Recaps

Anyo fought Ōnoki while Kakashi, Obito, and Rin Nohara faced the events that led to Kakashi receiving Obito’s Sharingan. Anyo secretly followed the rescued Obito to the Mountain Graveyard, where he waited outside its barrier.

• Anyo shadowed Kakashi, Obito, and Rin Nohara as Ōnoki confronted him and Rin was captured by an Iwagakure ninja.
• Anyo used his Mangekyō Sharingan dōjutsu, Reversal, to escape Ōnoki’s Dust Release and then vanished, while Obito was crushed beneath a boulder during the rescue.
• Obito gave Kakashi his Sharingan, and Kakashi used Chidori to kill the Iwagakure ninja who had captured Rin Nohara.
• Iwagakure ninja buried Obito beneath falling rocks, but Anyo saw that Obito had been switched with a substitute and followed the real Obito’s soul mark.
• Anyo followed Black Zetsu to the Mountain Graveyard in No Man’s Land, where a barrier blocked his ability to sense Obito’s soul.

Anyo met the frail Madara Uchiha after preparing for three days and bringing Sasori and Kakuzu as backup. Madara revealed he had once planned to control Anyo, but his final explanation was left unfinished.

• Anyo arrived with Sasori and Kakuzu and told them to wait for his signal while he entered alone.
• White Zetsu emerged, recognized Anyo, and led him through a passage to Madara Uchiha.
• Madara identified Anyo as his junior and revealed that he had tracked Anyo's movements by sensing changes in the surroundings.
• Anyo showed Madara his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Madara described the brutal era in which he had grown up.
• Madara admitted he had developed Yin-Yang Release to devour and control Anyo, but later abandoned the plan because learning more about him made Madara uncertain.
• Madara began to explain what he could do instead, but Anyo's question came before he finished.

Anyo learned that Madara Uchiha planned to target Haku and rushed to save her, while Madara tested Nagato as a possible vessel for the Rinnegan. Elsewhere, Kirigakure mobilized and Fourth Raikage A discovered Konoha's Root had helped Iwagakure target the Third Raikage.

• Madara Uchiha told Anyo he intended to kill him because his ambition and talent made him a dangerous variable, then threatened to start with Haku.
• Madara Uchiha and Black Zetsu took control of Nagato to test whether he could perform Rinne Rebirth, then left after finding he was not ready.
• Nagato awakened from his ordeal, and Madara Uchiha told him he was the god of the future.
• Anyo flew away at full speed to reach Haku, while Sasori and Kakuzu followed to find out what had happened.
• Genji found the Third Mizukage absent as Kirigakure's Anbu and ninja mobilized under deployment orders.
• Fourth Raikage A learned that Konoha's Root had leaked the Third Raikage's rescue mission to Iwagakure and vowed revenge against Konoha.

Anyo searched the captured Konoha outpost, learned that the Konoha Ninja had scattered and that Jiraiya had gone to reinforce Kusagakure, then headed there. In Kusagakure, Shikaku prepared a trap with Inoichi and Chōza, but Anyo’s voice suddenly reached Inoichi’s mind.

• Anyo killed the Iwagakure Ninja at the outpost except for their captain, whom he controlled with his Sharingan to learn that the Konoha Ninja had fled in small groups.
• The captain told Anyo that Jiraiya had led Konoha Ninja to reinforce Kusagakure, but knew nothing about Ice Release users or a female Anbu swordswoman.
• Anyo killed the captain and left in the direction of Kusagakure.
• Shikaku, Inoichi, and Chōza discussed how to use Chōza’s food as bait and a flare to trap eight nearby Iwagakure Jonin.
• Anyo’s voice suddenly reached Inoichi’s mind, and Inoichi recognized him as their captain.

Anyo killed eight Iwagakure Ninja, learned that his two squad members had been reassigned to the Kumogakure Battlefield, and went there to find them. On the way, he consulted Orochimaru through a Shadow Clone about how his enemies could destroy him, then resolved to keep fighting despite the pressure closing in.

• Anyo killed eight Iwagakure Ninja before Shikaku, Chōza, and Inoichi could act.
• Inoichi told Anyo that the other two squad members had been reassigned to the Kumogakure Battlefield, and Anyo left to find them.
• Anyo sent a Shadow Clone to meet Orochimaru in Kusagakure and asked how Orochimaru would kill him.
• Orochimaru said that Anyo’s enemies could unite against Konoha and use the people he cared about there to draw him into a fatal confrontation.
• Anyo recalled his failed preparations against Madara Uchiha and resolved to carve a path forward with the Unintentional Blade.

Anyo reached the Kumogakure Battlefield, carved through the Mist Ninja, and learned from Fugaku that Shisui knew where his squad was. He found Shisui with rescued Uchiha clansmen, then cut ties with him for choosing them over his teammates.

• Anyo arrived at the battlefield, found Kirigakure forces leading the assault, and unleashed a devastating strike that wiped out the Mist Ninja around him.
• Anyo asked Fugaku about his squad, and Fugaku said Shisui had taken charge of them before Anyo left to find him.
• Anyo stopped a group carrying unconscious ninja, killed them in a spreading darkness, and learned where Shisui had gone.
• Shisui told Anyo that Mist Ninja were pursuing the squad, and Anyo realized Shisui had chosen to rescue Uchiha clansmen instead.
• Anyo threatened an Uchiha clansman, stopped Shisui from intervening, and cut Shisui's Anbu uniform before declaring him expelled from the squad.

Anyo rescued Yugao and learned that Haku had fallen into the sea, then annihilated the Mist Ninja surrounding them and searched the ocean for her. At Kannabi Bridge, Minato faced the Tsuchikage and A, who claimed Anyo was dead, and prepared to fight after sending Kakashi and Rin away.

• Anyo killed the Mist Ninja attacking Yugao, who told him Haku had been knocked into the sea while saving her.
• Anyo summoned Susanoo and used Eternity and Annihilation to immobilize and destroy the surrounding Mist Ninja, then searched the ocean for Haku with the Spirit Transformation Technique.
• Minato, Kakashi, and Rin planted explosive tags on Kannabi Bridge, but Ōnoki and A confronted them before they could detonate them.
• Ōnoki told Minato that Anyo had died under Dust Release, while A accused Konoha of causing his father's death.
• Minato sent Kakashi and Rin away, then faced A as the Raikage charged at him.

Anyo stopped searching for Haku and admitted he should have given her freedom, then collapsed from exhaustion as Sasori and Kakuzu took him for treatment. At the Mountain Graveyard, Madara Uchiha rescued the badly injured Obito and said he expected repayment.

• Yugao guarded Anyo as Sasori and Kakuzu arrived and identified themselves as his allies.
• Sasori learned that Haku had fallen into the sea and that Anyo had searched for her for a day and a night.
• Anyo woke and said Haku was probably alive, but he regretted controlling her life and said he should have given her freedom.
• Anyo asked Kakuzu to carry him, then fell asleep; Sasori recognized that his body was severely depleted and decided to take him to Tsunade for treatment.
• Sasori, Kakuzu, Anyo, and Yugao flew toward the base at Kikyo Mountain.
• Madara Uchiha told Obito that he had rescued him and expected him to repay the favor.

Madara Uchiha revealed his identity to Obito and prepared to begin his plan, while Sasori suspected that Madara was targeting Konoha. Anyo survived his collapse after Tsunade treated him, and the Konoha Crush Plan began taking shape through an alliance against Konoha.

• Madara Uchiha told Obito that he was the ghost of the Uchiha, shocking him with his identity.
• Sasori and Kakuzu brought the unconscious, feverish Anyo to the Kikyo Mountain outpost, where Yugao carried him to Tsunade.
• Sasori concluded that Madara Uchiha might be targeting Konoha and returned with Kakuzu to Sunagakure to inform Rasa.
• Tsunade treated Anyo in a medicinal water tank, and Anyo regained consciousness and kissed her.
• Black and White Zetsu told Madara that Minato was occupied, the Three-Tails was ready, and Kumogakure and Iwagakure had agreed to Kirigakure's Konoha Crush Plan.

Anyo took command at Kikyo Mountain Base and led Konoha ninja in wiping out an Iwagakure force, but the resulting casualties provoked a bitter conflict with Tsunade. He asked Yugao to help make Tsunade angry enough to leave the base, hinting that a greater threat was coming.

• Tsunade questioned Anyo about his condition and the base's defenses, but an alert reported suspected enemies approaching Kikyo Mountain Base.
• Anyo assumed command from Tsunade and ordered the Konoha ninja to pursue the Iwagakure attackers, despite Tsunade's warning not to chase them.
• Anyo divided his forces to pursue the retreating enemy squads and killed all the Iwagakure ninja, while more than twenty Konoha ninja died.
• Tsunade confronted Anyo over his casualties and his disregard for human lives, then punched him when he told her to return to the village.
• Anyo let Tsunade's blow land and told Yugao that their opponent had changed and the attacks would grow more frequent.
• Anyo asked Yugao to help anger Tsunade enough to make her leave Kikyo Mountain Base.

Anyo tried to persuade Yugao to help send Tsunade away before the expected decisive battle at Kikyo Mountain, while Madara Uchiha manipulated Nagato into becoming Pain and began turning Konan against Anyo. The chapter left Anyo unknowingly facing Madara’s schemes with no way to retreat.

• Anyo explained to Yugao that a major battle would soon reach Kikyo Mountain and that he wanted Tsunade to survive, and Yugao offered to help before he declined her embrace.
• Nagato questioned whether gods could end the world’s suffering, and Madara Uchiha’s words convinced him to take the name Pain and resolve to make the world feel his pain.
• Madara Uchiha visited the imprisoned Konan and gave her a scroll containing intelligence about Anyo.
• Konan rejected Madara Uchiha’s claim that Anyo had used her and Nagato for the Rinnegan, while Madara said he would soon release her to assist Pain.
• Madara Uchiha decided that Anyo would become Pain’s greatest enemy if he survived the next year, and concluded that Anyo could only advance, not retreat.

Minato fought A and Ōnoki after destroying Kannabi Bridge, while Anyo learned that a Four-Nation Allied Forces army was preparing to attack Kikyo Mountain. Anyo decided to leave, but Tsunade remained angry with him and Yugao hinted that he was carrying a burden.

• Minato destroyed Kannabi Bridge and faced A and Ōnoki, who used a Space-Time Barrier to restrict his movement.
• Rasa agreed to join the allied forces, and the Third Kazekage offered Sasori’s puppets to support him.
• Sasori sent intelligence about the alliance to Kurotsuchi, and Anyo learned that more than twenty thousand ninja might attack Kikyo Mountain.
• Anyo concluded that Madara Uchiha was behind the scheme and prepared to face the coming attack.
• Anyo told Tsunade he was leaving, but she rejected his explanation, and Yugao said he had something weighing on his mind.

After learning that the Four Great Ninja Villages had joined forces to besiege Konoha, Anyo decided to face them and recruited allies to help trap them. He then sought Orochimaru’s help, offering to reveal his Mangekyō Sharingan and its power over time.

• Anyo lost all his money at the Aima Room, then told Kakuzu, Sasori, and Mabui he planned to fight the Four-Nation Allied Forces.
• Anyo asked Kakuzu and Sasori to help set up the Four Red Yang Formation, with Hanzō and Orochimaru as the other two Kage Level fighters; Kakuzu agreed, and Anyo planned to contact Hanzō and recruit Orochimaru.
• Anyo returned to war-torn Kusagakure and visited Orochimaru’s laboratory, where Orochimaru again invited him to become his right-hand man.
• Anyo refused Orochimaru’s offer and said he had come to ask for help, then revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and explained that its power was time.

Anyo persuaded Orochimaru to support his plan to use Impure World Reincarnation against the Four-Nation Allied Forces, paying him with two bottles of blood. After rejoining Sasori and the others at Kikyo Mountain Base, Anyo hinted that Dragon Vein Power would make their victory certain.

• Anyo explained his plan to Orochimaru, who warned that Impure World Reincarnation could not fully control the resurrected or restore their living chakra reserves.
• Anyo proposed using an elite jonin as the sacrifice and relying on the resurrected ninja’s loyalty to Konoha; Orochimaru agreed to help in exchange for more of Anyo’s blood.
• After Anyo left, Orochimaru indulged his fascination with Anyo’s blood and sent Danzo a request for an Aburame member with poisonous insects and Uchiha Sharingan subjects.
• Anyo reunited with Sasori and the other two at Kikyo Mountain Base and asked whether Dragon Vein Power could merge easily with the earth underground.
• Sasori confirmed it could, and Anyo declared that nothing remained uncertain in the coming battle.

As Konoha faced a four-nation alliance and the threat of a crushing invasion, the Third Hokage and Danzo prepared the village for war. At Kikyo Mountain, Tsunade stood with Anyo as the allied army advanced, and Anyo confirmed he had stayed because she was there.

• Sasori left after hearing Anyo's plan, while Hanzō received the intelligence through the Heavenly Transfer Technique and hurried over.
• The Third Hokage confronted Danzo, took in Root's intelligence, and learned that Minato's fate was unknown and that the Four-Nation Alliance planned to crush Konoha.
• The Third Hokage ordered Shinku to lead Konoha's younger ninja to the Senju Clan's former grounds and identified Kikyo Mountain as the allied army's likely first target.
• Danzo persuaded the Third Hokage to remain in Konoha as its final stronghold while Tsunade and Ye held Kikyo Mountain.
• Three days later, the twenty-three-thousand-strong allied army advanced toward Kikyo Mountain, where Tsunade and Anyo watched its approach.
• Tsunade asked why Anyo had stayed, and he admitted he had remained because she was there.

Anyo poisoned and sealed Tsunade, sending her back to Konoha while he stayed behind to face the Four-Nation Allied Forces at Kikyo Mountain. With Orochimaru’s help, he summoned Tobirama Senju, who recognized Anyo as an Uchiha and turned hostile.

• Anyo asked Tsunade to choose between him and Konoha, and she said Konoha mattered more before they shared a final embrace and kiss.
• Tsunade realized Anyo had poisoned her, but he sealed her chakra and refused to give her the antidote.
• Anyo entrusted Tsunade and a scroll for the Third Hokage to Yugao, telling her to take Tsunade safely to Konoha while he held Kikyo Mountain.
• Yugao carried the furious Tsunade away as Anyo told Orochimaru that three days had been enough to prepare.
• Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon Tobirama Senju, who recognized Anyo as an Uchiha and threatened to deal with him.

Anyo prepared Konoha’s defense at Kikyo Mountain against a Four-Nation Allied Forces army of more than twenty thousand, bringing back Tobirama Senju to command the outpost’s ninja. As the allied troops advanced, Anyo stood alone to face them and challenged the Mizukage and Rasa to attack.

• Anyo told Tobirama Senju that he had summoned him to help defend Kikyo Mountain, and Tobirama agreed to follow his commands.
• Anyo gave Tobirama Senju eight hundred thousand explosive tags and tasked him with teaching about a thousand Konoha ninja to use Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags.
• Orochimaru said he had arranged for an Aburame Clan member to use a forbidden technique, then left to prepare the Four Red Yang Formation.
• Anyo stood alone at the mountain’s foot as the Four-Nation Allied Forces approached and called for the Mizukage to come out.
• Anyo recognized that the Mizukage was a puppet controlled by Black Zetsu, while Madara believed Anyo would die in the battle.
• The Mizukage ordered the allied ninja to charge, with Kirigakure ninja leading the attack.

Jiraiya arrived in Sage Mode and rescued Minato from the Tsuchikage and Raikage, while Anyo and Tobirama Senju tried to turn the tide at Kikyo Mountain with a plan involving Pot Poison and a volcanic eruption. The battle escalated as Konoha ninja used Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, and hidden black insects collected the fallen.

• Jiraiya used Sage Art: Goemon to break the barrier trapping Minato, then joined him against the Tsuchikage and Raikage.
• At Kikyo Mountain, Tobirama Senju saw Konoha losing ground to an army more than twenty times its size and demanded that Anyo use the prepared plan.
• Anyo revealed that the forbidden technique was Pot Poison and explained that Kikyo Mountain had once been an active volcano.
• Tobirama Senju sensed tremors and immense chakra underground, then went to the front lines and triggered Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags.
• Konoha ninja detonated the tags in suicidal attacks, killing large numbers of enemies as black insects secretly carried away corpses.

Anyo rescued Tobirama Senju from Rasa’s gold dust and triggered Kikyo Mountain’s volcanic eruption to create the conditions for his true attack. He channeled the resulting lightning through his Susanoo and descended amid the lava, beginning a devastating assault on the allied forces.

• Rasa trapped Tobirama Senju in gold dust and prepared to seal him.
• Anyo struck Rasa with a lightning-charged blade, forcing him to defend himself and allowing Tobirama Senju to escape.
• Anyo revealed that he had allowed the remaining Konoha ninja to serve as bait, then warned Tobirama Senju to prepare to survive the tribulation.
• Kikyo Mountain erupted, and Rasa fled as the allied forces used Earth and Water Release to try to contain the lava.
• Anyo raised a black Susanoo and directed lightning through it, using the eruption’s heat and rising air currents to unleash a bolt that scorched the battlefield.
• Tobirama Senju recognized Anyo’s plan as the Susanoo leaped from the summit amid heavenly lightning and earthly fire.

Anyo and Tobirama Senju combined Water Release and Lightning Release to unleash a devastating attack on the allied army, destroying Kikyo Mountain and killing countless ninja. Anyo then rode Susanoo toward the army’s densest ranks and used its annihilation skill to erase everything around him.

• Tobirama Senju created a vast river and helped Anyo combine Water Release with Lightning Release against the Mizukage.
• Anyo empowered Tobirama Senju with soul power, and they unleashed Infinite Thunderstorm and Exploding Water Shockwave on the allied army.
• The combined attack electrocuted and crushed the army, triggered disasters around Kikyo Mountain, and destroyed the mountain.
• Anyo asked Tobirama Senju to carry Susanoo toward the largest concentration of allied ninja using Wave-Riding Strike.
• Anyo activated Susanoo’s Annihilation skill, which erased nearby ninja, weapons, and ninjutsu.

After Tobirama Senju helped Anyo escape the Allied Shinobi Forces’ attacks, the two discussed Anyo’s plan to end the ninja system and establish a new order. The Aburame Clan’s Pot Poison Technique began to activate, and Anyo revealed that he intended to keep the entire allied force from escaping.

• Anyo vanished after unleashing his strongest strike, while the Allied Shinobi Forces suffered massive casualties and fell into chaos.
• Tobirama Senju used the Flying Thunder God Technique to save Anyo, who criticized his speed and said another ninja had surpassed his mastery.
• Anyo explained that he wanted to unify the Shinobi World under a new order, and Tobirama Senju acknowledged that Anyo’s ideas might be better than his own.
• Tobirama Senju sensed the Aburame Clan’s Pot Poison Technique activating underground and predicted that the allied forces would soon leave.
• Anyo declared that he would not let the allied forces escape, prompting Tobirama Senju to suspect what he intended to do.

Anyo activated the Pot Poison Technique against the Four-Nation Allied Forces and ordered Tobirama Senju to exploit their divisions, but warned him that the Mizukage was actually Madara Uchiha. The chapter ended as four Kage-level fighters raised the Four Red Yang Formation around the battlefield, trapping the allied forces as the poison spread.

• Anyo told Tobirama Senju that the Four Red Yang Formation would trap the allied forces and asked him to kill the survivors after the Pot Poison Technique took effect.
• Anyo warned Tobirama Senju that the Mizukage was Madara Uchiha, and Tobirama Senju recognized the danger and took Anyo's Unintentional Blade and Supreme Edge before leaving.
• Sasori told Anyo that all four barrier users were in position, and Anyo agreed to have the Third Kazekage Puppet support the Demigod if his chakra ran low.
• The chakra-feeding insects appeared across the battlefield as the Pot Poison Technique activated.
• Anyo ordered Sasori to activate the barrier, and four fiery-red walls enclosed the battlefield.

Trapped inside the Four Red Yang Formation, the Allied Forces turned on one another as Anyo’s poisonous insects spread through the air. Madara recognized the battlefield as a death trap, abandoned the Mizukage puppet, and prepared Obito and Pain for the conflict ahead.

• The Allied Forces attacked the Four Red Yang Formation, but the Mizukage explained that they could only wait for its maintainers to run out of chakra.
• Cloud and Iwagakure ninja fought after a Cloud Ninja killed an Iwagakure ninja and then slipped away, while Rasa tried to stop the growing chaos.
• The Mizukage sensed Anyo’s Pot Poison Technique and realized the Allied Forces had been lured into a lethal trap.
• Madara severed his connection with the Mizukage, ordered White Zetsu to speed up Obito’s treatment, and began teaching Pain to use the Rinnegan.
• Ninja in the central camp collapsed as poison spread through the air, and thousands fled toward the barrier’s edge.

Rasa tried to protect the allied forces from the Pot Poison Technique by sealing them inside an Earth Release barrier, while Tobirama Senju watched from the shadows. Anyo refused to stop the attack and unleashed Manda and other poisonous creatures inside the prison, leaving the allied ninjas under assault from within.

• Rasa learned the insects were spreading poison through the air, then found the Mizukage dead and ordered the allied forces to defend themselves near the barrier's edges.
• After a day and night of gathering survivors, the allied ninjas raised an Earth Release Barrier: Earth Prison Dome and sealed themselves away from the poisoned air.
• Tobirama Senju returned to Anyo and asked him to cancel the Pot Poison Technique, but Anyo refused and said the barrier would soon fail.
• Manda burst through the ground inside the earthen prison and swallowed several ninjas, while pythons and poisonous desert creatures poured in after him.

Manda and Ryūchi Cave’s creatures tore through the trapped ninja, while Anyo and Tobirama Senju hunted the scattered survivors. Inspired by Tobirama’s swordsmanship and his own resolve, Anyo reached a heightened state and created the Weapon Control Technique.

• Manda and the other summoned creatures feasted on the ninja trapped in the Earth Prison, prompting the survivors to fight back.
• Anyo and Tobirama Senju prepared to attack the isolated ninja rather than the allied forces gathered together.
• Anyo watched Tobirama’s swordsmanship and told him that the Konoha White Fang had taught him to wield a blade.
• Tobirama learned that the Konoha White Fang had died by suicide after abandoning a mission, then urged Anyo to follow him and study true Konoha-style swordsmanship.
• Anyo accepted his teacher’s death and resolved to forge his own path, entering battle with renewed clarity.
• Anyo controlled his blades and the blood around him with absolute precision, creating a new sword technique called the Weapon Control Technique.