Chapter Summaries

Toyotomi Yinglang completed a dangerous transformation, awakening the Immortal Mangekyō Sharingan and gaining power at the threshold of the Six Paths. After assessing the damage at the Sandcastle, he gave Nagato special energy-absorbing rods to develop with his Gold Release, while the new power hinted at future conflict with the Pure Land.

• Toyotomi Yinglang fused dragon essence, purified Evil God power, Karma-derived principles, and Asura chakra to transform his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and forge an Immortal Origin Seal.
• Toyotomi Yinglang awakened the Immortal Mangekyō Sharingan, whose power briefly overwhelmed the Sandcastle and damaged instruments and unsettled its inhabitants.
• Toyotomi Yinglang assessed the damage with Sasori and ordered replacement instruments and observation of affected experimental subjects.
• Toyotomi Yinglang visited Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan at the Sector C training ground and gave Nagato six special rods that absorbed energy and could be shaped with Gold Release.
• Nagato sensed the rods’ affinity for his Gold Release, while Toyotomi Yinglang left the group to continue developing their paths.

The First Shinobi World War began as Konoha faced attacks from all four neighboring villages. After receiving the Daimyō’s secret order to use the war to eliminate civilians and refugees, Tobirama Senju issued veiled battlefield directives that left the door open to such killings, changing the war’s course for him.

• Kumogakure, Iwagakure, Kirigakure, and Sunagakure launched hostilities against the Land of Fire, forcing Konoha to mobilize on multiple fronts.
• The Daimyō sent Tobirama Senju a secret order to kill civilians and refugees during the war to ease famine pressures and disrupt enemy territory.
• Tobirama burned the order, concealed its contents from Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other advisers, and assigned them to defend the northern and western borders and coordinate supplies.
• After weighing the consequences of obeying or refusing the Daimyō, Tobirama ordered Konoha’s commanders not to deliberately avoid civilian areas and to restrict or redirect displaced people when necessary.

Toyotomi Yinglang persuaded representatives of several clans to use the war effort to demand funding, authority, and permission to establish clan-controlled private shinobi schools. The representatives agreed to submit joint wartime recommendations, while Yinglang looked forward to using Tobirama Senju’s war to expand his own influence.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told the clan representatives that Konoha’s war on multiple fronts would make Tobirama Senju dependent on their experienced shinobi.
• Toyotomi Yinglang demanded wartime funding, greater authority for frontline clans, and the right to establish private shinobi training schools.
• Toyotomi Yinglang argued that the schools could be presented as a way to supply wartime reserves while remaining under clan control.
• The Yamanaka, Nara, Akimichi, Aburame, and Inuzuka representatives agreed to support a joint proposal and let the Toyotomi Clan lead a pilot school.
• After the representatives departed, Toyotomi Yinglang watched Konoha and resolved to use the war and its rhetoric to advance his plans.

Sakura Haruno learned that the Daimyō and Tobirama Senju had approved an order to eliminate civilians deemed surplus, shattering her trust in Konoha’s system. She accepted Toyotomi Yinglang’s offer to lead her beyond its rules, while he prepared to pursue a path toward immortality and the fall of the Old Order.

• Sakura Haruno read the order authorizing the disposal of surplus civilians and demanded to know why the Daimyō and Tobirama Senju had approved it.
• Toyotomi Liuli explained that the Daimyō treated civilians as resources and costs, while Toyotomi Yinglang condemned the One Country, One Village System for enabling their deaths.
• Toyotomi Yinglang admitted he did not know how many times such orders had been issued, and Sakura Haruno’s remaining trust in Konoha and the Will of Fire broke.
• Toyotomi Yinglang promised to lead Sakura Haruno to a place beyond the existing rules, and she accepted his support.
• Liuli recognized Sakura Haruno as a core member at Yinglang’s side, calling her little sister Sakura as the three shared the bath.
• Toyotomi Yinglang read a report of four villages closing in on Konoha and wondered what Tobirama Senju would choose before reaffirming his path toward immortality and breaking the Old Order.

Sakura Haruno learned Toyotomi Yinglang was fifteen and heard Liuli recount how his early actions coincided with Yuanguang Uchiha’s death and Hashirama Senju kneeling to the Tsuchigumo and Uchiha. The chapter ended with Liuli planning to visit Yinglang that night as he returned to reading a battle report.

• Sakura Haruno asked Toyotomi Yinglang his age, learned he was fifteen, and heard that Liuli was fifteen years older than him.
• Liuli told Sakura that Yinglang had married into her family at five, become a core elder at six, and publicly berated Yuanguang Uchiha.
• Liuli recounted Yuanguang’s death at Tsuchigumo’s hands and Hashirama Senju kneeling before the Tsuchigumo and Liuli’s father, prompting Sakura to realize her world’s history differed.
• Liuli privately concluded that Yinglang had arranged Yuanguang’s death and may have forced Hashirama to kneel, but warned Sakura not to question him.
• Liuli asked Yinglang what he intended to do about Sakura, and he said she needed time to adjust before deciding her own future.
• Liuli told Yinglang she would come to his room that night, while he returned to reading an encrypted battle report as snow fell.

Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli how he planned to rank his consorts and explained why he had chosen her to bear his child. He rejected destroying Konoha outright, hinted at a crueler fate for the village and its leaders, and ended the night contemplating the Sage of Six Paths as four enemy villages closed in.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli that Sakura Haruno would receive the title of Ying Consort and outlined the hierarchy of his imperial harem, with Liuli as Empress.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that Sakura would struggle to conceive because of the gulf between their levels of existence, and said he had chosen Liuli as the most suitable mother for his child.
• Liuli asked whether Yinglang could destroy Konoha and kill the Sage of Six Paths, and Yinglang warned that Hamura Otsutsuki was equally powerful and that Konoha would suffer a worse fate than destruction.
• Toyotomi Yinglang recalled the turmoil he had inflicted on Konoha in Shinobi World No. 1 and hinted at a more miserable end for Konoha, Tobirama Senju, and Kagami Uchiha in the Main World.
• After Liuli fell asleep, Toyotomi Yinglang studied an encrypted report showing Kumogakure, Iwagakure, Kirigakure, and Sunagakure closing in, then wondered how long the Sage of Six Paths' peace would last.

Tobirama Senju arranged Kagami Uchiha’s marriage to Senju Tsubaki and gave him one hundred million bing for the bride price, while Toyotomi Yinglang revealed a scheme to bind Kagami to the Senju Clan and plotted to ruin his wedding as revenge for Yuanguang Uchiha’s role in wounding Elder Xuan. Yinglang had found a woman to use in his Genjutsu plan and prepared to take Senju Tsubaki himself on Kagami’s wedding night.

• Tobirama Senju told Kagami Uchiha to start a family, arranged his marriage to Senju Tsubaki, and gave him one hundred million bing for the bride price.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Toyotomi Liuli that the bride-price money came from Konoha’s accounts and that Kagami would likely have to borrow from Tobirama to cover his other wedding costs.
• Toyotomi Yinglang announced plans to marry Sakura Haruno as his concubine with a one-billion-bing bride price, then revealed that he would use Genjutsu to make Kagami believe an ugly woman was Senju Tsubaki while he took the real Tsubaki.
• Sakura Haruno objected to punishing Kagami for his father’s actions, but Toyotomi Yinglang cited Yuanguang Uchiha’s role in the attack on Elder Xuan and argued that Kagami had also benefited from his father’s status.
• Toyotomi Yinglang received a report about an unmarried woman with a terrifying face and decided she would serve his plan for Kagami’s wedding.

Toyotomi Yinglang arranged for Shi Zhenxiang to pose as Kagami Uchiha’s bride while Senju Tsubaki was forced to marry Yinglang, turning the simultaneous weddings into a scheme against Kagami and Tobirama Senju. As the wedding preparations continued, Yinglang prepared to welcome Tsubaki and begin his plan.

• Toyotomi Yinglang found Shi Zhenxiang in a remote village and offered her money to marry someone; she agreed to wear a wedding gown and wait for her groom.
• Senju Tsubaki prepared to marry Kagami Uchiha after the Second Hokage and Senju elders ordered the match, though she had never met him and felt she had no choice.
• Toyotomi Liuli questioned Yinglang about using Shi Zhenxiang for Kagami’s wedding, and he said he wanted Kagami to remember it and keep Shi’s chosen name.
• Toyotomi Yinglang confirmed that Sakura Haruno’s and Senju Tsubaki’s weddings would take place at the same time, and said he would bed Sakura before persuading Tsubaki to his side.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Liuli to ensure Shi Zhenxiang arrived on schedule and said he would personally welcome Senju Tsubaki; later, he declared that the show was about to begin.

Seven days before his wedding to Senju Tsubaki, Kagami Uchiha worried about the cost of repairing his house and borrowed money from his teacher rather than ask Toyotomi Yinglang for help. On the wedding day, as Kagami welcomed guests in his shabby home, a veiled bride named Shi Zhenxiang was escorted inside in Tsubaki’s place.

• Iwa Uchiha told Kagami that repairs and furniture would cost five hundred thousand ryo, leaving Kagami two hundred thousand short.
• Kagami angrily refused Iwa’s suggestion to borrow from Toyotomi Yinglang and vowed to destroy Yinglang’s family if he became Third Hokage.
• Kagami considered other lenders, decided to ask Tobirama Senju for a loan, and began writing him a letter.
• Seven days later, Konoha held Kagami and Senju Tsubaki’s wedding alongside Toyotomi Yinglang and Sakura Haruno’s wedding.
• Kagami welcomed a small group of guests and admired Tsubaki’s dowry, unaware that Senju women were escorting Shi Zhenxiang into his home as the veiled bride.

Two weddings unfolded in Konoha: Toyotomi Yinglang held a lavish celebration for Sakura Haruno, while Senju Tsubaki endured a meager wedding to Kagami Uchiha and felt her hopes collapse. As both brides waited for their grooms that night, Toyotomi Yinglang secretly headed toward Tsubaki, who did not know Shi Zhenxiang was waiting outside instead of Kagami.

• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered an extravagant feast for Sakura Haruno's wedding and welcomed Toyotomi Gen and Toyotomi Ning to the head table.
• Senju Tsubaki compared her sparse wedding to Sakura Haruno's lavish one, then lifted her veil and grieved over her shabby new home.
• Toyotomi Yinglang declared that Sakura Haruno belonged to the Toyotomi Clan, and the Martial Arts Hall students congratulated them.
• As both weddings ended, Sakura Haruno and Senju Tsubaki waited in their bridal chambers.
• Senju Tsubaki remained unaware that Shi Zhenxiang was outside in place of Kagami Uchiha and that Toyotomi Yinglang was approaching her.

On the night of three weddings, Toyotomi Yinglang married Sakura Haruno while secretly imprisoning Senju Tsubaki and arranging for Kagami Uchiha to wed Shi Zhenxiang under an illusion. Yinglang declared that Tobirama Senju’s carefully placed pieces had fallen into his hands and challenged him to make his next move.

• Toyotomi Yinglang lifted Sakura Haruno’s veil, welcomed her as Consort Ying, and kissed her forehead.
• Yinglang kept Senju Tsubaki bound and blindfolded in a storeroom, telling her she was under his control.
• Kagami Uchiha believed Shi Zhenxiang was Senju Tsubaki because her Mangekyō genjutsu altered his perceptions, and he spent the wedding night with her.
• Yinglang told Tsubaki that Kagami was with a substitute bride and claimed that staying with him would keep her safe.
• Yinglang looked toward the moon and said that Tobirama Senju’s pieces had fallen into his hands.

Sakura Haruno questioned Toyotomi Yinglang about Konoha’s unfairness and learned that he planned to divide its schools into elite and commoner schools through “happy education.” She left knowing that Yinglang intended to exploit Konoha’s divisions and believed the village was rotten beyond saving.

• Sakura Haruno asked Toyotomi Yinglang why the Jonin Kagami Uchiha still rented a dilapidated home, and Yinglang compared his situation with Sakura’s modest apartment in her original world.
• Toyotomi Yinglang cited Konoha’s treatment of the Hyuga, Uchiha, and bullied children, including Hatake Sakumo’s suicide and Umino Iruka’s orphanhood, as reasons he had never considered Konoha home.
• Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that he had encouraged private education and established the Martial Arts Hall to fracture Konoha’s education system and divide its next generation.
• Toyotomi Yinglang described his plan to create expensive elite schools and free commoner schools with minimal graduation requirements, while turning the Martial Arts Hall into a source of private soldiers.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that he would bind people to the Toyotomi through land, housing, and matchmaking, and Sakura agreed to stand with him.
• Sakura Haruno asked whether Konoha could be saved, and Toyotomi Yinglang declared that it was rotten at the root.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Sakura Haruno why Konoha faced overwhelming pressure on four fronts and predicted Tobirama Senju would eventually die from the strain of war. He refused to fight at the front, instead planning to exploit the power vacuum that would follow, while Sakura feared what his schemes could mean for Konoha.

• Toyotomi Yinglang described the abilities of the Second Kage leading Kumogakure, Iwagakure, Kirigakure, and Sunagakure, and warned that Tobirama Senju could not face all four alone.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that Tobirama Senju would likely die from exhaustion and the burdens of war, as he had in her original world.
• Sakura Haruno asked whether Toyotomi Yinglang would join the war, and he said his battlefield was Konoha's internal power struggles.
• Toyotomi Yinglang said that even a military victory would leave Konoha weakened and give him an opportunity to seize influence after the war.

Konoha’s forces were overwhelmed on all four fronts as the Second Raikage, Second Tsuchikage, Second Mizukage, and Second Kazekage pressed their attacks. With the major clans withholding their main forces, Toyotomi Yinglang ordered Martial Arts Hall graduates to the battlefield to gain military prestige and political leverage.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi’s northern defense suffered heavy casualties against the Second Raikage, A, and retreated to its second defensive line.
• Mu’s Dust Release devastated Konoha’s western front, while Tobirama Senju told the commander that no reinforcements were available and demanded three more days of resistance.
• Hozuki Gengetsu used mist and explosive steam to slaughter Konoha ninja on the eastern front, as Shamon’s puppet army kept the southern front under pressure.
• Tobirama Senju ordered every remaining Senju Clan member to the front after learning that the Hyuga and Uchiha would not send their main forces.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno he would send Martial Arts Hall graduates to fight publicly for Konoha, and his orders sent them toward the battlefield the next day.

Kagami Uchiha believed his marriage to Senju Tsubaki and a routine patrol mission marked the start of a better life, unaware that his wife was an impostor. Toyotomi Yinglang sent fifty-seven early-graduated Genin to the war as a display of loyalty while planning to preserve his clan’s strength and profit from Konoha’s coming losses.

• Kagami Uchiha promised Senju Tsubaki they would move to a larger house after his mission, unaware that she was Shi Zhenxiang and that the real Senju Tsubaki was elsewhere.
• Sakura Haruno questioned Toyotomi Yinglang about sending Martial Arts Hall students to war, and he said the survivors would be kings and that they had to choose their own paths.
• Toyotomi Yinglang presented Tobirama Senju with a roster of fifty-seven Genin and framed their deployment as the Toyotomi Clan’s support for Konoha; Tobirama assigned them to reserve logistics and casualty transport.
• Toyotomi Yinglang privately reasoned that Konoha would survive but suffer a costly victory, and that Tobirama Senju would die afterward, leaving the Toyotomi Clan positioned to gain influence.
• Sakura Haruno challenged Toyotomi Yinglang over the students’ lives, and he said their deaths could become medals, clan assets, and bargaining chips.

In Konoha Year 17, Toyotomi Yinglang’s private school inspires other clans to open their own schools, while he uses genjutsu to ruin Kagami Uchiha’s marriage and reputation. Tobirama Senju strips Kagami of his Root membership, and Yinglang keeps Senju Tsubaki at the Toyotomi Clan Grounds as the war continues.

• Hyuga Tennin ordered the Hyuga Clan to establish a clan school, and several other clans followed with schools of their own.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that the Martial Arts Hall succeeded by teaching loyalty, then identified Tobirama Senju as the clans’ real target.
• Kagami Uchiha discovered that Shi Zhenxiang and the hundred-million-bing bride price were gone, while Yinglang’s genjutsu made him believe he had been unfaithful to Senju Tsubaki.
• Konoha spread the scandal that Senju Tsubaki had left Kagami and sought refuge with Toyotomi Yinglang.
• Tobirama Senju removed Kagami from Root and canceled his missions, while acknowledging that he could not act against Yinglang during the war.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that Senju Tsubaki had no real choice but to remain with him.

Toyotomi Yinglang learned that Madara Uchiha was attacking Konoha Headquarters and used the chaos to advance his own plans. Madara broke into Kushina Uzumaki’s residence, and Minato Namikaze rushed to her after sensing danger, while Toyotomi Yinglang descended toward the village’s barrier.

• The Evil God told Toyotomi Yinglang that Black Zetsu had persuaded Madara Uchiha to attack Konoha Headquarters.
• Madara and Black Zetsu entered Kushina Uzumaki’s residence after Madara killed the Anbu guards and bypassed the barriers.
• Kushina recognized Madara’s Sharingan and tried to reach Minato Namikaze’s Flying Thunder God Kunai.
• Madara ordered Black Zetsu to undo the sealing barrier and summon Minato so he could fight him.
• Minato saw Kushina’s kunai appear in his office and teleported away to her residence.
• Toyotomi Yinglang watched Konoha from above and descended toward its barrier, intending to exploit the chaos.

The Sage of Six Paths manipulated Hashirama Senju’s premonition to send him back to Konoha, where Madara Uchiha threatened Kushina and the village. Danzo ordered Hashirama and Orochimaru to investigate in disguise, and they set out as fires appeared near Konoha.

• The Sage of Six Paths watched Madara Uchiha confront Kushina and decided he had to stop Madara from destroying Konoha.
• The Sage of Six Paths subtly guided Hashirama Senju, who sensed a crisis in Konoha and ordered the guards to alert the Fourth Hokage.
• Danzo doubted Hashirama’s premonition at first but ordered Orochimaru to return to Konoha with Hashirama and investigate in disguise.
• Hashirama Senju reluctantly agreed to travel with Orochimaru, despite his anger over Orochimaru’s past actions.
• The Sage of Six Paths revealed that he had manipulated Hashirama to protect Konoha and keep its flow of souls feeding the Pure Land.
• Hashirama Senju and Orochimaru headed toward Konoha as distant firelight flickered over the village.

Tobirama Senju awoke in the south, learned that Hanzō had died and questioned Danzo about the Evil God’s “synthetic meat.” Danzo redirected him to the troubled northern front, while he prepared to consolidate power in the south; elsewhere, Minato’s Flying Thunder God kunai returned from Kushina, prompting him to vanish from his office.

• Danzo arranged a false show of concern over the north to send the recovering Tobirama away before he could investigate the synthetic meat mystery.
• Tobirama awoke, questioned Danzo about the Land of Rain and the Evil God, and heard that Hanzō had been killed and the northern defense line was collapsing.
• After receiving an urgent report about defections and Kumogakure’s advance, Tobirama agreed to travel north with ten Root operatives.
• Danzo ordered Sai to place the Southern Army on full alert and prepare to deal with Sunagakure while Tobirama was away.
• The Sage of Six Paths watched Tobirama head north and anticipated that Hashirama’s presence in the south could complicate Madara’s attack on Konoha Headquarters.
• Minato saw Kushina’s Flying Thunder God kunai return to his office and immediately teleported away.

Madara Uchiha and Black Zetsu attacked Kushina Uzumaki, while Black Zetsu secretly abducted her for his own scheme. Minato Namikaze arrived to find Kushina gone and faced Madara, as Hashirama Senju hurried toward Konoha and the Sage of Six Paths watched events unfold.

• Black Zetsu persuaded Madara Uchiha to control Kushina Uzumaki before fighting Minato Namikaze, and Madara trapped her in a genjutsu and sealed her chakra.
• Black Zetsu carried the unconscious Kushina away toward the Land of Wind, planning to trade her to Lord Yinglang and keep the Nine-Tails' chakra for himself.
• Minato Namikaze arrived at Kushina's residence, found blood and signs of her abduction, and recognized traces of Sharingan chakra.
• Madara Uchiha revealed himself to Minato Namikaze, taunted him, and faced him as Minato used the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• The Sage of Six Paths watched Black Zetsu head toward Sunagakure, where dragon vein power concealed his destination.
• Hashirama Senju sensed growing unease on the road to Konoha and quickened his pace, with Orochimaru following.