Chapter Summaries

The Land of Earth's allied nobles launched a coordinated mutiny in Iwagakure, hoping to overthrow Madara Uchiha and Tian Uguisu. Their forces trapped the village's defenders behind immense stone walls and began cutting through them as the chapter ended with Iwagakure in chaos.

• White Zetsu reported the nobles' troop movements and betrayals to Madara Uchiha, while Tian Uguisu described her traps around Iwagakure and Madara agreed to let the rebels gather before crushing them.
• Rebels ignited Iwagakure's southeastern granary, revealing a thousand armored puppet warriors hidden in sealing scrolls, and traitors attacked several army posts.
• Defecting Earth Release masters raised enormous stone walls that divided Iwagakure into three sections and trapped its defenders in the central district.
• Yuichi Kurayoshi led three thousand private soldiers against the scattered ninja forces, while the rebels and noble troops killed defenders and drove them into despair.

Tian Uguisu and Madara Uchiha crushed the noble families’ rebellion against Iwagakure, killing rebel forces and capturing or driving off their leaders. After the slaughter, Tian Uguisu questioned whether they had acted too ruthlessly, and Madara defended their actions as protection for the people.

• Tian Uguisu summoned giant white-phosphorus snakes to break the rebels’ siege of Iwagakure and ordered the Eight-Headed Orochi to destroy the Kagōji family’s troops.
• Madara Uchiha attacked the nobles’ private army outside Iwagakure, destroyed its Chakra Cannon, and killed the Akamatsu family’s young master.
• Madara slaughtered the nobles’ advancing coalition army after Tian Uguisu reported that she wanted the family heads captured alive.
• Tian Uguisu’s forces reported more than 301,700 rebel ninja dead, over five million private troops defeated, and forty-two noble family heads captured.
• Madara returned with the dying speaker of the Land of Earth’s council, and Tian Uguisu threatened the minor families that had escaped.
• Tian Uguisu asked Madara whether they had been too ruthless, and he said the people would understand that they were protecting them from the nobles.

Tian Uguisu and Madara crushed the allied nobles’ hopes of summoning a god, then executed the survivors as the nobles called on foreign powers for help. When those forces invaded the Land of Earth and slaughtered civilians, Tian Uguisu, Madara, Gi Senju, and Tenchu fought back, but Moryo’s puppet army remained a threat.

• White Zetsu interrupted the nobles’ ritual to summon Earth God Kō and slaughtered the sorcerers, while the surviving nobles were captured.
• Tian Uguisu ordered the Kurayoshi family and other captured nobles executed, and Kurayoshi’s second son warned that foreign reinforcements were coming.
• Duke Shiei and the surviving nobles sent blood-written appeals to other lands and Moryo, whose puppet army marched toward the Land of Earth.
• The Land of Ghosts, the Land of Bears, and the Land of Birds invaded and ravaged the Land of Earth, prompting Tian Uguisu to lead Ryūchi Cave’s snakes against them.
• Madara burned the undead forces with Susanoo, while Gi Senju and Tenchu defeated the Bird Ninja; Moryo’s puppet army still broke through the last line of defense.

Moryo used the shrine in the Land of Demons to devour the Land of Earth’s nobles, soldiers, and families, strengthening its true body and stone puppets. After emerging as a human-shaped figure, Moryo set its sights on Madara Uchiha and Tian Uguisu and began raising the dead as its next force.

• The stone puppets welcomed Old Duke Shiei’s group as flesh for Moryo’s feast and slaughtered the nobles who had trusted them.
• The puppets dragged survivors to the altar, where Moryo emerged as a giant infant and devoured them to gather blood, bone, and souls.
• Old Duke Shiei cursed Moryo and warned that it would come for Tian Uguisu and Madara Uchiha before Moryo swallowed him.
• By dawn, Moryo had vanished into the earth, leaving the shrine silent and the cliff covered with skinned corpses.
• Moryo reappeared atop the corpses, sensed Madara Uchiha and Tian Uguisu in the Land of Earth, and animated the dead with green soul flames.

Tian Uguisu and the forces of Ryūchi Cave fought Moryo’s endless stone puppet army at Rock-Wall Chasm while Madara Uchiha and Tenchu battled the western invaders. As the day-long fight dragged on, the White Snake Sage offered to devour the nether vein’s source, and Tian Uguisu agreed while claiming Moryo’s bones for her scythe.

• Tian Uguisu sent Madara Uchiha to defend the western front and rode out with Tenchu and the forces of Ryūchi Cave to confront Moryo.
• Madara Uchiha destroyed an undead dragon and fought the Star Ninja, while Tenchu used his white phosphorus fire snake against the invaders.
• At Rock-Wall Chasm, Tian Uguisu and Ryūchi Cave’s giant snakes attacked the stone puppets as Moryo summoned more from the cliffs and black mist.
• After the battle lasted all day, Moryo continued creating puppets from its black mist and challenged Tian Uguisu to outlast its supply of Chakra.
• The White Snake Sage asked Tian Uguisu to let the Eight-Headed Orochi devour the umbilical cord connecting Moryo to the nether vein, and Tian Uguisu agreed on the condition that she could use Moryo’s bones to sharpen her scythe.

Kaneba Washi, Kumano Takeru, and Lady Youtan sealed a blood oath to divide the Shinobi World and launched an attack on the Land of Earth. Madara Uchiha’s forces were overwhelmed by the Star Ninja and the Immortal Golden Crow, leaving Madara badly wounded and calling for Tian Uguisu as the beast moved in to finish him.

• Kaneba Washi, Kumano Takeru, and Lady Youtan swore a blood oath and set off ominous signs across their lands.
• Five days later, Hoshihi Kai led thirty thousand Star Ninja in destroying Iwagakure’s defense at Falling Rock Plain.
• Madara Uchiha went to fight the Star Ninja alone and told his forces to have Tian Uguisu deal with Moryo.
• The Onmyo Bureau’s sorcerers broke the seal on the Immortal Golden Crow and sent it toward the battlefield.
• Madara’s Susanoo battled the Immortal Golden Crow, but the beast absorbed Amaterasu and shattered the Susanoo.
• Madara fell gravely wounded as the Immortal Golden Crow dove to strike him, and he called out to Tian Uguisu.

After Madara was gravely wounded, ghost soldiers, cursed samurai, and Star Ninja overwhelmed Iwagakure's fronts. Tian Uguisu abandoned the Rock-Wall Chasm's defense and led Ryūchi Cave toward the western front to confront the Golden Crow.

• Ghost soldiers crossed the northern frontier, drained defenders of Chakra, and seized its fortified cities with Lady Youtan's Ghost Release: Night Cry of a Hundred Demons.
• Cursed samurai slaughtered Iwagakure's forces across the central plains and advanced to within eighty li of Iwagakure.
• A messenger told Tian Uguisu that the Star Ninja had breached three western gates, the ghosts had ruined eight hundred li of land, and the cursed samurai were nearing Iwagakure.
• Tian Uguisu ordered White Zetsu and the remaining troops to hold the Rock-Wall Chasm while she assembled the disciples of Ryūchi Cave.
• Tian Uguisu rode the Eight-Headed Orochi toward the western front to fight the Golden Crow.

Tian Uguisu fought the Golden Crow but was badly wounded, while Madara Uchiha held the creature back despite the fire poison consuming him. As the Yamata White Snake Sage awakened in Iwagakure, Madara urged Tian Uguisu to survive and warn Konoha, but she stayed to protect him and the village through the night.

• Madara Uchiha told Tian Uguisu that the Golden Crow's fire poison could not be cured, and she left to confront the creature above Iwagakure.
• Tian Uguisu used Sage Art: White Phosphorus Snake Shadow Devouring against the Golden Crow, but it destroyed her snake, severed her left arm, and shattered her defenses.
• Madara Uchiha trapped the Golden Crow in a black flame cage and attacked it with Chibaku Tensei while his fire-poisoned body deteriorated.
• Tian Uguisu returned to find Madara near death, and he told her that the old white snake of Ryūchi Cave had awakened and instructed her to heal, take Tenchu, and warn Konoha.
• Tian Uguisu stayed beside Madara and prepared to defend him and the ruined village until dawn as the Yamata White Snake Sage's light rose over Iwagakure.

Wind God Saku and three members of the Ten Family arrived at Iwagakure, rescuing Tian Uguisu from despair as the village faced attacks from the Golden Crow, Lady Youtan, and Moryo’s puppet legion. With the new allies forming up to fight, Madara Uchiha hoped they could hold out until dawn.

• Tian Uguisu struggled to defend Iwagakure as the Golden Crow, Lady Youtan’s netherfire, cursed warriors, and Moryo’s puppets overwhelmed the village.
• Wind God Saku arrived and used his sandstorm techniques to destroy most of the cursed warrior army and devastate the purple-flamed beasts.
• Tian Yueqing healed Tian Uguisu, while Tian Muyan attacked the Golden Crow and Tian Zhiyun prepared to fight beside them.
• The Yamata White Snake Sage battled Moryo’s puppets in a struggle of devouring and counter-devouring, temporarily blocking their advance toward the village center.
• Madara Uchiha saw the Ten Family arrive and hoped they could hold out until dawn as Tian Uguisu’s group formed up to face the enemy.

Tian Yueqing and the Ten Family fought back against the Three Nations Allied Forces at Iwagakure, pinning down the Immortal Golden Crow while their allies struck the enemy ranks. As Iwagakure's surviving troops joined the charge, Tian Yueqing continued weakening the trapped bird.

• Tian Yueqing used a mirror seal and Adamantine Nine Chains to trap and restrain the Golden Crow, though the mirror cracked under its attacks.
• Tian Muyan froze the ghost army with ice arrows while Tian Zhiyun cut through cursed warriors and attacked the allied forces' rear camp.
• Tian Uguisu summoned her dragon-serpent Susanoo, destroyed the Star Ninja's purple-flame peacocks, and sent rock dragons against the northern ghosts.
• Wind God Saku formed a colossal wind-god statue, weakened the Golden Crow, and tore apart the enemy formation with wind blades.
• Surviving Iwagakure troops charged from behind the ruined walls as the Ten Family continued fighting, and Tian Yueqing prepared another seal to weaken the Golden Crow.

Moryo evolved its cursed warriors into powerful stone puppets and overwhelmed the allied forces, forcing Tian Uguisu and the survivors to retreat to Iwagakure. They fortified the village, but the Golden Crow broke free and Moryo's assault continued.

• Tian Uguisu and the others saw Moryo emerge beneath the black sun and transform the ruined puppets into stone warriors that devoured souls and defeated the defenders.
• The White Snake Sage escaped to Ryūchi Cave after Moryo’s mist consumed her strength and part of her tail.
• Tian Uguisu led the survivors toward Iwagakure while Tian Zhiyun blocked the pursuers, Tian Muyan made an ice bridge, and Wind God Saku covered their retreat.
• The remaining ninja raised a three-hundred-meter wall around Iwagakure, and Tian Yueqing fortified it with a rune barrier as the stone puppets began pounding it.
• The Golden Crow broke free of Tian Yueqing’s mirror, and Tian Uguisu and the surviving ninja prepared to keep fighting as Moryo’s assault continued.

Tsubasa arrived at the besieged Iwagakure and sealed the Immortal Golden Crow, then joined the fight against Moryo’s stone puppets. The defenders rallied around him, but the undead and allied army continued their assault as the battle reached a possible turning point.

• Iwagakure’s defenses buckled under attacks from the Immortal Golden Crow, Moryo’s stone puppets, undead, cursed samurai, and Star Ninja.
• Tsubasa arrived, struck the Immortal Golden Crow with Sage Art: Evil-Breaking Thrust, and sealed it in an Adamantine Cage.
• Tian Uguisu, Tian Yueqing, Tian Muyan, and Tian Zhiyun fought to hold the village as enemies broke through on multiple fronts.
• Tsubasa left Water God Zhang to guard the sealed Golden Crow and attacked Moryo, splitting a stone puppet with a senjutsu axe.
• Tian Yueqing and Tian Zhiyun revealed that Tsubasa was their husband, and Tian Muyan activated her Tenseigan to strengthen the defense.

Tsubasa defeated Moryo and routed the forces attacking Iwagakure, then stopped the Hoshikage from merging with the Star. Iwagakure survived the battle as dawn broke.

• Tsubasa resisted Moryo's mental attack, destroyed his giant scorpion, and sealed him in a golden crystal underground.
• Tsubasa returned to the surface and found the allied forces of the Land of Birds and the Land of Bears attacking Iwagakure again.
• Tsubasa summoned a million physical shadow clones, destroyed the undead and their leaders, and defeated the allied forces.
• Tsubasa interrupted the Hoshikage's fusion with the Star and killed him with Sage Art: Illusion Breaker.
• Tian Uguisu and the others helped the injured as Iwagakure's surviving villagers realized their village had held.

Tian Uguisu led Iwagakure ninja in revenge against the nobles of the Land of Birds and Land of Bears, while Tsubasa sealed the spirit rift in the Land of Ghosts. As Iwagakure began rebuilding, Tian Yueqing, Tian Muyan, and Tian Zhiyun headed west to end the stalemate in the Land of Grass, and Tsubasa left for the Land of Hot Water.

• Tian Uguisu led thirty thousand Iwagakure ninja into the Land of Birds and killed the nobles responsible for the Golden Crow’s attacks on villages.
• Tian Uguisu and Tian Zhiyun led Iwagakure ninja into the Land of Bears, where they hunted down the nobles hiding in secret passages and killed a young city lord who claimed to be their ally.
• Tsubasa, Tian Yueqing, and Tian Muyan reached the rift in the Land of Ghosts and sealed it with the Demon Sealing Technique: Heaven and Earth Lock.
• Tsubasa reported that the Vermilion Bird Corps and the monsters of Hozuki Castle remained locked in a stalemate in the Land of Grass, then set out for the Land of Hot Water.
• As Iwagakure rebuilt, Tian Yueqing, Tian Muyan, and Tian Zhiyun departed for the Land of Grass with Fujin and Suijin.

The ruler of the Land of Waterfalls released the ancient Beast God Bi'an to fight the invading Black Tortoise Corps, but the monster devoured him and devastated the village and the army. After wiping out Uchiha Chiri and thousands of soldiers, Bi'an returned to its cave, leaving the mountain a forbidden place.

• The ruler opened Bi'an's cave, and the Beast God emerged and devoured him, several nobles, and an onmyoji.
• Bi'an descended into the village, killed its inhabitants, then returned to the mountain after eating its fill.
• Uchiha Chiri led three hundred elite soldiers against Bi'an, but it killed most of them and wounded her before retreating to its cave.
• Uchiha Chiri assembled ten thousand soldiers and attacked Bi'an with arrows, Ninjutsu, and sealing talismans, but none harmed it.
• Bi'an shattered Uchiha Chiri's Susanoo and killed her, then returned to its cave after slaughtering the army.
• The mountain became a forbidden place, while Bi'an settled into a routine of hunting for food and sleeping in its cave.

Fujiwara Masanori opened the Gate of Hell in the Land of Iron, unleashing ghost samurai that slaughtered its people and overwhelmed the Kirin Corps. After the corps retreated with fewer than forty thousand survivors, Kagami Uchiha prepared to lead Konoha into a war against hell's invasion.

• Fujiwara Masanori opened the Gate of Hell, and a ghost samurai killed him and the nobles who had gathered at the shrine.
• Ghost samurai poured into the Land of Iron and massacred civilians and ninja as black mist continued to emerge from the gate.
• Hyuga Suzune led the Kirin Corps against the ghost samurai, but their enemies kept returning and the corps suffered heavy losses.
• Hyuga Suzune ordered a retreat, and fewer than forty thousand of his hundred thousand troops made it back alive.
• Konoha declared an emergency meeting, and Kagami Uchiha decided to lead the Anbu and Konoha Military Police Force into the Land of Iron.

Vampires overwhelmed the Land of Hot Water, and Hagoromo Otsutsuki was defeated by the Blood Ancestor. Tsubasa and Tenmei held a sealing wall against the advancing vampires, and Tenmei realized he might have found a way to kill them.

• Kisaburo and Captain Asuka Kasei’s forces failed to stop the vampires, and the survivors fled toward the Land of Fire.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki fought the Blood Ancestor but was gravely wounded and fell into darkness as the Land of Hot Water was swallowed by red.
• Tsubasa’s clone reinforced the failing sealing wall with his Golden Core while Tenmei fought off vampires beside him.
• Tsubasa and Tenmei held the vampires back temporarily, but Tsubasa warned that they could not withstand the endless tide for long.
• Tenmei said he thought he knew how to kill the vampires after seeing one fear his flame-wrapped Chaos Staff.

Tsubasa arrived at the Land of Fire’s border and used the Golden Crow’s black flames to destroy the vampire army and defeat the Blood Ancestor. After sealing the Blood Ancestor, Tsubasa accepted Hagoromo’s mark of the Pure Land and promised to guard the Shinobi World, though he said trouble remained elsewhere.

• Tsubasa froze the advancing vampires with his Golden Core Sage pressure, then sent the Golden Crow to burn them away with its black flames.
• The Blood Ancestor confronted Tsubasa, who bound him with an improved Adamantine Sealing and trapped his blood-arrow escape in a golden barrier filled with black fire.
• Tsubasa used a rune-covered jade tablet to seal the Blood Ancestor’s remaining blood droplets before they could reach the sea.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki gave Tsubasa the mark of the Pure Land and entrusted the Shinobi World’s future to him.
• Tsubasa reassured Tenmei that the battle was over, but warned that events elsewhere had not yet ended.

The Hell Oni Clan opened a rift in the Land of Iron and sent its armies into the Realm of the Living, intending to destroy the ninja and Konoha before breaking into the Pure Land. The invasion advanced toward the Land of Fire as an alarmed ninja raced to warn Konoha, where Kagami Uchiha remained unaware of the approaching disaster.

• A patrol of samurai at the Land of Iron's border saw a dark tide of ghost samurai emerge from a rift, led by three ghost marshals and a towering ghost king.
• The ten emperors of the Oni Clan discussed Hell's dwindling living souls and ordered their forces to eliminate ninja, destroy Konoha, and invade the Pure Land.
• A white-armored ghost marshal ordered the Oni Clan's army to move out toward the Land of Fire, while it ignored civilians and hunted beings with Chakra.
• A ninja from the Kirin Corps fled toward Konoha to report that the Hell Oni Clan Corps had arrived.
• In Konoha, Kagami Uchiha read war reports in the Hokage's office, unaware that the invasion was drawing closer.

Hyuga Takeshi escaped the destruction of the Kirin Corps with intelligence about the invading Hell Oni Clan, while Kagami Uchiha mobilized Konoha’s forces to reinforce the northern border. Kagami reached Takeshi and rescued him, but the vast oni army remained ahead.

• Hyuga Gen gave Hyuga Takeshi the corps commander’s bloodstained intelligence scroll and sacrificed himself to let Takeshi escape.
• Hyuga Takeshi fled south with the scroll as the oni samurai pursued him.
• After learning that the Kirin Corps had been nearly wiped out and the Hell Oni Clan had invaded, Kagami Uchiha ordered an emergency mobilization and left to lead reinforcements north.
• Kagami Uchiha rallied thirty thousand Anbu and twenty thousand members of the Konoha Military Police Force, along with fighter jets, mechs, and combat vehicles.
• A fighter jet carrying Kagami Uchiha arrived as Hyuga Takeshi was trapped by oni samurai, and Kagami and the Anbu attacked them.
• Hyuga Takeshi warned Kagami Uchiha that many more oni were ahead, and Kagami saw the approaching horde.