Chapter Summaries

Uzushiogakure faced a coordinated invasion by Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure, whose larger elite forces overwhelmed the village’s defenses. As Third Uzukage struggled to stop their leaders and an Iwa-nin assault from destroying the village, he summoned Chiba with the Iron Sand Kunai.

• Third Uzukage mobilized Uzushiogakure’s defenders as fleets from the three allied villages approached.
• Dodai, Kari, and Karatachi Yagura led the attacking forces, which broke through the Uzumaki Clan’s defenses and pinned down Third Uzukage.
• Third Uzukage spotted Iwa-nin attacking from the rear and sent the reserve force toward the western side of the village.
• About one hundred Iwa-nin used Earth Release: Earth Core Movement, collapsing Uzushiogakure’s buildings and shaking the ground beneath the village.
• Third Uzukage tried to stop the destruction, but Karatachi Yagura, Dodai, and Kari blocked him with their techniques.
• Third Uzukage crushed the Iron Sand Kunai, and Chiba awakened, activated Flying Thunder God, and told Tsunade he would be right back.

Chiba saved Uzushiogakure’s civilians from an Iwa-nin attack, then rebuked and brutally injured the Third Uzukage before leaving for Konoha. The Third Uzukage recovered, admitted his mistakes, and set off for Konohagakure.

• White Zetsu disguised himself as an Uzumaki Clan member, took a baby boy from an elderly woman, and escaped toward the Mountain Graveyard while leaving Spore Clones to gather intelligence on Chiba.
• Chiba slowed time across Uzushiogakure, reinforced the western ground to stop the Iwa-nin’s attack, and killed more than one hundred Iwa-nin with a Flying Thunder God Barrier.
• Dodai, Kari, and Karatachi Yagura injured the Third Uzukage, then ordered the Three Great Hidden Villages’ forces to retreat with stolen Uzumaki sealing records.
• Chiba knocked the Third Uzukage into a wall, stomped on his chest, and told him that he and Konohagakure owed Uzushiogakure nothing before returning home.
• After recovering with help from Uzumaki Clan ninjas, the Third Uzukage admitted he had been wrong and left for Konohagakure.

Uchiha Madara ordered White Zetsu to raise a captured Uzumaki boy and gather more children with bloodline talents, while he speculated about Chiba’s abilities. At home, Chiba cared for Tsunade and their children until an Uchiha Anbu summoned him because the Third Uzukage had requested an audience; Chiba decided to make him wait.

• Uchiha Madara reprimanded White Zetsu for bringing back an Uzumaki boy who was too young and questioned him about Chiba’s intervention at Uzushiogakure.
• White Zetsu described Chiba’s battle, and Uchiha Madara wondered what kind of Rinnegan Dōjutsu Chiba possessed.
• Uchiha Madara ordered White Zetsu to raise the boy and find more young children from powerful clans or with Kekkei Genkai.
• Chiba and Tsunade soothed Maoyuki and Yanlin after Yanlin wet the bed, then shared a warm morning at home.
• An Uchiha Anbu told Chiba that the Third Uzukage had requested to see him, and Chiba said to make him wait.

Chiba pressured the Third Uzukage to accept merging Uzushiogakure into Konohagakure, arguing that the village could not protect itself and rejecting the idea of a Konoha garrison as costly and dangerous. The Third Uzukage chose to meet Uzumaki Mito, leaving the merger close to a decision.

• Chiba arrived at the Hokage Office and told the Third Uzukage that Uzushiogakure’s past actions had damaged their alliance, then warned he might not help again.
• Chiba gave the Third Uzukage an Iron Sand Kunai and told him to use it sooner if Uzushiogakure faced another attack.
• The Third Uzukage asked Sarutobi Hiruzen to station Konoha shinobi in Uzushiogakure, but Chiba objected that a garrison could provoke a war.
• Chiba proposed that the Uzumaki Clan join Konohagakure as a great clan, and the Third Uzukage said he needed to consult his people.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen presented the high cost of stationing five hundred Konoha shinobi, prompting the Third Uzukage to ask to meet Mito.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed to take the Third Uzukage to the Senju Clan Compound, where he hoped Mito would meet him.

From Konoha Year 33 to 36, Konohagakure absorbed Uzushiogakure, expanded its military and economic power, and clashed with other nations over patent fees as the Shinobi World grew more unstable. Hanzō began a Rain-led annexation war, while Chiba’s peaceful walk with his children to the Ninja Academy ended when an Anbu signaled that trouble had arrived.

• Uzumaki Mito met the Third Uzukage, and a year later Uzushiogakure and the Land of Whirlpools joined Konohagakure and the Land of Fire.
• Uzumaki Clan ninja gradually integrated into Konoha, while defectors were allowed to leave; by Konoha Year 35, two-thirds of them remained.
• Konoha’s reformed Ninja Academy helped build a large, capable force, and the Land of Fire prospered from Konoha Research Department patent fees.
• Merchants and daimyos across the Four Great Nations resisted patent payments, prompting secret battles between Konoha Ninja and foreign ninja and worsening relations.
• Hanzō led Rain Ninja into the Land of Grass and occupied it, igniting a wider crisis in the Shinobi World.
• Chiba took Maoyuki and Yanlin to the Ninja Academy, and a red-haired Anbu ninja signaled him that trouble had arrived.

Konoha’s leaders decided to prepare for war after the Four Great Nations stole Fire Country’s patented technology and profits, planning to use the Land of Rain as a strategic foothold. While Hanzō the Salamander conquered neighboring minor nations and earned the name Demigod, the Five Great Nations secretly mobilized, and the Second Great Ninja War began when Rain forces entered the neutral Land of Iron.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen convened Konoha’s leaders after Hanzō the Salamander occupied the Land of Grass, and Hatake Sakumo argued that Konoha should use the Land of Rain to pressure the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth over stolen patent fees.
• Orochimaru, Tsunade, Chiba, and Konoha’s other leaders supported mobilizing for war, and they settled on a plan to threaten the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth through the Land of Rain.
• The Land of Wind and the Land of Earth secretly discussed seizing the Land of Rain and contacted the Land of Lightning and the Land of Water to prepare for a possible all-out war against the Land of Fire.
• Hanzō the Salamander led the Rain Ninja in conquering the Land of Waterfall, the Land of Frost, and the Land of Rice Fields, earning the title Demigod after defeating the Land of Waterfall’s Jinchuriki.
• At the beginning of Konoha Year 37, the Rain Ninja entered the neutral Land of Iron, and the Five Great Nations began their full-scale contest.

The Four Great Nations invaded the Land of Fire, starting the Second Great Ninja War as Konoha deployed its armies and Chiba led Senju Tobirama’s Secret Unit toward the Land of Rain. Meanwhile, Uchiha Madara recruited Nagato and other children into his Eye of the Moon Plan and sent them to gain strength through war.

• The Four Great Nations attacked on several fronts, and the Rain Ninja betrayed Hatake Sakumo’s forces, forcing them to defend the northwestern border of the Land of Fire.
• The Land of Fire chose to make the Land of Rain the battlefield, and Chiba led Senju Tobirama’s Secret Unit there.
• Uchiha Madara discussed war and peace with his adopted son, Uchiha Nagato, and introduced him and the other children to the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Uchiha Nagato and the children accepted Uchiha Madara’s plan, and he sent them to war to grow stronger.

Chiba transported Konoha’s two-thousand-member Secret Unit and war supplies to the Land of Rain, where he joined Hatake Sakumo and prepared for a counterattack. As White Zetsu’s Spore Clones infiltrated Konoha to gather intelligence, Chiba’s Wood Clones trapped them inside a barrier.

• Uchiha Madara ordered White Zetsu to investigate Konohagakure while keeping Nagato under close watch.
• Chiba used the Flying Thunder God Technique to transport the Secret Unit and supplies from Konoha to the Land of Rain.
• Chiba met Hatake Sakumo, learned that 193 Konoha ninjas had died, and agreed to let Sakumo plan a counterattack for that night.
• White Zetsu sent seven Spore Clones into Konoha to investigate the Hokage Building, Research Department, and major clan compounds.
• Chiba’s four Wood Clones spotted the intruders and raised the Four Red Yang Formation around Konohagakure.

Chiba captured White Zetsu Spore Clones that had infiltrated Konoha, but extracting their souls revealed no information about Uchiha Madara’s hideout. After entrusting the clones to Sarutobi Hiruzen and Senju Tobirama, Chiba returned to the Land of Rain border and prepared to unveil Konoha’s Artillery Unit.

• Chiba’s Wood Clones trapped the fleeing White Zetsu Spore Clones inside a Flying Thunder God Barrier and seized them.
• Chiba returned to Konoha, extracted the souls of two Spore Clones, and learned that they held no specific information about Mountain Graveyard.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen arrived with Anbu, and Chiba explained that the creatures could evade detection and asked him to leave them for Senju Tobirama to study.
• Chiba used Flying Thunder God to return to the Land of Rain border and told Hatake Sakumo that Konoha’s Secret Unit was called the Artillery Unit.

Chiba’s Chakra Cannon-equipped artillery unit debuted as Hatake Sakumo’s Konoha forces met the allied Sunagakure, Iwa, and Rain Ninja in the Land of Rain. The first volleys clashed across the battlefield, and Kari noticed something unusual among Konoha’s forces.

• The chapter explained how Senju Tobirama’s Chakra Cannon used Explosive Tag shells and a small amount of Chakra to deliver C-rank-level attacks without Hand Seals.
• Kari led the allied forces toward the front while Reki stayed behind to defend their camp and supply lines.
• Hatake Sakumo and Chiba gathered more than five thousand Konoha Ninja and advanced toward the canyon route into the Land of Rain.
• Chiba said he was saving his strength for the Kage and Jinchuriki gathered against him, then told Hatake Sakumo to command the battle.
• Hatake Sakumo ordered Konoha to fire Combination Ninjutsu and load the artillery as Kari directed the allied forces to respond; their attacks filled the sky, and Kari noticed something unusual in Konoha’s ranks.

Konoha used its Chakra Cannons to suppress the Sunagakure, Iwa-nin, and Rain Ninja alliance while Hatake Sakumo fought Iwa-nin commander Kari. Hatake Sakumo killed Kari and raised his head, leaving the alliance in disarray as Konoha continued its attack.

• Kari saw Konoha’s Chakra Cannons bombard the alliance and ordered the forces to defend.
• Hatake Sakumo directed the cannons to separate the alliance’s vanguard from its middle and rear, allowing Konoha’s attackers to overwhelm the isolated troops.
• Kari charged into Konoha’s formation and used Explosion Release to inflict heavy casualties, while the alliance’s rear forces pushed through the artillery fire to reinforce the front.
• Hatake Sakumo entered the battle, held off Kari, and repeatedly broke through his Explosion Release attacks and defenses.
• Kari used an Explosion Release Clone to lure Hatake Sakumo into a blast, but Hatake Sakumo emerged behind him and pierced his heart.
• Hatake Sakumo severed Kari’s head and held it aloft, boosting Konoha’s morale and throwing the alliance into disarray.

After Konoha’s victory in the Land of Rain, Chiba prepared to confront Hanzō and draw out the enemy’s hidden forces. Hanzō and the Four Kage assembled their strongest fighters for a final battle, while Sunagakure proposed using the Seven Days Breathing Method against Chiba.

• Hatake Sakumo led Konoha’s forces to victory and captured the enemy’s wartime camp, then Chiba told him he would leave to find Hanzō and asked him to keep Tsunade uninformed.
• Hanzō learned that Chiba had entered the Land of Rain and that the Four Great Nations had chosen it as the final battlefield, so he ordered civilians evacuated from within fifty kilometers of Amegakure.
• Kumogakure prepared to use the Heavenly Transfer Technique to send eleven powerful targets, including the Four Kage and seven Jinchuriki, to the battlefield.
• The Third Kage discussed Chiba’s Rinnegan and considered ways to counter its Chakra absorption, while Ōnoki and the Third Raikage A clashed over their tactics.
• The Third Kazekage Kawai proposed the Seven Days Breathing Method and arranged for its Sunagakure practitioner to join the final battle.

Chiba reached the Land of Rain mountain range where the Four Kage, seven Jinchuriki, Hanzō the Salamander, and an unfamiliar young man had assembled to fight him. He overwhelmed the Third Raikage in their first clash, but the other Jinchuriki closed in for close combat.

• Chiba fought through Rain Ninja and killed the White Zetsu Spore Clones sent to spy on him.
• Chiba sensed the twelve opponents gathered in the mountain range and hurried to meet them.
• The Four Kage and seven Jinchuriki formed up to face Chiba, who noticed an unfamiliar young man among them.
• The Third Raikage charged Chiba with Ōnoki boosting his speed, but Chiba met his Three-Fingered Thrust head-on and broke one of his fingers.
• Chiba blasted through the Third Raikage's Lightning Release Armor with Storm Release, but an octopus tentacle pulled him clear of the beam.
• The other Jinchuriki entered partial Tailed Beast Transformation and attacked Chiba in close combat.

Chiba fought off the Kage and Seven Jinchuriki, absorbing Ōnoki’s Dust Release before unleashing a repulsive force that sent his attackers flying. After the Seven Jinchuriki transformed and fired Tailed Beast Balls, Chiba shielded his armored Wood Golem, leaving Ōnoki to urge everyone to fight for their lives.

• Chiba used Susanoo and his ninjutsu to repel attacks from the Five-Tails, Four-Tails, and Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, as well as the Third Kazekage and One-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Ōnoki struck Chiba with Dust Release, but Chiba absorbed the attack with the Preta Path and retaliated with a repulsive force that blasted the surrounding fighters away.
• The Third Raikage called for a coordinated attack, and the Seven Jinchuriki transformed into their Tailed Beasts and prepared Tailed Beast Balls.
• Chiba summoned a Wood Golem, armored it with Complete Body Susanoo, gave it a giant sword, and shielded it from the Seven Tailed Beasts’ combined attack.
• The Wood Golem’s shield was riddled with holes but protected Chiba, prompting Ōnoki to tell everyone to fight for their lives against the modern God of Shinobi.

The Four Kage and Hanzō the Salamander formed a temporary alliance and planned how to exploit Chiba’s limits while he fought the Seven Tailed Beasts. After enduring their attacks and countering several of them, Chiba created six Wood Clones, each with an Armored Wood Golem, and sent them after the Tailed Beasts.

• Third Raikage, Third Mizukage Ren, Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki, and Third Kazekage Kawai agreed to set aside their grudges and fight Chiba alongside Hanzō the Salamander.
• Hanzō the Salamander explained that Chiba’s Rinnegan could absorb only a limited amount of Chakra, and the Kage devised a plan to overwhelm that limit with coordinated attacks.
• Chiba struck Eight-Tails Gyūki with the Armored Wood Golem’s greatsword, bound Four-Tails Son Goku with a Wood Dragon, and blocked Isobu’s tail and Shukaku’s swamp technique.
• Chiba caught Four-Tails Son Goku’s Tailed Beast Ball in the Armored Wood Golem’s hand and squeezed it until it exploded, then flew above Five-Tails Son Goku’s repeated shots.
• Chiba created six Wood Clones, each of which formed an Armored Wood Golem, and sent them charging at the Tailed Beasts.

Chiba defeated the seven Tailed Beasts and captured their unconscious Jinchuriki, then faced the Four Kage and Hanzō the Salamander when they tried to stop him. He countered their attacks and vanished after scattering Flying Thunder God Technique Formulas across the battlefield, leaving his next move unclear.

• Chiba and six Wood Clones overwhelmed the seven Tailed Beasts, driving them back into their Jinchuriki and knocking the Jinchuriki unconscious.
• Chiba used Wood Release to bind the Jinchuriki, but the Four Kage attacked to prevent him from taking them.
• Chiba absorbed the Third Mizukage Ren's water and the Third Raikage's Black Lightning, then repelled Ōnoki's Dust Release and Hanzō the Salamander's sickle with Shinra Tensei.
• Chiba severed the Third Raikage's fingers and shattered his Lightning Release Armor with a Sage Art Wind Release slash.
• Third Kazekage Kawai and Ōnoki dropped a massive Iron Sand cube on Chiba, but Chiba destroyed it with Dust Release: Annihilation.
• Chiba froze Hanzō the Salamander's poison gas, then scattered Flying Thunder God Technique Formulas across the battlefield and vanished.

Chiba killed Hanzō the Salamander despite his lethal poison, then survived the Third Raikage’s ultimate attack and incapacitated him. Facing Ōnoki, Kawai, and Ren, Chiba unleashed Susanoo and reversed the flow of time as he attacked them.

• Chiba used Flying Thunder God to outmaneuver Hanzō the Salamander and slash open his poison sac.
• Hanzō the Salamander’s poison engulfed Chiba, but Chiba resisted it, and Hanzō died after realizing the difference in their strength.
• The Four Kage destroyed Chiba’s Flying Thunder God markings, and the Third Raikage charged him with One-Finger Nukite.
• The Third Raikage pierced Chiba’s chest, destroying his heart and left lung, but Chiba regenerated and stabilized the Raikage instead of killing him.
• Chiba praised the Third Raikage as the strongest Lightning Release user in the Shinobi World, then used Complete Body Susanoo and Time-Space Reversal to attack Ōnoki, Kawai, and Ren.

Chiba used Divine Art: Time Reversal to overwhelm Ōnoki, Kawai, and Ren, but a Sand Ninja named Yamom intercepted his killing strike and unleashed the Seven Days Breathing Method. Yamom died after his final attack, and Chiba resumed his assault on Ōnoki and Ren.

• Chiba slowed time around Ōnoki, Kawai, and Ren and prepared to kill Ōnoki and Ren while punishing Kawai.
• Yamom intercepted Chiba’s slash and asked him to witness the power of the Seven Days Breathing Method.
• Yamom completed the method’s seven breaths, burning his life force to reach immense speed and Tailed Beast-level Chakra.
• Chiba slowed time a hundredfold and faced Yamom as his attacks dissolved his own body.
• Yamom’s final punch shattered Chiba’s Armored Susanoo, but the recoil destroyed Yamom, who then exploded in a final attack.
• Chiba honored Yamom’s sacrifice, restored the flow of time, and advanced on Ōnoki and Ren with his Kusanagi Sword.

Chiba defeated the allied Kage, brought the surviving Lands of Wind and Lightning under his influence, and made the Land of Fire the Shinobi World’s dominant power. As Madara waited for Chiba to weaken, the moon’s Ōtsutsuki Clan began its plan to destroy the Shinobi World.

• Chiba killed Ōnoki and Ren, broke the Third Kazekage Kawai’s resistance, and ordered him to retrieve Takigakure’s Seven-Tails Jinchuriki and bring it to Konohagakure.
• Chiba won the Third Raikage’s submission, healed his injuries, and left Kawai and the Raikage to decide the remaining terms.
• After Chiba returned to Konohagakure, the Sunagakure Ninja and Cloud Ninja joined the Land of Fire’s side and attacked the Land of Earth, while the Shinobi World hailed Chiba as the living God of Shinobi.
• Uchiha Madara learned that Chiba controlled eight Tailed Beasts and instructed White Zetsu to recruit talented young ninja and send Nagato’s group to gain combat experience in the Land of Earth.
• The moon’s Ōtsutsuki Clan identified Chiba as the likely thief of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and began its Shinobi World Purge Plan, targeting the Branch Family to create a Giant Tenseigan.

Qianye disciplined Maoyuki after she broke his and Tsunade’s wedding photo frame, blamed Yanlin, and hurt Tsunade with a remark. He reconciled with Maoyuki, but her retelling of his love story made Tsunade angry with him, and the chapter ended with Qianye coaxing her.

• Qianye learned that Maoyuki had broken the wedding photo frame, blamed Yanlin, and accused Tsunade of playing favorites, making her cry.
• Qianye took Maoyuki to Hokage Rock, lightly spanked her, and explained that she needed to admit her mistakes and avoid hurting people close to her.
• Maoyuki promised to apologize to Tsunade and asked Qianye how he and Tsunade had fallen in love.
• Maoyuki later told Tsunade a distorted version of Qianye’s claims about their romance, and Tsunade gave Qianye the cold shoulder.
• Qianye explained himself and drew Tsunade into his arms, while she protested as he grew bolder.