Chapter Summaries

After stepping down as clan head, Tsubasa resolved to return to Shikkotsu Forest and focus on reaching Foundation Establishment, despite worrying about Senju Yasuhei’s declining health. In Konoha, Mito Uzumaki confronted Tobirama Senju and Akira Senju over Hashirama’s wishes, while news of Hashirama’s death stirred rival nations into action.

• Tsubasa told Senju Yasuhei that he could not master four elements without decades of cultivation, and Yasuhei advised him to choose between breadth and height.
• Tsubasa decided to return to Shikkotsu Forest for a long period of seclusion and worried that Senju Yasuhei might not survive until his return.
• Tobirama Senju confirmed that Senju Yasuhei had voted against Tsubasa, and Mito Uzumaki slapped Akira Senju for dismissing Tsubasa and defying Hashirama’s wishes.
• Mito Uzumaki told Akira Senju that Hashirama had sent him to the national capital to protect him, then announced that she would move back to the ancestral home.
• After news of Hashirama Senju’s death spread across the Five Great Nations, spies from the Land of Rain departed, Sunagakure’s puppeteers adjusted their mechanisms, and Kumogakure’s storms intensified.

Tsubasa prepared to leave for Shikkotsu Forest to break through to Foundation Establishment, saying the breakthrough would help him protect his family. Before he departed, Senju Tenpuku learned that Akira Senju had taken Tsubasa’s clan-head position, while Senju Yasuhei warned that war might soon come.

• Tsubasa said goodbye to Tian Yueqing and their family, while Tian Flying Swallow promised to manage Phoenix Tower and its charity organization in his absence.
• Senju Yasuhei told Senju Tenpuku that Akira Senju had taken Tsubasa’s position as clan head.
• Dō Senju, Gi Senju, Kaidō Senju, and the others reacted angrily or dismissively to the news, while Senju Yasuhei worried that war would follow Hashirama’s death.
• Senju Yasuhei said he wanted to do more for Konoha before his health failed, and Senju Tenpuku insisted that he would remain the family’s pillar.
• Tsubasa promised to complete his breakthrough and return to join Senju Yasuhei on the battlefield, then formed Hand Seals and vanished toward Shikkotsu Forest.

After Hashirama Senju's death disrupted the balance between nations, the leaders of Kumogakure, Sunagakure, Mizukage Village, and Tsuchikage Village planned invasions of smaller countries. Their armies began mobilizing, leaving the targeted nations in panic as war loomed.

• A learned that Hashirama Senju had died and ordered Kumogakure to prepare invasions of the Land of the Moon and the Land of Hot Water.
• Reto learned of Hashirama Senju's death and ordered Sunagakure to assemble 250,000 troops to attack the Land of Rain.
• Minazuki Teru ordered Mizukage Village to invade the Land of Whirlpools with 200,000 troops, including forces infiltrating as merchant caravans.
• Ishikawa ordered the Land of Earth to send 400,000 troops against the Land of Rain and the Land of Grass.
• The four great nations mobilized their forces, plunging the smaller countries they targeted into panic.

The Land of Fire received desperate pleas as the Land of Lightning, Water, Earth, and Wind attacked neighboring countries, prompting Tobirama Senju to convene Konoha’s leaders and organize its forces. Konoha prepared to send four corps to aid its allies while Tobirama led a fifth against the Land of Lightning and assigned the Uchiha to defend the Land of Fire.

• The daimyo of the Land of the Moon ordered his forces to defend Moon Castle and sent envoys to seek the Land of Fire’s help as the Land of Lightning gathered 300,000 troops.
• The Land of Rain, the Land of Whirlpools, and the Land of Grass mobilized against invading armies and sent pleas for aid to the Land of Fire.
• Tobirama Senju told Konoha’s clan leaders that a traitor may have revealed his brother’s death and that the invading countries’ ultimate target was the Land of Fire.
• Uchiha Tomioki, Tennin Hyuga, Akira Senju, and other clan leaders demanded to fight, then argued over which clan would lead the war effort.
• Tobirama Senju appointed four 80,000-strong corps to support the Land of Grass, the Land of Whirlpools, and the Land of Rain, while he led the Fifth Corps against the Land of Lightning.
• Tobirama Senju assigned Uchiha Tomioki to command 100,000 troops defending the Land of Fire, while the daimyo and Princess Flying Swallow organized supplies and relief efforts.

Konoha and the Land of Grass joined forces to defend their capital against the Land of Earth's army in the war's first major battle. Both sides suffered heavy casualties and retreated, leaving the survivors shaken by the brutality of war.

• Tennin Hyuga led 80,000 Konoha Ninja to join 60,000 Grass Ninja against Mu's advancing army of 150,000 Land of Earth ninja.
• Both armies charged without exchanging words, and Tennin Hyuga, Reiko Kurama, Kaima Senju, and Konoha's generals devastated enemy ranks with their abilities.
• Mu, Ryoichi Kondo, and Ōnoki of Both Scales counterattacked with Dust Release, Explosion Release, and Earth Release, inflicting heavy losses on the allied forces.
• The commanders avoided one another as the exhausted armies fought to a standstill, then both sides retreated to count casualties.
• Konoha lost more than 10,000 ninja, the Land of Grass lost over 20,000, and the Land of Earth suffered 40,000 dead and wounded; the survivors were left fearful and disillusioned.

After a tense war council, Tennin Hyuga ordered the Konoha and Land of Grass forces to prepare for another battle against the Land of Earth. The renewed fighting began with the enemy’s encirclement, and both sides’ commanders engaged as the chapter ended.

• Tennin Hyuga heard reports of the previous battle’s casualties and ordered his forces to ambush the enemy with elite squads while guarding against the airborne attacker.
• After ten days of rest, Tennin Hyuga rallied the soldiers as Ōnoki of Both Scales launched an encirclement, with Mu flanking the enemy and Ryoichi Kondo leading the frontal assault.
• Tennin Hyuga ordered Reiko Kurama to disrupt Ōnoki with Genjutsu, while Ōnoki resisted and hurled boulders at the battlefield.
• Kaima Senju raised an earthen wall against the frontal assault, and he and the other Earth Release ninja reinforced it under the Land of Earth’s explosions.
• Konoha’s eight generals led squads in a counterattack against the Land of Earth’s encircling forces.

Tennin Hyuga defeated Mu’s attacks and pursued him, turning the Land of Earth’s flank into a rout. Konoha and the Land of Grass won a costly victory, leaving the balance of power in the Shinobi World poised to change.

• Eiichi Yamazaki led his elite squad in an assault on the Land of Earth’s flank, combining Wind Release and Water Release against its soldiers.
• Mu attacked Tennin Hyuga with Dust Release, but Tennin used Byakugan and Rotation to withstand and neutralize the technique.
• Tennin tracked Mu through his Fission and Invisibility Techniques, struck him with Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, and chased him from the battlefield.
• Mu’s flight broke the Land of Earth’s flank and weakened its army’s morale, while Tennin’s pursuit and Konoha’s charge drove the enemy back more than a hundred li.
• Tennin ordered Konoha’s forces to withdraw at dusk after the Land of Fire and Land of Grass won the battle, with more than sixty thousand Land of Earth casualties.

Akira Senju arrived in the devastated Land of Rain, rescued refugees, and led the Land of Fire's forces against the Land of Wind and Land of Earth before fleeing when their larger army counterattacked. After Kazekage Reto invaded with another force, Akira tried to negotiate compensation at the Phoenix Tower, where Reto demanded an enormous payment and the restaurant's recipes.

• Akira Senju ordered his troops to rescue refugees and distribute half their food, then led an attack on the raiding parties of the Land of Wind and Land of Earth.
• The Sand Shadow and Ishikawa brought a combined force of three hundred thousand and trapped the Land of Fire's army, so Akira ordered a retreat and abandoned Sasuke Sarutobi and Dansuke Shimura in the vanguard.
• Hanzo of the Salamander witnessed the destruction of his home and vowed to build a ninja village of his own.
• Akira returned to the Land of Fire as the Senju clansmen scorned him, while Kazekage Reto advanced with two hundred thousand troops and Akira sent for reinforcements.
• Akira invited Reto to negotiate at the Phoenix Tower, where Reto demanded ninjutsu, ryō, two cities, and the recipes for the dishes.
• Akira offered one S-rank Ninjutsu, ten A-rank Ninjutsu, and ten billion ryō, refusing to give up any cities.

Uchiha Tomioki led 8,000 Uchiha and more than 40,000 Land of Fire troops in a surprise attack on the Land of Wind’s army, whose soldiers suffered heavy losses as many Uchiha awakened stronger Sharingan during the fighting. At the Phoenix Tower, Reto captured Akira Senju and other Land of Fire leaders, then ordered them imprisoned rather than risk killing Hashirama Senju’s son.

• Uchiha Tomioki led the Uchiha and Konoha troops in a surprise assault on the Land of Wind’s 200,000-strong army.
• The Uchiha and Senju fought together, routing the Sand shinobi as multiple Uchiha Sharingan evolved during battle.
• A Sand shinobi reported the attack at the Phoenix Tower, and Reto accused Akira Senju of plotting against him.
• Reto’s forces captured Akira Senju, Sasuke Sarutobi, and Dansuke Shimura; five of the other eight generals died, while Chiri Utatane, Masao Yuhi, and Hei Yamashiro escaped.
• Reto ordered the captives imprisoned, hesitating to kill Akira Senju because doing so would make an enemy of the Land of Fire.

Tennin Hyuga celebrated a fabricated victory and ordered the allied army north, but the Land of Earth’s defenses and reinforcements turned the tide against him. Ishikawa and Mu killed Tennin Hyuga in battle, leaving the allied army without its commander.

• Tennin Hyuga ordered Reiko Kurama to write a victory report and claimed the allied army had annihilated over a hundred thousand Land of Earth troops.
• Kaima Senju and Eiichi Yamazaki explained that Masatake Kyogoku and Akiya Imai had been killed, and Tennin ordered their deaths described as enemy sneak attacks.
• Tennin Hyuga received praise and celebrated with the daimyo of the Land of Grass and Kusagakure leaders.
• Tennin ordered the allied army north to reclaim territory, but Mu saw Ishikawa’s reinforcements arrive for the Land of Earth.
• Ishikawa and Mu attacked Tennin Hyuga together, and Mu’s Dust Release killed him after Ishikawa sent him flying.

After Tennin Hyuga’s death threw the Fire-Grass alliance into retreat, Senju Yasuhei arrived with reinforcements and turned the battle against the Land of Earth. The Land of Earth withdrew after devastating losses, while Yasuhei left troops to defend the Land of Grass and rushed toward the new conflict in the Land of Rain.

• With Tennin Hyuga dead, the Land of Earth army routed the Fire-Grass alliance, forcing Kaima Senju, Vincent Mitarashi, and Kotobuki Kujo to flee with six thousand survivors.
• Senju Yasuhei arrived with eighty thousand troops and launched a surprise attack on the Land of Earth army, while his six daughters-in-law advanced in a shield formation.
• Ishikawa and Mu joined forces against Senju Yasuhei, but he evaded their attacks and drove them and Ōnoki into retreat.
• The Land of Earth army withdrew after losing nearly 110,000 troops, while Konoha’s First Corps was nearly destroyed and the Land of Grass survivors fled into the mountains.
• Senju Yasuhei left twenty thousand troops with Kaima Senju and took fifty thousand to support the Land of Rain, agreeing to Mito Uzumaki’s request to keep Akira Senju alive.
• After Yasuhei departed, the Land of Earth sent fifty thousand troops back into the Land of Grass to seize resources, and the opposing sides fought only minor skirmishes.

Tobirama Senju led two thousand Senju guards against Raikage A and fifty thousand Land of Lightning troops, overwhelming them with coordinated ninjutsu and powerful fighters. The Senju withdrew into the city after inflicting more than thirty thousand casualties without losing a single ninja, while Raikage A retreated with his defeated forces.

• The Land of Lightning conquered the Land of the Moon and seized territory from the Land of Hot Water before Tobirama Senju arrived with Land of Fire reinforcements.
• Tobirama Senju led two thousand Senju guards against Raikage A's fifty thousand troops while the allied armies faced the larger Land of Lightning force.
• The Senju used Water Release and Earth Release techniques to disrupt the enemy, while Tobirama evaded Raikage A and wounded him with the Thunder God Sword.
• Takeshi Senju and Gō Senju struck Raikage A's Lightning Release: Lariat with Super Strength Fists and sent him flying.
• The Senju routed Raikage A's force, leaving over thirty thousand dead or wounded and no Senju casualties, before withdrawing into the city.

After his first major battle, Senju Tenpuku celebrated with fellow Senju guards and arranged a potential marriage between his son Tsubasa and Senju Shiranui’s daughter. The men ended the day joking about family, children, and the valuable Phoenix Tower seven-star membership card promised as a bride price.

• Senju Tenpuku, Orochi Senju, Senju Might, and Senju Shinichi celebrated their first battlefield experience and joked about their children.
• Orochi Senju asked Senju Shinichi to have Jiraiya look after Orochi’s son when they started at the Ninja Academy.
• Senju Shiranui asked whether Tenpuku’s son Tsubasa needed a wife, explaining that his thirteen-year-old daughter wanted to marry someone like Tsubasa.
• Tenpuku agreed that the match could be considered if Tsubasa and Fifth Sister-in-law approved, and promised Shiranui a Phoenix Tower seven-star membership card if the marriage went ahead.
• Senju Might joked that he would reserve one of Little Tenmei’s seven wives for his family, while Shiranui pulled Tenpuku away to celebrate.

Mito Uzumaki led Konoha forces into the Land of Whirlpools, where Shikaboshi Nara defeated Hozuki Gengetsu’s eastern army through a carefully planned ambush. Shikaboshi then revealed that he had spared the retreating enemy troops to draw them into a coming fight with the Senju Clan and keep Mito occupied.

• Mito Uzumaki divided her eighty thousand ninja between Shikaboshi Nara’s eastern campaign and Mumei Senju’s western campaign, while assigning a thousand Senju to defend the capital.
• Shikaboshi Nara’s forty thousand troops met Hozuki Gengetsu’s fifty thousand Land of Water ninja, and Shikaboshi used Momiji Yamanaka’s mental link to coordinate his forces.
• Shikaboshi’s flanking forces routed the enemy wings while his center held against Hozuki Gengetsu’s attacks, prompting Gengetsu to launch one final assault.
• Shikaboshi’s forces trapped the Land of Water troops with Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi techniques, inflicting heavy losses and forcing Hozuki Gengetsu to retreat toward the sea.
• Shikaboshi explained to Chozan Akimichi that he had deliberately let more than ten thousand enemy troops escape so they could engage the Senju Clan and keep Mito occupied.
• Momiji Yamanaka reported more than forty-three thousand enemy dead and 11,540 Konoha casualties, including only fifteen casualties among the Yamanaka, Nara, and Akimichi Clans.

Mumei Senju and Minazuki Teru fought across the western front as their armies suffered heavy losses. Mumei devastated the Land of Water’s rear before collapsing from exhaustion, and its ninja killed him.

• Mumei Senju led Konoha’s army against Minazuki Teru’s forces, while Teru’s Freezing Domain slowed and injured Konoha’s ninja.
• Mumei used his armor, hammer, and rock giant to battle Teru, but Teru’s Hydrification Technique made him impervious to Mumei’s physical attacks.
• Mumei charged into the rear of the Land of Water’s army and slaughtered its soldiers, while Teru attacked Konoha’s troops with his Ice Release.
• Five hundred Senju Clan soldiers charged Teru to protect Konoha’s army, but his Freezing Domain and falling ice killed many of them.
• Mumei fought on until exhaustion after killing nearly twenty thousand enemy troops; the Land of Water’s ninja then swarmed him, killed him, and dismembered his corpse.

Mito Uzumaki led reinforcements to break the Land of Water’s siege of the Land of Whirlpools, then drove Mizukage Minazuki Teru’s forces from the western battlefield. The fighting ended with devastating losses on both sides, but the Land of Water’s army remained offshore, leaving the threat of renewed war unresolved.

• Mito Uzumaki arrived with the Hokage's Secret Guard and used Nine-Tails Mode to turn the Land of Water’s assault on the capital into a retreat.
• Kaguya Tsukino Na ordered a withdrawal, while more than a thousand Kaguya Clan ninjas sacrificed themselves to cover it and were wiped out along with five hundred Senju Clan members.
• Mito Uzumaki pursued the Land of Water’s fleeing army to the shore and attacked the soldiers in the sea with Tailed Beast Bombs.
• Mito Uzumaki reached the western battlefield, forced Minazuki Teru to retreat with a Sealing Jutsu, and chased him to the sea, where he escaped using the Hydrification Technique.
• Mito Uzumaki found Mumei Senju’s dismembered body, and the armies counted heavy losses as the Land of Water’s remaining ninja corps faced Konoha along the coast.

Tsubasa entered the Katsuyu Sage’s birthplace cave in Shikkotsu Forest and consumed a blood-red pearl, successfully advancing to the Foundation Establishment Realm. After testing his greatly enhanced strength, healing, and perception, he considered the Shinobi World’s strongest figures and resolved to return to the village to learn whether war had begun.

• Tsubasa asked the Katsuyu Sage to guide him to the cave where she had found the blood-red pearl, and she led him inside.
• Tsubasa found the pearl embedded in Chakra Metal Mother Metal, carefully freed it, and swallowed it.
• The pearl’s power merged with Tsubasa’s Spiritual Qi, forming spiritual liquid and transforming his body, mind, and soul as he reached the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Tsubasa tested his strengthened Sage Body, rapid healing, and mental perception, which now extended ten li.
• Tsubasa assessed the powerful sages and other threats in the Shinobi World, then decided to return to the village and find out whether war had broken out.

After completing Foundation Establishment, Tsubasa returned home and learned that his father had gone to the battlefield while much of his family was scattered by the war. He persuaded Senju Ga to let him go after his father and prepared to head first to the Land of Lightning.

• Tsubasa learned from the Katsuyu Sage that five months had passed and the Shinobi World was at war.
• Tsubasa returned home, reunited with Senju Ga, and heard where his grandfather, aunts, fiancées, and father had gone.
• Senju Ga initially forbade Tsubasa from going to the battlefield, but he persuaded her to stay home with Tenmei and Tian Zhiyun while he searched for his father.
• Senju Ga gave Tsubasa a supply scroll and his father's letter, which revealed that his father had secretly gone to the front.
• After worrying about his family and his father's chances against the Raikage, Tsubasa decided to go to the Land of Lightning first.
• Tsubasa packed his supplies and his father's favorite wine, then quietly promised the sleeping Senju Ga that he would bring his father home.

Tobirama Senju divided his forces to counter the Land of Lightning’s invasion, but the Raikage’s troops ambushed Shimura Danzō’s unit on its way to Bath City. Senju Tenpuku escaped with the wounded Danzō and a handful of survivors after the ambush devastated their force.

• The Land of Lightning captured three cities with Lightning God Cannons, prompting Tobirama Senju to send four units under Hiruzen Sarutobi, Shimura Danzō, Kagami Uchiha, and Torifu Akimichi.
• Tobirama Senju held the capital against the Raikage’s assault using Impure World Reincarnation and Explosive Tags, while an undead legion from the Jashin Cult attacked the Land of Lightning’s troops.
• Yotsuki Araki led fifty thousand troops toward Bath City, and Shimura Danzō diverted his remaining seven thousand troops and the Senju Shadow Guard to reinforce it.
• Senrai ambushed Danzō’s force in a valley, where Lightning Release attacks shattered their defenses and inflicted heavy casualties.
• Senju Might and Orochi Senju sacrificed themselves to help Senju Tenpuku escape, and Danzō lost consciousness after being gravely wounded.
• Senju Tenpuku carried Danzō back to the capital with about seventy survivors while Senrai surveyed the battlefield and the fallen Senju.

Tsubasa reached the Fire-Lightning battlefield and found his father, Senju Tenpuku, who refused to leave before the war ended. After hearing about the heavy losses and accepting his father’s request to care for the family and fallen comrades’ children, Tsubasa flew toward the Land of Lightning’s army, determined to end the war by killing its leaders.

• Tsubasa traveled to the Land of Lightning, restrained his killing intent after frightening a civilian, and located the Fire-Lightning battlefield.
• Tsubasa disguised himself as Tobirama Senju to enter the camp, then revealed his identity to Senju Tenpuku and proved who he was with his mother’s letter.
• Senju Tenpuku refused to return home, explaining that the Senju forces had suffered severe losses and naming the comrades who had died.
• Senju Tenpuku gave Tsubasa a letter, arranged his betrothal to Mai Shiranui, and asked him to care for the children of his fallen brothers, including Might Duy, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru.
• Tsubasa left his father and flew toward the Land of Lightning’s army, intending to kill Raikage A and other leaders to end the war.