Chapter Summaries

After completing Foundation Establishment, Uchiha Kiyoshi assessed his transformation and began planning how to refine and pass on the Immortal Cultivation System. In Konoha, Hui considered recruiting Rin as a disciple and discussed teaching her with Minato Namikaze.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi completed Foundation Establishment, cleansed himself, and found his strength, Natural Energy purification, Lightning Spiritual Root, and lifespan had greatly improved.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi concluded that Foundation Establishment could be reached through different methods and decided to master his new abilities and perfect the cultivation process before taking disciples.
• Hui learned that the original body had succeeded and reasoned that clones could not attain Foundation Establishment, then planned to prepare Rin in Sealing Jutsu and eventually fake her death.
• Hui watched Rin, Obito, and Kakashi train at Konoha's training ground, and Minato Namikaze asked him to assess the team.
• Hui praised Rin's Chakra control and suggested Medical Ninjutsu, so Minato Namikaze offered to let Hui teach her.

Hui told Minato Namikaze about his newly completed Battle Armor Mode and demonstrated how Medical Ninjutsu could support combat while encouraging Rin to study it. Rin considered the offer, while Obito learned firsthand not to underestimate medical ninjas.

• Hui explained Battle Armor Mode to Minato Namikaze while they watched Team 7 train.
• Hui teased Obito and dodged his punch before striking him down for attacking a Jonin.
• Hui praised Rin’s Chakra control and invited her to study Medical Ninjutsu with him.
• After Obito dismissed medical ninjas, Hui wounded and repeatedly healed him to demonstrate their combat potential.
• Hui asked Rin to consider how Medical Ninjutsu could help her and her companions, and Rin began leaning toward the offer.

Hui agreed to train Rin in Medical Ninjutsu, while Minato evaluated Team Minato and Hui offered to help Obito with Fire Release. Elsewhere, Doseki began experimenting with herbal medicine-making, and Hui’s group encountered Kushina and Mikoto in Konoha.

• Rin accepted Hui as her Medical Ninjutsu teacher and agreed to return the next morning for training.
• Minato tested Kakashi, Rin, and Obito in a spar, then assessed their strengths and progress.
• Obito grew excited when Hui promised to guide him in Fire Release, while Hui decided the current Obito could still be steered toward a different future.
• Doseki gathered medicinal herbs at the Black Market and began testing a gentle flame technique to extract their medicinal properties at a hidden research base.
• After leaving a barbecue restaurant, Hui, Minato, Kakashi, Rin, and Obito ran into Uzumaki Kushina and Uchiha Mikoto.

Hui trained Team 7, teaching Rin medical ninjutsu while Obito practiced Hui’s Explosive Fist. He then experimented with feeding Natural Energy to plants and discovered that it rapidly accelerated their growth.

• Kushina met Hui and invited him to her home, prompting Hui to consider finding other Uzumaki clansmen for his cultivation system.
• Hui taught Obito Explosive Fist and assessed Rin’s chakra control before guiding her through the Hemostasis Technique and Healing Technique.
• Rin treated Obito’s burns as he practiced Explosive Fist, and her medical skills improved through repeated training.
• Hui left Rin with medical fundamentals and a Shadow Clone, then returned to researching Spiritual Plants.
• Hui infused a sapling with unpurified Natural Energy and watched it grow two centimeters in ten seconds.

Hui refined his Spiritual Plant cultivation and trained Team 7, recognizing Rin’s talent for Sealing Jutsu and encouraging her to study it alongside Medical Ninjutsu. Meanwhile, Doseki completed the purification of medicinal properties and began developing a way to strengthen them with Natural Energy.

• Hui developed a sensing technique to adjust Natural Energy for different plants and arranged to supply Doseki with medicinal herbs every ten days.
• Hui continued training Obito, whose Explosive Fist improved, while Rin made progress in Water Release and Medical Ninjutsu.
• Hui taught Rin the Mystical Palm Technique and discovered her exceptional ability to control Chakra while drawing Sealing Formulas.
• Hui gave Rin his Sealing Jutsu Basics and told Minato Namikaze about her talent; Minato agreed she should study Sealing Jutsu.
• Doseki gathered another supply of herbs, completed separating and purifying their medicinal properties, and planned to use Natural Energy to strengthen them.

Over two years, Doseki established an alchemy system, and Uchiha Kiyoshi’s main body advanced through improved pills and developed Wood Release and Lava Release as Kekkei Tōta. As the Five Great Shinobi Villages reached unprecedented military strength and war drew near, Maka monitored Sasori’s preparations while struggling to develop Magnet Release.

• Doseki improved the Peiyuan Pill to its limit and developed an alchemy system that combined medicinal ingredients with Natural Energy, accelerating Uchiha Kiyoshi’s cultivation.
• Hui’s research into plant growth helped Uchiha Kiyoshi develop Wood Release and led him to conclude that using it consumed Life Force; he also developed Lava Release into a Kekkei Tōta.
• Konoha and Kumogakure clashed at their border as all Five Great Shinobi Villages built up their strength, making another war seem imminent.
• Maka observed that Sasori was secretly preparing traps and planned to watch for the Third Kazekage’s disappearance as a sign that Sasori had acted.
• Maka created a magnetic field with Lightning Release but still could not find a way to combine it with Sand Release to develop Magnet Release.

Maka secretly witnessed Sasori ambush the Third Kazekage and learned that Sasori was trying to kill him. After the Third Kazekage died, Maka relayed the news to Uchiha Kiyoshi, whose clones began preparing for the approaching Third War.

• Maka followed the Third Kazekage to a remote Gobi and watched Sasori ambush him with poisoned puppets and Explosive Tags.
• The wounded Third Kazekage discovered Maka watching, but Maka used the Substitution Body Flicker Technique to leave and return without helping either fighter.
• Sasori wore down the poisoned Third Kazekage with puppet attacks, blocked his final Iron Sand assault, and killed him.
• Maka returned to relay the Third Kazekage’s death to Uchiha Kiyoshi, while Doseki realized the war was nearing and began preparing.
• Hui finished teaching Rin the Delicate Illness Extraction Technique and then accelerated medicinal herb production so Doseki could make Chakra Restoration Pills.

Minato Namikaze continued training in Senjutsu on Mount Myoboku but struggled to enter Sage Mode, while the Great Toad Sage remained asleep after a prophetic dream. Back in Konoha, Hui trained Team 7 and warned them that trouble might soon come.

• Minato Namikaze failed to control the Natural Energy needed for Sage Mode, and Jiraiya worried that Minato's attacks lacked a finishing move against Kage Level opponents.
• Sage Fukasaku told Jiraiya that the Great Toad Sage had been asleep for two years after a prophetic dream and had not awakened to report what he saw.
• Hui explained to Obito, Kakashi, and Rin that Minato had gone away for difficult training, then arranged afternoon combat practice for Obito and Kakashi while Rin treated them.
• Hui encouraged Rin to keep developing her Medical Ninjutsu and advised her to train Water Release, Swordsmanship, and close-combat skills because something big might happen soon.
• Hui left a Shadow Clone to supervise Team 7 and reflected that Minato's Chakra reserves were extraordinary for a commoner.

The Great Toad Sage recalled a vision of a White-Robed Sage with blood-red eyes whose actions had affected the Ninja World two years earlier, prompting Jiraiya to return to Konoha to investigate. Meanwhile, Uchiha Kiyoshi prepared to evolve his Mangekyo into Eternal Eyes after researching how the eyes absorbed Natural Energy.

• The Great Toad Sage woke and told Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, Sage Fukasaku, and Sage Shima that he had glimpsed a major event from two years earlier involving a White-Robed Sage with blood-red eyes.
• Jiraiya considered possible meanings of the Sage’s clues and returned to Konoha to investigate events from two years earlier.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi completed two years of research on Kiyoshi Island and concluded that Eternal Eyes developed as the eyes adapted to absorb Natural Energy.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi prepared to evolve his eyes into Eternal Eyes.

As the Third Kazekage remained missing, Danzo urged the Third Hokage to attack Sunagakure, while Jiraiya reported the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy. Kumogakure launched a surprise invasion of Sunagakure, and the chapter ended with the Third Raikage retreating after Maka wounded him, leaving Sunagakure’s leaders suspicious of Maka’s connection to Doseki.

• Danzo pressed the Third Hokage to exploit the Third Kazekage’s disappearance and invade Sunagakure, but the Third Hokage refused to start a war.
• Jiraiya returned from Mount Myoboku, reported that Minato’s Senjutsu training was slow, and told the Third Hokage about the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy.
• The Third Hokage told Jiraiya that the Third Kazekage had been missing for nearly three months, prompting Jiraiya to fear that war was unavoidable.
• The Third Raikage led nearly a thousand Kumogakure ninja into Wind Country and broke Sunagakure’s barrier, but Rasa’s Gold Sand Burial killed over a hundred attackers.
• The Third Raikage destroyed five of Chiyo’s puppets, while Maka slowed Rasa’s assault and cut through the Third Raikage’s Lightning Release Armor with Air Circular Slash, severely injuring him.
• The Third Raikage ordered a retreat, and Sunagakure’s leaders grew wary of Maka after he slipped away and the Third Raikage identified his technique as connected to Doseki.

Maka rejected the prospect of becoming Kazekage and defected from Sunagakure as the villages moved toward full-scale war. Danzo interpreted the unfolding events as an Iwagakure conspiracy involving Maka and Doseki, leaving him convinced that Doseki was a rogue ninja.

• Maka decided he would never become Kazekage and chose to defect from Sunagakure.
• After Sunagakure mobilized against Kumogakure, Konoha declared war and sent its army toward the border, including Hui, Minato, Obito, and Rin.
• Doseki traveled to the Land of Earth disguised as an Iwagakure Genin and learned that his unit was heading toward the Wind Country.
• Doseki reasoned that Kumogakure had withdrawn through the Wind Country and that Sunagakure and Iwagakure had likely allied against Kumogakure.
• Danzo received intelligence about Iwagakure forces moving toward the Wind Country and concluded that Maka was an Iwagakure spy cooperating with Doseki.

Hui began training Team 7 at the front while the Third Raikage led a Cloud Ninja force into an Iwagakure ambush. Danzo pushed for Konoha to attack weakened Sunagakure, but Hiruzen refused and demanded access to Root’s files.

• Minato Namikaze asked Hui to guide Team 7’s training while they were stationed at the front, and Hui began teaching them advanced techniques.
• Doseki observed more than ten thousand Rock Shinobi preparing an ambush as the Third Raikage led over six hundred Cloud Ninja toward Iwagakure.
• The Third Raikage sensed the hidden army, ordered his unit to withdraw, and stayed behind as Iwagakure’s forces charged.
• A and Killer B learned that Iwagakure was building defenses, while A expected the Cloud forces’ planned attack from both directions to overwhelm them.
• Danzo urged Hiruzen to send troops into the Wind Country, but Hiruzen refused and demanded to review Root’s files.

Doseki watched the Third Raikage face Iwagakure’s army of more than ten thousand shinobi and secretly joined the assault to accelerate his exhaustion. The Raikage was still fighting, but he recognized that a powerful hidden attacker was draining his Chakra.

• Danzo chose Minato Namikaze as the focus of a plan and ordered Kou San, Hei Ichi, and Tei Ichi to be summoned.
• Doseki reflected on his Konoha spy companion and his plan to use false intelligence to lure Danzo out and kill him.
• Doseki and the spy moved to the rear of the formation as the Third Raikage charged into the Iwagakure army, killing dozens with Four-Finger Nukite.
• The Iwagakure commander organized Jonin and three Elite Jonin to hold off the Third Raikage, who endured their coordinated Wind and Earth Release techniques.
• Doseki secretly cast powerful Earth and Wind Release techniques at the Third Raikage, increasing the Chakra he spent defending himself.
• The Third Raikage sensed that one hidden attacker was launching unusually powerful techniques and cursed the shinobi for sneaking attacks from within the army.

Doseki killed the Third Raikage after secretly draining his time, then claimed the Immortal Organization’s name and devastated the Iwagakure army with meteor techniques. News of the battle spread across the Ninja World, and Jiraiya and the Third Hokage began connecting the organization to the prophecy.

• Doseki repeatedly relocated as the Third Raikage searched for him, prolonging the battle until the Third Raikage fought for two days and nights and died of exhaustion.
• Doseki sealed the Third Raikage’s corpse, identified himself as a member of the Immortal Organization, and attacked the exhausted Iwagakure forces.
• Doseki used Meteor Shower and Falling Stars to kill thousands of Rock Shinobi, then killed a Root spy and disappeared.
• The Third Hokage told Jiraiya about the battle and Doseki’s claim, prompting Jiraiya to suspect that the Immortal Organization’s leader was the sage from the prophecy.
• Other powers received reports of the Third Raikage’s death, Doseki’s meteor attacks, and the Immortal Organization’s emergence.

After Doseki killed the Third Raikage, seized his body, and slaughtered three thousand Iwagakure ninja, the villages reacted to the losses while Hui traveled to the Land of Earth to investigate Iwagakure and prepare for the coming battle at Kannabi Bridge. Two months passed as the war continued to simmer and new fronts stirred.

• Kumogakure mourned the Third Raikage and blamed Doseki for ambushing him, while Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure's remaining forces to reinforce the front and search for retreating elites.
• Hui encouraged Obito and Rin to train, accepted Minato Namikaze's intelligence mission, and departed for the Land of Earth as Danzo received word of his movements.
• Hui reached Kannabi Bridge and secretly buried replacements across the area to prepare for the coming conflict.
• Hui encountered Iwagakure squads, killed them using techniques he could plausibly report, and sent the intelligence he gathered back to Konoha's front line.
• Konoha and Kumogakure continued cautious clashes, Iwagakure and Kumogakure fought fiercely, and Sunagakure and Kirigakure began to stir as two months passed.

Rasa became the Fourth Kazekage and launched Sand Village into war against Konoha, prompting Konoha to reinforce the River Country front. Hui returned from a two-month mission and planned to reveal his Kage Level strength as the war widened, while Danzo fumed after the Third Hokage chose someone else to lead the campaign against Sand Village.

• Rasa gained support by defending Sand Village from Kumogakure’s attack, became the Fourth Kazekage, and soon decided to wage war against Konoha.
• The Third Hokage sent Minato Namikaze, Tsunade, and Nara Shikaichi’s group to River Country, while Jiraiya went to support Orochimaru against the approaching A-B Combo.
• Obito worried about Hui’s absence, and Minato told Team 7 they were being transferred to the River Country front.
• Hui returned after a two-month mission, learned Sand Village had joined the war, and planned to reveal his Kage Level strength as the conflict escalated.
• Minato and Team 7 arrived in River Country, where Nara Shikaichi assigned them duties amid the pressure of Konoha fighting on two fronts.
• Danzo angrily confronted the Third Hokage after learning that someone else would lead the campaign against Sand Village.

After Kumogakure’s withdrawal from the Land of Earth, Hui was assigned to the southern coastal front as the war escalated with A and B joining the fighting. When Kumogakure ambushed him with nearly a hundred shinobi, Hui used the sea, Water Release, and his Body Flicker Technique to turn the battle around and reveal his Kage-level strength.

• Orochimaru reported that Kumogakure and Iwagakure had both suffered heavy losses, and Jiraiya warned that A and B would soon join the Lightning Country battlefield.
• Orochimaru assigned Hui to the West Coast Front, where Hui planned to use the coastal environment to fight without revealing Wood Release.
• Two months later, A and B arrived with Kumogakure’s withdrawn troops, and Hui faced increased pressure while defending the southern coastal region.
• Kumogakure ambushed Hui with nearly a hundred shinobi, but he used Water Release attacks and the sea to injure and incapacitate many pursuers.
• Hui rushed the three Kumogakure Elite Jonin and used his Body Flicker Technique and Water Release to seriously wound one of them, prompting the Cloud Ninja to realize he had broken through to Kage Level.

Hui revealed his Kage Level strength at sea, destroyed a Kumogakure force, and let survivors carry news of the battle back to the village. After the Ninja World learned of Konoha’s new powerhouse, Hui returned to the front and met with Orochimaru and Jiraiya, who considered what his strength meant for Konoha’s plans.

• Hui used Water Release: Surging Waves to overwhelm the pursuing Kumogakure ninja, then killed three Elite Jonin with Multiple Water Severing Wave.
• Hui sensed surviving Cloud Ninja and deliberately let them escape so they could report his strength and the losses to Kumogakure.
• A received the survivors’ report and grew furious that Hui had killed three Elite Jonin and over a hundred ninja.
• News of Hui’s Kage Level strength spread through the Ninja World, making other villages wary of Konoha.
• Hui recovered, returned to the Konoha Front, and reported to the Command Post, where Orochimaru and Jiraiya discussed his concealed strength and its value to their plans.

Konoha formed an alliance with Amegakure to force Sunagakure into a decisive battle, while Orochimaru and Jiraiya joined Minato Namikaze on the River Country front. As Konoha and Sunagakure prepared to fight, Maka guarded Rin and Uchiha Kiyoshi grew wary of the changes slipping beyond his control.

• Facing mounting pressure from multiple fronts, Third Hokage sent Danzo to negotiate with Hanzo, who agreed to help Konoha drive back Sunagakure in exchange for unknown terms.
• Orochimaru and Jiraiya arrived at Minato Namikaze's River Country command post, giving Konoha a chance to press Sunagakure while Kumogakure remained wary of Hui.
• Hui considered stirring up trouble as the Wind Country and Land of Fire approached a decisive battle.
• Rasa welcomed Konoha's decision to fight and planned to spring a surprise on its forces.
• Maka continued protecting his disciple Rin as he sensed that the war was about to begin.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi reflected on how people and events were changing beyond his influence, and decided to remain cautious.

Jiraiya’s forces engaged Sunagakure, with Minato tying down Rasa while Tsunade treated poisoned Konoha ninja. At the Lightning Country front, Hui launched a surprise attack on Kumogakure with a massive flood and a barrage of Water Severing Waves, throwing its front line into chaos.

• Jiraiya assigned Minato to fight Rasa, the Ino-Shika-Cho trio to hold Chiyo, and Sarutobi Yu, Aburame Shinichi, and Inuzuka Ken to hold Ebizo.
• Minato used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach Rasa and strike him with a Rasengan, but Rasa escaped into the air on Gold Sand wings.
• Tsunade used Katsuyu to heal poisoned Konoha ninja while the battle raged around her.
• At the Lightning Country Battlefield, Hui used the Ocean Contract and Great Waterfall Technique to flood the Kumogakure front line with seawater.
• Hui unleashed Multiple Water Severing Wave, sending more than a hundred high-speed jets through the flooded battlefield and plunging Kumogakure’s front line into chaos.