Chapter Summaries

After Hiruzen fell into a coma, Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura activated Root’s Faceless Ones and sent them to infiltrate the Uchiha Sacred Land. Meanwhile, Uchiha Gen'yō expanded the Divine Nation’s economic reach and ordered preparations for a weapon that would carry it into the sky.

• A medical-nin warned Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura that Hiruzen might never wake after falling into a coma.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura went to Root’s underground base and ordered the activation of the Faceless Ones Plan.
• The ten Faceless Ones were ordered to infiltrate the Uchiha Sacred Land as Daikokuya workers, spy on its infrastructure, and detonate their concealed weapons if necessary.
• Uchiha Gen'yō directed Ōnoki to open trade routes to twelve small nations and make them economically dependent on the Divine Nation.
• Uchiha Gen'yō ordered Inabi to begin a fourth production line for chakra conduction pillars, aiming to take the Divine Nation into the sky within six months.

Orochimaru learned of Uchiha Gen'yō's advanced technology and planned to infiltrate the Uchiha Sacred Land to claim it for himself. As Gen'yō trained Itachi, he detected an intruder and told Itachi that his first live-combat graduation exam had arrived.

• Orochimaru read a spy's report about Gen'yō's weapons factory, powerful armor, Dragon Vein energy, and plans for a floating city.
• Orochimaru decided to travel to the Land of Earth's border and ordered Kabuto to prepare the Cursed Seal Type Three Potion.
• Itachi trained in Susanoo Type One Divine Armor, improved his speed with Lightning Release, and dodged Gen'yō's Kamui counterattack.
• Gen'yō detected a hidden presence near the Sacred Land's outer gate and told Itachi to rest before his first live-combat graduation exam.

Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura sent ten disguised Faceless Ones into the Divine Kingdom to spy on its military factory, but Uchiha Gen'yō detected them as suicide operatives and ordered Itachi to kill them. Itachi charged toward the infiltrators as the two Konoha advisers watched in alarm.

• Ten Faceless Ones entered the Divine Kingdom disguised as laborers in a Daikokuya caravan and were stunned by its advanced city and defenses.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura watched through the Faceless Ones' vision and ordered them to find the Amaterasu First Military Factory.
• Gen'yō's system detected that the ten intruders carried Explosive Tags and S-rank toxins, despite their disguises concealing their chakra.
• Gen'yō ordered Obito to arrest the caravan's steward and sent Itachi to kill the Faceless Ones before they could detonate.
• Itachi flew toward the inner-city square as the Faceless Ones gathered in an alley and Koharu and Homura saw the purple lightning above them.

Uchiha Itachi intercepted the Faceless Ones’ attack on the Uchiha district and killed ten of them with a single strike. He left a wounded survivor alive and discussed military intelligence within earshot, giving Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura hope that the survivor could report it.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura watched the Faceless Ones infiltrate the inner city and ordered them toward the military factory’s wastewater outlet.
• Uchiha Itachi arrived in dark purple lightning armor, and the elders recognized his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Itachi killed ten Faceless Ones with one Lightning Blade slash before they could detonate their explosives.
• Itachi wrote “You’re next” in blood, then noticed a wounded Faceless One who had survived the attack.
• After speaking with someone through his communicator, Itachi left the survivor alive and discussed a maintenance shutdown at the military factory’s B7 sector with two Uchiha guards.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura realized the survivor could overhear and carry back the military intelligence.

Gen'yō used Itachi to feed Konoha false intelligence about the Uchiha Divine Kingdom’s defenses and a fabricated weakness in the Heavenly Floating City. Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura believed the intelligence and began gathering Konoha’s forces for an attack.

• Itachi staged a conversation about a ten-minute energy lull at the Heart of Amaterasu, and the wounded Faceless One secretly recorded the information.
• Utatane Koharu ordered the Faceless One to escape with the intelligence, and he used a forbidden drug to flee as Konoha Anbu covered his retreat.
• Gen'yō revealed to Obito that he had attached a Kamui Dimension anchor to the Faceless One and sent Konoha fabricated blueprints pointing to a false reactor flaw.
• The Faceless One reached Konoha’s border at the cost of seven Anbu lives, and a waiting ninja recovered his intelligence chip.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura celebrated the intelligence and ordered Konoha’s available elites to assemble for an operation against the Uchiha Divine Kingdom.

Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura sent Kinoe and a 1,321-person Konoha force to destroy the Heart of Amaterasu and, if possible, the Uchiha floating city's reactor foundations. Gen'yō prepared a trap inside the seemingly deserted factory, and Kinoe launched the assault as the force reached the target.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura ordered retired and active Konoha ninja to assemble, then appointed Kinoe commander of the force.
• Utatane Koharu gave Kinoe orders to destroy the Heart of Amaterasu and the floating city's reactor foundations, even if none of the force returned.
• Gen'yō ordered the factory to appear unguarded and revealed that he had placed a hundred Yata Mirror Energy Cannons inside the Heart of Amaterasu.
• Kinoe noticed the factory's unnatural silence but proceeded toward the Heart of Amaterasu at nine o'clock.
• Kinoe ordered the Konoha force to assault the military factory.

Kinoe led more than thirteen hundred Konoha Ninja into the arms factory, where Uchiha Gen'yō's hidden cannons and mechs slaughtered them. Gen'yō killed Kinoe and spotted a white snake trying to escape.

• Kinoe's forces breached the factory defenses and rushed toward the Heart of Amaterasu, believing it was unguarded.
• The factory lights revealed a trap, and the Heart of Amaterasu opened to expose a ring of Yata Mirror Energy Cannons commanded by Uchiha Gen'yō.
• Gen'yō ordered the cannons and unmanned mechs to fire, wiping out the Konoha Ninja while Kinoe survived the first attack with Wood Release.
• Kinoe tried to detonate the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags Formation, but Gen'yō used Kamui to warp the scroll away before killing him.
• Gen'yō spotted a small white snake attempting to escape from a hidden corner of the battlefield.

Uchiha Gen'yō reverse-tracked Orochimaru through a hidden snake and unleashed Kamui on his underground laboratory, leaving Orochimaru terrified after he escaped by shedding his body. Gen'yō then ordered Obito to send the Konoha casualties back to the village as a warning to Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura.

• Gen'yō used the Eye of God's Law of Causality Tracking to follow the chakra link from Orochimaru's Realm-Peering Snake to his base in the Land of Rice Fields.
• Gen'yō sent Kamui through the link, destroying part of Orochimaru's laboratory and forcing Orochimaru to escape with his Orochimaru-Style Substitution Technique.
• Orochimaru realized he had faced power beyond ordinary ninjutsu and was consumed by fear.
• Gen'yō told Obito to gather the remains of the Konoha Ninja and hang them outside the Hokage Building as a warning to Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura.

Konoha woke to find 1,321 charred bodies displayed on stakes outside the Hokage Building, with Uchiha Gen'yō's threat written in blood. As villagers turned on advisers Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, a medical-nin announced that the Third Hokage had awakened.

• Young Genin found 1,321 bodies arranged in Konoha's flaming spiral emblem, with Kinoe displayed at the center and Gen'yō's threat written across Hokage Rock.
• Villagers panicked, then surged toward the Hokage Building and demanded that Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura answer for the deaths of their families.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura watched the riot from their office and realized Konoha blamed them for its destruction.
• As villagers prepared to breach the building's barrier, a medical-nin arrived and announced that the Third Hokage had awakened.

After waking from a two-day coma, Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura had sent over thirteen hundred shinobi on a disastrous suicide mission against the Uchiha Divine Kingdom. Confronted by Konoha’s fury, he abandoned the Will of Fire and ordered his companions to visit “that place” for one last act.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi awoke in Konoha Hospital and asked what Koharu and Homura had done while he was unconscious.
• An Anbu reported that Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura had launched the Faceless Ones plan, sacrificing a force of over thirteen hundred and suffering a devastating outcome.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi laughed and wept over the failure of the Will of Fire, then demanded that the curtains be opened.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi saw the stakes outside, the villagers’ hatred, and the insults defiling the Hokage Building and Hokage Rock.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Koharu and Homura that he had been at fault and declared it was time to visit “that place.”

Uchiha Gen'yō entered the Land of Earth's audience hall and announced that he would abolish the daimyo, nobility, and their inherited privileges as part of a national reform plan. After Duke Ishida objected, Uchiha Itachi killed him, and Gen'yō asked whether anyone else opposed the policies.

• The former daimyo and Ōnoki warned the assembled nobles to obey when Uchiha Gen'yō arrived.
• Gen'yō entered the hall, where the former daimyo, Ōnoki, and the nobles bowed before him.
• Gen'yō distributed a development and reform plan and declared that the Land of Earth would abolish the daimyo, nobles, fiefs, private forces, and inherited privileges.
• Duke Ishida objected to the reforms, citing his family's traditions and legal rights.
• Uchiha Itachi beheaded Duke Ishida, and Gen'yō asked the remaining nobles whether anyone else objected.

Gen'yō forced the Land of Earth’s nobles to accept a currency overhaul and a new bank, using cheap, advanced goods to make the Uchiha Ryō indispensable. He ended by asking Ōnoki whether the trade routes to the other great nations were clear.

• After Gen'yō killed Duke Ishida, the finance minister and nobles scrambled to swear loyalty to him.
• Gen'yō announced that the Land of Earth would replace its currencies with the Uchiha Ryō at an exchange rate of 1,000 to 1.
• Gen'yō revealed that Uchiha Divine Kingdom Convenience Supermarkets would sell advanced goods at low prices, with a ninety-percent discount for the first three months.
• The finance minister warned that the new products would bankrupt local craftsmen and merchants, and Gen'yō told them to join his factories or be left behind.
• Gen'yō turned to Ōnoki and asked whether he had cleared the trade routes to the other great nations.

Gen'yō revealed Uchiha's mass-produced Blood Judgment katana and planned to use its low price and superior quality to make the shinobi world dependent on Uchiha weapons. He then ordered Obito to establish an underground trade association named Akatsuki.

• Ōnoki reported that fear of the Uchiha had made caravan routes safe and led some small nations to escort Uchiha traders without charging tolls.
• Gen'yō presented Blood Judgment, a chakra-conductive katana produced at the Amaterasu First Military Factory, and set its official price at thirty thousand ryō.
• Ōnoki recognized the blade's extraordinary quality and was shocked that Gen'yō could mass-produce it cheaply using Dragon Vein resources and industrial methods.
• Gen'yō explained that he intended to make the shinobi world dependent on Uchiha weapons and gain leverage over nations and ninja through their supply.
• Gen'yō told Obito to create an underground commercial empire dealing in intelligence, forbidden jutsu, weapons, and lives, and named it Akatsuki.

Gen'yō founded Akatsuki as a three-tier underworld commercial empire and prepared to recruit Orochimaru with forbidden knowledge. In the Land of Rice Fields, Orochimaru received Akatsuki's offer of a report on Dragon Vein and soul fusion, despite swearing to avoid Gen'yō.

• Gen'yō explained that Akatsuki would control the dark world's rules through White, Gray, and Black tiers, with Obito leading Gray Akatsuki.
• Gen'yō spent 100,000 Clan Prosperity to unlock the Forbidden Jutsu Database and gave Obito scrolls to use as Akatsuki's first offerings.
• Gen'yō ordered Obito to contact Orochimaru and demand his research, Living Corpse Reincarnation, and every forbidden jutsu he had developed in exchange for a report on Dragon Vein energy and souls.
• Orochimaru, recovering in his ruined underground base in Otogakure, received a message at his black-market contact point offering true immortality.
• Orochimaru saw the follow-up mention Dragon Vein and soul fusion, and his golden slit pupils contracted.

Gen'yō learned that the Divine Kingdom’s booming businesses and Akatsuki’s deals had made it extraordinarily wealthy and influential. As Kirigakure Anbu tried to infiltrate its defenses, he ordered a massive new barrier built to trap future intruders.

• Onodera reported that the Divine Kingdom’s supermarkets and Blood Judgment sales had brought in enormous revenue and disrupted other nations’ currencies.
• Onodera told Gen'yō that Akatsuki had traded research and technology for mining rights, oil-field output, and Orochimaru’s laboratories and forbidden research.
• Gen'yō and Uchiha Fugaku looked over the prosperous Uchiha Sacred Land and its confident residents.
• Shisui Uchiha reported that Kirigakure Anbu had attempted to breach the Divine Kingdom’s sea defenses and had been repelled.
• Gen'yō ordered one hundred billion in special funding for a barrier designed to prevent intruders from escaping.

Gen'yō ordered the construction of the Wall of the Divine Kingdom, a vast defensive system designed to seal the Land of Earth against invasion and space-time techniques. The wall activated successfully, disrupting space-time abilities across the Shinobi World, and Gen'yō prepared to arm the people within his newly secured territory.

• Gen'yō approved Uchiha Inabi's three-layer wall design and demanded that it be completed within a month.
• Gen'yō raised the budget to three hundred billion, conscripted two hundred thousand workers, and ordered fifty thousand engineering puppets produced.
• Gen'yō used his Crystal Release Kekkei Genkai Seed to raise the energy towers, while workers and construction teams rapidly built the wall and launched its satellites.
• Inabi activated the wall, creating a golden canopy that locked down space-time across the Divine Kingdom.
• Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God coordinates failed, Pain's connection to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path weakened, and the masked man could no longer use Kamui.
• Gen'yō declared the territory a cage and said he would arm its people.

Fugaku equipped Uchiha clan members of all ages and roles with specialized armor, transforming the clan into a futuristic army. After the Uchiha’s overwhelming military exercise stunned Ōnoki and Iwagakure’s leaders, Gen'yō promised Obito a unique set of divine armaments.

• Fugaku fitted Uchiha Tetsuya with Tengu Type One armor and sent him to train with his new equipment.
• Thousands of Uchiha received armor tailored to their combat roles, while children and retired clan members received lightweight protective gear.
• Gen'yō held a large-scale military exercise on the plains outside the former Iwagakure, where five thousand armored Uchiha demonstrated overwhelming firepower and mobility.
• Ōnoki watched the exercise with Kitsuchi and concluded that the Uchiha army’s power had been built with money, while feeling relieved he had chosen to kneel.
• Gen'yō told an excited Obito that mass-produced armor was not worthy of him and promised to show him custom-made divine armaments.

Gen'yō gave Obito the Void God battle armor, which greatly enhanced his Kamui abilities and let him attack through the Kamui dimension. A system alert revealed that Hiruzen Sarutobi and the other Konoha elders were using the Uchiha stone tablet to summon Madara Uchiha, and Gen'yō prepared to intervene.

• Obito marveled at the Void God armor as Gen'yō explained its energy reactor, spatial defense, and Kamui Spears.
• Obito put on the armor and tested its enhanced Kamui, then used the Kamui Spears to pierce the laboratory walls.
• Obito boasted that the armor made him invincible, but Gen'yō saw a system alert about a dangerous ritual beneath Naka Shrine.
• The alert identified Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Madara Uchiha as targets of the ritual.
• Gen'yō told Obito that their first live combat test would be attending a funeral and set his sights on Konoha.

Gen'yō mobilized the Uchiha army after learning that Hiruzen Sarutobi and others planned to summon Madara Uchiha. The army assembled in the Land of Earth, where Gen'yō announced that Shisui and Itachi would receive a final evolution before they faced the legend.

• Gen'yō learned that Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, Mitakado Homura, and Madara Uchiha were the targets of a system warning, and he ordered Obito to mobilize the Uchiha forces.
• Gen'yō ordered Ōnoki to bring Iwagakure's Jonin and above to Divine Might Square to witness the coming battle.
• Five thousand Uchiha warriors arrived at the square in under three minutes, astonishing Ōnoki and the assembled Iwagakure ninja.
• Ōnoki asked Kitsuchi how long Iwagakure could withstand the Uchiha army, and Kitsuchi answered that they might not survive a single charge.
• Gen'yō told Ōnoki that the Uchiha's strength was still insufficient and promised Shisui and Itachi a final evolution before they departed.

Gen'yō unveiled the Bloodline Awakening Pool, intending to overcome the Uchiha's bodily limits and prepare them to defeat Madara Uchiha. Ōnoki realized the pool could let Gen'yō mass-produce Sage Bodies, while the Uchiha prepared to march on Konoha.

• Ōnoki warned Kitsuchi that the Uchiha's united army had ended the old order of the Five Great Shinobi Villages and that Iwagakure would have to adapt to Uchiha rule.
• Gen'yō assigned Itachi and Shisui to lead the main force against Konoha and ordered Obito to seal the battlefield against Madara's space-time techniques.
• Gen'yō told Fugaku to handle logistics and explained that ordinary military strength could not defeat Madara, whose Hashirama cells, Sage Body, and regeneration made him exceptionally powerful.
• Gen'yō summoned the World Tree's life core and opened the Bloodline Awakening Pool facility in the Divine Martial Square.
• A golden pool of life energy and a chakra-crystal lotus rose from the ground, leaving Ōnoki to suspect that Gen'yō planned to give Uchiha clansmen Sage Bodies.