Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Feiyu assessed Konoha’s depleted forces and planned to rebuild its strength while treating the Uchiha and Senju clans as sources of valuable bloodlines. After controlling the Land of Fire’s Daimyo, nobles, and Twelve Guardian Ninja, he ordered the country to fund Konoha and spread Chakra cultivation, but the Daimyo warned that the plan faced a shortage of instructors.

• Uchiha Feiyu reviewed Konoha’s losses and discussed its slow recovery with Tsunade, who had become Hokage.
• Uchiha Feiyu told Tsunade to gather the Senju and cultivate their bloodlines, while explaining his plans for the Uchiha Clan.
• Three months later, Tsunade traveled to the Fire Capital with Uzamaki Kushina, Shizune, and Uchiha Feiyu to receive her appointment.
• Uchiha Feiyu used the Divinity Subduing Art to control the Land of Fire Daimyo, the nobles, and the Twelve Guardian Ninja, appointing Asuma their leader.
• Uchiha Feiyu ordered the Land of Fire to support Konoha and teach the Chakra Extraction Technique throughout the population, but the Daimyo cited a lack of instructors.

Uchiha Feiyu ordered the Land of Fire to teach literacy and promote the Chakra Extraction Technique, then traveled toward Konoha with Tsunade, Shizune, and Uzamaki Kushina. The group left Boya Town after Uchiha Feiyu sensed an approaching force of Iwagakure and Kirigakure ninja targeting Tsunade.

• Uchiha Feiyu ordered literacy classes to use the Chakra Extraction Technique as a textbook, and the Land of Fire Daimyo agreed to promote the policy alongside the Land of Wind.
• At an inn in Boya Town, Shizune revealed that Tsunade had lost tens of millions of ryo gambling, so Uchiha Feiyu forbade her from betting money and proposed gambling clothes instead.
• Uchiha Feiyu, Tsunade, Shizune, and Uzamaki Kushina played together until Tsunade passed out, and Uchiha Feiyu used Yang Release Chakra to wake her when he sensed trouble.
• Uchiha Feiyu warned that ninja had come for Tsunade, and the group left town to avoid endangering its residents.
• More than twenty Iwagakure and Kirigakure ninja entered Boya Town, including Gari and the Explosion Corps, as well as the Seven Ninja Swordsmen led by Suikazan Fuguki.

The Seven Ninja Swordsmen and Iwagakure's Explosion Corps moved against Tsunade, while both groups secretly planned to test her strength and retreat if necessary. Tsunade overwhelmed the swordsmen with her awakened power, and Kushimaru Kuriarare found himself dragged toward her after his wire trap failed.

• Kari explained that Iwagakure's Explosion Corps would wait outside town, use the Seven Ninja Swordsmen to test Tsunade, and attack only if an opportunity arose.
• Suikazan Fuguki and Juzo Biwa decided to let the other five swordsmen make the first move and retreat if Tsunade proved too strong.
• Uchiha Feiyu told Tsunade to take the attackers alive, and Jinin Akebino charged her with Kabutowari.
• Tsunade punched Jinin Akebino into the town wall, then shattered Raiga Kurosuki's lightning attack and hurled a huge slab of earth at the swordsmen.
• Munashi Jinpachi blasted apart the slab with the Exploding Blade, but Tsunade struck him and bent his sword before Kushimaru Kuriarare trapped her in Nuibari's wire.
• Kushimaru Kuriarare tried to pull the wire tight but found Tsunade immovable, then realized she was dragging him toward her.

Tsunade captured the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, while Uchiha Feiyu defeated Iwagakure's Explosion Corps and later brought both groups to Konoha. Feiyu then traveled to Kirigakure with the swordsmen and learned that the Third Mizukage still ruled with considerable strength and prestige, making him an obstacle to Feiyu's plans.

• Tsunade used Wood Release to capture the Seven Ninja Swordsmen alive after overpowering them.
• Uchiha Feiyu incapacitated Iwagakure's Explosion Corps, and Tsunade took responsibility for the captives.
• Feiyu returned to Konoha with Tsunade, who formally assumed the Hokage position, then left with the Seven Ninja Swordsmen for Kirigakure.
• Feiyu entered Kirigakure without being challenged because the guards recognized the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and let them pass.
• Suikazan Fuguki told Feiyu that the Third Mizukage still held power and prestige, and that his strength had enabled him to enforce the Blood Mist Policy.

Uchiha Feiyu killed the Third Mizukage and set the Seven Ninja Swordsmen loose to plunge Kirigakure into turmoil. As the village’s factions gathered to confront the swordsmen, Feiyu went to find Mei Terumi.

• The Third Mizukage recognized Uchiha Feiyu’s Genjutsu, but Feiyu ordered the Seven Ninja Swordsmen to attack him.
• The Third Mizukage escaped his office using Ice Release, but Feiyu caught up with him and incapacitated him with Tsukuyomi.
• Uchiha Feiyu drained the Third Mizukage’s life, while the Seven Ninja Swordsmen killed the Anbu guarding the office.
• The Seven Ninja Swordsmen displayed the Mizukage’s body, and the Yuki Clan confronted them over his murder.
• Uchiha Feiyu entered Terumi Clan territory and followed the strongest young presence, which he believed belonged to Mei Terumi.

Mei Terumi realized Kirigakure’s crisis might involve possession, but Uchiha Feiyu subdued and controlled her before she could reach Teacher Genji. After helping her awaken Lava Release and increase her strength, he began training her in a Tsukuyomi illusion so she could eventually claim the Mizukage position.

• Mei Terumi suspected the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and the Third Mizukage had been possessed and set out to find Teacher Genji, but Uchiha Feiyu incapacitated her with Genjutsu.
• Uchiha Feiyu used the Divinity Subduing Art to control Mei Terumi, then removed it after their encounter and asked about her physical strength and Chakra.
• Mei Terumi discovered her Chakra had more than tripled, her physical abilities had risen, and she had awakened Lava Release in addition to Boil Release.
• Uchiha Feiyu asked whether Mei Terumi could become Mizukage by defeating Karatachi Yagura, and she said Kirigakure’s strongest ninja could claim the position.
• Uchiha Feiyu brought Mei Terumi into a Tsukuyomi training space filled with controlled ninja souls, where she could practice ninjutsu and fight without dying or running out of Chakra.

Mei Terumi awakened from a year of Genjutsu training, received pills that greatly increased her physical strength and Chakra, and joined Kirigakure’s confrontation with the Seven Ninja Swordsmen. After Genji revealed that the Seven had been controlled by Genjutsu, the battle began when Raiga Kurosuki attacked him, and Mei raised a Water Wall to block the strike.

• Uchiha Feiyu ended the Genjutsu, and Mei Terumi woke after experiencing a year of combat training in only seconds.
• Uchiha Feiyu gave Mei Terumi pills that nearly doubled her vitality and increased her Chakra reserves by half.
• Mei Terumi went to the Mizukage Building, where Yagura and Genji faced the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and their dwindling supporters.
• Genji revealed that he believed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen were controlled by Genjutsu, and Suikazan Fuguki attacked Kisame Hoshigaki when Kisame questioned him.
• Genji called on Utakata and Mei Terumi to help confront the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, and Mei joined Yagura and Utakata.
• Raiga Kurosuki fired lightning at Genji, and Mei Terumi raised a Water Wall just before it could hit him.

Mei Terumi, Yagura, and Utakata fought the Seven Ninja Swordsmen while Genji urged them to spare the genjutsu-bound opponents. By the end, most of the swordsmen had been killed, incapacitated, or cornered, and Mei Terumi attacked the last remaining fighter, Raiga Kurosuki.

• Mei Terumi unleashed her Boil Release mist, which melted Juzo Biwa and his Kubikiribōchō, then corroded Kushimaru Kuriarare’s wires and knocked him unconscious with taijutsu.
• Yagura used his Water Mirror Technique and Coral Palm to restrain Suikazan Fuguki, but Munashi Jinpachi freed Fuguki with an explosive attack.
• Yagura expanded his Water Mirror Technique to copy several swordsmen, overwhelming Suikazan Fuguki and Munashi Jinpachi as Uchiha Feiyu observed the technique’s Chakra cost.
• Mei Terumi’s Lava Release burned Jinin Akebino’s hands until he dropped Kabutowari, and she knocked him out; Utakata held off the wielder of Twin Swords Hirame with his Tailed Beast Cloak.
• Mei Terumi found Raiga Kurosuki as the only swordsman left standing, asked if he would surrender, and attacked him with acidic mist after he refused.

Yagura and the Kirigakure ninja discovered that the captured Seven Ninja Swordsmen were trapped by a dangerous Genjutsu that could not be safely dispelled, so they planned to develop protective brain seals. The discussion turned to choosing the Fourth Mizukage, and Yagura challenged Mei Terumi, whose corrosive Lava Release put him at a disadvantage.

• Yagura disrupted the Genjutsu in Jinin Akebino's brain while examining him, killing him when the chakra in his brain turned chaotic.
• Ao explained that the Genjutsu had fused with the victims' brain chakra, and Mei Terumi proposed preventing it rather than trying to break it.
• Yagura suggested brain seals to guard against the Genjutsu, and Genji ordered the sealing team to research them before raising the choice of Fourth Mizukage.
• Mei Terumi and Yagura both claimed the Mizukage position and agreed to fight for it in front of the assembled Kirigakure ninja.
• Yagura used the Water Mirror Technique, but Mei Terumi's Lava Release—Sulphuric Acid Waterfall drained much more of his chakra and corroded his earth walls.
• Yagura realized Mei Terumi was immune to her own acid, leaving his Water Mirror Technique nearly useless against her.

Mei Terumi defeated Yagura and became the Fourth Mizukage, but she worried that Kirigakure’s clans and island factions would obstruct Uchiha Feiyu’s Universal Chakra Plan. Feiyu reassured her that the policy was inevitable and gave her a Primal Chaos Treasure Box to help carry out his plans.

• Mei Terumi defeated Yagura in their fight, and he conceded the position of Fourth Mizukage to her.
• Genji praised Mei Terumi’s strength and realized she had synthesized a second Kekkei Genkai.
• In the Mizukage Office, Mei Terumi told Uchiha Feiyu that Kirigakure’s clans and other island factions might resist universal chakra cultivation.
• Uchiha Feiyu argued that other nations’ policies would force Kirigakure to follow and discussed how the coming changes would affect ninja clans.
• Feiyu gave Mei Terumi a Primal Chaos Treasure Box, explained that it could turn living people into pills, and warned that only those he permitted could safely touch it.

After setting the Land of Water on a path toward universal Chakra cultivation, Uchiha Feiyu returned to Konoha and reunited with Tsunade, Shizune, and Kushina Uzumaki. He discovered Orochimaru had also come to Konoha, while Tsunade explained that Orochimaru now worked for Feiyu and could benefit the village.

• Uchiha Feiyu gave Mei Terumi the Primal Chaos Treasure Box, left Kirigakure, and used Genjutsu to make the Land of Water's leaders promote universal Chakra cultivation.
• Uchiha Feiyu traveled through the Land of Fire, saw civilians learning Chakra cultivation, and considered finding broadly useful methods in the Demonic Path Inheritance Compendium.
• Uchiha Feiyu entered Konoha with Tsunade's authorization and sensed that Orochimaru had come to the village from the Land of Sound.
• Uchiha Feiyu found Tsunade drinking with Shizune and Kushina Uzumaki, and Tsunade revealed she had used Medical Ninjutsu to alter the women's figures.
• Uchiha Feiyu asked Tsunade about Orochimaru, and she said he worked for Feiyu and that returning to Konoha would give his experiments better resources.

Uchiha Feiyu visited Orochimaru's underground laboratory, where Orochimaru described his research into two dangerous techniques. Feiyu approved funding under Tsunade's oversight, while Orochimaru considered using a beautiful, talented container to win more support and knowledge from his disciple.

• Uchiha Feiyu passed through the former Root laboratory under genjutsu and met Orochimaru, who challenged him about controlling Konoha and promoting the Universal Chakra Policy.
• Orochimaru explained that he had improved the Demonic Dismemberment Art and developed the Thousand Spider Poison Hand into a poison-based Release technique.
• Orochimaru demonstrated his snake-venom technique on a captive ninja and stored the dying man in the Primal Chaos Treasure Box for pill refinement.
• Uchiha Feiyu judged the techniques unsuitable for his plans, but agreed to add them to Konoha's Book of Seals and provide research funding reviewed by Tsunade.
• Orochimaru considered using a beautiful, talented container to appeal to Uchiha Feiyu and obtain more Soul Pills and unfamiliar knowledge.

Uchiha Feiyu decided to stop absorbing Chakra before his body transformed into an energy-based Otsutsuki-like form, intending to choose a cultivation method suited to him instead. Nearly three years later, universal Chakra cultivation had spread across the major nations, bringing social unrest before civilians and governments began adjusting to the new power balance.

• Uchiha Feiyu left Orochimaru's base with Guren following him, then reflected on Orochimaru's examination and the signs that his body was nearing an energy-based transformation.
• Uchiha Feiyu rejected the Otsutsuki path and decided to stop absorbing Chakra while he sought a suitable foundation for another cultivation system.
• Over nearly three years, the Land of Fire, Land of Wind, and Land of Water expanded the Universal Chakra Policy, while the Land of Earth and Land of Lightning initially lagged behind.
• The Land of Lightning and Land of Earth tried to pressure the other nations to abandon the policy, but backed down and began implementing it themselves after nearly two years of disputes.
• As civilians gained Chakra and some abused their new strength, ninja village shinobi defeated them, and the spread of Chakra cultivation eventually became too widespread to reverse.

Three years after the Universal Chakra Policy began, rising populations of chakra users boosted the strength and productivity of the Land of Fire, while Iwagakure and Kumogakure sought a long peace treaty during their rivals’ weaker years. Uchiha Feiyu ordered Tsunade to accept the treaty and avoid a major war until the policy had matured, then reminded her that the Vitality Pills she and his other followers consumed were made at the cost of human lives.

• The Universal Chakra Policy raised the Land of Fire’s productivity and promised a vast increase in ninja strength, while Iwagakure and Kumogakure worried about the three-year gap in development.
• Tsunade told Uchiha Feiyu that Iwagakure and Kumogakure had sent representatives to Konoha to propose a peace treaty lasting more than ten years.
• Uchiha Feiyu decided Konoha should honor the treaty and avoid a world-scale war until the Universal Chakra Policy had been fully implemented.
• Tsunade accepted his decision despite wanting to exploit Konoha’s temporary advantage and attack the other villages before they caught up.
• Uchiha Feiyu warned Tsunade not to grieve over ordinary lives, reminding her that Vitality Pills were made from people and that she had consumed them.

Uchiha Feiyu noticed the young Uchiha prodigy Itachi and considered how to use his talent before envoys from Iwagakure and Kumogakure arrived in Konoha to sign a peace agreement. Kakashi received them with little enthusiasm, and the envoys followed him to the guest inn despite their irritation.

• Tsunade accepted Feiyu’s argument that Konoha’s ninjas were no different from others who profited from the Shinobi World’s conflicts.
• Feiyu spotted the young Itachi Uchiha and assessed his talent and potential Mangekyō Sharingan abilities.
• Half a month later, Iwagakure and Kumogakure sent delegations to Konoha to sign a peace agreement.
• Kakashi greeted the envoys perfunctorily, and Iwagakure’s Hikari complained that Kakashi had forgotten him from the war.
• Hikari and the Kumogakure leader argued over Konoha’s welcome, then both delegations followed Kakashi to Konoha Guest Inn.

Kumogakure and Iwagakure secretly plotted to provoke war by stealing the Hyuga Clan’s Byakugan and the Uchiha Clan’s Sharingan. Kumogakure’s raid left Hinata Hyuga without her eyes, while Iwagakure’s attack on the Uchiha Clan drew attention; Hyuga Hiashi confronted the fleeing Kumogakure shinobi and was blinded by their leader’s lightning technique.

• Kumogakure and Iwagakure separately planned to steal the Byakugan and Sharingan to spark conflict between Konoha and the other village.
• Kumogakure shinobi entered the Hyuga compound and abducted Hinata Hyuga’s eyes after knocking her and her guard, Natsu Hyuga, unconscious.
• The raiders fled as an explosion sounded from the Uchiha Clan, and Hyuga shinobi discovered Hinata Hyuga injured and Natsu Hyuga unconscious.
• Hyuga Hiashi intercepted the fleeing Kumogakure shinobi, and their leader used Lightning Illusion Flash Pillar to blind him.

The Kumogakure Leader’s plot to kill Hyuga Hiashi and frame Iwagakure unraveled when Tsunade revealed that both villages had devised plans to frame each other. She returned the stolen Byakugan and ordered the captured delegations interrogated, while Uchiha Feiyu proposed killing Ōnoki and Killer B.

• The Kumogakure Leader killed Hyuga Hiashi, stole his Byakugan, and buried the eyes near the Iwagakure building to frame Iwagakure.
• Anbu, Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Obito, and Hizashi Hyuga escorted the Kumogakure delegation to Tsunade’s office, where captured Iwagakure Ninja and recovered Byakugan were waiting.
• Tsunade explained that Iwagakure had attacked Itachi Uchiha and planned to steal Sharingan to frame Kumogakure, which exposed the Kumogakure Leader’s own role in Hyuga Hiashi’s murder.
• Tsunade ordered the Anbu to take both delegations for interrogation by the Yamanaka Clan and promised Hizashi Hyuga that the prisoners would later be sent to the Hyuga Clan.
• Uchiha Feiyu told Tsunade he could kill Ōnoki and Killer B, but said he needed to plan how to harvest enough Sacrificial Black Qi.

Uchiha Feiyu tested a genjutsu formation powered by a Three-Tomoe Sharingan, then discovered that Uchiha Fugaku had awakened his Mangekyo. He left Fugaku facing a choice between surrendering his eyes and letting his family die.

• Uchiha Feiyu tested the formation in a valley, where it cast a wide genjutsu over the female Anbu and proved that the Three-Tomoe Sharingan core could not withstand his power for long.
• Sasuke Uchiha asked Itachi Uchiha to recount the fight with Iwagakure, and Uchiha Fugaku praised Itachi for his role in the incident.
• Uchiha Feiyu appeared in Uchiha Fugaku's courtyard and attacked him with a kunai, forcing Fugaku's Mangekyo Sharingan to awaken as he defended himself with Susanoo.
• Uchiha Feiyu used genjutsu to control Mikoto Uchiha, Itachi Uchiha, and Sasuke Uchiha, then made Mikoto hold kunai to her children's throats.
• Uchiha Fugaku agreed to surrender his Mangekyo Sharingan to save his family.

Uchiha Fugaku surrendered his Mangekyō Sharingan to Uchiha Feiyu to save his family, and Uchiha Feiyu used them to strengthen his large-scale Genjutsu plan. Meanwhile, Iwagakure and Kumogakure reacted to their failed operations in Konoha, with Ōnoki punishing Deidara for an explosion and Killer B weighing Konoha’s likely response.

• Uchiha Fugaku handed his Mangekyō Sharingan to Uchiha Feiyu, who vanished after releasing Mikoto Uchiha and the others from his control; Sasuke Uchiha awakened his Sharingan.
• Uchiha Feiyu fused the Mangekyō into a crystal for his formations and judged that its Genjutsu could cover nearly a small country for two or three days.
• Ōnoki learned that Iwagakure’s delegation had failed in Konoha and complained that Itachi Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha had defeated its eight Jonin.
• Deidara’s explosive experiment destroyed part of the Tsuchikage’s office, and Ōnoki captured him to punish him for using ninjutsu recklessly.
• Killer B learned that Kumogakure’s delegation had been wiped out, blamed Iwagakure for framing them, and turned to Dodai to discuss Konoha’s response.

Kumogakure prepared to draw the other ninja villages into its conflict with Konoha, but Konoha launched attacks on the Land of Grass and the Land of Frost first. Uchiha Feiyu arrived in Kusagakure with Tsunade and planned to move its treasure box and use the village’s ninjas, along with selected Konoha troops, as battlefield sacrifices.

• Dodai urged Killer B to contact the other ninja villages and make Konoha consider Iwagakure a threat alongside Kumogakure.
• Konoha sent two thousand troops into the Land of Grass and the Land of Frost, opening battlefronts against Iwagakure and Kumogakure.
• Uchiha Feiyu and Tsunade arrived in Kusagakure, where its ninjas recognized Feiyu’s token and escorted them to the leaders.
• Feiyu explained to Tsunade that Kusagakure’s ninjas had grown stronger through the Primal Chaos Treasure Box but had also fallen into fierce internal strife.
• Feiyu planned to move the treasure box, send Kusagakure’s ninjas to the battlefield, and sacrifice about three hundred unsuitable Konoha ninjas on each front.