Chapter Summaries

Urashiki attacked Shin'yu, Hikari, and Kakuzu, draining Kakuzu's Chakra before clashing with Shin'yu in a fierce aerial battle. Urashiki pulled Shin'yu into a black spatial hole, leaving Hikari and Kakuzu to carry on with their mission while she trusted Shin'yu to survive.

• Urashiki's Fish Hook pierced Kakuzu and drained his Chakra, while Shin'yu deflected it before it could hit Hikari.
• Hikari blocked Urashiki's rain of Fish Hooks with the Blaze War Fan as Shin'yu knocked them away with his sword and struck Urashiki hard enough to send him flying.
• Urashiki launched lightning spears and wind spheres at Shin'yu, who drew the fight into the air and countered with his Black Qi armor and Amaterasu.
• Urashiki escaped Shin'yu's skeletal grip as red Paper Cranes, then appeared behind him with his sea-blue Rinnegan revealed.
• Shin'yu attacked Urashiki with a Rasengan, but Urashiki opened a black spatial hole that swallowed them both.
• Hikari told Kakuzu to take Tong Ren away, saying she trusted Shin'yu to survive.

Nian and Orochimaru learned that Tong Ren had been revived and helped conceal his survival under Shin'yu's orders. Meanwhile, Shin'yu faced Otsutsuki Urashiki in a remote desert, transforming the battlefield into a lake and preparing to fight in earnest.

• Nian discovered that Tong Ren had returned to life, while Kakuzu and Light arrived to take him away on Shin'yu's orders.
• Light explained that Tong Ren faced danger from Uchiha enemies, and Kakuzu told Nian and Orochimaru to treat him as dead.
• Nian created a wooden corpse resembling Tong Ren, and figures soon surrounded him and Orochimaru.
• Shin'yu and Urashiki arrived in a desert, where Shin'yu struck Urashiki with his Susanoo and unleashed a torrent that flooded the wasteland.
• Urashiki attacked Shin'yu from behind, but Shin'yu's Third Stage Susanoo seized his Fishing Rod and hurled him away.
• Shin'yu used Wood Release to raise an island from the new lake and announced that their battle was beginning.

Shoko told Shin'yu how the Forging Blades Workshop was collapsing after Oikawa Genzo fled with its funds, and how Niwa Maya's plan to find a husband for Yukino threatened her friend's freedom. Seeing a chance to build influence through the Merchant Association, Shin'yu promised Shoko he had a plan to rescue it.

• Shoko explained that Oikawa Genzo had fled to the Land of Water with much of the Merchant Association's funds, and the Sugawara and Niwa Families had suffered devastating losses pursuing him.
• Shoko recounted how Niwa Maya rejected Ryunosuke's proposal to marry Yukino to a powerful figure, then announced a tournament whose winner would become his son-in-law.
• Shoko revealed that she had been sent away because the Niwa Family wanted Yukino to take her place as the sacrifice, and she was rushing back to protect her friend.
• Shin'yu considered using the Forging Blades Workshop's crisis to gain a stake in the Merchant Association and expand his influence in the Land of Iron.
• Shin'yu told Shoko he could restore the Merchant Association and led her to identify the powerful figures' greed as the source of its crisis.

Shin'yu agreed to protect the Merchant Association in exchange for thirty percent of its shares, then arrived in the capital and met Niwa Maya and his household. After accepting Niwa's gifts, he asked Ryunosuke to deliver a message to the chairman, leaving its contents unrevealed.

• Shin'yu explained to Shōko that the Martial Arts Marriage Tournament was meant to redirect the powerful figures' conflict, then offered to protect the Merchant Association for thirty percent of its shares.
• Shōko said she had only ten percent of the shares left but offered to transfer them all if Shin'yu saved the association.
• Shin'yu arrived at the Forging Blades Workshop and met Niwa Maya, Yukino, and Niwa's disciples Ryunosuke and Tetsuya; Tetsuya's body stirred Shin'yu's interest.
• Ryunosuke told Shin'yu that Tetsuya planned to enter the Martial Arts Marriage Tournament to fight for Yukino, his childhood sweetheart.
• Shin'yu examined the Frost Descent One Heart sword and accepted a new outfit and thirty million ryo from Niwa Maya.
• Shin'yu stopped Ryunosuke as he was leaving and asked him to deliver a message to Niwa Maya.

Shin'yu fought Urashiki on a small island, countering his Fishing Rod techniques and forcing him back with superior swordsmanship. After Urashiki attacked with fire, wind, and Earth Spears, Shin'yu escalated his Susanoo into its Complete Body form, looming over Urashiki as the battle continued.

• Shin'yu deflected Urashiki's Fish Hooks and attacked him with Frost Descent One Heart.
• Urashiki used Dragon Control and Yomotsu Hirasaka, but Shin'yu studied his spatial technique and pressed him back in their sword fight.
• Urashiki used the Red Light Fish Basket to bombard Shin'yu with Earth Spears, then unleashed a sea of flames strengthened by wind.
• Shin'yu's Susanoo blocked the flames and grew into its armored Mature Body form.
• Shin'yu further empowered Susanoo with a hand seal, forming a spear and transforming it into its Complete Body form.

Uchiha Hikari reported Hashirama Senju’s actions to Uchiha Madara, who endured the painful effects of transplanting Hashirama’s flesh. In the Hidden Leaf Village, Uchiha Kagami struggled with his missing brother before accepting an escort mission and facing a hostile Uchiha Setsuna.

• Uchiha Hikari told Uchiha Madara that Hashirama Senju had captured seven Tailed Beasts and called for a Five Kage Summit.
• Uchiha Hikari reported that Shin'yu had vanished after fighting Tobirama Senju, and Uchiha Madara guessed he had been transported away by Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder.
• After Uchiha Hikari left, Uchiha Madara fought the urge to tear Hashirama’s flesh from his chest and endured its pain.
• Uchiha Kagami recalled his brother’s changed Chakra and lamented that his brother had spared him before Uchiha Fire Core asked him to escort children to the Cat House.
• Uchiha Kagami arrived to lead the escort and met Uchiha Setsuna, who greeted him with open hostility.

Shin'yu overwhelmed Urashiki with Susanoo and Totsuka-no-Tsurugi, but Urashiki escaped the sword's gravity domain and disrupted Shin'yu's attempt to rewind space and time. Shin'yu turned to twin blades and charged Urashiki, eager to face a worthy opponent.

• Urashiki unleashed the Chakra he had absorbed, but Shin'yu's Susanoo cleaved through the attack and split the island in half.
• Shin'yu drove Totsuka-no-Tsurugi into the ground, trapping Urashiki in a gravity domain that crushed him and forced him to teleport the spear away.
• Urashiki escaped the domain and attacked with Fish Hooks, while Shin'yu dispelled Susanoo and tried to rewind his position.
• Urashiki's Blue Rinnegan stopped Shin'yu's rewind, and Shin'yu deflected the Fish Hooks with Frost Descent One Heart.
• Shin'yu formed a second blade, named Autumn Dew on Leaves: Gold Gathering, and rushed at Urashiki with both swords.

Shin'yu exploited Urashiki's time-based abilities to trap and injure him, then used a Wood Dragon to carry him above the clouds. After deducing the limits of Urashiki's timeline rollback, Shin'yu announced that he would show him true fear.

• Urashiki used his Blue Rinnegan's time and space techniques to evade Shin'yu's rapid slashes, while the narration explained his three divine techniques and that he had already spent his Jade Casket.
• Shin'yu's attempt to rewind the chakra spent on Complete Body Susanoo failed, so he used Blaze Release arrows to herd Urashiki into transparent cutting threads.
• Shin'yu punched Urashiki into the threads, severing his limbs, and stored some of his body in a scroll before Urashiki regenerated.
• Shin'yu bound Urashiki briefly with wooden vines and caught him in a Wood Dragon that rose through the clouds.
• Shin'yu deduced that Urashiki could rewind the world's timeline by less than ten seconds and said it was time for Urashiki to experience true fear.

Shin'yu agreed to protect the Merchant Association in exchange for half its shares and profits, while Maya arranged for him to prove himself in the Martial Arts Marriage Tournament. Maya then confronted his disciples and revealed that Tetsuya had quietly influenced Ryunosuke's plan, leaving Ryunosuke to suspect Shin'yu's warning about his junior brother was true.

• Yukino brought Shin'yu to meet Maya, who asked him to help the Merchant Association overcome its crisis.
• Shin'yu revealed that he was Uchiha Madara's disciple and negotiated for thirty percent of the shares, with Maya offering another twenty percent if he freed the Workshop from the Land of Iron's control.
• Shin'yu agreed to act as the Association's deterrent without managing its affairs, and Maya decided he would demonstrate his strength by entering the Martial Arts Marriage Tournament.
• Maya hinted that he might marry Shōko to Shin'yu if Shin'yu won, then sent Yukino to escort him out.
• Ryunosuke and Tetsuya challenged Maya's decision, and Maya exposed Tetsuya's role in inspiring Ryunosuke's plan to marry Shōko off.
• Ryunosuke recalled Shin'yu's warning that Tetsuya was no simple man and began to suspect his junior brother.

Uchiha Shin'yu deciphered how Otsutsuki Urashiki's Rinnegan interfered with his time-reversal technique and restored his strength. He confronted Urashiki again, but Urashiki still claimed Shin'yu could not hurt him.

• Shin'yu changed Mahoraga's adaptation target from Urashiki's Yomotsu Hirasaka to his rollback power while the Wood Dragon drained Urashiki's Chakra.
• Urashiki used Ame no Subako: Crane Wings to teleport away from the Wood Dragon, and Shin'yu detected him and struck with the Guardian God Sword.
• Shin'yu realized Urashiki had been rolling back the world's Timeline to match Shin'yu's altered state, making the two time-reversal techniques appear ineffective.
• Shin'yu used his eye technique to roll back ten minutes, restoring his Chakra and wiping away his exhaustion beyond Urashiki's ten-second rollback range.
• Shin'yu challenged Urashiki to keep fighting, and Urashiki descended to face him while insisting Shin'yu could not hurt him.

Niwa Maya exposed Hozuki Tetsuya as a Water Country infiltrator, and Shin'yu killed him after discovering his body was made of water. Shin'yu learned the scope of Tetsuya's plot and ended the night reflecting on the power of his Mangekyo and how far he remained from Lord Madara.

• Maya revealed that he had suspected Tetsuya and used Yukino's marriage arrangement to draw him out.
• Tetsuya attacked Maya, but Shin'yu stopped him and exposed his strange water-like body.
• Shin'yu killed Tetsuya after Maya ordered him to leave an intact corpse.
• Shin'yu learned that Tetsuya had infiltrated the Niwa Family for the Land of Water and plotted to seize the Merchant Association and its forging techniques.
• Shin'yu returned to his room, reflected on his Mangekyo's power, and compared himself unfavorably to Lord Madara.

Shin'yu unleashed the Third Gate of the Eight Gates and overwhelmed Urashiki with his speed and swordsmanship. He countered Urashiki's time-reversal ability by repeatedly rewinding Urashiki alone, leaving them to continue fighting without Shin'yu being able to restore his own condition.

• Shin'yu opened the Third Gate of the Eight Gates, startling Urashiki with a sudden burst of speed.
• Shin'yu battered Urashiki with the Guardian God Sword, wounded him, and sent him crashing into the island.
• Urashiki realized his rollback ability had failed, and Shin'yu explained that Ame no Tokotachi rewound Urashiki whenever he reversed time.
• Shin'yu said he had sealed Urashiki's time-and-space reversal by continually rewinding him, then thrust his sword at Urashiki as the battle continued.

Shin'yu took over the Martial Arts Tournament arena and challenged anyone seeking to marry Miss Yukino to defeat him. After easily throwing aside several samurai, he remained on the stage, inviting the crowd to attack together.

• Shin'yu appeared on the arena before the tournament and threw a samurai into the stands when the man tried to drive him off.
• Niwa Maya dismissed a noble's demand for an explanation, then Shin'yu announced that challengers seeking Miss Yukino's hand would have to kill him.
• Shin'yu knocked a fiery-tempered samurai off the arena with a kick and warned the others not to waste his time.
• Three samurai attacked Shin'yu with Chakra blades, but his Water Molecule Shield deflected their strikes and he cut their swords, sending them flying.
• Shin'yu told the crowd that anyone weaker than the three samurai should not come up, while he continued to defend the arena.

Shin'yu defeated every challenger at the Land of Iron tournament, then accepted the Daimyo's request to test himself against four legendary samurai. After adapting to their slashes, he unleashed Dual Sword Flourish and left the tournament crowd stunned.

• Shin'yu stood undefeated after more than ten hours of fighting, and Niwa Maya prepared to announce him as the tournament champion.
• The Daimyo interrupted the announcement and asked Shin'yu to fight the four samurai regarded as the strongest in the Land of Iron.
• Shin'yu accepted, and the four elderly samurai surrounded him and attacked with coordinated slashes that broke his Water Molecule Barrier.
• Shin'yu awakened his Mangekyo and adapted his techniques while the samurai's slashes struck him.
• Shin'yu used Dual Sword Flourish to cut through the attacks and break all four samurai's blades, hurling them from the ring with severe but nonfatal wounds.

Shin'yu overwhelmed Urashiki with a relentless assault, pursuing him through a teleportation gate despite losing his right hand. Urashiki escaped again by taking them both to the forest near the Uchiha Clan Territory, where they had first met.

• Shin'yu opened the Fourth Gate of Injury and battered Urashiki with the Painful Sky Fist until Urashiki vanished into Paper Cranes.
• Shin'yu opened the Fifth Gate of Limit and chased Urashiki through Yomotsu Hirasaka, losing his right hand to the closing gate.
• Shin'yu caught Urashiki on the Snowy Plains, restored his severed hand, and struck him with Chongming, nearly destroying his body.
• Urashiki used Yomotsu Hirasaka to transport himself and Shin'yu to the forest near the Uchiha Clan Territory in the Hidden Leaf Village.

Shin'yu unleashed the Sixth Scenic Gate and brutally overwhelmed Urashiki, who tried to use civilians as shields. After Shin'yu revealed he could restore those killed in the battle, Urashiki escaped with him through a Teleportation Gate, bringing them face-to-face with Uchiha Madara.

• Urashiki teleported into the Uchiha Clan Territory and attacked civilians and Police Force members to make Shin'yu hold back.
• Shin'yu opened the Sixth Scenic Gate and battered Urashiki with a relentless barrage of Evening Elephant Air Cannons.
• Urashiki fled into a house and seized two youths as hostages, but Shin'yu struck him and leveled the surrounding area.
• Shin'yu revealed his power to restore the people killed or injured in the battle, leaving Urashiki shocked by his lack of restraint.
• Urashiki opened a Teleportation Gate and dragged Shin'yu away, where they appeared before Uchiha Madara.

Shin'yu slaughtered officials he identified as Land of Water agents, then stopped an assassin from killing the Daimyo and Niwa Maya. He revealed the attacker as Gengetsu Hozuki, who could no longer turn his body into water.

• Shin'yu drew Frost Descent One Heart and killed powerful figures in the viewing stands, claiming they had been bought by the Land of Water and that the Daimyo had ordered their execution.
• Niwa Maya explained to the Daimyo how Land of Water spies had sabotaged the Three Iron Traditions and manipulated the competition.
• Gengetsu Hozuki emerged from the rubble, killed guards with Water Release: Water Gun, and attacked the Daimyo and Niwa Maya.
• Shin'yu stopped Gengetsu's water bullets and struck him before he could reach the Daimyo.
• Gengetsu discovered he could not turn into water as Shin'yu identified him by name.

Uchiha Madara hunted and cooked dinner while waiting for Shin'yu and Light, then Shin'yu appeared at the base fighting Urashiki. Madara joined the fight, and the two pursued Urashiki after he escaped using Space-Time Ninjutsu.

• Uchiha Madara hunted a wild boar and cooked braised pork for Shin'yu and Light.
• A Teleportation Gate opened at the base, and Shin'yu appeared in the Sixth Scenic Gate with Urashiki beneath his foot.
• Uchiha Madara used Susanoo to cut off Urashiki's arms after Shin'yu was distracted by his damaged Red Light Fish Basket.
• Urashiki regrew his arms, escaped as Paper Cranes, and reappeared outside the base.
• Uchiha Madara and Shin'yu pursued Urashiki, who dug out his own eyes and swallowed them.

Shin'yu interrogated Gengetsu Hozuki about his attempt to seize the Land of Iron's Three Iron Traditions and uncovered his plan to fracture the swordsmiths' association. After foiling Gengetsu's escape and warning him to stay away, Shin'yu left Gengetsu alive and returned to the Land of Iron's affairs.

• Shin'yu restrained Gengetsu and forced him to explain that he had come to seize the Three Iron Traditions, hoping to strengthen Hidden Mist Village with new ninja blades.
• Gengetsu admitted he had secretly planted a confidant in the Merchant Association and hired wandering ninja and assassins, claiming the Water Shadow and Hidden Mist Village were not involved.
• Niwa Maya questioned Gengetsu about the attackers, and the Feudal Lord praised Maya and Shin'yu before ordering Gengetsu executed.
• Shin'yu took Gengetsu outside the city and released him, but Gengetsu summoned his Great Clam and used Vapor Stealth before attacking with bubbles.
• Shin'yu found Gengetsu behind a boulder, revealed his Sharingan, and warned him to stay away from the Merchant Association and the Land of Iron.
• Shin'yu told Gengetsu not to mention the Hidden Leaf Village, said he would no longer interfere in the Oikawa Family's affairs, and vanished.

Shin'yu secured the Merchant Association and the Forging Blades Workshop, then left the Land of Iron after a painful exchange with Niwa Yukino about killing Hozuki Tetsuya. Tetsusuke summoned him to the Cat House, where Bochi had prepared the Reverse Summoning Technique.

• Shin'yu told the daimyo that Gengetsu Hozuki had escaped and used his ties to the Merchant Association to pressure the Land of Iron into protecting it.
• Shin'yu became the Merchant Association's Helmsman, gaining a gold token that let him mobilize its resources while avoiding ordinary management.
• Niwa Yukino asked Shin'yu to stay, and he told her he did not regret killing Hozuki Tetsuya because Tetsuya had stood in his way.
• Shin'yu left Tetsusuke at the Forging Blades Workshop and instructed him to summon Shin'yu if the Merchant Association faced a crisis.
• Tetsusuke told Shin'yu that Bochi had returned and prepared the Reverse Summoning Technique, so Shin'yu used it to travel to the Cat House.