Recaps

Uchiha Xin ambushed Pain’s Six Paths during Konoha’s invasion and destroyed Animal Path with one punch before killing Naraka Path on another battlefield. Nagato realized Xin was an overwhelming threat as Xin moved on toward Preta Path.

• Uchiha Xin appeared before Animal Path as Pain’s six bodies prepared to search for the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Animal Path summoned a giant crab and attacked Xin with Wild Bubble Wave, but Xin vaporized the bubbles and destroyed the crab and Animal Path with Evening Elephant: First Step.
• Nagato learned that Animal Path had been destroyed instantly by Uchiha Xin and admitted that he had underestimated him.
• Nagato then lost contact with Naraka Path, whom Xin had killed by punching through his chest.
• Uchiha Xin vanished from the cheering Konoha ninjas and headed toward Preta Path as it prepared to absorb their ninjutsu.

Uchiha Xin easily defeated five of Nagato’s Six Paths of Pain, leaving only Deva Path Pain standing. After Xin urged Nagato to retreat, Deva Path Pain attacked him with Banshō Ten'in.

• Uchiha Xin destroyed the Preta Path with a kick and shattered the Human Path with a punch, leaving Nagato unable to react to his speed.
• Xin joined Kakashi and quickly sliced the Asura Path into pieces with lightning release chakra, leaving Kakashi stunned.
• Xin chose to spare the Deva Path because he needed Nagato’s Rinnegan and told Nagato to retreat from Konoha.
• Deva Path Pain rejected Xin’s offer and declared himself a god, but Xin sent him crashing through several ruined buildings with one kick.
• Deva Path Pain rose from the rubble and used Banshō Ten'in to pull Xin toward him.

Uchiha Xin destroyed Deva Path Pain and appeared in Nagato and Konan’s hidden cave, where he easily stopped their attacks. Enraged by Xin’s dismissal of his powers, Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Uchiha Xin overpowered Deva Path Pain with gravity and destroyed him with a Sage Art: Rasenshuriken, leaving Kakashi stunned.
• In a hidden cave, Nagato realized Uchiha Xin had destroyed all six Paths of Pain, and Konan urged him to retreat.
• Uchiha Xin appeared before Nagato and Konan, caught Konan’s paper spear, and prevented her from controlling or detonating it.
• Nagato attacked Uchiha Xin with black rods, but Xin casually crushed one to powder and told Nagato to give up.
• Nagato, furious at Xin’s words, summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

Uchiha Xin overwhelmed Nagato by pinning the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and drawing chakra from its sealed beasts, then survived Konan’s massive explosion. He revealed a Rinnegan more advanced than Nagato’s and left Nagato reeling by claiming both their eyes were products of evolution.

• Uchiha Xin used Sage Art: Gate of the Great God to pin the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to the ground.
• Uchiha Xin opened four of the statue’s eyes and drew out the origin chakra of the Four-Tails, Five-Tails, Six-Tails, and Seven-Tails, severing Nagato’s control.
• Konan threatened Uchiha Xin with six hundred billion Explosive Tags, giving Nagato time to dismiss the statue before ordering her to detonate them.
• Uchiha Xin used a spatial vortex to absorb the explosions and appeared unharmed before Nagato and Konan.
• Nagato recognized the advanced Rinnegan power in Uchiha Xin’s eyes, and Uchiha Xin said that both his eyes and Nagato’s were products of evolution.

Uchiha Xin exposed the truth that Nagato’s Rinnegan had been implanted and demonstrated how the eyes evolved from a Sharingan. Shaken by the proof, Nagato accepted that he was being used and put Konan into a coma as he pleaded for her safety.

• Nagato rejected Uchiha Xin’s claim that the Rinnegan had evolved from the Uchiha bloodline, while Konan defended Nagato as the chosen one.
• Uchiha Xin explained the Sharingan’s stages of evolution and revealed that Sasuke Uchiha had awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan using Itachi’s eyes.
• Uchiha Xin transformed his eyes step by step from ordinary eyes into a Tensei Rinnegan, showing Nagato and Konan the truth of the Rinnegan’s origins.
• Nagato recalled how his eyes drained his chakra and life force, realized they had been implanted, and concluded that he was being used as a vessel.
• Nagato put Konan into a deep coma with genjutsu, then gently stroked her hair and asked Uchiha Xin not to hurt her.

Nagato agreed to become Uchiha Xin’s pawn and left Konan behind as a hostage, then concealed his defeat from Obito. As Black Zetsu began considering a replacement for Nagato, Uchiha Xin found himself facing Hinata, Kazahana Koyuki, Sara, and Hanabi Hyuga in the Moon Palace.

• Nagato begged Uchiha Xin to spare Konan and make her forget the Akatsuki and her suffering, then offered to cooperate and fled, leaving her behind.
• Nagato returned to his underground cave gravely weakened and lied to Obito that Konoha’s forces had defeated the Six Paths of Pain through numbers and traps.
• Obito believed Nagato’s story and said he would kill Uchiha Xin next time, while Black Zetsu suspected Nagato was hiding something.
• White Zetsu reported that Sasuke’s Team Taka had captured Matatabi but failed to capture the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, and Obito went to meet Sasuke.
• Black Zetsu concluded that Nagato might not live much longer and decided to prepare another host for the Rinnegan.
• At the Moon Palace, Uchiha Xin stood helplessly before Hinata, Kazahana Koyuki, Sara, and Hanabi Hyuga.

Uchiha Xin brought the unconscious Konan to the Moon Palace, where he calmed the jealous girls by telling them a tragic account of her past. After returning to Konoha, he learned that Sasuke Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki had attacked Kumogakure, and Tsunade appointed him captain of the Hokage's guard for the upcoming Five Kage Summit.

• Kazahana Koyuki, Hanabi, Hinata, and Sara confronted Uchiha Xin about bringing the unconscious Konan back to the Moon Palace.
• Uchiha Xin told the girls that Konan had suffered greatly and claimed he had rescued her out of humanitarian concern, winning their sympathy.
• Uchiha Xin left Konan in the girls' care and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to Konoha.
• Tsunade told Uchiha Xin that Sasuke Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki had attacked Kumogakure, abducted the Two-Tails Jinchūriki, and nearly killed Killer B.
• Tsunade appointed Uchiha Xin captain of the Hokage's guard and ordered him to accompany her to the Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron in seven days.

Uchiha Xin agreed to escort Tsunade to the Five Kage Summit, then used four tailed beasts' chakra to create a powerful Sun Shadow Clone above the Moon Palace. After learning it needed Minato Namikaze's Nine-Tails chakra to reach its final form, he planned to retrieve it before the journey to the Land of Iron, while the women decided to erase Konan's memories and give her a new identity.

• Uchiha Xin agreed to serve as Tsunade's sole guard at the Five Kage Summit and persuaded her to leave Konoha's forces behind.
• Uchiha Xin spent three days cultivating the Four-Tails, Five-Tails, Six-Tails, and Seven-Tails chakra, creating a chakra sun above the Moon Palace.
• Uchiha Itachi saw the chakra sun and recognized its power as comparable to a living Ten-Tails.
• The system told Uchiha Xin that the Sun Shadow Clone needed the Yin Release Nine-Tails chakra sealed inside Minato Namikaze, so Xin planned to visit the Uzumaki Clan's Mask Storage Temple.
• Hinata, Kazahana Koyuki, Sara, and Hanabi Hyuga told Uchiha Xin they would erase Konan's memories of the Akatsuki and the Land of Rain and give her a new identity.

Uchiha Xin used Tsukuyomi: Illusion World to give Konan fabricated memories of a loving life with her new sisters and with him, awakening her and making her his fifth dependent. The next morning, Hanabi confronted him angrily.

• Uchiha Xin and the girls rejected his plan to make himself Konan’s hero and designed her new memories in the Illusion World.
• Uchiha Xin used Tsukuyomi: Illusion World to immerse Konan in a fabricated life that spanned more than ten years.
• Uchiha Xin realized his illusion technique had the potential to create reincarnation as Konan’s brows relaxed and she smiled.
• Konan awakened, recognized the Moon Palace and the girls as her home, and looked at Uchiha Xin with deep affection.
• The system announced that Konan was Uchiha Xin’s fifth dependent and that all five dependent slots were filled.
• The next morning, Hanabi stormed into Uchiha Xin’s room and called him a pervert brother-in-law.

Uchiha Xin disciplined Hanabi for trying to spy on him, then found the records on undoing the Reaper Death Seal and went to the Mask Storage Temple to summon the Reaper. He prepared a captured missing-nin to wear the Reaper Mask, but the ritual had not yet begun.

• Uchiha Xin spanked Hanabi after she confronted him for sealing her out of his room and trying to spy on him.
• Uchiha Xin searched Konoha's classified archives and learned that Minato Namikaze had sealed the Nine-Tails' Yin Release chakra and his own soul inside the Reaper.
• Uchiha Xin memorized the instructions for undoing the Reaper Death Seal and burned the scroll.
• Uchiha Xin retrieved the Reaper Mask from the Uzumaki Clan's Mask Storage Temple.
• Uchiha Xin brought a captured missing-nin to the shrine and told him to perform hand seals and put on the mask.

Uchiha Xin summoned the Reaper to free Minato Namikaze’s soul, but the Reaper broke free of his control and attacked him. Xin’s physical and chakra attacks passed through it, leaving him to evade its space-cutting strikes while searching for a way to fight it.

• Uchiha Xin used genjutsu to make the missing-nin wear the Reaper Mask and perform the seals for Reaper Death Seal: Release.
• Uchiha Xin ordered the missing-nin to cut open his belly, but the Reaper seized and devoured the missing-nin’s soul instead.
• The Reaper slashed at Uchiha Xin, cutting through the Mask Storage Temple and the woods, while Xin dodged the strike.
• Uchiha Xin used Shinra Tensei, Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon, and Sage Art: Lightning Dragon, but each attack passed through the Reaper.
• Uchiha Xin evaded the Reaper’s repeated spatial slashes with Divine Flash and judged that it had no physical form or independent intelligence.

Uchiha Xin fought a sentient Reaper that could suppress spatial abilities and wielded the Rinnegan. After the Reaper reacted with surprise to Xin’s Tensei Rinnegan, Xin used a new technique to trap it.

• Uchiha Xin discovered that his attacks could not harm the Reaper, which fought with intelligence and killing intent.
• The Reaper formed a barrier that sealed Divine Flash and heavily suppressed Kamui Intangibility, forcing Xin to dodge with physical strength.
• Uchiha Xin saw the Rinnegan in the Reaper’s eyes and demanded to know its origin, but the Reaper attacked without answering.
• Uchiha Xin activated his Tensei Rinnegan, and the Reaper made a startled sound and spoke.
• Uchiha Xin used Tensei: Yin-Yang Cage, causing black Truth-Seeking Orb rods to appear around the Reaper.

Uchiha Xin trapped the Reaper in a Yin-Yang Cage and discovered it had no soul, rendering his Tensei: Rinne ineffective. After Uchiha Xin identified it as the Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the Reaper shattered the cage and revealed its identity.

• Uchiha Xin sealed the Reaper inside a Yin-Yang Cage, forcing its phasing ability to fail and its body to become solid.
• The Reaper unleashed powerful chakra and Senjutsu energy, cracking the cage as Uchiha Xin tried to suppress it.
• Uchiha Xin used Tensei: Rinne to seize the Reaper's soul, but the technique found nothing inside its body.
• Uchiha Xin examined the Reaper and concluded it had no soul, then recognized its abilities as the source of Nagato's Six Paths of Pain system.
• Uchiha Xin identified the Reaper as Hagoromo Otsutsuki, and the Reaper shattered the cage before admitting who it was.

Uchiha Xin accused the Sage of Six Paths of secretly manipulating Naruto and Sasuke’s growth, then rejected his offer of judgment and claimed they could work together. The Sage declared Xin an uncontrollable anomaly who had to be erased, prompting Xin to glimpse a secret about Madara Uchiha.

• Uchiha Xin mocked the Sage of Six Paths’ claim that he had spent a thousand years protecting the Shinobi World.
• Uchiha Xin argued that the Sage had secretly empowered Naruto and Sasuke, and said their Asura and Indra chakra contained no reincarnated consciousness of its own.
• Uchiha Xin said his suspicions were confirmed when he encountered the Sage’s Reaper puppet, and proposed they work together to maintain order.
• The Sage of Six Paths rejected the proposal and declared that Uchiha Xin had to be erased as an uncontrollable variable.
• Uchiha Xin wondered why the Sage had treated Madara Uchiha differently and suddenly sensed a hidden secret in the Shinobi World’s history.

Uchiha Xin used his enhanced Yin-Yang Cage and Tensei Rinnegan to overpower the Sage of Six Paths’ Reaper puppet and seize the consciousness controlling it. The Sage of Six Paths warned Xin that he would return, while struggling to protect his hidden secrets.

• Uchiha Xin concluded that the Sage of Six Paths had secretly enabled Madara Uchiha’s plans and used Black Zetsu to advance his own design.
• Uchiha Xin confronted the Reaper and trapped it in a far stronger Tensei: Yin-Yang Cage.
• Uchiha Xin used Reincarnation: Absolute Control to pull the Sage of Six Paths’ consciousness out of the Reaper.
• The Sage of Six Paths failed to resist and warned Uchiha Xin that he would not succeed next time.

Uchiha Xin took control of the Reaper after the Sage of Six Paths destroyed his remaining consciousness inside it. The system revealed that the Reaper was a naturally formed origin life-form and hinted that four others remained, but it withheld their locations and identities.

• The Sage of Six Paths detonated his consciousness fragments inside the Reaper, severing Uchiha Xin’s connection to him and leaving the Reaper powerless.
• Uchiha Xin dispelled the Yin-Yang Cage and used Reincarnation: Absolute Control to take control of the Reaper’s body.
• Uchiha Xin sensed the Reaper’s immense vitality, and the system identified it as a naturally nurtured life-form containing pure world origin power that could strengthen the Eight Gates Released Formation.
• The system refused to reveal the Sage of Six Paths’ true strength, but answered that he was “dead, but also not dead.”
• The system confirmed that the Reaper was one of the Sage of Six Paths’ puppets and disclosed that four other origin life-form puppets remained in the Naruto Shinobi World.
• The system refused to disclose where the other four puppets were hidden or what they were.

Uchiha Xin deduced that the Sage of Six Paths planned to take Kaguya’s immortal body and absorb the Reaper puppet for a massive boost to his Eight Gates Released Formation proficiency. He left the ruins determined to hunt the Sage’s other hidden puppets, while his attempt to track Minato Namikaze’s soul to the Pure Land failed.

• Uchiha Xin concluded that the Sage of Six Paths had used primordial life-form puppets to manipulate Shinobi World history and intended to claim Kaguya’s body for true immortality.
• Uchiha Xin absorbed the Reaper puppet, gaining fifteen million Eight Gates Released Formation proficiency points from the system.
• Uchiha Xin vowed to find and absorb the four other primordial life-form puppets hidden in the Shinobi World.
• Uchiha Xin took the half of the Nine-Tails’ primordial chakra that he had found inside the Reaper and let Minato Namikaze’s drained soul dissipate.
• Uchiha Xin used his Tensei Rinnegan to search for the Pure Land, but Minato Namikaze’s soul vanished beyond his sight.

Uchiha Xin completed the Moon Palace’s chakra sun and gained a pure-chakra Ten-Tails avatar, learning that his five retainers could safely become Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. Meanwhile, Obito confronted the weakened Nagato in his basement, where a black mass suddenly attacked from the ground.

• Uchiha Xin added the Yin Release Nine-Tails chakra to the Moon Palace sun, completing its defense system and triggering a surprise reward.
• The system gave Uchiha Xin a pure-chakra Ten-Tails avatar with chakra comparable to the true Ten-Tails, but no God Tree abilities.
• Uchiha Xin learned he could not mass-produce the avatar, but Hinata, Hanabi, Kazahana Koyuki, Sara, and Konan could safely become chakra Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Obito appeared in Nagato’s basement and demanded to know when the Six Paths of Pain would be ready, pressing him to resume the Nine-Tails capture plan.
• A black, tar-like mass erupted from the ground behind Nagato, startling him.

Obito and Black Zetsu captured Nagato and learned that his life was nearly over, so they planned to keep him alive long enough to use Rinne Rebirth. Obito left for the Five Kage Summit while Tsunade waited furiously for Uchiha Xin, who finally appeared two hours late.

• Black Zetsu ambushed Nagato, severed his chakra pathways, and immobilized him for Obito.
• Black Zetsu said Nagato had only seven or eight days to live, then explained that White Zetsu spores and Hashirama Cells could sustain him for three months.
• Obito ordered Black Zetsu to keep Nagato alive until he could perform Rinne Rebirth and dismissed Konan as no threat.
• Obito left for the Five Kage Summit, declaring that his plan had begun and refusing to retrieve a key item first.
• Tsunade grew furious as Uchiha Xin kept her and Shizune waiting two hours to leave for the summit.
• Uchiha Xin appeared in Tsunade's office casually, prompting her to shout his name.

Uchiha Xin teleported Tsunade and Shizune from Konoha to the Land of Iron, where they encountered the Fourth Raikage’s group. Killer B mistook Xin for an ally of Sasuke and the Akatsuki, then charged at him, and Xin prepared to meet the attack with a casual kick.

• Tsunade confronted Uchiha Xin over their delay, but he grabbed her and Shizune and teleported them from Konoha to the Land of Iron.
• Tsunade realized Xin had traveled several days’ distance in half a minute without using a pre-inscribed Flying Thunder God formula.
• Shizune spotted the Fourth Raikage, Killer B, Darui, and C approaching across the snowfield.
• Killer B recognized Uchiha Xin, blamed him for Sasuke’s attack on Kumogakure and Yugito’s abduction, and transformed into his Eight-Tails chakra cloak.
• The Fourth Raikage and Tsunade tried to calm Killer B, but he charged at Xin, who casually raised his leg to kick him.

Uchiha Xin effortlessly defeated Killer B, the Fourth Raikage, Darui, and C, then released a terrifying pressure that Gyuki compared to the Sage of Six Paths. The Raikage refused to back down and launched another attack at Xin.

• Uchiha Xin kicked Killer B through trees and into a hill, leaving him buried in snow and rubble.
• The Fourth Raikage attacked Uchiha Xin with Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop, but Xin kicked him away.
• Darui and C charged Xin, and he knocked both of them unconscious with two kicks.
• The Raikage accused Tsunade of provoking a war, while Uchiha Xin blamed the Kumogakure shinobi for attacking first.
• Uchiha Xin released an overwhelming pressure, and Gyuki warned Killer B that Xin was even more terrifying than the Sage of Six Paths.
• The Fourth Raikage ignored the danger and charged Uchiha Xin again with lightning chakra.

Uchiha Xin severed the Raikage’s right arm during a confrontation over Sasuke’s abduction of Yugito, but Tsunade reattached it so the Five Kage Summit could proceed. Hours later, the Five Kage gathered in the Land of Iron, wary of Xin’s immense power.

• Uchiha Xin cut through the Raikage’s Lightning Release Armor and severed his right arm with a lightning sword.
• Tsunade offered to reattach the Raikage’s arm, and he accepted; she restored it with medical ninjutsu.
• Killer B threatened Konoha over Sasuke’s capture of Yugito, but Tsunade blamed Kumogakure for failing to protect its Jinchūriki.
• The Raikage stopped Killer B and led the Kumogakure group away rather than continue the confrontation.
• Hours later, the Five Kage assembled at the summit and regarded Uchiha Xin with apprehension.

At the Five Kage Summit, Sasuke Uchiha stormed the hall and challenged Uchiha Xin instead of attacking the Kage. Uchiha Xin shattered Sasuke’s Susanoo with a single blow, but Sasuke refused to accept defeat and struck him with Amaterasu.

• Uchiha Xin waited through the summit until he sensed Obito and Sasuke approaching, then warned Shizune to stay alert.
• Sasuke Uchiha and Team Taka blasted through the hall’s stone wall and entered the summit.
• Sasuke ignored the Raikage and challenged Uchiha Xin, then attacked him with his third-form Susanoo.
• Uchiha Xin activated his Tensei Rinnegan and used a purple-gold Susanoo arm to shatter Sasuke’s Susanoo and send him crashing through three walls.
• Sasuke struggled up, insisted he was invincible, and ignited Amaterasu flames on Uchiha Xin.

Uchiha Xin overwhelmed Sasuke and Team Taka, then effortlessly destroyed Obito’s Wood Release and revealed that he knew about Obito’s secret plans. Obito lost his composure and unleashed a massive attack, which Uchiha Xin met with another repulsive force.

• Uchiha Xin erased Sasuke’s Amaterasu and severely injured him with a kick.
• Suigetsu, Jūgo, and Karin rushed to protect Sasuke, but Uchiha Xin blasted them away with repulsive force.
• Obito appeared to save Sasuke and attacked Uchiha Xin with Wood Release, but Uchiha Xin destroyed the wooden forest with Lightning Release and Super Shinra Tensei.
• Uchiha Xin appeared behind Obito and revealed that he knew about Obito’s plotting with Madara Uchiha and the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Obito panicked and raged after Uchiha Xin mocked him, then unleashed a massive Wood Release attack that Uchiha Xin met with repulsive force.

Uchiha Xin shattered Obito's Wood Release and pierced his heart by overcoming Kamui's intangibility, but Obito used Izanami to briefly disorient him and Kamui to send him far away. Obito restored his wound with Izanagi, claimed to be Madara Uchiha, and declared war on the Five Great Shinobi Villages.

• Obito realized Uchiha Xin could defeat him directly and demanded to know why he had been spared, revealing the Ten-Tails to the Five Kage.
• Uchiha Xin used lightning infused with Divine Flash's spatial laws to pierce Obito's chest despite his Kamui intangibility.
• Obito trapped Uchiha Xin in a brief Izanami illusion and transported him to a distant snowfield with Kamui, then used Izanagi to restore his fatal wound.
• Uchiha Xin recognized Izanami, realized he had been sent away deliberately, and chose to let Obito continue as a pawn.
• Obito told the Five Kage that he was Madara Uchiha and demanded the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.
• After the Raikage refused, Obito declared war on the Five Great Shinobi Villages.