Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Chiri led Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Tsunade, Uchiha Kirito, and Uchiha Nen into Hell Valley after discovering that its Barrier had vanished and its guards had disappeared. As they investigated the empty settlement, Orochimaru suspected the Barrier had fallen only that day, while Chiri wondered whether her clan head had set a trap and what price the Uchiha death matches exacted.

• Uchiha Chiri and her companions found the Barrier gone and the surrounding Uchiha camp intact, but the guards had vanished.
• Uchiha Chiri decided to lead the group into Hell Valley to investigate, despite Jiraiya's objections.
• The group entered the deserted settlement and found its streets empty, with a faint smell of blood in the air.
• Orochimaru reasoned that the Blood Pond Clan would have sought revenge if it had escaped three months earlier, and suspected the Barrier had disappeared that day.
• Uchiha Chiri recalled that winners of the death matches seemed to lose an eye and wondered whether it was the cost of a secret technique.

Zhi Li's team reached the Blood Pond Clan territory and prepared to investigate an inn where Nian sensed seven people, while Zhi Li planned to verify what had happened to the clan. In the Hidden Leaf Village, Shin'yu sensed Uchiha Madara returning, but an explosion and screams interrupted their visit to an izakaya.

• Zhi Li led Nian and Tong Ren to the center of the Blood Pond Clan territory, where Tong Ren remarked on the clan's Blood Dragon Eye and Orochimaru suspected they still sought revenge.
• Nian sensed seven people inside an inn and no others in the valley, so Zhi Li told Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru to hide nearby while she, Nian, and Tong Ren approached.
• Zhi Li warned the three Hokage disciples to flee to the village if anything happened, then led Nian and Tong Ren into the inn.
• In the Hidden Leaf Village, a man in Sunglasses criticized the Uchiha Clan, accepted two ice creams, and handed one to a little girl.
• At an izakaya, Shin'yu reassured Light that Uchiha Madara had returned, and Madara arrived with ice cream for them.
• An explosion erupted in a distant street, and people screamed that it was a Human Bomb.

Uchiha Kagami defeated Danzo, Hiruzen, and Homura in a training match, then threatened Danzo for insulting his brother, Uchiha Shin'yu. Kagami vowed to bring Shin'yu back to the Hidden Leaf Village and revealed that Tobirama had agreed to train him as a personal disciple.

• The Hidden Leaf Village prospered under Hashirama and Tobirama, who strengthened its policies, economy, and Ninja Academy.
• Uchiha Kagami defeated Danzo, Hiruzen, and Homura in their challenge, using his Sharingan to incapacitate Hiruzen.
• Danzo refused to recognize Kagami and blamed him for his brother Uchiha Shin'yu's defection and the deaths of Shimura Clan Jonin.
• Kagami held a Kunai to Danzo's throat and warned him not to insult Shin'yu, whom Kagami intended to bring back himself.
• Kagami said Tobirama had agreed to take him as a personal disciple, and he vowed to return Shin'yu to the village.

In the Land of Rice Fields, Madara ordered Shin'yu to capture the Nine-Tails alone while Hikari stayed out of the mission to conceal her special ocular technique. Shin'yu realized the mission would test whether he could subdue the Nine-Tails before Madara faced Hashirama, and Madara promised to intervene if Shin'yu failed.

• Shin'yu explained that he had inferred the Nine-Tails capture was preparation for Madara's coming battle with Hashirama and the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Madara forbade Hikari from helping Shin'yu, saying her ocular technique made her a hidden trump card who needed time to grow.
• Madara told Hikari that her eyes risked making her blind without Hashirama's cells, while Shin'yu's Time Regression erased the side effects of his Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Hikari offered to support Shin'yu with Chakra from the Gold and Silver Brothers or by marking the Nine-Tails, but Madara refused to let either of them join his battle with Hashirama.
• Madara assigned Shin'yu to capture the Nine-Tails and, after the coming battle, either escort Madara away or recover the beast if Madara failed.
• Shin'yu understood that the capture mission would test whether he could subdue the Nine-Tails alone, and Madara promised to keep him alive if he failed.

Uchiha Zhi Li, Tong Ren, and Uchiha Nian entered the Five Rules Inn and discovered that its rules forced guests into a deadly game. After Nian died despite following the rules, Tong Ren realized the inn forbade obeying them all and saw the shop assistant’s face on Zhi Li.

• Uchiha Zhi Li led Tong Ren and Uchiha Nian into the inn, where the shop assistant urged them to order.
• Uchiha Zhi Li found rules carved beneath the table, including commands to speak, eat, sit, and follow a specific eating pattern.
• Uchiha Nian provoked the strong man, who rose and melted into blood after apparently breaking the rules.
• Tong Ren and Zhi Li began eating, but Uchiha Nian suddenly convulsed and melted into blood despite following the rules.
• Tong Ren discovered the fifth rule, which forbade obeying all the others, and saw the shop assistant’s face where Zhi Li’s should have been.

Uchiha Shin'yu challenged the Nine-Tails and fought it with Susanoo, clones, and a Super-Massive Rasengan. As the Nine-Tails fell from the sky, Shin'yu unleashed his newly optimized Blaze Release, the Kagutsuchi Arrow, which struck the beast.

• Uchiha Shin'yu told the sleeping Nine-Tails he had come to capture it, then provoked it into attacking.
• Uchiha Shin'yu dodged the Nine-Tails' attacks, but a tail smashed him into the ground before he emerged unharmed inside his second-stage Susanoo.
• Uchiha Shin'yu used Susanoo to grab a Nine-Tails tail and hurl the beast, but its counterattack cracked Susanoo.
• Uchiha Shin'yu dispersed Susanoo, evaded the Nine-Tails with the Phantom Body Flicker Technique, and struck beneath it with a Super-Massive Rasengan.
• Uchiha Shin'yu formed a black-flame bow and fired his Kagutsuchi Arrow at the airborne Nine-Tails, which groaned as the arrow hit.

Uchiha Chiri and Uchiha Nen fought through the Blood Dragon Eye illusion technique while trying to wake Uchiha Kirito, whom Chiri called Tong Ren. Nen’s mysterious power shielded the three Uchiha from the puppets’ explosion, leaving them unharmed as the shop assistant emerged from the wreckage.

• Chiri broke free of the illusion, but Kirito and Nen remained trapped; Nen escaped by exploiting the illusion’s rules with guidance from Shin'yu’s Spirit Body.
• Nen told Chiri to use her Sharingan eye power to wake Kirito, then bound the controlled puppets with threads and set them ablaze with the Dragon Fire Technique.
• Chiri made eye contact with Kirito and freed him from the illusion as she and Nen prepared to face the caster upstairs.
• The charred puppets transformed into Human Bombs, so Chiri shielded her brothers while Nen released an unfamiliar power to protect them.
• The explosion destroyed the inn, but vines formed a wooden shield around the three Uchiha, and the shop assistant emerged to find them unharmed.

Nian discovered that he could use Wood Style, and Shin'yu demonstrated three techniques while controlling his body. The Hidden Leaf team defeated the Chinoike shop assistant's Blood Clone, but Shin'yu vanished from Nian's Mental World after Nian knocked out the real enemy.

• Nian learned from Shin'yu that his Wood Style power had been inherited from his father, and Shin'yu demonstrated Wooden Dome Wall, Adamantine Entangling Trees, and Splinter Technique.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru arrived as the shop assistant unleashed Blood Hail and formed a four-headed blood dragon.
• Tsunade shielded the group with earth while Jiraiya strengthened the barrier, and Tong Ren and Orochimaru combined fire and wind techniques against the blood dragon.
• Zhi Li struck down the apparent shop assistant, but Nian's Spirit Body realized the man had been a Blood Clone as the real attacker approached Nian's sleeping body.
• Nian awakened, caught the attacker's wrist, and struck him with a spinning ball of Chakra, knocking him unconscious; Shin'yu then disappeared from Nian's Mental World.

Shin'yu fought the Nine-Tails with Susanoo, Amaterasu, and his adapting abilities until he subdued it and gained control. He ended the battle perched atop the Nine-Tails, whose eyes now bore Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and told Madara he had not failed his trust.

• Shin'yu pierced the Nine-Tails with a Black Arrow loaded with Amaterasu, then attacked it with Susanoo and his own enhanced physical strength.
• The Nine-Tails battered Shin'yu away and began charging a Tailed Beast Ball, but Shin'yu appeared above it in third-form Susanoo and pinned it down with Totsuka-no-Tsurugi and increased gravity.
• Shin'yu burned the Nine-Tails from within and traded attacks with it while Mahoraga adapted to its Chakra.
• Madara shielded Uchiha Hikari from the Nine-Tails' massive blast, and Shin'yu continued the fight until the battlefield fell quiet.
• Shin'yu emerged seated on the subdued Nine-Tails, whose eyes had changed to Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and told Madara he had not failed his trust.

The Chinoike Clan attacked the Hidden Leaf Village with Human Bombs, forcing its defenders into chaos while the hidden controllers kept the threat spreading. As Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Hikari watched from an izakaya with the sleeping Shin'yu, they discussed his ability to adapt to aging and remain eternally young.

• Hundreds of Chinoike Clan members invaded the Hidden Leaf Village after blowing up its main gate, while Human Bombs attacked villagers and ninja across the Southeast District.
• An Anbu ninja rescued a villager, but the villager turned into a Human Bomb and exploded, killing the ninja and flattening the surrounding area.
• Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Hikari watched the attack from an izakaya and discussed how the Uchiha Clan had used despicable methods before Madara took over.
• Uchiha Hikari said she valued the present with Shin'yu, while Madara explained that Shin'yu's special eye techniques could not be copied.
• Madara explained that Shin'yu had adapted to cellular aging, eliminating the usual effects of aging and leaving him eternally young.

Uchiha Madara and Shin'yu left their hidden base to confront Hashirama outside the Hidden Leaf Village, with Madara seeking Hashirama's flesh and blood. As the battle escalated, Hashirama summoned his Sage Art Wood Buddha, and the fight remained unresolved.

• Uchiha Madara instructed Uchiha Hikari to guard the base and stay behind because her eyesight had deteriorated.
• Shin'yu reflected on Madara's past defeats by Hashirama and followed him toward the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Uchiha Madara summoned the Nine-Tails outside the village and fought Hashirama, drawing the battle toward the coast.
• Shin'yu sensed people following the fighters and saw a Susanoo-empowered Tailed Beast Ball explode on a distant island.
• Hashirama tried to persuade Madara to stop fighting, but Madara refused and recalled their childhood stone-throwing contest.
• Hashirama entered Sage Mode and summoned the True Several Thousand Hands Wood Buddha as Madara prepared to face him.

After Hashirama killed Madara to protect the Hidden Leaf Village, Shin'yu tried to finish off the exhausted Hashirama but was interrupted by Sarutobi Sasuke and a squad of ninja. Shin'yu used his Sharingan to turn the squad against itself, leaving only a few survivors facing him.

• Madara defeated Hashirama in their exhausted battle, but Hashirama's Wood Clone stabbed Madara through the heart from behind.
• Hashirama explained that he would protect the village above all else, then collapsed beside Madara's corpse from exhaustion.
• Shin'yu approached the bodies and raised Madara's sickle to kill Hashirama, but Sarutobi Sasuke arrived and knocked the weapon aside.
• Sarutobi Sasuke accused Shin'yu of defecting from the Hidden Leaf Village and killing twenty-two ninja, while more than a dozen Jonin surrounded him.
• Shin'yu used an Illusion Technique to control the surrounding ninja, who attacked one another and several slit their own throats, leaving Sarutobi Sasuke and three others alive.

Shin'yu, Madara, and Light traced the Blood Dragon Eye’s control of a Human Bomb to a nearby attacker, and Shin'yu captured him to learn why he had attacked Hidden Leaf Village. The captured man was trapped in Shin'yu’s Illusion Technique and faced questioning.

• A controlled girl attacked Shin'yu, Madara, and Light, but Madara used Illusion Technique with them to locate the Blood Dragon Eye user and break the control over her.
• Light took the unconscious girl to the hospital while Shin'yu left to investigate the attacker.
• Shin'yu found the middle-aged man in a shelter, blocked his blood dagger, and carried him away through the roof.
• Shin'yu trapped the man in an Illusion Technique and demanded to know his forces, origins, and reason for attacking Hidden Leaf Village.

Chiri and her companions returned to the Hidden Leaf Village and found it devastated by a Blood Pond Clan attack. After learning how the clan head’s scheme in Hell Valley had led to the assault, they resolved to join the village’s defense.

• Chiri and her companions entered the ruined village and realized they had arrived too late.
• Chiri learned that the Uchiha Clan Head had used the Hell Valley incident to trap her rivals, but a traitor’s actions freed the Blood Pond Clan and sparked its attack.
• The Blood Pond Clan’s radicals crushed those who opposed retaliation and sent their forces toward the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Chiri told her companions to hide while she went to stop the attackers, but Tsunade, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Tong Ren, and Uchiha Nen chose to stand with her.
• The group agreed to follow Chiri and help resist the Blood Pond Clan’s attack.

Shin'yu fought Sarutobi Sasuke and his comrades, then summoned Bochi to hold Sasuke back while he escaped the fight. As Shin'yu restored his severed arm, he sensed a familiar yet unfamiliar soul nearby.

• Sarutobi Sasuke attacked Shin'yu with a Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique, but Shin'yu countered with his scythe and killed two Hidden Leaf Village ninja.
• Sarutobi Sasuke wounded Shin'yu and appeared to be caught by his threads, but the Sasuke he attacked was a substitute; Shin'yu summoned Bochi to stop him.
• Sarutobi Sasuke summoned Monkey King Enma to fight Bochi, but Bochi trapped Sasuke in a dark tornado while Shin'yu restored his right arm with his Mangekyo.
• Shin'yu sensed a familiar yet unfamiliar soul.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Uchiha organized a counterattack against the Chinoike Clan’s controlled Human Bombs, while Shin'yu rescued villagers and searched for the enemy. After healing the young Teuchi, Shin'yu sensed several familiar figures and vanished toward them.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen swept the Self-Exploding Puppets away from villagers and sealed them inside a barrier.
• Hiruzen identified the Chinoike Clan’s Blood Dragon Eye as the source of the control and ordered sensing, Uchiha, and sealing teams to work together.
• Zhi Li led the Uchiha in searching the village and dispelling the Blood Pond Clan’s Illusion Technique with her Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Shin'yu defeated puppets and a Chinoike attacker, using the controlled villagers to locate their caster.
• Shin'yu rescued four-year-old Teuchi, healed his injured arm, and sent him toward a temporary shelter.
• Shin'yu fired a Spiral Bullet into a nearby building, sensed several familiar figures, and vanished toward them.

Shin'yu reunited with Uchiha Kagami and overwhelmed Kagami and his comrades with Susanoo and an illusion. He left Kagami alive, surrounded by his battered but living companions.

• Several youths attacked Shin'yu, but he knocked Hiruzen away and captured a Sarutobi Clan Jonin with Susanoo.
• Shin'yu greeted Uchiha Kagami as his younger brother, caught Kagami's wrist, and killed the Jonin in front of him.
• Kagami tried to use an Illusion Technique on Shin'yu, but the backlash left him injured, and Shin'yu kicked him aside.
• Danzo, Hiruzen, Torifu Akimichi, and others attacked Shin'yu, who used Susanoo to defeat them and appeared to kill them before Kagami.
• Shin'yu revealed that Kagami had been caught in Demonic Illusion: Mirror Heaven and Earth Change, while he had merely subdued Kagami's comrades.

Shin'yu tortured Kagami and the Leaf shinobi in an attempt to awaken Kagami's Mangekyo Sharingan, but Kagami remained terrified and unresponsive. After stabbing Hiruzen and secretly keeping him alive, Shin'yu moved to attack Hashirama, only for Tobirama to arrive and block his strike.

• Shin'yu threatened Kagami and crushed Akimichi Torifu with the Susanoo Bone Hand when Kagami refused to name someone close to him.
• Kagami charged at Shin'yu but was stopped by an Illusion Technique, while Danzo tried to save himself by claiming he hated Kagami.
• Shin'yu dismissed Danzo, then stabbed Hiruzen through the heart in front of Kagami, who was left horrified and unable to react.
• Shin'yu realized Kagami still showed no sign of awakening his eyes, so he secretly healed Hiruzen's heart enough to keep him half-alive.
• Shin'yu approached Hashirama and struck, but Tobirama appeared and blocked the blade.

Uchiha Nen, Orochimaru, and Tong Ren defeated a Blood Pond Clan woman after she trapped Nen in her Mental World, while Hiruko discovered a hollow metal structure buried beneath a crater. Hiruko covered his find and ran to protect a father and daughter from three pursuing puppets.

• Uchiha Nen and Orochimaru attacked the Blood Pond Clan woman, but she wounded Tong Ren and used her Blood Dragon Eye to control him.
• Nen entered the woman's body and fought her soul in her Mental World while Orochimaru threw a kunai into her forehead, killing her and freeing Tong Ren.
• Hiruko used a Shadow Clone to escape two puppets' self-destruction and discovered a hollow piece of metal beneath the crater.
• Hiruko hid the buried structure when a father and daughter fled toward him, then ran to confront the three puppets pursuing them.

Shin'yu outmaneuvered Tobirama by using a water clone to lure him away while he freed the Nine-Tails. Tobirama realized the deception and returned to confront Shin'yu, who remained poised atop the Wood Golem as Tobirama vowed to kill him.

• Tobirama attacked Shin'yu with Flying Thunder God kunai, then struck what he believed was Shin'yu with a kunai through the eye and severed his head.
• Shin'yu's body and head dissolved into water, revealing that Tobirama had killed only a water clone.
• Tobirama realized the real Shin'yu had been elsewhere and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave the battlefield.
• Tobirama found Shin'yu atop the Wood Golem after the Nine-Tails had escaped its broken wooden prison.
• Shin'yu revealed that Tobirama had been misled about his target, and Tobirama vowed to kill him.