Chapter Summaries

Hongshi created a mask that granted him the Nuclear Ninja Village’s unique Sage Mode, demonstrating overwhelming power as Mizuki and Zetsu watched from across the mountain. Mizuki promised to continue developing his Beast Seal Transformation troops to conquer the Land of Rivers.

• Takuden and Shikin Shinma encountered Hongshi, Fūjin, and Raijin, then stood down after Ranmaru fed them Super Military Rations Pills.
• Sōretsu successfully refined Senjutsu Chakra, while Ujin struggled with Sage Transformation before gradually regaining control of his altered body.
• Hongshi shaped compressed Natural Energy and chakra into a skull-like mask as Kendon recorded his work and Ranmaru explained what he could see.
• Hongshi put on the mask, entered the Nuclear Ninja Village’s Sage Mode, and cracked Purple Gold Mountain with his roar.
• Mizuki and his allies watched from across the mountain, and Mizuki told Zetsu that his Beast Seal Transformation serum was nearing its final stage.

Kyōai organized the surrendered miners into teams while Naruto returned to Konoha after complaining that his dreams of his parents kept him awake. Shino arrived and talked Hongshi into helping him develop his insect techniques, and they headed into the mine to find Kendon.

• Kyōai assigned the miners to teams to extract sea stone, purple gold, and yellow iron ore.
• Naruto told Hongshi and Rock Lee that his parents had been appearing in his dreams and teaching him techniques, then used Flying Thunder God to return to Konoha.
• Shino surprised Hongshi and spoke at length before asking him to help invent a new technique.
• Hongshi suggested Shino consult Kendon about evolving his insects, and the two entered the mine.
• Kendon felt a chill while testing the beastman sealed in an ice sphere.

Zetsu revealed that he had helped Mizuki develop Beast Seal Transformation, while Sōretsu and the others completed their training and decided to bring the surviving Purple Gold Clan members into the Nuclear Ninja Village. After Ujin and Sōretsu failed to hurt Hongshi with their strongest attacks, the group headed back to the gold mine.

• Zetsu told Mizuki and the others that Beast Seal Transformation using Uzumaki Clan cells had succeeded, though only one in three hundred test subjects survived, and ordered them to leave before fighting.
• Sōretsu safely entered Perfect Sage Mode, while Kendon learned how to form a durable sage mask and Ujin completed his Sage Mode training.
• Takuden and Shikin Shinma asked to join the Nuclear Ninja Village and seek revenge for the Purple Gold Clan, and Hongshi accepted them on the condition that they find the people who had fled.
• Ujin used Nuclear Ninja Secret Sword: Wind Scar against Hongshi, but his sword broke without harming him, and Hongshi fell asleep before praising the strike.
• Sōretsu attacked Hongshi with Nuclear Ninja Secret Sword: Meido Zangetsuha, but he mistook her for practicing fly-cutting, then led the group back to the gold mine.

Kyōai led a council meeting about Mizuki’s beastmen and decided to wait for Kendon’s research before choosing how to respond. Kyōai sent Temari and Choji to warn their villages and then offered to show them their welcome gifts.

• Sōretsu reported that most factions south of Katabami Gold Mine had submitted and that Mizuki’s technique transformed people into powerful beastmen.
• Temari reacted angrily when she learned Orochimaru might be connected to Mizuki’s technique and urged Kyōai to request reinforcements.
• Kyōai argued that Mizuki was likely a pawn and that the Land of Rivers might expose a major flaw in his technique.
• Kyōai told Temari and Choji to send Ninja Hawks with information about the beastmen and prepare border defenses.
• Kyōai offered to show Temari and Choji the welcome gifts Kendon had prepared.

Kendon showed Shino how genetic mutation could create powerful kikaichū and proposed working together to develop them. After Shino agreed to Kendon's research terms, they used his insects to suppress the red-haired beastman as the creature began to break free.

• Hongshi and Shino found Kendon conducting experiments on four beastmen sealed inside ice spheres in the mine.
• Shino sensed that the beastmen were alive and showed Kendon his Aburame kikaichū, while Hongshi fled in disgust.
• Kendon mutated a kikaichū into a larger, white insect with Lightning Release chakra and explained his plans to breed stronger insects.
• Shino agreed to collaborate with Kendon on the condition that he controlled how far their experiments went, and Kendon asked to keep one offspring from each specimen.
• A crack appeared in the red-haired beastman's ice sphere, so Shino sent tens of thousands of kikaichū inside to consume its chakra and quell its rampage.

Kyōai showed Temari, Kankuro, and Choji the Nuclear Ninja Village’s technological ninja tools and gave each of them a custom-made weapon. Hongshi saw the Zaku Type One and demanded a Gundam, but Kyōai said the village could not make one.

• Kyōai showed Temari the Great Sickle Weasel Fan, which used Chakra Furnaces to release Ninjutsu, and Temari tested its Dragon Fire Technique.
• Kyōai introduced the Zaku Type One, and Kankuro controlled the metal puppet as its cylinders let it fly.
• Kankuro agreed to give Lord Shelin feedback about the Zaku Type One, which could run at maximum output for only two hours.
• Kyōai gave Choji bracers equipped with Chakra Furnaces for Lightning Release Chakra Mode and the Hardening Technique.
• Hongshi rushed toward the Zaku Type One and demanded one of his own, then lamented that he wanted a Gundam when Kyōai explained its size limits.

Temari received word that an unidentified Armored Army had attacked the Land of Wind, so Kyōai and several allies flew with her to provide support. With most of them gone, Zetsu left to delay them while Mizuki prepared to continue his Perfect Beast Seal Transformation plan.

• Samon crashed onto Hongshi while delivering a message that the Land of Wind's coast had suffered a severe attack by an unidentified Armored Army.
• Kyōai agreed to support Sunagakure, gathered Blue Bird flying ninja tools, and departed with Temari, Kankuro, Choji, Shino, and Hongshi.
• The six flew toward the Land of Wind as Temari wondered whether the others could help, and Kyōai assured her that Hongshi was strong.
• After they left, Zetsu and Mizuki emerged near the gold mine, and Zetsu said he would follow the group and buy Mizuki time.
• Mizuki promised to complete the Perfect Beast Seal Transformation, and Zetsu threatened to devour him if he failed before disappearing underground.

Gaara and the Sand Ninja struggled to repel a seemingly endless armored force attacking the Land of Wind coast. Temari and Kankuro arrived with advanced equipment from Nuclear Ninja Village, turning back the bombardment, while Hongshi made a reckless landing in the sand.

• Gaara exhausted himself defending the Sand Ninja from the warship’s bombardment, and Baki urged him to retreat and seek Konoha’s help.
• Gaara ordered the Sand Ninja to fall back while he prepared to use the Feigning Sleep Technique to attack the warship.
• Temari arrived and destroyed most of the incoming shells with her Wind Release: Dragon Fire Great Sickle Weasel technique.
• Kankuro joined Gaara with reinforcements and used Zaku Type One, alongside Crow and Black Ant, to clear the remaining shells from the sky.
• Kankuro revealed that Nuclear Ninja Village had given him the advanced puppet as an alliance gift, astonishing Baki.
• Hongshi dropped from the sky toward the beach despite Kyōai’s warning and plunged several meters into the sand.

Kyōai and the others fought off the armored soldiers attacking Sunagakure’s beach, while Kyōai prepared to strike their steel warship. Temari launched him toward the ship, and he began a powerful sword technique as the Lord God objected.

• Hongshi emerged from the sand, shrugged off the armored soldiers’ attacks, and went to treat the wounded while Choji and Shino fought the soldiers.
• Choji crushed armored soldiers with Human Bullet Tank, and Shino’s mutated Kikaichū infiltrated their armor and destroyed them.
• Baki told Temari to attack the steel warship, and Kyōai promised to handle it himself.
• Kyōai revealed his eight arms, summoned nine chakra-coated swords, and asked Temari to launch him with her Great Sickle Weasel Fan.
• Temari sent Kyōai flying toward the warship, where he began Nuclear Ninja Secret Sword: All Together, Three Thousand, Thousandfold World, prompting the Lord God to object.

Kyōai destroyed the armored soldiers’ steel battleship and confronted its leaders, Kamira and Ranke, but Rock Lee mistook him for a monster and kicked him into the sea. After Ranke recovered and attacked, Lee mistook Kyōai for a monster again and sent him flying a second time, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Kyōai used his secret sword technique to split the steel battleship in two, disabling the armored soldiers and revealing the people who had controlled them.
• Kyōai questioned the survivors, and Kamira and Ranke confronted him before Ranke transformed and attacked.
• Rock Lee arrived and struck Ranke into the ship, then mistook eight-armed Kyōai for a monster and kicked him into the sea.
• Ranke healed, grew larger, and smashed the ship’s bow while Rock Lee helped Kyōai out of the water.
• Rock Lee mistook Kyōai for a monster again and punched him, sending him flying while the Sand Ninja watched.

Kyōai’s team captured the steel battleship and let Kamira and Ranke escape so Kashirō could follow them to their base and uncover their technology. As Shino’s healing kikaichū treated Kyōai, the Sand Ninja discussed strengthening their alliance with Nuclear Ninja Village to counter the Land of Bears.

• Rock Lee called for help when he spotted hostages aboard the sinking battleship, and Kashirō froze the sea and trapped the vessel in a massive ice prison.
• Kamira escaped with Ranke, but Kyōai revealed that he had secretly placed a sensory formula on Ranke so Kashirō could track them to their base.
• Kyōai explained that he wanted to obtain the battleship’s technology, and Kashirō followed Kamira and Ranke through the sea.
• Shino healed Kyōai with a mutated kikaichū, while Kyōai, Rock Lee, and Choji began pushing the battleship back to shore to save its occupants.
• Temari and Baki discussed deepening Sunagakure’s ties with Nuclear Ninja Village, while Gaara approached Hongshi as he treated the wounded.

Hongshi agreed to help Gaara suppress Shukaku so he could sleep, while Kyōai asked Sunagakure to give the Nuclear Ninja Village the captured steel battleship. The negotiations were interrupted when someone ambushed Gaara.

• Hongshi healed Sakyū’s severed hand, and Sakyū mistook Kazemaru’s sword attack for a new ability of the armored soldiers.
• Gaara asked Hongshi to help him sleep by suppressing Shukaku, and Hongshi agreed.
• Kyōai asked Baki for permission to take the frozen steel battleship to the Nuclear Ninja Village, and Baki went to consult Gaara.
• Kyōai told Temari, Kankuro, Choji, and Shino that he ranked in the middle among the Thirteen Nuclear Guardian Pillars, below Hōryūsai and Zenhō.
• Someone ambushed Gaara with the Eight Trigrams Seal.

Kashirō followed Kamira and Ranke to Haidō’s hidden fortress in the Land of Tea and learned that their fleet had been defeated by the Land of Wind with help from the Nuclear Ninja Village. Haidō ordered the fortress to move south toward the Land of Spring while Temujin went to investigate the Nuclear Ninja, unaware that Kashirō’s clone had infiltrated the fortress.

• Kashirō used Ice Release: Lens to conceal himself as he followed Kamira to a fortress suspended inside a rift.
• Kashirō sent a Shadow Clone into the fortress to gather intelligence while Kamira and Ranke reported their defeat to Haidō.
• Kamira explained that a powerful ninja from the Nuclear Ninja Village had cut a warship in half, and that two Konoha ninja had also appeared.
• Haidō ordered the warships and fortress to relocate, sent Temujin to investigate the Nuclear Ninja, and made finding the Gelel Stone vein his priority.
• Fugai suggested occupying the Land of Spring, and Haidō approved the plan as the fortress began moving south.

Hongshi sealed Shukaku inside Gaara with an Eight Trigrams Seal, allowing Gaara and Shukaku to communicate while protecting the Sand Ninja. Gaara returned to the beach and explained that Hongshi was an ally, while Kashirō followed Temujin toward Konoha and Zetsu watched the advancing fortress.

• Kashirō learned the fortress's layout from his Shadow Clone and followed Temujin and several armored soldiers toward Konoha, while Zetsu emerged from hiding to observe the fortress.
• Hongshi struck Gaara with an Eight Trigrams Seal, and Temari and Baki attacked him when they thought he had ambushed the Kazekage.
• Inside the sealed space, Gaara told Shukaku that he wanted its power to protect the Sand Ninja and had always considered it his companion.
• Hongshi entered the sealed space, explained that he had strengthened the seal and enabled Gaara and Shukaku to communicate, and assured Gaara he could sleep safely.
• Gaara stopped Temari and Baki, explained that Hongshi was their ally, and confirmed that Hongshi had sealed Shukaku.
• Hongshi grabbed Temari's summon Kamatari and broke its sickle, then Temari dismissed the summon and called the battle over.

Kyōai and Gaara negotiated Sunagakure’s transfer of a powerful chakra ore and a wrecked warship in exchange for the Nuclear Ninja Village prioritizing chakra vehicles. The Nuclear Ninja’s airship then crashed into the sea, and Captain Jack Sparrow’s absurd pirate crew emerged after Hongshi rescued them.

• Kyōai explained that the Nuclear Ninja Village wanted the warship’s power source to advance its technology and develop chakra vehicles.
• Gaara offered the warship and glowing ore in exchange for the Nuclear Ninja Village prioritizing chakra vehicles to help Sunagakure’s struggling economy, and Kyōai agreed.
• Kyōai sent a signal, and a flaming airship arrived, plunged into the sea, and disappeared beneath the water.
• Hongshi used Water Release to lift the sunken ship out of the sea and return it to the surface.
• Captain Jack Sparrow and the Titanic Pirates appeared, prompting Kyōai to leave in embarrassment while Gaara joked that the Nuclear Ninja Village should join Sunagakure.

Kyōai secured Gaara’s warship for Nuclear Ninja Village, and Captain Jack’s crew prepared to tow it back to the Land of Spring. The Titanic Pirates launched with a Coup de Burst and disappeared from the Sand Ninja’s sight.

• Rock Lee recognized Captain Jack and kicked him into the sand before learning he was now part of Nuclear Ninja Village.
• Gaara questioned Kyōai about arranging the transfer in advance, then agreed to give him the wrecked warship.
• Captain Jack identified himself as one of Nuclear Ninja Village’s Seven Ninja Warlords Under the Shadow and ordered his crew to tow the warship home.
• Zori corrected Captain Jack’s mistaken directions, while Waraji and the engine crew prepared the Titanic’s Chakra Furnace.
• Waraji activated the Coup de Burst, and the Titanic sped away while towing the larger warship.

Captain Jack and the Titanic fought three steel warships in the Land of Spring’s territorial waters, using the ship’s chakra-powered engines and weapons to evade and return fire. The Titanic suffered hull damage and ran low on energy as Jack prepared a Gatling gun to face the third warship.

• Captain Jack ordered the crew to battle after three steel warships opened fire, and cannon blasts killed several crew members.
• Jack stopped Zori from using ninjutsu aboard the ship and ordered the crew to cut loose the sinking wreck they had been towing.
• Zori directed the Titanic’s chakra-powered thrusters through sharp maneuvers, allowing it to dodge cannon fire and attack the first warship with armor-piercing shells.
• The Titanic exchanged fire with the second warship, taking hull damage as its Chakra Furnace energy fell to twenty-seven percent.
• Captain Jack drew a Gatling gun while armored soldiers advanced from the third warship, and Zori ordered every weapon to fire.

Captain Jack and the Titanic Pirates fought to capture three experimental steel warships without destroying them, using smoke and a high-heat chakra attack to board one. The combat team battled Kamira’s armored soldiers inside the ship while Jack sensed their progress.

• The Titanic’s Chakra Furnace neared its limit as Captain Jack fought off armored soldiers and refused to use the Kakuhei Cannon, which would destroy the warships.
• Jack ordered the crew to fire smoke shells, then had them melt a hole in the nearest steel warship with Chakra High-Heat Jet.
• The Titanic rammed the damaged warship, and Captain Jack sent ten combat team members through the opening.
• Kamira transformed into a half-bat form and sent more than fifty armored soldiers to stop the combat team from reaching the control console.
• The combat team fought the armored soldiers with chakra-enhanced weapons while Jack sensed their progress, and Zori told him that a cranky old man claiming to be the Third Raikage had trained them.

Kamira’s signal brought two more steel warships and Haidō’s Gelel Fortress to confront Captain Jack’s crew, who remained unnervingly relaxed. A violin song heralded the arrival of the Nuclear Ninja Village’s enormous Moby Dick, leaving the standoff poised to escalate.

• The combat team fought the armored soldiers aboard Kamira’s warship until Captain Jack used special chains to capture Kamira and knock her unconscious after she sent a signal.
• Captain Jack and Zori drank tea on the Titanic while Kamira’s signal summoned Fugai and Ranke with more armored soldiers.
• Fugai announced that Haidō’s Gelel Fortress had arrived, while Captain Jack and Zori casually discussed claiming rooms aboard it.
• Haidō emerged from the fortress and invited the samurai and ninja to join his Gelel Army, but a violin performance interrupted his speech.
• The World Kakuhei · Moby Dick arrived, carrying nine people and several children wearing Nuclear Ninja Village Forehead Protectors.

Shirofukuji Kakuhei and the Nuclear Ninja Village arrived aboard the Moby Dick to confront Haidō, but their chaotic infighting nearly turned into an accidental bombardment. Haidō secretly prepared the Gelel Fortress to attack, while the Titanic Pirates reached the scene after capturing Kamira’s warship.

• Shirofukuji Kakuhei arrived with the Nuclear Ninja Village’s fighters and taunted Haidō, while Yuhan introduced their force and demanded Haidō surrender or reincarnate.
• Kimimaro and Jūgo discussed the thermonuclear bomb life-forms sealed inside them and the changes the village had made to their bodies and minds.
• Haidō offered to cooperate, but Shirofukuji ordered the Gelel Fortress destroyed, and the crew nearly fired its nuclear cannons before Kimimaro knocked out Jōen Shindō.
• Sōsuke criticized Yuhan for bringing the elders, while Ranke and Fugai warned Haidō that the nuclear ninjas were dangerous.
• Haidō ordered his forces to maximize the Gelel Stone’s energy and prepare for battle, revealing that his negotiations were meant to buy time.
• The Titanic Pirates finished capturing Kamira’s warship and, seeing Shirofukuji and the elders on the Moby Dick, decided to retreat.