Recaps

Senju Chen consolidated Kirigakure’s new leadership, expanded reforms in Konoha, and used Frost’s Descent to secure mining rights while pursuing a hidden intelligence buyer. As his puppet research advanced, Obito discovered the Demonic Statue’s transformed base and went searching for Nagato, while Senju Chen learned of his visit.

• Senju Chen exposed Kuga and the six elders, became acting Mizukage, ended the Blood Mist Policy and graduation death matches, and began rebuilding Kirigakure under Kirisame Ryo’s leadership.
• Senju Chen reorganized Kirigakure’s finances, ports, weapons projects, and Seven Ninja Blade Group while negotiating with other villages and strengthening its institutions.
• Senju Chen directed Frost’s Descent against Iwagakure’s camps, then used the display of Konoha’s capabilities to secure a deal for the West Mountain Ore Vein’s mining rights.
• Senju Chen traced leaked false intelligence to a Kirigakure-linked ship, confronted Hozuki Anyue over unauthorized spying, and waited for the hidden buyer to expose themselves.
• Senju Chen developed the Scientific Ninja Tool program and worked with Sasori to adapt puppets for Might Guy’s Eight Gates, while accepting Kurama Yakumo as his first formal disciple.
• Might Guy’s upgraded puppet defeated Zabuza’s in a sparring match, and Senju Chen ordered Sasori to add automatic limits to its gates.
• Obito and Black Zetsu found the Demonic Statue transformed into a tree of cocoons, learned they could not summon it without Nagato’s Rinnegan, and set out for the Land of Rain to find him.
• A White Zetsu reported Obito’s visit to Senju Chen, who approved compensation for the one Obito had crushed and asked what Black Zetsu had done.

Senju Chen helped Nagato use Yahiko’s puppet to lure Obito, then staged Konoha’s visit to make rival nations believe the Akatsuki had chosen Konoha as its ally. The arc ended with Jiraiya learning that Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko were all alive, while Senju Chen considered the political consequences of the Land of Rain’s new position.

• Senju Chen warned Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan that Obito was massacring civilians to draw out Nagato and agreed to help protect the Land of Rain.
• Nagato cooperated with Senju Chen’s experiments, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path recalled a White Zetsu puppet, revealing Nagato’s ability to control the base’s creations.
• Nagato appeared as Yahiko to the people of the Land of Rain, promised to rebuild Shimoyodo, and later confronted Obito, rejecting his offer of power and peace.
• Obito decided to investigate Kirigakure and the people behind Kirisame Ryo and the Twins Organization, while the great villages began considering how to respond to Akatsuki’s influence.
• Senju Chen led Konoha’s delegation to the Land of Rain, where Akatsuki gave them a lavish welcome that made other nations suspect Konoha had secured an alliance.
• At the banquet, Yahiko praised Konoha and declared it Akatsuki’s most important ally, then announced that the Land of Rain would remain neutral and open trade routes to every nation.
• The leaders of Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and Kumogakure changed their plans in response to what they believed was Konoha’s growing influence in the Land of Rain.
• Jiraiya met with Nagato and Konan, learned that Yahiko was recovering and that all three of his former students were alive, then told Senju Chen their conversation had gone well.

Senju Chen expanded the Land of Rain’s trade network, uncovered a Konoha infiltration linked to Black Zetsu, and awakened powerful ocular and fused abilities. He strengthened his ties with the Uchiha and ended the arc considering Shikkotsu Forest despite Tsunade’s warning that its Senjutsu could kill him.

• Senju Chen arranged trade and transport agreements with the four great villages, then advised Nagato on how to manage them through freight deals, hired ninja, and a bank.
• After returning to Konoha, Senju Chen exposed evidence that someone inside the village had sabotaged the Joint Factory to provoke war with Iwagakure, and traced falsified records to seven identities once concealed under Root.
• Senju Chen and his investigators found foreign soil and a moving black substance in altered records, which Senju Chen recognized as a mark left by Black Zetsu.
• The system rewarded Senju Chen for saving the Uchiha Clan, and he fused their bloodlines to awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and test its time-altering ocular space.
• Senju Chen fused his reaction nerves with lightning abilities and combined Wood Release with the Uzumaki bloodline, creating the thunder god and wood god bloodlines.
• Senju Chen gave Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha Bouncing Flight Shoes, then revealed his Uchiha heritage to Uchiha Fugaku and asked him to keep his Sharingan secret.
• Senju Chen outlined a plan for the Konoha Military Police Force to expand across the Land of Fire and neighboring nations, while Tsunade warned that the plan could meet resistance.
• Senju Chen asked to practice Senjutsu in Shikkotsu Forest, and Tsunade explained its deadly cost before pleading with him not to risk his life.

Senju Chen explored the Three Great Sage Lands, stole and fused new abilities, and passed Ryūchi Cave’s trials. He secured the White Snake Sage’s permission to learn Senjutsu but postponed training to prepare and explore the cave’s outer regions.

• Senju Chen learned about the Sage Lands’ dangers from Orochimaru and planned to send permanent clones to train in each.
• Jiraiya took Senju Chen to Mount Myōboku, where the Great Toad Sage foresaw conflicting futures for him.
• Senju Chen stole abilities from Mount Myōboku’s toads and fused his gains into magic god bloodline and war god body.
• Obito investigated Kirisame Ryo and ordered Black Zetsu to investigate the disguised woman accompanying Mei Terumi.
• Senju Chen delegated duties to Mei Terumi and Rin Nohara, then visited Shikkotsu Forest with Tsunade and secretly left a marker.
• Senju Chen entered Ryūchi Cave, passed Tagorihime’s, Ichikishimahime’s, and Tagitsuhime’s trials, and gained regeneration and mental abilities.
• The White Snake Sage identified Senju Chen’s puppet body as originating from the Ten-Tails Tree and granted training in exchange for blood, memories, and a future task.
• Senju Chen received the White Snake Sage’s bloodline mark and instructions, postponed Senjutsu training, and asked Tagorihime about the outer regions.