Recaps

After Obito failed to capture the Nine-Tails, Madara Uchiha urged him to take on Madara’s name and continue the Eye of the Moon Plan. Senju Chen followed Minato’s Flying Thunder God mark to Obito’s hideout and found Madara alive with Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

• Senju Chen left Kakashi with the wailing Naruto and pursued Obito after Minato’s death.
• Obito returned to Madara’s cavern wounded and despaired over his failed Nine-Tails attack.
• Madara told Obito that the world was to blame for his failure and ordered him to assume Madara’s name and carry out the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Madara placed Black Zetsu and the White Zetsu under Obito’s command as his life began to fade.
• Senju Chen used Minato’s Flying Thunder God mark to reach the cavern, then froze when he saw Madara alive with Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Senju Chen discovered that Madara Uchiha was alive in the cavern, then countered Obito Uchiha’s attack with Flying Thunder God. The chapter ended with Chen appearing behind Obito and preparing to strike him with a Rasengan.

• Senju Chen, Obito Uchiha, Black Zetsu, and Madara Uchiha were shocked when Chen appeared in the cavern.
• Obito Uchiha attacked Senju Chen, who dismissed him as a threat and punched at him.
• Obito Uchiha turned intangible to evade Chen’s punch, then made himself solid and stabbed toward Chen’s neck.
• Senju Chen vanished with Flying Thunder God, evaded Obito’s kunai, and reappeared behind him.
• Senju Chen placed a Flying Thunder God mark on Obito’s back and raised a Rasengan to strike.

Senju Chen nearly killed Obito Uchiha with a second Rasengan, but Madara Uchiha stopped him with an unexpected display of authority. Chen challenged the frail-looking Madara, doubting that he could still fight.

• Senju Chen slammed Obito Uchiha into the cavern floor with a second Rasengan, leaving him gravely injured in a shattered pit.
• Senju Chen prepared to finish Obito with a stomp, but Madara Uchiha ordered him to stop.
• Madara revealed that he still possessed scarlet Sharingan and exerted a commanding presence that halted Chen’s attack.
• Madara recognized Chen’s skill with Tobirama’s techniques while Black Zetsu watched in stunned silence.
• Senju Chen lowered his foot and provoked Madara, saying he did not believe the old man could still fight.

Senju Chen broke free of Madara Uchiha’s genjutsu by revealing his Sharingan, shocking Madara with his possession of both the Sharingan and Wood Release. He seized the opening and charged at Madara with the Thunder God Sword.

• Madara Uchiha cast a genjutsu that showed Senju Chen visions of his family’s deaths, his imprisonment, and Tsunade’s suffering.
• Senju Chen recognized the genjutsu but found that his ordinary efforts could not break its hold.
• Senju Chen awakened his Sharingan, startling Madara because Senju Chen also possessed Wood Release.
• Madara’s shock created a flaw in the genjutsu, and Senju Chen used his Sharingan to break free.
• Senju Chen drew the Thunder God Sword and thrust it toward Madara Uchiha’s heart.

Senju Chen killed Madara Uchiha and sealed his corpse, preventing its later use in Impure World Reincarnation. He then confronted the White Zetsus and asked whether they wanted to live or die, prompting them to beg for mercy.

• Senju Chen stabbed Madara Uchiha with the Thunder God Sword, and Madara died after staring into Chen's eyes.
• Senju Chen absorbed Madara's combat experience and sealed his corpse in a Sealing Coffin.
• Black Zetsu escaped with the gravely wounded Obito Uchiha while Senju Chen decided not to pursue them.
• The White Zetsus panicked over Madara's death and focused their attention on Senju Chen.
• Senju Chen asked the White Zetsus whether they wanted to live or die, and they immediately pleaded to be spared.

Senju Chen subdued the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and established a faint connection with it, securing the cavern and its White Zetsu as a major prize. After checking the system’s refreshed ability lists, he replaced his Exploding Insects Rearing Insights skill with Obito Uchiha’s Demonic Statue of the Outer Path Summoning Technique.

• Senju Chen approached the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and recognized it and the God Tree husk as his greatest prize.
• Senju Chen touched the statue and resisted the Ten-Tails’ savage will by combining his Senju and Uchiha powers.
• Senju Chen established a faint connection with the statue and stored the Sealing Coffin in a sealing scroll.
• Senju Chen reviewed the system notifications and considered abilities refreshed from Obito Uchiha and Madara Uchiha.
• Senju Chen replaced Exploding Insects Rearing Insights with Obito Uchiha’s Demonic Statue of the Outer Path Summoning Technique.

After the Nine-Tails attack, Senju Chen secured Madara’s forces and attended Konoha’s emergency leadership meeting, where Danzo pushed to become Hokage. The meeting ended before a successor was chosen, with Hiruzen Sarutobi weighing his options.

• Senju Chen left over a hundred White Zetsu under a subordinate’s command and claimed Madara’s accumulated assets and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Senju Chen surveyed Konoha’s devastation and went to the Hokage Building after an Anbu summoned him.
• Utatane Koharu reported the attack’s losses and noted that the Uchiha Clan’s rescue efforts had kept civilian casualties far lower than expected.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi set out the priorities of finding the attacker, helping the village recover, and choosing a new Hokage.
• Shimura Danzō argued that Konoha needed a firm, experienced leader, while Hiruzen Sarutobi privately questioned whether anyone else could take the position.

As Danzo argued that Konoha needed him as its next Hokage, Senju Chen interrupted the succession discussion by presenting masked assassins who had attacked important families during the Nine-Tails' rampage. Hiruzen recognized the killings as evidence that his wife's murder might have involved a conspiracy inside the village.

• Danzo praised his own leadership and called for Konoha to adopt a tougher approach, while Homura supported his candidacy and Koharu urged the elders to wait a month before deciding.
• Senju Chen asked Hiruzen and the elders to examine something before discussing the next Hokage and summoned people into the conference room.
• An Uchiha Military Police officer and his group brought in covered stretchers, surviving villagers, and Konoha ninja.
• Senju Chen revealed the corpses of masked assassins and explained that they had attacked the families of Konoha officials and Aburame elders during the Nine-Tails' rampage.
• A surviving villager identified one of the corpses as an attacker, and Hiruzen suspected that Biwako's murder had involved an internal conspiracy.

Senju Chen exposed Shimura Danzō’s suspected role in the attacks and forced Hiruzen Sarutobi to have him detained pending an investigation. Chen then visited Minato Namikaze’s home, where he found Kakashi watching over the sleeping baby Naruto.

• Fugaku presented evidence that the assassins who targeted prominent families bore Root’s distinctive tongue marks.
• Senju Chen proposed that the Yamanaka Clan examine the assassins’ memories under the elders’ and Shikaku Nara’s supervision.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi relieved Shimura Danzō of his duties and ordered Anbu to take him into strict custody.
• Hiruzen ended the meeting until the investigation results were available, and the attendees left the Hokage Building.
• Senju Chen visited Minato Namikaze’s home and found Kakashi Hatake sitting beside the sleeping baby.

Senju Chen took the orphaned Naruto Uzumaki from Kakashi and brought him to Uchiha Fugaku’s home, proposing that the Uchiha family foster him. Fugaku agreed, and Mikoto welcomed Naruto with maternal tenderness.

• Senju Chen picked up Naruto Uzumaki and told Kakashi he would find the baby food and a family to care for him.
• Senju Chen decided to ask Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto to foster Naruto, then headed to the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• Senju Chen arrived at Fugaku’s residence and asked him to take in the Fourth Hokage’s orphaned son.
• Senju Chen argued that the loyal Uchiha Clan was well suited to raise a hero’s orphan, and Fugaku recognized the political significance of the proposal.
• Uchiha Mikoto came out holding her baby and showed affection toward Naruto, and Uchiha Fugaku promised that his family would care for him.

Xing helped Tsunade and Shizune escape the ruins, but Tsunade refused to return to Konoha while she searched for a way to resolve Chen’s supposed bloodline conflict. After Xing left them safe in a nearby town, Senju Chen faced furious elders over sending Naruto to the Uchiha Clan.

• Xing brought Tsunade and Shizune out of the ruins and collected the White Zetsu corpses inside.
• Tsunade refused to return to Konoha, saying she wanted to find a way to resolve Chen’s bloodline conflict.
• Xing took Tsunade and Shizune to a nearby town, gave Shizune a new Flying Thunder God Kunai, and embraced her before departing.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu accused Senju Chen of sending the Fourth Hokage’s orphan to the Uchiha Clan without authorization.
• Senju Chen told the elders that he had acted for the village’s sake.

Senju Chen persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi and the elders to let the Uchiha Clan raise Naruto, presenting it as both a practical choice and a gesture of trust. Naruto settled into the Uchiha household with Uchiha Mikoto and Sasuke as Senju Chen left, confident that Konoha was beginning to recover.

• Senju Chen argued that the Uchiha Clan had earned the village’s trust by protecting civilians and that Uchiha Mikoto could nurse Naruto.
• Senju Chen dismissed the elders’ concerns about the Sharingan seen in the Nine-Tails and warned against taking Naruto from the Uchiha Clan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to leave Naruto with the Uchiha Clan and ordered the Anbu to watch over the compound and protect him.
• Uchiha Mikoto nursed Naruto while Sasuke watched, and Uchiha Fugaku vowed that the clan would protect the child.
• Senju Chen watched the Uchiha family from a tower, then departed through Konoha’s streets, planning to eat Ichiraku Ramen.

Senju Chen sent White Zetsu specimens to Orochimaru, Amado, and Sasori for research into regeneration, cloning, and puppet vessels. As the researchers eagerly began dissecting them, Senju Chen enjoyed ramen in Konoha and learned that villagers were praising the Uchiha for their actions during the Nine-Tails' Attack.

• Xing arrived at Orochimaru's laboratory and presented Orochimaru, Amado, and Sasori with bound White Zetsu corpses.
• Orochimaru, Amado, and Sasori examined the White Zetsu and discussed its potential for biological research and replacing human puppets.
• Xing explained that he would send live specimens and asked the researchers to study whether White Zetsu could be mass-produced or used as durable vessels.
• The researchers ignored Xing as they began discussing experiments, so he left them scrolls filled with White Zetsu corpses and departed.
• At Ichiraku Ramen, Senju Chen learned through Xing's transmitted images that the specimens had reached the laboratory and heard villagers praise the Uchiha for protecting them during the Nine-Tails' Attack.
• Senju Chen decided to send more White Zetsu to the researchers and ordered another bowl of chashu ramen.

Senju Chen returned to Konoha and attended a meeting where Hiruzen Sarutobi stripped Shimura Danzō of his positions and sentenced him to life in prison. Senju Chen opposed disbanding Root and volunteered to take control of it.

• Senju Chen switched consciousness with his returning clone and sent it to the Hokage Building while his original body continued processing Madara Uchiha's combat memories.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi announced that Shimura Danzō had ordered Root's assassinations and covert operations, then removed him from office and confined him for life.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura proposed disbanding Root and screening or purging its members.
• Senju Chen argued that Konoha should preserve Root's intelligence network and operational expertise under new leadership.
• Senju Chen declared that he would take over Root.

Senju Chen persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi to let him take charge of Root, which he planned to remake as a Public Security Department. He then recruited Kakashi Hatake to live in the Uchiha Clan Compound and protect Naruto.

• Senju Chen argued that Root had originally belonged to the Senju and that taking it over meant restoring it to its rightful owner.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi agreed to put Senju Chen in charge of Root on the condition that it answer to the Hokage, and Senju Chen proposed renaming it the Public Security Department.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to station Anbu with Naruto in the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• Senju Chen visited Kakashi Hatake at the Memorial Stone and proposed that he look after Naruto as Minato's student and Naruto's senior brother.
• Kakashi Hatake accepted the responsibility of protecting Naruto.

Senju Chen let “Xing” take Anko out for dango while he absorbed Madara Uchiha’s combat memories. One memory revealed that Madara had killed a man using the Eight Gates, leading Senju Chen to suspect the victim was Might Duy, who died ten years earlier.

• Anko confronted Senju Chen for hiding that he had returned to the village and asked what had happened to Tsunade.
• Senju Chen sent “Xing” to reassure Anko with a story about his departure, then “Xing” took her to get dango.
• Senju Chen continued absorbing Madara Uchiha’s memories and found an account of Madara fighting a Konoha ninja who opened the Eight Gates.
• Senju Chen recognized the ninja’s appearance and the timing as clues that the man Madara killed was Might Duy.

Senju Chen pieced together how Might Duy likely died after encountering Madara Uchiha, though he could not determine why Madara targeted the squad. He turned to reorganizing Root and visited Kabuto Yakushi to recruit him as a trusted deputy.

• Senju Chen concluded that Madara Uchiha had likely killed Might Duy's squad and that Duy had died fighting him with the Eight Gates Released Formation.
• Senju Chen wondered what Madara had wanted from the squad, but abandoned the question because Madara's sealed corpse was the only source of the answer.
• Senju Chen decided to focus on dismantling Shimura Danzō's control over Root and chose Kabuto Yakushi as a potential helper.
• Senju Chen went to Orochimaru's secret research facility, where he found Kabuto washing laboratory glassware and asked what he had been doing.

Senju Chen recruited Kabuto Yakushi to help him reorganize Root after Shimura Danzō’s arrest. He then addressed Root’s members, telling them he had given them a chance to live again.

• Senju Chen told Kabuto Yakushi he planned to take over Root and invited him to serve as his deputy.
• Kabuto Yakushi accepted Senju Chen’s offer, calling him senior brother and pledging to serve him.
• Senju Chen and Kabuto Yakushi arrived at Root’s headquarters with an order signed by the Council of Elders.
• Senju Chen told Root’s assembled members that Shimura Danzō had been taken into custody and Root would otherwise have been disbanded.
• Senju Chen offered the Root members a chance to live again, having given them the benefit of the doubt that Danzo had deceived them.

Senju Chen abolished Root and formed the Konoha Public Security Department, offering its members names and recognized identities in exchange for serving Konoha. After most accepted, he discovered Kinoe’s Wood Release and took him under his wing as Yamato, leaving Kabuto Yakushi to organize the new department.

• Senju Chen announced Root’s end and gave its members the choice to join the Public Security Department or leave Konoha’s service.
• Shisui Uchiha removed his mask first and joined the new unit, prompting many others to follow.
• Senju Chen reviewed the members’ files and found Kinoe, whose file listed Wood Release.
• Senju Chen renamed Kinoe Yamato and ordered him to stay by his side.
• Senju Chen tasked Kabuto Yakushi with registering the members and establishing an intelligence network, with Shisui available to assist.

Senju Chen brought Kinoe to the Senju residence, assessed his weak Wood Release, and gave him the name Tenzo Yamato. Yamato began to accept his new life as Senju Chen prepared him for future projects.

• Senju Chen led Kinoe out of Root headquarters and into the bright courtyard of the Senju residence.
• Kinoe demonstrated his Wood Release, but his wooden wall collapsed when Senju Chen gently poked it.
• Senju Chen praised Kinoe’s foundation and asked about his name and past.
• Senju Chen named the boy Tenzo Yamato and told him he was a person, not a tool.
• Senju Chen led Yamato to bathe and change clothes, while Yamato felt his first anticipation for the future.

Senju Chen began reorganizing Root’s vast intelligence network after it became the Konoha Public Security Department, while Kabuto revealed that its contacts and informants numbered over thirty thousand. Chen planned to secure the headquarters and gradually bring the network under control, then took Yamato to deliver living White Zetsu to Orochimaru and Amado for research.

• Senju Chen welcomed Yamato into the Senju residence and eased him into ordinary routines before bringing him to work.
• Senju Chen and Yamato visited the former Root headquarters, now called the Konoha Public Security Department, where Kabuto briefed them on Root’s 3,714 safe houses and intelligence stations.
• Kabuto reported that Root’s wider network might include more than thirty thousand people, many of whom were difficult to identify or contact after Danzo’s fall.
• Senju Chen instructed Kabuto to establish the headquarters structure, screen personnel for loyalty, and begin integrating contacts within the Land of Fire.
• Senju Chen decided to take Yamato to Lord Madara’s underground cavern and deliver the living White Zetsu to Orochimaru and Amado for research.

Senju Chen brought Yamato to meet his White Zetsu followers and later introduced him to Orochimaru, Amado, and Sasori as a new subordinate with the Wood Release Bloodline. Orochimaru recognized Yamato as the lone survivor of his Hashirama Cells experiments with Danzo.

• Senju Chen took Yamato to an underground cavern filled with White Zetsu and ordered half of them to follow him while the rest stayed behind.
• Three days later, Senju Chen and Yamato arrived at the laboratory, where Orochimaru greeted Chen and Amado and Sasori demanded the live specimens.
• Senju Chen introduced Yamato as his new subordinate and assigned him coordination work.
• Senju Chen revealed that Yamato possessed the Wood Release Bloodline, shocking Amado and Sasori and drawing Orochimaru's attention.
• Orochimaru recalled that Yamato was the only survivor of the Hashirama Cells transplant experiments he had conducted with Danzo.

Senju Chen showed Orochimaru, Amado, and Sasori how versatile White Zetsu could be, demonstrating their stealth, spore-based surveillance, and ability to mimic Yamato. The researchers became eager to exploit them, while Senju Chen kept the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path’s role in mass-producing White Zetsu secret as a future surprise for Obito and Black Zetsu.

• Amado, Sasori, and Orochimaru became fascinated by Yamato’s Wood Release, but Senju Chen warned them not to experiment on him without certainty.
• Orochimaru, Amado, and Sasori described White Zetsu’s potential for biological weapons, Human Puppets, clone vessels, and organ banks.
• Senju Chen summoned White Zetsu from the laboratory walls, floor, and ceiling to demonstrate their ability to conceal their presence and chakra.
• A White Zetsu used spores to secretly attach to Sasori’s puppet and relay gathered intelligence.
• Another White Zetsu transformed into Yamato and closely copied his appearance and chakra, impressing the researchers.
• Senju Chen decided to keep White Zetsu’s connection to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path secret so he could use it to surprise Obito and Black Zetsu later.

Senju Chen’s team studied White Zetsu and discovered it could assimilate spiritual energy as a seed for growing new forms of life. Orochimaru, Amado, and Sasori began envisioning ways to use it to create new bodies and evolving puppets.

• Amado, Sasori, and Orochimaru tested White Zetsu’s cellular traits, observing its instability, rejection of foreign materials, rapid repair, and near-limitless proliferation.
• Senju Chen kept the source of the White Zetsu specimens secret while Yamato recorded the disturbing experiments.
• Orochimaru injected spiritual energy into an intact White Zetsu and found that it encapsulated the energy in a growing mass of tissue.
• Amado concluded that White Zetsu actively absorbed and assimilated seeds rather than being passively modified.
• Sasori considered implanting a puppet core in White Zetsu so it could grow a body around it, and Senju Chen described the result as an evolving Human Puppet.

Senju Chen’s research team experimented with using White Zetsu as a living foundation for creating new life and artificial abilities. Orochimaru’s first creation emerged as a crude, thrashing creature with Wood Release, leaving Senju Chen unimpressed by Yamato’s claim of success.

• Orochimaru, Amado, and Sasori recognized White Zetsu as a basis for creating new life, and Senju Chen agreed to share more data and Xing as a reference.
• Amado used White Zetsu stem cells to grow tissue resembling a Sharingan, while Sasori guided White Zetsu cells into forming a body around the Third Kazekage puppet’s Magnet Release core.
• Orochimaru had Senju Chen implant his soul fragment and a Wood Release clone into a White Zetsu host.
• Yamato summoned Senju Chen to see Orochimaru’s result, and Senju Chen found a featureless, dough-like creature thrashing in its tank as branches and vines grew from its body.