Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Feiyu, Sarutobi Asuma, and Kurenai met their new team leader, Hizashi Hyuga, and introduced themselves. Feiyu welcomed the assignment because Hizashi’s Byakugan could help keep the team alive, while Hizashi learned that Feiyu’s main goal was a peaceful, safe life.

• Hizashi Hyuga entered and introduced himself as Team 1’s Jonin leader, surprising Asuma and Kurenai because he was a Hyuga assigned to an Uchiha-led team.
• Uchiha Feiyu welcomed Hizashi, explaining that the Byakugan’s ability to detect danger would improve the team’s chances of survival.
• Asuma teased Feiyu for fearing death, and Feiyu replied that he had become a ninja only because the Uchiha had forcibly recruited him for his Sharingan.
• Hizashi introduced himself as a Jonin specializing in the Gentle Fist and Byakugan, then asked the students to share their specialties and dreams.
• Asuma said he wanted to surpass Feiyu and eventually his father, while Kurenai said she hoped to become an outstanding kunoichi like Lady Tsunade.
• Feiyu said he had a Two-Tomoe Sharingan, specialized in the Body Flicker Technique and swordsmanship, and wanted to live safely and peacefully.

Hizashi Hyuga tested Uchiha Feiyu, Asuma, and Kurenai in a spar, then decided to take them on missions for practical experience. Feiyu eagerly agreed because he needed money as an orphan.

• Hizashi Hyuga brought the three Genin to a training ground and asked them to attack him together.
• Uchiha Feiyu fought Hizashi Hyuga with lightning-fast White Fang Sword Style attacks, impressing Kurenai and Asuma.
• Hizashi Hyuga blasted Feiyu back with Kaiten, but Feiyu surrendered before the fight could continue.
• Asuma and Kurenai attacked Hizashi Hyuga, who quickly assessed their abilities and sealed their Chakra points.
• Hizashi Hyuga proposed taking missions to give the team practical experience, and Feiyu enthusiastically agreed because he needed money.

Hizashi Hyuga led Team 1 on a C-rank mission to find a mysterious beast that had been attacking a village. After searching the crime scenes and surrounding forest without success, the team was left wondering how the creature had appeared and vanished without leaving tracks.

• Uchiha Feiyu reflected on his lack of money and how acquiring more resources could help him grow stronger.
• Hizashi Hyuga chose a mission to drive a dangerous beast away from a nearby village and led Asuma, Kurenai, and Feiyu there.
• The village chief told the team that the beast had begun killing people after previously attacking livestock, and described its lizard-like claw marks and lack of tracks.
• Hizashi Hyuga searched the attack sites and surrounding forest with his Byakugan but found no sign of the beast.
• Kurenai suggested the beast might fly, but Hizashi rejected the idea because it had left no traces, prompting the team to wonder whether it had Space-Time Ninjutsu.

Uchiha Feiyu’s team tracked the monster to West Mountain and discovered a giant pangolin capable of traveling underground. Asuma and Kurenai fought it, and Kurenai’s genjutsu exposed its vulnerable belly for Asuma to attack.

• Kurenai suggested searching for signs of an animal that had recently gained Chakra, and the team learned that huge burrows had appeared on West Mountain about half a year earlier.
• The team found scales and claw marks matching the attacks, and Hizashi Hyuga used Earth Release to draw the creature out of the ground.
• A giant golden pangolin emerged, and Hizashi Hyuga assigned Asuma and Kurenai to fight it.
• Asuma’s trench knives could not pierce the pangolin’s armor, and he evaded its tail strike with the Substitution Technique.
• The pangolin curled into a rolling Shell Ball and charged through Asuma’s fire, but Kurenai’s Genjutsu made it uncurl and expose its belly.
• Asuma struck the pangolin’s soft belly with a Great Fireball Technique.

After a month of training and missions, Uchiha Feiyu had grown to Jonin-level combat strength, while Kakashi remained one of Konoha’s most promising young ninja. The Third Hokage visited their training ground and offered his support, but Feiyu suspected he meant to recruit them and kept his distance.

• Uchiha Feiyu gained the pangolin’s soul and its rare earth-traveling technique after the animal died.
• Over the following month, Uchiha Feiyu improved his White Fang Sword Style, Lightning Release, and Chakra, and Hizashi Hyuga said his battle power had reached Jonin level.
• Asuma and Kurenai gained combat experience but made little progress in strength compared with Uchiha Feiyu.
• Uchiha Feiyu found Kakashi speaking with the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, at their training ground in the Death Forest.
• Uchiha Feiyu joked about being unable to pay for damage to the forest, then asked the Third Hokage why he had come.
• The Third Hokage apologized for White Fang’s death and offered help to Uchiha Feiyu and Kakashi as his successors.

Uchiha Feiyu refused the Third Hokage’s offer to become a Special Jonin and made clear he wanted to delay going to the battlefield. After the Hokage left, Feiyu told Kakashi he would defect rather than accept a suicidal mission, and his criticism of the ninja profession left Kakashi questioning it.

• Uchiha Feiyu asked the Third Hokage about the war and refused his offer to take the Special Jonin exam, saying the rank would make him a battlefield target.
• Uchiha Feiyu challenged the Third Hokage’s claim that strength brought safety by pointing out that no Kage had died of old age, and the Hokage left after offering a few words of concern.
• Hatake Kakashi criticized Feiyu for mocking the Hokage, while Feiyu explained that he wanted to avoid the early, deadliest phase of the war.
• Uchiha Feiyu told Kakashi he would defect rather than accept a suicidal mission, and joked that he would leave a resignation letter when he left Konoha.
• Uchiha Feiyu described how the ninja system forced children into dangerous work and kept ninjas working until death, leaving Kakashi questioning whether the profession was as miserable as Feiyu said.

Uchiha Feiyu refused Uchiha Yashiro’s demand that he join the Uchiha Military Police Force and rejected the clan’s claim over him. After Yashiro attacked him with a Sharingan genjutsu, Feiyu shattered the illusion and knocked him down.

• Feiyu returned home and found Uchiha Yashiro and Uchiha Tekka waiting at his door.
• Yashiro praised Feiyu’s Two-Tomoe Sharingan and ordered him to report to the Uchiha Military Police Force the next day.
• Feiyu refused to join, saying he had never wanted to be part of the Uchiha Clan and would repay the clan for the two fire-release techniques it had given him.
• Tekka tried to attack Feiyu, but Feiyu restrained him as Yashiro accused Feiyu of betraying the clan.
• Yashiro used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to trap Feiyu in a genjutsu, but the illusion shattered almost immediately.
• Feiyu released pale lightning, dropped Tekka, and punched Yashiro in the stomach, sending him sprawling.

Uchiha Feiyu explained why he kept the Uchiha Clan at a distance and accepted that Konoha would marginalize him rather than force him out. Three months later, Team 1 began taking B-rank missions, bringing the prospect of fighting enemy ninja.

• Hatake Sakumo questioned Uchiha Feiyu about treating his clansmen harshly, and Feiyu said he distrusted the Uchiha Clan because powerful members could become dangerously unstable.
• Hatake Sakumo warned that Feiyu risked making the Uchiha Clan his enemy, but Feiyu said his strength and willingness to leave kept either side from pushing him into a corner.
• Hatake Sakumo conceded that Konoha would not drive a valuable Jonin to defect, and Feiyu teased him about having been too well-behaved.
• Uchiha Feiyu continued training and taking missions for three months after sending Uchiha Yashiro and Uchiha Tekka away.
• Hizashi Hyuga announced that Team 1 would move from C-rank to B-rank missions, prompting Asuma and Kurenai to look forward to facing enemy ninja.

Team 1’s B-rank missions had mostly ended without combat until Hizashi Hyuga detected Sand Shinobi lying in ambush during a battlefield supply escort. Uchiha Feiyu charged ahead, leaving the others to react as the encounter began.

• Hizashi Hyuga explained that enemy ninja often abandoned missions rather than fight opponents they judged too strong.
• Team 1 completed several B-rank missions, with most opposing ninja yielding when they saw Hizashi Hyuga’s Byakugan.
• Kurenai warned Asuma that their battlefield mission escorting scrolls to the Battlefield Hospital was more dangerous than their previous assignments.
• Hizashi Hyuga detected a small squad of Sand Shinobi in ambush and halted Team 1.
• Uchiha Feiyu dropped his scroll and charged at the Sand Shinobi with lightning around him, while Hizashi Hyuga marveled at his speed.

Uchiha Feiyu defeated a Sunagakure squad with extreme speed, killing three ninja and capturing their souls. After Hizashi Hyuga spotted the surviving puppeteer, the group prepared to let Asuma and Kurenai pursue him for practice.

• Uchiha Feiyu dodged the Special Jonin’s Wind Release attack and killed two Chunin while destroying the puppeteer’s displayed puppet.
• Uchiha Feiyu used his Sharingan to disorient the Special Jonin and stabbed him through the chest.
• Uchiha Feiyu summoned the souls of the three dead ninja so he could question them and learn their techniques.
• Asuma, Kurenai, and Hizashi Hyuga arrived and learned that Uchiha Feiyu had defeated the squad, though one puppeteer had escaped.
• Hizashi Hyuga tracked the surviving puppeteer and proposed that Asuma and Kurenai pursue him while Uchiha Feiyu stayed behind.

After Hizashi Hyuga reported Uchiha Feiyu’s extraordinary strength to the Third Hokage, Hiruzen considered how to use the independent-minded youth. Feiyu discovered that the three ninjas he had killed had become offerings to the Demonic Path Inheritance Compendium.

• Asuma and Kurenai killed the puppeteer, and Feiyu’s soul reserve increased by one.
• Hizashi Hyuga delivered the storage scroll to the Battlefield Hospital, returned to Konoha, and reported Feiyu’s strength to the Third Hokage.
• Hizashi told Hiruzen that Feiyu’s Two-Tomoe Sharingan accompanied strength at least equal to an Elite Jonin’s, possibly reaching Quasi-Kage level.
• Hiruzen weighed how to assign Feiyu, worrying that the youth might refuse his orders or defect if dissatisfied.
• Feiyu saw three wisps of black Ki circling in an altar beneath the Demonic Path Inheritance Compendium and recognized them as offerings from the three ninjas he had killed.

Uchiha Feiyu sacrificed three wisps of black energy and received a method for breeding Silver Scaled Poisonous Snakes, which he considered trading to Orochimaru for access to Ryūchi Cave. After an Anbu agent summoned him to the Hokage Building, Feiyu realized he was willing to keep fighting because the Demonic Path Inheritance Compendium could reward him with knowledge from sacrifices.

• Uchiha Feiyu sacrificed three wisps of black energy and obtained the Silver Scaled Poisonous Snake breeding method from the Demonic Path Inheritance Compendium.
• Uchiha Feiyu considered trading the method to Orochimaru for a Ryūchi Cave summoning contract so he could hunt snakes and gain souls to sacrifice.
• Uchiha Feiyu stabbed an Anbu agent who entered through his window, scolded him for the intrusion, and sent him away with the Hokage’s summons.
• Uchiha Feiyu headed to the Hokage Building, suspecting the Third Hokage wanted to discuss the ninjas he had killed and his combat strength.
• Uchiha Feiyu decided that fighting for Konoha now served his own goal of gaining sacrifices and demonic cultivation knowledge.

Uchiha Feiyu accepted a promotion to Chunin and joined Konoha’s forces on the Sunagakure front, where his Elite Jonin-level strength drew Orochimaru’s attention. The chapter ended as Feiyu was summoned to meet the frontline commander.

• The Third Hokage offered Uchiha Feiyu a promotion and suggested he join the war against Sunagakure, and Feiyu agreed after learning Orochimaru commanded the front.
• The Third Hokage promoted Feiyu to Chunin and told him to leave with the reinforcing force after two days.
• Feiyu said farewell to his team, then joined a force of just over a hundred Konoha ninja heading to the frontlines.
• The force reached Kikyo Mountain in the Land of Rivers, where Feiyu’s group was dispersed among the frontline units.
• A Jonin called Feiyu to the command room at Orochimaru’s request.

Uchiha Feiyu reported to Orochimaru, who assigned him to harass Sunagakure squads and arranged a Yamanaka shinobi to support him. Feiyu traded a poisonous snake breeding method for a Ryūchi Cave contract and signed it at the command post.

• Uchiha Feiyu reported for duty, and Orochimaru praised his strength and offered to promote him to Special Jonin.
• Orochimaru assigned Feiyu to harass Sunagakure combat squads and agreed to provide a Yamanaka shinobi for reconnaissance and intelligence work.
• Uchiha Feiyu offered Orochimaru part of the Silver Scaled Poisonous Snake breeding method in exchange for a Ryūchi Cave contract.
• Orochimaru agreed to arrange a lower-ranked contract that Feiyu could not share with others, then summoned the contract scroll.
• Uchiha Feiyu handed over the rest of the breeding method and signed the Ryūchi Cave contract.

Uchiha Feiyu discovered that absorbing Ryūchi Cave pythons’ souls could steadily strengthen his body, spirit, and Chakra, then set out on a guerrilla mission with his new subordinate, Yamanaka Seiichi. As they approached Sunagakure’s territory, they discussed the enemy’s heavy early losses and its reliance on the Land of Rivers for supplies.

• Uchiha Feiyu tested summoning snakes of different sizes and found that ordinary python souls offered an efficient source of growth.
• Uchiha Feiyu learned that resentment limited him to absorbing roughly a hundred python souls per day, though the souls had already noticeably improved his physique and spiritual strength.
• Yamanaka Seiichi arrived with Orochimaru’s order assigning him to Uchiha Feiyu, and described his sensory and long-distance telepathic skills.
• Uchiha Feiyu led Yamanaka Seiichi toward a Sunagakure camp to hunt enemy squads while avoiding a direct attack on the camp.
• Yamanaka Seiichi reported that Sand Shinobi made up sixty percent of the casualties in the first two months, and Uchiha Feiyu inferred that Sunagakure was sustaining itself by looting the Land of Rivers.

Uchiha Feiyu and Yamanaka Seiichi reached River Valley Town, where Konoha and Sunagakure forces contested the Land of Rivers’ fertile supply areas. Feiyu ambushed and killed a Sand Shinobi squad, then gathered the soul-light orbs as Seiichi arrived with reinforcements.

• Feiyu and Seiichi concluded that Sunagakure would target the Land of Rivers’ grain-producing areas and headed for River Valley Town.
• Seiichi sensed numerous Chakra signatures around the town, where Konoha and Sunagakure had gathered at least a hundred ninja.
• Feiyu refused to seek out Konoha’s team and asked Seiichi to direct him toward the enemy signatures.
• Feiyu killed the Sand Shinobi lying in ambush, destroying a puppet and defeating the hidden puppeteer with a Great Fireball Technique.
• Feiyu gathered the visible soul-light orbs, and Seiichi arrived with several Konoha Ninja.

Uchiha Feiyu and Yamanaka Seiichi drove the Sunagakure forces out of River Valley Town, earning Feiyu a promotion, jutsu permissions, and a large mission payment. After a month of training with the harvested souls of the Sand Shinobi, Feiyu strengthened his Wind Release and learned several new techniques.

• Uchiha Feiyu and Yamanaka Seiichi eliminated seven Sunagakure squads in three days, forcing the Sand Shinobi to withdraw from River Valley Town.
• Uchiha Feiyu returned to the Konoha camp, where Orochimaru promoted him to Special Jonin and awarded him two A-Rank jutsu permissions and two million ryo.
• Uchiha Feiyu gave Yamanaka Seiichi part of his mission payment and used the captured souls to study their techniques.
• After a month of rest and training, Uchiha Feiyu matched his Wind Release nature transformation to his Lightning Release and learned Wind Cutter, Blade of Wind, several Genjutsu, and a puppet-master sensory technique.

Uchiha Feiyu tested the Demonic Path Inheritance Compendium and received Vampiric Touch and the moves-only version of the Evil-Exorcising Swordplay. After leaving the demonic space and heading toward Konoha’s camp, he sensed several unfamiliar souls nearby.

• Uchiha Feiyu learned that a specific inheritance required ten times the sacrifice and that ordinary sacrifices could yield unsuitable knowledge.
• He sacrificed ten streams of black energy and received Vampiric Touch, which he considered a powerful but difficult-to-adapt spell.
• Uchiha Feiyu sacrificed the remaining black energy for a targeted sword technique and obtained the moves-only version of the Evil-Exorcising Swordplay.
• Uchiha Feiyu decided to seek more missions and sacrifices, believing his strength had recovered enough to take greater risks.
• As Uchiha Feiyu left his concealed Training Ground for Konoha’s camp, he sensed several unfamiliar soul auras within two hundred meters.

Uchiha Feiyu discovered four Iwagakure Ninja concealed near Konoha Camp and fought them as they attempted a raid. He stopped their ambush and pursued their retreat, ending with the squad leader caught in Feiyu’s Sharingan illusion as a Wind Release blade swept toward him.

• Uchiha Feiyu used his soul perception and Sharingan to uncover four Iwagakure Ninja hiding with the Camouflage Concealment Technique.
• Uchiha Feiyu charged the group, wounded their tall ninja despite his Hardening Technique, and held off two sword-wielding brothers.
• Uchiha Feiyu fired a signal flare, alerting Konoha Camp and forcing the Iwagakure Ninja to abandon their raid.
• The squad leader used Earth Release techniques to open a chasm and retreat while the injured ninja healed himself and the brothers tried to delay Feiyu.
• Uchiha Feiyu trapped the squad leader in a Sharingan illusion and unleashed a crescent-shaped Wind Release blade toward him.

Uchiha Feiyu defeated an Iwagakure squad captain during a surprise attack, then learned from Orochimaru that Iwagakure had declared war on Konoha. The chapter ended with Konoha preparing for reinforcements and further attacks on the Land of Rivers front.

• Uchiha Feiyu used the White Fang Sword Style to bisect the Iwagakure squad captain, while the surviving ninja retreated.
• Uchiha Feiyu collected the captain's soul and discovered that battles were breaking out around Konoha Camp.
• Orochimaru thanked Uchiha Feiyu and revealed that Iwagakure had declared war on Konoha while five squads totaling twenty elite ninja launched a surprise attack.
• Orochimaru assessed that Iwagakure would likely keep its forces in the Land of Rivers limited, but said Konoha still needed to request reinforcements and prepare for any escalation.