Chapter Summaries

Kagami Uchiha and the Konoha forces fought back a seemingly endless demon tide at the border, but the demon king’s commander arrived and turned the battle toward them. As the enemies charged again, Kagami and Uchiha Tomioki prepared to face the new threat.

• Konoha’s cannons, fighter jets, and mechs attacked the demon tide until a demon commander destroyed a cannon and overwhelmed the high ground.
• Kagami Uchiha killed the demon generals surrounding the mechs, then used Space-Time Divine Slash to decapitate the axe-wielding demon commander.
• Uchiha Tomioki fought with his Susanoo while Kagami learned that the forces were nearly out of ammunition and energy, and that demons kept emerging from the Gate of Hell.
• A powerful demon commander in white arrived, suppressed the fighters and ninja, and declared that the Uchiha of the Realm of the Living must die.
• Kagami and Tomioki rallied the remaining veterans and prepared to meet the demon army’s renewed charge.

Kagami Uchiha sacrificed himself to destroy two ghost kings while protecting the Uchiha retreat, and Tomioki died holding the other flank. After Konoha learned of their deaths and the fall of the border, the ghost tide arrived, leaving the village preparing to defend itself.

• Kagami Uchiha fought three ghost kings while wounded and exhausted, then used Space · Collapse to take two of them with him.
• Tomioki died fighting the six-armed ghost king after helping his clansmen escape.
• An injured Uchiha clansman brought news of Kagami and Tomioki’s deaths and the approaching ghost tide to Konoha.
• Mitokado Homura ordered Konoha’s ninja to assemble and prepare the weapon Lord Tsubasa had left behind.
• The ghost tide appeared north of Konoha, and the clans gathered to prepare for battle.

Konoha mobilized its forces and resources after the Oni Clan breached the border, sending three corps toward the second line of defense. The corps reached the barrier as the oni vanguard arrived, with battle about to begin.

• Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha's forces to assemble and sent the depleted Kirin Corps to recuperate under the White Tiger Corps.
• Chunin and Jonin gathered in the central plaza as elderly veterans demanded to join the fighting, and the Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise Corps returned to Konoha.
• Rune factory workers hurried to make weapons and equipment for the front while transport teams carried supplies to the corps.
• Mito Uzumaki rallied the Vermilion Bird Corps, and the three corps departed for the second line of defense as villagers saw them off.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi watched the forces leave and declared they had to hold the line, while the vanguard saw the oni tide approaching the barrier.

The Oni Clan broke through Konoha’s defensive line, overwhelming its ninjas, samurai, and medical station. Miyamoto Jūni, Hidemune Hatake, Hōō Aiko, and other defenders died as the battle turned into a massacre.

• Satō Gō fought to hold the second defensive line as the Oni Clan tore through ordinary samurai, while Miyamoto Jūni’s runic mecha battled an oni commander.
• Masataka Hatake and Hidemune Hatake fought to protect the line, but Hidemune was mortally wounded and died after Masataka carried him to safety.
• Miyamoto Jūni destroyed an oni commander with a final sword strike, then vanished beneath its black flames as his mecha fell.
• Hōō Aiko continued treating the wounded while Akira Senju urged her to retreat, but an oni king pierced her chest and killed her.
• Kaima Senju, Akira Senju, and Koboku Ito were killed as oni commanders overran the medical station and slaughtered the wounded.

Konoha’s forces were overwhelmed by the Oni Clan, and many ninja died fighting to hold the defensive line. The forbidden nuclear weapon made by Tsubasa devastated the oni legion and forced the survivors into their first large-scale retreat.

• Chen Shenji used the Forbidden Jutsu: Burning Blood to destroy several oni commanders, and Kyōgoku Saburō followed by sacrificing himself to kill another commander.
• Tachibana Sano and numerous other Konoha ninja fought to the death as the oni broke through the defensive line and advanced toward the civilian samurai.
• As Masataka’s consciousness faded, he saw a cold, dark red light appear at the end of the defensive line and heard a distant alarm.
• Konoha deployed Tsubasa’s nuclear weapon above the densest oni legion, where its explosion killed three oni kings, more than thirty commanders, over 3,700 generals, and millions of oni warriors.
• The surviving oni panicked and retreated, while Konoha’s ninja watched with exhaustion, shock, and new hope.

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.