Recaps

Tsubasa addressed Konoha’s frightened villagers after the major clans left, boasting of his victories and promising to protect the Land of Fire. He laid out ambitious plans to transform the village, winning the crowd’s support as he vowed to lead those who stayed to greatness.

• Tsubasa appeared on the Hokage Building terrace with Hashirama Senju and his brother, then promised the villagers that Konoha would remain safe under his protection.
• Tsubasa recounted killing Reto, Gengetsu Hozuki, and Mu, driving back their armies, and forcing the Third Mizukage to sign a treaty; the crowd cheered at his claims.
• Tsubasa declared that no war would reach the Land of Fire while he lived and said he would never welcome back the clans that had left.
• Tsubasa promised housing, free education, a general hospital, rune technology, cultivation resources, and open access to Konoha’s ninjutsu and secret techniques.
• Tsubasa drew his sword and proclaimed that Konoha belonged to everyone who had stayed and believed in him, vowing to carve a path to greatness for them.

Tsubasa introduced the Nine-Grade Family System to Konoha's thirty-three families, setting out how family size, strength, reputation, connections, and contributions would determine their rank and privileges. The family heads left considering how to meet the standards, while Tsubasa expected the system to strengthen Konoha through population growth and cultivation.

• Tsubasa summoned the thirty-three family heads and announced that Konoha would be divided into an inner village and an outer village, with the families who stayed earning entry to the inner village.
• Tsubasa explained that inner-village families would be ranked from ninth grade to first grade, with an immortal grade above them, based on size, experts, reputation, connections, and contributions.
• Tsubasa detailed the housing, medical, educational, cultivation, weapon, political, industrial, and military benefits attached to each family grade.
• Tsubasa declared that immortal-grade families would need ten Sage Realm experts or a High Immortal to protect the Shinobi World.
• The family heads reacted with determination or concern as they assessed their prospects, and Tsubasa said family grades would be reviewed every twenty years.
• Tsubasa urged the families to have more children and encourage their ninjas to cultivate, so their families could rise in rank and Konoha could grow stronger.

Tsubasa announced a ten-rank system for Konoha ninja based on practical strength tests and created a Ninja Evaluation Building to certify ranks below Kage Level. The clan heads pledged to support him, and Konoha’s ninja gathered outside the new building, eager to see it.

• Tsubasa introduced ten ninja ranks and explained that evaluations would test speed, power, agility, chakra control, and mastered techniques rather than mission records.
• Tsubasa defined the standards for Kage Level, Super Kage Level, and Sage Level, identifying himself as one of only two Sage-level fighters in the Shinobi World.
• Tsubasa formed a ten-story Ninja Evaluation Building beside the Hokage building and invited the clan heads to test its barriers.
• Shikaboshi Nara, Chozan Akimichi, and Momiji Yamanaka pledged the Ino-Shika-Cho clans’ loyalty, and the other clan heads followed.
• Tsubasa urged the clans to grow their populations and strengthen their ninja, promising to transform Konoha within five years.
• Tsubasa led the clan heads into the building to inspect its facilities as Konoha ninja gathered outside.

Tsubasa showed the clan heads Konoha’s ten-floor ninja evaluation facility, where rune-based tests measured skills ranging from speed and Chakra control to combat and battlefield command. The clan heads struggled to meet the highest standards, and none passed the final leadership simulation.

• The clan heads tested their speed and endurance across twelve simulated terrain zones, where only six reached Kage Level speed.
• They tried the third-floor dodging and attack tests, but only the Uchiha Clan Head and Hyuga Clan Head perfectly cleared the Kage Level challenge.
• The clan heads all measured at Kage Level for Chakra reserves, but none met the Kage Level Chakra-control standard.
• They tested Genjutsu, Genjutsu resistance, Chakra nature, weapons, individual combat, and team battles, with few achieving Kage Level results.
• The clan heads faced Tsubasa’s runic mirror image in the final war-game simulation, but none passed, including Shikaboshi Nara.
• At sunset, Tsubasa watched ninja arriving to take the evaluations as the building’s runes illuminated the structure.

Tsubasa presented a comprehensive reform of Konoha’s Ninja Academy, defining its stages, curricula, graduation standards, and teachers. He left the clan heads inspired to support the schools and build their clans’ futures.

• Tsubasa announced that all boys and girls would attend a six-year elementary school, followed by middle school, advanced ninja school, and Kage Academy, with standardized education replacing clan-only instruction.
• Tsubasa outlined elementary and middle school curricula, requiring middle school graduates to reach Elite Genin level and introducing lessons in combat, tactics, and summoning.
• Tsubasa said advanced ninja school would teach clan techniques, specialist professions, and Ninjutsu, while requiring Elite Chunin strength and a secondary skill to graduate.
• Tsubasa established Kage Academy for Jonin-level students, promising to teach forbidden techniques and Senjutsu, and required Kage Level strength and three S-rank missions to graduate; Super Kage graduates could run for Hokage.
• Tsubasa assigned Chunin, Jonin, and Kage Level teachers to the schools and declared that Kage School graduates would be required for Konoha’s top leadership.
• After the meeting, Shikaboshi Nara, Chozan Akimichi, and Momiji Yamanaka resolved to strengthen their clans by having more children, while the Inuzuka Clan head hurried home to develop training with other ninja beasts.

Tsubasa laid out an ambitious plan to rebuild Konoha, creating modern residential districts, industrial bases, and a new military and civil hierarchy. After the meeting, clan heads considered how to secure influential posts for themselves and their clans.

• Tsubasa proposed building twenty residential districts with schools, hospitals, shops, and barriers strong enough to withstand Kage Level attacks.
• Tsubasa outlined six outer-village development bases for forging, rune sealing, machinery, medicinal herbs, summoning beasts, and pharmaceuticals.
• Tsubasa established a Konoha Mission Hall and described five military corps, a three-thousand-member Anbu Corps, and a police force led by Uchiha Tomioki.
• Tsubasa set the hierarchy of Konoha's departments and ordered clan heads to submit qualified candidates for leadership positions within three days.
• The Inuzuka Clan head resolved to secure the Beast Taming Department, while Shikaboshi Nara considered seeking the Mission Department and Anbu leadership for his clan and allies.

Tsubasa reviewed the clan applications and announced Konoha’s new military and civilian department leaders. The chapter ended with the appointees pledging to strengthen their divisions and legions.

• Uchiha Tomioki rallied the Uchiha Clan to pursue the Military Police chiefship and a legion command, while the Hyuga and Hatake clans weighed their prospects.
• Tsubasa used Shadow Clones to screen more than six hundred applications and selected the officials.
• The bulletin board named Shikaboshi Nara commander of the Anbu and Uchiha Tomioki head of the Konoha Military Police Force.
• The results appointed Senju Tenpuku, Mito Uzumaki, Masataka Hatake, Uchiha Chiri, and Hyuga Tensei as commanders of Konoha’s five legions.
• The board also announced the heads and deputy heads of seven civilian departments.
• The newly appointed commanders and deputies resolved to build strong forces and protect the village and the Land of Fire.

Tsubasa briefed the daimyo and clan heads on Konoha’s reconstruction, new rat summons, and the arrival of the Uzumaki Clan before addressing the threat of several nations’ armies. He outlined Konoha’s defensive deployments and demanded a firm diplomatic stance, promising to destroy any nation that invaded the Land of Fire.

• Tsubasa reported that Konoha had built twenty rune housing complexes and praised Tora Inuzuka’s rat summons, prompting the clan heads and the daimyo to place orders.
• Tsubasa urged the clan heads to welcome more than one thousand ninja from the Land of Whirlpools, who would join Konoha and support the Rune Sealing Department.
• The daimyo, Uchiha Tomioki, and Shikaboshi Nara reported military movements by the Land of Wind, the Land of Earth, the Land of Lightning, and the Sarutobi Clan, while several clan heads called for peace talks.
• Tsubasa challenged the clan heads to face the possibility of war and described how Konoha’s corps were positioned to watch each threatened border.
• Tsubasa ordered the clan heads to take a strong diplomatic stance and declared that Konoha would accept surrender but not peace talks if an enemy invaded the Land of Fire.

Tsubasa reassured Konoha’s leaders with a demonstration of the Lightning Explosion Bomb and outlined plans for the village’s development. By the end of the chapter, residents were enjoying new rune-equipped homes and plentiful goods, though memories of war still troubled them.

• Tsubasa demonstrated the Lightning Explosion Bomb’s power and warned other countries against attacking Konoha.
• Tsubasa presented plans for the Ninja Academy, research facilities, and village development, and promised to protect Konoha’s people.
• Tsubasa told the leaders to collect their new-home keys and deeds, while the daimyo watched him study the Land of Fire’s borders.
• At the end of Konoha’s twelfth year, Senju Kaika and other residents praised their warm rune houses, convenient shops, and improved living conditions.
• Residents recalled the war’s destruction and losses, and Senju Clan elders fell silent when one auntie feared another war might take her grandson Orochimaru.

Tsubasa saw how Konoha’s prosperity had changed village life and reconsidered his harsh refusal to accept returning refugees. At the Land of Rice Fields’ border, Mito Uzumaki forced Sasuke Sarutobi’s army to retreat, and Sasuke chose to return home rather than risk his soldiers’ lives.

• Tsubasa received gifts from grateful villagers and, while looking over Konoha in the snow, remembered the refugees he had turned away and questioned his lack of kindness.
• Sasuke Sarutobi learned that Mito Uzumaki’s Vermilion Bird Corps had arrived to face his army at the Land of Rice Fields’ border.
• Mito confronted Sasuke over his troops and scouts entering Konoha territory, and Sasuke ordered his forces to withdraw.
• Sasuke’s troops broke formation and fled, while he escaped with his men rather than fight Mito’s elite corps.
• At camp, Sasuke admitted his army could not defeat Konoha and ordered his forces to return to the Land of Rice Fields for the new year.

Senju Tenpuku and Third Raikage A fought to a draw at Arakawa Ferry, after which A withdrew his troops rather than risk more casualties during a food shortage. The chapter left A planning to seek a grain-trading agreement with Konoha and write Tenpuku about a rematch.

• Senju Tenpuku and Third Raikage A fought for ten hours across Arakawa Ferry, ending in a draw.
• A ordered the Land of Lightning’s troops to withdraw for the New Year and admitted that further fighting would bring more casualties without securing food.
• In his command tent, A considered the Land of Lightning’s dwindling provisions and ordered an envoy to seek grain from Konoha after spring, offering lightning stone ore in trade.
• A decided to write Senju Tenpuku a letter proposing a rematch without Lightning Release or Tenpuku’s sword.

Masataka Hatake and the White Tiger Army used sabotage and guerrilla attacks to wear down Shamon’s invading Sand forces in the Land of Rain. Shamon’s army retreated to the Land of Wind border in defeat, but he vowed that Sunagakure would eventually retaliate against Konoha.

• Shamon led thirty thousand Sand shinobi through the Land of Rain, burning villages and seizing supplies while dismissing Konoha’s forces.
• Masataka Hatake and three hundred White Tiger Army elites ambushed a Sand grain convoy and destroyed its cargo, then harried the Sand army with repeated stealth attacks.
• Shamon challenged Masataka to a duel, and the two fought to a draw as Konoha reinforcements approached and the Sand supply camp burned.
• Shamon ordered his battered army to retreat after losing much of its grain and puppets, and Masataka sent medicine for the wounded.
• Shamon tore up a Konoha leaflet mocking Sunagakure’s failed raid and vowed that the Land of Wind’s sands would not be easy to tread upon.

Ōnoki sent a massive Iwa force to conquer the Land of Grass, but Uchiha Chiri and Hyuga Tensei’s forces routed it and defended Konoha’s ally. After accepting Konoha’s peace terms, Ōnoki reconsidered his ambitions and thought of visiting Konoha as a learner.

• Ōnoki ordered one hundred thousand troops to assemble and invade the Land of Grass, prompting a Kusakure elder to ask Konoha for help.
• Uchiha Chiri led the Black Tortoise Army into the eastern canyon and slaughtered the five thousand Iwa ninja who had captured Grass civilians.
• Ōnoki attacked Chiri with his forces, but the Hyuga Kirin Corps arrived under Hyuga Tensei and joined her in crushing the Iwa army.
• Tensei stopped Chiri from pursuing the retreating Iwa ninja, and the people of the Land of Grass cheered their defenders.
• After returning to Iwagakure, Ōnoki received Konoha’s peace terms and considered visiting Konoha as a learner.

Tsubasa forced the leaders of the other great villages and Hiruzen Sarutobi to surrender techniques and pay reparations, establishing himself as the Shinobi world's supreme power. After former Konoha villagers begged to return, he allowed them back only on the condition that they work in the mines for ten years, then reflected on protecting the people who could live freely behind him.

• Tsubasa invaded the Land of Lightning, defeated Third Raikage A, and demanded Lightning Release Chakra Mode and ten billion ryo.
• Tsubasa crushed Ōnoki and Iwagakure's resistance, demanding Dust Release and ten billion ryo.
• Tsubasa defeated Shamon in Sunagakure and demanded Magnet Release and ten billion ryo.
• Tsubasa killed Sasuke Sarutobi, demanded Konoha's missing-nin clan techniques and ten billion ryo from Hiruzen Sarutobi, and refused to forgive the clans that had betrayed Konoha.
• Tsubasa received the countries' reparations and scrolls, then ordered former Konoha villagers to work in the Land of Fire's mines for ten years if they wished to stay.
• Tsubasa watched Konoha's children play and reflected that the God of Shinobi's role was to protect their safety and happiness.

Tsubasa welcomed Uzumaki Ashina and the Uzumaki Clan to Konoha, where they settled into new homes and reunited with Mito, Akira, and Biwako. Ashina prepared to lead Konoha’s Sealing Department as the chapter ended with the clan beginning its new life in the village.

• Tsubasa and Konoha’s leaders welcomed Ashina and the Uzumaki convoy outside the village.
• The Uzumaki clanspeople entered Konoha, marveled at its rune-protected homes, and received keys to their new residences.
• Ashina reunited with Biwako, Mito, and Akira, and praised Akira’s pure Chakra.
• Ashina reviewed sealing plans for his upcoming work with Konoha’s Rune Sealing Department.
• Ashina watched the Uzumaki district’s rune lamps light up while Tsubasa looked ahead to the clan’s contributions to Konoha.

Tsubasa met Biwako Senju beneath his statue and argued with her about his ruthless rule and the harm he had caused. He asked her to become Hokage so he could focus on Immortal Cultivation, but Biwako rejected the idea, and Tsunade called out from afar.

• Tsubasa apologized to Biwako for driving Hiruzen Sarutobi from power and forcing the Sarutobi Clan to leave Konoha.
• Biwako criticized Tsubasa for his harsh actions, including killing Hiruzen's father, while Tsubasa defended them as necessary to protect the village.
• Tsubasa asked Biwako to take over as Hokage so he could pursue Immortal Cultivation.
• Biwako refused, pointing out that she lacked the knowledge to manage Konoha's many responsibilities.
• Little Tsunade called out to Tsubasa and Biwako from afar.

Tsubasa reflected on Biwako’s kindness before telling Konoha’s senior officials he intended to step down and enter seclusion in Shikkotsu Forest. He agreed to remain Hokage while a new Hokage Cabinet managed routine affairs, setting strict rules for its secretaries.

• Biwako gave Tsubasa a jade hairpin and told him she would look after little Tsunade.
• Tsubasa announced to fourteen senior officials that he wanted to step down and cultivate in Shikkotsu Forest.
• The officials protested and proposed that secretaries manage government affairs while Tsubasa remained Hokage.
• Tsubasa approved a Hokage Cabinet of five secretaries and required archived records, collective review of major decisions, and accountability for abuses of power.
• Tsubasa ordered the officials to submit recommended candidates for the secretariat within three days.

Tsubasa appointed five people to serve as Hokage secretaries, forming a cabinet to help govern Konoha. The new secretaries accepted their roles as dawn broke, while Biwako Senju agreed to serve on a three-month trial.

• Tsubasa appointed Kagami Uchiha, Torifu Akimichi, and Shikamei Nara as Hokage secretaries, citing their battlefield service, reliability, and skill with intelligence and finances.
• Tsubasa appointed Hirohito Kurama, praising his genjutsu ability, strength, and border-defense strategies; Hirohito pledged the Kurama Clan’s service.
• Tsubasa persuaded Biwako Senju to join the cabinet, and she accepted on a three-month trial.
• At dawn, Tsubasa told the five secretaries their duty was to serve Konoha’s villagers and help the village run smoothly.
• The five gathered with their seals, and Kagami Uchiha welcomed the chance to spar with Tsubasa as the group joked together.

Tsubasa visited his family after stepping back from front-line Hokage duties, advised his relatives on military spending and training, and prepared to leave again. He departed with his family seeing him off, while Tian Uguisu’s letter hinted at a future meeting with Madara Uchiha and the Ten-Tails statue.

• Tsubasa used a Shadow Clone to handle secretarial work and went to the Ten Family’s villa to see his mother, brother, and future daughters-in-law.
• Nanshin Senju described the family’s expenses, and Tsubasa said the Azure Dragon Army should not rely on family funds for military costs.
• Senju Tenpuku challenged Tsubasa’s decision to cut military funding, and Tsubasa urged him to prioritize soldiers’ strength, training, and teamwork over equipment.
• Tsubasa thanked Yueqing for her work and told her to take time off, then received Tian Uguisu’s letter about learning Ninjutsu and visiting the Ten-Tails statue with him.
• Tsubasa paid respects at the clan shrine and left as Senju Ga, Tenmei, and Tian Mai said goodbye.

Tsubasa cultivated in Shikkotsu Forest and promised to help the Katsuyu Sage transform into a human once he reached Great Accomplishment of Foundation Establishment. He settled into a routine of cultivation and experimentation, turning the forest into a secret base for his Immortal Cultivation studies.

• Tsubasa began cultivating in the Katsuyu Sage’s birthplace cave, where he used spirit-gathering runes to increase the Spiritual Qi concentration.
• The Katsuyu Sage told Tsubasa how deeply she wanted to become human, and he promised to seek transformation techniques at Ryūchi Cave and Mount Myōboku after reaching Great Accomplishment of Foundation Establishment.
• Tsubasa resumed daily cultivation and forged a Flying Thunder God Kunai designed to track enemies.
• Tsubasa refined Qi Replenishing Pills and carved runes to create a stable passage to an independent space in another time.
• Tsubasa and the Katsuyu Sage planted and tended a field of medicinal herbs, making Shikkotsu Forest his cultivation retreat and research base.

Tsubasa returned to Konoha every three months to inspect the village and direct reforms focused on welfare, employment, agriculture, education, infrastructure, and defense. On his latest visit, he saw the village transformed by new technologies and celebrated the creation of a giant computer that could match ninjas with missions.

• Tsubasa used Shadow Clones to inspect Konoha’s departments, schools, public safety, and villagers’ needs, then assigned reforms to the department heads and cabinet secretariat.
• Tsubasa ordered the village to support elderly residents and orphaned children through community service centers, while promoting mutual aid and employment through a talent center.
• Tsubasa’s plans accelerated village development as police improved their service, schools added new subjects, and researchers expanded their work.
• Asuka Nobumoto and Uzumaki Ashina’s teams developed electrical generation systems, steam-powered tools, household appliances, and fuel refining, while Asuka tested a rune-powered car.
• Nara Shikadai led the creation of the God First-Generation Machine, a giant computer that could match ninja registration details to suitable missions and estimate success rates.
• Tsubasa returned to Konoha, examined the computer, and reacted with excitement at seeing the technology from his former life recreated.

Six years after Konoha began its Chakra-powered industrial transformation, the village had become a futuristic city, while Tsubasa continued planning its expansion and advanced his cultivation. After returning to Konoha, he sent Shadow Clones throughout the village to hear residents’ concerns as his secretaries prepared reports.

• Konoha’s infrastructure and technology transformed the village, with floating farms, advanced vehicles, mechs, and plans for a City in the Sky.
• Tsubasa reviewed Konoha’s development plans in Shikkotsu Forest, where a clone of Katsuyu Sage urged him to rest.
• After three months of secluded cultivation, Tsubasa reached late Foundation Establishment and asked Katsuyu Sage to gather spirit-gathering camellias for pills.
• Tsubasa teleported to Konoha, created three thousand Shadow Clones to check on villagers, and met with his family and five chief secretaries.
• Tsubasa’s Shadow Clones spoke with residents across Konoha, including vendors, elders, farmers, and female ninjas.

Tsubasa addressed gambling-related debt exploitation in Konoha and defended the population boom caused by generous childbirth subsidies. He left his officials with a policy of encouraging clan growth, arguing that Konoha could expand to accommodate more people.

• Tsubasa ordered the Anbu and Konoha Military Police Force to shut down illegal casinos, arrest predatory lenders, cancel debts, and assist victims.
• Tsubasa directed Shikaboshi Nara to extend living-condition surveys to the outer village and recruit local auxiliaries to help the police.
• Tian Flying Swallow reported that inner-village newborns had increased by 213,123 after Shiranui Takeshi fathered 63 children with women from the outer village to qualify for housing subsidies.
• Uchiha Tomioki and Hyuga Tensei objected to Shiranui Takeshi's approach, while Akira Senju supported the childbirth policy.
• Tsubasa ruled that Shiranui Takeshi had broken no laws and argued that population growth would help Konoha's clans advance in rank and produce powerful descendants.

Tsubasa urged the great clans to increase their populations and revealed hidden truths about the Uchiha and Hyuga clans, then heard reports of scientific breakthroughs. The chapter ended with Tsubasa questioning the Divine Guard Type-2 mecha’s vulnerability to lightning.

• Tsubasa criticized the Uchiha and Hyuga clans’ restrictive bloodline customs and argued that their rules hindered population growth and strength.
• Tsubasa told the meeting that Madara Uchiha had survived, was training Tian Uguisu, and had likely caused Lord Tobirama’s death; he also claimed he could defeat Madara.
• Tomioki thanked Tsubasa for his guidance, and Tsubasa ordered policies to support willing parents while requiring parentage testing and birth registration.
• Asuka Nobumoto reported that a moon exploration rocket had encountered a Byakugan-wielding Ōtsutsuki Clan, and Tsubasa explained their connection to Hamura Otsutsuki and Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Asuka presented the Gale Type-1 fighter and the mass-production-ready Divine Guard Type-2 mecha, and Tsubasa asked what would happen if the mecha were struck by lightning.

Tsubasa reviewed Asuka’s mecha research and Akira Senju’s agricultural and pharmaceutical reports, setting new technical targets and redirecting medicine production. He left Akira with plans to market a youth-preserving beauty liquid to fund the Agriculture Department.

• Tsubasa ordered Asuka to develop a mecha that could withstand lightning, convert multiple energy types, allow modular repairs, and use an automated Hokage Series Computer system within three years.
• Asuka reported advances in civilian computers, automobiles, and motorcycles before Tsubasa redirected him toward urgent research and shared further research conjectures.
• Akira Senju reported on the village’s medicinal herb cultivation, the slow growth of the suspended herb garden’s snow ginseng, and the need to recruit more agricultural workers.
• Akira explained that Spirit Gathering Pills and Origin Solidifying Pills were causing dangerous misuse, and Tsubasa gave him Toxin Cleansing Powder to investigate while keeping it secret.
• Tsubasa ordered Spirit Gathering Pill production cut by seventy percent and directed Akira to produce and sell Youth-Preserving Liquid to fund the Agriculture Department.