Chapter Summaries

Qi Yuan tested how his strengthened Rinnegan had changed his Limbo clones and found that one could partly cross the barrier, though he still could not escape. In another space, he appeared through Gu Zimei’s shadow, where she promised to grow stronger and find the Dark-Dark Fruit ability he had mentioned.

• Qi Yuan switched from the Byakugan back to the Rinnegan and summoned three Limbo clones, realizing the missing fourth might not have dissipated.
• A Limbo clone picked up one of Qi Yuan’s Black Rods and traveled farther from him than before, showing that his clones were developing new abilities.
• The clone crossed the barrier only partly, and Qi Yuan decided not to swap places with it because the forces of the two spaces could crush him.
• In a distant space, Gu Zimei asked Qi Yuan whether the presence he pursued belonged to his sister-in-law, and he denied it while warning her to train.
• Qi Yuan slipped back into Gu Zimei’s shadow, and she vowed to obtain the Dark-Dark Fruit ability he had told her about.

As Qi Yuan remained immersed inside the barrier, the Six Paths of Pain and their allies attacked Desolate Heaven City with Xuntong’s vast supply of Explosive Tags. The barrier fell, the city suffered heavy destruction, and the summoned beasts advanced inside as the defenders struggled to respond.

• Fengzhou’s Guardians entered the ruined Fengmang Realm and confirmed that Qi Yuan had destroyed it; news also arrived that the Huanxuan Realm had fallen and Qi Yuan had cleared most S-Rank Secret Realm Spaces in Yu Province.
• A large force of Demon Beasts and more than fifty King Beasts gathered outside Desolate Heaven City, prompting Yu Wang to order the Guardians to retreat.
• Deva Path Pain sent Xuntong forward, and Xuntong used his Secret Art, Dance of the Shikigami, to unleash six hundred billion Explosive Tags against the city’s barrier.
• The Explosive Tags shattered Desolate Heaven City’s barrier and blasted the city, killing many Guardians who had not evacuated.
• Animal Path used the Amplification Summoning Technique to send summoned beasts multiplying under attack into the city, while the remaining Foreign Race members prepared to invade.

Yu Wang and his disciples trapped Pain’s forces and killed several Paths, but Deva Path Pain revived some of them and devastated Desolate Heaven City with Super Shinra Tensei. Hongye arrived to save Yu Wang and confronted Pain, demanding that he use Rinne Rebirth.

• Xuntong’s Explosive Tags devastated Desolate Heaven City until Yu Wang flooded the city, and a Water Severing Wave killed Preta Path and Xuntong.
• Yu Wang and his disciples used Bringer-of-Darkness and Four Red Yang Formation to trap Pain’s forces while Yu Wang’s Spirit Transformation Technique killed the Foreign Races and disabled Human Path and Animal Path.
• Deva Path Pain broke the formation, killed three of Yu Wang’s disciples, and Naraka Path revived Animal Path and Asura Path.
• Deva Path Pain unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, destroying more than half of Desolate Heaven City and killing most of its inhabitants.
• Hongye arrived, rescued Yu Wang from Human Path, and demanded that Pain use Rinne Rebirth.

Hongye saved Yu Wang and destroyed the Six Paths of Pain with his tailed beast chakra, Perfect Susanoo, and gravity dōjutsu. After sending Wood Clones to protect Desolate Heaven City, he turned toward Huang Tian’s hidden true body as Huang Tian unleashed a far stronger chakra surge.

• Hongye healed Yu Wang and promised he could bring Desolate Heaven City’s dead back to life.
• Huang Tian used the Deva Path to attack Hongye with Banshō Ten’in, but Hongye struck the puppet with a tailed beast chakra tail.
• Hongye manifested his Perfect Susanoo and shattered the forming Planetary Devastation with a Yasaka Magatama.
• Hongye used his gravity dōjutsu to crush Deva Path Pain and the other revived Pain bodies into fragments.
• Hongye sent Wood Clones toward Desolate Heaven City, then faced Huang Tian as his true body released a powerful surge of chakra.

Huang Tian arrived in Desolate Heaven City wielding two Rinnegan and overwhelmed Qi Yuan’s Perfect Susanoo and One-Tail. As Huang Tian appeared immune to their chakra-based attacks, Hongye prepared to fight back with Sage Art: Seal-less Healing.

• Qi Yuan defeated Deva Path while Hongye’s Wood Clones drove the Foreign Races and Demon Beasts from Desolate Heaven City.
• Huang Tian arrived with two Rinnegan, dismissed Yu Wang, and challenged Qi Yuan’s Perfect Susanoo.
• Huang Tian used Shinra Tensei to deflect Qi Yuan’s Chakra Greatsword, then charged in and made Susanoo dissolve with his Black Rods.
• Qi Yuan combined the One-Tail with Susanoo and attacked Huang Tian, but Huang Tian blocked the Air Pressure Cannon and emerged unscathed from the explosion.
• Huang Tian unleashed a powerful Shinra Tensei that destroyed the Perfect Susanoo and the One-Tail as the gathered kings watched helplessly.
• Hongye recovered, his chakra grew stronger, and markings appeared between his brows as he used Sage Art: Seal-less Healing.

Qi Yuan used Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands to defeat Huang Tian, but Huang Tian struck back with a Black Rod before Qi Yuan could secure him. Yanling revealed his Rinnegan, freed Qi Yuan, and prepared to force Huang Tian to use Rinne Rebirth, while Black Zetsu and White Zetsu’s loyalty to Huang Tian came into question.

• Qi Yuan summoned the enormous True Several Thousand Hands and battered Huang Tian into a deep pit, leaving him near death.
• Qi Yuan entered the pit and picked Huang Tian up, but a Black Rod pierced Qi Yuan and immobilized him.
• Yanling appeared with a Rinnegan, used Banshō Ten'in to pull Huang Tian close, and removed the Black Rod from Qi Yuan.
• Qi Yuan said they would make Huang Tian use Rinne Rebirth, but Huang Tian refused to resurrect anyone and mocked their plan.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu emerged, and Black Zetsu challenged Huang Tian’s belief that he had created them.

Black Zetsu controlled Huang Tian and forced him to use Rinne Rebirth, restoring the dead of Desolate Heaven City at the cost of Huang Tian’s life and Rinnegan. Yanling and Hongye emerged from the pit with Huang Tian’s body, while the resurrected city residents turned against the surviving Foreign Races.

• Black Zetsu possessed Huang Tian and revealed that Cangnan had manipulated him and held the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Yanling ordered White Zetsu to give Huang Tian chakra so he could perform Rinne Rebirth, and Black Zetsu made him form the seals.
• Huang Tian used Outer Path: Rinne Rebirth, summoning the King of Hell and releasing the souls of the dead from Desolate Heaven City.
• Yu Wang, his disciples, and the dead Foreign Races and Demon Beasts returned to life, and the resurrected King Yong and others attacked the Foreign Races.
• Yanling and Hongye emerged from the pit carrying Huang Tian, who had died after the technique and lost both Rinnegan; Hongye took the eyes.
• Yanling explained to Yu Wang and the others that Huang Tian had used a Rinnegan technique and died performing it.

Yanling used the Rinnegan to unleash Tengai Shinsei on the S-Rank Secret Realm Spaces, and the attack revealed that Qi Yuan had likely used the same jutsu before. Meanwhile, Gu Huan led Zhao Hua to an ancient shrine and discovered a portrait of a mysterious figure bearing multiple Rinnegan.

• King Yong and the others recalled that their souls had been drawn toward a whirlpool and attacked by Black Monsters before Pain's King of Hell revived them.
• Yanling stopped Yu Wang from sending Guardians to the S-Rank Secret Realm Spaces and offered to handle them himself.
• Qi Yuan formed a Perfect Susanoo and unleashed Tengai Shinsei, bringing down more than thirty meteorites over Desolate Heaven City.
• King Yong connected an earlier meteorite strike near Fengzhou to Qi Yuan and suspected that Qi Yuan's main body also possessed the Rinnegan.
• Gu Huan and Zhao Hua reached the Amber Clan's Hidden Shrine, where they found an ancient portrait of a horned figure with Byakugan and several Rinnegan.

Gu Huan and Zhao Hua questioned the history of humanity after learning about the portrait’s connection to the Foreign Races, but a mysterious force made them forget their suspicions. When Zhao Hua opened the box behind the portrait, its spiritual owner killed him and tried to take Gu Huan’s body, but Gu Huan absorbed the spirit and gained new power.

• Gu Huan and Zhao Hua identified the portrait’s figure as the god who gave the Demon Beasts Chakra and wondered why humanity’s history before the invasion was unknown to them.
• A young man in a distant cottage noticed their discovery through a phantom sword and said the master’s Illusion could not be escaped.
• Gu Huan removed the portrait and handed Zhao Hua the wooden box hidden behind it.
• Golden light escaped the box, killed Zhao Hua, and formed the portrait’s figure in spiritual form, which pursued Gu Huan and tried to transform his body.
• Gu Huan resisted the possession and devoured the weakened spiritual body, gaining strength and knowledge about the Ōtsutsuki, the Ten-Tails, and Six Paths-level power.
• Gu Huan sensed the Ten-Tails near the border between Yu Province and Central Province and declared that the game could not continue without him.

Qi Yuan’s destruction of the Desolate Heaven Realm sent shockwaves through the Nine Provinces Alliance as his Wood Clones swept through other S-Rank Secret Realm Spaces. In the Cangnan Realm, Cangnan began transforming the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path into the Ten-Tails, while Black Zetsu’s restored memories revealed a connection to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and raised questions about Qi Yuan.

• Qi Yuan’s feats spread across the Nine Provinces Alliance, and his Wood Clones began wiping out high-level Demon Beasts in S-Rank Secret Realm Spaces.
• Cangnan finished sealing the Tailed Beast Chakra into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and learned from Black Zetsu and White Zetsu that Qi Yuan had killed Huang Tian.
• Cangnan summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path near Central Province, where it began transforming into the Ten-Tails and alarmed the Guardians.
• The Ten-Tails’ revival unsealed Black Zetsu’s memories of the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, Infinite Tsukuyomi, and Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
• Black Zetsu asked whether Qi Yuan was their master, and White Zetsu warned him not to betray Qi Yuan.

Black Zetsu recovered his memories and realized the Ten-Tails’ awakening could bring Kaguya Ōtsutsuki back. Wu Kun attacked the Ten-Tails, which retaliated by killing Wu Chuan and Central Province’s Guardians; its next attack was interrupted by a disturbance in a distant Secret Realm Space.

• Black Zetsu regained his memories, concluded that Qi Yuan might have inherited Madara’s power, and suspected he would become nourishment for Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s resurrection.
• White Zetsu warned Yanling that something was seriously wrong with Black Zetsu.
• Wu Kun rode his giant white bird toward the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and attacked it with explosive clay, causing it to transform into the Ten-Tails.
• The Ten-Tails fired a Tailed Beast Bomb that killed Wu Chuan and more than a thousand Guardians of Central Province.
• Wu Kun grieved for his father and loaded his explosive clay into the mouth on his chest as the Ten-Tails aimed another Tailed Beast Bomb at Central Province.
• A tremendous noise erupted inside a distant Secret Realm Space before the Ten-Tails’ second attack could be heard.

Qi Yuan strengthened his Rinnegan to its Six-Tomoe form, created nine Truth-Seeking Orbs, and improved his Limbo Clones while trapped in the Fengmang Realm. When one clone passed through the weakening barrier, Qi Yuan switched places with it and escaped into the real world.

• Yu Wang teleported the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb away and told the assembled Guardians that Qi Yuan was recovering.
• Gu Huan studied the Ten-Tails, recalled what he had learned about the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and planned to seize its master and make the world his back garden.
• Qi Yuan used his accumulated Enhancement Points to advance his Rinnegan to the Six-Tomoe form and strengthen his Six Paths Power.
• Qi Yuan created nine Truth-Seeking Orbs and found that his Limbo Clones could travel farther and remain active for hours.
• One of Qi Yuan's Limbo Clones passed through the weakening barrier, allowing Qi Yuan to switch places with it and escape the Fengmang Realm.

Wu Chuan sacrificed himself in a devastating explosion against the Ten-Tails, but Cangnan freed it from Yu Wang’s sealing barrier and began absorbing it. Hongye and Yanling allowed Cangnan to complete the Ten-Tails Coffin Seal, leaving him in agony as he transformed into a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Wu Chuan sent his giant clay incarnation into the Ten-Tails and detonated it, sacrificing himself in a massive pentagram-shaped blast that failed to kill the beast.
• Yu Wang and the other High-Level Kings trapped the Ten-Tails in a Four Red Yang Formation, where its own attacks struck it and its body repeatedly regenerated.
• Cangnan arrived, absorbed the Guardians’ Five Element Ninjutsu, and used Shinra Tensei to drive them away and break the barrier.
• The freed Ten-Tails regained strength and fired a powerful Tailed Beast Bomb, which Hongye blocked with his blue Perfect Susanoo.
• Hongye and Yanling let Cangnan climb onto the Ten-Tails and perform the Six Paths: Ten-Tails Coffin Seal.
• Cangnan absorbed the Ten-Tails, and his body began changing as his chakra rose toward the Six Paths level.

Cangnan completed his transformation into a Six Paths Level Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and unleashed devastating power against the Guardians. The Guardians’ Four Red Yang Formation shattered, leaving them horrified as Cangnan emerged unrestrained.

• Yanling explained that Cangnan was absorbing the Ten-Tails and becoming a Six Paths Level expert, while Yu Wang and the others considered withdrawing the weaker fighters.
• The Central Province Guardians attacked Cangnan during his transformation, unknowingly feeding chakra to the incomplete Ten-Tails as it absorbed him into a white sphere.
• Cangnan endured the Ten-Tails’ chakra and emerged from the sphere with a Mangekyō Sharingan, a Rinnegan, and a transformed Six Paths appearance.
• The Central Province Guardians tried to restrain Cangnan with the Mountain Earth Technique and Iron Armor Seal, but he shattered the earth and killed members of the Sealing Squad and other fighters.
• Hongye used Sage Art, Gate of the Great God, to suppress Cangnan, but he broke free and used flaming tentacles to shatter the Four Red Yang Formation.

Cangnan broke free of the sealing formation and used the Ten-Tails' power and Truth-Seeking Orbs to devastate the Central Province's Guardians. Hongye and Yanling resisted his attempt to take their tailed beasts, and Cangnan began to suspect that Qi Yuan had also received a Six Paths inheritance.

• Cangnan tore through the Four Red Yang Formation and killed more than a hundred people before Hongye stopped the Ten-Tails' arms.
• Cangnan revealed his Truth-Seeking Orbs, blocked the Guardians' attacks, and turned nearby fighters to dust with an orb shaped like a sword.
• Cangnan said he would reclaim the One-Tail and Four-Tails, then attacked Hongye and Yanling with Truth-Seeking Orbs and flames.
• Yanling used Perfect Susanoo to repel one Truth-Seeking Orb, while Hongye kicked the other away and explained that Rinnegan users could touch them.
• Cangnan wondered how Hongye and Yanling knew about the orbs and suspected that Qi Yuan might have received a Six Paths inheritance.

Cangnan became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and trapped Hongye and Yanling inside a Six Red Yang Formation, but their Six Paths-powered Susanoo held him off. Hongye and Yanling then combined senjutsu, Wood Release, and their Perfect Susanoo into enormous Susanoo-clad Kannon statues.

• Cangnan unleashed Wood Release: World of Trees Birth, draining the chakra of thousands of Guardians while Yanling rescued only a few.
• Hongye and Yanling evaded Cangnan's Ten-Tails chakra hands with Flying Thunder God, but he destroyed their Gates of the Great God and sealed them inside a Six Red Yang Formation.
• Black Zetsu concluded that Qi Yuan would be a better host for the Ten-Tails, while White Zetsu hid his knowledge of Qi Yuan's real body.
• Cangnan's Shinra Tensei shattered Yanling's Chakra Greatsword, but Hongye and Yanling restored their Perfect Susanoo and fought back with Six Paths power.
• Cangnan realized he might need Infinite Tsukuyomi to absorb the world's chakra and become a true Six Paths-level powerhouse.
• Hongye and Yanling used Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands to raise towering Kannon statues wrapped in their enlarged Perfect Susanoo.

Cangnan survived Hongye and Yanling’s Six Paths Senjutsu assault, then unleashed the God Tree as the moon turned blood-red. Hongye and Yanling sensed danger and retreated as the tree’s flower began to open.

• Hongye and Yanling’s Susanoo Buddha Forms shattered five of Cangnan’s Truth-Seeking Orbs and drove him deep into a vast crater before their chakra ran low and they stopped attacking.
• Cangnan emerged badly injured but rapidly recovered, then judged that Hongye and Yanling could not immediately repeat their strongest attack.
• Gu Huan considered using his blank portrait to intervene but decided to wait for a safer opportunity.
• Cangnan summoned the Ten-Tails’ eye and released the God Tree, while Black Zetsu rejoiced at the prospect of his mother’s resurrection.
• The God Tree grew toward the blood-red full moon and began opening its flower, prompting Hongye and Yanling to retreat.

Yanling and Hongye lured Cangnan into exhausting himself, then Black Zetsu betrayed him and took control of his body. Black Zetsu urged his true master, Qi Yuan, to extract the Ten-Tails as Cangnan struggled against his control.

• The God Tree's flower began opening toward the blood moon, and Cangnan prepared to use Infinite Tsukuyomi once it matured.
• Yanling and Hongye sealed Cangnan inside Planetary Devastation, but he broke free after spending considerable chakra.
• Cangnan caught Yanling with a Ten-Tails chakra arm, while Black Zetsu and White Zetsu appeared; Cangnan ordered White Zetsu to restore him and Black Zetsu to possess Yanling.
• Black Zetsu instead plunged into Cangnan and restrained him, while Yanling revealed he had been feigning weakness and escaped with a Rasenshuriken.
• Black Zetsu declared loyalty to Qi Yuan and explained that he intended to revive Mother Kaguya; as Cangnan fought back, Black Zetsu called for his master to extract the Ten-Tails.

Yanling and Hongye extracted the Ten-Tails from Cangnan, took his Rinnegan and Kamui Sharingan, then resealed the Nine Tailed Beasts and split the Ten-Tails between their Wood Clones. Black Zetsu realized Qi Yuan’s plans had departed from the script he expected.

• Yanling used the Tailed Beast Release Hand Seal while Hongye brutally struck Cangnan, speeding the extraction of the Ten-Tails and releasing the Nine Tailed Beasts.
• Yanling gouged out Cangnan’s Rinnegan and implanted it in his own eye socket, while Cangnan collapsed and Black Zetsu withdrew from him.
• Hongye summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which captured and resealed the Nine Tailed Beasts with its purple chains.
• Black Zetsu expected Qi Yuan to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, but Yanling split the Ten-Tails with Sage Art: Wind Release-Spiral Shuriken.
• Hongye and Yanling performed Six Paths: Ten-Tails Coffin Seal to seal the weakened Ten-Tails separately inside their Wood Clones, leaving Black Zetsu shocked that events no longer followed his script.

Black Zetsu and Gu Huan both tried to seize the chance to take control of a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki as Hongye transformed into a Six Paths Level powerhouse. Gu Huan took Hongye’s body, but Hongye’s attempt to merge with Yanling was blocked when Black Zetsu possessed him, only to find Yanling’s consciousness resisting.

• Black Zetsu watched Hongye and Yanling struggle with the Ten-Tails and prepared to strike as one of them became its Jinchuriki.
• Gu Huan used a simulated Ōtsutsuki form to enter Hongye’s body, forcing Hongye to escape in spirit form with the Spirit Transformation Technique.
• Gu Huan took control of Hongye’s body and rushed toward Yanling to seize his half of the Ten-Tails.
• Hongye entered Yanling’s body first, but could not merge with him.
• Black Zetsu wrapped himself around Yanling and forced Hongye’s spirit out, while Yanling’s powerful consciousness resisted possession.