Recaps

Tsubasa examined Kaguya’s and Isshiki’s memories to learn about the Ōtsutsuki Clan. The memories revealed Kaguya’s childhood on the Ōtsutsuki Planet and Isshiki’s role in draining other planets for their origins.

• Tsubasa decided to view Kaguya’s sealed memories and Isshiki’s extracted memories together despite Tenpi’s warning that the fragments might be jumbled.
• Tsubasa witnessed young Kaguya eating God Tree leaves while Ōtsutsuki Ōshiki explained that the clan harvested planets’ origins to nourish their home and its God Trees.
• Tsubasa watched Isshiki join Ōshiki’s squad on a mission to planet 739, where the Ōtsutsuki planted a God Tree and drained the planet’s origin energy.
• Ōshiki praised Isshiki’s efficiency and promised him a God Tree Fruit after three more missions, while Isshiki accepted the clan’s practice of plundering planets to gain strength and status.

Tsubasa experienced Kaguya and Isshiki’s memories, learning how Kaguya ate the God Tree’s fruit, fought Isshiki, and began the history of the Shinobi World. After seeing how dangerous the Ōtsutsuki Clan was, Tsubasa told Tenpi that the Shinobi World must either destroy the first invading force or prepare to relocate humanity to other planets.

• Tsubasa witnessed Ōshiki sacrifice himself to help Isshiki and Kaguya escape a wild planet’s gods.
• Isshiki planted a God Tree on the Shinobi Planet and ordered Kaguya to stay away from its humans and fruit while he healed.
• Kaguya fell in love with the Land of Ancestors’ king, had children, and ate the God Tree’s fruit to protect them and gain power.
• Isshiki confronted Kaguya, but she wounded him and defended her children; his soul escaped as she channeled his body’s energy into the God Tree.
• Tsubasa told Tenpi that the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s planetary harvests and power made the Shinobi World vulnerable to invasion.
• Tsubasa proposed destroying the first wave of enemies without letting them escape or developing other planets to relocate humanity.

Tian Mai underwent the Golden Core Tribulation under Tsubasa’s protection and endured its lightning long enough to form her Golden Core. After absorbing the heavenly glow, she became the fourth Golden Core Immortal Venerable, while Tsubasa warned her that the Nascent Soul Stage would bring a greater test.

• Tsubasa set up a protective barrier around the bamboo grove as Tian Mai prepared to break through from Foundation Establishment to the Golden Core Stage.
• Tian Mai blocked the first bolt of purple lightning with a Spiritual Qi barrier and shattered the next two with her Yang Release Divine Palm.
• Tian Mai endured three golden bolts of Pure Yang Gang Qi, strengthened by her Senju Clan bloodline and the Will of the Shinobi World.
• Tian Mai compressed her Spiritual Qi into an embryonic Golden Core, and a golden glow descended to heal and nourish her.
• After absorbing the glow, Tian Mai completed her Golden Core and regenerated her injuries as Tsubasa congratulated her and cautioned her about the Nascent Soul Stage.

Tian Flying Swallow used the Yan Nation's National Fortune to pass her Golden Core Tribulation, while Tsubasa warned Tian Mai and Tian Flying Swallow that the Will of the Shinobi World targeted him and his descendants. He recorded the danger for future generations and resolved to keep advancing as news of the two new Immortal Venerables spread.

• A disciple summoned Tsubasa and Tian Mai to the Yan Emperor Mountain Range, where Tian Flying Swallow was preparing for her Golden Core Tribulation.
• Tian Flying Swallow's National Fortune barrier blocked the heavenly lightning, and she formed a red Golden Core to become the fifth Golden Core Immortal Venerable.
• Tsubasa told Tian Mai and Tian Flying Swallow that the Will of the Shinobi World had made his and his children's tribulations unusually powerful, and advised them to have the children break through in outer space.
• Tsubasa returned to his Immortal Venerable Hall and recorded his family's experiences with the tribulations for future generations.
• News of Tian Mai's and Tian Flying Swallow's breakthroughs spread through the Shinobi World, stirring envy among other Immortal Level families.

On Ōtsutsuki Planet, Agin and Ayu learned that Ōtsutsuki Ōshiki’s squad was trapped on a distant wild planet with a Star Level Third Stage expert. As God Tree City prepared an S-rank rescue mission, Atsu told Agin and Ayu that their Blue Horn Squad had signed up.

• Agin and Ayu fed their Chakra to a God Tree while discussing reports of clanspeople trapped on a wild planet.
• Ayu told Agin that the trapped clanspeople belonged to Ōshiki’s squad and that the Mission Department planned to send three mid-sized squadrons.
• An emergency horn summoned the city’s clanspeople to the central plaza.
• Elder Gen announced an S-rank mission to destroy the wild planet, retrieve its God Tree, and rescue Ōshiki’s squad.
• Agin and Ayu found Atsu, who told them that their captain had agreed to sign up the Blue Horn Squad.

Atsu, Agin, and Ayu joined Commander Ōtsutsuki Retsu’s force as it used the Ten-Tails Divine Wood to travel to an unnamed wild planet and search for the missing Ōshiki Squad. After detecting a God Tree on the planet but no trace of the squad, Retsu led the force toward the Western Continent to investigate.

• Atsu explained that the mission would rescue the Ōshiki Squad and collect the wild planet’s origin for their God Tree.
• Commander Ōtsutsuki Retsu assembled the force and ordered it to teleport to the unnamed wild planet using the Ten-Tails Divine Wood.
• Agin, Ayu, and Atsu traveled through the Divine Wood’s teleportation chamber and spotted the blue planet from a nearby asteroid belt.
• Retsu ordered the force to prepare to find the Ōshiki Squad and God Tree, destroy the origin core, and collect the planet’s origin energy.
• Atsu detected God Tree Chakra on the planet but found no trace of the Ōshiki Squad, and he noted life-energy fluctuations on its moon.
• Retsu ordered the force to go around the moon and infiltrate the Western Continent to investigate the planet.

Tsubasa and the Azure Dragon Corps departed Konoha aboard Firmament One for a mission to establish a base on Mars, where Princess Kaguya planned to search for Ōtsutsuki Ōshiki’s tomb. After a month of travel, the ship continued toward Mars as the crew prepared for the planet’s harsh conditions.

• Tenmei organized more than twenty thousand Azure Dragon Corps ninjas to board Firmament One, while Tsubasa, Tian Yu, and Princess Kaguya joined the expedition.
• Tsubasa discussed using ironwood trees to create a planting area in Mercury Valley, and Princess Kaguya identified Mars’s northern ice cap as the location of an energy node beneath Ōshiki’s tomb.
• Princess Kaguya insisted on traveling to the north pole alone, and Tsubasa gave her a Senjutsu amulet to protect her from the cold, wind, and sand.
• Tsubasa ordered Firmament One to depart for Mars, beginning a journey expected to take thirty days as Tenmei and Tian Yu discussed the expedition and the Shinobi World they had left behind.
• During the voyage, the ninjas trained for weightlessness, Tian Yu and the medical team adjusted medicine formulas, and Tsubasa nourished ironwood seeds with Immortal Power while Princess Kaguya watched the stars.

The Firmament One landed on Mars, where Tsubasa and Tenmei organized efforts to expand the base and make the planet more habitable. Tsubasa planted a vast ironwood forest in Mercury Valley while Tenmei began building a military base, and Princess Kaguya headed alone toward the north pole.

• The Firmament One landed on Mars, and Tenmei, Tsubasa, Princess Kaguya, and their companions met Professor Uzumaki Hyōmei at the research base.
• Tsubasa agreed to test ironwood tree seeds in Mercury Valley, while Tenmei divided the corps into groups for planting, construction, and support.
• Princess Kaguya left the base alone for Mars's north pole despite Tsubasa's offer to accompany her.
• Tsubasa led five hundred ninja and ten medical-nin to Mercury Valley, where they raised an Earth Release barrier against the wind and sand.
• Tsubasa used Senjutsu to grow ironwood trees across Mercury Valley, and the ninja melted underground ice to water them.
• Tenmei led more than ten thousand ninja in constructing a large military base near the existing Mars base.

Tsubasa and the ninja worked to make Mars habitable while constructing an ultra-long-distance teleportation array to connect it with Blue Star. After resolving problems with the water and the array’s energy generators, they began powering the array, leaving its construction underway.

• Tenmei taught the ninja how to reinforce an Earth Release wall with Chakra and sealing runes.
• Tsubasa used Wood Release to expand the ironwood forest, while Professor Uzumaki Hyōmei found that the stream was too mineral-rich and cold for other plants.
• Tsubasa ordered the ninja to warm and purify the stream while preserving some minerals for the ironwood trees.
• A ninja reported that the teleportation array’s generator could not provide enough stable spatial energy, so Tsubasa instructed the Sealing Squad to install two more generators.
• Tsubasa added a sealing rune to stabilize the Chakra, and the Sealing Squad linked the generators to the array as its golden runes began to light up.

Tsubasa and Princess Kaguya struggled to awaken Mars’s planetary will despite the planet’s weak energy nodes. After sacrificing Ōtsutsuki Ōshiki’s remains to the strongest node, they awakened a Dragon Vein and gained Mars’s goodwill, leaving the planet’s transformation with a new source of hope.

• Princess Kaguya returned with a weak energy node from beneath Mars’s polar ice cap, confirming that the planet’s nodes could not awaken its will.
• More than half a year later, Mars had extensive forests, lakes, and military bases, and Tsubasa’s team successfully tested a long-distance teleportation array carrying supplies from Blue Star.
• Tsubasa proposed sacrificing Ōtsutsuki Ōshiki’s remains to strengthen Mars’s energy nodes, and Princess Kaguya agreed to try.
• Tsubasa and Princess Kaguya used Ōshiki’s remains and their power to transform the lake’s energy node into a Dragon Vein that awakened Mars’s planetary will.
• Tsubasa and Princess Kaguya accepted their role as Mars’s guardians and returned to the base as signs of life spread across the planet.

Ōtsutsuki Agin and the other clansmen searched the Western Continent for the Ōshiki Squad and the God Tree but found no trace of them, so Commander Ōtsutsuki Retsu ordered the extermination of the natives. As the attack devastated the Silver Shield Kingdom, powerful sword strikes, vine-covered forces, and armies of mages converged on the city.

• Ōtsutsuki Agin, Ōtsutsuki Atsu, and Ōtsutsuki Ayu searched the Silver Shield Kingdom and found no trace of the Ōshiki Squad or the God Tree.
• Ōtsutsuki Atsu interrogated the city lord, found no useful information, and the clansmen spent two months searching with the natives’ help.
• Squadron Captain Ōtsutsuki Shō and Squadron Captain Ōtsutsuki Sō reported that the natives knew nothing, and Commander Ōtsutsuki Retsu ordered their extermination.
• The Ōtsutsuki clansmen destroyed the Silver Shield Kingdom, and Ōtsutsuki Agin struggled with the killing of a little girl while Ōtsutsuki Tōru dismissed the dead as inferior beings.
• Ōtsutsuki Agin spotted multiple powerful sword strikes, advancing vine-covered forces, and mage armies converging on the Silver Shield Kingdom.

The Ōtsutsuki invasion met fierce resistance as the Western Continent’s strongest warriors, mages, elves, and druids rallied to defend their lands. The World Will and the god warned of the danger, and the continent’s believers prepared to fight to the end.

• Commander Ōtsutsuki Retsu ordered Ōtsutsuki Shō and Ōtsutsuki Sō to attack different regions while his forces continued their search for the God Tree.
• The Silver Wing Sword Saint arrived at the Silver Shield Kingdom’s ruins and drove back Ōtsutsuki Shō’s attack with his greatsword.
• The Church of Flame’s chief grand magister and the Frost Kingdom’s Ice Prism Grand Magister joined the battle, while elves and druids attacked the Ōtsutsuki with energy-draining vines.
• Ōtsutsuki Sō reported that kingdoms across the Western Continent were sending troops, and Retsu sensed an ominous force enveloping the land.
• Priests at the sacred mountain received warnings from their god and the World Will, and the pope called on the believers to fight the invaders to the end.

The Ōtsutsuki Clan attacked across the Western Continent, using their divine techniques to overwhelm its defenders. As Retsu, Ayu, Shō, Sō, and Tōru slaughtered their opponents, the continent’s resistance collapsed into despair.

• Ōtsutsuki Retsu killed the Church of Flame's chief grand magister and blasted more than a dozen mages with black energy beams.
• Ōtsutsuki Ayu killed an elven archer while Ōtsutsuki Shō mortally wounded and then killed the Silver Wing Sword Saint.
• Ōtsutsuki Sō defeated the Ice Prism Grand Magister and used attraction and repulsion to slaughter Frost Kingdom soldiers.
• Ōtsutsuki Tōru discovered how to stop the druids’ healing vines, then killed elves and druids throughout the forest.

The Ōtsutsuki Clan defeated the Western Continent’s gods and slaughtered its people, cities, armies, and kingdoms. After declaring the continent cleared, Commander Retsu prepared to lead the clan east to find the Ōshiki Squad and the God Tree, while Agin sensed an unfamiliar energy awaiting them.

• Retsu, Ayu, Shō, Sō, and Tōru killed the Western Continent’s gods in battle.
• The Ōtsutsuki Clan spread across the Western Continent and massacred its inhabitants, destroying cities, armies, kingdoms, and forests.
• Retsu surveyed the ruined continent and announced that the clan would head to the Eastern Continent to find the God Tree.
• Commander Retsu ordered the clansmen to locate the Ōshiki Squad and collect the remaining planetary origin energy.
• Agin looked toward the Eastern Continent, sensed energy unlike the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s, and felt uneasy.

After the Moon God Cult witnessed the Ōtsutsuki Clan devastate the Western Continent, its warning brought the Shinobi World’s leaders and strongest factions together. They agreed to meet the invaders over the ocean between the continents and sought advice from the people developing Mars.

• Tenpei showed Tian Muyan the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s destruction of the Western Continent, and she sent emergency warnings to Yan Emperor Tenbutsu, the Immortal Venerable Hall, and Konoha.
• Tenbutsu called an emergency meeting, while Hatake Sakumo summoned the seven Shadows to the Allied Shinobi Forces headquarters.
• Tenpi brought the seven Shadows to the imperial palace, where Tenbutsu, the Immortal Venerables, and the holy land masters discussed the invasion.
• The leaders agreed to confront the Ōtsutsuki Clan over the ocean using a spacetime barrier, with the Shadows, holy lands, Moon God Cult, and Immortal Venerables assigned different roles.
• Tenchu said he had already sent word to Tenbutsu’s father and Princess Kaguya on Mars, asking them to return and advise the defenders.

As the Shinobi World entered full combat readiness for war against the Ōtsutsuki Legion, Orochimaru defended his choice to become a zombie and promised to prove the strength of his zombie legion. In Konoha, Uchiha squads assembled for reconnaissance and surprise attacks, confident their Dōjutsu and rune technology could challenge the enemy.

• Tsunade and Jiraiya warned Orochimaru that the zombie virus could take control of him, and Orochimaru revealed that Immortal Venerable Tsubasa had placed a runic restriction in his body as a safeguard.
• Orochimaru said he sought eternal power and would demonstrate the strength of his zombie legion in the coming battle against the Ōtsutsuki Legion.
• The Shinobi World mobilized its Immortal Level fighters and prepared its reformed ninja forces for war under the Immortal Venerable Hall's direction.
• Uchiha Fugaku organized thirteen three-person squads for reconnaissance and surprise attacks, ordering them to check their equipment.
• Uchiha Homura and the assembled Uchiha squads prepared their Chakra amplifiers and Sharingan auxiliary computing units, vowing to make their Dōjutsu a threat to the Ōtsutsuki.

The seven branches prepared their specialized tactics and rune-enhanced equipment for the coming battle against the Ōtsutsuki army. The chapter ended with forty-one Immortal Level squads, totaling 123 people, assembled and ready to fight.

• Senju Nawaki rallied the Yang Branch to use its healing abilities and sustained combat strength to protect allies and fight the Ōtsutsuki.
• Sand Explosion Rasa and the Ino-Shika-Cho formation planned to combine Wind Branch defenses and control techniques against the enemy.
• The Lightning Branch prepared to combine Yotsuki Lightning Release with Sarutobi Fire Release and rune conduction armor.
• Tian Yukihime declared that the Water Branch would lead the ocean battle and aim to kill a third of the eighty-one Ōtsutsuki.
• Hyuga Hiashi and Hatake Sakumo coordinated reconnaissance and high-speed sword attacks, while Uzumaki Fuehito prepared sealing formations and scrolls.
• Forty-one Immortal Level squads, numbering 123 people, gathered in customized rune armor with enhanced weapons, technique scrolls, and communications equipment.

The Shinobi World’s veteran fighters and assembled forces prepared to face the Ōtsutsuki army, with Immortal Venerable Tenchu’s experts establishing a vast barrier over the ocean. The united forces reached their staging positions as the coming battle threatened the fate of the Shinobi World.

• Mito Uzumaki, Senju Tenpuku, Hyuga Tensei, and other veterans resolved to join the front lines as the oldest battle team.
• Uchi Chiri led the Yin Branch’s thirteen squads toward the ocean to scout for the Ōtsutsuki and lure them toward the Space-Time Suppression Barrier, while Uchiha Fugaku sensed for enemies.
• Senju Nawaki led the Yang Lineage’s ten squads to provide battlefield first aid and support behind the combat forces.
• The sacred grounds and Immortal Venerable Hall mobilized more than a hundred squads of Immortal Level fighters.
• Immortal Venerable Tenchu and dozens of High Immortal Level experts built a Super Space-Time Suppression Barrier over the ocean to contain the Ōtsutsuki army.
• Tian Muyan and Tenpei led the Moon God Cult’s forces to establish an early-warning network, and Immortal Venerable Tian Flying Swallow rallied the united Shinobi World forces.

After learning that the Ōtsutsuki Legion had invaded Shinobi Planet, Tsubasa, Princess Kaguya, and Tian Yu left Mars to aid the defense. They divided their efforts between summoning the Hell Legion and locating the Ōtsutsuki spaceships, leaving the base under Tenpi and Uzumaki Hyōmei’s care.

• Tenpi brought Tsubasa an emergency report from Tenbutsu about the Ōtsutsuki invasion and the planned decisive battle at sea.
• Tsubasa suspended the Mars development project and ordered the base to prepare the spatial teleportation array, leaving Tenpi and Uzumaki Hyōmei in charge.
• Tsubasa, Princess Kaguya, and Tian Yu teleported to the Immortal Venerable Hall on Shinobi Planet.
• Tsubasa sent Tian Yu to open the Gate of Hell with a black rune and bring the ghost emperors and Hell Legion to the ocean battlefield.
• Tsubasa and Princess Kaguya set out to find and seize the Ōtsutsuki spaceships, which Kaguya said she could help locate.

Tenjin and the united forces of the Shinobi World prepared an ocean battlefield to stop the approaching Ōtsutsuki Legion. After the Giant Tenseigan detected the enemy, the Legion appeared on the horizon as the defenders readied for battle.

• Tenjin marched with the Ryūchi Cave squad as the Sacred Land forces and Immortal Venerable Hall experts converged on the ocean battlefield.
• Immortal Venerable Tenchu and the High Immortals activated the Super Space-Time Suppression Barrier while Tian Muyan ordered the Moon God Cult to monitor the Western Continent with the Giant Tenseigan.
• Uchiha Insa and the Yin Branch ninja squad taunted the Ōtsutsuki to draw them out as the Sacred Land squads set traps, sealing defenses, and Senjutsu formations.
• Immortal Venerable Tenchu, Immortal Venerable Tian Flying Swallow, and Immortal Venerable Tian Mai took command above the ocean as the defenses were completed.
• Tenpei reported that the Ōtsutsuki Legion was approaching, and Tian Muyan relayed the warning to the Immortal Venerables.
• The defenders answered Immortal Venerable Tian Flying Swallow's call to fight, and the Ōtsutsuki Legion appeared on the horizon.

Tsubasa and Kaguya found the Ōtsutsuki Clan's Divine Wood ship in an asteroid belt and attacked it, but its defenses resisted their weapons and it counterattacked. Tsubasa sent Kaguya and the High Heaven back to Shinobi Planet, then faced the Ten-Tails-controlled ship alone and launched a Rasenshuriken.

• Tsubasa ordered the High Heaven to search the space around Shinobi Planet, and Kaguya adjusted its detector to find Ōtsutsuki energy fluctuations.
• The detector located an Ōtsutsuki ship hidden in an asteroid belt, which Kaguya identified as a Divine Wood ship that could resurrect fallen Ōtsutsuki clansmen.
• Tsubasa ordered an attack while Kaguya used Ninjutsu to disrupt the ship, but its shield blocked their weapons and the vessel retaliated with Tailed Beast energy blasts.
• Tsubasa used Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands to shield the High Heaven and ordered Kaguya and the pilot to return to Shinobi Planet.
• Tsubasa stayed behind as the Divine Wood ship emerged and exposed its energy core, then attacked it with Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

Tian Muyan and Uchiha Fugaku lured Ōtsutsuki Retsu’s invading force into a Space-Time Suppression Barrier, trapping them after a costly clash. The Ōtsutsuki attacked the barrier while the defenders waited for the three great immortal venerables to arrive.

• Ōtsutsuki Agin and Ayu sensed powerful, unfamiliar energy on the Eastern Continent as Ōtsutsuki Retsu led at least eighty clansmen toward it.
• Tentoku warned Tian Muyan that the Ōtsutsuki force would reach the border within half an hour, and she arranged with Uchiha Fugaku to draw them into the prepared barrier.
• Tian Muyan’s Rinnegan-wielding archers and Uchiha Fugaku’s Susanoo fought the approaching Ōtsutsuki, who killed several defenders before the Uchiha retreated as planned.
• Ōtsutsuki Retsu pursued the Uchiha into the Space-Time Suppression Barrier, while teleporting Ōtsutsuki clansmen killed several of Tian Muyan’s archers.
• Ōtsutsuki Retsu and his clansmen bombarded the barrier without breaking it, while Tian Muyan and Uchiha Fugaku waited outside for the three great immortal venerables.

The three newly advanced Immortal Venerables entered the Space-Time Suppression Barrier and began suppressing the Ōtsutsuki squadron captains. As they fought, Orochimaru, zombie Isshiki, and the Flying Zombie arrived at the barrier’s edge, where the Ōtsutsuki recognized Isshiki’s transformed body.

• Tian Muyan warned Immortal Venerables Tenchu, Tian Flying Swallow, and Tian Mai that the barrier was nearing its limit and asked them to intervene.
• The three Immortal Venerables passed through the barrier and chose Ōtsutsuki Retsu, Ōtsutsuki Sō, and Ōtsutsuki Shō as their opponents.
• Immortal Venerable Tenchu struck Ōtsutsuki Retsu into the sea and attacked him with stone spikes, while Immortal Venerable Tian Flying Swallow and Immortal Venerable Tian Mai pressed their respective opponents.
• Orochimaru arrived at the barrier with zombie Isshiki and the Flying Zombie, and zombie Isshiki charged toward the Ōtsutsuki.
• The Ōtsutsuki recognized zombie Isshiki and cried out in alarm at his death qi and monstrous appearance.

Orochimaru and the two other zombies overwhelmed the Ōtsutsuki clansmen inside the barrier, repeatedly regenerating after attacks that should have killed them. By feeding on Ōtsutsuki blood, Orochimaru advanced to the Flying Zombie level and continued hunting as the clansmen fled.

• Zombie Isshiki, the Flying Zombie, and Orochimaru disrupted the Ōtsutsuki clansmen’s attack on the barrier, and the zombies regenerated whenever their bodies were damaged.
• Orochimaru ambushed an injured Ōtsutsuki clansman and drank his golden blood, causing his zombie power to grow.
• Zombie Isshiki and the Flying Zombie repeatedly reformed after the Ōtsutsuki clansmen smashed their bodies apart.
• Orochimaru drank the blood of a squad leader and advanced to the Flying Zombie level.
• The Ōtsutsuki clansmen abandoned their attack and fled as zombie Isshiki and the Flying Zombie pursued them.
• Orochimaru caught another Ōtsutsuki clansman near the sea and drank his blood, further strengthening his zombie power.

Orochimaru, zombie Isshiki, and the Flying Zombie turned the battle against the Ōtsutsuki Clan, whose regeneration was suppressed by corpse qi. Ōtsutsuki Retsu ordered a retreat, but the zombies pursued the fleeing clansmen as Tian Muyan and Uchiha Fugaku prepared to stop them from escaping.

• Ōtsutsuki Retsu broke free of Wood Release restraints and attacked Orochimaru, but Immortal Venerable Tenchu forced him to turn back and defend himself.
• The zombies overwhelmed the Ōtsutsuki clansmen, and Uchiha Fugaku explained to Tian Muyan how corpse qi prevented their wounds from regenerating.
• Orochimaru and the other zombies hunted the panicked clansmen while Orochimaru grew stronger by drinking their blood.
• Ōtsutsuki Retsu recognized the battle was lost, ordered a retreat, and slashed at the zombies to give his clansmen time to flee.
• Immortal Venerable Tenchu tried to block the fleeing Ōtsutsuki with wooden vines, but they burned their life force to escape, and the zombies pursued them.
• The Ōtsutsuki clansmen split into more than a dozen teams as Tian Muyan and Uchiha Fugaku prepared to stop them from escaping.