Chapter Summaries

Toyotomi Yinglang asked the children to judge Uchiha Itachi’s role in the Uchiha Clan Massacre, and they condemned his choice to kill his clan instead of protecting them or seeking another way. The discussion ended with Mikoto acknowledging that the Empire and Toyotomi Yinglang were different from Konoha and Fugaku.

• Toyotomi Yinglang asked Jilan, Ryukōshi, Jin Zhiyin, Senrin, Moro, and Yōsa for their views on the Uchiha Clan Massacre.
• Jilan blamed the cycle of poor upbringing passed down from Uchiha Fushan to Fugaku and then to Uchiha Itachi.
• Ryukōshi argued that Itachi should have defended his clan, prevented the conflict, or protected noncombatants and his younger brother; Sasori added that Itachi had done none of those things.
• Moro challenged Jin Zhiyin’s sympathy for Itachi, arguing that Itachi had taken both his clansmen’s lives and the chance for them to be remembered as good people; Yōsa and Moro then discussed killing Itachi.
• Liying asked why he would not grow up to become like Itachi, and Toyotomi Yinglang said he would teach the children to be human and that the Empire would let people live standing tall.
• Mikoto agreed that Toyotomi Yinglang was not Fugaku and the Empire was not Konoha, while Toyotomi Yinglang concluded that Itachi had gained only contempt.

Mikoto struggled with her place in the Empire after hearing cruel remarks about her sons, and Toyotomi Yinglang offered her a child with recognized status. A year later, Mikoto gave birth to Yun Jing and became Toyotomi Yinglang’s mistress, while they wondered what their son would become.

• After returning from the Council Hall, Mikoto worried over accusations against Uchiha Itachi and her uncertain place in the Empire.
• Toyotomi Yinglang offered to let Mikoto bear his child and promised the child would have recognized status; Mikoto accepted.
• In Autumn, Year 27 of Konoha, Mikoto gave birth to Yun Jing, and Toyotomi Yinglang named the baby and declared Mikoto his mistress.
• Toyotomi Yinglang had Mikoto try on several outfits, then took her to the adjoining room after they confirmed Yun Jing was asleep.
• That night, Mikoto asked what Yun Jing would be like, and Toyotomi Yinglang said their son would not turn out badly.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained the three divisions of the Toyotomi Clan and his plan to raise an Empire battle group whose Origin Warrior would be chosen from three candidates, including Mikoto’s newborn son Yun Jing. Mikoto accepted that Yun Jing might lose the chance but believed his Toyotomi name and future would remain; Yinglang then reminded her of her duties.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that the Toyotomi Clan was divided among Konoha, the Country of Roran, and the Great British Empire to conceal the Empire’s true strength.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said he wanted the Empire’s Toyotomi to grow in number and eventually field over a thousand warriors.
• Toyotomi Yinglang named Toyotomi Jilan, Toyotomi Jinsyokuin, and newborn Yun Jing as candidates to become the battle group’s Origin Warrior.
• Mikoto realized Yun Jing had a chance to become an Origin Warrior, while Toyotomi Yinglang stressed that only one candidate would be chosen.
• Mikoto told Toyotomi Yinglang she did not hate him because he had given Yun Jing a chance, and said Yun Jing would still have a family, roots, and a future if he lost.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reminded Mikoto to train by day and keep him company at night, and Mikoto whispered to sleeping Yun Jing about his possible future.

Toyotomi Yinglang distributed six Devil Fruits to the imperial children in the Heavenly Court, explaining their powers as each child ate one and underwent a transformation. He warned them that their lives were bound to their fruits, then led them back from the ceremony.

• Toyotomi Yinglang gave Senrin the Nectar Devil Fruit, which transformed her hair silver-white and her eyes pale blue.
• Moro ate the Mythical Zoan Wind God Crow fruit and gained black wings, night vision, and the ability to move through shadows.
• Shakuzuki received the Blazing Sun Devil Fruit, while Yōsa received the Imperial Sand Devil Fruit, and both changed to reflect their new powers.
• Liying ate the Vine-Vine Devil Fruit, and Chengkong ate the Time-Stop Devil Fruit, gaining vine control and the ability to stop time, respectively.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told the children their bodies, Chakra, and souls were bound to their fruits, warned them not to die, and led them out of the Heavenly Court.

Mikoto learned that Ocean Planet’s Byakugan was a common mutant bloodline, purer than the Hyuga Clan’s, and worried about the clan’s decline. Toyotomi Yinglang said the Caged Bird Seal had caused that decline but refused to save the Hyuga, while Mikoto accepted that Yun Jing’s future belonged to the Empire, not the Uchiha or Hyuga.

• While shopping with Kushina, Mikoto saw an Ocean Planet immigrant with Byakugan and learned that it was an ordinary mutant bloodline there.
• Kushina explained that Ocean Planet’s Byakugan came from Ōtsutsuki Yashū and was purer than the Hyuga Clan’s, whose bloodline had weakened over generations.
• At the palace, Kushina told Mikoto that the Hyuga would likely decline unless they broke the Caged Bird Seal or left the Shinobi World.
• Mikoto asked Toyotomi Yinglang how the Hyuga could be saved, and he said their seal suppressed talent but that he would not help a clan unwilling to change.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reminded Mikoto that Yun Jing had Sharingan, and Mikoto affirmed that he was Toyotomi Yun Jing, not an Uchiha or a Hyuga.

Ōtsutsuki Yandō and Ōtsutsuki Raiga arrived at Mechanical Star to take its Chakra Fruit, and Sasori mobilized the planet’s defenses against them. As the Dubhe Battle Group prepared to encircle the intruders, Sasori launched the next phase of his layered assault.

• Ōtsutsuki Yandō and Ōtsutsuki Raiga emerged from a rift above Mechanical City and declared their intention to take the Chakra Fruit.
• Sasori contacted Kaguya, who identified the Ōtsutsuki’s abilities and Raiga’s weaknesses.
• Sasori launched a missile barrage, and Raiga destroyed the missiles with Light-Speed Instantaneous Charge before landing exhausted beside Yandō.
• Sasori deployed tens of thousands of combat robots, servitors, and Mechanical God Cult believers as an auxiliary army.
• Tiegu led the Dubhe Battle Group into formation, and Sasori ordered the troops to surround and kill the Ōtsutsuki.
• Sasori ordered a second missile salvo and sent the auxiliary army forward as the Dubhe Battle Group prepared to encircle Yandō and Raiga.

Sasori and the Dubhe Battle Group fought Ōtsutsuki Yanchuang and Ōtsutsuki Raiga above Mechanical City, using a devastating beam to kill Raiga before trapping Yanchuang in the Blue-Light Defense System. With the Heavenly Court supplying the system at maximum power, Yanchuang’s energy was suppressed as the soldiers closed in to wear him down.

• Yanchuang endured waves of missiles while Sasori ordered the Dubhe Battle Group to separate him from Raiga and encircle them.
• Yanchuang stopped and detonated thousands of missiles with his force field, but the blast left a crease in his robe and enraged him.
• Sasori fired the Scorpion King Laser Cannon at Raiga, overpowering his Lightning Release Armor and killing him before he could become a Chakra Fruit.
• Sasori activated the Blue-Light Defense System, which trapped Yanchuang and suppressed his chakra, natural energy, and Rinnegan power.
• Sasori asked Toyotomi Yinglang to maximize the Heavenly Court’s AllSpark supply, strengthening the barrier as the Dubhe Battle Group closed around Yanchuang.

Sasori and the Dubhe Battle Group wore Yanchuang down with the blue light net, relentless attacks, and thousands of missiles before Sasori killed him with the Scorpion King Laser Cannon. Sasori and Tiegu celebrated their victory, though Mechanical Star suffered heavy casualties and spent enormous resources.

• Yanchuang used Myriad Images of the Heavy Prison and Earth Vein Sealing Prison, but Sasori tightened the blue light net and Toyotomi Yinglang boosted the AllSpark to suppress his powers.
• As the Dubhe Battle Group rotated through attacks, Sasori destroyed Yanchuang’s attempt to use Stone Realm Heavenly Burial by melting the ground beneath him.
• Sasori and the soldiers repeatedly struck Yanchuang while missiles depleted his stamina, chakra, and eye power until his defenses began to crack.
• Tiegu led a final coordinated slash that wounded Yanchuang, and Sasori then killed him with a Scorpion King Laser Cannon beam to the forehead.
• Tiegu told Sasori, “Father. We won,” and Sasori acknowledged their victory before heading toward the Main Hall.

After Ōtsutsuki Yandō and Ōtsutsuki Raiga died, Mechanical Star’s shifting earth exposed vast deposits of high-purity chakra and Raiga’s lingering power began creating Lightning Release awakeners. Sasori ordered large-scale mining and prepared to turn the planet’s resources and new recruits into military strength, while recognizing the Empire could not afford to stop expanding.

• Sasori told Tiegu that Mechanical Star’s chakra deposits could sustain the Empire for centuries and declared the start of large-scale development.
• Combat engineers found high-purity chakra crystals in the eastern plains and reported that they could be used directly for energy, weapons, and modifications.
• Leishi survived a lightning strike in the western mountains and gained instinctive Lightning Release abilities from Ōtsutsuki Raiga’s source energy.
• Sasori registered Leishi as the Empire’s first mutant bloodline, code-named Thunder God Body, and Tiegu reported seven such awakeners so far.
• Sasori ordered Tiegu to assign mature Thunder God Body awakeners to the Dubhe Battle Group and to notify Yutian to send more engineering teams, miners, and smelters.
• Sasori inspected two hundred growing Celestial Pivot Warriors and agreed with Tiegu that the Empire’s enemies would not wait for it to use its new fortune.

Toyotomi Yinglang approved Sasori’s proposal to create the Star Realm Army and appointed Yutian as its marshal, while Sasori prepared an extensive modification plan to make Yutian an Origin Warrior. Sasori estimated the army could assemble 800,000 soldiers in three years and continued overseeing the Dubhe Battle Group’s reserve company.

• Sasori described Mechanical Star’s rapid changes as an age of great development and argued that the Empire needed an organized regular army.
• Toyotomi Yinglang approved the Star Realm Army proposal, and Sasori recommended Yutian as its marshal because of his experience managing the Underworld.
• Sasori presented the materials needed to modify Yutian into an Origin Warrior, including Ōtsutsuki Yandō’s Rinnegan and Toyotomi Yinglang’s cell solution; Mikoto overheard the discussion.
• Sasori estimated that the Star Realm Army could assemble 800,000 soldiers in three years, and Toyotomi Yinglang told him to prioritize people as well as mining.
• At the underground base, Sasori learned that the Dubhe Battle Group reserve company needed two more months for elite-grade modification and half a year for superpower-grade modification.
• Tiegu said the Dubhe Battle Group would lead the charge wherever the Empire went next, and Sasori agreed.

Yutian completed his transformation into the Six Paths-level Withered Lord and was given command of the Withered Ruins Battle Group and the Star Realm Army. He began preparing the battle group's first recruits for modification, blessing them as they slept in the Growth Chambers.

• Yutian emerged from the Growth Chamber with fused Withered God Eyes and the Quicksand Law Bead, and Sasori named him the Empire's second Origin Warrior, the Withered Lord.
• Toyotomi Yinglang welcomed Yutian at the Heavenly Court and placed the Withered Ruins Battle Group and the Star Realm Army under his command.
• Sasori gave Yutian the Gene Serum designs and told him to revise them and learn to lead the battle group as its Gene Father.
• Yutian told Tiegu that the first recruits would undergo staged modifications beginning the next day and be ready for battle in a year.
• Yutian pressed his palm to the Growth Chamber glass and sent a grayish-brown blessing into the first two hundred sleeping recruits.

Toyotomi Yinglang’s Imperial Council set a one-year deadline for the Empire’s expansion into space, while its leaders prepared troops, warships, and training grounds. The chapter ended with Mikoto imagining her son Yun Jing witnessing the Empire’s coming expansion.

• Toyotomi Yinglang announced that the Empire would begin expanding in one year, after the first Star Realm Army troops and the Withered Ruins Battle Group were ready.
• Sasori, Nagato, Yahiko, Konan, and Yutian outlined plans for warships, military forces, and the Empire’s security as its consorts and officials pledged their support.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli that the Empire’s expansion would reveal its existence to the Shinobi World, though he wanted to avoid becoming entangled with it.
• Sasori reviewed the completed interstellar warship blueprints and ordered construction to begin, declaring that the Dubhe Battle Group would lead the charge.
• Yutian chose Mechanical Star’s western desert as the Withered Ruins Battle Group’s training ground and assigned the group to support the Empire’s expansion.
• Mikoto told Kushina that Yun Jing would witness the Empire’s expansion, then spoke to her sleeping infant about the warships and armies he would see.

Toyotomi Yinglang welcomed his newborn daughter, Toyotomi Tsukihime, and confirmed that the Empire’s forces were ready to march from Mechanical Star. He announced that the invasion of the nearest life planet would begin in three days.

• Toyotomi Yinglang named Kaguya’s newborn daughter Toyotomi Tsukihime and said she could eat her Devil Fruit when she was older.
• Sasori ordered the Dubhe Battle Group and the Starship fleet to enter level-one combat readiness, while Yutian readied the Withered Ruins Battle Group and the Star Realm Army.
• Yutian addressed the 100,000 Star Realm Army soldiers and ordered them to enter level-one combat readiness.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told the Empire’s leaders that they would march in three days to the life planet nearest Mechanical Star.
• Mikoto watched the leaders prepare for the Empire’s first campaign of interstellar expansion and offered Toyotomi Yinglang fresh tea.

The Empire's fleet reached Iron Remains Star, a resource-rich but devastated planet, and Sasori outlined a strategy of negotiation and selective war to control its key sites. The chapter ended as the Dubhe Battle Group and Withered Ruins Battle Group deployed on the planet's surface, with Mikoto watching the Empire begin its expansion.

• Sasori ordered Tiegu to notify Yutian that the fleet would land on Iron Remains Star in three days.
• The fleet arrived above Iron Remains Star, and Sasori explained to Yutian that the Empire intended to claim its metal resources and control key mineral veins, factories, and ruins.
• Sasori assigned the Withered Ruins Battle Group to control battlefields, the Dubhe Battle Group to break strongpoints, and the Star Realm Army to occupy territory, while advocating talks before fighting.
• Mikoto worried that the Shinobi World might suffer the same fate as Iron Remains Star and listened as Toyotomi Yinglang told her the tea was warm enough.
• Sasori deployed the Dubhe Battle Group and Yutian deployed the Withered Ruins Battle Group after their landing pods reached Iron Remains Star.
• Mikoto watched the two battle groups form up and quietly recognized the deployment as the Empire's expansion.

After the Empire defeated the factions on Iron Remains Star, Toyotomi Yinglang began recruiting the surviving Machine Race, Cyborgs, and Scavengers by offering supplies, benefits, and a chance at survival. He outlined plans to enforce discipline, mix the groups together, and unite them against the Ōtsutsuki Clan, leaving the newcomers poised to become imperial soldiers.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Yutian and Sasori that the Empire would recruit the Machine Race, Cyborgs, and Scavengers by binding their interests to the Empire rather than treating the Machine Race as mere robots.
• Toyotomi Yinglang offered the faction leaders centralized survival supplies, military merit rewards, secure territory, and a three-month army trial, and the representatives agreed to join.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Yutian that military law would punish specific offenses through enforcement squads, while collective punishment risked provoking a mutiny.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered the recruits mixed across racial groups, given a shared imperial identity, and united against the Ōtsutsuki Clan, which had repeatedly harvested Chakra Fruits from Iron Remains Star.
• Mikoto watched the recruits line up and compared Toyotomi Yinglang's rule through benefits and fear with Uchiha Fugaku's reliance on bloodlines and tradition.

Toyotomi Yinglang reviewed Iron Remains Star’s resources and newly formed Star Realm Army, then ordered the Empire to prepare for further expansion. After Sasori discovered ancient Machine God fragments beneath the planet, the Empire chose a nearby world with an intelligent native race as its next target.

• Sasori reported that Iron Remains Star had provided the Empire with black technology, vast metal resources, and fifty thousand Star Realm Army troops, and Toyotomi Yinglang ordered the army to conquer another planet.
• Yutian addressed the fifty thousand troops and placed the Star Realm Army at level-two combat readiness.
• Sasori explored the underground ruins with Tiegu and the Dubhe Battle Group’s 1st Company, found a Machine God fragment, and said it could advance the Empire’s technology.
• At the Imperial Palace, Sasori identified three nearby life planets, and Toyotomi Yinglang chose the second, which had an intelligent native race, as their next destination.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered the Star Realm Army to rest and regroup for three months before marching, while Mikoto watched the Empire’s leaders plan its expansion.

Toyotomi Yinglang led the Empire’s fleet to Deep Forest Ancient Vine Star and negotiated a minerals-for-metals trade with the Tree Domain Kingdom. After the kingdom agreed, he revealed that the Empire also wanted to invite its Wood Release cultivators to teach their techniques, and the fleet’s next stop became a marketplace rather than a battlefield.

• Sasori’s fleet departed Iron Remains Star and arrived in orbit above Deep Forest Ancient Vine Star, where Toyotomi Yinglang and Tsunade learned that its inhabitants practiced a distinctive form of Wood Release.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered Yutian and the others to seek negotiations, then met the Tree Domain Kingdom’s king and offered metals in exchange for minerals and permission to establish a border trading post.
• The king consulted the Vine Vein Family, the Green Forest Sect, and the Dark Forest Hunters Group before the Tree Domain Kingdom agreed to trade.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Mikoto that the Empire also wanted Wood Release cultivators to teach their techniques, and he intended to invite them rather than force them.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reflected that the Empire gave the Shinobi World bargaining power and declared that Deep Forest Ancient Vine Star was the Empire’s next marketplace, not battlefield.

Tsunade learned from the Tree Domain Kingdom’s king how its government had maintained peace for five hundred years and what its devastating ancestral-tree weapon would cost to use. Back at camp, Toyotomi Yinglang described the Empire’s own approach to deterrence and said he was already working toward victory without fighting.

• Tsunade asked the king how the Tree Domain Kingdom had gone five hundred years without war, and he explained its government and pointed out how divided authority could lead to divided responsibility.
• Tsunade described the Shinobi World’s one country, one village system, and the king asked why its emperor did not govern the Daimyō and Kage.
• The king revealed the Myriad Sources Devouring Worlds Ancestral Tree and explained that activating it could cost him his humanity, devastate cultivators and the economy, and damage the land.
• Tsunade asked whether the Empire would invade, and she and the king agreed it would not, leaving the ancestral tree unused as a deterrent.
• At camp, Tsunade discussed the king’s trump card with Toyotomi Yinglang, who said the Empire had a different trump card: achieving victory without fighting.
• Toyotomi Yinglang called Deep Forest Ancient Vine Star a mirror of the Empire’s aspirations, and Tsunade observed that he had changed; he said he could now choose not to fight.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained the Ancestor Tree Life Cocoon, which had kept a wounded royal ancestor asleep for five hundred years, and discussed its limits with Tsunade. The king remained uncertain about the Empire’s intentions, while Toyotomi Yinglang and Tsunade considered what the ancestor would see if he awoke to a changed world.

• Toyotomi Yinglang described the Ancestor Tree Life Cocoon’s construction and powers, revealing that the king’s ancestor had slept inside it since defeating an Ōtsutsuki five hundred years earlier.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that the cocoon preserved someone’s condition rather than healing them, and that it could let them wait for a better chance to survive or win.
• The king spoke to his sleeping ancestor and said the Empire had arrived as merchants, though he did not know whether to trust them.
• Mikoto wondered what the ancestor would do after waking to a world where everyone he knew might be gone, while Yun Jing slept beside her.
• Toyotomi Yinglang and Tsunade agreed that the ancestor would wake to find the Empire, then returned to the tent to rest before the next day’s work.

Tsunade asked Toyotomi Yinglang why Deep Forest Ancient Vine Star enjoyed peace while the Shinobi World endured wars, and he explained that each world’s strongest power shaped events according to its interests. He argued that the Empire could bring peace to the Shinobi World through its strength, then reassured Tsunade that he would not become like the Sage of Six Paths.

• Tsunade asked Toyotomi Yinglang why Deep Forest Ancient Vine Star had peace while the Shinobi World kept fighting wars.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said the Sage of Six Paths benefited from war because he fed on souls in the Pure Land, while the Tree Domain Kingdom’s king benefited from peace by preserving its strength.
• Tsunade asked who was strongest in the Great British Empire, and Toyotomi Yinglang said it was him and that he supported whatever served the Empire and his interests.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that the Empire’s strength could save the Shinobi World by making the cost of war too high for its enemies.
• Tsunade asked whether Toyotomi Yinglang would become the Sage of Six Paths, and he said he would not because he had people beside him rather than treating them as food.
• Toyotomi Yinglang wiped Tsunade’s tears, and they left the pavilion together to continue their work.