Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Feiyu infiltrated Sunagakure’s temporary camp, intending to exploit the weakened Sand forces and target Pakura. He learned that the Fourth Kazekage’s venom could not be cured in time and had already destroyed his ability to use Chakra.

• Uchiha Feiyu told Orochimaru that he planned to attack Sunagakure’s camp, and Orochimaru agreed that ending the battle sooner would help Konoha.
• Uchiha Feiyu entered the camp alone by exploiting a gap in its hastily built barriers and used concealment to search for Pakura.
• Uchiha Feiyu overheard Chiyo explain that Orochimaru’s mixed snake venom would kill the Fourth Kazekage within a month and that even a cure would leave him unable to serve as a ninja.
• Uchiha Feiyu realized that the Silver Scaled Poisonous Snake’s venom corroded Chakra as well as threatening the Fourth Kazekage’s life.

Uchiha Feiyu defeated Chiyo in a fight inside the Fourth Kazekage’s room, but her desperate attack caused the Kazekage to die as well. Feiyu claimed both their souls, especially valuing the Fourth Kazekage’s Magnet Release.

• Chiyo attacked Uchiha Feiyu with poisoned needles and puppets, then tried to escape after recognizing his Sharingan.
• Feiyu cut through Chiyo’s puppets and repeatedly exposed her Puppet Substitution Technique, leaving her with only one intact puppet.
• Chiyo prepared a powerful last-ditch attack, but Feiyu vanished and sent two Shadow Clones to stab her through the heart.
• Chiyo’s corrosive blood destroyed one Shadow Clone, while Feiyu emerged safely from underground.
• The Fourth Kazekage died from the corrosive blood, and Feiyu collected both his soul and Chiyo’s.

Uchiha Feiyu escaped the Sand Shinobi camp after killing Rasa and Chiyo, then used invisible hit-and-run attacks to force Sunagakure to regroup and consider surrender. Back at Konoha’s camp, Orochimaru praised Feiyu’s role in ending the war and asked him to become his disciple, leaving Feiyu weighing the benefits of learning Orochimaru’s techniques.

• Uchiha Feiyu escaped Pakura’s attack by tunneling underground after his clones drew the Sand Shinobi’s attention.
• Pakura found Feiyu’s repeated assassinations had killed many Sand Shinobi, and a Jonin urged her to gather the survivors and surrender to Konoha.
• Pakura ordered the Sand Shinobi to assemble, and Feiyu stopped attacking once they had formed a group and returned to Konoha’s camp.
• Uchiha Feiyu reported to Orochimaru, who concluded Sunagakure could no longer continue the war and credited Feiyu with helping secure victory.
• Orochimaru asked Uchiha Feiyu to become his disciple, and Feiyu considered the techniques he might gain and the risks of joining him.

Uchiha Feiyu became Orochimaru’s disciple and received two defensive ninjutsu before the Sand Shinobi surrendered, ending the war. As Konoha prepared to welcome the victors home, Danzo warned Sarutobi Hiruzen to watch Feiyu, leaving Hiruzen uneasy about Feiyu’s strength and ties to Orochimaru.

• Orochimaru accepted Uchiha Feiyu as his disciple and taught him the Orochimaru-Style Body Replacement Technique and Summoning Rashomon.
• Uchiha Feiyu learned that Spirit Summons and Subjugation could control only a limited number of souls, so he released weaker souls after extracting their skills.
• The Sand Shinobi surrendered, and Orochimaru told Uchiha Feiyu that most of their forces could return to Konoha.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen praised Orochimaru and Uchiha Feiyu for the victory, while Danzo warned that Feiyu’s Uchiha heritage and strength made him a potential threat.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen defended his trust in Orochimaru but grew concerned after Danzo pointed out that Uchiha Feiyu was Orochimaru’s disciple.

Uchiha Feiyu returned to Konoha with the surviving forces and went with Orochimaru to meet the Third Hokage, who recognized his battlefield service and granted him access to the Book of Seals. The Third Hokage began unsealing the scroll so Feiyu could choose techniques, while warning that its most dangerous contents remained restricted.

• Uchiha Feiyu returned to Konoha with the surviving ninja and witnessed families celebrating reunions and mourning their dead.
• Orochimaru brought Uchiha Feiyu to the Hokage Office, where they encountered Tsunade leaving after refusing to go to the battlefield.
• The Third Hokage told Uchiha Feiyu that he had earned the title White Fang and could choose three S-Rank Jutsu from the Book of Seals.
• Orochimaru asked the Third Hokage to let Uchiha Feiyu select techniques from the Book of Seals, and the Third Hokage advised him to focus on one S-Rank Jutsu.
• The Third Hokage summoned the heavily sealed Book of Seals, removed most of its seals, and warned Uchiha Feiyu that its most harmful contents would remain forbidden unless Konoha faced a crisis.

Uchiha Feiyu chose the Spirit Transformation Technique from the Book of Seals, believing it could strengthen the souls he controlled. After returning home, he read the technique and quickly grasped its principles, beginning his study of how to separate and protect a soul.

• Uchiha Feiyu found that the Book of Seals used coded writing, and the Third Hokage explained that he would decode the techniques Feiyu selected.
• Uchiha Feiyu noticed that the book lacked Impure World Reincarnation and the Flying Thunder God Technique, then chose the Spirit Transformation Technique along with several A-rank and B-rank techniques.
• The Third Hokage decoded the selected techniques into a scroll and gave it to Uchiha Feiyu.
• Uchiha Feiyu returned home, cleaned the house, and began studying the scroll, starting with the Spirit Transformation Technique.
• Uchiha Feiyu understood that the technique required strong Yin Release Chakra to separate the soul and a Chakra shell to preserve its vitality and power.

Uchiha Feiyu continued training in the Spirit Transformation Technique and other jutsu while remaining unaware that his battlefield achievements had made him famous in Konoha. At Naka Shrine, Uchiha Fugaku and the elders discussed bringing Feiyu closer to the clan and using his connection to Orochimaru to gain influence in Konoha’s leadership.

• Uchiha Feiyu set aside plans to modify the Spirit Transformation Technique but continued practicing it and studying jutsu from the Book of Seals.
• Uchiha Feiyu followed a demanding daily routine of jutsu, swordsmanship, and chakra training, unaware of his growing fame in Konoha.
• Uchiha Fugaku and several elders discussed Uchiha Feiyu’s achievements and his Two-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Yetu rebuked Uchiha Fenghuo for belittling Feiyu and argued that the clan should repair its relationship with him.
• Uchiha Yetu urged Uchiha Fugaku to make Feiyu feel welcomed, noting that Feiyu’s ties to Orochimaru could help the Uchiha enter Konoha’s high command.

Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Yetu planned gifts and a marriage match to win over the newly powerful Uchiha Feiyu. Meanwhile, Orochimaru invited Feiyu to join Root, and Feiyu considered the offer after asking about its risks and restrictions.

• Uchiha Yetu told Uchiha Fugaku to give Feiyu Sharingan scrolls as an apology and suggested arranging a visit from a suitable Uchiha girl.
• Uchiha Fugaku pointed out that Feiyu had only just turned fifteen, but Uchiha Yetu argued that the age was acceptable.
• Uchiha Feiyu met his teacher Orochimaru at BBQ and learned that Orochimaru was joining Root, a secret department within Anbu.
• Orochimaru explained that Root could provide test subjects for his experiments and invited Feiyu to join him.
• Feiyu asked whether Root would restrict him or force him into dangerous missions, and Orochimaru promised to protect him and cited Root's benefits.

Uchiha Feiyu considered Orochimaru’s offer to join Root and used his stored black Ki to obtain a bloodline-refinement secret art and a Lich Transformation Ritual. He decided that Orochimaru’s assistance could help him build a Blood Pool, while the Lich ritual might serve as leverage in negotiations.

• Uchiha Feiyu told Orochimaru he needed time to consider joining Root, and Orochimaru gave him three days to answer.
• After returning home, Uchiha Feiyu reflected on his six-month reprieve from the battlefield and decided to use his accumulated black Ki to strengthen himself.
• Uchiha Feiyu sacrificed five hundred strands of black Ki and received the Soul Devouring Blood Refinement Method, which required a Blood Pool made from humans with suitable bloodlines.
• Uchiha Feiyu concluded that he would need Orochimaru’s help to establish the Blood Pool without Konoha discovering it.
• Uchiha Feiyu sacrificed his remaining seventy-two strands of black Ki and obtained a Lich Transformation Ritual, which he saw as a bargaining chip for Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Feiyu reasoned that ordinary ninja could be refined and decided he would need Orochimaru’s help to acquire and transport corpses.

Uchiha Fugaku visited Uchiha Feiyu to offer him a place in the clan, but Feiyu agreed only to a practical relationship in exchange for benefits. After Fugaku gave him the clan’s Sharingan techniques, Feiyu learned the genjutsu and considered how they would strengthen his sword style.

• Uchiha Fugaku introduced himself as the Uchiha Clan head and tried to reconcile Feiyu with the clan.
• Uchiha Feiyu bluntly described his lack of attachment to the Uchiha and said he would help them if they offered adequate payment.
• Uchiha Fugaku gave Feiyu a scroll of Sharingan techniques as compensation for forcing him to join the clan and encouraged him to build ties with the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Feiyu read the scroll and quickly learned its Sharingan genjutsu, which he planned to combine with his White Fang Sword Style.

Uchiha Feiyu rejected Danzo’s attempts to recruit him through ideals and intimidation, insisting he would work for Root only for good pay and treatment. After witnessing Root’s brutal training, Orochimaru asked Danzo for the dead youths’ bodies to practice a special ninjutsu, offering him a method to suppress cellular rejection in return.

• Uchiha Feiyu told Danzo he would serve Root only for sufficient pay and refused to embrace the Will of Fire.
• Orochimaru and Uchiha Feiyu entered Root’s base, where Danzo showed them young ninja fighting to the death during training.
• Uchiha Feiyu challenged Danzo about Root’s lack of powerful ninja, leaving Danzo unable to answer.
• The training ended with only about a third of the youths still standing, while sixty or seventy had died.
• Orochimaru asked Danzo for the corpses so he could practice a special ninjutsu and promised to share a method for suppressing cellular rejection if he mastered it.

Uchiha Feiyu offered Orochimaru the Lich Transformation Technique in exchange for the corpses and other materials needed to build his Blood Pool. Orochimaru agreed to secure the supplies through Root and brought Feiyu to meet Danzo, who challenged him to prove he had the resolve to join Root.

• Uchiha Feiyu showed Orochimaru the Blood Pool's extensive materials list and offered him the Lich Transformation Technique in return for obtaining them.
• Orochimaru was captivated by the spell but found only its opening section in the scroll, so Feiyu promised to provide the rest once Orochimaru delivered the materials.
• Orochimaru agreed to the bargain and planned to subcontract the difficult task of gathering over two thousand shinobi corpses to Root.
• Orochimaru led Uchiha Feiyu to Root's hidden base on Konoha's outskirts, where Danzo came out to meet them.
• Danzo questioned whether Feiyu had the resolve and courage required to become a Root shinobi.

Uchiha Feiyu and Orochimaru negotiated with Danzo for two thousand ninja corpses, then Feiyu accepted a mission to hunt a Konoha defector near the Land of Fire border. After leaving Konoha, he planned to use the mission’s spare time to practice Magnet Release.

• Orochimaru and Danzo agreed that Orochimaru would provide research results in exchange for Danzo gathering two thousand ninja corpses within a month.
• Danzo offered Uchiha Feiyu a mission to kill a Konoha Jonin defecting to Kumogakure with classified information.
• Uchiha Feiyu rejected Danzo’s offer of Root support and set out alone with the mission intelligence.
• Uchiha Feiyu left Konoha, planned to kill the defector quickly, and intended to practice Magnet Release during the remaining time.

Uchiha Feiyu confronted Hattori Ichiro in an abandoned church and discovered that the Konoha Jonin was a Kumogakure spy. After killing him, Feiyu searched his soul and found that he had learned only an incomplete form of Kumogakure’s Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

• Uchiha Feiyu tracked Hattori Ichiro to a dilapidated church where several orphans were hiding.
• Hattori Ichiro threw two children with Exploding Tags at Uchiha Feiyu, killing them, then revealed that he was a Kumogakure ninja.
• Uchiha Feiyu and Hattori Ichiro fought with lightning-enhanced swordsmanship, and Feiyu killed him with a swift strike to the throat.
• Uchiha Feiyu summoned Hattori Ichiro’s soul and searched his memories, discovering he knew only the first half of the Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

Uchiha Feiyu completed his mission, took the Kumogakure spy’s soul, and healed and paid the two surviving children at the ruined Church. During the following days, he created Magnet Release by fusing Wind and Earth Chakra, then set off for Konoha with refined gold.

• Uchiha Feiyu stored the Kumogakure spy’s soul and discussed the Third Raikage’s strength with Hatake Sakumo.
• Uchiha Feiyu healed the two children who survived the battle at the ruined Church and left them more than ten thousand ryo.
• Over the next dozen or so days, Uchiha Feiyu used the Fourth Kazekage’s soul to fuse Wind Release and Earth Release into Magnet Release.
• Uchiha Feiyu gathered and refined Golden Sand into gold as he traveled toward Konoha.

Uchiha Feiyu delivered Hattori Ichiro’s head to Shimura Danzō, accepted a scroll of Root missions, and collected materials for his Blood Pool from Orochimaru. He left Orochimaru studying the remaining half of the Lich Transformation Ritual while he planned where to build the Blood Pool.

• Uchiha Feiyu gave Hattori Ichiro’s head to Shimura Danzō, and a Yamanaka ninja extracted information from it.
• Shimura Danzō offered Uchiha Feiyu Root missions, including assassinations and thefts, and Uchiha Feiyu agreed to take ordinary missions but refused the impossible ones.
• Uchiha Feiyu visited Orochimaru and received a scroll containing two thousand ninja corpses for his Blood Pool.
• Uchiha Feiyu decided to find an isolated place underground to build the Blood Pool, where Orochimaru would not discover it.
• Uchiha Feiyu gave Orochimaru the remaining half of the Lich Transformation Ritual, and Orochimaru became absorbed in studying it as Uchiha Feiyu left.

Uchiha Feiyu completed the Blood Pool and used it to strengthen his Uchiha bloodline, evolving his Sharingan to three tomoe and greatly improving his abilities. He ended the chapter having absorbed Hatake Sakumo’s skills and reached Kage-level strength.

• Uchiha Feiyu used his Root missions as cover while spending four months gathering and refining the corpses of over two thousand ninjas to build the Blood Pool.
• Uchiha Feiyu completed the Blood Pool in an underground chamber near Konoha and entered it to test its effect on his bloodline.
• Uchiha Feiyu emerged from the cocoon with enhanced physical qualities and Chakra, and his Sharingan evolved to three tomoe.
• Uchiha Feiyu found that his reactions, Yin Release, Chakra control, and ninjutsu talent had all improved, and he could use White Fang Sword Style without Hatake Sakumo’s possession.
• Uchiha Feiyu realized he had absorbed Hatake Sakumo’s abilities and had reached Kage-level strength.

Uchiha Feiyu returned to Konoha and reunited with his former classmates, who told him the Kumogakure Front had suffered a crushing defeat. The young ninjas were left facing the possibility that they would soon be sent to the Frontline.

• Uchiha Feiyu noticed Konoha's fearful atmosphere and ran into Kakashi, Asuma, Rin, Obito, Guy, and Kurenai.
• Uchiha Feiyu invited his former classmates to a barbecue and asked what had happened in the village.
• Kakashi explained that the Kumogakure Front was in trouble and directed Feiyu to ask Asuma for more information.
• Asuma revealed that Konoha had lost at least three thousand ninjas after the Frontline was broken through.
• Uchiha Feiyu suggested Konoha's leaders had concealed the defeat to protect morale and keep recruiting soldiers, prompting Kakashi to warn him to watch his words.

After Konoha’s Kumogakure Front was nearly wiped out, Uchiha Feiyu returned to Root and learned from Orochimaru that the Third Raikage had led a devastating surprise assault. Feiyu suspected the war’s course had changed and weighed Konoha’s chances as Orochimaru prepared to head into battle.

• Uchiha Feiyu returned to Root after hearing rumors of Konoha’s crushing defeat against Kumogakure.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Feiyu that the Third Raikage, A, and B had nearly annihilated Konoha’s Kumogakure Front, with only a dozen or so survivors.
• Uchiha Feiyu questioned why Kumogakure had committed so many forces despite the threat from Iwagakure, and Orochimaru said he did not know how Ōnoki had won their trust.
• Orochimaru put away the Kusanagi Sword and formed a Silver Snake Sword from nine snakes emerging from his wrist.
• Uchiha Feiyu realized that the Third Raikage’s attack differed from the war’s original course and considered whether Konoha’s remaining leaders could withstand Kumogakure.

Uchiha Feiyu accepted a battlefield assignment from the Third Hokage and agreed to guide Kakashi, Obito, and Nohara Rin as new recruits. He remained wary of the Hokage’s motives and doubted he could keep the weaker members of the team safe once he went into battle.

• Uchiha Feiyu waited for the Hokage’s summons, then followed an Anbu to the Hokage Office.
• The Third Hokage offered Feiyu a chance to leave Root and become a regular mission ninja, but Feiyu deferred the discussion and focused on the war with Kumogakure.
• The Third Hokage assigned Feiyu three subordinates and asked him to guide a batch of new recruits.
• The Third Hokage named Kakashi, Obito, and Nohara Rin as Feiyu’s team, with Kakashi expected to help him lead.
• Feiyu agreed to guide them at first but warned that he would not have much time to take them onto the battlefield.