Chapter Summaries

Tsubasa and Nawaki's squad fought a powerful black zombie in a cave, then followed a flying zombie into the forest, where Tsubasa found Ōtsutsuki Isshiki battling it. Isshiki failed to subdue the creature and began coveting its body.

• Tsubasa and Nawaki's squad entered the cave and fought a fast, unusually durable black zombie.
• Tsubasa immobilized the black zombie with a Senjutsu-enhanced talisman, but it evolved and broke free before the squad burned it with Fire Style.
• A flying zombie attacked the cave, forcing Tsubasa to send Nawaki's squad back toward Konoha while he pursued it.
• Tsubasa and Nawaki's squad followed the flying zombie through the forest after it fled toward strange fluctuations of power.
• Tsubasa discovered Ōtsutsuki Isshiki fighting the flying zombie, and Isshiki used his abilities to counter its attacks.
• The flying zombie knocked Isshiki's golden cauldron aside, and Isshiki eyed the creature greedily, wanting to claim its body.

Tsubasa watched Isshiki battle the flying zombie, then rescued Nawaki’s squad from a green zombie and sealed it. After a crash and Isshiki’s furious shout sounded from deeper in the forest, Tsubasa headed toward the fight and ordered the squad to retreat.

• The flying zombie damaged Isshiki with its blood-draining beam, and Isshiki fled through portals with the zombie in pursuit.
• Tsubasa spotted the green zombie sneaking up on Nawaki’s squad and restrained it with vines so Nawaki could react.
• Nawaki’s squad fought the green zombie, but it overwhelmed them, injuring Nawaki and knocking Uchiha Engetsu unconscious.
• Tsubasa arrived, wounded the green zombie with lightning and Senjutsu attacks, then sealed it with a tag.
• Tsubasa heard a crash and Isshiki’s shout from deeper in the forest, then set off to investigate and told Nawaki’s squad to retreat.

Tsubasa fought the flying zombie after it nearly killed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, then subdued it with an Adamantine Sealing technique and took both captives toward the Immortal Venerable Hall. Nawaki and the others headed back to Konoha with the sealed green zombie and the injured Uchiha Engetsu.

• The flying zombie destroyed Isshiki's escape portal and nearly drained him before Tsubasa interrupted its attack and sealed Isshiki.
• Tsubasa fought the flying zombie with Immortal Power, Ninjutsu, and sealing talismans, but its tough body resisted his attacks.
• Tsubasa bound the flying zombie with Wood Release and trapped it using Adamantine Sealing, exhausting most of his Immortal Power.
• Nawaki, Uchiha Engetsu, Mireiko, and Sarutobi Shinnosuke arrived, and Tsubasa told them to return to Konoha with the sealed green zombie and request Immortal Level squads to clear the area.
• Nawaki asked Tsubasa to become his disciple, but Tsubasa flew away toward the Immortal Venerable Hall carrying Isshiki and the flying zombie.

Tsubasa convened Konoha's researchers and medical experts to divide responsibility for studying Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and the captured flying zombie. He assigned Tenpi to investigate Isshiki and Orochimaru to study the zombie under strict containment, warning that its further evolution could threaten the Shinobi World.

• Tsubasa brought the unconscious Isshiki to a sealing array and summoned Konoha's research and medical leaders to a meeting.
• Tenpi, Orochimaru, Tsunade, Himiko, and Biwako argued over research priorities and safety measures for Isshiki and the flying zombie.
• Tsubasa assigned Tenpi to study Isshiki's spatial abilities and extract information about the Ōtsutsuki Clan, with the Medical Department supervising.
• Tsubasa put Orochimaru in charge of studying the flying zombie's body and energy system inside its sealed stone prison, with Himiko assisting.
• Tsubasa explained that the flying zombie could evolve further and warned Orochimaru that allowing it to become a roaming zombie would endanger the Shinobi World.

Tsubasa organized research into the captured Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and the flying zombie, while the team discovered the zombie’s infectious death energy and Isshiki’s unusual cells. After assigning his children to guard and investigate the captives, Tsubasa left to visit Kaguya Otsutsuki on the moon.

• Tsubasa ordered the Medical Department to examine Isshiki and the Konoha Ninja from Nawaki's squad, and tasked researchers with studying the flying zombie.
• Himiko reinforced the flying zombie’s corroding seal and stopped Orochimaru from taking a sample before the Medical Department deemed it safe.
• Tsunade and Biwako discovered that Isshiki’s blood contained Ōtsutsuki Cells and that the flying zombie’s infectious Death Energy Plunder drained life energy and caused zombification.
• Tenpi’s tests showed that Isshiki could hear questions and reacted strongly to questions about the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s goals, but the team could read only his emotional responses.
• Tsubasa assigned Tian Yu to guard the flying zombie and Tenchu to help Tenpi study Isshiki, then left to visit Kaguya Otsutsuki on the moon.

Tsubasa unsealed Kaguya Otsutsuki and made a deal with her to help the Shinobi World face the Ōtsutsuki Clan in exchange for freedom. Kaguya shared her memories of the clan and returned with Tsubasa to the Shinobi World, where she met Tian Yu and Tenchu.

• Tsubasa visited Tenpei at the Moon God Cult and had him guide him to Kaguya Otsutsuki’s sealed chamber.
• Tsubasa revealed that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had appeared and offered to free Kaguya if she helped defend the Shinobi World.
• Kaguya agreed to the deal, and Tsubasa released her from the seal.
• Kaguya gave Tsubasa a crystal ball containing her memories and information about the Ōtsutsuki Clan, its planet, and its God Tree plans.
• Tsubasa brought Kaguya back to the Immortal Venerable Hall, where Tian Yu and Tenchu welcomed her and agreed to fight the Ōtsutsuki Clan together.

Tsubasa learned that Isshiki’s cells contained traces of the Ōtsutsuki Clan and that corpse poison weakened him, then sent Princess Kaguya to visit the prisoner. Kaguya revealed the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s war against the Starry Sky Insect Race and explained its strength levels, leaving Tian Yu surprised to learn she had reached Star Level Third Stage.

• Tsubasa received the Medical Department’s report on Isshiki’s cells and the potent corpse poison, and asked Tenpi to take Princess Kaguya to see him.
• Tsubasa told Tian Yu that Kaguya would protect the Shinobi World, and allowed Orochimaru to study the Flying Zombie as long as he did not kill it.
• Princess Kaguya confronted Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who threatened that his clan would destroy the Shinobi Planet and plant a God Tree there.
• Kaguya explained that the Ōtsutsuki Clan had fought the Starry Sky Insect Race for hundreds of millions of years and plundered planets to weaken the insects and strengthen itself.
• Kaguya described the clan’s power stages and assessed Tian Yu as Star Level Third Stage, praising her strength and talent.

Princess Kaguya warned Tsubasa and the others that the Ōtsutsuki Clan would reach the Shinobi World within three years, forcing them to prepare for war. She and Tsubasa reconciled, but an accident in Orochimaru’s laboratory showed that the threat had already begun to stir.

• Isshiki taunted Princess Kaguya about her betrayal of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and she warned him not to provoke her.
• Princess Kaguya told Tian Yu and Tenchu that the Ōtsutsuki Clan and the Starry Sky Insect Race threatened the Shinobi World, and that the world’s collective power might oppose Domain Level Ōtsutsuki.
• Tsubasa examined the memory crystal and learned that the Ōtsutsuki advance party could arrive within three years, so he ordered Tenchu to prepare the ninja departments and families for war.
• Tian Yu told Tsubasa that Orochimaru was testing the Flying Zombie’s death energy, which might counter Ōtsutsuki Chakra, and Tsubasa ordered her to keep watch over the research.
• Princess Kaguya confessed her attachment to the Shinobi World, and Tsubasa promised to protect it with her.
• An explosion erupted in Orochimaru’s laboratory as the Flying Zombie’s death energy went out of control, and Tsubasa and Princess Kaguya rushed to help.

Orochimaru deliberately absorbed the Flying Zombie’s death energy and corpse poison, risking his soul in an experiment. With Tsubasa and Princess Kaguya stabilizing him, he survived and became a conscious Purple Zombie, ready to study death energy and develop weapons against the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

• Tsubasa, Princess Kaguya, Tian Yu, and Tenpi found Orochimaru badly corrupted after he absorbed the Flying Zombie’s death energy.
• Orochimaru refused purification and asked Tsubasa to stabilize his body while Princess Kaguya protected his sea of consciousness.
• After six hours, Orochimaru’s corpse poison stopped spreading and receded, leaving him able to control death energy.
• Tenpi’s scanner identified Orochimaru as a Purple Zombie with 90% soul integrity, 85% death energy fusion, and independent consciousness.
• Orochimaru told Tsunade and Jiraiya that his body and Chakra had grown stronger, and Jiraiya offered help with his research.
• Orochimaru returned to studying the Flying Zombie’s corpse poison and planned to cultivate low-level zombies against the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Tenpi, Princess Kaguya, and Tsubasa turned Ōtsutsuki Isshiki into a controlled zombie puppet, while Orochimaru studied the transformation. Tsubasa established a corpse cultivation ground where Orochimaru and the zombies began preparing for the Ōtsutsuki invasion expected in three years.

• Tenpi presented Princess Kaguya with a method for controlling zombies using sealing runes and Immortal Power.
• Tsubasa and Princess Kaguya dispersed Isshiki's soul and transformed his body into a powerful zombie puppet as Orochimaru recorded the changes.
• Tsubasa brought Orochimaru, the zombie puppet, and a dozen low-level zombies to a corpse cultivation ground behind the Immortal Venerable Hall.
• Orochimaru and the zombies began cultivating death energy, aiming to build an army capable of fighting the Ōtsutsuki Clan within three years.
• Tsubasa and Princess Kaguya agreed to unite the Shinobi World's forces and prepare for the coming war.

Tian Yu showed Princess Kaguya how the Shinobi World had transformed through technology and recounted Tsubasa’s role in its rise. Kaguya was left amazed by the modern world and curious to meet Tsubasa.

• Tian Yu introduced Kaguya to maglev cars and a cheese and bacon Hokage cake while explaining that a Stargate prototype had sent engineers to Mars.
• Tian Yu showed Kaguya a holographic projector and described Tsubasa’s Firmament One spacecraft, spatial teleportation arrays, and Black Armor Third-Generation Mecha.
• Tian Yu recounted Tsubasa’s childhood, his rise as a ninja and Hokage, his apparent death, and his return to save Konoha from the Oni Clan.
• Tian Yu explained how Tsubasa led the Shinobi World’s technological development, including desert water purification, hovercars, and space exploration.
• Kaguya smiled at the memory of Tsubasa pretending to be her son Hagoromo, then watched children practicing Ninjutsu in a virtual entertainment display.

Tian Yu showed Kaguya the peaceful, technologically advanced Shinobi World, from Konoha’s everyday inventions to its space exploration. Touched by Tsubasa’s efforts and the life people had built without illusion, Kaguya embraced her chance to begin a new journey.

• Tian Yu took Kaguya through a teleportation portal and showed her Konoha’s bustling technology street and the friendly Tailed Beast ecosystem.
• Tian Yu guided Kaguya through the Shinobi World Technology Museum, where she saw Tsubasa’s early inventions and learned how Firmament One and interplanetary outposts worked.
• Kaguya cried as she realized that the Shinobi World had achieved peace and made dreams real through its own efforts.
• Kaguya heard Tsubasa explain that he wanted her to awaken to a better world, and she understood that he had remembered her.
• Tian Yu invited Kaguya to lunch, and Kaguya looked toward the stargate, imagining future adventures as her new journey began.

Tsubasa told Hagoromo and Hamura that Kaguya had been freed and was living happily in Konoha, then took them to see her from a distance. The brothers returned to Hell without revealing themselves, entrusting Tsubasa to care for their mother and giving him a wooden charm to deliver to her.

• Tsubasa told Hagoromo and Hamura that he had released Kaguya's seal and that she missed them.
• Hagoromo gave Tsubasa a wooden protective charm for Kaguya, and Tsubasa said she was in Konoha with Tian Yu.
• Tsubasa used runes to conceal Hagoromo and Hamura's auras and brought them to Konoha, where they watched Kaguya enjoy grilled meat and snacks with Tian Yu.
• Hagoromo and Hamura chose not to approach Kaguya, fearing they would revive her painful memories, and asked Tsubasa to care for her.
• Tsubasa promised to look after Kaguya and set off to deliver the charm and tell her that her sons still cared for her.

Tsubasa told Kaguya that Hagoromo and Hamura regretted sealing her away and were watching over her from Hell, and he gave her Hagoromo’s protective pendant. As Kaguya enjoyed a feast with Tsubasa and Tian Yu, she made plans to visit Mars and the Sand City, while Tsubasa showed her his plan to regenerate the God Tree on Mars.

• Tsubasa apologized for impersonating Hagoromo and told Kaguya that he had met Hagoromo and Hamura in Hell, where they had been cultivating and still cared deeply for her.
• Tsubasa showed Kaguya footage of her sons watching her from afar, and she learned that they had felt guilty and missed her since sealing her away.
• Kaguya ate the dishes Tsubasa had prepared and received a jade pendant bearing Hagoromo’s strength rune and Chakra.
• Kaguya asked to visit Mars and the Sand City, and Tsubasa offered to take her on a supply mission and to the desert oasis.
• Tsubasa showed Kaguya his plan to move the God Tree’s remaining roots to Mars and revive them with Natural Energy and runes, and Kaguya thanked him for the happy life she could now live.

Tenkō persuaded Tenbutsu not to invade the Western Continent immediately, arguing that the Yan Nation should prioritize peaceful trade and space exploration. Tenbutsu agreed to monitor the continent and prepare to act if it provoked them, while Tenkō looked ahead to the aerospace carrier’s trial flight.

• Tenbutsu confronted Tenkō over withdrawing troops from the Western frontier and urged him to annex the Western Continent.
• Tenkō argued that invading a less advanced civilization would violate the Will of Fire and distract the Yan Nation from exploring space.
• Tenbutsu asked for an alternative, and Tenkō proposed trade, espionage, and waiting for a legitimate cause to send troops.
• Tenkō told Tenbutsu that their father had entrusted him with leading future expansion among the stars and invited him to the aerospace carrier’s trial flight.
• Tenbutsu agreed to monitor the Western Continent, trade with it, and send troops if it attacked or detained Yan envoys.

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.