Chapter Summaries

After killing Genji and exposing his plan to purge the Kekkei Genkai Clans, Mei Terumi joined Uchiha Yuan in offering them refuge with the Uchiha. The clan representatives agreed to leave Kirigakure, while Yuan and Kaguya prepared to gather the clans’ people and their bloodline abilities.

• Mei Terumi killed Genji after questioning his persecution of Kekkei Genkai ninja, and Yuan appeared to discuss Kirigakure’s future with her.
• Yuan used an illusion amplified by Nine-Tails Chakra to stop the fighting, and Mei Terumi revealed that Genji had planned to betray the Kekkei Genkai Clans after they helped overthrow the Third Mizukage.
• Yuan invited Kirigakure’s Kekkei Genkai Clans to join the Uchiha, and Mei Terumi agreed to leave the village with them.
• Several clan representatives accepted Yuan’s offer, and he instructed them to gather their people.
• Kaguya pointed out that the Kaguya Clan’s Shikotsumyaku and the Byakugan would make a substantial addition to their gains.

Yuan moved Kirigakure’s Kekkei Genkai clans to the Hidden Leaf Village and recruited Karin from Kusagakure. After his body collapsed while fusing bloodlines, he used Mangekyō tissue to recover and awakened the Tenseigan.

• Mei Terumi led Kirigakure’s remaining Kekkei Genkai clans to Yuan, who sent them toward the Hidden Leaf Village aboard Motoi’s Aircraft Carrier with Kaguya.
• Yuan found Karin being forced to heal Kusagakure ninjas by letting them bite her, gave her Nine-Tails Chakra, and waited while she took revenge for her mother.
• Karin left the hospital with Yuan, who later brought her and other Kekkei Genkai awakeners from smaller nations to the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Kabuto told Yuan that Black Zetsu’s Mangekyō tissue held powerful Yin-Yang and space-time properties, and Yuan found that it could grow into undiminished Mangekyō Sharingan.
• After three days of fusing bloodlines, Yuan’s body collapsed, so he merged the Mangekyō tissue into himself and recovered.
• Yuan discovered that his white eyes had awakened the Tenseigan after he fused Shikotsumyaku and the Byakugan.

Yuan investigated his newly awakened Tenseigan and intervened when two Kaguya Clan ninja caused trouble in Konoha. On the moon, Otsutsuki Tsuru considered creating a Tenseigan by taking the main family’s Byakugan, while Black Zetsu proposed experimenting on Deidara to replicate Kekkei Tōta.

• Yuan suspected that his Tenseigan awakening depended on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path genes and ordered Kabuto to study Black Zetsu’s Mangekyō tissue with the Baboon Sage assisting him.
• Two drunk Kaguya Clan members started a fight outside a Konoha izakaya and threw a bottle toward bystanders, but Yuan used his power to restore the bottle and spilled liquor before Shisui and Mei Terumi took them away.
• Yuan spoke with Hizashi Hyuga and sensed that the Otsutsuki on the moon had noticed his awakening.
• Otsutsuki Tsuru consulted a sinister voice in a vase, which advised him that only a Tenseigan could match Yuan’s and suggested taking the main family’s Byakugan to create one.
• At an Iwagakure meeting, Black Zetsu told Ōnoki that replicating Kekkei Tōta was feasible and identified Deidara as the experiment’s subject.

Ōnoki approved Black Zetsu’s plan to create artificial Dust Release ninja using Deidara, while Yuan began testing ways to awaken bloodlines among the clans under his authority. Yuan successfully awakened Itachi’s Sharingan through an illusion, but remained uncertain whether the method would work for other bloodlines.

• Black Zetsu convinced Ōnoki that Deidara’s unusual extra mouths and heart made him a suitable subject for an experiment that could reliably create Dust Release ninja, and Ōnoki granted Zetsu part of the Demolition Squad’s authority.
• Yuan reviewed potential bloodline ninja recruits and discussed Kaguya’s Hokage prospects and Akatsuki-related intelligence from Demon Country with Fugaku and the others.
• Yuan told Mei Terumi and Shisui to bring young clan members to the training ground so he could help awaken their bloodlines.
• Izumi struggled with the Ninja Academy’s heavier homework while Itachi defended Yuan’s efforts to train better ninja.
• Yuan brought Itachi into an illusion depicting his parents and Sasuke dead, and the experience awakened Itachi’s Sharingan.
• Yuan wondered whether his illusion method could awaken bloodlines beyond the Uchiha’s Sharingan.

Yuan helped Uchiha and Hidden Mist bloodline ninja awaken their abilities, then set out with Kaguya for Snow Country after its daimyo sent Konoha a distress letter. There, Black Zetsu and the Third Tsuchikage pursued the Snow Country’s Geothermal Generator blueprints, while Yuan and Kaguya discovered their target was a glacier.

• Yuan used genjutsu and experimental drugs to awaken the Sharingan in several Uchiha and devised a method for awakening other bloodlines, then trained the newly empowered ninja until they learned teamwork and lost their arrogance.
• Mei Terumi and Shisui told Yuan that Snow Country’s daimyo had sent Konoha a distress letter, and Yuan left with Kaguya while assigning the bloodline force’s training to them.
• Black Zetsu and the Third Tsuchikage pressured Daimyo Kazahana Koyuki into revealing where the Geothermal Generator blueprints were hidden, and Black Zetsu retrieved them from beneath the throne.
• Black Zetsu received reports that his White Zetsu surveillance network had malfunctioned in the cold and headed underground toward Deidara’s operation.
• Kaguya disrupted the intelligence network and told Yuan that the enemy’s target was a glacier in Snow Country.

Yuan pursued Black Zetsu and Iwagakure’s Demolition Squad in Snow Country, where Black Zetsu used Deidara to create an artificial Dust Release user. The resulting attack annihilated the country’s surface and seemingly killed Yuan, but Kaguya saved him with Izanagi, and Yuan began investigating what had happened.

• Black Zetsu sent Iwagakure’s Demolition Squad to delay Yuan while he prepared Deidara for an experiment using hearts with wind, earth, and fire Chakra.
• Yuan defeated Snow Ninja and Kari’s Demolition Squad, then learned Black Zetsu was trying to synthesize an artificial Kekkei Tōta.
• Deidara unleashed a massive Dust Release technique that annihilated everything across Snow Country, including himself and Yuan.
• Black Zetsu escaped after believing Yuan had died, while Kaguya and Yuan emerged from Kamui after Kaguya sacrificed her left eye to save him with Izanagi.
• Yuan surveyed the destruction and activated Toyoashihara to trace the events back to their source.

Yuan discovered that Akatsuki’s operation in Snow Country had concealed a plan to revive Moryo in Demon Country, while the destruction there pushed Konoha and Hidden Stone Village toward war. Kaguya became Konoha’s Fifth Hokage and announced war against Akatsuki, leaving the shinobi world on the brink of another conflict.

• Yuan realized that Akatsuki had used the Snow Country operation as a diversion while Nagato sealed Moryo and Akatsuki prepared an army of White Zetsu in Demon Country.
• Black Zetsu told Ōnoki that Deidara’s artificial Kekkei Tōta experiment had caused the Snow Country explosion and urged Hidden Stone Village to pursue tailed-beast power as another path to strength.
• Konoha’s leaders debated war and selected Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Kakashi, and Kaguya as Hokage candidates, and the Land of Fire’s daimyo appointed Kaguya.
• Kaguya asked Yuan why he had made her Hokage, and he said he wanted her to seek a different path for the survival of ninja.
• Kaguya was inaugurated as the Fifth Hokage and announced that Konoha would go to war against Akatsuki.

As Akatsuki prepared to wage war on Konoha, Jiraiya questioned the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy and left the village to search for the Child of Prophecy. In a border-town tavern, he discovered that Minato Namikaze was alive and infiltrating Akatsuki, but Nagato’s chakra appeared before they could escape.

• Chiyo, Ōnoki, Ao, Black Zetsu, and Nagato met to discuss the alliance’s war preparations and Uchiha Yuan’s power.
• Nagato declared that Akatsuki’s war against Konoha had begun and promised that Akatsuki would lead the shinobi world to peace.
• Jiraiya told Yuan that the Great Toad Sage’s visions had failed and that it still wanted him to search for the Child of Prophecy; Yuan challenged his faith in the prophecy.
• Jiraiya left Konoha to search for the Child of Prophecy and traveled to a border town in the Land of Fire.
• Minato Namikaze revealed himself to Jiraiya as an Akatsuki spy and warned that Akatsuki had targeted him.
• Minato detected a powerful surge of Nagato’s chakra as he prepared to help Jiraiya escape.

Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze were defeated by Nagato at the Land of Fire border until Yuan intervened. Yuan and Nagato began a battle in the skies that the hidden villages watched, leaving the war’s outcome uncertain.

• Nagato overwhelmed Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze, arguing that his plan to force peace through Akatsuki’s power was irreconcilable with their beliefs.
• Nagato trapped Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze with a gravitational sphere, but Yuan arrived and destroyed it with a Chakra tornado.
• Yuan faced Nagato in the sky, and the two began trading attacks with meteors, missiles, gravity, and repulsive force.
• Konan worried about what Nagato would become if he gained still more power, while Black Zetsu assured her he would become the ninja world’s god.
• Ōnoki, Chiyo, and Ao watched the battle’s fiery effects from their villages as their war preparations continued.
• Tsunade saw an orange-red glow flood the Raikage Office while counting money and wondered whether the weather had changed.

Uchiha Yuan defeated Nagato in a spectacular battle, but Nagato survived through a hidden escape and reconstruction. Yuan returned safely to Konoha, while the allied leaders recognized that the war’s balance had shifted against them.

• Tsunade ordered Kumogakure into first-level combat readiness as its Sky Ninja Army reported it could not intervene in Yuan and Nagato’s battle.
• Kaguya inspected Konoha’s war preparations with Mei Terumi and Shisui, then watched Yuan fight Nagato in the sky.
• Nagato used his Six Paths abilities to restrain Yuan, but Yuan unleashed Truth-Seeking Orbs and cut Nagato’s body apart with a massive golden sword.
• Yuan returned to Konoha, prompting cheers from its civilians and ninjas, while Tsuchikage Ōnoki, acting Kazekage Chiyo, and acting Mizukage Ao held an emergency meeting.
• Black Zetsu persuaded Konan that Nagato might still be alive, and Nagato emerged from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path beneath the signal tower.

After Nagato was revived, Black Zetsu explained that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was the source of his Rinnegan abilities, while Nagato remained wary of his motives. In Konoha, Kaguya announced that the war’s goal was to unify the shinobi world, and the chapter ended with Hidden Cloud’s air force launching a propaganda offensive over three enemy villages.

• Yama revived Nagato, and Black Zetsu urged him to master more of his Rinnegan’s abilities before Uchiha Yuan grew stronger.
• Nagato questioned Black Zetsu’s motives and asked whether he was concealing the truth about the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Black Zetsu claimed the statue was the source of Nagato’s Rinnegan powers and portrayed Nagato as a god, easing Nagato’s suspicions without resolving them.
• Kaguya shared intelligence from the External Special Operations Force and told Konoha’s jōnin that the war’s goal was to unify the shinobi world.
• Yuan arranged for Darui’s Hidden Cloud air force to drop special shells over Sunagakure, Kirigakure, and Iwagakure.
• The shells projected messages urging people to abandon the divisions between hidden villages, leaving Chiyo, Ōnoki, and Ao stunned by the propaganda attack.

Yuan and Hidden Leaf Village used large-scale illusions to undermine morale in Hidden Sand, Iwagakure, and Hidden Mist Village, then Kaguya assigned Mei Terumi and a bloodline shinobi force to attack Hidden Mist Village with Hidden Cloud’s Sea Ninja Army. As the invasion began, Mei and Motoi prepared the landing operation, and Motoi found Kisame Hoshigaki’s name in Mei’s intelligence booklet.

• Yuan’s External Illusion Techniques showed peaceful future scenes to villagers in Hidden Sand, Iwagakure, and Hidden Mist Village, angering their leaders and disrupting morale.
• Kaguya assigned Mei Terumi’s Bloodline Ninja Army to attack Hidden Mist Village alongside Motoi’s Sea Ninja Army, and Mei led nearly a hundred bloodline shinobi out of Hidden Leaf Village.
• Mei and Guren discussed their trust in Yuan and Kaguya while traveling to meet Motoi near the coast of the Land of Fire.
• Mei and Motoi coordinated the operation, with the bloodline shinobi set to land and the aircraft carriers to provide fire support; Hozuki Mangetsu agreed to help defend the vessels from Water Release attacks.
• Mei gave Motoi a booklet listing Hidden Mist Village jonin, and he saw Kisame Hoshigaki’s name marked on its first page.

Mei Terumi and Motoi launched a surprise assault on Hidden Mist Village, using an aerial bombing raid and a landing force of bloodline ninja. Hidden Mist Village’s leaders received no support from Akatsuki as the attack reached the village, while Yuan’s allies learned that the battle had already ended before dawn.

• Kisame Hoshigaki detected the approaching Sea Ninja Army and went to intercept it, but Hozuki Mangetsu engaged him underwater and forced him to retreat.
• Mei Terumi ordered Hozuki Mangetsu to hold Kisame Hoshigaki while she led the bloodline ninja across the sea toward Hidden Mist Village.
• The Sky Ninja Force bombed the Land of Water with little resistance, setting fires throughout the region before the bloodline ninja entered Hidden Mist Village.
• Ao and Suikazan Fuguki discovered that Akatsuki had abandoned Hidden Mist Village, and Suikazan Fuguki smashed White Zetsu in anger.
• Ao accepted blame for Hidden Mist Village’s weakness and urged its officials to unite against the invading defectors.
• Yuan’s allies discussed the attack and the threat of Moryo’s White Zetsu-fused stone creatures before Yuan realized the battle at Hidden Mist Village was already over.

Mei Terumi joined forces with the remaining Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to defeat Ao and end Kirigakure’s internal fighting. Yuan persuaded Kirigakure to join the Konoha–Hidden Cloud Alliance, while the opposing leaders discussed the village’s fall and Uchiha Yuan’s growing threat.

• Mei Terumi restrained the ambushers, then confronted Suikazan Fuguki, Juzo Biwa, and Raiga Kurosuki, who agreed to help her stop Ao.
• Mei Terumi and the three swordsmen defeated Ao, and Kirigakure’s fighting ceased after word spread that the Mizukage had been killed.
• Yuan addressed Kirigakure’s ninjas and villagers, showing them a peaceful future through genjutsu and asking them to follow him and Mei Terumi.
• Kirigakure officially joined the Konoha–Hidden Cloud Alliance, securing the Land of Fire’s rear as the war continued.
• At Amegakure, White Zetsu, Ōnoki, and Chiyo discussed Kirigakure’s defeat and the danger posed by Uchiha Yuan.

Motoi arrived in the Land of Water as Yuan’s takeover of Hidden Mist Village settled into place, and Yuan prepared the alliance for war against Akatsuki. After urging the allied leaders to seek peace beyond village interests, Yuan called for Akatsuki’s destruction, while Black Zetsu revealed the enemy’s forces were preparing for battle.

• Motoi marched toward Hidden Mist Village and saw that its ordinary people had been spared the destruction of war.
• Yuan told Mei Terumi to reorganize Hidden Mist Village, end the persecution of bloodline shinobi, and pressure the Land of Water’s daimyo to join the alliance.
• Mei Terumi kissed Yuan, but Motoi interrupted them and reported that the Sea Ninja Army could resume operations.
• Yuan briefed Tsunade, Kaguya, and the allied leaders on Hidden Mist Village’s fall, then urged them to look beyond their villages and unite the shinobi world.
• Yuan called for the alliance to destroy Akatsuki and unify the shinobi world.
• In Amegakure, Black Zetsu told Ōnoki and Chiyo that Moryo and the Stone Figure army were ready, then questioned whether they could face Yuan and the alliance’s strongest fighters.

Iwagakure and Sunagakure prepared for war against Hidden Leaf Village and Kumogakure, while Ōnoki sent Kurotsuchi away and rallied Iwagakure’s elders to defend their village. Yuan entrusted the young Jinchuriki to Kaguya and joined the battle at Iwagakure, where Shisui, Izumi, and Itachi fought Ōnoki to a stalemate.

• Black Zetsu warned Ōnoki and Chiyo that they could retreat to Amegakure if their villages’ war efforts went badly, and both leaders began considering how to protect their people.
• Hidden Leaf Village and Kumogakure mobilized most of their ninjas, and Itachi and Izumi traveled with Shisui toward the battlefield.
• After the Artificial Bloodline Squad suffered a setback, Ōnoki sent Kurotsuchi to safety, then rallied Iwagakure’s leaders and ninjas to defend the village.
• Yuan arranged for Kaguya and a Wood Clone to guard the young Jinchuriki and manage the Hokage’s duties, then traveled to Iwagakure.
• Uchiha ninjas battled Iwagakure’s defenders, while Shisui, Izumi, and Itachi fought Ōnoki near the Tsuchikage Building without either side gaining an advantage.

Yuan stopped Ōnoki from destroying Iwagakure, defeated him, and took Han and Roshi, then rescued the allied forces trapped by the sandstorm and headed for Sunagakure. Meanwhile, Otsutsuki Tsuru prepared to strike the ninja world, while Black Zetsu fed Moryo to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and questioned Nagato about his Rinnegan.

• Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, and Kakashi gathered the allied forces and their puppet and Stone Statue enemies inside an underground shelter using Kamui, but poison gas put the troops at a disadvantage.
• Ōnoki summoned Han and Roshi, linked himself to them with White Zetsu spores, and unleashed Dust Release against Shisui, Itachi, and Izumi; Shisui charged at the beam to buy time for the Uchiha clan.
• Yuan appeared and broke Ōnoki’s Dust Release, killed Ōnoki, and sealed Han and Roshi inside the Kamui Dimension.
• Yuan found the allied forces fighting in the cavern, destroyed the shelter and sandstorm, notified Tsunade, and flew toward Sunagakure.
• On the moon, Tsuru ordered the surrendered Otsutsuki Main Family members sacrificed to stabilize the Giant Tenseigan and vowed to stop Yuan.
• In Amegakure, Black Zetsu thanked young Hidan for leading him to the Evil God, then asked Nagato whether the Demonic Statue’s devouring of Moryo had improved his Rinnegan.

Nagato gave the civilians of Amegakure Chakra and sent them to fight the Konoha-Kumogakure coalition, while Otsutsuki Tsuru and Black Zetsu advanced their plans to revive Kaguya. The chapter ended with Nagato sealing the Valley of the End and preparing to seize the Jinchuriki gathered there.

• Nagato gained Dark Medical Ninjutsu and Blood Letting of the Dead Corpse from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, then used his Rinnegan to grant Chakra and secret techniques to Amegakure's civilians.
• Konan rallied the civilians, who charged toward the Konoha-Kumogakure coalition as Nagato and Black Zetsu watched them depart.
• Fugaku, Jiraiya, Darui, and the other commanders learned that more than ten thousand people with active Chakra signatures were approaching, and Darui ordered the flying shinobi corps to attack.
• Otsutsuki Tsuru's puppets attacked Konoha, while Tsuru sent a ball of Yin-nature Chakra into Kaguya and Black Zetsu celebrated the step toward her revival.
• Nagato reached the Valley of the End, sensed the Jinchuriki there, and raised enormous rock walls to seal the area against space-time ninjutsu.

Nagato attacked Konoha’s tailed beast facility and fought five perfect Jinchuriki at the Valley of the End, while Yuan subdued the moon’s Otsutsuki clan and claimed the Giant Tenseigan. Yuan defeated Nagato just as he began using the Rinne Rebirth Seal, and Black Zetsu anticipated Madara’s revival.

• Nagato raided Konoha’s research facility but found only six tailed beasts and Jinchuriki, with the Four-, Five-, and Eight-Tails missing.
• Yuan chose to confront the moon’s Otsutsuki first, defeated Otsutsuki Tsuru, subdued his clan, and took the Giant Tenseigan.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki watched the conflicts and prepared for his mother’s imminent revival as Nagato battled the Jinchuriki at the Valley of the End.
• Naruto Uzumaki, Gaara, Yugito Nii, Utakata, and Kaede overwhelmed Nagato with coordinated attacks until Yuan arrived and defeated him.
• Nagato formed the Rinne Rebirth Seal, and Black Zetsu anticipated Uchiha Madara’s revival.

Nagato's attempt to use Rinne Rebirth failed until Hagoromo Otsutsuki released Uchiha Madara's soul from the Pure Land, allowing Madara to revive in his prime. Yuan confronted Madara to begin his plan against the Otsutsuki, and the two prepared to fight near the Valley of the End.

• As Nagato chose to die for the chance that others could achieve peace, his Rinne Rebirth failed to activate, puzzling Yuan and Black Zetsu.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki released Uchiha Madara's soul from the Pure Land, deciding to watch how the changed future unfolded.
• Madara revived through Nagato's body, mistook Yuan for Obito's successor, and agreed to hear Yuan's intentions after testing him in battle.
• Madara's Great Fire Annihilation forced Yugito Nii and the other Jinchuriki to retreat toward Konoha while Yuan shielded them with an iceberg.
• Yuan countered Madara's flames with Scorch Release, and the two summoned their Susanoo as they prepared to fight without restraint.