Recaps

Sōkyū Hatake had Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi continue extracting Ōtsutsuki secrets from Urashiki Otsutsuki. Urashiki learned of a three-minute weakness in his prison’s energy shield and endured a new experiment while waiting for a chance to use it.

• Sōkyū Hatake ordered Orochimaru to uncover every Ōtsutsuki secret, especially anything about Isshiki.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki suffered through repeated experiments as Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi studied him and Momoshiki Otsutsuki.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi told Orochimaru that the energy shield weakened every seventy-two hours for about three minutes, potentially letting Urashiki send information through his Kāma.
• Urashiki Otsutsuki secretly realized the attenuation could be his chance to escape or contact someone, and hid his excitement from the scientists.
• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi began an experiment stimulating Urashiki Otsutsuki’s Kāma with energy pulses, and he endured the pain without crying out.

Urashiki Otsutsuki transmitted a plea for help to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki from his container in Rōran, unaware that Orochimaru, Mayuri Kurotsuchi, and Sōkyū Hatake had arranged the signal as bait. Ōtsutsuki Isshiki received the message in his hidden northern monastery and learned that Sōkyū Hatake had captured Urashiki Otsutsuki, Momoshiki Otsutsuki, and Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, while Kinshiki was dead.

• Urashiki Otsutsuki sensed a brief weakening in the container's shielding and used his Kāma to send information about Rōran and the laboratory to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi confirmed that the signal had been transmitted north, while Sōkyū Hatake watched and anticipated Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's arrival.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki awakened in his hidden monastery and received Urashiki Otsutsuki's message through the resonance between their Kāma.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki learned that Sōkyū Hatake had captured Urashiki Otsutsuki, Momoshiki Otsutsuki, and Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, and that Kinshiki was dead.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki learned that Sōkyū Hatake held the Kāma of Momoshiki Otsutsuki, Urashiki Otsutsuki, and Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, and feared Hatake could uncover their secrets. He left seclusion and headed for Rōran to assess Hatake and find a chance to rescue Momoshiki and Urashiki.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki realized Sōkyū Hatake’s research into three Kāma could threaten his plans and the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki decided to act before Hatake deciphered more of Kāma and prepared his combat suit and gauntlets.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki ordered the masked man to guard the samples and activate a backup plan if he failed to return.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki left the monastery for Rōran, intending to observe Hatake and seek an opportunity to rescue Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Urashiki Otsutsuki.

As Ōtsutsuki Isshiki approached Rōran, Sōkyū Hatake put the city on highest alert and withdrew to prepare for their confrontation. Isshiki secretly surveyed Rōran, sensed Sōkyū’s unfamiliar power, and located a likely entrance to the underground laboratory.

• Sōkyū Hatake sensed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki awakening and ordered Sara to raise Rōran’s defenses and intensify surveillance.
• Sōkyū Hatake went into seclusion to prepare, while Sara took charge of Rōran’s combat readiness.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki watched Rōran for three days and found its electromagnetic shield and information-blocking defenses difficult to assess.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki sensed Sōkyū Hatake’s immense, unfamiliar energy at the city’s central tower and decided to avoid a direct confrontation for now.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki searched for the laboratory where Momoshiki and Urashiki were held and found abnormal energy flows beneath an administrative complex in southeastern Rōran.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki infiltrated Rōran City by exploiting a brief gap in its electromagnetic barrier and evading its patrols and sensory network. Sōkyū Hatake secretly tracked him and let him continue toward the administrative complex above the underground laboratory.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki studied Rōran City's defenses and planned to enter during a brief barrier-calibration gap while avoiding its sensory systems.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki shrank himself enough to pass through the barrier without triggering an alarm, then navigated the city toward the southeastern administrative complex.
• Sōkyū Hatake watched Ōtsutsuki Isshiki with Observation Haki and told Anko not to close the net so they could learn his destination.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki reached the administrative complex above the underground laboratory, where patrols were denser and the buildings were stark and functional.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki infiltrated the underground facility beneath Rōran, evading its sensors and reaching an enormous laboratory. He forced his way through its powerful electromagnetic barrier, arriving inside badly burned but undetected.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki found a heavy hatch in a warehouse and shrank it with Sukunahikona to uncover a hidden elevator shaft.
• Unable to use the identification-locked elevator, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki descended the shaft and avoided the corridor’s cameras and sensors by exploiting their scanning rhythms.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used his Black Eye to check for traps and saw familiar energy signatures inside the laboratory, confirming his information was correct.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki discovered that the laboratory entrance was sealed by a biometric electromagnetic barrier and burned his fingers when he touched it.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki strengthened his chakra shield and used a Daikokuten projection to force his way through the barrier, reaching the laboratory with his body and clothes scorched.

Isshiki found Momoshiki and Urashiki imprisoned in Rōran’s underground laboratory, while Sōkyū watched him through a hidden camera. Isshiki began analyzing the passage’s advanced traps and estimated that crossing it would take three hours.

• Isshiki discovered Momoshiki and Urashiki restrained in transparent containers in Rōran’s underground laboratory.
• Sōkyū watched Isshiki on a surveillance screen and waited to see what he would do.
• Isshiki reached the passage beyond the Electromagnetic Barrier and studied its unfamiliar sensors and traps.
• Isshiki used his Black Eye and Kāma to map the traps’ causal fragments and identify shifting safe paths.
• Isshiki estimated that the passage would take three hours to cross and started infiltrating its first physical trap zone.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki struggled through a series of deadly traps in a passage designed to challenge his abilities and judgment. After surviving gravity, laser, temperature, electromagnetic, mental, spatial, and mirror traps, he reached a memory-reading zone.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used Sukunahikona to reduce his weight and pass through the gravity zone, then shrank an Energy Generator to slip through the laser array.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki put on a Thermal Suit taken from a Rōran warehouse and crossed the rapidly changing temperature zone.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki removed his metal-containing combat suit and accessories to survive the electromagnetic resonance zone, then used his Black Eye to navigate the mental interference zone.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki spent forty minutes crossing a spatial distortion zone created by Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi using Spatial Runes from Urashiki's Fish Basket.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki tested suspected paths with enlarged specks of dust to get through the mirror replication zone, then encountered a memory reading zone.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki survived Rōran’s exhausting, ability-targeting traps and reached the core laboratory where Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Urashiki Otsutsuki were imprisoned. He found Momoshiki in a horrifyingly weakened, numb state.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki endured illusions drawn from his fear of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s betrayal and forced his way through the Causal Confusion Zone by testing the path with enlarged dust.
• After three exhausting hours, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki emerged from the passage and recognized Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi as the designers behind Rōran’s formidable traps.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki opened the alloy door and entered the core laboratory, where Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Urashiki Otsutsuki were suspended in rune-covered containers and bound by Thunder Shackles.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki saw Momoshiki Otsutsuki emaciated, injured, and nearly unrecognizable, with vacant eyes and only a faint heartbeat.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki found Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Urashiki Otsutsuki imprisoned and scarred in Sōkyū Hatake’s laboratory, then vowed to make their captors pay. Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi revealed that Isshiki’s approach had been deliberately allowed, leaving him trapped in a carefully planned ambush.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki saw Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Urashiki Otsutsuki in a numb, battered state inside separate chambers.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki condemned Sōkyū Hatake for experimenting on the Ōtsutsuki and vowed to make him pay.
• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi emerged from the shadows and said Sōkū had been waiting for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi explained that the distress signal, open energy-shield gap, and safe route had all been arranged to lure Ōtsutsuki Isshiki into a trap.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki asked whether they were not afraid he would rescue Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Urashiki Otsutsuki.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki realized that Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi had anticipated his abilities and trapped him, leaving him unable to rescue Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Urashiki Otsutsuki without triggering the laboratory’s defenses. He began calculating another way out, but saw that the scientists were prepared for him to attack them.

• Orochimaru explained that breaking, shrinking, or storing the containers would trigger lethal defenses, while Mayuri Kurotsuchi said only they knew the safety codes.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki held back from attacking because he believed Sōkyū Hatake was watching and would arrive within seconds.
• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi resumed their experiment as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki watched his imprisoned clansmen and admitted his wariness of Sōkyū Hatake.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki considered freeing Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Urashiki Otsutsuki by breaking their Thunder Shackles, but discovered that doing so would trigger the laboratory’s self-destruct sequence.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki considered subduing the scientists to disable the defenses, but noticed that they stayed within reach of alarm buttons and each other.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki attacked Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi in the Rōran laboratory, but Mayuri escaped his strike using a prepared substitute. Orochimaru activated the Electromagnetic Imprison Array, leaving Isshiki facing defenses designed to counter the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s abilities.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki decided to overpower Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi before they could trigger an alarm, and condemned their experiments as blasphemy against the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki vanished and struck at Mayuri Kurotsuchi, but a floor trap’s electricity was deflected by his Kāma shield.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi escaped Isshiki’s grasp with the Body Flicker Technique: Phantom Swap and recorded that Kāma resisted the electrical trap.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki realized Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi had anticipated his attack and suspected they were baiting him.
• Orochimaru activated the Electromagnetic Imprison Array, which used spatial stabilization, energy absorption, and a physical reaction field to restrict Isshiki’s abilities.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used weapons and armor stored in Daikokuten and combined Sukunahikona with clever movement to break through the laboratory’s defenses. Orochimaru activated the laboratory’s highest defense mode, and the electromagnetic net began attacking Isshiki’s Kāma.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki retrieved a black spear and spiked armor from Daikokuten, then used Sukunahikona to move across hollows in the ground and evade the physical-impact lockdown.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki attacked Mayuri Kurotsuchi, shrank the laboratory’s Electromagnetic Barrier, and grabbed what appeared to be Mayuri Kurotsuchi.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi revealed that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had caught a stand-in doll that released concentrated anesthetic gas, but Isshiki resisted its effects.
• Orochimaru activated the laboratory’s highest defense mode, filling the sealed space with high-frequency electromagnetic waves.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki failed to shrink the intangible electrical currents, which penetrated his body and began disrupting his Kāma.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki exploited a brief disruption in Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s Electroweb to damage the laboratory’s power core and weaken its defenses. He emerged ready to strike back at the two scientists.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki threw his Black Spear at the Control Console, damaging it and briefly disrupting the Electroweb.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used Kāma: Resonance to draw energy from Momoshiki and Urashiki, disrupting the laboratory’s electromagnetic barriers.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used Sukunahikona to shrink the Energy Crystal Panels and pass through the barrier around the southeastern Transformer Area.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki destroyed the Transformer Area’s core, triggering alarms and weakening the laboratory’s defenses by forty percent.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki faced Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi and declared that it was his turn to strike back.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki revealed that he had deliberately drawn Sōkyū Hatake to the laboratory, then unleashed a terrifying power that began tearing the facility apart. Sōkyū Hatake and the others faced an eruption far beyond their expectations.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Orochimaru warned Ōtsutsuki Isshiki that Sōkyū Hatake had been watching from the shadows.
• Sōkyū Hatake appeared above the laboratory and questioned Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s suspiciously satisfied reaction.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki revealed that he had engineered the infiltration and fight to lure Sōkyū Hatake to the laboratory.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki released a vast surge of chakra, shattering instruments and damaging the walls, ceiling, and floor.
• Orochimaru and Mayuri Kurotsuchi were stunned as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s power exceeded their preparations.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki unleashed his power and destroyed the laboratory, leaving him alone with Sōkyū Hatake. Sōkyū realized Isshiki had used Momoshiki and Urashiki as bait to lure him into a one-on-one duel.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s eruption overwhelmed the laboratory’s defenses, and Orochimaru dragged Mayuri Kurotsuchi toward safety.
• The energy storm shattered Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Urashiki Otsutsuki’s containers, knocked them into the rubble, and left them unconscious.
• Sōkyū Hatake remained unharmed within an invisible barrier as the laboratory collapsed around him and Isshiki.
• Sōkyū Hatake deduced that Isshiki had targeted him from the beginning and used the captive Otsutsuki as bait.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki declared that the ruined cavern left them alone to fight one on one.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki unleashed his long-dormant power against Sōkyū Hatake, who dodged and blocked his attacks while probing his strength. Isshiki then revealed a Kāma Core he had prepared to counter enemies like Hatake and used it to transform his power, leaving Hatake taking the threat seriously.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki attacked Sōkyū Hatake with a devastating punch, but Hatake dodged it and then met another strike with his palm.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki pressed Hatake with a relentless barrage while expanding black markings increased his strength.
• Sōkyū Hatake struck Isshiki with a thread of lightning that briefly disrupted his Kāma, and Isshiki recognized the lightning as a counter.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki revealed a Kāma Core he had prepared over a thousand years to counter powerful enemies.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki crushed the Kāma Core, and its black threads merged with his markings as his aura underwent a fundamental transformation.

Hatake Cang Kong transported himself and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki from the ruined laboratory to a remote desert, bypassing the spatial lockdown with his electromagnetic space-folding ability. He explained that he had moved the fight to protect Rōran, leaving Isshiki’s plan to destroy the city with a mutual-destruction attack unusable.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki prepared to attack as he explained that the suppressive effect of Hatake Cang Kong’s Power of Thunder was weakening.
• Hatake Cang Kong raised his hand and folded space, taking himself and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki from the laboratory to a desert hundreds of kilometers from Rōran.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was stunned that Hatake Cang Kong had bypassed the laboratory’s spatial stabilization lockdown.
• Hatake Cang Kong explained that his electromagnetic spatial movement folded space rather than opening a portal, so the lockdown could only slow him slightly.
• Hatake Cang Kong said he had chosen the empty desert so he could fight freely without risking Rōran or its people.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki realized Hatake Cang Kong had removed the city from the reach of his planned Kāma explosion.

Hatake Cang Kong confronted Ōtsutsuki Isshiki alone in the empty desert and used electromagnetic forces to counter his attacks. Isshiki took serious damage but transformed his Kāma further, preparing to continue the fight.

• Hatake Cang Kong told Ōtsutsuki Isshiki that no one else remained in Rōran and challenged him to fight at full strength.
• Hatake Cang Kong met Isshiki's punch with a lightning-charged fist and damaged his knuckles, explaining that electromagnetic laws—not chakra—powered the attack.
• Hatake Cang Kong used electromagnetic movement and lightning to evade Isshiki's strikes and vaporize a dune.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki compressed the sand with Sukunahikona and attacked with a whip drawn from Daikokuten.
• Hatake Cang Kong stopped the whip with an electromagnetic field and sent lightning through it, scorching Isshiki's palm.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki expanded his Kāma markings beneath his skin and opened his eyes with a cold, inhuman expression.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki opened a rift to the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s higher-dimensional source and unleashed the God Tree’s power against Sōkyū Hatake. As their attacks devastated the desert, Sōkyū faced Isshiki’s descending God Tree Spear by opening a spatial fold.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki released his accumulated power and tore open a rift to a higher dimension, drawing the God Tree’s roots into the desert.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki explained that he was borrowing the God Tree’s power, while Hatake Cang Kong identified the rift as a connection to the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s Source Space.
• Hatake Cang Kong fired Thunder Punishment: Return to Origin, clashing with the roots and damaging the rift as the energy shock wave transformed the surrounding desert.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki gathered the roots into a massive spear and launched God Tree Spear: Annihilation at Sōkyū Hatake.
• Sōkyū Hatake did not dodge the spear and activated Electromagnetic Field: Spatial Fold.

Sōkyū Hatake used spatial folds and purifying lightning to counter Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s God Tree roots. As the roots began to fail, Isshiki unleashed a dangerous, long-sealed power within his Kāma.

• Sōkyū Hatake’s spatial folds weakened Isshiki’s God Tree spear until he shattered it in his hand.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki flooded the battlefield with roots that absorbed energy and merged him with their network.
• Sōkyū Hatake expanded his Thunder God: Domain Expansion, purifying roots that touched its lightning.
• Sōkyū Hatake formed a Sky Net of lightning that cleared the roots faster than they could regenerate.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki plunged his hand into his chest and unsealed the Kāma’s Deep Resonance, transforming his body.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki shed Jigen’s vessel and revealed his true form, forcing Sōkyū Hatake to take his attacks seriously. Sōkyū withdrew from Isshiki’s matter-erasing strike and began ascending his lightning as the battle escalated.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki completed his Ascension, abandoned Jigen’s form, and struck Sōkyū Hatake hard enough to send him skidding hundreds of meters.
• Sōkyū Hatake detected Isshiki’s next approach with Observation Haki and formed a dark-gold Electromagnetic Field boundary around himself.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used Daikokuten: Twin Annihilation to erode the boundary, and Sōkyū Hatake retreated before the vortices collided and erased a vast section of the desert.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki said he had recovered less than half his strength since Kaguya ambushed and wounded him, while Sōkyū Hatake prepared to get serious.
• Sōkyū Hatake changed his lightning from silvery white to bluish white and then colorless as it underwent Ascension.

Sōkyū Hatake revealed his Thunder God form and continued battling Ōtsutsuki Isshiki across the desert. Isshiki remained eager to fight and unleashed a spatial attack that Hatake narrowly dodged, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Sōkyū Hatake rose above the ground and formed a crown-like pattern of distorted space as he announced the real battle had begun.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki charged Hatake, and the two clashed in the air while their shock waves reshaped the desert.
• Sara, Anko, and Ayame watched from Rōran City and felt the distant tremors as Anko urged them to trust Hatake.
• Hatake struck Isshiki with lightning, but Isshiki recovered, praised the fight, and charged him again.
• Isshiki fired a compressed Daikokuten ray that erased a narrow column of sand, but Hatake shifted aside to evade it.
• Isshiki landed at a distance and told Hatake, “Well dodged.”

Sōkyū Hatake repelled Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s attack and revealed that he had deliberately drawn Isshiki into battle to study the full range of his abilities. Isshiki realized Hatake had manipulated him from the start and declared that Hatake could no longer be considered human.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki unleashed a chakra-infused roar and purple roots, but Sōkyū Hatake used an electromagnetic repulsion field to divert the sound, sand, and roots.
• Sōkyū Hatake explained how he combined fundamental electromagnetic forces in varied ways and praised Isshiki’s use of Sukunahikona and Daikokuten.
• Sōkyū Hatake said he wanted Isshiki to use every trump card so he could investigate Kāma and the source of Isshiki’s power.
• Sōkyū Hatake revealed that he had deliberately lured Isshiki into the desert and let him clear the laboratory so he could observe his abilities.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki reacted with anger and humiliation, then accepted the situation and told Sōkyū Hatake he could no longer be considered human.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki opened the Root Source Gate to impose the laws of his clan’s space on Sōkyū Hatake, hoping to sever his connection to the world. Sōkyū Hatake revealed that he embodied the world’s power, destroyed the gate, and left Isshiki weakened.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki explained that Sōkyū Hatake’s powers depended on this world’s physical laws and opened the Root Source Gate to challenge that connection.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki pushed the expanding gate toward Sōkyū Hatake, but Sōkyū Hatake welcomed it and declared that he was the world’s power itself.
• Sōkyū Hatake formed the Thunder God: Spear of the World from the world’s lightning and hurled it at the Root Source Gate.
• The spear shattered the Root Source Gate, and its destruction caused severe backlash that weakened Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Sōkyū Hatake told the weakened Ōtsutsuki Isshiki that this world’s laws would not allow outsiders to take root.