Chapter Summaries

Shimura Kentei continued building the Ninja-Samurai Academy in Iwagakure while plotting to use its ideology to weaken the ninja villages and reform the world. In Konoha, Shimura Danzō told the gathered leaders that Kentei was being used by Ōnoki and warned that Kirigakure might have shared the Shimura secret techniques with Kumogakure.

• Huang Yan and the Envoy of the Feudal Lord's Government discussed the academy's growth and the need to keep ninja ideology out of its students.
• Shimura Kentei proposed supporting Yuguan as the local leader of the ninja-samurai and arranging a journey to expose her to the harms of ninjas.
• The Envoy explained that ninjas and ninja villages helped sustain bandit groups to generate hired missions, and Shimura Kentei resolved to reform the system.
• Shimura Kentei considered how to pressure Konoha's ninja clans into accepting his plan for the Ninja Academy.
• A Senju elder and other Konoha leaders confronted Shimura Danzō over Kentei's academy and its one hundred thousand recruits.
• Shimura Danzō claimed Kentei was Ōnoki's puppet and warned that Hozuki Chigetsu might have traded Shimura secret techniques to Kumogakure.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō arranged to establish a Ninja-Samurai Academy in Konoha and negotiated a trade for the C-Rank Body Strengthening Secret Technique. Meanwhile, Shimura Kentei worked on a massive meteorite alloy weapon and began planning weapons for Yuguan and Inko.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen adjourned the meeting for three days, then agreed with Shimura Danzō that the Death Forest could host Konoha's Ninja-Samurai Academy.
• Shimura Danzō offered to secure funding from the Feudal Lord's Government and traded the C-Rank Body Strengthening Secret Technique for Sarutobi Hiruzen's Great Fireball Jutsu and access to Impure World Reincarnation.
• Shimura Danzō warned Sarutobi Hiruzen to stop pursuing Keiko, while the other great villages struggled to copy Iwagakure and Konoha's academies.
• Konoha accepted two hundred thousand Ninja-Samurai students, and the growing academies supplied Shimura Kentei with abundant merit energy.
• Shimura Kentei and Katsuchi discussed adding three more tons of Perfect Energy Metal to the meteorite alloy, while Son Goku's Clone considered turning it into a massive black staff.
• Inko chose a rake as her weapon, and Yuguan chose a naginata, prompting Shimura Kentei to suggest incorporating her nearly broken Gravity Ninja Tool.

Shimura Kentei forged weapons from meteorite alloy and prepared a massive replacement skeleton for Ditai, but learned that an evil demon had appeared in the Land of Water. He left immediately with the tailed-beast clones, alarmed that Iwagakure had withheld the warning for two days.

• Shimura Kentei melted the perfect Energy Metal into meteorite alloy and forged weapons for the Son Goku Clone, Murasaki, Inko, Han, and others, including a Great Guan Dao containing Yuguan's gravity bead.
• Shimura Kentei told Ditai that the Sun-Moon Spade suited him better than a naginata, and Ditai eagerly asked when he could receive his five-meter replacement skeleton.
• Inko advised Shimura Kentei to enlarge one part of Ditai's body by 1.2 times, and he agreed to adjust the skeleton accordingly.
• Katsuchi delivered an invitation from the Feudal Lord's Government of the Land of Water and revealed that an evil demon had appeared there, with the intelligence withheld for two days.
• Shimura Kentei angrily confronted Katsuchi about the delay, then rushed to the surface with the Four-Tails Son Goku Clone and Five-Tails Muo Clone.

Shimura Kentei rushed with Yuguan and the tailed beast clones toward the Land of Water to confront a rapidly growing evil demon, while Iwagakure learned of the threat and mobilized its own team. On the journey, Shimura Kentei fused Acquired Wind Release and Acquired Earth Release to create an intensely powerful Acquired Magnetic Field Attribute.

• Huang Yan told Shimura Kentei that the Sacred Bird would carry him to the Land of Water, and Yuguan and the Four-Tails Son Goku Clone and Five-Tails Muo Clone joined him.
• Huang Yan warned Katsuchi that the evil demon could not be harmed by his grandfather's full-strength attack, prompting Katsuchi to report the threat to Ōnoki.
• Ōnoki led a team toward the Land of Water after Katsuchi's report, while Shimura Kentei explained the demon's strength to Yuguan and the tailed beast clones during their flight.
• Yuguan taught the Four-Tails Son Goku Clone and Five-Tails Muo Clone the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique and Super Heavy Rock Technique through their horn contact.
• Shimura Kentei began cultivating a secret technique and fused Acquired Wind Release with Acquired Earth Release, creating an Acquired Magnetic Field Attribute with extreme power in a tiny range.

Shimura Kentei reinforced his bones with Meteorite Alloy and transformed his heart’s Rasengan Golden Cores using Yang magatama before reaching the Land of Water, where a rapidly growing evil fiend was fighting the Three-Tails and Six-Tails. At the island, Kentei’s group headed to join the assembled Kage as they struggled to find a way to stop the monster.

• Shimura Kentei coated his bones in Meteorite Alloy and sealed halves of a Yang magatama into the Gate of Death, transforming its Rasengan Golden Cores with Yang Release.
• Shimura Kentei explained that the transformed cores could help him survive opening the eighth gate, then traveled with Yuguan, Four-Tails Son Goku, and Five-Tails Muo toward the Land of Water.
• Five-Tails Muo sensed an evil energy over the sea, and the Sacred Bird grew too frightened to continue, so Shimura Kentei and the others ran across the water toward its source.
• Shimura Kentei’s group reached an island where an enormous evil fiend fought the Three-Tails and Six-Tails, then ran to meet the powerful chakra sources detected by Yuguan.
• The Third Mizukage blamed Jiraiya for releasing the fiend, while the Third Raikage and Orochimaru called for the forces and Tailed Beasts to unite against it.

Shimura Kentei arrived and proposed using tailed beasts to power a stronger barrier that could contain the demon while Natural Sage Fire burned it. He and Shimura Danzō led the Four-Tails and Five-Tails into battle as the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails were summoned from Kumogakure.

• The Third Raikage confirmed that the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails were on their way, while the Third Mizukage and Tsunade doubted Shimura Kentei could defeat the demon.
• Shimura Danzō returned wounded and revealed that chakra had kept him alive despite a rib piercing his heart, then explained that Natural Sage Fire was the only way to harm the demon.
• Shimura Kentei arrived with Yuguan and the tailed beast clones, proposing that tailed beasts cast a stronger formation while the demon was restrained and burned.
• Ōnoki brought Iwagakure's tailed beasts into the battle, and Shimura Danzō taught them the Four Red Yang Formation through their shared mental space.
• Shimura Kentei and the tailed beasts prepared to attempt a Six Crimson Sun Array, then he led the Four-Tails and Five-Tails toward the battlefield to replace the exhausted Three-Tails and Six-Tails.

Shimura Danzō explained that the demon had been artificially created beneath Rōran, while Shimura Kentei spoke with Isobu and Saiken as the tailed beasts fought it. The Zidian Swordsman arrived and asked Kentei how they could kill the demon.

• Shimura Danzō told the gathered leaders that the demon had been created by ninjas thousands of years ago and that living Divine Tree roots now protected Rōran.
• Katsuchi lifted the assembled group above the battlefield, where Son Goku and Kokuō fought the demon while Isobu and Saiken watched.
• Shimura Kentei introduced himself to Isobu and Saiken, and both tailed beasts revealed their true names and asked for clones like Son Goku and Kokuō.
• Shimura Kentei offered to help Saiken cultivate a clone through Mizurong and agreed to find a suitable candidate for Isobu.
• The Zidian Swordsman arrived, described how badly the demon had beaten the gathered fighters, and asked Shimura Kentei if he had a way to kill it.

Shimura Kentei gathered allies to fight the increasingly powerful fiend and prepared to enter its body to restrain it. After Matatabi and Gyuki joined the battle, he equipped Yuguan with a massive Great Guan Dao and began preparing a secret technique with Tsunade.

• Shimura Kentei and Zidian Swordsman concluded that the fiend had grown more violent after devouring human souls, and the Third Raikage arrived with the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails sealed in Kumogakure's Six Paths tools.
• The Third Raikage released Matatabi and Gyuki, who recognized Shimura Kentei's respect for tailed beasts before joining the fight against the fiend.
• Shimura Kentei fashioned a Great Guan Dao for Yuguan and instructed her to use concentrated gravity to break through the fiend's skull so he could enter and restrain it.
• Shimura Kentei told Zidian Swordsman and the injured shinobi to survive and keep others from interfering, while Tsunade offered to fight alongside him using the Eight Inner Gates Formation.
• Shimura Kentei drank most of a bottle of Grail Energy Liquid, gave the remainder to Tsunade, and began performing a secret technique to prepare for the Eight Inner Gates Formation.

Shimura Kentei and the Tailed Beasts attacked and trapped the Evil Entity, while Kentei entered its skull and discovered a crystal of spiritual power. The battle continued as the Six Crimson Sun Array compressed the creature and burned it with Natural Sage Fire, but Kentei soon encountered trouble inside its brain.

• Shimura Kentei activated Yang Release Immortal Yuan Power Mode and the Eight Inner Gates, then joined Tsunade in attacking the Evil Entity's eyes.
• Gyuki and the other Tailed Beasts restrained the Evil Entity's tentacles while Five-Tails Muo and Yuguan broke through its skull, allowing Kentei to enter its brain.
• Kentei opened the Gate of Death as the Tailed Beasts formed the Six Crimson Sun Array and used Natural Sage Fire to trap and burn the Evil Entity.
• Tsunade asked the Third Mizukage to wash corrosive blood from her damaged armor, while Orochimaru and the others collected the blood for research.
• Kentei found a crystal of spiritual power inside the Evil Entity's brain and searched for more, intensifying its pain as the Tailed Beasts tightened the burning barrier.
• Kentei encountered trouble during his search inside the Evil Entity's brain.

Shimura Kentei helped destroy the evil entity, then confronted the consequences of Ōnoki delaying the warning and causing millions of civilian deaths. He left with the Third Mizukage to visit Kirigakure and promote the tailed beasts’ contributions, while Shimura Danzō suspected his son had plans for the village.

• Shimura Kentei cut through the evil entity’s brain tentacles, collected its brain stones, and escaped the skull as the Six Tailed Beasts continued burning it.
• After the evil entity was reduced to ash, the Third Raikage sealed Matatabi and Gyuki into Six Paths ninja tools and left for Kumogakure.
• The Third Mizukage confronted Ōnoki over the delayed intelligence, but Ōnoki and his allies escaped into the air.
• Shimura Kentei learned that Kirigakure had lost three thousand ninja and more than five million civilians, and he blamed Ōnoki for the deaths.
• Shimura Kentei gave Shimura Danzō the brain stones and went with the Third Mizukage to Kirigakure, proposing that the village honor Isobu and Saiken.
• Shimura Danzō watched his son depart with the Third Mizukage and wondered whether Shimura Kentei was after Kirigakure’s Scroll of Seals.

Shimura Kentei negotiated with the Third Mizukage and prepared to visit Kirigakure with the Tailed Beast clones and Yuguan. After their ship departed, the supposedly defeated evil demon emerged alive from the island ruins and began recovering in the sea.

• Shimura Kentei traded the D-Rank Body Strengthening Secret Technique for the Third Mizukage’s agreement to honor the Tailed Beasts’ battle and rejected the Mizukage’s demand to leave them unsealed.
• The Third Mizukage revealed that he had been speaking through a Shadow Clone, and Shimura Kentei mocked him before teasing Hozuki Chigetsu about a supposed private ailment.
• Shimura Kentei told Son Goku and the Five-Tails Muo Clone that the battle would be publicized, invited them and Yuguan to Kirigakure, and asked them to arrange Mizurong’s return.
• Shimura Kentei, Shimura Danzō, Tsunade, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and the others boarded a Kirigakure ship, while Jiraiya warned his teammates to stay alert around the Mist ninjas.
• The complete but weakened evil demon crawled out of the island ruins, watched the ship depart, and dived into the sea to feed and regain its strength.

Shimura Kentei treated Kirigakure ninja after Tsunade took their fees and sent them to him, while new novels by Master Yunzhongniao sparked controversy in Konoha. Sarutobi Hiruzen decided to embezzle public funds to buy the books, and Senju Tōsu learned that Uzumaki Mito had authorized the novel featuring Hashirama.

• Tsunade refused to treat more than a hundred Kirigakure ninja, but took their fees and directed them to Shimura Kentei, who agreed to see them.
• Shimura Kentei suggested that one woman ask her husband to consult a Hoshigaki Clan ninja, then began registering the other patients for treatment.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen saw the new releases of Perfect World and Ruthless Emperor and decided to take money from the Ninja-Samurai Academy's public funding to buy them.
• Senju elders protested Master Yunzhongniao's use of Hashirama as a protagonist, but Uzumaki Mito restrained them and brought them back to the clan.
• Senju Tōsu questioned Mito about the author, and she explained that Shimura Kentei had passed along her suggestion for the novels; Tōsu grew resentful of Kentei.

Uchiha Madara decided to seek out Yin Zhong Niao and have a novel written that would make Hashirama look inferior. In Kirigakure, Yuguan defeated Hozuki Suirou again, and Shimura Kentei's attempt to take advantage of the unconscious woman backfired when she woke and forced him to accompany her.

• Uchiha Madara questioned whether pursuing the Rinnegan had been a mistake, then decided to find Yin Zhong Niao and use Shimura Danzō's location in Kirigakure to do so.
• Tsunade and Orochimaru watched Shimura Danzō's son earn huge sums treating patients in Kirigakure and considered the profitability of the work.
• Hozuki Suirou challenged Yuguan for the eighth day, but Yuguan defeated her with gravity and Lightning Release and left her unconscious.
• Shimura Kentei carried Hozuki Suirou to the operating room and tried to examine her while she was unconscious, but she woke and threatened to accuse him of molestation.
• After Shimura Kentei restored Hozuki Suirou's movement, she dressed and ordered him to come with her, using his own threat against him.

Shimura Kentei visited the Hozuki Clan, where he clashed with Hozuki Suirou and revealed that he had made Hozuki Yuguan stronger through his secret techniques. After Suirou demanded the techniques, Kentei began transmitting them in his Mental Space, where he kissed her as the information flooded her consciousness.

• Shimura Kentei followed Hozuki Suirou to the Hozuki Clan compound, where Hozuki Chigetsu tried to drive him away before Suirou took him to a villa.
• Suirou attacked Kentei with a whip, but he restrained her and disrupted her chakra before releasing her to discuss compensation.
• Suirou read Kentei's intelligence and realized his secret technique had helped Hozuki Yuguan defeat her; she explained that she and Yuguan had once been students of the Second Mizukage and Second Tsuchikage.
• Suirou demanded all the secret techniques Kentei had given Yuguan, and he agreed, intending to spread his Rasengan Golden Core technique among Kirigakure's leaders.
• Kentei brought Suirou's Spiritual Body into his Mental Space to transmit the techniques, then kissed her as a torrent of information entered her consciousness.

Shimura Kentei sold exclusive chakra-circulation treatments to Hozuki Suirou and the Hozuki Clan, leaving the clan to study the circuits after he collected most of its liquid assets. Back home, he diagnosed Hatake Sakumo with damage from Lightning Release training and began examining Jiraiya, who insisted he was healthy.

• Shimura Kentei warned Hozuki Suirou that her secret techniques were exclusive, then teased her before leaving as she angrily threw a cup at him.
• Shimura Kentei offered Hozuki Chigetsu a treatment circuit for the side effects of the Water Transformation Technique, and Chigetsu agreed to pay for circuits for his clansmen.
• Shimura Kentei tailored circuits for more than a thousand Hozuki Clan members and collected over a billion ryō, while Chigetsu and the clan elders resolved to study the circuits.
• Shimura Kentei returned to his estate and diagnosed Hatake Sakumo with damage from Lightning Release training, prescribing a chakra circuit and charging him five million ryō.
• Shimura Kentei began examining Jiraiya, who denied having any health problems as Tsunade looked on.

Shimura Kentei treated Jiraiya, then shared secret techniques taken from Hozuki Suirou’s memories with Shimura Danzō and discussed plans to acquire more forbidden knowledge and Uchiha Mangekyo. As Danzō’s group left Kirigakure, the Third Mizukage ordered preparations for a ninja-samurai academy, while an unseen old man entered the village.

• Shimura Kentei diagnosed Jiraiya’s exhaustion, took his money, and treated him with a custom chakra circuit and Yang Release.
• Shimura Kentei refused to leave Kirigakure with Shimura Danzō and sent boxes of banknotes back to the Shimura Family.
• Shimura Kentei transferred secret techniques from Hozuki Suirou’s memories to Shimura Danzō, revealing that they contained about eighty percent of Kirigakure’s Scroll of Seals.
• Shimura Danzō revealed that he had acquired Impure World Reincarnation and collected biological samples, and Shimura Kentei urged him to obtain discarded Uchiha Mangekyo for a second Divine Tree cultivation plan.
• Shimura Danzō and his group departed Kirigakure, while the Third Mizukage rejected a proposal to attack Shimura Kentei and ordered the village’s academy preparations to begin.
• An old man with pale hair entered Kirigakure unnoticed by the people and guards around him.

Shimura Kentei welcomed Uchiha Madara and tried to win his support by arguing that unifying the ninja world could bring lasting peace. After Kentei revealed his knowledge of Madara’s plans to use Hashirama’s cells to awaken the Rinnegan, Madara listened with interest, leaving Kentei’s risky attempt to recruit him unresolved.

• Shimura Kentei sensed someone disturbing his Immortal Yuan Power threads, returned from the Black Cauldron Space, and found Uchiha Madara in his room.
• Kentei welcomed Madara as his grandmaster and claimed that he and Shimura Danzō wanted to overthrow the ninja village system and unify the world.
• Madara reacted with surprise and amusement as Kentei argued that unification could reduce wars and create lasting peace.
• Kentei denied wanting Madara’s eyes and said Danzō hoped to cooperate with him, then described the Shimura Family’s research into combining Uchiha and Senju powers.
• Kentei deduced that Madara had taken Hashirama’s living cells to gain Sage Body power and awaken the Rinnegan, while secretly preparing to fight or escape if Madara attacked.

Shimura Kentei persuaded Uchiha Madara that evolving his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan required fusing higher-quality powers, and introduced a cultivation method that could help him do so. He invited Madara to join forces against dangers from beyond the planet, leaving Madara to consider their alliance and a journey into the stars.

• Shimura Kentei explained his theory that Uchiha and Senju powers needed to be refined and fused to evolve Madara's eyes, and Madara confirmed that his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan had been formed through that power.
• Kentei showed Madara that he was registered as a ninja in Konoha, Sunagakure, and Iwagakure, then let Madara examine his unusual meridians and the Rasengan Golden Core at his navel.
• Madara recognized that Kentei's cultivation method could refine energy and help fuse the powers in his body, while Kentei offered a technique to restore Madara's youth.
• Kentei secretly noted that he had developed techniques to detonate or reverse the Rasengan Golden Core, giving him a potential way to counter Madara.
• Kentei described the world as a sphere surrounded by a dangerous, inhabited starry sky and argued that outsiders might threaten their world.
• Kentei invited Madara to unite their strength, protect the ninja world, and pursue the sea of stars.

Shimura Kentei won Uchiha Madara’s approval by promising a future journey to the stars, then repaired Madara’s Hashirama-cell graft and transplanted extra eyes into the Hashirama face on his chest. After restoring Madara’s youth and helping him cultivate new techniques, Kentei turned his attention to copying Madara’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

• Uchiha Madara accepted Danzo as his disciple and agreed to pursue the sea of stars.
• Shimura Kentei connected Madara’s Hashirama-cell graft to his body, but the cells ran wild and Madara suppressed them with his Chakra and Pupil Power.
• Shimura Kentei transplanted Madara’s original Mangekyō Sharingan into the Hashirama face, and Madara used them to help restrain the rampaging cells.
• Shimura Kentei transplanted Hyuga Tenin’s special Byakugan into the Hashirama face, and Uchiha Madara gained control of it without a conflict in Pupil Power.
• Shimura Kentei guided Uchiha Madara through the Eternal Spring Technique, the Meridian and Acupoint Reconstruction Technique, and the cultivation of 123 pairs of Rasengan Golden Cores.
• With the preparations complete, Shimura Kentei looked toward Uchiha Madara’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, intending to copy it.

Shimura Kentei persuaded Uchiha Madara to develop a method for condensing single-attribute Chakra Crystals, while examining Madara’s Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and discovering its microscopic acupoints. After Madara left, Kentei found his teacher unconscious and prepared to examine her and test his techniques.

• Shimura Kentei explained the next stage of Rasengan Golden Core training and convinced Uchiha Madara to work on condensing Chakra Crystals.
• Uchiha Madara allowed Shimura Kentei to examine his eyes, and Kentei discovered that the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan contained one hundred and eighty microscopic acupoints.
• Shimura Kentei told Uchiha Madara that his damaged eye could not yet be repaired but that his original Mangekyō Sharingan might be restored and advanced.
• Uchiha Madara promised to visit the Shimura Family after developing a Chakra Crystal technique, then left under Genjutsu while the Mist Anbu failed to notice him.
• Shimura Kentei stored the treasures Madara had left behind and found Miss Yuguan unconscious in her bedroom.
• Shimura Kentei prepared to examine Miss Yuguan and test his specialized secret techniques on her.