Chapter Summaries

Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru discussed Shimura Kentei’s improved physique and the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, while Orochimaru regretted losing access to further training. Back at the Shimura Clan, Kentei cultivated Senju Tobirama’s cells to investigate his space talent and arranged an exchange of a C-Rank strengthening technique for Uzumaki sealing techniques, then began examining Keiko to create a personalized chakra pathway.

• Tsunade and Orochimaru sensed that Shimura Kentei’s physique had improved and suspected the Seventh Gate would make him more powerful.
• Orochimaru asked Tsunade about obtaining the Shimura Clan’s C-Rank Body Strengthening Secret Technique, but Tsunade and Jiraiya refused to press the matter.
• Orochimaru regretted offending the Shimura Clan after reaching the limit of the D-Rank technique and being unable to continue improving.
• Shimura Kentei stabilized a mass of Senju Tobirama’s cells and told Shimura Keiko to have half cultivated toward a clone and half made into proliferating cancer cells.
• Shimura Kentei explained that he wanted to study Tobirama’s space talent and arranged to exchange the C-Rank technique with Uzumaki Mito for Uzumaki sealing techniques.
• Shimura Kentei carried Keiko to the bed and began examining her to design a personalized chakra circulation pathway.

Shimura Kentei explained the bodily modifications he had made through cultivation while enjoying a massage from Shimura Keiko. As Konoha prepared for his coming battle with Tsunade, Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other elders grew increasingly wary of the Shimura Clan’s strength and questioned Shimura Danzō’s conspicuous behavior.

• Shimura Kentei told Shimura Keiko that cultivation had let him remove unnecessary body hair and sweat glands and improve his skeletal structure, and she sensed that his spine was three times thicker than an ordinary person’s.
• Shimura Kentei continued preparing for his spar with Tsunade while Konoha anticipated their upcoming battle; Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that Hokage Rock had been reinforced to withstand a True Kage Level fight.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura that the spar offered a chance to observe the Shimura Clan’s strength and worried that its secret techniques might reach ranks beyond the C-Rank one he had acquired from Shimura Danzō.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen refused to share the C-Rank Body Strengthening Secret Technique with Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, blaming Shimura Danzō’s temperament.
• Utatane Koharu questioned why Shimura Danzō and his son had become so conspicuous as their plan approached, but Sarutobi Hiruzen admitted he did not understand Danzō’s motives.

Ting Shui, Yoshi, Huang Yan, Mifune, and Chihuo Huowu arrived in Konoha to watch Shimura Kentei duel Princess Tsunade, placing bets on Kentei and discussing their swordsmanship. As the full-moon gathering awaited the duel atop Hokage Rock, a powerful figure flew in from the south, leaving the spectators wondering who had arrived.

• Ting Shui reached Konoha first, where Black Panther and Chihuo Huowu waited for the other swordsmanship inheritors.
• Yoshi and Huang Yan arrived, and the group discussed the six sword techniques, Mifune's progress, and Chihuo Huowu's Fangtian Halberd.
• Mifune joined them, and the six entered Konoha to watch the duel from Hokage Rock.
• Yoshi wagered all his money on Kentei, and Mifune and the others each placed one hundred thousand taels on Kentei to win.
• The group discussed Tsunade's standing as a possible successor to the Flame Blade Swordsman while waiting for the duel to begin.
• A figure flew in from the south and landed on Hokage Rock, surprising Yoshi and the assembled spectators.

Shimura Kentei made a spectacular entrance at Hokage Rock and began his duel with Tsunade, overwhelming her with a barrage from his heavy bow before they clashed in close combat. As the fight continued, Torifu Akimichi suspected Kentei’s strength-enhancing technique had been developed from stolen Akimichi secrets.

• Shimura Danzō returned from Rōran and joined Sarutobi Hiruzen to watch his son’s duel.
• Shimura Kentei flew in beneath the moon, stood atop Sarutobi Hiruzen’s Hokage Rock likeness, and introduced his 108-ton Great Silver Sword.
• Tsunade introduced her three-ton Giant Treasure Sword, and Kentei opened the duel by firing all nine arrows from his Heavy Gold War Bow, driving her into a stone wall.
• Tsunade emerged from the ground with her Yin Seal released and attacked Kentei, beginning an intense taijutsu exchange between master and disciple.
• Torifu Akimichi noticed Kentei’s enlarged muscles and suspected the Shimura Clan had secretly obtained and researched Akimichi secret techniques.

Shimura Kentei and Tsunade fought with their enhanced armor, swords, and Eight Inner Gates, drawing alarm and admiration from the spectators. Shimura Kentei eventually subdued Tsunade and sealed her chakra points, but she continued resisting as Sarutobi Hiruzen called on Enma to help restrain her.

• Tsunade used the Great Silver Sword and opened the sixth gate, while Shimura Kentei armed himself with the Giant Treasure Sword and activated his Immortal Yuan Power versions of Yang Release Armor and the Eight Inner Gates.
• Shimura Kentei and Tsunade exchanged sword strikes, and Tsunade opened the seventh gate to knock him back; he opened the same gate and resumed their fierce clash.
• Torifu Akimichi judged that his raw strength exceeded theirs but that he lacked their speed and weapons, while Orochimaru warned Sarutobi Hiruzen that the Great Silver Sword could threaten Enma.
• After the Giant Treasure Sword broke, Shimura Kentei grappled Tsunade, used Gravity Technique to immobilize her, and sealed her Eight Gates and other acupoints when she refused to yield.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen stopped the match, but Tsunade attacked Shimura Kentei again, so Hiruzen called Enma to intervene.

Shimura Kentei won his duel with Tsunade, collected Enma’s cells, and began studying the Monkey Clan’s indestructible body. He then told Mifune and the other samurai leaders that the Sage of Six Paths threatened their world and urged them to unite against him.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen declared Shimura Kentei the winner, and Kentei secretly took a sample of Enma’s palm cells before leaving to cultivate them.
• The crowd protested the result, while Tsunade returned home humiliated and the gathered samurai debated Kentei’s swordsmanship and close-combat technique.
• Shimura Kentei analyzed Enma’s cells and discovered that the indestructible body came from Earth Release chakra coating the cell walls; he also recognized that his Yang Release Armor could not safely sustain the Seventh Gate for long.
• Mifune thanked Shimura Kentei for helping the Land of Iron reclaim the Land of Waterfalls, and Kentei explained that the alliance also helped contain Konoha.
• Shimura Kentei told Mifune and the other samurai leaders that the Sage of Six Paths might still be alive, came from beyond their world, and was draining its Nature Energy, then urged the samurai to unite against him.

Shimura Kentei urged the samurai leaders to unite humanity and end war, then warned them that the Sage of Six Paths could soon consolidate the ninja villages into an overwhelming force. The leaders agreed to prepare their nations and gather Energy Metal for the coming conflict.

• Shimura Kentei explained that some ninja could be freed from their chakra bloodlines and urged his allies to reduce bloodshed while protecting humanity.
• Shimura Kentei declared that he intended to unify all nations and redirect resources, and Mifune accepted his vision of a peaceful unification through a personal duel between their leaders.
• Mifune, Black Panther, Ting Shui, Huang Yan, Chihuo Huowu, and Yoshi proposed challenging Shimura Kentei in battles to decide the future or strength of their nations.
• Shimura Kentei warned Mifune and the others that the Sage of Six Paths might unite the ninja villages and concentrate their power, leaving the samurai little time to prepare.
• Mifune promised to urge the Land of Iron to mine Energy Metal, while Huang Yan offered to open the Land of Earth's trade quotas in exchange for urgently needed supplies.

Shimura Kentei received Ebizo, agreed to visit Sunagakure to help calm Shukaku and serve as the Ninja-Samurai Academy’s nominal headmaster, though he withheld the condition he would demand. He then welcomed a Kumogakure delegation and sparred with its combat ninja, ending the chapter as he recognized their envoy, Dodai.

• Shimura Kentei saw Mifune and the others off, then welcomed Ebizo and several Sand ninja to the Shimura Clan Land.
• Ebizo asked Shimura Kentei to calm the One-Tail and become the nominal headmaster of Sunagakure’s Ninja-Samurai Academy, and Shimura Kentei agreed on the condition that he would reveal later.
• Ebizo set their departure for Sunagakure in three days, and Shimura Kentei met the arriving Kumogakure delegation at the gate.
• Shimura Kentei took the Kumogakure ninja to a training ground and defeated each combatant in a swordsmanship bout.
• Shimura Kentei learned that the delegation’s noncombatant envoy was named Dodai and recognized him as a figure from the original story.

Shimura Kentei hosted Dodai and the Kumogakure delegation, accepted their invitation to help establish a Ninja-Samurai Academy in Kumogakure after visiting Sunagakure, and learned they already had a D-Rank Body Strengthening Secret Technique. After the delegation left, Kentei questioned how Kumogakure obtained it, while Sarutobi Hiruzen grew uneasy about Danzō’s plans.

• Shimura Kentei served Dodai and the Kumogakure ninja sixty-five-proof Shimura Erguotou, explaining that the medicinal liquor assisted cultivation.
• Dodai invited Kentei to serve as the nominal principal of Kumogakure’s planned Ninja-Samurai Academy and presented a Lightning Armor secret technique as a reward.
• Kentei refused the Lightning Armor scroll, agreed to visit Kumogakure after his trip to Sunagakure, and left Dodai suspicious that the Shimura Clan had developed the technique.
• Kentei’s Erguotou left the Kumogakure delegation drunk, and Shimura clansmen carried them to an inn.
• Kentei wondered who had given Kumogakure a D-Rank Body Strengthening Secret Technique and decided to stay wary of the village and Orochimaru.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that the Kumogakure delegation had been carried out drunk and worried that Danzō might be pursuing a secret plan.

Shimura Kentei helped Uzumaki Mito begin cultivating a Rasengan Golden Core and warned her that the Uzumaki Clan should prepare for the coming Second Shinobi World War. After discussing the danger to the Uzumaki and the Senju Clan, Mito restrained Tsunade and let Kentei take her to the Shimura Family for treatment.

• Shimura Kentei designed a chakra circulation route for Uzumaki Mito and warned her that a mistake while condensing a Rasengan Golden Core could be fatal.
• Kentei urged Mito to tell the Uzumaki Clan to strengthen its preparations, warning that the Land of Whirlpools could become a major battlefield in the Second Shinobi World War.
• Kentei suspected that other villages had learned Mito sealed Kurama and would target the Uzumaki Clan for its Fuinjutsu; Mito agreed to warn her clan and suspected Sarutobi Hiruzen and the others had leaked the secret.
• Mito caught Tsunade eavesdropping and learned from Kentei that Tsunade had hidden injuries from overtraining.
• Mito sealed Tsunade's chakra and allowed Kentei to carry her to the Shimura Family for recuperation, while Tsunade struggled and protested.

Shimura Kentei examined Tsunade, treated her injuries, and confined her to recover while teaching her a chakra reconstruction technique. He and Shimura Danzō then planned to obtain the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing chains and cover up their past actions.

• Shimura Kentei examined Tsunade and found that her overtraining had damaged her body and shortened her lifespan, then gave her Grail Energy Liquid.
• Shimura Keiko restrained Tsunade with Energy Metal threads and a curse seal while Shimura Kentei taught her a chakra circulation method to rebuild her meridians and acupoints.
• Shimura Danzō and Shimura Kentei secretly altered Tsunade’s chakra and left her to recuperate at the Shimura Clan residence under Shimura Keiko’s watch.
• Shimura Kentei told Shimura Danzō that the Uzumaki Clan’s Adamantine Sealing Chains could help perfect the Eight Trigrams Immortal Furnace, and Shimura Danzō agreed to arrange their cooperation.
• Shimura Kentei urged Shimura Danzō to alter his memories and frame Sarutobi Hiruzen or the Senju Clan for revealing the Uzumaki sealing technique, leaving Shimura Danzō confused about how the Senju Clan could be blamed.

Shimura Kentei traveled to Sunagakure, copied its Scroll of Seals while negotiating for the Forbidden Jutsu of Human Puppets, and learned that the village planned to obtain the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing techniques. He went to Karura’s apartment, found her away on a mission, and began paying to clear the area for a luxurious villa.

• Shimura Kentei arrived in Sunagakure with Ebizo after a week of travel and saw Shukaku’s massive sandstorm.
• The Third Kazekage returned with Monk Bunpuku, and Shimura Kentei demanded to learn the Forbidden Jutsu of Human Puppets as payment for his help.
• The Third Kazekage let Shimura Kentei read Sunagakure’s Scroll of Seals, which Shimura Kentei secretly copied into the Black Cauldron Space.
• The Third Kazekage told Ebizo that Sunagakure should seek the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing techniques to better control the One-Tail.
• Shimura Kentei found Karura away on a mission, paid an Anbu ninja to clear nearby apartments, and ordered a luxurious villa built for him.

Shimura Kentei built a fortified tower in Sunagakure and moved Karura, Pakura, and Yashamaru into it, provoking Rasa and the two kunoichi. He then revealed that he needed Karura’s help to split a clone from a powerful being, but ended the chapter restraining her and Pakura so he could examine Karura.

• The Third Kazekage built Shimura Kentei’s tower from lava, and the former apartment residents relocated after receiving one billion ryo in compensation.
• Karura, Pakura, and Rasa returned to find the tower, and Shimura Kentei welcomed Karura and Pakura inside while an Anbu ninja enforced the Kazekage’s order against Rasa.
• Pakura and Karura attacked Shimura Kentei, but he overwhelmed them and sealed their ability to use Chakra before they left with Yashamaru.
• Karura and Pakura returned to the tower as assigned bodyguards, and Shimura Kentei later explained that Karura must help split a clone from a powerful being.
• Karura and Pakura refused Shimura Kentei’s proposed examination, so he restrained them with threads of Immortal Yuan Power.

Shimura Kentei examined Karura and Pakura, then used a cursed-mark tattoo made from a Kumogakure ninja’s blood to help Karura experience Electromagnetic Release Chakra. He left Karura with a way to study the Kekkei Genkai, urging her to cultivate it herself rather than accept a dangerous bodily transformation.

• Shimura Kentei restrained and examined Karura and Pakura, discovered that their overtraining had harmed their bodies, and told them to dress while he considered treatment.
• Shimura Kentei restrained Karura and Pakura again, then created a Correct Character Cursed Mark Tattoo on Karura’s leg using blood from a Kumogakure Magnetic Release ninja.
• Karura channeled Lightning and Earth Chakra into the tattoo, felt intense pain, and sensed it had produced Electromagnetic Release Chakra that could not yet be used for ninjutsu.
• Shimura Kentei explained that the tattoo was meant to help Karura understand Electromagnetic Release and eventually fuse the Kekkei Genkai herself.
• Karura rejected his proposed alternative of using the blood to permanently transform her body, and Shimura Kentei urged her to adapt to the new Chakra and cultivate a second Kekkei Genkai.

Shimura Kentei gave Pakura and Karura cursed seals designed to accelerate their cultivation, while revealing that he intended to use them in the Shimura Family’s Three-Element Kekkei Tōta fusion method. Both women accepted the risks in exchange for a chance to become stronger, though the chapter left their survival and the experiment’s outcome uncertain.

• Shimura Kentei tattooed Wind and Fire cursed seals on Pakura’s back using fresh blood from two Quasi-Kage Level ninja, and Karura learned that her own seal had been made with old corpse blood.
• Shimura Kentei created Immortal Yuan Power cursed seals for Pakura and Karura, teaching them to absorb Nature Energy and convert it into chakra without consuming their spiritual and life force.
• Shimura Kentei placed an Upright Character Cursed Seal on Pakura’s leg, which reacted to Wind and Water Release chakra and suggested an Ice Release Kekkei Genkai.
• Shimura Kentei explained his family’s method of fusing three related Two-element Kekkei Genkai into a Three-Element Kekkei Tōta, and Karura realized that he meant to use them as experimental subjects.
• Pakura and Karura tacitly accepted the risks because they wanted to become stronger and improve their chances of surviving the coming Ninja World War.

Shimura Kentei added curse-mark tattoos to Pakura and Karura to help them develop additional Kekkei Genkai, then presented Sunagakure with a curved-saber fighting style and Chinese-language training scrolls. He asked to visit Monk Bunpuku, freezing the room with his request.

• Shimura Kentei tattooed Pakura with marks intended to help her develop Boil Release and Water Release, then gave Karura wing-shaped and other curse marks to support her Magnetic Field Release and a possible new Magnetic Wave Release.
• Shimura Kentei ordered Pakura and Karura to visit his room every evening for examinations, angering Pakura and prompting Karura to wonder what the Shimura Clan was planning.
• Pakura and Karura worried about Chiyo and Kōgyoku before exhaustion carried them to sleep.
• Shimura Kentei demonstrated the Curved Saber Technique to the Third Kazekage, Ebizo, and others, who approved of its usefulness for the Ninja-Samurai Academy despite the difficulty of its Chinese-language manual.
• Shimura Kentei gave the Kazekage's office Chinese-language versions of the E- and D-Rank Body Strengthening Secret Techniques, then asked to visit Monk Bunpuku at the Temple of Sand.

Shimura Kentei brought Karura to the Temple of Sand so Monk Bunpuku and Shukaku could help her develop her Yang Release and Magnetic Release. Shukaku agreed to work with her after hearing that a perfect Three-Element Magnetic Release might make him the strongest tailed beast, and Bunpuku agreed to keep Karura at the temple for training.

• Shimura Kentei arrived at the Temple of Sand, where Monk Bunpuku welcomed him and the Anbu monitored the visit.
• Shukaku demanded to know when he could create a split body, and Shimura Kentei explained that Karura needed to strengthen her Yang Release first.
• Shimura Kentei proposed that Shukaku help Karura develop Electromagnetic Release and a new Magnetic Wave Release that could lead to a Three-Element Magnetic Release.
• Shukaku accepted Karura as his partner after the prospect of becoming the strongest tailed beast excited him, then sealed a cluster of his chakra inside her.
• Shimura Kentei asked Monk Bunpuku to keep Karura at the temple for training, and Bunpuku agreed to speak with the Third Kazekage.

Shimura Kentei argued that the ninja village system would lead to repeated wars and that ninjas could not rule safely without other powers to restrain them. Monk Bunpuku agreed to help build a ninja monk faction, and he gave Kentei the Sealing Cauldron to study in exchange for learning Kentei’s inheritance.

• Shukaku condemned ninjas as a blight, and Monk Bunpuku judged the ninja villages and ninja world to be flawed.
• Shimura Kentei explained that a ninja nation would face conflict with the Feudal Lord's Government and risk being ruled by an unfit ninja class.
• Shimura Kentei proposed balancing ninjas with Ninja-Samurai and a separate ninja monk system based at the Temple of Sand.
• Monk Bunpuku agreed to develop the ninja monk faction, and Shimura Kentei offered to teach him a unique inheritance.
• Shimura Kentei asked to study the Sealing Cauldron to help create a reusable storage ninja tool, and Monk Bunpuku handed it over.

The Third Kazekage and Ebizo considered Shimura Kentei’s ideas for uniting the ninja villages and developing new Kekkei Genkai, while Kentei returned the Sealing Cauldron and brought Monk Bunpuku a cultivation scroll. Bunpuku began training Karura in Magnet Release, accepted her as his disciple, and warned her to leave her former ninja life behind.

• Ebizo told the Third Kazekage that an ancient text described the Senju Clan and Uchiha Clan producing exceptional powerhouses about every hundred years, prompting the Kazekage to worry that Konoha might lead a future ninja nation.
• The Third Kazekage judged that developing the proposed Kekkei Tōta Magnet Release would take decades and said he lacked the Lightning nature needed for it.
• Shimura Kentei returned to the Temple of Sand with a huge cultivation scroll for Monk Bunpuku and gave back the Sealing Cauldron after copying it.
• Shukaku suggested making Karura his Jinchuriki so he could pursue perfect Magnet Release, while Monk Bunpuku asked Karura to demonstrate her Magnet Release.
• Monk Bunpuku explained how Karura could strengthen her inherited Magnet Release by developing and reverse-fusing Wind and Earth chakra, then accepted her as his disciple.
• Monk Bunpuku told Karura to stop taking ninja missions and warned her that the village and the ninja way were not what she believed.

Shimura Kentei organized training and weapons production for Sunagakure’s Ninja-Samurai Academy, then demonstrated how Pakura could use Scorch Release through a sword to unleash devastating sword qi. Pakura considered learning saber techniques, while Kentei failed to reclaim his Great Sword from Inuzuka Ken.

• Shimura Kentei told Ebizo to build running and obstacle courses around Sunagakure and to have ninja use them for combat training.
• Ebizo said ore collection had begun and weapons forging would start in two days, and he agreed to transfer Inuzuka Ken to the academy as an instructor.
• Shimura Kentei asked Pakura to work with Ebizo, but she objected that she did not need saber techniques because her Scorch Release could keep enemies away.
• Shimura Kentei guided Pakura in channeling Scorch Release through his Great Silver Sword, and their strike cut a fiery scar through the academy’s twenty-meter-thick lava wall from a hundred meters away.
• Shimura Kentei urged Pakura to learn saber techniques and use compressed Scorch Release as sword qi; Pakura admitted the approach was effective and considered trying the academy’s Curved Saber Technique.
• Shimura Kentei asked Ebizo to return his Great Sword, but Ebizo refused, and Inuzuka Ken said he had grown accustomed to using it.