Recaps

Tian Zhiyun returned to Konoha after two years away, learned how the Ten Family had reshaped the nations and Konoha, and reunited with her children. She ended the chapter home with her family, determined to protect them and Konoha.

• Tsunade, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Hiruko, and Hiyori Hyuga debated how to counter the nobles’ growing power and secret alliance while strengthening Konoha.
• Tian Zhiyun returned to Konoha and told Tian Yueqing she had failed to find Brother Tsubasa.
• Tian Yueqing explained that Sunagakure had asked Konoha to take it over after Tian Zhiyun defeated much of its forces, but Konoha had let it govern itself.
• Tian Yueqing told Tian Zhiyun that Tian Uguisu and Tian Yukihime had taken control of the Land of Water and the Land of Earth, Tian Muyan had occupied the moon, and Kagami Uchiha had become Hokage as the Ten Family withdrew from Konoha’s leadership.
• Senju Ga brought Tian Ge and Tenka to greet Tian Zhiyun, and she embraced her children and promised to protect them.

The Ten Family gathered after Tian Zhiyun returned and decided to split into branches across the Shinobi World for their children’s safety and cultivation. They planned to reunite in two years, hoping Tsubasa would return to Konoha by then.

• Dō Senju announced that the family had grown but Tsubasa was still missing, and she reported the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy that he would return in two years.
• Dō Senju said the first branch would move to the Moon Goddess Palace, while Kusu Senju planned to move the third branch to the Land of Fire’s capital and Ame Senju planned to move the fifth branch to Mount Myōboku.
• In Senju said the sixth branch would settle in Kirigakure, and Dō Senju asked the fourth and seventh branches to watch over the family home in Konoha.
• Kaidō Senju and Tian Yueqing decided to settle in Shikkotsu Forest, with Yueqing promising to keep overseeing the Kage Academy and its space-time gate.
• Senju Tenpuku warned Tenmei about the Land of Lightning’s weapons and other mysterious powers, prompting the family to discuss supernatural threats throughout the Shinobi World.
• Dō Senju urged the family to stay united, and everyone embraced before separating with plans to reunite in two years.

The Ten Family siblings discussed their plans to train separately and grow strong enough to help their family and bring peace to the Shinobi World. They parted with determination, while Tian Yu and Tenrai planned to search Shikkotsu Forest for clues about their missing father.

• Tian Yu urged her siblings to train hard during their separation and recalled their father's hope for peace in the Shinobi World.
• Tenchu described his Mangekyō Sharingan abilities, Izanagi and Blessing of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and vowed to train at Ryūchi Cave with Tenjin.
• The siblings shared their talents and destinations, including the Moon Goddess Palace, the Land of Fire's capital, Mount Myōboku, Kirigakure, and Konoha.
• Tenpi and Ten'u expressed sadness about leaving their siblings, while Tian Yu and Tenchu encouraged everyone to stay determined and reunite stronger.
• Tian Yu and Tenrai planned to search Shikkotsu Forest for clues about their missing father, and Tian Yu promised to support her siblings wherever they trained.

Kagami Uchiha learned that the Ten Family had returned to Konoha and visited their villa to ask about their intentions. Tian Flying Swallow explained that the family would divide and establish cultivation sites while continuing to support Konoha, and the meeting ended with plans to guard against threats from the Land of Lightning and other nobles.

• Kagami Uchiha was alarmed to learn that Tian Flying Swallow, Tian Yukihime, Tian Uguisu, and the rest of the Ten Family had returned to Konoha.
• Kagami Uchiha, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Tsunade visited the Ten Family villa, where Senju Tenpuku welcomed them.
• Tian Flying Swallow told Kagami Uchiha that the Ten Family would divide, with members establishing cultivation sacred lands while continuing to nurture Konoha's talent.
• Tian Flying Swallow and Senju Tenpuku warned Kagami Uchiha to handle the unstable Shinobi World and the Land of Lightning carefully.
• Tenmei pledged the Azure Dragon Corps would guard against the Land of Lightning and act if the nobles became a threat, and Kagami promised to protect Konoha and the Land of Fire.

Tian Muyan defeated Tian Uguisu in a battle over the sea, where their Tenseigan and Ryūchi Cave Senjutsu powers clashed. The seven sisters agreed to hold a competition every five years, with their children or disciples competing at Shikkotsu Forest.

• Tian Muyan and Tian Uguisu challenged each other to a match, and the other sisters followed them out over the sea to watch.
• Tian Muyan attacked with the Ice Divine Bow while Tian Uguisu countered with the Earth Spirit Divine Spear and Ryūchi Cave Sage Mode.
• Tian Muyan repelled Tian Uguisu's teleportation and struck her with a barrage of arrows, knocking her into the sea and trapping her beneath an ice field.
• Tian Uguisu accepted the defeat but vowed that her Ryūchi Cave Divine Dragon Sect would surpass Tian Muyan's Moon Goddess Palace, and the two agreed to another contest in five years.
• Tian Yueqing proposed that all seven households compete every five years, and the sisters agreed that their descendants would meet at Shikkotsu Forest.

After losing to Tian Muyan, Tian Uguisu founded the Divine Dragon Cult at Ryūchi Cave to prepare for their competition five years later. She put more than three thousand recruits through dangerous Senjutsu trials, leaving fewer than thirty core disciples, and the cult continued recruiting new candidates.

• Tian Uguisu announced Ryūchi Cave as the Divine Dragon Cult's headquarters and assigned Madara Uchiha, Gi Senju, and the White Snake Sage to establish its rules, training system, and defenses.
• Tian Uguisu ordered White Zetsu to spread news of the cult's recruitment and its Dragon Sage Power inheritance throughout the Shinobi World.
• Tian Uguisu began testing more than three thousand recruits with trials involving Natural Energy, cooperation with snakes, and the cultivation of Ryūchi Cave Senjutsu.
• Tian Uguisu protected recruits who faced dangerous surges of energy and mutations during the trials, but most failed or dropped out.
• Fewer than thirty disciples completed the trial and became Divine Dragon Cult core disciples with Snake Sage Power.
• White Zetsu sealed the failed recruits' memories and escorted them out, while the cult began bringing in new candidates every three months.

Tian Muyan renamed the Moon God Temple the Moon God Cult and used the Giant Tenseigan to strengthen the Hyuga Clan’s cultivation. She left the clan fired up to pursue power and claimed they would take the top ten places at a grand tournament in five years.

• Tian Muyan announced that the Moon God Temple would become the Moon God Cult and named Tenpei its holy son.
• Tian Muyan appointed Dō Senju and Hyuga Yoshine grand elders and declared the Moon God Pool the cult’s outpost, guarded by the Kirin Corps.
• Tian Muyan activated the Giant Tenseigan, purifying the Hyuga clanspeople’s Chakra and enhancing their Byakugan and abilities.
• Hyuga Hoshinin asked whether they could become the strongest in the Shinobi World, and Tian Muyan promised they could if they persevered.
• Tian Muyan announced a grand tournament in five years and declared that the Moon Goddess Palace would claim all ten top places.

With a Ten Family competition set for five years later, Tsubasa's wives began training disciples to represent their households. Tian Mai, Tian Yukihime, Tian Zhiyun, and Tian Yueqing established training programs in their respective sacred lands and villages, leaving their disciples to prepare for the contest.

• Tian Mai returned to Mount Myōboku and trained Jiraiya, Hoshiki, and Kunraku in the Limitless Sect's Immortal Cultivation method.
• Tian Yukihime gathered Kirigakure's geniuses and began brutally training them in Ninjutsu and Nintaijutsu for the competition.
• Tian Zhiyun tested Konoha ninja at the Divine Weapon Pavilion, accepted 113 as personal disciples, and taught them Taijutsu and the Divine Dragon Force.
• Tian Yueqing settled in Shikkotsu Forest, accepted talented women including Tsunade, and taught her disciples Senjutsu-based Sealing Jutsu.

Three years after settling in Shikkotsu Forest, Tian Yueqing trained female ninjas in the God Sealing Sect’s Immortal Power cultivation while continuing to wait for her missing husband, Tsubasa. She ended the chapter cultivating in his sealed cave abode, determined to grow strong enough to find him and bring him home.

• Tian Yu told Tian Yueqing and Kaidō Senju that she sensed Tsubasa’s presence and believed he would return that year.
• Tian Yueqing led more than two hundred female ninjas, including Tsunade and Xiaoya, through the God Sealing Sect’s Sealing Jutsu-based Immortal Power cultivation.
• Xiaoya used a sealing talisman to immobilize an insect, and Tian Yueqing encouraged the disciples to master Sealing Jutsu and protect the village.
• Tian Yueqing visited Tsubasa’s sealed cultivation cave abode and began cultivating with a formation of sixty-four bronze pillars.
• Tian Yu and Tenrai played beneath the fireflies while Kaidō Senju watched, and Tian Yueqing continued cultivating with the resolve to find Tsubasa.

After surviving a devastating tribulation and spending five years reforging his body, Tsubasa returned to the cave abode in Shikkotsu Forest in the form of a baby. Tian Yueqing recognized him and welcomed her husband home after years of believing he was dead.

• Tsubasa awoke beneath the scorched summit, reflected on how his Golden Core and Perfect Sage Body had helped him survive, and set out to find the cave abode.
• Tsubasa sensed Tian Yueqing and other familiar people in Shikkotsu Forest and hurried toward his wife’s aura.
• Tsubasa found Tian Yueqing cultivating in the cave abode and told her that he had returned in a newly reforged baby body.
• Tian Yueqing questioned Tsubasa until his memories of their shared past convinced her that he was her husband.
• Tian Yueqing wept as she held Tsubasa, and he promised to stay with her and protect her.

Tsubasa reunited with Tian Yueqing and learned how his family had built powerful factions across the Shinobi World while searching for him. He also heard that Konoha faced a growing threat from a Noble Alliance, and he vowed to intervene if danger arose.

• Tian Yueqing told Tsubasa that his family had searched for him for years before going their separate ways to lead their own forces.
• Tian Yueqing recounted how Tian Muyan, Tian Flying Swallow, Tian Yukihime, Tian Uguisu, Tian Mai, Tian Zhiyun, and she had each established powerful factions and continued searching for Tsubasa.
• Tian Yueqing explained that Kagami Uchiha had become Hokage, with Hiruzen Sarutobi and other leaders helping him govern Konoha.
• Tian Yueqing warned that a Noble Alliance backed by more than thirty million troops, monsters, and improved military technology threatened the Land of Fire.
• Tsubasa said he would protect Konoha if necessary and claimed his Golden Core strength made him nearly impossible to threaten despite his baby body.

Tsubasa chose to hide his identity and adjust to his baby body in the Shikkotsu Forest, where Tian Yueqing introduced him to the family as Tenki. Tenrai later took Tenki to Konoha with Tsunade to search for his parents, while the family grew fond of Tenki and Tenrai felt displaced.

• Tsubasa told Tian Yueqing he would remain in the Shikkotsu Forest and conceal his identity while he adapted to his new body.
• Tian Yueqing introduced Tsubasa to the family as Tenki, claiming she had found a baby with talent for Immortal Cultivation.
• Tian Yu and Kaidō Senju noticed Tenki's resemblance to Tsubasa, while Tian Yu wondered if he was her younger brother.
• Tenrai complained about Tenki, but Tian Yueqing told him to accept and care for the baby.
• Tenrai took Tenki out and asked Tsunade to help find his parents, so Tsunade carried him back to Konoha.
• Tian Yueqing let them go, and Tenrai grew unhappy as the family doted on Tenki.

Tenrai asked Tsunade to find Tenki’s birth parents, prompting her to investigate in Konoha and bring the baby to Mito’s home. There, Tenki revealed himself to be Tsubasa, who chose to remain hidden while he watched for threats in the Shinobi World.

• Tenrai asked Tsunade to help Tenki find his parents, and Tsunade agreed despite suspecting the request might not tell the whole story.
• Tsunade brought Tenki to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who ordered the Intelligence Division to check Konoha’s birth records, hospitals, and patrol reports for a missing infant.
• Tsunade took Tenki to Mito’s home for the night, and Mito noticed how attached her granddaughter had become to the baby.
• Tenki contacted Mito by voice and revealed that he was Tsubasa, reborn in a new body after failing his Tribulation Transcendence.
• Tsubasa asked Mito to keep his identity secret while he watched for hidden threats, and Mito agreed to protect him.

Tsubasa returned to Konoha in an infant body as Tenki and reunited with his mother, Senju Ga, while asking her to keep his identity secret. He settled back in the Shikkotsu Forest, where Tian Yu learned who he was and his body rapidly began to grow.

• Mito Uzumaki brought the infant Tenki to Senju Ga, and he revealed that he was her long-lost son, Tsubasa, reborn in a new body.
• Tsubasa told Senju Ga he had been in the Shikkotsu Forest and asked her to keep his identity secret; she agreed and introduced him as Tenki to the Ten Family.
• Tsunade failed to find Tenki’s parents and returned him to Tian Yueqing in the Shikkotsu Forest, where Tian Yueqing accepted him and kept his origins secret.
• Tian Yu confronted Tian Yueqing with a bloodline test, and Tsubasa revealed that he was her father; she promised to keep his identity secret and told him she had awakened memories of being the Katsuyu Sage.
• Tian Yueqing trained Tenki and Tian Yu in Senjutsu, and Tenki grew from an infant into a walking one-year-old within a month; Kaidō Senju suspected he was Tsubasa’s clone.

Hanzo of the Salamander launched the Land of Rain’s invasion of the Land of Earth, but Madara Uchiha and the Land of Earth routed his forces. The Land of Wind then invaded, only to be repelled by the Rain Ninja and Hanzo; the Land of Rain braced for another attack, though the Land of Earth made no move.

• Hanzo of the Salamander ordered three hundred thousand Rain Ninja to invade the Land of Earth for food and resources.
• Tian Uguisu sent two hundred thousand troops under Roshi to defend the border and asked Madara Uchiha to lead Ryūchi Cave’s experts into battle.
• Madara Uchiha and the Land of Earth’s reinforcements broke the Land of Rain’s formation, forcing Hanzo of the Salamander to retreat with heavy losses.
• Hanzo of the Salamander threatened the Land of Wind and the Land of Grass for resources, and the Kazekage sent two hundred thousand troops to invade the Land of Rain.
• Granny Chiyo helped the Land of Wind counter the Rain Ninja’s poisons, but Hanzo of the Salamander and the Rain Ninja used poisonous mist and ambushes to rout the invaders.
• The Land of Rain repelled the Land of Wind and prepared for the Land of Earth, but the Land of Earth showed no sign of advancing.

The Land of Lightning, Land of Wind, and Land of Earth mobilized vast forces against the Land of Fire and its allies. White Zetsu secretly reported the Earth nobles’ plans to Iwagakure, prompting Madara Uchiha to turn his attention from the Land of Rain to the Land of Earth.

• Third Raikage A and the daimyo of the Land of Lightning rallied nobles to fund and mobilize an invasion of the Land of Fire, while a hidden White Zetsu recorded their plans.
• Nobuno Hiratsuru and Kazekage Shamon secured the Land of Wind’s support for war, and three days later millions of troops assembled outside Sunagakure.
• Land of Earth nobles plotted to overthrow Tian Uguisu and Madara Uchiha, pledging troops, supplies, and onmyōji for a 4.8-million-strong attack on Iwagakure.
• A White Zetsu hidden in the Earth nobles’ chamber observed their plans and prepared to relay them to Tian Uguisu and Madara Uchiha.
• After learning of the Earth nobles’ plans, Madara Uchiha set aside his planned attack on the Land of Rain to deal with the Land of Earth first.

The Land of Water’s daimyo and nobles raised a two-million-strong army to attack Tian Yukihime, while Kirigakure debated how to respond. Tian Yukihime proposed assassinating the nobles’ families to make their army collapse, and the clan heads were tempted by the prospect of ruling the Land of Water.

• The daimyo, nobles, and onmyoji agreed to assemble forces, first destroy Tian Yukihime, and then attack the Land of Fire.
• After several days of preparations, the Land of Water’s daimyo led an army of two million toward Tian Yukihime.
• Tian Yukihime asked Kirigakure’s senior officials whether they should fight or retreat, and the clan heads argued over the risks of each choice.
• Tian Yukihime proposed sending elite assassination squads to kill the nobles’ families while she killed the daimyo’s family.
• The Minazuki Clan head questioned the plan’s ruthlessness, but Tian Yukihime said Kirigakure’s clans could become the Land of Water’s greatest nobles, tempting the clan heads.

Tian Flying Swallow’s purge of nobles drove survivors and old families to conspire against her, while she summoned the Land of Fire’s nobles to Konoha and resolved to confront their power with commoners’ support. The chapter ended with Fujiwara Morikage and Wind Demon Kotaro hinting at a plan to ignite rebellion against her.

• Chada Heishiro and Takumi Kuro appealed to the Land of Fire’s nobles for justice after the Vermilion Bird Corps destroyed noble families in the Land of Tea and the Land of Artisans.
• The gathered nobles agreed to join forces with nobles from other nations and pressure Tian Flying Swallow, while White Zetsu secretly reported their meeting.
• Tian Flying Swallow ordered her shadow guard to summon every noble from the Land of Fire’s hundred cities to Konoha in three days and record anyone who evaded the summons.
• Mikage Taki warned Tian Flying Swallow that rumors against her were spreading, and she explained that she intended to remove the nobles’ influence and rely on commoners’ support.
• Fujiwara Morikage and Wind Demon Kotaro discussed the thirty million allied troops and suggested they could ignite the fire of the Land of Fire against Tian Flying Swallow.

Tian Flying Swallow learned that the Land of Water and Land of Earth could not send troops as their nobles rebelled, while an allied army of thirty million nobles threatened the Land of Fire. At Konoha's council, she executed nobles accused of treason, secured Mito Uzumaki's support, and declared war on the rebellious nobles of the hundred cities.

• Hidemune Hatake told Tian Flying Swallow that the Land of Earth could not send troops and that the allied army's vanguard might reach the border in twenty days.
• Tian Flying Swallow ordered Hidemune Hatake to coordinate with commoner organizations and warn against plots targeting Mito Uzumaki and the Land of Whirlpools.
• Tian Flying Swallow visited Mito Uzumaki, who pledged the Vermilion Bird Corps, the Senju Clan, and the Uzumaki Clan to support her.
• At Konoha's council, Tian Flying Swallow defended Mito Uzumaki and rejected the nobles' demand to sacrifice her for peace.
• Tian Flying Swallow had hundreds of nobles accused of treason executed and threatened those who turned against the Land of Fire.
• Tian Flying Swallow announced that she would lead a campaign against the rebellious nobles of the hundred cities and ordered the council to check which nobles were present.

Queen Tian Flying Swallow confronted the nobles who refused to support her reforms, while Konoha chose neutrality in the brewing civil war. The Noble Alliance raised an eight-million-strong army, and Tian Flying Swallow pledged to defend the Land of Fire with her three million commoner soldiers as foreign powers massed at its borders.

• At the Grand Assembly, 158 noble houses were absent, and only thirteen loyal houses offered Tian Flying Swallow their troops and provisions.
• Tian Flying Swallow proposed crushing the rebels, but Hiruzen Sarutobi and other leaders warned of civil strife, and Kagami Uchiha ordered Konoha to guard the borders and remain neutral in the internal war.
• Mito Uzumaki and Tenmei offered their corps to help Tian Flying Swallow, but Kagami insisted most forces protect the borders, and Tian Flying Swallow agreed to send the Vermilion Bird Corps there.
• Five days later, the 158 absent houses formed the Regency Council and assembled an eight-million-strong army, while the thirteen loyal clans supported Tian Flying Swallow and foreign armies advanced toward the Land of Fire.
• On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, Tian Flying Swallow swore to stand with her three million commoner soldiers, who vowed to fight for her and the common people.
• Kagami Uchiha watched from Hokage Rock and hoped the Land of Fire would find peace.

Queen Tian Flying Swallow secured the full military and financial commitment of thirteen noble families for the coming war against the old Noble Alliance. As their forces mobilized, she recognized that their shared survival bound them more firmly than loyalty alone.

• Tian Flying Swallow demanded that the thirteen families commit all their resources to the war, and Fujiwara Morikage and Sakyo Tachibana pledged grain and supplies.
• Shisuke Minamoto reported that the Minamoto Clan had trained thirty thousand Red Loathing Cavalry, while the thirteen family heads swore to fight for Tian Flying Swallow.
• Kagami Uchiha questioned why the thirteen families risked everything, and Hiruzen Sarutobi explained that their shared history and economic interests left them no path back to the old nobles.
• The thirteen families' grain carts departed at night as their messengers delivered recruitment rosters to Tian Flying Swallow.
• Tian Flying Swallow told her maid that mutual interest and a shared path forged the strongest bonds, then declared that the thirteen families were enough to keep the Land of Fire from falling.

Queen Tian Flying Swallow divided the Land of Fire’s forces into six armies and sent them out to reclaim rebel-held territory. As the armies marched, Uzumaki Kaito pledged that the Land of Whirlpools would destroy the southern nobles’ army.

• Tian Flying Swallow assigned Senju Tenpuku’s five hundred thousand soldiers to attack the eastern nobles and retake forty-two towns.
• Nanshin Senju led five hundred thousand troops north to defend twenty-one cities, while Tian Zhiyun took five hundred thousand west to eliminate the nobles there.
• Six-year-old crown prince Tenbutsu led a southern feint with five hundred thousand soldiers as the Land of Whirlpools prepared to attack the southern nobles.
• Tian Flying Swallow led a million troops east, and Fujiwara Morikage took the thirteen loyal noble clans west to support the southern campaign.
• The six armies departed the capital, and Uzumaki Kaito vowed that the Land of Whirlpools’ million soldiers would wipe out the southern nobles’ rebel army.

In Konoha year 27, Tian Flying Swallow sent her six-year-old son Tenbutsu and the Golden Crow Army south to pin down the noble alliance while she fought in the east. Tenbutsu shattered the alliance’s ability to fight without destroying its entire army, then prepared to move west as the Land of Whirlpools approached.

• Tian Flying Swallow ordered Tenbutsu to use the Golden Crow Army to harass the seventeen southern clans and keep them from reinforcing the eastern battlefield.
• Tenbutsu’s red-armored troops raided the nobles’ camps, spread surrender calls, and encouraged desertions among their tenant farmers and household slaves.
• When Murakami Tora led three hundred thousand heavy infantry into Falling Star Gorge, Tenbutsu’s soldiers ambushed them with boulders, arrows, and fire, killing eighty thousand and capturing one hundred and twenty thousand.
• Tenbutsu spared captured civilians, fed them, and allowed those who wanted to go home to leave, spreading fear of the gorge battle through the southern alliance.
• The Golden Crow Army continued to divide the nobles’ camps with traps and lure away hungry soldiers, leaving the million-strong alliance too weakened and distrustful to advance.
• As the twenty-day period neared its end, Tenbutsu ordered the Golden Crow Army to reduce its harassment and prepare to head west while the Land of Whirlpools approached the south.

The Land of Whirlpools’ army and Tenbutsu’s Golden Crow Army crushed the southern nobles’ power in a swift campaign, aided by popular uprisings and mass surrenders. After the last noble stronghold fell, Tenbutsu distributed the nobles’ land to the people and ordered debt contracts burned.

• The Land of Whirlpools’ ninja captured White Frost City, executed the White Frost Clan’s men, and sent its women and children into slavery.
• The ninja burned the stores at Crimson Haze Pass, broke through its gates, and captured or killed the defenders.
• People organized by the Flying Swallow Society guided and supplied the advancing army, while villagers resisted the nobles and shared their seized stores.
• Laborers stopped South River City’s lord from flooding their fields and redirected the water into the city, where the lord later hanged himself.
• Tenbutsu and the Land of Whirlpools’ army surrounded the southern nobles at Emerald Heights Plain, where hundreds of thousands of soldiers surrendered and joined the Newly Attached Army or returned home.
• The ninja captured the nobles at Red Lotus City, and after the last clan fell, Tenbutsu distributed noble lands and ordered debt contracts burned.

Crown Prince Tenbutsu pacified the south and arrived with the Golden Crow Army, forcing the western nobles to surrender after Tian Zhiyun broke their resistance. As Tian Zhiyun and the other forces moved to reinforce threatened borders, new conflicts gathered across the Land of Fire and its neighbors.

• Queen Tian Flying Swallow praised six-year-old Tenbutsu for pacifying the south, named him the Dawn of Fire, and formed the million-strong Golden Crow Army.
• Tian Zhiyun devastated the western noble coalition, leaving its forces trapped in their fortresses and civilians abused to strengthen the defenses.
• Tenbutsu arrived at the Falling Star Mountains with a million soldiers, and the western nobles' resistance collapsed: the Iron Eagle noble opened Iron Wall City's gates, the Yinchuan clan head died by suicide, and the Yamashita Clan head surrendered.
• Tian Zhiyun joined Tenbutsu's chariot and then led the reorganized army west to support White Tiger City, where Hatake Sakumo faced an invasion by three million Land of Rivers troops.
• Mito Uzumaki led reinforcements to the Land of Grass border, while the Land of Wind's army confronted the Rain Ninja and its scouts clashed with the Vermilion Bird Corps in the Land of Rain.