Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Feiyu became the Jonin squad leader for Kakashi, Obito, and Rin, then tested Obito before leading Team 73 to join the war effort. The chapter ended with Orochimaru’s force setting out for the front lines against Kumogakure.

• Kakashi, Obito, and Rin waited at Training Ground 13, where Obito boasted that he would surpass Uchiha Feiyu and protect Rin.
• Uchiha Feiyu revealed that he was their new Jonin squad leader, and Obito nervously asked him not to hit him in the face.
• Feiyu tested Obito by making him flee from nonvenomous snakes, then healed his bite wounds with Medical Ninjutsu.
• The next morning, Feiyu reported that Team 73 was missing a member until Obito arrived late after helping an old lady find her cat.
• Orochimaru ordered the assembled ninja force to depart for the front lines.

Orochimaru summoned Uchiha Feiyu to meet Namikaze Minato, who described the devastating strength of the Third Raikage and reported that he might use Space-Time Ninjutsu. The gathering ended in alarm, while Feiyu quietly relaxed after considering Minato’s account.

• Orochimaru introduced Namikaze Minato to Uchiha Feiyu and praised his guerrilla attacks against Kumogakure.
• Namikaze Minato explained that he had killed more than eight hundred Kumogakure Ninja in three days while delaying their advance alone.
• Namikaze Minato described the Third Raikage’s overwhelming attack power, speed, and defense.
• Namikaze Minato reported that the Third Raikage had appeared in Konoha’s main camp amid a flash and intense space-time fluctuations, suggesting he might know Space-Time Ninjutsu.
• The ninja in the tent reacted with alarm, while Uchiha Feiyu quietly relaxed after thinking of something.

Konoha's commanders discussed how to counter the Third Raikage and Kumogakure's A-B Duo before reaching the battlefield. Orochimaru agreed to try to hold off the Third Raikage, Minato would face the A-B Duo, and Feiyu planned to attack Kumogakure's ordinary ninja.

• Namikaze Minato reassured the tent that the Third Raikage's apparent Space-Time Ninjutsu might have limitations, while Uchiha Feiyu recognized it as Kumogakure's Heavenly Transfer Technique.
• Namikaze Minato said he could hold off the A-B Duo unless the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki fully transformed, but admitted his attacks could not harm the Third Raikage.
• Uchiha Feiyu said he could not match the Third Raikage and would struggle even to escape him, so the other ninja looked to Orochimaru for help.
• Orochimaru agreed to try to hold off the Third Raikage, and Uchiha Feiyu said he would slaughter ordinary Kumogakure Ninja while Minato faced the A-B Duo.

Uchiha Feiyu ambushed Kumogakure Ninja scouts and displayed his greatly enhanced speed and Lightning Release Armor, astonishing his former classmates. After Yamanaka Clan ninja extracted intelligence from the captured heads, Orochimaru learned that Kumogakure had established a camp twenty kilometers ahead in the Land of Fire.

• Uchiha Feiyu raced ahead of the Konoha force and killed several Kumogakure Ninja scouts.
• Namikaze Minato recognized that Uchiha Feiyu's lightning technique had formed a protective Lightning Release Armor, while Orochimaru remarked on Feiyu's rapid growth.
• Uchiha Feiyu handed the scouts' heads to Orochimaru for intelligence gathering and sent their corpses and souls to be used by his techniques.
• Uchiha Obito, Nohara Rin, and Hatake Kakashi were shocked by Uchiha Feiyu's strength, and Feiyu joked that killing a thousand ninja would make them just as strong.
• A Yamanaka Clan ninja reported that Kumogakure had built a camp twenty kilometers ahead, and Orochimaru concluded that they intended to seize territory in the Land of Fire.

Orochimaru prepared Konoha’s camp for a prolonged war, but Kumogakure soon mobilized outside it, prompting him to send out squads. Uchiha Feiyu taught Kakashi, Obito, and Rin a concealment technique before hunting Kumogakure ninja, and a concealed enemy scout noticed a sound in the forest.

• Orochimaru began building Konoha’s camp rather than immediately confronting Kumogakure, whose ninja appeared outside the camp the next day.
• Orochimaru formed combat squads to drive away the Kumogakure scouts and sent Uchiha Feiyu out with Kakashi, Obito, and Rin.
• Uchiha Feiyu taught Kakashi, Obito, and Rin the Camouflage Concealment Technique and placed Hatake Sakumo’s soul in Kakashi’s White Fang Short Sword.
• Uchiha Feiyu left the others near camp and used the Camouflage Concealment Technique to hunt Kumogakure squads.
• A Kumogakure ninja lying in ambush heard rustling nearby and raised his head to investigate.

Uchiha Feiyu slaughtered Kumogakure squads near Konoha Camp, but fled when the Third Raikage arrived and attacked the area. He returned to camp and found Kakashi, Uchiha Obito, and their teammate had also encountered enemies after straying from their patrol.

• Uchiha Feiyu used his sword and concealment techniques to kill four Kumogakure ninja, then had summoned snakes collect their bodies.
• Uchiha Feiyu killed more than forty Kumogakure ninja and wiped out over a dozen squads during the night.
• Uchiha Feiyu killed the Elite Jonin Buryi, but the Third Raikage arrived moments later using the Heavenly Transfer Technique.
• The Third Raikage searched for the hidden attacker with Lightning Release: Stream Technique, but Uchiha Feiyu evaded him and fled toward Konoha Camp.
• Uchiha Feiyu returned to camp and learned that Kakashi, Uchiha Obito, and their teammate had fought enemies after wandering too far from their patrol.

Uchiha Feiyu learned how Kakashi, Obito, and Rin had survived an encounter with a Kumogakure squad, then reported his findings about the Third Raikage to Orochimaru. The Third Raikage remained a major threat, and Orochimaru concluded that secret or forbidden techniques would be needed to hold him back.

• Hatake Sakumo told Uchiha Feiyu that he had possessed Kakashi during a battle, saving Rin by killing a Special Jonin, while Obito awakened his one-Tomoe Sharingan and killed a Chunin.
• Uchiha Feiyu sent Hatake Sakumo's soul back to the White Fang Short Sword, then comforted Kakashi, Obito, and Rin.
• Uchiha Feiyu gave Orochimaru more than forty Kumogakure forehead protectors and explained that the Third Raikage's apparent teleportation was likely performed by another ninja.
• Uchiha Feiyu admitted that he had fled after seeing the Third Raikage and judged him stronger than himself and likely stronger than Orochimaru in a direct fight.
• Orochimaru concluded that secret techniques and forbidden techniques might be needed to hold off the Third Raikage, whose Strongest Spear and Strongest Shield made him formidable.

Uchiha Feiyu hunted Kumogakure Ninja while avoiding the Third Raikage, but a Sensory Ninja detected him and led A in pursuit. Feiyu stopped to face the Fourth Raikage after realizing he could not reach Konoha Camp before being caught.

• Uchiha Feiyu changed locations to avoid the Third Raikage and continued hunting Kumogakure Ninja, hoping to strengthen his bloodline enough to awaken the Mangekyo.
• After several squads of Kumogakure Ninja gathered, Uchiha Feiyu tried to withdraw but sensed several powerful soul flames pursuing him.
• Uchiha Feiyu recognized that a Sensory Ninja had found him and ran toward Konoha Camp, identifying the fastest pursuer as the future Fourth Raikage, A.
• When A and the Sensory Ninja began catching up, Uchiha Feiyu stopped rather than exhaust himself before the fight.
• A arrived carrying the Sensory Ninja, challenged Uchiha Feiyu, and watched him point the Kusanagi Sword at him.

Uchiha Feiyu battled the Fourth Raikage and used Genjutsu to create an opening to escape. He left the Raikage behind and fled two kilometers away with C’s corpse.

• The Fourth Raikage attacked Uchiha Feiyu, but Feiyu blocked his strike and wounded his wrist with the Kusanagi Sword.
• Feiyu caught the Fourth Raikage in Genjutsu: Sharingan, but C disrupted the attack with Lightning Illusion Flash Pillar and was pierced by Feiyu’s sword.
• The Fourth Raikage recovered and charged at Feiyu, who blinded him with the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique.
• While the Fourth Raikage tried to dispel the Genjutsu, Feiyu escaped with C’s corpse and reappeared two kilometers away.

Uchiha Feiyu killed C, Kumogakure's talented strategist, and gained his sensory, illusion, and medical skills. After Orochimaru warned him that Kumogakure's strongest fighters would target him, Feiyu considered how difficult it would be to keep slaughtering ordinary Ninja on that front.

• Uchiha Feiyu took C's soul, discovered his rare talents, and kept his head to search for intelligence.
• Uchiha Feiyu reported to Orochimaru, who asked about his encounter with the Fourth Raikage.
• Uchiha Feiyu said he had little chance of defeating the Fourth Raikage in a direct fight and refused Orochimaru's suggestion that he attack him again.
• Orochimaru warned Uchiha Feiyu that his battlefield reputation would draw Kage-level opponents and make it harder to attack ordinary Ninja.
• Uchiha Feiyu concluded that Kumogakure's Raikage and Eight-Tails Jinchuriki made it far more dangerous than Sunagakure, and that he could not yet defeat them.

Uchiha Feiyu used his sacrifices to obtain a method for refining the Soul Cleaver Blade, a weapon that damaged energy and souls and could pierce Lightning Release Chakra Armor. He refined Orochimaru’s Kusanagi Sword into the weapon and tested its effects, discovering that it greatly hindered healing and caused severe pain.

• Uchiha Feiyu sacrificed the black gas he had gathered and received the Soul Cleaver Blade refinement method from the Demonic Path Inheritance Compendium.
• Uchiha Feiyu learned that refining the blade required 360 souls and a high-quality weapon, and that its Evil-Slaying Aura could counter chakra-based defenses.
• Uchiha Feiyu used his Spirit Summoning souls and Orochimaru’s Kusanagi Sword to refine a Soul Cleaver Blade in one night.
• Uchiha Feiyu tested the blade against chakra, Lightning Release Armor, and Earth Release, finding that it cut through energy defenses but not physical barriers.
• Uchiha Feiyu wounded a summoned giant snake and found that the blade caused extreme pain and made its injury slow to heal despite Medical Ninjutsu.

Uchiha Feiyu returned from testing the Soul Cleaver Blade with a weapon that could threaten the Raikage, then learned Konoha planned to force Kumogakure into a decisive battle. Orochimaru assigned Feiyu and Minato a dangerous sabotage mission, and Feiyu tried to negotiate for Hashirama Cells instead of Orochimaru’s techniques.

• Uchiha Feiyu completed his experiments and found that the Soul Cleaver Blade’s soul-damaging power and improved qualities made it especially useful against powerful opponents.
• Orochimaru explained that Konoha needed to drive Kumogakure out of the Land of Fire to limit its losses and protect its reputation.
• Orochimaru said intelligence extracted from a delivered head had revealed Kumogakure’s supply routes, stores, patrols, and barrier formulas, giving Konoha a plan to provoke a decisive battle.
• Orochimaru assigned Uchiha Feiyu and Minato to sabotage Kumogakure’s supplies, patrols, and materials.
• Orochimaru offered to teach Uchiha Feiyu the Soft Physique Modification Technique and Cell Activation Technique if the mission succeeded, but Feiyu asked for Hashirama Cells instead.

Uchiha Feiyu negotiated with Orochimaru for Hashirama Cells in exchange for completing a mission, and Orochimaru agreed. Their discussion revealed that Uchiha Yin Release might help control the cells, but Feiyu refused to become Orochimaru’s test subject.

• Orochimaru questioned how Uchiha Feiyu knew about the secret Hashirama Cell research, and Feiyu demanded a sample in exchange for completing the mission.
• Orochimaru agreed and gave Feiyu the mission intelligence, two ninjutsu, and a vial of Hashirama Cells before he departed.
• Orochimaru explained the cells’ dangerous backlash and suggested that ultimate Yin Release might counter their Yang Release power.
• Uchiha Feiyu cited the Uchiha stone tablet’s words about uniting opposing powers, leading Orochimaru to suspect Uchiha might be suitable Wood Release test subjects.
• Uchiha Feiyu refused to let Orochimaru experiment on him, saying he had his own way to assimilate the cells.

Uchiha Feiyu slaughtered Kumogakure forces and destroyed their supplies, provoking the village into mobilizing its entire army for a decisive battle. Namikaze Minato arrived to take Feiyu back to the front lines, where the final battle awaited.

• Uchiha Feiyu destroyed a Kumogakure Exploding Tag outpost, killed its guards, and took more than fifty thousand Exploding Tags.
• Over the next three days, Uchiha Feiyu destroyed supply squads and slaughtered a rotation force, including wounded ninjas whose bodies he took to Ryūchi Cave.
• Uchiha Feiyu declared that the Kusanagi Sword's Evil-Slaying Aura had reached completion and that he no longer feared the Third Raikage.
• Namikaze Minato appeared and told Uchiha Feiyu that the enraged Kumogakure Ninja had mobilized their entire army for a decisive battle.
• Namikaze Minato relayed Lord Orochimaru's order for Uchiha Feiyu to return to the front lines for the final battle.

Uchiha Feiyu and Namikaze Minato returned to Konoha’s camp after provoking Kumogakure into a decisive battle. The armies clashed, and Feiyu’s Kusanagi Sword badly wounded the Fourth Raikage as their fight began.

• Namikaze Minato and Uchiha Feiyu returned to the camp, where Orochimaru set the decisive battle for the next day.
• Orochimaru led Konoha’s forces out to meet the Kumogakure army commanded by the Third Raikage.
• Orochimaru summoned a transformed, strengthened Manda and sent him to attack the Kumogakure forces.
• The Fourth Raikage charged Uchiha Feiyu, who met his Liger Bomb with his Kusanagi Sword.
• Feiyu’s sword cut through the Fourth Raikage’s lightning defense and sliced into his fist, inflicting severe pain with its Evil-Slaying Aura.

Uchiha Feiyu used the Kusanagi Sword to overpower the Fourth Raikage while Namikaze Minato and Killer B fought to a stalemate. After defeating Manda and badly injuring Orochimaru, the Third Raikage charged Feiyu, but Feiyu survived his attack and left the Third Raikage mortally wounded.

• Killer B rushed to help the Fourth Raikage, but Namikaze Minato intercepted him and the two entered a stalemate.
• Uchiha Feiyu used the Kusanagi Sword and Evil-Slaying Aura to inflict severe injuries on the Fourth Raikage.
• Orochimaru shed his damaged body to recover as the Third Raikage drove Manda from the battlefield with Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite.
• Uchiha Feiyu offered to face the Third Raikage while Orochimaru went to deal with A.
• The Third Raikage pierced Feiyu's chest with Hell Stab: Three-Finger Nukite, but Feiyu shed his skin and recovered, leaving his Kusanagi Sword lodged in the Third Raikage's chest as the Raikage fell silent.

Uchiha Feiyu killed the Third Raikage and withdrew from the Fourth Raikage’s desperate counterattack, leaving Orochimaru to face him while Feiyu hunted Kumogakure Ninja. By nightfall, Konoha had won the battlefield, but Feiyu was still pursuing the retreating enemy.

• Uchiha Feiyu pierced the Third Raikage’s heart with his Kusanagi Sword, killed him with Evil-Slaying Aura, and summoned his weakened soul.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered Killer B and the Kumogakure Ninja to retreat, then pushed his body past its limits to fight on.
• Uchiha Feiyu used Camouflage Concealment Technique to evade the Fourth Raikage and left the heavily wounded enemy to Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Feiyu retrieved his Kusanagi Sword and planned to use the confusion to hunt Kumogakure Ninja as they withdrew.
• At night, Orochimaru and Namikaze Minato surveyed Konoha’s losses; Minato reported that he had failed to capture Killer B, and Orochimaru noted that Feiyu had not returned.

Uchiha Feiyu pursued the retreating Kumogakure Ninja for three days, killing roughly a thousand before turning back at the Land of Lightning border. He returned to Konoha Camp and gave Orochimaru two Bloodline Limit corpses, learning that the battlefield’s other corpses had been placed in a tent assigned to him.

• Uchiha Feiyu killed the Kumogakure Ninja covering the retreat and tested his developing Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
• Uchiha Feiyu hunted the disorganized Kumogakure Ninja for three days, killing many, including two Bloodline Limit ninja.
• Uchiha Feiyu stopped at the Land of Lightning border and returned to Konoha Camp.
• Uchiha Feiyu told Orochimaru that he had killed about a thousand Kumogakure Ninja and presented the corpses of two Bloodline Limit ninja.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Feiyu that the other battlefield corpses were in a rear tent assigned to him for safekeeping.

Uchiha Feiyu used the corpses he had collected to undergo another Blood Pool baptism, gaining power beyond an ordinary Three-Tomoe Sharingan. He left the chapter able to manifest a rudimentary Susanoo and strong enough to rival Kage-level ninja.

• Uchiha Feiyu considered Orochimaru’s prospects of becoming Hokage and suspected Root, under Shimura Danzō, had concealed a connection to his parents’ deaths.
• Uchiha Feiyu obtained leave from Orochimaru and traveled to the Blood Pool with corpses from the battlefield, including Konoha and Hyuga ninja.
• Uchiha Feiyu dissolved two thousand corpses into the Blood Pool and began the Soul Devouring Blood Refinement Technique.
• Uchiha Feiyu emerged from a flesh cocoon with a powerful Three-Tomoe Sharingan and the ability to manifest Susanoo in a half-body skeleton form.
• Uchiha Feiyu found that his physical strength and Chakra had increased several times, bringing his Lightning Release Chakra Mode to roughly the Fourth Raikage’s level.

Uchiha Feiyu learned the Kurama Clan’s Five Senses Control and obtained the Joyous Union Manual through sacrifices. After returning from the front lines, he prepared to test his new genjutsu in Konoha.

• Uchiha Feiyu suspected Konoha High Command was trying to build up Namikaze Minato’s reputation by sending him to reinforce Jiraiya.
• Uchiha Feiyu sacrificed over four hundred strands of black qi and received the Kurama Clan’s Five Senses Control.
• Uchiha Feiyu learned Five Senses Control and estimated how many targets he could control based on their strength.
• Uchiha Feiyu spent his remaining black qi on a gamble and obtained the Joyous Union Manual, which he memorized.
• Uchiha Feiyu and the returning front-line ninja reached Konoha three days later.