Recaps

Hiruzen Sarutobi brought the White Tiger Corps back from the front and seized control of Konoha after claiming the village needed a leader. He became the Fifth Hokage and announced plans to negotiate a ceasefire with the Hell Oni Clan by ceding the three northern countries.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Mitokado Homura led the White Tiger Corps into Konoha and surrounded the Hokage's office while seizing key locations.
• Mitokado Homura ordered villagers to stay home and threatened to treat resistance as treason.
• Hiruzen told the assembled elders and clan heads that Fourth Hokage Kagami Uchiha had fallen and persuaded them to accept his takeover with promises and threats.
• Hiruzen announced that he would assume the Fifth Hokage Position and send envoys to offer the Hell Oni Clan the three northern countries in exchange for a ceasefire.
• The major clans compromised under pressure, and Konoha announced Hiruzen Sarutobi as the Fifth Hokage.

After becoming Fifth Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Mitokado Homura to negotiate peace with the Oni Clan, but the Oni Emperors rejected the offer and slaughtered the envoy’s elite escort. Homura returned horribly mutilated as the Oni Clan advanced on Konoha, leaving Hiruzen’s peace plan in ruins and the front lines near collapse.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Mitokado Homura and three hundred elite ninjas to offer the Oni Clan the northern lands in exchange for a ceasefire.
• At the rift in the Land of Iron, the Oni Emperors emerged and declared that they wanted human souls and flesh, not land.
• An Oni Emperor killed the three hundred ninjas in black flames and ordered Homura spared so he could carry their threat back to Konoha.
• The Oni Clan returned Homura to Konoha, where Hiruzen Sarutobi realized the failed mission had further endangered the village.
• On the Land of Fire front lines, Konoha’s morale collapsed as countless Oni gathered on the northern horizon.

Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru fought the Oni kings as Konoha’s wounded ninjas and villagers rejected Hiruzen Sarutobi’s order to surrender border cities and rallied to keep fighting. The battle continued as Konoha’s reinforcements charged forward, while a masked figure from the Ōtsutsuki Clan watched from the sidelines.

• Tsunade and Jiraiya battled the Oni forces while Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation failed, prompting him to transform into the Yamata White Snake King and attack an Oni king.
• A messenger delivered Hiruzen Sarutobi’s order to surrender three border cities, but wounded ninjas and villagers denounced the proposal and vowed to fight to the death.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru combined their attacks to destroy the Oni king who was about to self-destruct, though all three were left exhausted or injured.
• Two more Oni kings advanced as Konoha’s young ninjas and civilian samurai rallied and charged toward the front, restoring the trio’s resolve to fight.
• A masked figure with Rinnegan watched the battlefield and said the Ōtsutsuki Clan had not yet arrived.

Might Duy opened the Eight Gates to save the Konoha medical station and defeated four demon kings, but Tsubasa arrived in time to save him. Tsubasa turned the battle against the Oni Clan, then sensed a greater threat gathering in the north.

• Might Duy opened the Gate of Death and killed four demon kings with Night Guy, but his body began disintegrating.
• Tsubasa gave Duy a golden pill that stabilized him, then killed three demon kings attacking Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru.
• Tsubasa summoned the Immortal Golden Crow and sent out clones that rescued wounded Konoha ninja and helped them counterattack the Oni Clan.
• Tsubasa fought through the Oni Clan's commanders and kings while Konoha's clans and ordinary ninja joined the counterattack.
• The Golden Crow burned the fleeing final demon king, and Tsubasa told Duy the battle was not over because a more terrifying presence was gathering in the north.

Tsubasa repelled the Oni Emperors and halted the ghost tide at the Land of Iron, though the rift remained open and Konoha had suffered devastating losses. An urgent message revealed that Konoha was in political turmoil, while the Oni Emperors planned to break through the rift again.

• Tsubasa arrived at the devastated border, where Hatake Sakumo reported that the ghost tide had overwhelmed the defenders and destroyed most of their forces.
• Tsubasa drove back an Oni Emperor's attack, ordered the surviving ninja to retreat, and charged toward the Gate of Hell alone.
• Tsubasa used sealing techniques to destroy the Oni Emperors' attacks and compress the rift, then helped his clones and the Immortal Golden Crow eliminate the leaderless ghost tide.
• Hatake Sakumo told Tsubasa that seventy percent of Konoha's ninja had died, and Tsubasa regretted waiting too long to intervene.
• Orochimaru brought news that the Hokage and the Hokage Advisor had been suspended, while the White Tiger Corps had mutinied and demanded Hatake Sakumo return to succeed the Hokage.
• The Oni Emperors plotted to widen the rift, kill Tsubasa, and wipe out every ninja in the Realm of the Living.

Tian Flying Swallow manages the Land of Fire’s relief efforts as war and displacement spread, while Tsubasa fights the Oni Clan in the north. After hearing that he has driven them back to Hell, she receives his New Year’s message and waits for his return.

• Tian Flying Swallow orders supplies sent to the Land of Hot Water after vampire remnants ravage the south.
• She opens grain reserves and uses her palace treasury to feed refugees, then sends troops to protect civilians evacuating from towns near the Land of Iron.
• After the Fourth Hokage falls, Tian Flying Swallow arranges shelters and medical aid for Konoha’s fleeing civilians and takes in its civilian orphans.
• Tian Flying Swallow adjusts taxes to aid regions hit by poor harvests and learns that Tsubasa has driven the Oni Clan back to Hell.
• A firebird brings Tsubasa’s New Year’s message and gift, and Tian Flying Swallow promises to wait for him.

Tian Yukihime and the defenders of Kirigakure battled a horde of sea monsters unleashed from the abyss until Tian Yueqing and the other women of Konoha’s Ten Family arrived to help. As they prepared to seal the abyss, a black rift opened near the altar and something enormous began to awaken within it.

• Tian Yukihime ordered Kirigakure’s defenses reinforced as the barrier weakened under attacks from the Jiaoren and other sea monsters.
• Tian Mai arrived with twenty Mount Myōboku disciples, but monsters breached the barrier and threatened the villagers.
• Tian Yueqing and the others arrived aboard a warship, sealed the breach, and fought back the monsters attacking Kirigakure.
• Tian Yueqing learned that water monsters had overrun other towns and planned to take Tian Yukihime to the altar to reseal the abyss.
• The Abyss Octopus King attacked the warship as a report came in that something enormous was stirring at the altar.
• Tian Yueqing and the others prepared for battle as a black rift spread sulfurous liquid and a deep heartbeat sounded from within.

A black-winged dragon broke free from the Abyss Altar and devastated the Land of Water as Tian Uguisu, Tian Muyan, Wind God Saku, and Water God Zhang fought to stop it. After Tian Yueqing sealed the abyss and later trapped the dragon with another sealing technique, the group appeared to defeat it, though the dragon vowed to return.

• The black-winged dragon emerged from the Abyss Altar, unleashing a tsunami and water monsters that wrecked the Land of Water.
• Wind God Saku and Water God Zhang battled the dragon, but its four elemental powers and defenses overwhelmed them until Tian Uguisu and Tian Muyan joined the fight.
• At the seafloor, Tian Yueqing and Tian Yukihime sealed the abyss entrance, but Tian Yueqing sensed that the dragon was growing stronger.
• Tian Zhiyun and Tian Mai helped Kirigakure ninjas fight water monsters and rescue survivors as the battle above worsened.
• The dragon defeated the four fighters, but Tian Yueqing trapped it with golden sealing runes, allowing Tian Uguisu and the others to strike as it was swallowed by light.
• Tian Yueqing collapsed and Tian Yukihime caught her; the exhausted survivors believed the dragon had been defeated after it promised to return.

After guarding the Hell rift for three months, Tsubasa fully recovered and grew stronger by absorbing its destructive energy. He killed the first Oni Emperor to emerge, leaving the other nine afraid to face him as the standoff continued.

• Tsubasa remained alone near the Hell rift while its spatial tremors drove away or killed living creatures across the surrounding region.
• Tsubasa finished recovering his strength and watched as the ten Oni Emperors shattered his seal and widened the rift.
• The Blood Prison Oni Emperor emerged and attacked Tsubasa, who killed him with a strike that destroyed his divine soul.
• The nine surviving Oni Emperors argued over how to confront Tsubasa but hesitated to emerge after witnessing Blood Prison's death.
• Tsubasa taunted the Oni Emperors and waited outside the rift for them to make their next move.

The White Tiger Corps rebelled against Hiruzen Sarutobi after the village shunned them for surrounding the Hokage Building, and the clans removed Hiruzen and appointed Hatake Sakumo acting Hokage. As Konoha began rebuilding and awaited Tsubasa’s return, a messenger watched from afar with a letter warning that the Gate of Hell remained open.

• Ki Iza and other White Tiger Corps ninja faced hostility from villagers and families, then blamed Hiruzen Sarutobi for recalling them from the front and making them bear the public scorn.
• Mikami led the White Tiger Corps in a night raid that killed the clan overseers and seized the Hokage Building, placing Hiruzen Sarutobi under guard.
• Returning ninja reported that Tsubasa had defeated the Oni Clan and would return after dealing with the aftermath.
• Uchiha Fugaku, Nara Shikanei, and other clan leaders agreed to imprison Hiruzen Sarutobi and have Hatake Sakumo serve as acting Hokage with an advisory group.
• Hatake Sakumo and his colleagues promised reforms at the Memorial Stone as Konoha celebrated the change in leadership.
• A mysterious figure watched Hatake Sakumo and carried Tsubasa’s letter warning that the Gate of Hell had not fully closed.

Tsubasa negotiated an alliance between the Shinobi World and Hell, agreeing to restore reincarnation and prepare to fight the Ōtsutsuki Clan. After the Sage of Six Paths led the ninja souls into Hell, he reunited with Hamura, who had built a force of oni kings.

• Tsubasa learned that the Oni Clan had torn open the rift to destroy the Pure Land and restore the cycle of reincarnation, then proposed joining forces against the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Tsubasa summoned the Sage of Six Paths, who agreed to disband the Pure Land and lead the ninja souls into Hell, offering to become its tenth emperor.
• Tsubasa secured the emperors’ promise to send troops against an Ōtsutsuki invasion under his command, and he and the Sage helped close the rift around the Gate of Hell.
• The Sage of Six Paths led the ninja souls into Hell, where he promised to prepare the dead for a future counterattack against the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• The Sage of Six Paths reunited with Hamura, who revealed he had assembled more than two hundred powerful oni kings to help prepare for the Ōtsutsuki invasion.

Tian Flying Swallow announced reforms for the united Shinobi World, then was crowned its first Human Emperor and renamed the nation Yan. Tsubasa built Yan Emperor City overnight, and the chapter ended with the Yan Nation rapidly industrializing and transforming civilian life and shinobi warfare.

• Tian Flying Swallow announced five years without taxes, rewards and medical coverage for families with children, free schools, and a unified legal code; she also promised pensions for fallen soldiers’ families and factory jobs for people from every nation.
• Tsubasa urged Tian Flying Swallow to move the capital to the Yan Emperor Mountain Range, where he said he could build a city using his power.
• Three days later, Tian Flying Swallow was crowned Human Emperor and declared the united nation to be Yan.
• Tian Flying Swallow ordered the capital moved to Yan Emperor City, and Tsubasa constructed the new city in a single night.
• Tsubasa began preparing a Spirit Gathering Array in the mountain range, while Tian Flying Swallow oversaw the relocation and development of the capital.
• Over the following years, Hatake Sakumo and shinobi helped build factories, rune-powered machinery increased production, and technology began changing both civilian life and shinobi warfare.

Tsubasa returned to Yan Emperor City and reunited with Senju Tenpuku, Senju Ga, Tenmei, his seven wives, and their children at a family banquet. The celebration ended with Senju Tenpuku announcing that he would become head of the Senju Clan, while the family pledged to support him.

• Tsubasa hesitated outside the palace, but Senju Ga and the family welcomed him back and stopped him from kneeling.
• Tsubasa met his children one by one as they shared their interests, offered him gifts, and asked to spend time with him.
• The family gathered for a banquet, and Tsubasa reflected on how much fuller and happier their home had become.
• Senju Tenpuku announced that the Senju elders had asked him to become clan head, with the ceremony set for the first day of the next month.
• Tian Yu and Tenchu offered to bring support from Shikkotsu Forest and Ryūchi Cave, and the children began planning for the succession ceremony.

Tsubasa returned to Konoha to stabilize the leaderless village and united the Shinobi World under a new system of seven chakra-based factions. He left the meeting with plans to build a space fleet and prepare for the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s arrival.

• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru asked Tsubasa to return to Konoha, and he agreed after hearing about the village’s unrest and Hiruzen Sarutobi’s imprisonment.
• Tsubasa ordered the ninja of the Shinobi World to unite under Konoha’s administration and warned that the Ōtsutsuki Clan threatened the planet from outer space.
• Tsubasa proposed seven chakra-based factions, a reward system for innovation, and plans to build a spaceship within five years and a space base within ten.
• Tsubasa appointed Tsunade, Uchiha Chiri, Orochimaru, Hatake Sakumo, Jiraiya, Nara Shikanei, and Tian Yukihime as the seven faction Kage.
• Tsubasa and the faction leaders reached agreement on the new administration and research plans, then discussed preparing to confront the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Tsubasa established four Immortal Cultivation sacred lands and ordered the Shinobi World to recruit talented youths from every background. Ten years later, the sects had produced powerful disciples, and more candidates continued arriving as Tsubasa looked toward their future growth.

• Tsubasa introduced the four sacred lands and ordered the seven Kage to test youths nationwide and send qualified candidates to cultivate.
• Hatake Sakumo announced the selection program, and crowds across the nation flocked to testing points; Nawaki, Uchiha Fugaku, Sarutobi Shinnosuke, and other youths began training in the sects.
• Tsubasa visited each sacred land, helping its disciples overcome cultivation problems and teaching Nawaki, Uchiha Mikoto, Tenjin, and Tentoku new techniques.
• Tian Mai made Senju and Uchiha disciples work together to ease their clan conflicts.
• Ten years later, Nawaki, Tengaku, Tenjin, and Tentoku demonstrated their formidable abilities as envoys brought more talented youths to Yan Emperor City.

Tsubasa transformed the Yan Emperor Mountain Range into a hidden spiritual stronghold, completed a teleportation link to Konoha, and built the Immortal Venerable Hall. He revealed that three trial towers connected to otherworlds offered dangers, treasures, and a chance to find deceased friends and relatives in Hell.

• Tsubasa reshaped the Yan Emperor Mountain Range, created spirit stone veins, and concealed it behind a barrier.
• Seven days later, Tsubasa's researchers activated a teleportation array connecting the mountain range to Konoha, and Jiraiya arrived there.
• Tsubasa rapidly completed the Immortal Venerable Hall and declared the mountain range the heart of the Shinobi World.
• At the hall's completion, Tsubasa told the gathered Kage Level experts that the mountain's Dragon Vein could connect them to three otherworlds.
• Tsubasa presented three trial towers, setting entry requirements for the Ghost World, Aquatic Otherworld, and Hell World.
• Tsubasa explained that the towers held treasures and opportunities, and that Hell contained the Shinobi World's predecessors, including deceased friends and relatives.

Himiko, Maruboshi Kosuke, Tian Yu, and Tenmei led a Konoha expedition into the Undead Realm to gather soul crystals, but a battle with an undead lord and its horde forced them to retreat through a spatial node. Tian Yu made it back at the last moment, though a gigantic blood-red undead skeleton appeared behind her in the gate.

• Himiko and Maruboshi Kosuke entered the Undead Realm with the Konoha team and learned that soul crystals dropped by undead could be collected for resources.
• An undead lord blocked their signal and attacked; Kosuke used a Blood Pact Barrier while Tian Yu and the others fought through the horde.
• Tenmei spotted the lord's core, and Tian Yu, Kosuke, and Himiko helped destroy it and retrieve its purple soul crystal.
• The undead kept advancing, so Himiko activated the spatial node; Tian Yu gave Kosuke a pouch of crystals and stayed behind to cover the retreat.
• Himiko, Kosuke, and the surviving ninjas returned to the tower with their crystals, and Tian Yu emerged just before the gate closed as a towering blood-red undead skeleton watched from beyond it.

The seven Kage encountered an azure dragon imprisoned by a human seal in the mid-tier tower, then faced a Blood Rose hunting party that sought the dragon’s core. Blood Rose’s mages bound the Kage with Domain Magic, and the chapter ended as the two sides prepared to fight.

• Madara Uchiha led the Holy Land squad into the tower while the seven Kage explored separately and Tsunade narrowly avoided an Abyss Stone Leech.
• The Kage found a False Core Realm dragon chained inside an ice-crystal seal, and Nara Shikanei identified it as a human forbidden technique draining the dragon’s life force.
• The dragon warned that someone was coming for its dragon pearl as twelve green lights approached and the cavern began to shake.
• Tsunade and the other Kage confronted twelve Blood Rose warriors and three mages, whose leader demanded they surrender the dragon core.
• Blood Rose’s mages trapped the Kage with Domain Magic, and Hatake Sakumo’s attack on Scarface was blocked by a black shield.

The seven Kage and their allies fought Blood Rose in the abyss, but Madara Uchiha’s arrival turned the battle and exposed the group’s plan to use the Azure Dragon’s power to connect continents. The dragon’s seal shattered and awakened the abyssal creatures, forcing everyone to escape; outside, blood-tinted dragon cores and strange frost runes suggested the disturbance had spread beyond the ocean.

• The seven Kage struggled against Blood Rose’s mages and warriors as the Azure Dragon began burning its dragon core and the tall mage used a blood-binding ritual to drain it.
• Madara Uchiha arrived with Tenchu, Tenpei, and other holy land disciples, killed one mage, and helped the Kage defeat Blood Rose’s forces, though Scarface fled.
• Madara examined the chains and Nara Shikanei identified the black crystals as spatial anchors meant to connect the abyss to the Western Continent using the dragon core’s energy.
• The cavern shook as the Azure Dragon’s seal broke and enormous tentacled creatures emerged, so Madara led the group toward the teleportation tower.
• The group escaped through Madara’s teleportation gate, where Madara warned that the dragon core’s energy might have disturbed more than the abyssal creatures.
• Tsunade found that the dragon cores she had collected had turned faintly red, while strange frost and unfamiliar runes appeared at the intermediate tower’s entrance.

Tsubasa opened the Gate of Hell and sent Tian Mai and the other women into Hell to seek resources and overcome their limits while he guarded the entrance. Tian Mai battled ghost warriors in Molten Flame Hell, collected a Molten Hell Crystal, and followed her pursuers toward richer ore deposits.

• Tsubasa opened the high-tier tower’s gate and saw the Sage of Six Paths, now a ghost emperor, inside Hell.
• Tsubasa warned Tian Mai and the others about Hell’s dangers, then let them enter while he stayed behind to guard the gate and confronted unseen watchers.
• Tian Mai entered Molten Flame Hell and used Senjutsu to disperse ghost soldiers and guide her deeper into the volcanic region.
• Tian Mai bound and killed a lava-armored ghost general, obtaining a Molten Hell Crystal from its remains.
• More than a dozen ghost generals emerged from the magma lake, and Tian Mai used her vines to travel deeper toward the region’s richest ore deposits.

Tian Mai fought her way through the Molten Flame Prison, gathered valuable ores and Soul Crystals, and escaped the three immortal ghost kings with Tsubasa’s armor. Tsubasa revealed that the encounter had been a trial arranged by the Ghost Emperor, and Tian Mai left to study her haul and improve her ninja tools.

• Tian Mai used her armor and Senjutsu to fend off pursuing ghost generals and battle the three ghost kings in the lava lake.
• Tian Mai entered a fissure, collected ores and Molten Hell Crystals, and used Wood Release to restrain the ghost kings before escaping their self-destruction blast.
• Tian Mai reached the Gate of Hell with a bag full of treasures and told Tsubasa that three ghost kings had nearly trapped her.
• Tsubasa explained that the Ghost Emperor had arranged the ghost kings as sparring partners for the Ten Family, and that they had been forbidden to kill her.
• Tian Mai left with Tsubasa, planning to study the ores and upgrade her ninja tools.

Tian Muyan explored Ten Thousand Bones Hell, defeated a nine-headed bone dragon, and collected valuable spirit materials before three ghost kings confronted her. When her Tenseigan proved ineffective against them, she launched an ice-based attack and prepared to fight.

• Tian Muyan used her Tenseigan to control three bone puppets and sent them to scout for ore while she searched the bone fields.
• A nine-headed black dragon attacked, but Tian Muyan sealed it temporarily, struck its spinal weakness with an ice arrow, and claimed its crystal core.
• The bone puppets returned with ore, including nether cold iron, and Tian Muyan prepared to leave as more disturbances rumbled through the mountains.
• Three ghost kings confronted Tian Muyan, including the Many-Faced Ghost King and the Black-Robed Ghost King, who said her Tenseigan was useless against them.
• Tian Muyan blocked the ghost kings with ice spikes, then vanished onto an ice staircase and activated Ice Set as the Black-Robed Ghost King attacked.

Tian Muyan fought the three Ghost Kings in Ten Thousand Bones Hell, destroyed their trapping formation, and escaped through a portal. She reunited with Tsubasa at the Gate of Hell with valuable spoils and planned to explore Ten Thousand Bones Hell again someday.

• Tian Muyan used her Ice Set, Tenseigan, and Ice Divine Bow to injure the three Ghost Kings and withstand their attacks.
• The Ghost Kings activated the Bone Prison Grand Formation, but Tian Muyan used Tsubasa's compass to locate its core and shattered the encircling bone mountains.
• Tian Muyan opened a portal with Tsubasa's Specially Made Realm-Breaking Talisman and escaped the Ghost Kings' attack.
• Tian Muyan reunited with Tsubasa at the Gate of Hell and reported that she had obtained Netherworld Cold Iron and a black dragon crystal core.
• Tian Muyan left Hell with Tsubasa to rest, saying she would return to explore Ten Thousand Bones Hell farther.

Tian Uguisu entered Hell’s Mist Prison, gathered soul crystals, and uncovered a trap guarded by two Ghost Kings and a horde of mist fiends. After activating her Earth Spirit armor and spear and revealing her Rinnegan, she used Shinra Tensei against the Fat Ghost King.

• Tian Uguisu fought possessed undead in the mist and collected their soul crystals with her flame-covered spear.
• Tian Uguisu lured a white-robed man with soul crystals, pierced him, and took his void-wood lantern.
• Tian Uguisu found a mountain of soul crystals guarded by a vast horde of mist fiends and the Skeleton King and Fat Ghost King.
• Tian Uguisu equipped the Earth Spirit Battle Armor and fully activated the Earth Spirit Spear to fight the kings and their minions.
• Tian Uguisu unleashed Senjutsu Chakra Burst, awakened her Rinnegan, and used Shinra Tensei against the Fat Ghost King’s ambush.

Tian Uguisu fought her way through the Mist Prison, using Susanoo to defeat the Skeleton King and escape with a haul of Soul Crystals and Void Wood. She emerged exhausted and reunited with Tsubasa's clone, who promised to take her home.

• Tian Uguisu killed the Fat Ghost King and battled the Skeleton King while gathering Soul Crystals from the mist ghosts.
• The Skeleton King revived the mist ghosts, so Tian Uguisu summoned Susanoo, which destroyed the ghosts and defeated him.
• Tian Uguisu led Susanoo to a tunnel beneath the stone stele and escaped the Mist Prison as her Chakra ran low.
• Tian Uguisu emerged onto a sunny hillside and found Tsubasa's clone waiting for her.
• Tsubasa's clone examined her loot, helped her recover, and led her down the hillside to return to the Shinobi World.