Chapter Summaries

Tian Yu returned to the Immortal Venerable Hall and remembered her eight past lives as a Life Divine Slug of the Starry Sky Insect Race. She told Tsubasa that the Ōtsutsuki God Clan and the Insect Race were powerful cosmic forces, leaving him alarmed by the threat they might pose.

• Tian Yu reunited with Tsubasa and her family, who welcomed her home after her return.
• Tian Yu told Tsubasa that memories from ancient times had resurfaced and explained that she had lived nine lives.
• Tian Yu recounted her first eight lives as a Life Divine Slug, describing her transformations and battles across the universe.
• Tian Yu said an Ōtsutsuki God Clan expert defeated her in her eighth life, after which she drifted to the Shinobi World and became the Katsuyu Sage and Tsubasa's daughter.
• Tian Yu described the power and methods of the Ōtsutsuki God Clan and the Starry Sky Insect Race, and Tsubasa grew deeply concerned.

Tian Yu explained the universe’s threatened races and revealed that memories and power from her previous eight lives had raised her to the peak of the quasi-saint realm. She accepted Ōtsutsuki Sōichi’s Saint’s blood to pursue sainthood as Tsubasa planned to prepare the Shinobi World for the Ōtsutsuki God Clan and Starry Sky Insect Race.

• Tian Yu told Tsubasa that the Ancient Dragon Race and Phoenix Race were struggling to survive under pressure from the Starry Sky Insect Race and Ōtsutsuki God Clan.
• Tian Yu said she had become human through rebirth and her mother’s womb, and that her eight previous lives’ memories and power had raised her to the peak of the quasi-saint realm.
• Tsubasa warned Tian Yu to hide her identity from outsiders, especially the Starry Sky Insect Race, and she agreed.
• Tian Yu said devouring a Saint’s origin could help her become a Saint, so Tsubasa gave her a bottle of Ōtsutsuki Sōichi’s Saint’s blood.
• Tian Yu warned that both major races might target the Shinobi World, and Tsubasa resolved to unite its powers and establish defenses while she stabilized her realm and pursued sainthood.

Tsubasa and Tian Yu worked together to weaken the Saints’ seal on Orochimaru and awaken him. Orochimaru regained consciousness, but the seal remained, so Tsubasa asked him to identify its weaknesses.

• Tsubasa examined the seal on Orochimaru and warned that breaking it without first stabilizing his soul could destroy him or trigger a dangerous backlash.
• Tian Yu used her spiritual power to calm Orochimaru’s corrupted consciousness while Tsubasa searched for and struck the seal’s nodes.
• After more than half a day of effort, the chains and runes unleashed a powerful backlash that injured Tsubasa and Tian Yu, though the seal’s light dimmed and its flame stopped burning.
• Orochimaru awakened and cautiously confirmed that he was back in the Shinobi World, then recognized Tsubasa and asked whether he had rescued him from the Ōtsutsuki.
• Tsubasa asked Orochimaru to sense the seal for weaknesses, and Orochimaru said his soul felt better but the seal and its dangers remained.

Tsubasa revealed that he had become a Saint and used his Will of Fire Formation to destroy Orochimaru and the seals binding him in the starry sky. Orochimaru began reforming from his corpse qi, and Tsubasa and Tian Yu stopped the seals’ last shackles from capturing him again.

• Tsubasa told Orochimaru that he had captured Ōtsutsuki Sōichi and exchanged him for Orochimaru and Tian Yu.
• Orochimaru proposed being destroyed along with the seals so his Zombie Monarch body could reform without them.
• Tsubasa moved Orochimaru to the starry sky to keep their fight from damaging the Shinobi World.
• Tsubasa unleashed his Will of Fire Formation and struck Orochimaru, burning away his body, the chains, and the Dao patterns until only his zombie origin corpse qi remained.
• Orochimaru began rebuilding his body from corpse qi while remnants of the seals tried to stop him.
• Tsubasa and Tian Yu shattered the three golden shackles that emerged to seal Orochimaru again.

After recounting his encounter with the Ōtsutsuki, Tsubasa gave Orochimaru Saint blood to test whether it could increase his strength. Orochimaru reached Peak Quasi-Saint but concluded that he needed to devour a true Saint to become a Corpse Saint, leaving the group focused on strengthening the Shinobi World and waiting for an opportunity.

• Tsubasa told the Shinobi World’s leaders how he escaped the Ōtsutsuki domain, exchanged hostages with the God of the God Tree, and secured a cosmic oath against Saints attacking those below their realm.
• Sasuke warned that the Ōtsutsuki Clan could still retaliate through lesser threats and schemes, and Tsubasa said he would enter seclusion while everyone worked to grow stronger.
• Several months later, Tsubasa gave Orochimaru a vial of Ōtsutsuki Sōichi’s Saint blood, which Orochimaru devoured and refined over a day and night.
• Orochimaru rose to Peak Quasi-Saint but failed to break through after also consuming Tsubasa’s Saint blood.
• Orochimaru concluded that he needed to devour a true Saint and seize their Saint origin and Great Dao laws to become a Corpse Saint, and he pointed to the Ōtsutsuki Clan as a possible opportunity.

Orochimaru, Tsunade, Tenpi, and Kabuto Yakushi spent three years refining Saint flesh and blood into pills, while Tian Yu remained cocooned as her transformation continued. The team successfully created three Saint Heart Pills, offering a potential path for others to benefit from Saint-level power.

• Tsubasa entrusted Saint flesh and blood from himself and Ōtsutsuki Sōichi to Orochimaru, Tsunade, Tenpi, Kabuto Yakushi, and the research team to study.
• Tian Yu drank Ōtsutsuki Sōichi's Saint blood and entered a long transformation inside a starlit energy cocoon as Tsubasa and Tian Yueqing stood guard.
• Over three years, Orochimaru, Tsunade, Tenpi, and Kabuto Yakushi researched how to neutralize Saint blood's violent energy and refine its essence.
• Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Tenpi completed the final harmonization in the pill furnace, producing three gentle, sacred pills.
• Orochimaru named the pills Saint Heart Pills, and Tenpi sealed them in a jade bottle.

Tsubasa and the Shinobi World’s leaders established a limited distribution policy for the Saint Heart Pills, which strengthened several Immortal Kings and steadily improved the world’s top combat power. Three years into Tian Yu’s transformation, Tsubasa and Tian Yueqing watched over her cocoon as the Starry Sky Insect Race’s Insect God observed from afar.

• Tenpi explained that Saint Heart Pills could raise an Immortal King’s cultivation by one minor realm and might help them glimpse a Saint’s divine ability, but the Shinobi World could produce at most five per year.
• Tsubasa set a policy prioritizing his direct descendants and exceptionally meritorious core members, and the first pills went to Tenchu, Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, and Jiraiya.
• Tenchu, Sasuke, Naruto, and Jiraiya each advanced to Late Immortal King; Tenchu and Sasuke also gained insights into divine abilities, while Naruto and Jiraiya strengthened their Senjutsu.
• Over the following years, the Saint Heart Pills steadily increased the Shinobi World’s top combat strength while Tian Yu remained inside her cocoon for three years.
• Tsubasa and Tian Yueqing stood watch over Tian Yu’s cocoon, while the Insect God of the Starry Sky Insect Race watched her transformation from the distant starry sky.

After thirty years of seclusion, Tian Yu awakened as a Saint and revealed that her new power let her produce human offspring who matured into Star Level experts. Her breakthrough promised to transform the Shinobi World, while she sensed a distant call from somewhere in the universe.

• Tsubasa entered seclusion after entrusting the Shinobi World's government, defenses, and research to his allies.
• Over the next thirty years, the Shinobi World grew stronger, repelled Ōtsutsuki explorers, and advanced its technology and Ninjutsu research.
• Tian Yu's cocoon released a wave of energy, drawing the attention of Immortal King experts across the Shinobi World.
• Tian Yu emerged as a Saint after fusing with the Saint's blood and awakening her Starry Sky Insect Mother ability.
• Tian Yu revealed that she could lay eggs daily and that her human offspring could mature into Star Level experts in three years.
• As everyone celebrated Tian Yu's breakthrough, she sensed a call from a distant part of the universe.

After Tian Yu became a Saint, she sensed a faint call from deep in space. The Starry Sky Insect God sent Insect Seven and a vast insect tide to retrieve the newly born Insect Nine, while Tian Yu's unease grew in the distant Shinobi World.

• Tian Yu told Tian Yueqing that something far away seemed to be calling to her, then joined the others in celebrating her breakthrough.
• Shikamaru Nara noticed Tian Yu's distracted moments and worried that trouble might be coming.
• The Insect God sensed that Insect Nine had been born and ordered Insect Seven to bring her back to the insect nest.
• Insect Seven gathered hundreds of planet-sized Saint-level male insects and an enormous swarm, then opened a passage toward Insect Nine.
• The Ōtsutsuki Clan sent a God Tree fleet to intercept the insect tide, but the swarm overwhelmed and devoured it.
• Tian Yu's distant perception grew clearer, and she felt an increasing pull from her bloodline and unease.

Over five years, Tian Yu's Star Eggs produced more than a thousand Star Level Children of Hoshiki, greatly strengthening the Shinobi World. As scientists and leaders investigated distant aggressive energy signals possibly tied to Tian Yu's origins, they prepared for a threat they feared could surpass any they had faced.

• Tian Yu produced Star Eggs at the Garden of Nurturing, and the Shinobi World raised the rapidly maturing Star Level Children of Hoshiki.
• Kakashi, Might Guy, and Kurenai Yuhi trained the Children of Hoshiki, while Tenpi and Orochimaru studied their abilities and analyzed signals from a distant call.
• Tenpi reported faint spatial fluctuations with immense energy and an aggressive, reproducing pattern, prompting Orochimaru to alert the governing council and Military Department.
• An Anbu squad leader told Naruto, Sasuke, and Shikamaru Nara that the outer barrier had repelled three small Ōtsutsuki reconnaissance waves, though no main fleet had appeared.
• Shikamaru proposed stronger patrols, continuous monitoring, accelerated training, and seeking more information from Tian Yu, and Flame Emperor Tenbutsu approved the measures.

Tian Yu warned Shikamaru Nara that the Starry Sky Insect Race was approaching the Shinobi World, with its vanguard expected in two to three years and its ruler potentially possessing God Level strength. The leaders gathered to discuss the threat, and Tsunade asked Shikamaru to explain his plan for dealing with it.

• Tian Yu told Tian Yueqing and Tian Flying Swallow that her bloodline call felt like a warning of a hostile arrival, and she described her fragmented memories of the Starry Sky Insect Race.
• Shikamaru Nara reported that the anomalous spatial signal had intensified and was moving toward their region, with arrival expected in two to three years.
• Tian Yu explained that the race gathered around insect mothers, multiplied by devouring planets and one another, and served an Insect God whose strength rivaled the Ōtsutsuki God.
• Tian Yu resolved to protect the Shinobi World, which she considered her true home, if her blood kin threatened it.
• Shikamaru briefed the Shinobi World's leaders that the Starry Sky Insect Race could be stronger than any enemy they had faced, prompting A Yotsuki to protest and Tsunade to ask Shikamaru for his plan.

Shikamaru organized the Shinobi World's preparations for the Starry Sky Insect Race, but the invasion arrived sooner than expected. Sasuke led an advance fleet to meet the insect vanguard and faced a peak Immortal King mantis insect in battle.

• Shikamaru proposed layered warning systems, planetary barriers, military reorganization, supply stockpiles, civilian evacuation plans, and a careful attempt to contact Tsubasa.
• Tenbutsu and Tenchu agreed to try reaching Tsubasa through bloodline resonance while the Shinobi World began its preparations.
• After a year and a half, the outer detectors warned that a vast insect tide containing Immortal King- and saint-level enemies was approaching.
• Shikamaru sent Sasuke and fifty Immortal Kings aboard the Dawn to probe the vanguard, while Naruto remained at the command center.
• Sasuke's fleet attacked the insects beyond Neptune, and Sasuke engaged a peak Immortal King mantis insect after it broke through the barrage.

Sasuke’s fleet confirmed that the Insect Race included Saint Level fighters, prompting the Shinobi World to rely on its planetary defenses as the swarm advanced. As Saint Level insects began breaking through the barrier, Tian Yu resolved to confront the source of the invasion, Insect Seven.

• Sasuke shattered the Peak Immortal King mantis’s attack with Chibaku Tensei, but a giant insect destroyed the technique, so he ordered the fleet to retreat.
• Shikamaru ordered the Shinobi World to activate the Yata Mirror Formation and keep the insects outside the planets’ atmospheres.
• Tian Yu told Naruto and Sasuke that the swarm had come for her, and they promised to defend her home.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Tian Yu fought the swarm at the barrier while Shikamaru activated the Flame of World Purification system to slow the assault.
• A Saint Level scorpion insect cracked the barrier, while a moth-like insect and a flesh-like insect attacked it; Naruto and Sasuke confronted the scorpion.
• Tian Yu sensed Insect Seven approaching and decided to draw out the Saint Level mother insect to stop the crisis at its source.

Tian Yu confronted Insect Seven, who had come to take her back to the insect nest and threatened to devour the Shinobi World. As Insect Seven overwhelmed her and killed Naruto and Sasuke, a powerful voice intervened just as its attack was about to strike Tian Yu.

• Tian Yu called out to the insect tide, and Insect Seven emerged and ordered her to return to the insect nest.
• Tian Yu refused to abandon her home and companions, while Insect Seven threatened to devour the Shinobi World.
• Tian Yu and Insect Seven clashed with their domains, and Tian Yu struggled against the stronger Saint Level insect.
• Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke attacked Insect Seven, but it killed both of them with a single strike.
• Insect Seven launched a dimensional claw at Tian Yu, but a majestic voice intervened as a vast aura erupted from the Shinobi World planet.

Tsubasa emerged from seclusion at the height of the invasion and used his newly awakened power to protect the Shinobi World and confront Insect Seven. He overwhelmed the insect tide and opened his Will of Fire domain as Insect Seven and hundreds of Saint Level insects attacked him.

• Tsubasa emerged from seclusion, and Tenchu, Tenpi, Shikamaru, and Tian Yu recognized his immense aura.
• Tsubasa healed Tian Yu, declared her his daughter and a human of the Shinobi World, and challenged Insect Seven.
• Tsubasa unleashed A Spark Sets the Plains Ablaze, burning through a vast section of the insect tide and killing even some Immortal King Level insects.
• Insect Seven ordered hundreds of Saint Level insects to attack Tsubasa and sent its Dimensional Cutting Domain against him.
• Tsubasa expanded his Will of Fire domain, weakening Insect Seven's spatial blades and suppressing and burning the attacking insects.

Tsubasa defeated Insect Seven’s vanguard but faced the Insect God, who demanded Tian Yu and threatened to destroy the Shinobi World. Tsubasa and the world’s defenders rallied against the threat as the Insect God prepared a devastating attack, leaving Tsubasa ready to burn his life force in a desperate counterstrike.

• Tsubasa killed the three Saint Level male insects and trapped Insect Seven, but the Insect God intervened and shattered his golden hand.
• The Insect God demanded that Tsubasa surrender Tian Yu and threatened to turn the Shinobi World into an insect nest.
• Tsubasa refused, declaring that Tian Yu had chosen the Shinobi World as her home and that its people would never abandon their companions or planet.
• Nagato Uzumaki, Uchiha Itachi, Tsunade, and Tenbutsu rallied the Shinobi World's defenders as the Will of Fire Domain and Yata Mirror Formation answered Tsubasa's resolve.
• The Insect God aimed a vastly stronger attack at Tsubasa and the Shinobi World, and Tsubasa began burning his Saint power and life force to prepare a counterstrike.

Tsubasa unleashed the Will of Fire: God-Slaying Strike, burning his power and life force to destroy the Insect God's projection and protect the Shinobi World. He survived but was left near collapse as the Insect God's enraged presence lingered in the depths of the universe.

• The Insect God's massive claw pressed against the Yata Mirror Formation, threatening to shatter the Shinobi World's defenses.
• Tsubasa vowed to protect the Shinobi World and gathered holy power, life force, and the belief of its people into his golden domain.
• Tsubasa unleashed Will of Fire: God-Slaying Strike and collided with the dark-gold claw, sending a devastating shock wave through space.
• The remaining mirrors of the Yata Mirror Formation blocked most of the shock wave while Tsubasa was thrown through a meteor and left severely weakened.
• Tsubasa called for the claw to shatter, and the Insect God's projection broke apart into dark-gold motes.
• The Insect God screeched in rage from the depths of the universe, and its malice remained hidden nearby.

Tsubasa fought the Saint Level male insects sent to cover Insect Seven’s retreat, keeping their attacks from reaching the Shinobi World while killing or sealing them despite his worsening injuries. With his life force nearly spent, he unleashed another God-Slaying Strike against the strongest remaining insect, bringing the battle to its climax.

• Insect Seven ordered the Saint Level male insects to attack Tsubasa while she retreated with the insect tide army.
• Tsubasa restrained a centipede-shaped male insect’s self-destruction with golden chains, taking the blast himself to protect the Shinobi World.
• Tsubasa used his golden armor and chains to kill or seal several attackers, including moth-, beetle-, and scorpion-shaped male insects.
• Tsubasa burned his Saint lifespan as he fought the remaining male insects, while Insect Seven escaped.
• With his hair white and only a fraction of his lifespan left, Tsubasa sacrificed another ninety thousand years to unleash a God-Slaying Strike at the powerful spider-shaped male insect.

After returning from the battle beyond the realm, Tsubasa ordered the Shinobi World to collect the Saint Level Insect Race remains and turn them into pills and weapons. He began refining the pills with Saint Fire, but as their energy neared a critical point, the process remained dangerous.

• Tsubasa returned to the Holy Mountain wounded, reassured the gathered leaders, and warned that the Insect Race would eventually return.
• Tsubasa ordered the Shinobi World to gather every remnant of the Saint Level Insect Race and appointed Tsunade and Orochimaru to lead the pill-making and weapon-forging work.
• Ninja collected the insect remains while Tsunade extracted and balanced their life essence and Orochimaru analyzed their bodies and extracted their energy cores.
• After seven days of preparation, Tsubasa sealed the ingredients in a pill furnace and began refining them with Saint Fire for forty-nine days.
• As seven-colored radiance and medicinal fragrance spread from the workshop, Tsubasa sensed that the furnace’s intertwined energies were nearing a dangerous critical point and worked to stabilize them.

Tsubasa completed eighteen Holy Insect Golden Cores and assigned them to strengthen the Shinobi World's powerhouses. After the recipients entered seclusion, breakthroughs spread across the Shinobi World, greatly increasing its strength against the Insect Race.

• The pills triggered a nine-strike Pill Tribulation, and Tsubasa destroyed every lightning bolt with his punches.
• The furnace released eighteen seven-colored pills, which Tsubasa named Holy Insect Golden Cores.
• Tsubasa gave pills to fifteen powerhouses, including Uchiha Itachi, Hinata Hyuga, Nagato Uzumaki, and Tsunade, and sealed the remaining three for later use or emergencies.
• Uchiha Itachi, Hinata Hyuga, Nagato Uzumaki, and Tsunade each took a pill and broke through to Peak Immortal King.
• Over the following months, other recipients also broke through, including some Immortal Venerables who advanced to Immortal King, and the Shinobi World's forces grew substantially.