Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian Uchiha defeated Yomi and the Jashin Cult forces, then joined Kakashi and Naruto at the cavern where Shion was reinforcing Moryo’s seal. As Moryo used the image of Shion’s mother to manipulate her, a strange magnetic field began affecting Shion’s mind.

• Shion escaped with Kakashi and the others on the Somersault Cloud while Xiao Tian Uchiha stayed behind to fight the Jashin Cult.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha destroyed the puppets and killed the Jashin Cult ninjas with his staff and heavenly flames.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha ambushed and burned Yomi to death, gaining 200,000 system points.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha reached the cavern, where Shion reinforced the seal holding Moryo and two demons while Kakashi and Naruto stood guard.
• Moryo showed Shion the image of her mother and spread a magnetic field that began influencing Shion’s mind.

Xiao Tian Uchiha sealed Moryo inside himself using the Evil Transfer Technique, then vanished into the Kamui Dimension. With the Akatsuki members Hidan and Kakuzu arriving to hunt Naruto, Naruto entered Sage Mode, opened six gates, and attacked them with a Nine-Tails Rasengan.

• Xiao Tian Uchiha used the Evil Transfer Technique to draw Moryo into his body, reassuring Shion, Kakashi, and Naruto before disappearing into the Kamui Dimension.
• Shion feared Moryo would devour Xiao Tian’s soul, but Naruto and Kakashi trusted that he had a plan.
• Hidan and Kakuzu arrived, and Shion warned Hidan that he was going to die.
• Naruto entered Sage Mode, opened six gates, and asked Kurama for chakra while Kakashi protected Shion.
• Naruto unleashed Sage Art: Nine-Tails Rasengan, blasting Kakuzu away and nearly piercing Hidan’s abdomen.

Naruto Uzumaki overwhelmed Hidan with Shadow Clones and a Tailed Beast Bomb while Kakashi used Kamui to strike Kakuzu and escape the cave with Shion. Hidan survived the blast but was left incapacitated, and Kakuzu cleared Naruto’s remaining Shadow Clones with a wind attack.

• Kakuzu attacked Naruto Uzumaki with Lightning Release: False Darkness while Kakashi revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and used Kamui to redirect a Lightning Release-infused shuriken into one of Kakuzu’s hearts.
• Naruto Uzumaki used Shadow Clones and Sage Art: Big Ball Nine-Tails Rasengan to injure Hidan, then trapped him with more clones as he prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Naruto Uzumaki’s Tailed Beast Bomb collapsed the cave entrance and severely damaged Hidan.
• Kakashi used Kamui to tear through the cave wall and escape with Shion, while Kakuzu stayed behind to pursue the Nine-Tails mission.
• Kakuzu used Wind Release: Pressure Damage to destroy Naruto Uzumaki’s Shadow Clones as Hidan lay alive but unable to move.

Naruto and Kakuzu fought while Kakashi protected Shion, but Xiao Tian arrived after defeating Moryo and rescued them. Shion foresaw Xiao Tian repeatedly regenerating from destruction, and Kakuzu survived the golden flames with one heart left.

• Kakashi hid Shion and urged Naruto to stop the Akatsuki members from escaping.
• Naruto attacked Kakuzu, who fought back with a reinforced flying fist and elemental Ninjutsu while trying to retrieve Hidan.
• Kakuzu discovered that the Hidan he had pulled toward him was only a substitute, then was engulfed by golden flames.
• Xiao Tian appeared beside Naruto with Shion and explained that dealing with Moryo had delayed him.
• Shion saw a vision of Xiao Tian regenerating after his body was destroyed and blushed when he teased her.
• Xiao Tian noticed that Kakuzu had survived with one heart remaining.

Xiao Tian Uchiha persuaded Kakuzu to leave the Akatsuki and join him, then returned to Konoha with Kakuzu and Shion. The next day, Xiao Tian opened a new restaurant in Konoha.

• Naruto Uzumaki attacked Kakuzu with a Sage Art: Nine-Tails Big Ball Rasengan, but Xiao Tian Uchiha deflected it into the sky and offered Kakuzu a place with him.
• Kakuzu agreed to leave the Akatsuki and run with Xiao Tian, while insisting he was not joining Konoha and needed to replenish his hearts.
• Xiao Tian reassured Kakashi that he trusted Kakuzu, and Kakuzu later replenished his hearts by killing villains near the Land of Demons before rejoining the group.
• Xiao Tian and the others returned to Konoha, and Shion joined them after settling matters at the priestess's temple.
• Xiao Tian opened a new restaurant in Konoha after simple renovations.

Xiao Tian opened a Shaxian Delicacies eatery with Kakuzu, relying on his Hokage prestige and a cola machine to attract customers. Kakuzu became devoted to running the profitable shop and agreed to handle its finances and security.

• Kakuzu questioned whether the shabby eatery could earn enough and considered continuing bounty missions, but Xiao Tian assured him that the shop would draw customers.
• Kakuzu was shocked by the menu prices and by seeing Xiao Tian use a Shadow Clone to cook, then sampled the food and cola.
• Xiao Tian revealed that a Pay-to-Win Manual had inspired him to open the eatery, and that cola sales were his main source of income.
• Kakuzu found the cola refreshing and said it seemed to restore Chakra, then asked for a refill despite Xiao Tian saying it would come out of his dividends.
• Konoha advisers, Kakashi, shinobi, and clan members visited the shop, and the cola sold far better than the other food.
• Kakuzu volunteered to manage the finances, and Xiao Tian entrusted him with protecting the shop and operating the cola machine.

Xiao Tian Uchiha traveled with Kakashi to the Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron, where Raikage A confronted him over Konoha sheltering Kakuzu. The summit’s discussion turned tense as Ōnoki backed the demand to eliminate Kakuzu.

• Xiao Tian Uchiha continued earning System Points from Shaxian Delicacies and ran a cola machine in Meihuizi's clothing shop.
• With Naruto missing, Xiao Tian Uchiha took Kakashi to the Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha and Kakashi arrived by Somersault Cloud and were greeted by the samurai Okisuke.
• Raikage A demanded to know why Xiao Tian Uchiha had recruited Kakuzu, who had helped extract the Two-Tails from Yugito.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha refused to hand Kakuzu over, and Raikage A rose in anger as Ōnoki warned that keeping Kakuzu in Konoha was dangerous.

Xiao Tian Uchiha refused to surrender Kakuzu and joined the Kage in assessing the Akatsuki’s threat. As the leaders discussed protecting the Jinchuriki, Xiao Tian learned that Jiraiya had found the Six Paths of Pain and was fighting them at Orochimaru’s underground base.

• Xiao Tian Uchiha refused Raikage A’s demand for Kakuzu and offered to arrange a later duel between them.
• The Kage assessed the Akatsuki’s likely location and discussed which Jinchuriki might be at risk.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha revealed that Konoha had lost track of Naruto, alarming the other Kage.
• Xiao Tian learned that Jiraiya had discovered the Six Paths of Pain at Orochimaru’s underground base and was already fighting them.
• Xiao Tian hurriedly summoned the Preta Path, Asura Path, and Human Path to assist.

Xiao Tian Uchiha secretly scouted Jiraiya’s fight against the Six Paths of Pain and discovered Orochimaru hiding nearby. The Deva Path overwhelmed Jiraiya with Shinra Tensei and struck his arm with a Chakra black rod.

• Xiao Tian Uchiha left the meeting, sent a Shadow Clone to the restroom, and followed the Animal Path through underground pipes with five Six Paths Bodies.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha scouted ahead and watched Jiraiya blast back the Asura Path, then summon Fukasaku and Sage Shima to help him fight.
• Jiraiya and the Toad Sages used Sage Art: Goemon to repel the Naraka Path and a summoned beast, while Konan attacked with Paper Shuriken Jutsu.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha spotted Orochimaru hiding nearby as the Deva Path joined the fight and declared it was time to end the battle.
• The Deva Path used Banshō Ten'in to pull Jiraiya close, broke apart Sage Art: Goemon with Shinra Tensei, and struck Jiraiya’s arm with a Chakra black rod.

Xiao Tian Uchiha rescued Jiraiya from Pain’s attack and drove off several of Nagato’s Paths. The Two-Tails and Three-Tails reappeared, leaving the Sage of Six Paths regretting their revival.

• Jiraiya’s left arm was immobilized by Pain’s black Chakra rod, but Xiao Tian Uchiha arrived and stopped another rod from striking Sage Fukasaku.
• Xiao Tian used his Heavenly Flames and Adamantine Staff to cripple Asura Path and Preta Path, while Animal Path summoned them away.
• Xiao Tian pulled the black Chakra rod from Jiraiya’s hand, and the two left together.
• Xiao Tian spotted Orochimaru in hiding, frightening him into planning to abandon the Sound Ninja territory and flee.
• A golden two-tailed creature appeared at Sasori’s death site and identified herself as Yugito, while a giant golden-spiked Three-Tails rampaged at sea.
• The Sage of Six Paths sensed the Two-Tails and Three-Tails had returned, then regretted feeling glad about their revival.

Xiao Tian Uchiha and Jiraiya raided Orochimaru's base, where the Animal Path captured Hong Lian and analyzed her Crystal Release. After Jiraiya shared intelligence about the Akatsuki and his former students, Xiao Tian and Jiraiya headed for the Land of Iron, where Orochimaru and his subordinates encountered the resurrected Two-Tails, Yugito.

• Xiao Tian Uchiha and Jiraiya ransacked Orochimaru's secret base while the Deva Path Body stole research records and captured Hong Lian.
• The Animal Path analyzed Hong Lian's blood and determined that Crystal Release involved earth, lightning, and a special Chakra attribute, with sound waves as its weakness.
• Jiraiya gave Xiao Tian a scroll of Akatsuki intelligence and told him about his former students Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato.
• Jiraiya urged Xiao Tian to reveal the Akatsuki's identity and gather the Tailed Beast Jinchūriki, while Xiao Tian said peace could come if no living beings remained.
• Xiao Tian sensed a familiar presence approaching from the Land of Rain as he and Jiraiya traveled to the Land of Iron.
• Orochimaru and his subordinates came face-to-face with the resurrected Two-Tails, Yugito.

Xiao Tian Uchiha shared new intelligence about the Akatsuki at the Land of Iron conference before leaving to investigate a disturbance. In the wilderness, Orochimaru and his allies struggled against a strangely transformed Two-Tails, which Kabuto suspected had advanced.

• Xiao Tian Uchiha revealed that his earlier appearance had been a Shadow Clone, then arrived with Jiraiya and presented the Kage with updated intelligence about the Akatsuki.
• Granny Chiyo warned that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki could be in danger, prompting Xiao Tian Uchiha to leave Jiraiya to continue the conference while he verified something.
• The mutated Two-Tails sent Manda crashing through the ground, and Orochimaru agreed to provide more sacrifices to keep helping fight it.
• Jugo's Air Cannon failed against the Two-Tails, and Kabuto suggested that it had advanced.

Orochimaru fought Two-Tails with help from Manda, Kabuto, and Jugo, and weakened her with his snake techniques and Triple Rashomon. Just as Orochimaru ordered her capture, a voice overhead startled him.

• Manda resumed fighting Two-Tails after Orochimaru promised him sacrifices, but her Tailed Beast Bomb badly wounded him and forced him to retreat.
• Orochimaru used Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes, but Two-Tails burned the snakes away.
• Orochimaru detonated giant snakes with Evil Snake Arm Explosion, dimming Two-Tails' flames and weakening her.
• Two-Tails fired a powerful Tailed Beast Bomb at Orochimaru, and his Triple Rashomon blocked it after the first two gates shattered.
• Orochimaru ordered Kabuto and Jugo to capture Two-Tails, but a voice overhead called out and made him tense.

Xiao Tian Uchiha took the revived Two-Tails from Orochimaru, then discovered it had revived as Yugito and seemed to recognize him as its creator. After realizing there were two Two-Tails, Xiao Tian set a plan in motion, while Orochimaru made a breakthrough extracting penicillin and began suffering its negative effects.

• Xiao Tian Uchiha used a space-time technique to take the Two-Tails from under Kabuto and Jugo, and Orochimaru let him go because he could not defeat him.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha met the revived Two-Tails outside the Land of Iron, where it called itself Yugito and said he felt like its creator.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha learned Yugito had revived in a burning forest in the Land of Rain and realized the Two-Tails in his system storage space was still there too.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha let an adorable blue-flamed Two-Tails roam until Akatsuki members captured it.
• Orochimaru successfully extracted penicillin and strengthened the white snake bloodline genes in his body, but negative effects followed.

Orochimaru’s experiment transformed him into a woman and gave him new powers, but also caused menstruation. Meanwhile, Sasuke learned the truth about his clan from Itachi, and Xiao Tian arrived just as Itachi was about to reveal how to obtain the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Orochimaru told Kabuto that his experiment had changed his body and voice, more than doubled his chakra, and left him sensing a hidden danger.
• Orochimaru experienced menstrual pain and decided that solving it should be his next research project.
• Naruto and Sasuke teamed up to defeat Kisame, and Itachi answered Sasuke’s questions about the Uchiha clan and Konoha.
• Sasuke’s resentment toward Konoha’s former leaders eased, and his chakra cultivation increased as his agreement with Naruto continued.
• Xiao Tian stopped Itachi from removing his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Itachi explained that Sasuke and Xiao Tian could each take one of his eyes to obtain the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

Xiao Tian helped Sasuke awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan by accepting Itachi’s eye, then used his Healing Technique to restore Itachi’s health. The chapter ended when Xiao Tian sensed a threat in Konoha and said someone had chosen the wrong target.

• Sasuke refused Itachi’s offer of an eye, but Xiao Tian revealed that he already had the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Itachi gouged out one Mangekyō Sharingan and urged Sasuke to fuse with it.
• Sasuke absorbed the eye’s ocular power and awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan in one eye.
• Xiao Tian took Itachi aside, used the Evil Transfer Technique and Healing Techniques, and relieved his symptoms.
• Itachi offered Sasuke his remaining Mangekyō Sharingan for a future upgrade and warned him to use his other eye sparingly.
• Xiao Tian sensed through his Deva Path Body that someone in Konoha was about to attack and said they had picked the wrong target.

Meihuizi defeated Nagato’s Asura Path in Konoha, but learned that the Akatsuki had captured someone. Nagato’s Deva Path attacked the Hyuga Clan to take Hinata, until Xiao Tian Uchiha intervened and confronted Nagato about his past and his plans to destroy Konoha.

• Meihuizi blasted Nagato’s Asura Path away twice, but it revealed that the Akatsuki had captured someone before vanishing.
• Nagato’s Deva Path defeated Hyuga Hiashi and tried to take Hinata, who fought back with the Thirty Gods Vacuum Attack.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha restrained the Deva Path’s Shinra Tensei with Kamui and arrived atop the Ancient Void Dragon’s Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Tian accused Nagato of betraying his teacher and failing to protect his companions, stirring memories of Yahiko.
• Nagato declared that he would cleanse the Shinobi World and destroy Konoha, while Xiao Tian recognized that Nagato’s grudge against him had become personal.

Xiao Tian Uchiha defended Konoha from Nagato's Six Paths Bodies, rescued hostages, and helped limit the invasion's casualties. After apologizing for the damage, he announced that Tsunade would succeed him as Sixth Hokage while he focused on targeting the Akatsuki.

• Nagato's Animal Path summoned Rinnegan beasts across Konoha, while Xiao Tian's summoned beasts defeated them and Konoha's ninja helped prevent any deaths.
• Xiao Tian's Deva Path Body and Zi Yan rescued Shikamaru Nara from the Preta Path, which escaped after threatening him.
• Xiao Tian and Zi Yan rescued other hostages from the Human Path and badly beat it.
• Xiao Tian used funds from the Shaxian Food Shop to compensate villagers whose homes had been destroyed, then checked the missing-person list.
• Xiao Tian apologized to Konoha's leaders and announced that Tsunade would become Sixth Hokage after his retirement, so he could focus on the Akatsuki.

Xiao Tian Uchiha prepared to eliminate the Akatsuki after its attack on Konoha, while Jiraiya left with Naruto and Sasuke to bring Tsunade back as Hokage. As Xiao Tian trained and organized a search for the Akatsuki, Obito Uchiha planned to exploit the fallout and capture Tailed Beast Jinchūriki.

• Xiao Tian Uchiha assigned Jiraiya to find Tsunade and sent him with Naruto and Sasuke to persuade her to return from retirement.
• News of the Akatsuki’s attack on Konoha and Xiao Tian Uchiha’s impending departure as Hokage spread across the Shinobi World.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha trained in the Kamui Dimension and summoned Naraka Path as allied creatures searched for the Akatsuki.
• Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu discussed how the Akatsuki’s destruction would help advance the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Obito Uchiha broke his yellow spiral-patterned mask, put on a new white one, and set out to capture Jinchūriki as they left the Land of Iron.

Obito Uchiha urged Nagato to capture the Nine-Tails, but Nagato reconsidered the Eye of the Moon Plan and challenged Xiao Tian Uchiha to a decisive battle at the Valley of the End. Konan delivered the challenge and said the Akatsuki held no hostages, while Xiao Tian Uchiha sent Dragon Emperor Zi Yan to warn Konoha and prepare for battle.

• Obito Uchiha entered the Land of Rain, identified himself to the Deva Path of Pain as Madara Uchiha, and told Nagato to capture the Nine-Tails.
• Obito Uchiha left the Akatsuki base, and Nagato ordered Konan to tell Xiao Tian Uchiha to meet him at the Valley of the End without informing the other Akatsuki members.
• Nagato reflected on Xiao Tian Uchiha's words and began to doubt whether the Eye of the Moon Plan could bring peace.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha encountered Konan at the border of the Land of Rain, where she delivered Nagato's challenge and said the Akatsuki had no hostages.
• Xiao Tian Uchiha sent Dragon Emperor Zi Yan to Konoha to warn his mother and the others to prepare for battle.