Chapter Summaries

Ye Liangnai tested Nakamura Shota, Saki Mirako, and Natsume Yuki by challenging them to take three bells from his Water Clone. The trio were defeated within moments, leaving twenty-eight minutes in the test.

• Mei Terumi quietly left Ye Liangnai to his writing and considered simplifying complicated documents herself.
• Ye Liangnai gave Nakamura Shota, Saki Mirako, and Natsume Yuki two minutes to prepare before announcing the bell test.
• Saki Mirako attacked the Water Clone with stone needles, Natsume Yuki tried to grab the bells, and Nakamura Shota caught its ankle with the Headhunter Technique.
• The Water Clone freed itself and quickly knocked Nakamura Shota and Saki Mirako away.
• Natsume Yuki revealed himself to be a Water Clone and launched a Water Wave, but Ye Liangnai's Water Clone dodged and defeated him with a roundhouse kick.
• Ye Liangnai watched from a tree while the spectators reacted to the trio's defeat and the test continued with twenty-eight minutes remaining.

Natsume Yuki, Saki Mirako, and Nakamura Shota repeatedly tried to take the bell from Ye Liangnai’s Water Clone, but his strength and pressure overwhelmed them. They refused to give up and launched another attempt, only to be driven into a desperate situation again.

• Natsume Yuki, Saki Mirako, and Nakamura Shota coordinated their attacks, and Saki Mirako’s shuriken nearly knocked the bell from the Water Clone.
• The Water Clone kicked the bell away, defeated Natsume Yuki and Nakamura Shota, then reclaimed it before Saki Mirako could seize it.
• Yagura told Yugito and the spectators to keep watching, while judging Ye Liangnai’s test demanding even for newly graduated genin.
• Natsume Yuki and the others vowed to continue and discussed their tactics before challenging the Water Clone again.
• The Water Clone drew his sword and overwhelmed the trio with his aura and attacks, leaving them exhausted and in a desperate situation.

Natsume Yuki, Saki Mirako, and Nakamura Shota finally defeated Ye Liangnai’s Water Clone and obtained the bells after repeated failures. Ye Liangnai then posed a final test requiring one of them to lose a bell, but all three crushed their own bells together.

• Natsume Yuki, Saki Mirako, and Nakamura Shota repeatedly rose after being defeated and launched another coordinated attack on the Water Clone.
• Saki Mirako used a clone and a transformed Fuma Shuriken to surprise the Water Clone, while Natsume Yuki and Nakamura Shota closed in.
• Saki Mirako redirected her shuriken to knock the bells loose, and Natsume Yuki and Nakamura Shota seized them as the Water Clone was caught by fine Steel Wire.
• Ye Liangnai announced that the assessment had another part and asked the three to choose whose bell to destroy, making that person fail.
• Natsume Yuki, Saki Mirako, and Nakamura Shota smiled and crushed their own bells at the same time.

Ye Liangnai passed Natsume Yuki and his teammates after they refused to abandon one another, explaining that the test measured unity and cooperation. He later discussed his Bell-Stealing Test with Mei Terumi and praised her growing strength.

• Natsume Yuki and his two teammates chose to give up their qualifications rather than leave anyone behind.
• Ye Liangnai revealed that their choice had passed his test and told them to return in three days for training as qualified genin.
• Yagura and another observer explained that Ye Liangnai's assessment tested teamwork and whether companions would abandon one another.
• Ye Liangnai sent the injured trio to the Medical Department, and the other onlookers left with their Guiding Jonin.
• Mei Terumi signed Ye Liangnai's training-program application and asked about the Bell-Stealing Test, which Ye Liangnai said he had adapted from Konoha's tradition.
• Ye Liangnai praised Mei Terumi's strength, saying she could nearly match the Third Hokage.

After Mei Terumi described the power of her strengthened Kekkei Genkai, the story shifted to Konoha’s leaders deciding to reveal Naruto’s parentage after Ye Liangnai stirred his suspicions. Three days later, rumors that Naruto was the Yellow Flash’s son had spread across the ninja world, including Kirigakure.

• Mei Terumi boasted about her strength after defeating Yagura, while Ye Liangnai left after hearing her out.
• Jiraiya told the Third Hokage, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura that Ye Liangnai had provoked Naruto’s doubts about his parents during the Land of Waves mission.
• The Konoha leaders suspected Ye Liangnai was expanding his influence through the Land of Waves and planned to alert the Fire Daimyō and strengthen border defenses.
• The Third Hokage and the elders agreed that Naruto should learn the truth about his parents, though they debated how much to reveal and how the public might react.
• Shimura Danzō was excluded from the high-level meeting and remained confined to the Root Organization.
• Rumors spread across the ninja world that the Yellow Flash’s son was Naruto, Konoha’s Nine-Tails Jinchūriki, and that Ye Liangnai had praised him.

The Akatsuki Organization planned to capture the Tailed Beasts, arranging separate operations around Konoha and Kirigakure. Meanwhile, Ye Liangnai began training his three disciples in precise Chakra control, and they quickly mastered tree climbing and Water Walking.

• Zero Burial ordered the Akatsuki Organization to target the Seven-Tails, Four-Tails, and Five-Tails, and considered using the Konoha Chunin Exams as an opportunity to capture Tailed Beasts.
• Zero Burial assigned teams for operations in Konoha and Kirigakure, deciding to personally lead the Kirigakure mission and postpone it until circumstances became clearer.
• The chapter revealed that the Fourth Kazekage was conspiring with Orochimaru in the Land of Wind.
• Ye Liangnai taught Natsume Yuki and his two fellow disciples tree climbing and Water Walking as exercises in precise Chakra control.
• Natsume Yuki and the other two initially fell during practice, then calmed themselves and mastered both exercises.

Ye Liangnai put Natsume Yuki, Nakamura Shota, and Saki Mirako through grueling cliff and sea running to improve their chakra control, despite doubts from the other teams and Yagura. After the trio made rapid progress, they chose to finish two more stages of training before taking missions.

• Ye Liangnai gave the trio timed ten-kilometer runs along cliffs and across the sea, and they reluctantly agreed to train under his supervision.
• For over a week, Team 2 kept running while the other teams completed C-rank missions, prompting people and Yagura to question Ye Liangnai's methods.
• Ye Liangnai refused Yagura's suggestion that Team 2 take a mission and ended the running stage after Natsume Yuki and the others improved their cliff-run time from fifteen minutes to ten in six days.
• Natsume Yuki, Nakamura Shota, and Saki Mirako said their chakra control had improved their combat abilities and that they could handle C-rank missions.
• The trio declined Ye Liangnai's offer to take a mission, choosing to complete the remaining two training stages first.

Ye Liangnai trained Natsume Yuki and the others in faster hand seals, battlefield control, and sparring, despite other teams doubting his methods. After completing their training, they arrived at Kirigakure’s team tournament, where Team 1 and Team 3 drew attention for completing B-rank missions while Team 2 seemed half-asleep.

• Ye Liangnai had Natsume Yuki and the others repeatedly practice hand seals and ninjutsu, improving their speed, power, and control.
• Yagura noticed the team’s progress and left with Team 1, expecting the upcoming tournament to reveal whether Ye Liangnai’s training worked.
• Natsume Yuki and the others completed their hand-seal training after three days, their battlefield-control training seven days later, and their sparring stage after half a month.
• Kirigakure’s team tournament began at the designated outdoor examination grounds, where other teams heard that Team 1 and Team 3 had completed B-rank missions.
• The other teams expected Team 1 and Team 3 to compete for first place, while Natsume Yuki and the other members of Team 2 dozed in a corner.

The class tournament began with Team 2 receiving a bye, while Team 1 faced Team 6. Natsume Yuki and his teammates predicted Team 6 would exploit Team 1’s reckless attack, and their prediction came true as the fight turned in Team 6’s favor.

• The class tournament drew its team-battle matchups, giving Team 2 a bye.
• Team 1’s members boasted that Team 6 had no chance, but Team 6 refused to surrender.
• Ye Liangnai praised Team 1 to Yagura as the two watched the opening match.
• Natsume Yuki and his teammates predicted Team 1 would take about ten minutes to win because its formation would break under a counterattack.
• Yugito and Yagura agreed that Team 1’s aggressive approach left it vulnerable.
• Team 6’s captain baited Team 1’s captain into an attack, punched him in the face, and led Team 6’s counterattack as the tide shifted.

Natsume Yuki’s group correctly predicted Team 1’s victory, astonishing the crowd and drawing praise from Ye Liangnai and Yugito. Team 1 and Team 3 won their matches, and the tournament continued with Team 4 facing Team 5.

• Natsume Yuki, Nakamura Shota, and Saki Mirako predicted how Team 1 would win, and the other teams doubted their strength.
• Kurokawa urged Fuyun and Mitaro to give everything they had, and Team 1 defeated Team 6 with a powerful lightning attack.
• The crowd realized Natsume Yuki’s group had accurately predicted the match, while Ye Liangnai and Yugito praised them.
• Yagura told Kurokawa and his teammates to reflect on their loss, and they promised to learn from it.
• Utakata approved as Team 3 defeated Team 9, and Yugito confidently backed Team 4 to win against Team 5.

Team 2 faced Team 1 in the tournament’s deciding bout, putting Ye Liangnai’s teaching methods and their own abilities under scrutiny. Team 2 opened with a coordinated attack, and Saki Mirako revealed unusually fast hand seals and a successful Stone Thousand Needles technique as Kurokawa’s team prepared to defend.

• Team 5’s defensive strategy dragged Team 4 into an attrition match that ended in a draw, and the final match between Team 7 and Team 8 also ended in a draw.
• The screen paired Team 2 against Team 1, and the spectators expected Team 1 to win while Team 2 prepared to prove itself.
• Mei Terumi watched because Team 2’s performance could determine whether Ye Liangnai remained their teacher.
• At the referee’s command, Natsume Yuki and Nakamura Shota rushed Kurokawa’s group and forced them to retreat.
• Saki Mirako completed rapid hand seals and used Stone Thousand Needles, prompting Kurokawa to assign Fuyun to counterattack while he and Mitaro handled defense.

Natsume Yuki, Saki Mirako, and Nakamura Shota defeated Kurokawa’s team in under half a minute, demonstrating the results of Ye Liangnai’s training. The individual matches began with Natsume Yuki drawn against Kurokawa, who prepared to fight after receiving treatment.

• Natsume Yuki and Nakamura Shota used water and lightning techniques to immobilize Kurokawa and his teammates, and Natsume Yuki declared their team the winners.
• Ye Liangnai explained that he had improved his students’ chakra control, hand-seal speed, and battle rhythm through training, while Yagura suspected their gains went further.
• Natsume Yuki, Saki Mirako, and Nakamura Shota praised their own performance, and Kurokawa’s team challenged them to individual matches.
• The match draw paired Natsume Yuki with Kurokawa, and Natsume Yuki offered him time to recover before they fought.
• Kurokawa accepted treatment from a medical ninja as spectators debated who would win the individual match.

Natsume Yuki and Kurokawa fought in the arena, with Yuki initially overwhelming him before Kurokawa used Lightning Release to cover the field and launch a lightning hound at her. The chapter left their match unresolved as spectators wondered whether Yuki could withstand his attack.

• Natsume Yuki charged Kurokawa and quickly cut his chest, kicked him into the arena wall, and appeared to dominate the opening exchange.
• Nakamura Shota claimed that he could defeat Kurokawa and said Yuki regularly beat him, while Saki Mirako insisted Kurokawa had not yet shown his full strength.
• Kurokawa used a substitution stone to evade Yuki, reappeared behind her, and spread Lightning Release across the arena floor and walls.
• Natsume Yuki planted her sword in the ground and stood on its hilt to insulate herself from the lightning.
• Kurokawa formed a lightning hound and intensified the lightning throughout the arena, while Nakamura Shota remained confident that Yuki could handle him.

Natsume Yuki defeated Kurokawa with relentless Water Release attacks, and Fuyun began her match against Saki Mirako. Saki’s unusual techniques put Fuyun under pressure as the fight continued.

• Natsume Yuki overwhelmed Kurokawa with Flying Swallow and defeated him with Water Fang Bullet.
• Natsume Yuki praised Kurokawa’s Lightning Release, then left the arena as the crowd celebrated her victory.
• The next matchup paired Fuyun with Saki Mirako, prompting spectators to wonder whether Team 2’s strength was being tested.
• Fuyun opened with shuriken, but Saki transformed stone fragments into senbon and countered with her Hole Absorption Technique.
• Saki’s attacks forced Fuyun to retreat, leading spectators to remark that Fuyun seemed suppressed.

Fuyun fought Saki Mirako but was caught by Mirako’s steel-wire traps and lost. Mitaro worried about facing Nakamura Shota, but the next match paired other competitors, leaving Mitaro’s bout for later.

• Fuyun dodged Mirako’s shuriken and charged into close combat, where the two fought evenly across the arena.
• Mirako used concealed steel wires to try to bind Fuyun, but Fuyun escaped the first trap with a substitution.
• Mirako struck Fuyun as she reappeared, then used wire-trailing shuriken to bind her and win the match.
• Spectators worried that Mitaro would face Nakamura Shota, but the next match announcement showed different names, relieving Mitaro and disappointing Shota.
• Mirako warned Shota not to give away her tactics again and threatened him with a needle and thread, prompting him to plead for forgiveness.

Mitaro faced Nakamura Shota in a highly anticipated match, but Nakamura's superior speed and powerful Lightning Release quickly overwhelmed him. The fight continued as Mitaro raised an Earth Flow Wall to defend against Nakamura's arena-wide lightning attack.

• Nakamura Shota and Mitaro entered the arena for the match that could decide whether Team 1's pride remained intact.
• Mitaro used Earth Release: Earth Armor Technique, and Nakamura Shota answered with Lightning Release: Lightning Strike Armor, blasting Mitaro backward.
• Nakamura Shota pressed his advantage with another punch and a roundhouse kick, forcing Mitaro to retreat.
• Mitaro used Earth Release: Earth Rising Spear, but Nakamura Shota dodged the earthen spears and unleashed Lightning Release: Gratitude Wave across the arena.
• Mitaro formed Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall to shield himself from Nakamura Shota's incoming lightning.

Natsume Yuki became the individual champion after Saki Mirako surrendered and no one else challenged her, while Team 2 won the team championship unopposed. The next day, Ye Liangnai left to seek medicinal ingredients for Ringo Ameyuri, leaving Tenshin to guide the three students in his absence.

• Nakamura Shota defeated Mitaro, and Yuta surrendered to Nakamura Shota in the next match.
• Saki Mirako surrendered to Natsume Yuki, and no one challenged Natsume Yuki before the time limit, making her the individual champion.
• Team 2 won the team battle championship because no team dared to challenge them.
• Ye Liangnai congratulated Natsume Yuki, Saki Mirako, and Nakamura Shota, gave them training scrolls, and explained that he was leaving to find medicinal ingredients for Ringo Ameyuri.
• Tenshin arrived as their replacement instructor, and Natsume Yuki greeted him as Captain.

Ye Liangnai traveled through the Dragon Vein from the Rōran ruins and arrived in the era shortly after Konoha’s founding, hoping to find the Blood Sun Flower. Near Sunagakure in the Land of Wind, he was mistaken for a spy and attacked.

• Ye Liangnai left Kirigakure after arranging for Natsume Yuki and the others to continue their training with his curriculum.
• Ye Liangnai killed the Sand Ninja Mukade, opened Minato Namikaze’s seal, and was pulled into the Dragon Vein.
• Chiyo discovered Mukade’s body and the broken seal, recognized Ye Liangnai’s presence, and warned Rasa to put Sunagakure on alert.
• Ye Liangnai arrived in the past and learned that Madara Uchiha had left Konoha, placing him a few years after the village’s founding.
• A group near Sunagakure suspected Ye Liangnai was a spy and charged at him when he ignored their demands.

Ye Liangnai learned that Blood Sun Flowers were in Sunagakure and traveled there to request one. After the Sand Ninjas insulted and attacked him, he defeated them and asked the village’s Anbu to inform the Kazekage of his request.

• Ye Liangnai questioned a group of Sand Ninjas about the Blood Sun Flower until one revealed that it could be found in Sunagakure.
• Ye Liangnai went to One-Line Gorge and politely asked the Sand Ninjas guarding the way to let him pass and sell him a Blood Sun Flower.
• A Sand Ninja tried to capture Ye Liangnai for the black market, but Ye Liangnai killed him and then cut down the others who attacked.
• Ye Liangnai entered Sunagakure and used Lightning Release: Gratitude Wave to incapacitate the Sand Ninjas who confronted him.
• Ye Liangnai asked the arriving Anbu to inform the Kazekage that he wanted one Blood Sun Flower and would offer a generous reward.

Ye Liangnai asked Liedou for Sunagakure’s Blood Sun Flower, but the meeting turned violent when Liedou challenged his sincerity. After Ye Liangnai overwhelmed the Sand Ninja, Liedou trapped him in a barrier and prepared a large force to attack.

• Ye Liangnai asked Liedou for a Blood Sun Flower, and Liedou accused him of causing trouble after he injured Sand Ninja.
• A Sand Ninja attacked Ye Liangnai, who dodged and killed him before announcing he would use force.
• Ye Liangnai unleashed deep-blue lightning and tore through the Sand Ninja ranks, while Liedou summoned the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu.
• Six elite jonin trapped Ye Liangnai inside the Six Suns Flame Formation, and Liedou rallied nearly four hundred Special Jonin and jonin to join the assault.