Chapter Summaries

Tsubasa devastated the Ōtsutsuki Legion inside his Golden Lotus Dao Domain, absorbing the life essence of those he killed. Ōtsutsuki Genshō ordered the legion to sacrifice itself to contaminate the domain and wear Tsubasa down, and the new tactics began to slow and pressure him.

• Tsubasa flickered through the Ōtsutsuki formation, destroying battleships and killing Domain Level commanders while absorbing their life essence and energy.
• Ōtsutsuki Genshō realized Tsubasa was growing stronger by devouring the dead and ordered the Flesh and Blood Millstone plan to exhaust him.
• The Ōtsutsuki battleships began suicide ramming attacks, while warriors sacrificed their lives and souls to corrode the Golden Lotus Dao Domain.
• More than a hundred Domain Level commanders, led by the lords of Red Rock City and Dark Devouring City, formed a deathly silence formation that enveloped Tsubasa and increased the pressure on him.

Tsubasa’s battle against the Ōtsutsuki attrition forces grew more desperate as his flames weakened, while Tian Yu began breaking through toward the Immortal King Realm. Their laws resonated across the battlefield, giving Tsubasa a new insight that strengthened his flames and expanded his Dao Domain.

• Tsubasa continued fighting through the self-destructing warships and foul formations, consuming Ōtsutsuki life essence to prolong his peak strength.
• Tian Yu sensed her father’s struggle and the laws within his Golden Lotus Dao Domain, then began breaking through toward the Immortal King Realm as Tian Yueqing, Tenchu, and the others watched over her.
• The All-Encompassing Deathly Silence Grand Formation pierced Tsubasa’s defenses, and he realized his strength was nearing its limit while the Shinobi World remained unsafe.
• Tsubasa sensed Tian Yu’s breakthrough and gained a deeper understanding of purification and devouring, transforming his immortal flames with a trace of chaos.
• Tsubasa’s new flames broke down and assimilated enemy attacks and formations more efficiently, brightening the Jūni-Grade Golden Lotus and expanding his Dao Domain.
• The lord of Red Rock City, Dark Devouring City’s lord, and Ōtsutsuki Genshō reacted with shock and alarm as Tsubasa grew stronger.

Tsubasa was trapped and gravely wounded by the Ōtsutsuki forces, so he burned the origin of his Jūni-Grade Golden Lotus and launched a final attack at Ōtsutsuki Genshō. The lords of Red Rock City and Dark Devouring City moved to stop his suicide strike as it raced toward the Heart of the God Tree flagship.

• Ōtsutsuki Genshō sent the God Tree Imperial Guard and God Tree roots to restrain Tsubasa while the surrounding formations and legions attacked him.
• Tsubasa unleashed Star Burner Explosion: Lotus Blooming Destruction, destroying nearby roots and guards but exhausting much of his power.
• The Golden Lotus Dao Domain revived as Tsubasa burned the golden lotus's origin essence, committing to destroy himself and his companion soul treasure.
• Tsubasa declared that the Shinobi World would never be enslaved and charged toward Ōtsutsuki Genshō aboard the Heart of the God Tree flagship.
• The lord of Red Rock City attacked Tsubasa with Red Rock Starfall, while the lord of Dark Devouring City used Dark Devouring Return to Nothingness to intercept him.

Immortal King Tsubasa destroyed Ōtsutsuki Sekigan and Ōtsutsuki Anzei, then drove his chaos fire meteor toward Ōtsutsuki Genshō’s flagship. Genshō repeatedly reset a localized area of space-time to try new tactics, but Tsubasa broke through every defense and left Genshō weakened and desperate.

• Tsubasa’s chaos fire meteor annihilated Ōtsutsuki Sekigan and Ōtsutsuki Anzei, terrifying the Ōtsutsuki Legion and sending its forces into a panic.
• Tsubasa continued toward the Heart of the God Tree flagship, where Ōtsutsuki Genshō activated his Space-Time Mirror Domain and reset the surrounding area to before Tsubasa’s charge.
• Genshō ordered the troops to form the Myriad Spirits God-Devouring Formation while he, Sekigan, and Anzei prepared the Three-Phase Seal, but Tsubasa broke through and killed the two city lords again.
• Genshō reset space-time and tried Void Banishment, but Tsubasa burned through the spatial rifts and again overwhelmed the Ōtsutsuki forces.
• Genshō repeatedly reset the battlefield and tried new tactics, but Tsubasa kept advancing as each cycle drained Genshō’s strength and left him increasingly desperate.

Tsubasa devastated the fleeing Ōtsutsuki fleet, but Ōtsutsuki Genshō used a spacetime illusion to turn Tsubasa’s family against him and buy time to escape. Tsubasa protected his family and carried them back toward the Shinobi World as the flagship and a few survivors fled through the collapsing passage.

• Ōtsutsuki Genshō ordered his legion to retreat, and Tsubasa pursued the fleeing ships with his Chaos Fire Meteor.
• Orochimaru slipped into the spatial turbulence, intent on devouring Ōtsutsuki clansmen, while Tsubasa’s family rushed in to find him.
• Genshō summoned the Spacetime Illusion Mirror, making Tsubasa’s family see him as an enemy and making Tsubasa fear his flames would harm them.
• Tsubasa veered away and restrained his power to protect his family, but enemy attacks and spatial turbulence further weakened him.
• Tsubasa gathered his family and carried them toward the Shinobi World as Genshō escaped through the spatial passage with a few surviving ships.

After Tsubasa sacrificed himself to drive back the Ōtsutsuki, Tian Yu guarded the lotus seed that held his remaining life as the Shinobi World united to prepare for another attack. Ten years later, Tian Yu had become the world’s only Immortal King and continued searching for a way to restore her father’s soul.

• Tsubasa dissipated after urging the Shinobi World to protect its future, leaving behind a golden lotus seed that Tian Yu caught and vowed to nurture.
• Tian Yu planted the seed in Shikkotsu Forest and built protective barriers around it while the Shinobi World mourned and resolved to grow stronger.
• Tian Yu and the surviving leaders formed the Shinobi World Revival Council, which combined recovered Ōtsutsuki technology with local techniques to develop weapons, starships, and defenses.
• The Shinobi World fortified strategic regions and prepared for the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s inevitable return.
• Ten years after the battle, Tian Yu had become the Shinobi World’s sole Immortal King and continued guarding the lotus while studying life and soul laws to restore Tsubasa.

Ten years after Tsubasa sacrificed himself, Tian Yu and her family continued nourishing his sleeping soul while the Shinobi World grew into a powerful interstellar civilization. Thousands of peak Immortal Venerables prepared for another threat, though none could find a path to the Immortal King Realm.

• Tian Yu infused the All-Life Nurturing Spirit Formation with her Immortal Power as she spoke to Tsubasa's sleeping soul.
• Tian Mai, Tian Muyan, Tian Yueqing, and the other family members shared news of their children and the Shinobi World's progress with Tsubasa.
• Tenshō condensed his Immortal Venerable Dao Fruit, while Tenchu and Tenpi's fifth-generation Xingchen runic mechs neared the end of testing.
• The Ten Family and the wider Shinobi World amassed hundreds and thousands of peak Immortal Venerables, but the Immortal King Realm remained beyond their reach.
• The Shinobi World made the Xingchen Body-Tempering Art its trump card, training to unleash immense power by burning life and soul in battle.

Orochimaru stowed away on the Ōtsutsuki spaceship and reached the clan’s home planet, where he ambushed the wounded Genshō and devoured his life essence. After becoming a High-Grade Zombie King and raising Sekigan and Anzei as zombie servants, he left to build a larger force.

• Orochimaru concealed himself on the God Tree spaceship and followed it through the planetary barrier to the Ōtsutsuki home planet.
• Orochimaru slipped past the spaceport guards and followed Genshō’s healing pod to the healing hall.
• Orochimaru bound Sekigan and Anzei with corpse-aura chains, then attacked the helpless Genshō.
• Orochimaru devoured Genshō’s life essence and advanced to High-Grade Zombie King.
• Orochimaru turned Sekigan and Anzei into the Red Zombie King and Dark Zombie King, then led them away to gather more zombies.

Orochimaru led a growing Zombie Corps through the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s cities, conquering Genshō City and expanding across the planet. After the clan’s elite army failed to stop the seemingly immortal, infectious zombies, the elders faced a spreading crisis as Orochimaru vowed to rule the planet.

• Orochimaru, Red Corpse, and Dark Corpse turned villagers around Genshō City into zombies and grew their ranks by attacking towns.
• Orochimaru’s Zombie Corps captured Genshō City, then conquered Red Rock City and Dark Devouring City, reaching tens of millions.
• Ōtsutsuki Retsu led an elite army against the zombies, but their bodies reassembled after attacks and infected clan members joined the horde.
• Ōtsutsuki Retsu ordered a retreat as the Zombie Corps continued to grow, and the clan elders failed to find a way to stop it.
• Orochimaru watched from an occupied city and declared that the Ōtsutsuki Clan would fall and the planet would become his.

The Ōtsutsuki Saints tried to contain a zombie outbreak spreading through several cities, but discovered the dead repeatedly revived under an unbreakable death rule. They sealed the region as the Land of Zombies, unaware that Orochimaru was hidden inside, studying Ōtsutsuki bloodlines and preparing to grow strong enough to escape.

• The Ōtsutsuki Saints learned that Genshō City, Red Rock City, Dark Devouring City, and nearby settlements had fallen to zombies, and the God of the God Tree sent Sōichi, Enmu, and Konkei to stop the spread.
• Sōichi, Enmu, and Konkei sealed the infected region with the Heaven and Earth Barrier Sealing Jutsu, then destroyed the zombies inside it.
• The zombies reformed from ashes the next morning, grew stronger, and resisted the Saints’ attacks as the trio failed to remove the death rule sustaining them.
• After Konkei sensed a hidden presence, the three Saints reinforced the barrier and Sōichi volunteered to guard the region, which the Ōtsutsuki designated the Land of Zombies.
• Orochimaru revealed that he had hidden fragments of himself throughout the corpse qi, used an Ōtsutsuki zombie to obtain a Domain Level heart, and continued researching the Ōtsutsuki bloodline while planning to escape the seal.

Shikamaru Nara heard people condemn Orochimaru as a deserter and recalled the battle that shaped that reputation. His memories showed Orochimaru charging into the fight beside Immortal King Tsubasa, but the chapter ended before revealing what happened next.

• A group of patrons praised Immortal King Tsubasa for sacrificing himself to repel the Ōtsutsuki and cursed Orochimaru for allegedly abandoning the battle.
• Shikamaru Nara listened in disguise and reflected that Orochimaru's established obsession with immortality and truth made the story of his cowardice seem wrong.
• Shikamaru remembered the battle beyond Mars, where Immortal King Tsubasa fought three Ōtsutsuki Domain Level Advanced Stage experts and fell behind.
• Orochimaru led his zombie subordinates into the fight, ignored Jiraiya's warning, and told Jiraiya and Tsunade to watch as he and Immortal King Tsubasa faced the Ōtsutsuki.

Ten years after Orochimaru vanished during the battle against the Ōtsutsuki, Shikamaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade debated whether he had fled or infiltrated the Ōtsutsuki Planet. They remained uncertain about his fate but chose to believe he had acted with a purpose and hoped he was still alive.

• Orochimaru devoured an injured Domain Level expert, reached the Immortal King Level, and then disappeared from the battlefield.
• Immortal King Tsubasa sacrificed his body and soul to drive back the Ōtsutsuki Legion, while Orochimaru was never seen again.
• Ten years later, Shikamaru asked Jiraiya and Tsunade whether Orochimaru had truly run away, and both doubted that he would flee after gaining power.
• Tsunade suggested Orochimaru might have followed the retreating Ōtsutsuki Legion to infiltrate their planet, and Jiraiya agreed it fit his curiosity and patience.
• Shikamaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade considered the risks and the lack of news, then reaffirmed their belief that Orochimaru had a purpose and hoped he was alive.

The Shinobi World tested advanced runic mecha and reviewed its growing defenses, but its leaders remained unable to find a clear path to the Immortal King realm. They chose to strengthen their forces and await the next threat while Tenchu and Tenpi trusted that Tian Yu's father could sense their efforts.

• Naruto and Sasuke tested the Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird mecha, demonstrating their increased power, speed, and weapons performance.
• Kakashi, Might Guy, Hinata, Neji, Naruto, and Sasuke relied on personalized immortal artifacts designed to amplify their abilities.
• Tenbutsu and the leaders reviewed the expanding early-warning network and planetary defenses, while Tenpi reported that research had not solved the Immortal King breakthrough bottleneck.
• Tsunade and Tian Yu urged the Shinobi World to focus on defense and cultivation rather than risky exploration, and the council agreed to continue gradual research and expansion.
• Tenchu reassured Tenpi that their father could sense their efforts as they watched the City of Hope, while Orochimaru kept the Ōtsutsuki Clan occupied in its Forbidden Zone.

Ten years after the Ōtsutsuki sealed the zombie outbreak, Orochimaru continued growing stronger inside the Deathly Silence Seal and plotted to take over their civilization. Meanwhile, the next generation trained at the Immortal Venerable Academy, unaware of the danger gathering beyond their world.

• Ōtsutsuki Arashi detected deliberate energy fluctuations near Genshō City and ordered three Domain Level reconnaissance ships to scan the seal.
• Orochimaru learned from a Peak Domain Level zombie about the Ōtsutsuki Clan's pursuit of Saint Level and coveted its secrets.
• Orochimaru sensed the increased surveillance and planned to master his Annihilation Saint Intent before his zombie army broke through the seal.
• Orochimaru commanded the zombies to batter the barrier, triggering alarms at the monitoring stations outside.
• At the Immortal Venerable Academy, Tenshō and Boruto Namikaze fought on the training ground while Sarada Uchiha and Himawari Hyuga watched.

Tian Yu detected a deliberate response from her father’s soul after ten years of vigil, while the Ōtsutsuki Clan discovered a signal linking the forbidden zone to the Shinobi World and the Saint Level. The sage council ordered an investigation of the Shinobi World and increased surveillance of the sealed entity, bringing the world under covert scrutiny.

• Tian Yu sensed her father’s soul apparition move its fingers and called her family to share the hopeful sign.
• Tenpi and the City of Hope’s scientists worked on fourth-generation mecha and continued research into the Artificial Immortal King project.
• Kakashi Hatake and Might Guy patrolled the Mars-region defense line in their custom mecha.
• Ōtsutsuki Arashi’s reconnaissance ships detected a fragmentary signal mentioning the Saint path, the Shinobi World, a key, and devouring evolution.
• Ōtsutsuki Arashi reported the signal to the sage council, which ordered elite forces to investigate the Shinobi World and intensified surveillance of the Deathly Silence Seal.

The Ōtsutsuki invasion force attacked the Shinobi World’s defenses at Neptune, and White Tiger Corps fighters sacrificed themselves to drive the invaders back. As Tian Yu grieved for the fallen, Tsubasa’s lotus seed continued moving toward transformation, while the Black Tortoise Corps arrived to take over the devastated station.

• Tian Yu sensed the golden lotus seed undergoing a major change, then received an urgent alert about an approaching Ōtsutsuki force.
• Ōtsutsuki Kyoshiki led ten Peak Immortal King fighters into the solar system, where Gaara’s White Tiger Corps detected and engaged them near Neptune.
• Might Duy, Hatake Sakumo, and Hiruzen Sarutobi burned their lives and souls to kill three Ōtsutsuki fighters, while Gaara destroyed the Shukaku to kill another four.
• Yugito merged with the Matatabi and sacrificed herself to destroy a fifth Ōtsutsuki fighter, forcing Kyoshiki and the survivors to retreat.
• Tian Yu mourned the dead and vowed to protect Tsubasa and the Shinobi World until her father awakened; the Black Tortoise Corps arrived at Neptune to take over the station.

The Shinobi World mobilized its forces to prepare for the Ōtsutsuki Legion’s imminent invasion, while Tsubasa’s soul continued to recover in the Jūni-Grade Golden Lotus. As Tian Yu led the world in a vow to defend their home, Tsubasa’s eyelids trembled, hinting that he might soon awaken.

• The Shinobi World entered full war readiness, mobilizing its people, ninja, summoning beasts, fleets, and planetary defenses against the approaching Ōtsutsuki Legion.
• Tian Yu watched Tsubasa’s soul grow stronger as the chaos lotus seed began nourishing it with pure chaos aura.
• Shikamaru Nara reported that the Ōtsutsuki fleet was expected to reach the solar system in seven to ten days, and Tenchu and Shizune confirmed that the forces and supplies were prepared.
• Tian Yu rallied the Shinobi World to defend the home Immortal King Tsubasa had sacrificed himself to protect, and the assembled people answered with cries of victory.
• Tsubasa’s eyelids trembled inside the Jūni-Grade Golden Lotus as the Shinobi World’s fighting spirit reached its peak.

Ōtsutsuki Sōichi led a hundred-million-ship fleet toward the Shinobi World after Kyoshiki reported the defenders’ life-and-soul-burning secret technique. The Shinobi World’s forces faced the vastly superior fleet near Neptune as Sōichi ordered the attack to begin.

• Kyoshiki reported his failed mission and described the secret technique that had inflicted heavy losses on his forces.
• The Ōtsutsuki Saints ordered Ōtsutsuki Sōichi to investigate the Shinobi World and seize the secret technique, eliminating resistance if necessary.
• Ōtsutsuki Sōichi departed aboard the Divine Wood Royal Court with a hundred million God Tree Battleships.
• The Shinobi World’s reorganized corps and allied forces assembled a defensive line near Neptune’s orbit.
• The Ōtsutsuki Legion arrived in overwhelming numbers, and Sōichi ordered its ships to fire on the defenders.

The Ōtsutsuki Legion attacked the Shinobi World’s defenses around Neptune, and its superior warships and powerful fighters inflicted devastating losses. As the Shinobi forces struggled to resist, Ōtsutsuki Sōichi watched with amusement while Tian Yu waited for the enemy’s strongest fighter to act.

• The Ōtsutsuki Legion opened fire on the Allied Shinobi Forces’ defensive line, and the Shinobi World commander ordered the combined energy shield to hold.
• The Shinobi forces counterattacked, but the Ōtsutsuki warships proved stronger and their Domain Level fighters tore through allied fleets and planetary defenses.
• A Peak Immortal Venerable elder of the Hyuga Clan activated the Celestial Star Gate Formation, burned his life and soul, and destroyed an Ōtsutsuki Domain Level powerhouse with an Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.
• A Five-Tails Tailed Beast Interstellar Aircraft Carrier was cut apart, and its escaping shinobi charged enemy ships with mecha, ninjutsu, senjutsu, and explosive runic weapons.
• Ōtsutsuki Sōichi watched the slaughter from his divine tree spaceship and mocked the shinobi’s desperate resistance.
• Tian Yu sensed Ōtsutsuki Sōichi’s overwhelming power and waited for the strongest enemy fighter to move before using the Celestial Star Gate Formation.

As the Ōtsutsuki Legion overwhelmed the Allied Shinobi Forces, Shinobi World elders and members of the Ten Family used the Celestial Star Gate Formation to sacrifice themselves and destroy powerful enemies. Their deaths rallied the allied forces, who briefly pushed the legion back.

• A Senju Immortal Venerable and other Shinobi World experts opened their star gates, killing Domain Level Ōtsutsuki fighters and warships in suicide attacks.
• Senju Tenpuku sacrificed himself to destroy a Peak Domain Level enemy, and Senju Tenmei killed another enemy using a large-scale mental control technique.
• Tian Flying Swallow, Tian Yueqing, and other wives of Immortal King Tsubasa burned themselves up to kill Ōtsutsuki commanders and troops.
• Senju Ga and her elderly sisters piloted mecha into battle and sacrificed themselves alongside their enemies.
• The Ten Family’s sacrifices ignited the Allied Shinobi Forces’ morale, and their fighters briefly drove back the Ōtsutsuki Legion.