Chapter Summaries

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.