Chapter Summaries

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.

Tsunade and the Kage learned that the allied forces had not reached Konoha, while several groups converged on Kikyo Mountain to discover what had happened. Inside the Earth Prison, Manda fled after being wounded, but fighting among the trapped ninja continued.

• The Third Hokage told Tsunade Anyo’s battle plan had stopped the allied forces and set out for Kikyo Mountain with Jiraiya, leaving Tsunade to treat Minato.
• The Tsuchikage and Raikage, alarmed by the lack of reports from their forces, led Anbu toward Kikyo Mountain.
• Genji caught Mei Terumi returning to Kirigakure, learned that Ōbu had saved her, and took her with him toward Kikyo Mountain.
• Manda canceled his Summoning Technique and escaped the Earth Prison after a lightning-wielding ninja wounded him in the mouth.
• The trapped allied ninja continued fighting amid the chaos and venomous bites inside the Earth Prison.

Anyo and Tobirama killed the isolated ninja inside the barrier while the allied forces fought poisonous creatures. The Third Kazekage revealed his plan to sacrifice the trapped forces, and Anyo’s puppet explosions unleashed an even worse poison that engulfed the survivors.

• The allied ninja escaped the earthen prison and used ninjutsu to contain the poisonous mist and fight the creatures pursuing them.
• The Third Kazekage told Rasa he had helped maintain the barrier to weaken the other nations and intended to kill everyone inside; Rasa refused to attack his own people and agreed to return to the village.
• Anyo analyzed how to combine his eight sword arts while he and Tobirama killed the 103 isolated ninja.
• Anyo used a command to make a Sunagakure puppeteer detonate thousands of hidden puppets, killing the Sand Ninja and devastating nearby defensive formations.
• The puppet explosions released purple poison that transformed the poisonous creatures, while purple and black mist closed in on the surviving allied ninja.

Anyo unleashed poison-enhanced creatures and Iron Sand Drizzle against the Allied Forces at Kikyo Mountain Base, turning their escape into a massacre. As the mutated crows threatened to spread the danger further, he trapped Tobirama Senju in an advanced Bringer-of-Darkness Technique and disappeared with him.

• Anyo explained that his purple poison enhanced venomous creatures, and Tobirama Senju warned that they could become a threat to the entire world.
• The Four Red Yang Formation vanished, and Anyo used Magnet Release: Iron Sand Drizzle to attack the fleeing Allied Forces.
• The iron sand and venomous creatures killed the Allied Forces, leaving Kikyo Mountain Base poisoned and strewn with corpses.
• Crows exposed to the poison began mutating, and Tobirama Senju tried to stop them from spreading the catastrophe.
• Anyo trapped Tobirama Senju in a powerful Bringer-of-Darkness Technique, sealed him with a Sealing Talisman, and vanished with him.

The Five Great Nations’ leaders found the Allied Forces nearly wiped out by poison around Kikyo Mountain and joined efforts to contain the spreading danger. After the area was sealed, the Third Kazekage proposed a second Five Kage Summit, while Anyo asked Tobirama Senju how to resolve the Mangekyō Sharingan’s flaw.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Jiraiya found Kikyo Mountain engulfed in poison and venomous insects, then began setting up a barrier to protect Konoha.
• Ōnoki and Raikage A discovered the devastation, and Ōnoki warned the Raikage to retreat before the poison overcame his Lightning Armor.
• Genji, Ōnoki, Raikage A, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and their forces joined in sealing off the contaminated area.
• Anyo freed Tobirama Senju and asked him how to resolve the Mangekyō Sharingan’s flaw; Tobirama recognized Anyo’s danger and listened.
• Sasori joined the sealing effort through the Third Kazekage, who revealed himself to the gathered leaders and proposed a second Five Kage Summit.

The Kage of the Five Great Villages began a summit to discuss the Third Shinobi World War and the mysterious wasteland where their forces had vanished. As accusations threatened to turn the meeting into a fight, the Third Kazekage warned that the newly completed barrier could not withstand a major battle.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Ōnoki, A, and Genji agreed to hold a summit, and Genji introduced Karatachi Yagura as Kirigakure’s newly appointed Fourth Mizukage.
• Ōnoki used Earth Release: Ultra-Light Rock Technique to raise the five Kage into the air for their talks.
• Tobirama Senju warned Anyo that his Mangekyō Sharingan was damaging his eyesight and explained that Madara Uchiha had overcome its side effects by transplanting his younger brother’s eyes.
• Anyo asked whether any alternative could cure the Sharingan’s backlash, while Sasori proposed capturing the Uchiha Clan and testing their eyes.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Third Kazekage told the summit that Konoha’s Kikyo Mountain Base and the surrounding area had become a wasteland, with the Fourth Kazekage presumed dead and no survivors found.
• A accused Konoha of causing the disappearance of an army of twenty thousand, but the Third Kazekage, Ōnoki, and Yagura prevented the Kage from fighting because the barrier was unstable.

The Five Kage agreed on measures to contain the poisoned creatures and formally withdrew from the Third Shinobi World War. After learning of the decision, Anyo prepared to return to Konoha, and Tobirama Senju pointed him toward a possible way to break the Mangekyō Sharingan’s curse before Anyo released his Impure World Reincarnation.

• Tobirama Senju told Anyo that the Sharingan could not evolve into the Rinnegan without Six Paths power, and Anyo realized Nagato’s Rinnegan likely belonged to Madara Uchiha.
• The Five Kage agreed to reinforce the dead zone’s barrier every six months and have each village send elite jonin to eliminate poisonous creatures, with the Land of Iron overseeing quotas.
• Yagura, the Kazekage, Ōnoki, A, and Hiruzen Sarutobi each declared their villages’ withdrawal or refusal to start a major war, ending the Third Shinobi World War.
• Anyo learned the summit’s outcome from Sasori and said he was ready to return and rest.
• Tobirama Senju directed Anyo to the Naka Shrine’s stone tablet, which might reveal how to break the Mangekyō Sharingan’s curse, and reminded him to remember he was a Konoha ninja.
• Anyo released the Impure World Reincarnation, and Tobirama Senju’s soul rose from his body as Anyo joked that they might meet again in a Fourth Shinobi World War.

After the war ended, Anyo rejected Hiruzen Sarutobi’s decision to wait for him and left with Sasori, while Mabui questioned his methods and considered her own future. Hiruzen read Anyo’s declaration that his debt to Konoha was settled and wondered whether he would return as an ally or a threat.

• After the Second Five Kage Summit, Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Jiraiya to Konoha with a scroll recording the battle’s outcome and stayed behind to wait for Anyo.
• Sasori wanted to kill Hiruzen for sending Anyo to hold Kikyo Mountain, but Anyo refused, saying Hiruzen would die at someone else’s hands in the future.
• Mabui challenged Anyo over the deaths of the allied troops, and Anyo said he fought to protect the people he cared about before leaving with Sasori.
• Anyo told Sasori that Mabui could leave the Zero Organization after having her memories erased, then said he wanted to keep playing with the great nations.
• Kakuzu borrowed one of Mabui’s summoned motorbikes to return to the village and crashed shortly after setting off.
• After waiting half a day, Hiruzen read Anyo’s message that his debt to Konoha was settled and wondered whether he would return, then placed Konoha’s future in Minato’s hands.

Tsunade left Konoha with Shizune, while Anyo and Sasori returned to the village to arrange production of Anyo’s Five Nations Kill card game. After a shopkeeper refused because the game could provoke conflict between nations, Sasori threatened his daughter, and Anyo left the shopkeeper to Sasori’s supervision.

• Tsunade told Jiraiya she was leaving Konoha, removed her forehead protector, and departed with Shizune.
• Anyo returned to Konoha with Sasori and asked the card shopkeeper to use his profits to produce Five Nations Kill.
• The shopkeeper refused because the game’s portrayal of the Kage and villages could cause outrage and conflict.
• Sasori revealed that the shopkeeper was Niannian and threatened his daughter, Tenten, until Niannian agreed to cooperate.
• Anyo left money and the game scroll with Niannian, then told Sasori not to harm the child as Sasori took charge of the arrangement.

After Tsunade left Konoha without a message, Anyo returned home and slept for two days while recovering from his injuries. Mikoto cared for him, and after they spoke about the war and the Uchiha, he went with her to visit the clan, intending to see its legendary stone tablet.

• Anyo learned from Jiraiya that Tsunade had left Konoha, then went home and collapsed into a deep sleep.
• Sarutobi visited Anyo while he slept, and Anyo woke two days later after Konoha held a memorial for the war dead.
• Mikoto cared for Anyo as he recovered, while Little Chili Pepper brought him breakfast and argued with him.
• Anyo asked Mikoto about Fugaku and Shisui, then urged her to think about her own life as well as others.
• Anyo washed and eased his pain with Medical Ninjutsu, then left with Mikoto to visit the Uchiha clan and see its legendary stone tablet.

Anyo entered Naka Shrine to decipher the Uchiha stone tablet, learning its account of chakra’s origins before stopping to recover his eye power. Shisui discovered him inside the clan’s most guarded shrine and confronted him, while Anyo’s blades blocked Shisui from entering.

• Mikoto brought Anyo to the Uchiha clan grounds, where he said goodbye to her and secretly located Naka Shrine.
• Anyo opened the hidden entrance and used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to decipher the tablet’s account of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, the God Tree, and the origins of chakra.
• Anyo stopped reading when his eye power ran out and suspected that the tablet’s altered section required the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Shisui sensed someone inside the shrine, hurried there, and blocked Anyo’s six blades with his ninja sword.
• Shisui recognized Anyo’s weapon and demanded that his captain show himself, conflicted about confronting him inside the shrine.