Recaps

Wu Chen used hundreds of Wood Clones and Wood Release to rescue everyone trapped in New York’s ruins, exhausting his Chakra in the process. With the survivors safe, the problem of housing millions of people remained.

• Wu Chen asked Thor and Tony to help rescue people, and Tony agreed after asking Wu Chen to add two place settings to their later meal.
• Tony challenged Wu Chen to a rescue contest, but Wu Chen created hundreds of Wood Clones and sent them to the rubble.
• Wu Chen’s clones used Wood Release to grow trees whose branches carried trapped people safely down from the ruins.
• Thor praised Wu Chen and agreed to spar and share a meal with him, while Nick Fury’s regard for Wu Chen increased.
• Wu Chen rescued everyone who had been revived, then dismissed his clones and began recovering his depleted Chakra as Tony and Thor continued helping.
• The survivors were safe, but the question of where to house millions of people remained.

Nick Fury struggled to house the millions of people Wu Chen had resurrected, then discovered that almost none of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s agents had returned. When Minato Namikaze came back without the Dragon Ball, he set aside Fury’s questions and prepared to ask Wu Chen something important.

• Rescue teams arrived after the United Nations received a report, but Nick Fury worried there was nowhere to house the more than seven million survivors.
• Nick Fury contacted S.H.I.E.L.D. and heard from only a handful of agents, leading him to suspect that most of the organization had not been resurrected because they were bad people.
• Nick Fury put the mystery aside and assigned the surviving agents, including Maria Hill, to rescue and resettlement work.
• Minato Namikaze returned without catching the fleeing Dragon Ball and told Wu Chen that he knew roughly where the final Dragon Ball was.
• Minato Namikaze solemnly asked Wu Chen to answer an important question honestly.

Minato Namikaze explained that Wood Release was a Senju Kekkei Genkai, and Wu Chen's ability to use it suggested a connection to Hashirama Senju. Minato had secretly kept the last Dragon Ball and planned to use the lie about losing it—and Wu Chen's supposed Senju bloodline—to support Konoha's future actions and give Wu Chen a new backer.

• Minato Namikaze explained to Nick Fury and Wu Chen that Wood Release was a Kekkei Genkai associated with the Senju Clan and Hashirama Senju.
• Minato Namikaze revealed in his thoughts that he had caught the last Dragon Ball and hidden it in his waist pouch.
• Minato Namikaze planned to use the Dragon Ball search as a cover for Konoha's future clashes with the Akatsuki over the Tailed Beasts.
• Minato Namikaze decided that Wu Chen's Wood Release could establish a connection to Hashirama Senju and provide Wu Chen with a suitable backer.

Minato Namikaze explained why Wu Chen's wish used all three of Shenron's wishes and revealed that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. He warned Nick Fury about Hydra's surviving forces, then prompted Wu Chen to give his prepared answer.

• Minato Namikaze explained that Wu Chen's wish required one wish to distinguish good people from bad and two to resurrect millions of people.
• Nick Fury asked whether Shenron's judgment of S.H.I.E.L.D. could be wrong, and Minato Namikaze told him Hydra had infiltrated the organization.
• Minato Namikaze said nearly all the Hydra infiltrators were dead and warned Nick Fury to investigate New Mexico, except for Coulson, and avoid rash action against Hydra's other forces.
• Minato Namikaze asked Wu Chen for his answer, and Wu Chen prepared to tell a story.

Wu Chen used a family photo and a staged explanation about his mother to suggest a connection to Hashirama's clan, while Minato's comments prompted Nick Fury to accept that Hydra had deeply infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury resolved to rebuild the agency with carefully vetted personnel, leaving Wu Chen's potential role as its next director an open possibility.

• Wu Chen told Minato Namikaze that he had learned Wood Release from something his mother left behind.
• Minato asked to see a picture of Wu Chen's mother and suggested aloud that her black hair and black eyes linked her to Hashirama's clan.
• Nick Fury woke and asked whether Wu Chen and Konoha's First Hokage shared a family connection.
• Nick Fury accepted that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., including former director Alexander Pierce, and resolved to vet everyone when rebuilding the agency.
• Wu Chen remained unaware that Nick Fury might eventually offer him the position of S.H.I.E.L.D. director.

Minato Namikaze planned to take Wu Chen back to Konoha after the crisis, while Nick Fury blocked the United Nations' attempt to seize Wu Chen's techniques. Nick Fury then asked Wu Chen to help house New York's displaced residents, and Wu Chen demonstrated a Wood Release technique that raised a large wooden building.

• Minato Namikaze said he would take Wu Chen to Konoha to protect him and investigate his origins, and Wu Chen pretended to agree.
• Nick Fury received a United Nations order demanding Wu Chen share Chakra refinement and Ninjutsu, then warned the politicians to leave Wu Chen and Konoha alone.
• Nick Fury asked Wu Chen to create wood so displaced New Yorkers could build houses for themselves.
• Wu Chen used Wood Release: Four-Pillar House to raise a large, two-story wooden building, leaving Nick Fury amazed and delighted.

Wu Chen built simple wooden cabins for New York’s displaced residents in exchange for ten million dollars, while leaked footage of the city’s destruction spread online. As the world learned that Akatsuki had leveled New York and Konoha had helped restore it, global shock erupted into uproar.

• Wu Chen used Wood Release to build twenty simple cabins at a time, agreeing to construct housing for seven million people for ten million dollars.
• A film student’s unedited video of New York’s destruction escaped the government’s cleanup efforts and quickly gained views on YouTube.
• News reports said Akatsuki had leveled New York on June 27, 2010, and Konoha had driven them back and used Dragon Balls to revive the dead.
• New Yorkers continued reconstruction with Tobirama Senju stationed there, while Hydra, government leaders, and supervillains fell silent.
• Civilians around the world learned what had happened through the internet, newspapers, and broadcasts, and the news sparked a global uproar.

The Ancient One learned that the Six Paths of Pain had destroyed New York and decided Kamar-Taj should not interfere. After watching the battle and Shenron revive millions, she became interested in the Dragon Balls and planned to visit Konoha.

• Wong told the Ancient One that the New York Sanctum had been destroyed, and she ordered Kamar-Taj not to interfere with the Six Paths of Pain.
• The Ancient One reversed time in her mental space and watched the destruction of New York, including Tobirama Senju's battle and Wu Chen's fight with Kingpin.
• The Ancient One watched the superheroes drive the Akatsuki members away and saw Shenron revive millions of people.
• The Ancient One became interested in Shenron's power as a possible path to immortality, then decided to visit Konoha after seeing Wu Chen gather all the Dragon Balls.

After failing to locate Konoha or the Akatsuki, Ancient One decided to wait on Earth and seize the Dragon Balls when Wu Chen appeared. Wu Chen returned from the Kamui Dimension, but when Ancient One confronted him, he readily lent her the Dragon Balls for study.

• Ancient One searched the world for Konoha and the Akatsuki's base but could not find either, and she resolved to wait for Wu Chen and demand the Dragon Balls.
• Wu Chen ran out of Chakra after building homes in the Kamui Dimension, so Minato Namikaze took him to the villa and Tobirama Senju brought them into the dimension for safety.
• Wu Chen rested, then returned to New York to find Thor, but Nick Fury told him Thor had gone to find his girlfriend.
• Ancient One stopped time, appeared before Wu Chen, and asked to study Konoha's Dragon Balls.
• Wu Chen recognized Ancient One and immediately handed her the Dragon Balls, asking how long she would keep them.

Wu Chen accepted the Ancient One’s offer to send a Konoha student to Kamar-Taj in exchange for studying the Dragon Balls, then found a way to seize Stephen Strange’s future status and talent. He planned to first assess his gains from destroying New York before trying to replace Strange.

• The Ancient One took the Dragon Balls and offered to teach one person from Konoha magic while she studied them, and Wu Chen agreed.
• Wu Chen decided that the Ancient One’s offer gave him a chance to pursue becoming the next Sorcerer Supreme after Strange.
• Wu Chen found a Wish Card item that could transfer a specified person’s talent or status to him, and resolved to use it on Strange before visiting the Ancient One.
• Wu Chen postponed the plan until he had reviewed his gains from destroying New York and prepared a new role-playing plan.
• In San Francisco, Stephen Strange read about New York’s destruction, felt relieved he had left before the disaster, and considered moving there.

After returning to the Kamui Dimension, Wu Chen saw that the major event had raised every character’s roleplay progress and granted him two character draws and two ability selections. He began choosing an ability for Tobirama Senju, but the chapter ended before he made his choice.

• Wu Chen checked his system panel and saw that Minato Namikaze, Obito Uchiha, and Deidara had each gained five percentage points of roleplay progress despite only appearing at the end of the event.
• Tobirama Senju’s progress rose from thirty to fifty percent, earning Wu Chen a character draw and an ability selection.
• Nagato Uzumaki’s progress jumped from fifteen to fifty percent, earning Wu Chen another character draw and ability selection.
• Wu Chen opened Tobirama Senju’s ability list and considered his options, ruling out Water Release, Space-Time Ninjutsu, and military and political affairs management.

Wu Chen chose Tobirama Senju’s forbidden technique development ability and weighed Nagato Uzumaki’s abilities, favoring the Uzumaki Sage Body, All-Attribute Chakra Nature Transformation, and Mind’s Eye of the Kagura (variant). He explained why he rejected the Rinnegan and ended by considering the power of Kekkei Mōra.

• Wu Chen chose Tobirama Senju’s forbidden technique development ability, expecting it to help when he created Ninjutsu.
• Wu Chen reviewed Nagato Uzumaki’s abilities and ruled out Chakra and the Rinnegan because his Chakra was sufficient and the Rinnegan could burden a non-native user.
• Wu Chen prioritized the Uzumaki Sage Body, citing Naruto Uzumaki’s heritage and its connection to the Senju Clan.
• Wu Chen wanted both All-Attribute Chakra Nature Transformation and Mind’s Eye of the Kagura (variant), but could select only one ability.
• Wu Chen considered how the fusion of all seven Chakra natures created Kekkei Mōra, a power exemplified by Otsutsuki Kaguya.

Wu Chen redeemed the Uzumaki Clan's Sage Body and discovered that it strengthened his Wood Release enough to use Advent of a World of Flowering Trees. He then drew a new character to play and landed on Madara Uchiha.

• Wu Chen chose the Uzumaki Clan's Sage Body over all Chakra natures and the variant Mind's Eye of the Kagura.
• Wu Chen felt his physical abilities and Chakra reserves increase, along with a reaction between the Sage Body and Wood Release.
• Wu Chen used Advent of a World of Flowering Trees in the Kamui Dimension, knocking Obito Uchiha unconscious with its pollen.
• Wu Chen dispelled the technique and helped Obito recover before moving farther away to continue practicing.
• Wu Chen drew a new character to play, and the system selected Madara Uchiha.

Wu Chen drew Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju as role-playing characters, completing his collection of powerful Hokage World figures. He planned to build role-playing progress by capturing the Tailed Beasts before arranging their appearances around the coming alien invasion of New York.

• Wu Chen considered drawing the reincarnations of Asura and Indra to help him stage a major incident during the first Avengers movie.
• Wu Chen drew Madara Uchiha, then drew Hashirama Senju and celebrated getting both legendary shinobi.
• Wu Chen created Wood Clones to portray Madara and Hashirama, and Obito reacted with shock before praising the pair.
• Wu Chen planned to capture the Tailed Beasts in the coming months and carefully manage Madara and Hashirama's appearances.

Nick Fury rebuilt S.H.I.E.L.D. with Minato Namikaze’s help while New York’s reconstruction continued. Coulson and Hawkeye returned from New Mexico, and new intelligence suggested that Captain United States had been found frozen in a glacier.

• New York’s new mayor and officials took over the city’s reconstruction, freeing Nick Fury to focus on S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Nick Fury reorganized S.H.I.E.L.D. and used Minato Namikaze’s Nine-Tails Chakra Mode to screen recruits for spies.
• Coulson and Hawkeye returned from New Mexico and were shocked by the devastation in New York.
• Minato Namikaze’s screening led to two-thirds of the returning agents being taken into custody, while the remaining third were recent rookies.
• A new agent gave Nick Fury intelligence that an icebreaker had found someone frozen in a glacier who might be Captain United States.
• Tobirama Senju continued serving as Konoha’s fighter stationed in New York.

Akatsuki launched three attempts to capture Tailed Beasts, prompting Konoha and its allies to defend them. Deidara’s progress stalled five percent short of a new character draw, while Minato Namikaze’s reached ninety percent, leaving him ten percent from the one-hundred-percent milestone.

• Akatsuki attacked Two-Tails Matatabi, Three-Tails Isobu, and Seven-Tails Shōmei in three operations, with Deidara leading the captures to raise his role-playing progress.
• Deidara captured Three-Tails Isobu near Los Angeles, and the Masked Man took Deidara and the beast away after Minato Namikaze and Wu Chen arrived.
• Deidara captured Seven-Tails Shōmei in an aerial battle, while Minato Namikaze could not stop him because he could not fly.
• Minato Namikaze enlisted Thor and Tony to defend Two-Tails Matatabi, causing Deidara and Obito to withdraw without fighting.
• Deidara gained fifteen percent role-playing progress from the two successful captures, leaving him five percent short of a new character draw.
• Minato Namikaze gained five percent role-playing progress from the defense attempts and his S.H.I.E.L.D. mission, bringing his total to ninety percent.

Wu Chen completed preparations for his Doctor Strange Status Seizure Plan after wrapping up matters involving the Tailed Beasts and Dragon Balls. He located Stephen Strange in San Francisco but recognized that directly stealing Strange’s magical talent and status could draw Ancient One’s attention.

• Wu Chen chose guaranteed Chakra as his reward for reaching ninety percent role-playing progress with Minato Namikaze.
• Minato Namikaze gave Barton Chakra and taught him basic Ninjutsu, while Nick Fury suspended Barton’s missions so he could train.
• Konoha pretended it had not found the Dragon Ball, while the real Dragon Balls remained turned to stone and in Ancient One’s possession.
• Wu Chen began preparing his Doctor Strange Status Seizure Plan and learned through Kingpin that Stephen Strange had settled in San Francisco.
• Wu Chen considered using a Heaven-Seizing Creation Jade Butterfly to take Strange’s magical talent and Doctor Strange status, but worried Ancient One would intervene.

Wu Chen sought a way to block Ancient One’s perception and considered using an avatar to steal Strange’s status and learn magic while he continued his own training. The Avatar Technique required mystical powers he lacked, so he revised his Wish Card request to seek an item he could use directly without harm.

• Wu Chen decided he needed to block Ancient One’s perception before stealing Strange’s status and magical talent.
• He ruled out asking another person or using an ordinary clone to learn magic from Ancient One.
• Wu Chen considered an Avatar Technique that could create an independent, obedient duplicate, but learned it required mystical powers he did not possess.
• Wu Chen added requirements to his Wish Card for an item he could use directly without side effects or harm.

Wu Chen realized he needed another 200 million yuan to buy the items required for his plan, and Kingpin had amassed exactly 200 million US dollars in half a month. After Kingpin asked the Masked Man for guidance with his Water Release training, the Masked Man offered to find him an instructor.

• Wu Chen identified the Heaven-Seizing Creation Jade Butterfly, the Incarnation Technique Scroll, and the Heavenly Secret Jade Pendant as essential purchases, leaving him 200 million yuan short.
• Kingpin expanded his gang network across the United States, found surgeon Stephen Strange, and raised 200 million US dollars for Akatsuki in half a month.
• The Masked Man praised Kingpin's efforts and offered to teach him more Water Release secret Ninjutsu.
• Kingpin instead asked the Masked Man for guidance because he had hit a bottleneck in his Water Release training.
• The Masked Man said he specialized in Fire Style but could find someone to instruct Kingpin.

Wu Chen used the money from Kingpin to obtain three items and created an avatar with the Avatar Technique scroll. He and the avatar agreed to pose as reunited twin brothers, then Wu Chen asked whether the avatar could use the Role-Playing System and why he had not inherited Wu Chen’s Chakra.

• Obito told Kingpin that Tobirama Senju would instruct him in Water Release and promised to bring him over when he was available.
• Wu Chen exchanged more than three hundred million in gold bars for a jade butterfly, a jade pendant, and a scroll.
• Wu Chen used the scroll to create an identical avatar, and the two acknowledged their mysterious mental connection.
• Wu Chen and the avatar decided to claim they were twin brothers who had been separated when young, but argued over which one would be the older brother.
• Wu Chen asked the avatar whether he could use the Role-Playing System and why he had not inherited Wu Chen’s Chakra.

Wu Chen and Wu Chén planned to take Stephen Strange’s magical talent and Doctor Strange mantle while compensating him with healed hands and a peaceful life. They traveled to San Francisco and booked an appointment at Strange’s private hospital.

• Wu Chén said the role-playing system worked normally but could not let them role-play the same character together, and explained that the scroll lacked enough energy to pass on Chakra.
• Wu Chen and Wu Chén discussed Wu Chén’s space talent and Uzumaki physique, and Wu Chen advised him to practice Taijutsu.
• Wu Chen planned to have Tobirama Senju heal Strange’s hands and use Kingpin’s connections to help him live comfortably after taking his magical talent and mantle.
• The Masked Man sent Wu Chen and Wu Chén through a spatial vortex to downtown San Francisco.
• Wu Chen and Wu Chén paid to book an appointment with Stephen Strange, who had opened a private hospital serving wealthy patients.

Wu Chen brought Wu Chén to Stephen Strange’s private hospital for a comprehensive physical examination, while considering how to help Strange become a better person. The examination showed that Wu Chén was exceptionally healthy.

• Wu Chen reflected that Strange’s arrogance had driven away the people around him and planned to let him experience hardship before treating his injured hands.
• Wu Chen and Wu Chén visited the Stephen Neurosurgery Medical Research Institute and offered Strange a hundred thousand dollars to examine Wu Chén.
• Strange accepted the lucrative appointment and personally oversaw Wu Chén’s examination.
• Strange reviewed the results and assured Wu Chen that Wu Chén was extremely healthy, the healthiest person in the hospital.

Wu Chen brought Wu Chén to Doctor Strange for an examination, using the visit to complete his Status Seizure Plan. After the two left, Strange recognized Wu Chen as Konoha's Black Lightning, one of the superheroes who had saved New York.

• Wu Chén told Strange that his left hand had hurt for two days, and Strange examined it.
• Wu Chen used the Heaven-Seizing Creation Jade Disc, which spun above Strange and Wu Chén before shattering and transferring two streams of golden aura into Wu Chén.
• Strange diagnosed Wu Chén's hand as healthy, and Wu Chen and Wu Chén thanked him and paid the bill.
• Wu Chen offered to help Strange if he ever ran into trouble, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave with Wu Chén.
• Strange watched them disappear and recognized Wu Chen as Konoha's Black Lightning, a superhero who had saved New York.

Wu Chen brought Wu Chén to Kamar-Taj to train as the next Sorcerer Supreme, then returned to preparing for the Tailed Beast War. After seeing Wu Chén’s future through the Eye of Agamotto, Ancient One decided to give him the Dragon Balls when he left.

• Wu Chen used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Wu Chén to Kamar-Taj and left him there to study magic.
• Wu Chen returned to the Kamui Dimension and resumed preparations for the Tailed Beast War, confident that Wu Chén would become the next Sorcerer Supreme.
• Ancient One sensed Doctor Strange’s status leave Strange and used the Eye of Agamotto to examine the future.
• Ancient One saw Wu Chén become the new Sorcerer Supreme and decided to give him the Dragon Balls when he left Kamar-Taj.

After the Four-Tails was captured in London, Wu Chen drew Might Guy to strengthen Konoha. A month later, Guy joined Minato Namikaze to protect the Five-Tails and attacked Deidara as Obito began undoing the seal.

• Deidara kept Minato Namikaze busy diverting bombs away from London while Obito defeated and captured the Four-Tails.
• The battle raised Deidara's role-playing progress to fifty percent, allowing Wu Chen to draw Might Guy.
• Wu Chen planned to use Might Guy to improve Konoha's chances in the coming battles and against the alien invasion of New York.
• A month later, the Akatsuki attacked the Five-Tails off the coast of Africa, and Might Guy and Minato Namikaze arrived to protect him.
• As Obito undid the seal and Deidara held them off, Might Guy opened the sixth gate and nearly beat Deidara to death in the sky.