as an Uchiha, and he said he had abandoned the idea after the Danzo rebellion.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that he had once wanted Tobirama to experience the persecution and suspicion endured by the Uchiha, but believed Tobirama’s betrayal and lonely death were more tormenting.
• Tsunade said she no longer loved Konoha, and Toyotomi Yinglang comforted her by saying that a village she did not love could not hurt her.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Mitokado Homura that the Toyotomi Clan remained in Rōran on a mission from Queen Sasha, and ordered Konoha to begin rebuilding while awaiting their return.
• Alone in his study, Toyotomi Yinglang reflected on Konoha’s rebuilding and wondered whether the village had ever truly loved those who guarded it.

Toyotomi Yinglang returned to Konoha and began building the Toyotomi Clan’s influence through a Martial Arts Hall that would teach loyalty to the clan. Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi launched a religious reform of the Will of Fire, leaving Konoha’s ninja publicly pledging themselves to the new faith.

• Toyotomi Yinglang returned to Konoha with his clan and ordered Toyotomi Hiyoshi to establish a Martial Arts Hall that would train students in the Toyotomi Clan Family Creed.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told the clan’s leaders that the Hall would teach combat skills, chakra techniques, and loyalty to the Toyotomi Clan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Mitokado Homura that Konoha needed the Toyotomi Clan’s strength and presented his plan to turn the Will of Fire into a religion.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi declared Tobirama Senju a god, the Will of Fire a doctrine, and Konoha’s ninja its faithful.
• Konoha’s ninja first responded hesitantly, then shouted their pledge to abide by the doctrine and protect Konoha.

After Danzo's rebellion weakened the Hokage faction, Konoha's clans opened private schools and pulled their children from the Ninja Academy. Toyotomi Yinglang expanded the Martial Arts Hall to recruit commoners and Rōran immigrants, aiming to make its students dependent on the Toyotomi Clan as Konoha's Hokage grew weaker.

• Mitokado Homura told Hiruzen Sarutobi that the clans had opened private schools and withdrawn their children from the Ninja Academy, so Hiruzen ordered free education and support for commoner recruits.
• The Hyuga clan head sent every Hyuga child to the clan school and dismissed the weakened Hokage's ability to object.
• The Aburame, Inuzuka, and Kurama clan heads each barred their children from the Ninja Academy and ordered them to study at their own schools.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli that the Martial Arts Hall had given the Toyotomi Clan an early advantage and that its students would serve the clan rather than Konoha.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered the Martial Arts Hall to recruit Konoha commoners and Rōran immigrants, then give graduates priority for well-paid, low-risk Toyotomi Clan missions.
• Liuli asked how much longer Konoha could endure, and Toyotomi Yinglang replied that only the Sage of Six Paths knew.

At Konoha’s first all-clan meeting since Danzo’s Rebellion, Toyotomi Yinglang proposed dividing education into an Elite School for clan children and a Commoner School focused on ideological education. Hiruzen Sarutobi approved the reform, and Toyotomi Yinglang left intending to use the Elite School to strengthen his clan while the commoners became the Hokage faction’s soldiers.

• Toyotomi Yinglang argued that Konoha should prioritize training powerful fighters and divide its forces into top, middle, and bottom tiers.
• The clan heads considered how the proposed education reform could benefit their own children and clans.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi approved merging private schools with the Ninja Academy as the Elite School and establishing a separate Commoner School.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned practical combat to the Elite School curriculum and ideological education to the Commoner School curriculum.
• Toyotomi Hiyoshi asked why Toyotomi Yinglang had proposed the reform, and Toyotomi Yinglang said it would bring the Martial Arts Hall into the Elite School and strengthen the Toyotomi Clan.

Hiruzen Sarutobi launched Konoha’s education reform, dividing schooling into an Elite School for clan children and a Commoner School centered on faith in the Will of Fire. Toyotomi Yinglang viewed the reform as strengthening the major clans’ control, leaving Hiruzen Sarutobi as their conditional spokesman.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi signed the education reform plan, establishing separate Elite and Commoner Schools after explaining his strategy to Mitokado Homura.
• The major clan heads welcomed the Elite School, while the Ino-Shika-Cho leaders suspected Hiruzen Sarutobi had agreed because he needed their support.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted the Commoner School’s slower construction and ordered that it require only basic facilities and focus on ideological education.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi wrote Commoner School textbooks teaching the Will of Fire, martyrdom, and faith as the minimum graduation requirement.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli that the reform would place the Toyotomi Clan in the Elite School while turning commoners into loyal cannon fodder.
• Toyotomi Yinglang concluded that the major clans controlled Konoha’s future and would replace Hiruzen Sarutobi if he ceased serving their interests.

Hiruzen Sarutobi opened Konoha’s Commoner School and Elite School, using lessons in the Will of Fire and bloodline tests to sort and recruit students. He ended the chapter convinced that Konoha’s future was in his hands.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi welcomed 320 children to the Commoner School and taught them the Will of Fire, promising top students a chance to enter the Elite School if they passed bloodline testing.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi explained that he would claim talented commoners as Sarutobi blood relatives, while students without bloodlines would remain at the Commoner School and later serve in logistics or as cannon fodder.
• The major clan heads praised the Elite School and discussed how its creation benefited their clans and the Sarutobi Clan.
• Mitokado Homura reported that seven Commoner School students had passed bloodline testing, with five identified as Senju and two as Uzumaki.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the seven students entered into the Sarutobi Clan’s genealogy and declared that their surname would be Sarutobi.

The Sage of Six Paths approved Toyotomi Yinglang’s happy education plan and sent opportunities to strengthen the other shinobi villages so Konoha would not dominate. In Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted the plan as a way to use the village’s many clans, while Yinglang predicted that the growing imbalance and village conflicts would make the Shinobi World more chaotic.

• The Sage of Six Paths assessed Konoha’s new schools and recognized Yinglang’s happy education plan as a way to cultivate both strong ninja and loyal believers.
• The Sage of Six Paths sent opportunities across the Shinobi World to strengthen other villages and preserve the balance that fueled the Pure Land’s harvest.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi refused Mitokado Homura’s suggestion to take advantage of Iwagakure’s weakness and said Konoha needed time to recover and train its children.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Mitokado Homura that happy education would maximize Konoha’s many clans and bloodlines, and admitted he relied on the Toyotomi Clan despite worrying about it.
• Toyotomi Yinglang predicted that the Sage of Six Paths would strengthen other villages, then reviewed the recent upheavals and concluded that the Shinobi World would grow more chaotic while Konoha rebuilt.

Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the Shimura Clan erased from Konoha’s records and Danzo’s name made taboo after Danzo’s rebellion. In the British Continent, Tsunade and Toyotomi Yinglang discussed how the victors had rewritten history, leaving the story with Tsunade quietly accepting his view.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Mitokado Homura he would erase the Shimura name and make Danzo’s name taboo, calling him “Group Burial.”
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the Shimura Clan removed from Konoha’s records and threatened traitor status for anyone who mentioned Danzo.
• Workers smashed the Shimura Clan’s stone monument, and their captain said history was written by the victors.
• Tsunade learned that Shimura had become “Slay Village” and Danzo “Group Burial,” and questioned Toyotomi Yinglang about the cruelty of erasing their names.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that only victors could write history, and she said she understood.

Toyotomi Yinglang wrote a selective history textbook for the Martial Arts Hall, arguing that Konoha’s children needed only a simplified account of Danburial’s rebellion while his clan’s students should learn part of the truth. Meanwhile, stories of Yinglang’s rise as a live-in son-in-law spread among Konoha’s commoners, leaving his own life to serve as an example.

• Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Tsunade and Toyotomi Liuli that he was writing Konoha’s history to teach some truth without provoking Konoha or revealing intelligence.
• Liuli read Yinglang’s account of Danburial’s rebellion, which portrayed Danburial as evil and summarized the rebellion’s defeat and its consequences.
• Yinglang ordered the Martial Arts Hall to use his textbook and said its students needed to know at least part of the truth.
• Tsunade said she did not know which textbook Konoha’s children would believe, but Yinglang’s students would believe his.
• Konoha commoners discussed Yinglang’s rise from live-in son-in-law to clan head and royal consort, and one man considered encouraging his son to marry into a great clan.

Hiruzen Sarutobi declared Tobirama Senju a god and turned the Will of Fire into doctrine, ordering Konoha’s schools and clans to teach it. Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that commoners would believe because they needed faith, while Tobirama himself had needed others to believe.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Mitokado Homura that Konoha needed faith and announced plans to teach the Will of Fire as doctrine in its schools.
• The Hyuga clan head and the Aburame clan head agreed to use the new textbook while requiring their children to study their clans’ own precepts and traditions.
• A Commoner School teacher taught children that martyrs reached the Pure Land and nonbelievers went to Hell, leaving him unsure whether they truly believed.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that the clan heads would not accept Hiruzen Sarutobi as a god, but powerless commoners would cling to faith.
• When Tsunade asked whether Tobirama Senju believed in the Will of Fire, Toyotomi Yinglang said he did not, but needed others to believe.

In the British Continent’s Imperial Palace, Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Tsunade that Konoha’s strength came from bloodlines and family inheritance, not education, so Happy Education would not threaten its ruling families. Tsunade left questioning whether a commoner could ever be a true genius, while Yinglang declared that Konoha’s rules were his rules too.

• Tsunade questioned whether Happy Education could make Konoha stronger, and Toyotomi Yinglang replied that it could not but benefited them.
• Yinglang argued that Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Minato Namikaze, and Might Duy were not commoners, pointing to their exceptional chakra, abilities, or constitutions.
• Yinglang claimed Minato had Senju blood and that Might Duy’s ability to use Eight Gates: Gate of Death came from a rare constitution inherited by Might Guy.
• Yinglang told Tsunade that Konoha’s strong came from bloodlines and families, while Commoner School students would become cannon fodder, and Tsunade left the study.
• When Tsunade asked what would happen if a true genius appeared among commoners, Yinglang said the person would have an undiscovered bloodline and privately declared Konoha’s rules were his rules.

Kinkaku and Ginkaku established Kumogakure’s Ninja Academy and taught a curriculum focused on survival, strength, loyalty, and self-control, while spreading a ranking system that placed super Kage above peak Kage. Kinkaku planned to use chakra seeds from Taishang Laojun to build a loyal village core and ended the chapter waiting for Master’s return as the rankings spread beyond Kumogakure.

• Ginkaku told Kinkaku that the Yotsuki Clan in the Land of Lightning had been wiped out, leaving no Yotsuki Clan in Kumogakure.
• Ginkaku presented Kumogakure’s four-part education plan, and Kinkaku approved its focus on survival, ninja foundations, belonging, and temperament.
• Kinkaku taught academy students the strength rankings and warned them that Kumogakure would not support those unwilling to endure hardship, injury, or danger.
• Kinkaku explained to Ginkaku that the curriculum followed Taishang Laojun’s guidance and aimed to create ninja who could fight, protect their home, survive, and control themselves.
• Kinkaku said they would select capable loyal followers for Master’s chakra seeds, which could strengthen and connect them to him, and predicted other Shinobi Villages would soon learn the rankings.

Kinkaku and Ginkaku trained in the three colors of Yin Release and awakened powerful spiritual abilities. Kinkaku ordered Kumogakure’s elite jonin to begin training while keeping the Twin Fruits’ abilities secret.

• Kinkaku and Ginkaku used their synchronized training to develop Color of Armament and Color of Observation to intermediate levels.
• Kinkaku awakened Color of the Supreme King and demonstrated its Intimidation ability.
• Kinkaku planned to train the three colors further and use the Twin Fruits to share his and Ginkaku’s results.
• Kinkaku ordered every Elite Jonin in Kumogakure to train in the three colors, focusing on those with aptitude.
• Kinkaku told Ginkaku to keep the Twin Fruits’ abilities secret as their trump card.

Toyotomi Yinglang reached the ultimate realm of Yin Release by uniting the three colors, gaining the power to perceive, touch, and define fate. He chose to wait rather than confront the Sage of Six Paths, while resolving to keep walking beyond the ultimate realm.

• Toyotomi Yinglang cultivated in the Imperial Palace and awakened the ultimate forms of the three colors, uniting them into a power that could create and define rules.
• Toyotomi Yinglang used true intent vision to perceive fate across the Shinobi World and found his own fate obscured by a mass of mist and chaos.
• Toyotomi Yinglang demonstrated authority body and heavenly mandate judgment, negating attacks and defining the possible fates of a Soul Yin Stone.
• Toyotomi Liuli and Tsunade discussed Toyotomi Yinglang’s cultivation, and Liuli said she understood that he would succeed.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli he had reached the ultimate realm but would only watch the Shinobi World and wait for an opportunity to act against the Sage of Six Paths.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli that the ultimate realm was not the end and that he would keep walking, though he did not know how long the path was.

Sasori completed the mass production plan for Superhuman Warriors and received a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit from Toyotomi Yinglang. Toyotomi Yinglang explained the paths to surviving and traveling through space, leaving Tsunade determined to understand her own potential while he continued pursuing his self-forged path.

• Sasori presented Toyotomi Yinglang with the completed Superhuman Warrior mass production plan, and Toyotomi Yinglang offered him a Devil Fruit as a reward.
• Sasori requested a Mythical Zoan, and Toyotomi Yinglang promised him the Insect-Insect Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Mechanical God Scorpion Form.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that Six Paths-level powerhouses could survive in space and described the differences between Perfect Six Paths, Mortal Six Paths, and Ōtsutsuki.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that his Six Paths Complete Form came from transforming his body with the ultimate Color of Armament, and told Tsunade she could strengthen her own body through training.
• Tsunade asked about the Sage of Six Paths, and Toyotomi Yinglang described him as a powerful, half-finished hybrid between human and Ōtsutsuki before Tsunade left the study.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Tsunade three ways the Great British Empire could travel beyond Earth: spatial teleportation, new Devil Fruits, and advanced technology. He revealed that all three efforts were already underway and vowed that the Empire would keep moving forward, though he did not know how far it could ultimately go.

• Tsunade asked Toyotomi Yinglang whether there were ways to travel between the stars besides reaching Six Paths level, and he described the Heavenly Court’s coordinate-based spatial teleportation system.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that he had designed the Wormhole Fruit for temporary passages and the Star Gate Fruit for permanent gates between star regions.
• Toyotomi Yinglang proposed building spacecraft and developing life-support, navigation, and deep-space systems so ordinary people could explore the stars through technology.
• Tsunade learned that Toyotomi Yinglang had been preparing all three routes since the Great British Empire was founded, with Yutian and the Institute of Technology leading the technological work.
• Tsunade asked how far they would go, and Toyotomi Yinglang answered that he did not know the end but was certain they would never stop moving forward.

Nagato and Toyotomi Liuli awakened their Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, gaining the Monarch Domain and Shadow Body Undying, and Ancestor Space, respectively. Liuli’s clone contacted Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, so Toyotomi Yinglang entered Ancestor Space with her while Nagato stayed behind.

• Nagato broke through to the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and revealed his Monarch Domain, Shadow Body Undying, and Shadow Devouring Sword abilities.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that Liuli’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan would let her communicate with ancestors, and Liuli awakened Ancestor Space.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli to use a Shadow Clone to explore Ancestor Space before entering herself.
• Liuli sensed that her clone had encountered Kaguya Ōtsutsuki rather than the Sage of Six Paths.
• Toyotomi Yinglang left Nagato behind and entered Ancestor Space with Liuli.

Toyotomi Yinglang brought Toyotomi Liuli to the Primordial Sphere Space, where they met the sealed Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. After refusing Kaguya’s offer to possess Liuli, Yinglang left the door open to negotiating again, while Kaguya wondered what he truly wanted.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Toyotomi Liuli that the Primordial Sphere Space was a safe house where the Sage of Six Paths and the Ōtsutsuki Clan could not reach her.
• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki appeared and learned that Yinglang was the progenitor of the Toyotomi Clan, while Yinglang told her Hagoromo was harvesting souls in the Pure Land.
• Kaguya asked Yinglang to persuade Liuli to lend her body, promising to grant his dreams in return.
• Yinglang refused, saying Kaguya could not pay the price he wanted, and revealed that he knew about the Ōtsutsuki Ancestor God Tree.
• Yinglang and Liuli left after he promised to return if Kaguya came with sincerity, leaving Kaguya wondering what he wanted.

Toyotomi Yinglang questioned Kaguya Ōtsutsuki about the Ōtsutsuki Clan and sought a universe map and cultivation methods in exchange for helping her escape. He left Kaguya to consider his terms and ended the chapter expecting her to agree because she had no other choice.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade he intended to use Kaguya as a resource and discussed her dependence on Liuli to escape the Primordial Sphere Space.
• Toyotomi Yinglang asked Kaguya for a map of the universe showing inhabited planets and for the Ōtsutsuki Clan's cultivation methods.
• Kaguya explained the Ōtsutsuki hierarchy and said she knew little, while Toyotomi Yinglang promised he could help her escape if she accepted conditions.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli that the Hyuga, Uchiha, and Senju inherited traits from the Ōtsutsuki bloodline, then said he planned to leave the planet with his people one day.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said he would wait for Kaguya to name her price and told Liuli he believed Kaguya would agree because she had no choice.

Toyotomi Yinglang freed Kaguya from her seal by placing her soul in a moon-god body, in exchange for her origin blood and knowledge of the Ōtsutsuki Clan. As Moon God Kaguya began adjusting to life in the New Capital, Yinglang held her to their treaty and left their future plans undecided.

• Toyotomi Yinglang offered Kaguya a moon-god body made with a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit and presented a treaty requiring her to share her origin blood and Ōtsutsuki knowledge and refrain from attacking him or his forces.
• Kaguya agreed to the treaty, transferred her soul into the new body, and became Moon God Kaguya.
• In the New Capital, Kaguya experienced the moon as freedom and learned that the residents' chakra came from Yinglang's chakra seeds rather than the God Tree.
• Yinglang told Kaguya to learn the world's language, culture, history, ninjutsu, and technology before they discussed what came next.
• Kaguya thanked Yinglang, who insisted that freeing her had been a deal rather than an act of kindness.