Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiao trapped the Death God and weakened him with Natural Energy-enhanced Yin Wood Lightning before capturing him and tracing the origins of ghosts and gods. Minato learned that Xu Xiao had killed Naruto and tried to attack him, but Orochimaru took control of Minato's reincarnated body.

• Xu Xiao used Yin Wood Lightning infused with Natural Energy to repeatedly strike the trapped Death God.
• Orochimaru, Nagato, Konan, and Minato watched as the lightning weakened the Death God, while Orochimaru and Minato explained the ancient origins of natural power and the Death God.
• Orochimaru confirmed that Xu Xiao had requested Minato's resurrection, and Minato asked about Konoha.
• Xu Xiao captured the Death God with lightning chains and used his Divine Sense to learn how ghosts and gods originated and gained power.
• Xu Xiao told Minato that he had killed Naruto, and Minato tried to attack him before Orochimaru seized control of his body.

Xu Xiao ordered Orochimaru to extract the Nine-Tails from Minato and had Nagato summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. He fed it all nine Tailed Beasts, fully reviving the Ten-Tails.

• Xu Xiao ordered Orochimaru to release the Nine-Tails sealed inside Minato and planned to destroy Minato's soul.
• Xu Xiao told Nagato to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and sensed that a faint instinct remained within it.
• Xu Xiao opened a passage to the War God Temple's grotto-heaven and released the Tailed Beasts he had sealed there.
• Xu Xiao broke the Tailed Beasts' seals, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path absorbed them one by one.
• Orochimaru extracted the Nine-Tails from Minato, and Xu Xiao suppressed Kurama and sent him into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• The Demonic Statue absorbed Kurama, opened all its eyes, and revived as the Ten-Tails.

Xu Xiao let the Ten-Tails break free of Nagato’s control, then used the True Meaning of Desire to amplify its instincts and gradually bring it under his influence. The beast devastated Kirigakure and its island as Xu Xiao began receiving its power through their connection.

• The Ten-Tails grew to an enormous size, and Nagato could barely control it, so Xu Xiao told him to retreat with Konan and Orochimaru.
• Xu Xiao destroyed Minato’s Impure World Reincarnation body with Yin Wood Lightning, then let the Ten-Tails loose.
• The Ten-Tails attacked Kirigakure, and Mei Terumi’s Lava Release barely harmed it; Xu Xiao warned her to flee before flying toward the beast.
• Xu Xiao sent a seed of the True Meaning of Desire into the Ten-Tails, intensifying its rage and making it grow more violent.
• The Ten-Tails fired Tailed Beast Bombs that destroyed a third of Kirigakure’s island and killed nearly all the Mist Ninja there.
• As the seed took root, the Ten-Tails’ power began flowing into Xu Xiao, making him a different kind of Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

Xu Xiao controlled the Ten-Tails and dragged Ōtsutsuki Isshiki into a confrontation, then used the Ten-Tails to summon Kaguya from her seal inside the moon. Kaguya answered the call while Hagoromo chose not to intervene, leaving the Shinobi World on the brink of chaos.

• The desire seed fused with the Ten-Tails, and Xu Xiao brought its rampage under control.
• Xu Xiao used the world's authority to locate Isshiki and pulled him through space to the sea where the Ten-Tails stood.
• Isshiki attacked Xu Xiao with black rods, but Xu Xiao stopped them with Telekinesis and sent them back.
• Xu Xiao used the Ten-Tails' connection to Kaguya to summon her from the moon's seal.
• Kaguya sensed the summons and answered it, while Hagoromo decided not to interfere.

Xu Xiao summoned Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, but she could not control the Ten-Tails beneath her when Isshiki returned and attacked. Isshiki powered himself up with another Ten-Tails and battered Kaguya until Xu Xiao offered to help her.

• Xu Xiao summoned Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, who blushed at his advances and asked where Black Zetsu was.
• Isshiki rushed at Kaguya, and she discovered that the Ten-Tails beneath her would not answer her.
• Isshiki summoned another Ten-Tails and absorbed it into his body, greatly increasing his power.
• Isshiki struck Kaguya repeatedly while she struggled to defend herself and feared he would kill her.
• Xu Xiao told Kaguya that she seemed to need a little help.

Xu Xiao used his control over the Ten-Tails to force Kaguya to submit after Isshiki tortured her. He then drew on the Ten-Tails’ vast chakra and began testing his new power against Isshiki and Kaguya.

• Xu Xiao revealed that the Ten-Tails was effectively his avatar, explaining that his Seed of Desire had fused with its consciousness and blocked Kaguya from controlling it.
• Xu Xiao offered to save Kaguya if she submitted, while Isshiki pinned her to the seabed and tortured her.
• Kaguya begged Xu Xiao to save her and promised to accept his conditions.
• Xu Xiao linked himself to the Ten-Tails and absorbed its chakra, comparing the resulting power with the authority he could wield in other worlds.
• Xu Xiao formed a black sphere and unleashed Planetary Devastation over Isshiki and Kaguya.

Xu Xiao subdued Isshiki with Planetary Devastation and a chakra-enhanced Wind Riding technique, then extracted Isshiki’s Ten-Tails and searched his memories. He discovered the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s origins and the coordinates to their ancestral land.

• Xu Xiao used Planetary Devastation to pull Isshiki and Kaguya into the sky, then used World Authority to force Isshiki out of an alternate dimension.
• Xu Xiao combined Chakra with Five Elements Art: Wind Riding and trapped Isshiki in a massive tornado before sealing him inside a sphere of water.
• Xu Xiao released Isshiki from the sphere, struck him down, and forcibly extracted and sealed his Ten-Tails in the War God Temple’s grotto-heaven.
• Xu Xiao searched Isshiki’s memories, found the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s origins and journey coordinates, and reached the clan’s ancestral land through those memories.

Xu Xiao used Isshiki to grow the Ten-Tails into a God Tree and began draining the Shinobi World while planning to gather its people and investigate faith’s role in becoming a god. Over the next year, he conquered the world and established the Carefree Heavenly Desire Sect, until the God Tree began to bloom.

• Xu Xiao recorded the coordinates of the Ōtsutsuki ancestral land, fed Isshiki to the Ten-Tails, and watched it transform into a God Tree that drained the planet’s vital essence.
• Xu Xiao planned to seize the Shinobi World’s authority, move its people to worlds under his control, and study how faith could lead to godhood.
• Xu Xiao returned to Konoha with Kaguya and spent the following year conquering the Shinobi World and annexing its nations.
• Xu Xiao established the Carefree Heavenly Desire Sect, placing himself at its center and making devotion to him the basis of social status and advancement.
• Xu Xiao experienced the power of faith as the God Tree began to bloom.

Xu Xiao watched the God Tree produce its first Chakra Fruit, then swallowed it to absorb its power and test whether he could unify his abilities. As his body and Golden Core transformed, he began combining his different power systems, and a strange eye opened between his brows.

• Ōtsutsuki Kaguya told Xu Xiao that the God Tree had blossomed and its first Chakra Fruit would soon appear.
• The God Tree formed a Chakra Fruit as its power drained the planet, and Xu Xiao plucked it while the others watched.
• Xu Xiao recognized impurities from the Ten-Tails in the fruit but decided they could help awaken the power he desired.
• Xu Xiao swallowed the Chakra Fruit, breaking through the final barrier of his Gene Lock and transforming his body and Golden Core.
• Xu Xiao began merging his Magic Power, Telekinesis, Chakra, and other abilities, and a strange eye opened between his brows.

Xu Xiao awakened the Golden Pupil of Myriad Phenomena, which let him perceive and analyze powers, desires, faith, and world laws, then transform the powers within himself. He planned to use it with the Heavens World-Crossing Gate to seize authority over the world, though the Gate itself remained beyond his understanding.

• Xu Xiao awakened a golden vertical eye called the Golden Pupil of Myriad Phenomena and used it to perceive emotions, desires, and faith entering his body.
• Xu Xiao discovered that the eye could analyze world laws and help him integrate or transform powers he had studied.
• Xu Xiao realized the eye could accelerate his research into the Dao of Desire and the path to godhood through faith.
• Xu Xiao decided to use the Golden Pupil and the Heavens World-Crossing Gate to seize authority over the world.
• Xu Xiao inspected the Heavens World-Crossing Gate but could not see through its deeper powers, and he chose not to doubt the treasure that had benefited him.

After moving the Naruto World’s inhabitants and arranging his controlled universes into a tiered system for cultivating talents, Xu Xiao considered which world to visit next. He decided he needed to learn how to ignite divine fire and use the power of faith before pursuing his research into electromagnetism further.

• Xu Xiao left the Ten-Tails in the Naruto World to drain the planet’s vitality and, after eating another Chakra Fruit, brought the world’s inhabitants out.
• Xu Xiao made the Great Tang Twin Dragons World his temporary main world and organized other universes as specialized bases for cultivating martial, scientific, and other talents.
• Xu Xiao used the Carefree Heavenly Desire Sect to identify geniuses in martial arts worlds and recruit outstanding candidates into the Great Tang Twin Dragons World.
• Xu Xiao considered seeking a world with gods whose power was limited, since a World Will and powerful native gods could threaten him before he gained control of its authority.
• Xu Xiao concluded that he needed to ignite divine fire to make use of the power of faith, while continuing to build his foundation and study electromagnetism.

Xu Xiao arrived in Cairo and began investigating a world where Egyptian gods drew power from believers’ faith. He healed Asimo with a Seed of Desire and sent him to spread the faith of the Heavenly Venerable of Ten Thousand Desires while Xu Xiao stayed hidden to assess the gods.

• Xu Xiao examined Cairo’s laws and observed believers’ prayers rising as faith toward gods such as Osiris.
• Xu Xiao found the dying Asimo in the slums, and Asimo prayed desperately for any god or devil to save him.
• Xu Xiao offered Asimo a Seed of Desire, and Asimo accepted it in exchange for becoming Xu Xiao’s believer.
• The Seed of Desire transformed Asimo’s will to live into Magic Power, restoring his health and youth.
• Xu Xiao ordered Asimo to preach the Heavenly Venerable of Ten Thousand Desires, then chose to remain hidden and watch how the gods responded.

Xu Xiao, having taken control of Cairo, captured Evelyn and Jonathan after they asked about O’Connell and offered to fund their expedition to Hamunaptra. He planned to use the protagonists to uncover the Egyptian gods’ power, and Evelyn began to waver under his embodiment of desire.

• Evelyn and Jonathan went to Cairo prison seeking information about O’Connell, but learned that the governor had taken him away.
• A prison official had guards escort Evelyn and Jonathan to Xu Xiao, who had secretly taken control of Cairo’s ruling class.
• Xu Xiao recognized the World Will’s influence on Evelyn and Jonathan and decided to use their expedition to Hamunaptra to investigate the gods’ power.
• Xu Xiao offered to fund Evelyn’s exploration and asked her to give him herself in return.
• Evelyn hesitated instead of rejecting Xu Xiao, as her desire grew in his presence.

Xu Xiao sent Evelyn’s expedition to Hamunaptra while he searched the Himalayas for the Dragon Emperor and the Fountain of Youth, finding no trace of either. At the tomb, Evelyn’s party found a cursed box, and Xu Xiao ordered the guards to make the natives open it so he could test the Egyptian curse.

• Evelyn left Cairo with Xu Xiao’s expedition, while he secretly monitored her through a Seed of Desire and compelled O’Connell to guide the group.
• Xu Xiao searched the Himalayas for the Dragon Emperor and the Fountain of Youth, then returned to Cairo after finding nothing.
• Evelyn led the expedition into Hamunaptra and found a large sarcophagus containing a sealed box.
• A guard used Earth Release: Rock Wall to protect the Egyptian natives from a hydrochloric acid trap, revealing supernatural powers to Evelyn.
• Evelyn read the warning that whoever opened the box would die, and Xu Xiao ordered the guards to make the natives open it anyway.

Xu Xiao had natives open Imhotep’s cursed coffin and studied the curse while Evelyn examined the Book of the Dead. After a guard unlocked the coffin, Imhotep escaped and announced his return.

• Two Egyptian natives opened the box, triggering a curse that Xu Xiao traced to Imhotep and the spellcasters who had bound him.
• Xu Xiao explained the curse to Evelyn, who took the Book of the Dead and activated its magic by reading an inscription.
• A guard broke through the floor beneath Anubis’s statue and found Imhotep’s coffin moving below.
• Xu Xiao ordered a guard to pin down the coffin and unlock it, but Imhotep’s first attempt to lift the lid failed.
• The guard moved away when Xu Xiao ordered him to release Imhotep, and Imhotep burst from the coffin and declared his return.

Xu Xiao’s guard fought Imhotep with Nature Chakra and subdued him, while Xu Xiao ordered Evelyn to use the Book of Amun-Ra to destroy the undead priest. As the book’s spell summoned a chariot of the dead, Xu Xiao’s gaze reached a higher-plane being that recognized him as an outsider.

• Imhotep mistook Evelyn for Anck-su-namun and attacked, but the guard cut him down and burned him with a Great Fireball Technique.
• Xu Xiao sent Nature Chakra to the guard, who used it to destroy Imhotep’s summoned mummies and break the curse sustaining his body.
• The guard dismembered Imhotep and held him at blade point until Xu Xiao ordered him spared so the Egyptian gods’ power could be tested.
• The group found the Book of Amun-Ra, and Xu Xiao sensed that its power opposed the curse while sharing a similar source.
• Evelyn recited the book’s incantation, summoning a chariot of the dead to strip Imhotep of his magic and soul.
• Xu Xiao’s golden eye probed the higher plane, where a being noticed him and called him an outsider.

Xu Xiao confronted Osiris after stopping the god’s envoy from claiming Imhotep’s soul, then entered Osiris’s Underworld to fight him. Osiris sealed his divine kingdom with both of them inside.

• Xu Xiao arrived at Hamunaptra’s Underworld entrance, where the dead chariot stopped in fear of him.
• Osiris appeared and demanded to know why Xu Xiao had interfered with the chariot’s attempt to take Imhotep’s soul.
• Xu Xiao weighed whether to fight Osiris or seek the knowledge needed to ascend to godhood, then chose to fight after Osiris threatened him.
• Xu Xiao moved the archaeological team into the War God Temple’s grotto-heaven and entered the Underworld.
• Osiris shut the entrance and sealed his divine kingdom, trapping himself and Xu Xiao inside.

Osiris sealed Xu Xiao inside his divine kingdom and sent his undead army against him, confident he could kill the outsider and learn the location of his world. Xu Xiao obliterated much of the army and crippled Osiris with a Nuclear Explosion Fist, then faced the god’s attack with the Golden Pupil of Myriad Phenomena opening.

• Osiris told Xu Xiao he had recognized him as an outsider because he carried laws unknown to their world, and revealed his plan to use Xu Xiao’s memories to find his believers’ world.
• Xu Xiao thanked Osiris for warning him that his powers could expose his identity to gods in other worlds.
• Osiris summoned his undead army to overwhelm Xu Xiao inside the sealed divine kingdom.
• Xu Xiao used his Nuclear Explosion Fist to destroy more than half the army and blast away Osiris’s lower body.
• Osiris began repairing himself and attacked Xu Xiao with the laws of souls, death, and the underworld.
• Xu Xiao opened the Golden Pupil of Myriad Phenomena and declared that desire could not be destroyed while it remained undiminished.

Xu Xiao used the True Meaning of Desire to corrupt Osiris, making him believe his own undead army had turned against him and was devouring him. After planting a Seed of Desire in the defeated god, Xu Xiao gained control of Osiris and absorbed divine power through the seed.

• Xu Xiao stirred Osiris's greed, causing the god to spend his divine kingdom's power reviving his undead army.
• Xu Xiao let the undead devour him, then used the Law of Desire to turn their desires against Osiris.
• Osiris tried to cut off the undead soldiers' power, but Xu Xiao spoke to him from within his desires and revealed that the apparent betrayal was a nightmare.
• Osiris killed many of his soldiers in terror before collapsing, while Xu Xiao watched from within the divine kingdom.
• Xu Xiao planted a Seed of Desire in Osiris, making the god his puppet and drawing divine power through the seed.

Xu Xiao asked Osiris how to ascend to godhood and learned that becoming a faith god would keep him from freely entering the material plane. Osiris offered a way around that restriction, and Xu Xiao decided he could find a suitable vessel among the myriad worlds.

• Xu Xiao questioned Osiris about ascending to godhood, and Osiris explained that he needed to solidify his laws and forge a godhead from the world's origin.
• Osiris warned Xu Xiao that a god who stayed too long in the material plane would be rejected by the World Will and could be attacked by other gods.
• Xu Xiao insisted that he needed to keep traveling through the material plane and asked Osiris for another method.
• Osiris proposed placing Xu Xiao's godhead in a body compatible with his laws, leaving that vessel in his divine kingdom while Xu Xiao traveled in a restrained form.
• Xu Xiao accepted the drawbacks of finding a powerful vessel and slower divine power circulation, and considered searching the myriad worlds for one.