Chapter Summaries

Rumors within the Tsuchigumo Clan blamed Tobirama Senju for using their clan leader and covering up his death, while Tobirama manipulated Kagami Uchiha’s grief to secure his loyalty. The chapter ended with Tobirama ordering an investigation after learning the Tsuchigumo were mobilizing and clashing with Konoha patrols.

• Tsuchigumo clansmen spread suspicions that Tobirama Senju had used their clan leader and silenced the truth about his death.
• Kagami Uchiha told Tobirama Senju that Uchiha elders had removed his father Yuanguang’s portrait from the clan shrine.
• Tobirama comforted Kagami and encouraged his resentment toward the Uchiha, prompting Kagami to swear lifelong loyalty to him and the Will of Fire.
• An Anbu reported that the Tsuchigumo were spreading accusations against Konoha, contacting other dissatisfied clans, and clashing with border patrols.
• Tobirama ordered the Anbu to find the source of the rumors and identify the Tsuchigumo leaders behind the unrest.

Hashirama Senju confronted Tobirama Senju over Yuanguang’s death, then apologized on Konoha’s behalf to the Tsuchigumo and Uchiha clans. Madara Uchiha returned and challenged Hashirama at the Valley of the End, and Hashirama set out to meet him.

• Hashirama Senju accused Tobirama Senju of engineering Yuanguang’s death, but Tobirama defended his actions as necessary for Konoha’s stability.
• Hashirama Senju went alone to the Tsuchigumo Clan compound, knelt, and apologized for Konoha’s failure to protect the clan leader.
• Hashirama Senju visited the Uchiha compound and knelt before Elder Xuan, Yinglang, and Liuli to apologize for the clan’s losses.
• Yinglang interpreted Hashirama’s apologies as an attempt to separate the Hokage’s responsibility from Tobirama’s, while Elder Xuan said trust between the Uchiha and Konoha had been broken.
• Madara Uchiha’s chakra swept over Konoha, and he roared a challenge to Hashirama at the Valley of the End.
• Hashirama Senju heard Madara’s challenge and headed south toward the Valley of the End.

Madara Uchiha confronted Hashirama Senju in the Valley of the End, condemning him for kneeling to address Konoha’s tragedies and accusing the village of betraying their shared ideals. Madara joined forces with the Nine-Tails, and Hashirama began using Wood Release as their battle started.

• Madara Uchiha confronted Hashirama Senju with the Nine-Tails and accused him of abandoning his strength by kneeling before Tsuchigumo and the Uchiha.
• Hashirama explained that he had accepted responsibility for Yuanguang’s death and the Tsuchigumo clan leader’s death, and said his actions came from duty rather than weakness.
• Madara blamed Konoha, Tobirama Senju, and the Will of Fire for Izuna’s death and the Uchiha’s decline, rejecting Hashirama’s offer to talk.
• Madara released the Nine-Tails, covered himself in its chakra, and challenged Hashirama to stop him.
• The Nine-Tails roared as Hashirama formed hand seals and unleashed Wood Release, beginning their battle.

Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha fought at the Valley of the End, escalating their battle into a clash between True Several Thousand Hands and Perfect Susanoo: Nine-Tails Form. Yinglang used Feng Shui Observation and suspected the Sage of Six Paths was secretly replenishing and protecting Hashirama, potentially tipping the battle’s outcome.

• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha exchanged Wood Release attacks and Tailed Beast Bombs, with Hashirama surviving Madara’s blast behind the Bracken Shield Technique.
• Madara Uchiha encased the Nine-Tails in Perfect Susanoo and attacked Hashirama with its chakra sword.
• Hashirama Senju entered Sage Art mode and summoned True Several Thousand Hands to meet Madara’s attack.
• The collision between the two giants unleashed shock waves that damaged the Valley of the End and injured distant spectators.
• Yinglang observed the forces clashing and noticed pale golden light subtly restoring and purifying Hashirama’s momentum.
• Yinglang suspected the Sage of Six Paths was secretly favoring Hashirama, leaving the battle’s balance tilted.

Hashirama Senju defeated Madara Uchiha at the Valley of the End, sealed the wounded Nine-Tails, and collapsed from his injuries. As Tobirama Senju took command and Uchiha Yinglang withdrew with his clan, Madara’s apparent death concealed an Izanagi prepared to bring him back.

• Hashirama Senju fatally wounded Madara Uchiha with a Wood Release Spear during their final clash, while both fighters and the Nine-Tails were left gravely injured.
• Hashirama Senju subdued and sealed the Nine-Tails, then lost consciousness in Tobirama Senju’s arms.
• Tobirama Senju ordered Hashirama’s treatment, secured the battlefield, and confirmed that Madara Uchiha appeared to be dead.
• Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Yinglang briefly assessed each other across the battlefield before Yinglang led the Uchiha away to prepare for Konoha’s coming turmoil.
• Izanagi, prepared in Madara Uchiha’s corpse at the cost of one Sharingan, began counting down toward his resurrection.

After the battle left Hashirama gravely wounded and Konoha damaged, Yinglang used the crisis to push for a massive expansion of the Uchiha-controlled Military Police Force. He then had Anbu watchers killed and reported as foreign spies, leaving Tobirama furious and their covert struggle openly hostile.

• At a postwar meeting, Yinglang proposed greatly expanding the Konoha Military Police Force and securing more village funding, and Tobirama said the plan was open to discussion pending review.
• Yutian reported that Anbu were watching the Uchiha Compound and that disguised agents were probing its outskirts, so Yinglang ordered him to eliminate them as accidents.
• Liuli objected to killing Konoha personnel, but Yinglang insisted the watchers were foreign spies and explained how their deaths could be concealed and reported.
• Two days later, Tobirama read the police report identifying the dead Anbu as foreign spies and received the Uchiha's draft requesting a major personnel and budget increase.
• Tobirama slammed his desk in anger and recognized that his pretense of cooperation with Yinglang had ended.

Yinglang consolidated the expanded Konoha Military Police Force while directing covert plans overseas and toward the Land of Ghosts. Meanwhile, Madara survived his apparent death, took Hashirama's cells, and began recovering as Black Zetsu drew his attention to Yinglang and the possibility of an ancient cycle.

• Yinglang and Liuli reviewed the police force's tripled staffing, village-wide patrols, and approved funding, and Yinglang ordered the Uchiha to follow regulations and keep clean accounts.
• Yutian reported progress in Great Britain and the departure of Elder Xuan's group toward the Land of Ghosts, and Yinglang ordered the southern passage and the gate kept secret.
• Madara recovered in hiding with one Sharingan blinded by Izanagi and Hashirama's cells sealed in a chakra membrane.
• Black Zetsu told Madara that Yinglang had expanded Uchiha influence and described legends of a cycle linking the Senju and Uchiha bloodlines.
• Madara vowed to break any destined cycle, prioritize the Rinnegan and Infinite Tsukuyomi, and ignore Yinglang unless he interfered.

Yinglang exploited his authority in Konoha’s Police Force to extract money and resources from prisoners while presenting the schemes as public service and prison reform. Through his Shadow Clone, he also expanded his settlement in Great Britain, where he traded with local tribes and established rules for the growing community.

• Yinglang ordered a Sarutobi steward to pay an increased fine, then secretly recorded the extra money in his ledger.
• Yinglang proposed a prison system that gave better conditions to inmates who provided resources, wealth, or intelligence.
• Yinglang instructed Yutian to trade iron tools for supplies, test a salt field, and consider Shiya for a guard leadership role.
• Yinglang’s Shadow Clone surveyed the thriving settlement and planned an exploration route toward mountains said to contain glittering stones.
• Yinglang reflected that he was building power in Konoha while creating a country of his own in Great Britain.

Uchiha officers envied the eastern branch’s wealth and privileges, while Tobirama Senju confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over Yinglang’s corrupt methods. Hiruzen left determined to pursue subtler ways to enrich his clan and cultivate young Uchiha.

• Uchiha Ken, Uchiha Long, and Uchiha Deng discussed the eastern branch’s generous allowances and profits from flexible enforcement, and Deng suggested joining it.
• Tobirama Senju told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Yinglang’s branch was exploiting Konoha’s residents and using its money to strengthen the Uchiha.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi privately considered discreet ways to earn money for his clan, including commissions, procurement, and business connections.
• Tobirama Senju ordered the Anbu to monitor the eastern branch’s finances and directed Hiruzen to focus on the Chunin Ninja Exams and younger Uchiha.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi left the Hokage Office resolved to borrow Yinglang’s methods under a more respectable and discreet guise.

In spring of Konoha’s eighth year, Yinglang reached the threshold of Peak Kage and decided he was ready to experiment with the forbidden technique Emotion Transformation. After learning that Tobirama had taken six disciples and Hashirama was unlikely to recover fully, Yinglang anticipated the political conflicts ahead while continuing to build power in Konoha and overseas.

• Yinglang reviewed reports from his Shadow Clone, which was expanding farmland, trade, and a fifty-person guard on the British Continent.
• Yinglang completed his weekly lottery draw and received a jar of premium caviar.
• Yinglang considered using Emotion Transformation, believing his physique, Dragon Essence, and Sharingan could help him resist its risks.
• A police officer reported that Tobirama had taken Shimura Danzō, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, Torifu Akimichi, and Kagami Uchiha as disciples, and that Hashirama’s injuries would make full recovery difficult.
• Yinglang welcomed the news as an opportunity to undermine Konoha’s future leadership and continued preparing for the conflicts to come.

Toyotomi Yinglang expanded his settlement in Britain while strengthening his position in Konoha alongside Liuli. The chapter ended with Hashirama Senju welcoming his granddaughter Tsunade and hoping to protect her despite Konoha’s uncertain future.

• Shadow Clone Yinglang learned that Yutian commanded about seven hundred natives, including a fifty-person Guard Corps with ten chakra-seed recipients, and ordered the settlement fortified and its troops trained.
• Yutian reported progress on farming and salt production, while Yinglang decided to address the settlement’s shortage of iron later.
• Back in Konoha, Yinglang told Liuli to answer the North District branch’s criticism by citing regulations and invited her to attend a Uchiha clan dinner about Police Force placements.
• Yinglang recognized that Tsunade had been born and considered how her arrival might give the injured Hashirama Senju a renewed attachment to life.
• Hashirama Senju held his granddaughter Tsunade and promised to use his remaining strength to keep her safe.

Yinglang strengthened his control over the East District branch and openly declared that Tobirama Senju should fear his growing influence. Summoned to the Hokage Building, he defended his methods against Tobirama’s probing and left resolved to continue expanding his power.

• Yinglang assigned new recruits to existing squads and created a special squad under Yutian that would report directly to him.
• Yinglang told Liuli that he no longer feared Hashirama Senju or Tobirama Senju and claimed Tobirama should steer clear of his edge.
• An officer informed Yinglang that Tobirama had summoned him, and Yinglang left for the Hokage Building after asking Liuli to explain his absence at the clan gathering.
• Tobirama challenged Yinglang over his policing methods, revenue practices, and personnel changes, but Yinglang defended them as necessary for Konoha’s stability and efficiency.
• Tobirama questioned Yinglang about his alleged criticism of the injured Hashirama, and Yinglang professed loyalty to Konoha and the First Hokage’s legacy.
• Yinglang left the Hokage Building believing the probing was over and that his show of strength was only the beginning.

After learning that Uchiha Yinglang was only seven, Tobirama Senju recognized him as a growing threat and ordered intensified surveillance and accelerated training for his disciples. He was left convinced that he had to prepare for a future confrontation before his strength faded.

• Tobirama asked an Anbu how old Uchiha Yinglang was and learned that he had just turned seven.
• The Anbu admitted that even he could not match Yinglang's schemes, restraint, and decisiveness.
• Tobirama considered killing Yinglang but concluded that an attack would trigger a wider crisis and could not be risked yet.
• Tobirama ordered Anbu to watch Yinglang, the East District's Konoha Military Police Force, Uchiha Yutian, and Uchiha Ruri.
• Tobirama ordered Hiruzen, Danzo, Kagami, and his other disciples to undergo more intensive training and take on practical missions sooner.

Yinglang introduced musket blueprints and a gunpowder formula to Great Britain, where Yutian and Shiya oversaw secret trials until they successfully produced a working firelock. The first twenty-man Rifle Squad began training under Shiya, while Yinglang ordered more weapons and safer supplies.

• Yinglang drew complete plans for a flintlock musket and a basic gunpowder formula, then sent the information to Great Britain through his Shadow Clone.
• Yutian arranged a guarded workshop, recruited a trusted blacksmith, and selected twenty men for the Rifle Squad, with Shiya as captain.
• The craftsmen and guards repeatedly refined the barrels, mechanisms, and powder until the fifth trial produced a gun that pierced a thick wooden board at fifty paces.
• Yinglang's Shadow Clone fired the finished musket at a hundred paces and pierced leather armor, astonishing the gathered guards and officials.
• Yinglang named the twenty men Great Britain's first Rifle Squad and ordered Shiya to train them while Yutian expanded production and planned for storing gunpowder and flints in the rainforest.

From Konoha Year Eight to Year Nine, Yinglang’s overseas settlement and Konoha Military Police network grew stronger while he prepared to use a bloodline-stimulating potion. The potion awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and pushed him into the Super Kage realm, leaving him convinced Tobirama Senju could no longer keep pace.

• Yutian expanded the overseas settlement with trained musketeers, farmland, salt production, and rules for its growing population.
• Yinglang strengthened his East District branch while concealing its true operations from Tobirama Senju’s surveillance.
• Yinglang won a low-grade bloodline potential stimulation potion and spent several days preparing to use it in secret.
• The potion subjected Yinglang to extreme pain and stirred his buried memories and emotions, but his dragon essence and training helped him endure it.
• Yinglang awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, gaining the left-eye ability Guixu and the right-eye ability Instant, and advanced to Super Kage level.
• Yinglang left his secret chamber at dawn, confident that Tobirama Senju could no longer catch up to him.

Yinglang decided to build a force independent of the Uchiha and revealed to Liuli his plans to establish Great Britain overseas. Liuli accepted his Dragon Essence seed, binding her power to his as she considered a future beside him.

• Yinglang reviewed reports on the Uchiha clan and concluded he could not entrust his ambitions to its members.
• Yinglang inspected the Speed Ninja Pill prototype, which could raise a user's chakra reserves to elite jonin levels but fixed their remaining lifespan at ten years.
• Yinglang told Liuli about the British Continent, his secret settlement there, and his plan to become king of Great Britain.
• Yinglang offered Liuli a future as queen and explained that he needed her help in Konoha and overseas; Liuli asked for time to consider.
• Yinglang offered to replace Liuli's chakra seed with Dragon Essence, and Liuli accepted the painful process, forming a new bond with him.

As Great Britain’s conquests produced more prisoners than its camps could manage, the Shadow Clone "Yinglang" established a three-rank social order and created ways for enslaved people to earn freedom. He planned to use the Atonement Camp as expendable battlefield troops, tying war, labor, and military recruitment into a cycle of expansion.

• Yutian returned with more than thirty prisoners and asked the Shadow Clone "Yinglang" how they should be handled.
• The Shadow Clone "Yinglang" divided Great Britain’s people into Citizens, Freemen, and Slaves, assigning each rank different rights and duties.
• The Shadow Clone "Yinglang" created three paths for Slaves to become Freemen: redemption, learning a trade, or fighting in the Atonement Camp.
• The Shadow Clone "Yinglang" ordered Atonement Camp squads to fight at the front and promised freedom for kills, while threatening collective punishment for failure or betrayal.
• Yutian questioned whether armed Slaves could be controlled, and the Shadow Clone "Yinglang" explained that scarce guns and ammunition made expendable troops necessary.
• The Shadow Clone "Yinglang" ordered Yutian to screen the prisoners and prepare the new system, then marked a hostile hilly region as its first test.

Liuli visited Great Britain and saw how Yinglang’s openly tiered society used forced labor, advancement opportunities, and chakra seeds to drive expansion. After hearing Yinglang and Yutian defend the system, she remained troubled but agreed to stay and observe before deciding what path to take.

• Liuli arrived in Great Britain and observed the rainforest settlement, its laborers, and its stark divisions between citizens, freemen, and slaves.
• Yutian reported that Great Britain had 123 citizens, over a thousand freemen, more than 2,700 slaves, and a growing Atonement Camp and Rifle Squad.
• Liuli questioned Yinglang about the harsh hierarchy, and he argued that Konoha also had hidden ranks while Great Britain offered clear paths to advancement.
• Yutian described how the system had increased labor, strengthened the army, and rewarded citizens with chakra seeds, while Yinglang defended harsh laws as necessary for building a city.
• Liuli said she needed time to observe and think, and Yinglang told Yutian to show her to her quarters and help her plant the flower seeds she had brought from Konoha.

Toyotomi Yinglang announced that he was leaving the Uchiha Clan to establish the Toyotomi Clan, drawing dozens of clanspeople to follow him. Elder Xuan accepted the role of honorary elder while remaining Uchiha Gen, giving Yinglang’s breakaway clan a path toward a peaceful split.

• Toyotomi Yinglang condemned the Uchiha leadership and elites as incompetent, then revealed that Elder Yan’s three-tomoe Sharingan could not suppress his one-tomoe eye.
• Toyotomi Yinglang declared that he was leaving the Uchiha Clan and founding the Toyotomi Clan, which he said would remain allied with the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Ken, Uchiha Deng, and dozens of other clanspeople joined Toyotomi Yinglang, while Uchiha En ordered them out of the compound.
• Toyotomi Yinglang visited Elder Xuan and asked him to become the Toyotomi Clan’s honorary elder without changing his surname.
• Elder Xuan accepted the honorary position on the condition that the two clans avoid harming each other without cause and that Yinglang treat his followers well.

After Toyotomi Yinglang led hundreds of followers out of the Uchiha and formed the Toyotomi Clan, Tobirama Senju reconsidered how to contain him while urging Kagami Uchiha to strengthen his standing. Hashirama Senju mourned the fracture in Konoha and wondered which path the village would take as the new year approached.

• Tobirama Senju learned that Elder Xuan's East District faction and their families had changed their surnames to Toyotomi and left the Uchiha, creating a new clan.
• Kagami Uchiha confronted Tobirama, denounced Yinglang as a traitor, and vowed to prove his loyalty to the Uchiha and Konoha.
• Tobirama calmed Kagami and urged him to gain strength and support within the Uchiha, promising him a mission soon.
• Hashirama Senju heard that Yinglang had founded the Toyotomi Clan and grieved that Konoha's coexistence was splitting apart.
• As Konoha Year Nine ended, Hashirama wondered where the village's path would lead while the Toyotomi Clan's rise threatened further conflict.