Chapter Summaries

Lohak and Kaguya Kenron reached the Land of Water while pursuing Kagami Uchiha, whom Kenron could sense somewhere to the northwest. After accepting the boatman’s help, Lohak secretly killed him with an explosive Buddhist Prayer Bead as the pair continued their pursuit.

• Lohak and Kaguya Kenron arrived at a remote island in the Land of Water after crossing the sea to find the escaped Kagami Uchiha.
• Kenron explained that Isshiki’s contingency plan let him sense Kagami’s general direction through their Karma marks, though he could not pinpoint Kagami’s location.
• Kenron sensed Kagami to the northwest, and Lohak set off with him in that direction.
• Lohak gave the boatman a glowing Buddhist Prayer Bead as payment, despite the old man’s protests.
• After Lohak and Kenron walked away, the bead exploded and vaporized the boatman before flying back into Lohak’s sleeve.

Kirigakure’s history and recent losses shaped Fourth Mizukage Karatachi Yagura’s plans for the Third Shinobi World War as Konoha’s unexpected restraint left the front uncertain. Yagura prepared to act according to Konoha White Fang’s deployment, relying on a trump card known as the Half-God of Shinobi World.

• Mizunashi Sora’s attempt to seize the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing techniques ended in disaster when Uchiha Shin'yu slaughtered the allied shinobi and Sora died.
• Karatachi Yagura learned that Kirigakure had lost its two wild Tailed Beasts and nearly all of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, weakening the village and ruining his plan to become the Three Tails’ Jinchuriki.
• Yagura discovered that other villages besides Konoha had also lost their Tailed Beasts, so he kept Kirigakure’s war plan alive and shifted its main target to Konoha.
• Konoha’s limited response to Kirigakure’s invasion and its continued focus on the Land of Rain battlefield stalled Yagura’s next move.
• Yagura planned to avoid Konoha White Fang by attacking Sunagakure or to seize territory and join the other villages in a pincer attack, depending on where the White Fang appeared.
• Yagura’s confidence rested on Kirigakure’s trump card, named the Half-God of Shinobi World.

Salamander Hanzo allied with Kirigakure to avenge Amegakure and help it attack the Land of Fire, while both sides puzzled over Konoha’s inaction. Meanwhile, Hiruko and his two young companions infiltrated Kirigakure, replaced two guards with puppets, and prepared to enter the village.

• Hanzo offered Kirigakure his services and presented the heads of three Iwagakure fighters as proof of allegiance, asking for troops and territory after the war.
• Hanzo resolved to strike back at Sunagakure after Rasa used Gold Dust to massacre Amegakure’s leadership, but turned to Kirigakure when he could not find an opening against Sunagakure.
• Kirigakure accepted Hanzo’s alliance and planned to target the Land of Fire, but its leaders and Hanzo grew perplexed when Konoha remained inactive.
• Hiruko’s red-haired companion buried two Kirigakure guards while another companion used puppets to replace them in the mist barrier.
• Hiruko praised his companions’ work and announced that he had arrived in Kirigakure.

Kirigakure and Amegakure's leaders debated their strategy in the war, and Hanzo proposed striking the Land of Lightning rather than rushing into the Land of Fire. Yagura backed Hanzo, while Elder White Wolf questioned whether the risky march was wise.

• A Kirigakure elder urged Yagura and Hanzo to attack the Land of Fire before Konoha could recover from its other fronts.
• Hanzo argued that defeating Konoha too quickly would leave the allied villages exposed to the Three Great Shinobi Villages, so the war should be prolonged.
• Hanzo proposed leading the vanguard north to strike the heartland of the Land of Lightning, provoking shock among the officials.
• Hanzo rebuked an elder who accused him of calling Kirigakure weak, and Yagura ordered the officials to stop questioning Hanzo.
• Elder White Wolf acknowledged Hanzo's reputation but warned that committing Kirigakure's elite forces to a sudden march might be rash.

Yagura persuaded White Wolf to support Kirigakure’s entry into the war, arguing that Hanzo and the threat of a hidden force made action necessary. White Wolf agreed and planned to pass the Snow Clan to Bai Zhan, while urging him to marry Xiao Ya.

• Yagura argued that Kirigakure had to enter the war to protect itself and gain influence, citing Iwagakure’s buildup and the threat behind the tailed-beast kidnappings.
• Yagura presented Hanzo as a valuable commander and explained that he had placed an elite force of three thousand under Hanzo’s command.
• White Wolf reflected on Yagura’s growth, accepted Hanzo’s strategic value, and withdrew his objections to joining the war.
• White Wolf walked home with Bai Zhan and said he wanted to retire, leaving Kirigakure to Yagura and the Snow Clan to Bai Zhan.
• White Wolf urged Bai Zhan to marry Xiao Ya and give him a grandson, while Bai Zhan questioned being called the Snow Clan’s top expert.

Hiruko and Nagato infiltrated the Snow Clan to capture White Wolf and obtain his Ice Release, but discovered their target was away at a meeting. They prepared to wait for his return, while Hiruko went to gather information and Nagato remained nearby in hiding.

• Nagato captured a Snow Clan member and used the Human Path to learn that White Wolf had gone to the Water Shadow Building for a meeting and had not returned.
• Nagato extracted the man's soul and sealed both him and his body inside the King of Hell as a backup source of Ice Release for Hiruko.
• Hiruko recalled how his previous attempts to acquire kekkei genkai had repeatedly gone wrong, then agreed to wait for White Wolf to return.
• Hiruko transformed into the captured Snow Clan member and went out to gather information while Nagato stayed nearby to alert him.
• Nagato summoned an invisible chameleon and vanished with it.

Scorpion kept watch outside Kirigakure while reflecting on his talent for puppetry and soul techniques, then conceived a way to pursue immortality by replacing his body with machinery. A huge explosion in Kirigakure interrupted his thoughts, leaving him unsure how the covert operation had become so loud.

• Scorpion controlled a disguised puppet from the trees while Hiruko and Nagato advanced through Kirigakure's mist barrier.
• Scorpion compared himself with Nagato and considered whether his own potential lay in his soul and Mental Energy.
• Scorpion realized that his puppetry might rely on his soul commanding bodies through Chakra and threads.
• Scorpion imagined using the Chimera Technique and machinery to create an immortal body, but doubted that his idea could work.
• A massive explosion shook the area, and Scorpion turned toward Kirigakure, wondering what had happened to Hiruko and the others.

Kaguya Kenron and Lohak passed through Kirigakure, where Kenron denied caring about his homeland despite recalling the Kaguya Clan’s destruction. Meanwhile, Kaguya Seiya finished a long stretch of work at the Zhan Tie Merchant Guild and looked forward to spending his days off with his family, unaware of his clan’s former status.

• Kenron and Lohak arrived at Kirigakure’s entrance, and Kenron criticized the village for still following Hozuki Gengetsu’s old methods.
• Kenron said the Kaguya Clan had been wiped out decades earlier and described its death in battle against Uchiha Shin'yu as a fitting end.
• Lohak teased Kenron about caring for his homeland, then watched him leave and wished that he would not meet his end too soon.
• Seiya finished work at the Zhan Tie Merchant Guild after completing military ninja tools and nearly finishing repairs to the Seven Ninja Swords.
• Seiya looked forward to spending his three days off with his wife and newborn son, while the narration recounted how the surviving Kaguya clansmen had become low-level swordsmiths under the guild’s control.

Kaguya Kenron discovered that Kaguya survivors still lived in the Zhan Tie Merchant Guild and killed Seiya for accepting Kirigakure’s control. He then entered the guild, declaring that only he represented the Kaguya Clan.

• Kaguya Seiya left the guild at dawn to buy breakfast for his pregnant wife and encountered Kenron and Lohak.
• Seiya recognized Kenron as a powerful Kaguya who had awakened the Shikotsumyaku, and Kenron realized Seiya was also a clan survivor.
• Kenron demanded to know why Kaguya survivors remained, and Seiya explained that Uchiha Shin'yu had spared the old, weak, women, children, and some non-warmongering clansmen.
• Seiya praised the Water Shadow and Kirigakure’s leadership for helping the survivors, while Kenron grew furious at what he saw as the clan’s subjugation.
• Kenron pierced Seiya’s heart with a bone and killed him, then split the Zhan Tie Merchant Guild’s gates with a bone sword and entered.

Kaguya Kenron massacred Kirigakure ninjas and Kaguya clansmen at the Zhan Tie Merchant Guild before Karatachi Yagura confronted him. Kenron declared that he meant to uphold the Kaguya Clan’s dignity, and Yagura and more than thirty Anbu prepared to fight him.

• Kaguya Kenron destroyed a Kirigakure ninja’s Water Dragon Bullet Technique and killed him with a concealed bone projectile.
• Kenron advanced toward the refuge, killing Kirigakure ninjas as his bones drained and decayed their victims.
• Lohak watched the massacre from outside the merchant guild after killing a man who had questioned him.
• Karatachi Yagura intercepted Kenron’s attack near the refuge with Water Flow Blade and identified himself as the Fourth Water Shadow.
• Kenron condemned the surviving Kaguya clansmen and revealed that he intended to uphold the clan’s dignity.
• Yagura challenged Kenron to a fight to the death as more than thirty Anbu surrounded them.

Kenron attacked the Zhan Tie Merchant Guild and overwhelmed Kirigakure’s Anbu, forcing Karatachi Yagura to confront him. Yagura’s Water Mirror Technique briefly matched Kenron’s power, but Kenron unleashed a forest of bones that wrecked the guild and left Yagura with little room to escape.

• Kenron clashed with Karatachi Yagura, whose Black Iron Hook barely held against Kenron’s bone sword.
• Kenron killed one Anbu ninja and nearly struck another, but Yagura pulled the second ninja out of danger and ordered his forces to withdraw.
• Yagura challenged Kenron alone, dodging his finger-bone barrage and blocking it with his hook.
• Kenron and Yagura’s Water Mirror Technique attacks collided, shattering both bone swords and sending them flying apart.
• Kenron transformed with Clematis Dance and used Early Fern Dance, raising a vast field of bone spikes that destroyed the Zhan Tie Merchant Guild and trapped Yagura’s forces.

Xian Lun and Yagura fought through the merchant association as Yagura countered his bone attacks with Water Release and trapped him in an Ice Release prison. Elder White Wolf arrived as Yagura wondered whether the Kaguya Clan had rebelled and who the masked fighter was.

• Xian Lun devastated nearly half the merchant association with Shikotsumyaku bone spikes and pursued Yagura through the battlefield.
• Yagura dodged Xian Lun's Blind Spot Assault, then used Exploding Water Shockwave and a Water Clone to ensnare him in a vacuum water prison.
• Xian Lun escaped the water prison and charged Yagura, but Yagura froze the water into a layered ice fortress around him.
• Xian Lun recognized that Ice Release could restrain Shikotsumyaku and retreated to the center of the prison.
• Elder White Wolf arrived beside Yagura, who asked whether the Kaguya Clan had rebelled and how it had gained such an expert.

Yagura and White Wolf trapped Xian Lun in an ice barrier and began weakening him while preparing a finishing move. Bai Zhan intercepted Lohak outside the merchant guild, but Lohak escaped his freezing attack and prepared to continue the fight.

• Yagura warned White Wolf that Xian Lun was likely Kaguya Kenron and urged him to use containment tactics against his decay-powered Shikotsumyaku.
• White Wolf used an ice-needle rain to slow Xian Lun and partially seal his Chakra, while Yagura began preparing a powerful attack.
• Lohak tried to intervene, but Bai Zhan appeared and ordered him to stay out of the battle.
• Lohak struck Bai Zhan with a Gelel-powered palm blast, but Bai Zhan evaded it and attacked with an ice sword that Lohak's Light Shield blocked.
• Bai Zhan unleashed Ice Release: Cold Shout, forcing Lohak to use all thirty-two Gelel Stones to escape the freezing current and take flight.

Bai Zhan fought Lohak at full strength, while Kaguya Kenron broke free of White Wolf’s ice prison and attacked Yagura. The chapter left Kenron charging at Yagura with his bone drill as White Wolf struggled to react.

• Lohak unleashed his full power, and Bai Zhan answered by fighting seriously with his two ice swords.
• Bai Zhan broke through Lohak’s shield with a spinning sword attack, but Lohak trapped him with beams from his Buddhist Prayer Beads.
• Bai Zhan escaped the trap using Ice Release: Mist Body Flicker, leaving Lohak kicking only mist and shattered ground.
• Kaguya Kenron shattered his ice sculpture, pulled his spine from his back, and used it as a sword to destroy White Wolf’s ice clouds.
• Kenron formed a bone drill from his arm and charged through three ice walls toward Yagura.

Yagura wounded Kaguya Kenron with a powerful water technique, but Kenron healed and overwhelmed him and White Wolf. Hiruko rescued White Wolf, while Shin'yu revealed that he wanted Kara's Inner Circle members kept alive until he found the God Tree.

• Yagura pierced and sliced half of Kaguya Kenron's head with Piercing Water, but Kenron regenerated and activated Karma Stage One.
• Kenron kicked Yagura through an ice wall, then evaded White Wolf's Sixteen Night Funeral and trapped him inside an iceberg with his bone whip.
• As Kenron prepared to strike White Wolf with a bone drill, Hiruko cut the whip, attacked Kenron, and carried White Wolf away.
• Hiruko recalled asking Shin'yu for permission to intervene, and Shin'yu said Kara's Inner Circle members had to remain alive until they located the God Tree.

Shin'yu completed preparations for a sealing curse talisman designed to make Kagami Uchiha, who was possessed by Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, involuntarily use the Flying Thunder God Technique when he saw the God Tree. The chapter ended as the Uzumaki elders began refining a fragment of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path into the talisman.

• Shin'yu confirmed with his ally that they would avoid a direct confrontation until the God Tree's location was confirmed.
• Six Uzumaki elders completed a seven-day ritual to prepare Shin'yu's complex sealing curse talisman.
• Shin'yu explained that the talisman would secretly compel Kagami Uchiha to use the Flying Thunder God Technique upon seeing the God Tree.
• Shin'yu revealed a fragment of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and had a White Zetsu swallow it as a living sacrifice.
• Shin'yu used the Super Mystical Palm Technique and Sealing Evil Technique to condense the White Zetsu into a lump of flesh.
• The formation activated, refining the lump into a drop of crimson blood that fell onto the talisman's center.

Kagami Uchiha reunited with Shin'yu and Nian over breakfast before Shin'yu transported him to a flower-filled valley meant to suppress Isshiki's consciousness. Shin'yu left Kagami there, secretly marking his soul with a blood-red spiritual pattern.

• Kagami Uchiha revisited the porridge shop where he had shared a final meal with Uchiha Shin'yu decades earlier.
• Nian arrived to take Kagami away, but Shin'yu appeared and made Nian and Kagami eat breakfast with him.
• Shin'yu told Kagami that Nian had come in his true body and warned that their breakfast might be their last if Kagami could not suppress Isshiki.
• Shin'yu used the Flying Thunder God Technique to transport Kagami to a valley where a barrier could help suppress Isshiki's consciousness.
• Shin'yu and Nian vanished, leaving Kagami among the flowers as a spiritual pattern secretly imprinted itself on his soul.

At the Kannabi Bridge base, Shin'yu explained to Nian that he was deceiving Kagami Uchiha and Isshiki to make them lower their guard and lead him to Isshiki's hidden God Tree. Nian left for the Land of Rain, while Shin'yu stayed behind and flirted with Uchiha Hikari.

• Nian worried that Isshiki might seize Kagami Uchiha's body, but Shin'yu reassured him that his barrier would prevent it.
• Shin'yu explained that Isshiki remained conscious while Kagami controlled their body and could observe everything they did.
• Shin'yu revealed that he was pretending to be unable to handle Isshiki so that Isshiki would lower his guard and lead him to the God Tree.
• Shin'yu planned to let Kara find Kagami and stage his escape, using the opportunity to test Isshiki's remaining contingencies.
• Nian departed for the Land of Rain using his Mangekyo and the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Uchiha Hikari asked Shin'yu if he had once intended to use her as a weapon, and he pulled her close and teased her.

Hiruko used his newly evolved Swift Release to escape Kaguya Kenron while carrying the frozen White Wolf, but Kenron’s allies trapped him in a bone cage. Hiruko survived the crushing attack and emerged from the ground, still surrounded.

• Hiruko carried the ice-encased White Wolf away after Kenron’s bone whip snapped, but Kenron regenerated it and pursued him with Earth Dragon Dance.
• Hiruko used Swift Release: Swift Step Lightning Flash to evade Kenron’s attack and travel hundreds of meters in an instant.
• Kenron recognized Hiruko as Uchiha Shin'yu’s speedster, while Hiruko continued toward the Zhan Tie Merchant Guild.
• Sixteen Gelel Stones attacked Hiruko near the guild entrance, forcing him to retreat into its grounds.
• Kenron raised and rotated a massive bone cage with Prison Bone Burial, crushing the guild and surrounding area as Hiruko escaped underground.
• Hiruko burst out of the ground, having narrowly avoided the bone spikes beneath it.

Hiruko tried to escape Xian Lun while carrying the frozen White Wolf, but Xian Lun kept attacking and trapped him inside a bone prison. Hiruko shattered the prison and attempted to flee, but Xian Lun transformed into a bone-armored monster and landed a blow against his Iron Body.

• Xian Lun raised a bone prison around Hiruko, who carried the frozen White Wolf and repeatedly tried to retreat.
• Xian Lun concealed himself with Shadow Bone Stealth and ambushed Hiruko, but Hiruko detected him and struck him with a Steel Release elbow.
• Hiruko argued that they had no reason to fight, but Xian Lun answered with Ten Fingers Bullet Barrage.
• Hiruko used Unrivaled Super Strength to smash the bone prison and its underground foundations, then grabbed White Wolf under cover of the dust.
• Xian Lun pursued Hiruko and transformed into a bone-armored creature with an extended attack range, forcing Hiruko to block a heavy blow with Iron Body.