Chapter Summaries

The Konoha Clone planted evidence linking Danzo to the disappearances of clan shinobi, while Uchiha Kiyoshi hunted Sand Village reinforcements to fund life after faking his death. Hatake Sakumo rescued another Konoha squad but was surrounded by more than a hundred Sand Village shinobi, and prepared to cover the others’ escape.

• The Konoha Clone secretly placed scrolls in the homes of shinobi clan leaders, suggesting Root had abducted missing clan members and recruited them through brutal training.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi recovered his Chakra, attacked a Sand Village squad, and defeated it before taking its puppets to sell for money.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi hunted Sand Village shinobi headed for the Supply Station, killing dozens and then deciding to hurry to his clone’s battlefield to stage his death.
• Hatake Sakumo rescued a Konoha group that included Ino-Shika-Cho, Inuzuka, and Hyuga shinobi, then found himself surrounded by over a hundred Sand Village shinobi.
• Hatake Sakumo told the rescued shinobi to break through while he stayed behind to cover their retreat.

Uchiha Kiyoshi escaped the battlefield by using a staged clash and the self-destruction of Tetsuya’s explosive-tag-filled puppets to destroy the Sand Supply Station. After reaching River Country, he embraced life outside Konoha and believed the freedom had brought him a transformation toward Kage Level.

• Hatake Sakumo cut down Sand Shinobi with his Chakra Blade while Uchiha Kiyoshi’s Shadow Clone and Tetsuya staged a fight inside the sea of flames.
• Tetsuya used his puppet to trigger the explosive tags in ten Elite Jonin-level puppets, setting off the Supply Station’s stockpile and killing the ninjas caught near the blast.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi waited underground, checked the battlefield with Mental Perception, cleared away traces of Chakra, and left using the Earth Movement Technique.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi traveled south and emerged in River Country, relieved to have escaped Konoha’s control.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi called himself a free ninja and believed his newfound freedom had transformed him and could help him reach Kage Level.

Uchiha Kiyoshi concealed his Chakra signature and escaped while Hatake Sakumo fought through Sand Village forces and killed their leaders. Chiyo learned her son and daughter-in-law had died, pursued Hatake Sakumo, and drove the war toward its final climax before Tsunade rescued him and Konoha hailed him as a Kage Level powerhouse.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi buried the Chakra accumulated inside his Barrier underground, then traveled through a stream without using Ninjutsu.
• Hatake Sakumo killed Chiharu and the other Sand Village leader, then broke out of the encirclement as his Chakra ran low.
• Ebizo suspected Konoha had set a trap after learning Tetsuya and Chiharu had gone after Blood-Eyed Asura and White Fang, and Chiyo rushed to investigate.
• Chiyo found that Chiharu and his wife had died, then pursued Hatake Sakumo and vowed to make Konoha White Fang pay.
• Hatake Sakumo endured Chiyo's poison and destroyed five of her Chikamatsu's Ten Puppets before Tsunade arrived and forced Chiyo back with him.
• Konoha and Sand Village blamed each other for their fallen shinobi, and rising anger pushed the Second Shinobi World War into its final climax.

After Hatake Sakumo recovered enough to stabilize the front, Konoha’s clans confronted the Third Hokage over Danzo and Root’s disappearance of clan shinobi. Uchiha Kiyoshi’s clone freed the prisoners and escaped as Danzo’s Root shinobi pursued him.

• Tsunade treated Hatake Sakumo and returned him to the front, where he recovered from his grave injuries and poison without lasting damage.
• After learning that Uchiha Kiyoshi had died during a suspicious mission, Uchiha Kai joined the clan heads in demanding that Danzo be punished, Root disbanded, and the captured shinobi released.
• The Third Hokage refused to act against Danzo, while Uchiha Kiyoshi’s clone located Root’s new base and began moving toward the underground prison holding the captured clan shinobi.
• The clone used Earth Release: Earth Flow Technique to raise the prison from underground, drawing Danzo and the clan heads to the scene.
• The clone trapped Danzo’s Root shinobi behind four earth walls with the Earth Prison Technique and fled, but Danzo recognized the technique and ordered his men to chase him.

A clone escaped Danzo’s Root shinobi while the Third Hokage and clan heads arrived, exposing Root’s brutal training operation. Sarutobi Hiruzen stripped Danzo of his Elder position and ordered Root’s temporary rectification, though the village dispute was only temporarily settled.

• The clone distracted Root shinobi with Wind Release, fled underground, used a Shadow Clone as a decoy, and returned to Uchiha Kiyoshi’s home by way of the Naka River.
• Uchiha Kai accused Danzo of abducting and killing shinobi, while Danzo denied wrongdoing and tried to turn suspicion back on him.
• Nara Akira investigated the Earth Prison and found hundreds of Root trainees, including missing shinobi from several clans.
• The clan heads condemned Danzo after realizing that Root’s failed trainees had been eliminated, but Danzo defended the sacrifices as necessary for Konoha.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen rebuked Danzo, removed him as an Elder, ordered Root to undergo temporary rectification, and promised compensation to the clans.

After Konoha’s clans accepted the Third Hokage’s ruling and compensation, Uchiha Kiyoshi settled in River Country and planned how to live independently. He intended to build an intelligence network, develop an immortal cultivation system, and earn money to fund his research.

• The Third Hokage compensated the major clans with resources and Anbu slots, while urging them to send talented youths to the Root; Uchiha Kai accepted two Anbu slots for the Uchiha Clan despite feeling humiliated.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi remained unaware of Konoha’s affairs as he traveled in hiding, then settled in River Country and concealed his Chakra with a body-engraved Concealment Technique.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi planned to create identities and use clones to gather intelligence from Konoha, Sunagakure, and the Black Market, while developing a way to transmit messages without using Summoning Snake.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi resolved to expand the Nourishing Origin Art into an Immortal Cultivation System and to make money for research equipment, medicinal herbs, and metals.

Uchiha Kiyoshi analyzed how the Shadow Clone Technique returned memories to the original body and considered using its soul connection to create a discreet intelligence-transmission method. He realized that a message could be delivered by sharing a shadow clone’s memories in advance, but he could not yet work out how to do it.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi identified the Shadow Clone Technique as a potential way to send intelligence directly into his memories.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi reasoned that shadow-clone memories might remain in the original body's soul and become accessible when a clone dispersed.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi considered how shadow clones gained independent consciousness and why their memories were not shared while they remained active.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi realized an intelligence-delivering shadow clone could share its memories with him ahead of time.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi questioned whether advance memory sharing was possible and returned to thinking about how to develop it.

Uchiha Kiyoshi developed a way to share Shadow Clone memories early and sent a clone disguised as Maka back to the Sand Frontline to gather intelligence and spoils. With that pressure eased, he began theorizing that Kekkei Genkai adaptation could replenish cells and evolve the body, leaving him eager to cultivate several Kekkei Genkai despite not knowing how to develop even one.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi created the Shadow Clone: Nirvana Resurrection Technique, which let a clone share its memories early and then be revived by a spare clone.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi sent a clone to the Sand Frontline disguised as Maka, with instructions to fight, collect spoils, and earn money.
• Maka returned to the front, reported his mission, and accepted a large-scale assignment after spending time alone in his tent.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi turned to studying Kekkei Genkai as a foundation for his planned Immortal Cultivation System.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi theorized that adapting to a Kekkei Genkai replenished depleted cells and could progressively evolve the body, but he doubted he could cultivate even one himself.

Uchiha Kiyoshi went to the River Country Black Market to sell two years of battlefield spoils and earn money for his plans. After an appraiser examined his ninja tools and scrapped puppets, he received thirty million ryo.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi decided he needed to cultivate an offensive Kekkei Genkai to strengthen himself.
• Maka left the Sand Village camp for a mission to retake a strategic stronghold from Konoha, hoping to kill Puppeteers and sell their puppets.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi used his Space Scrolls and Ninja Tool Pouch to bring large quantities of spoils to a Black Market in River Country.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi presented three scrolls of ninja tools and a fourth scroll containing more than a hundred scrapped puppets for appraisal.
• The Black Market appraiser offered Uchiha Kiyoshi thirty million ryo for the goods.

Uchiha Kiyoshi searched for a secluded place to establish a base, then killed Doseki, a rogue ninja from Iwagakure, and found stolen techniques on his body. He chose to look for an uninhabited island near Rainbow Country and prepared to make a clone from Doseki’s corpse.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi left the Black Market with thirty-six million ryo and decided to find a quiet, long-term base.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi lured three pursuers into a river and trapped them with Water Prison Technique.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi killed Doseki after overwhelming his Earth Style Walls with Water Dragon Tornadoes and Chakra Scalpel.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi chose the waters east of Rainbow Country as a possible base location and planned to find an uninhabited island.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi opened Doseki’s pouch, discovered two Iwagakure techniques, and learned from his notebook that Doseki was a rogue ninja who had stolen them.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi treated Doseki’s corpse and began making a clone that he planned to send to the Land of Earth.

Uchiha Kiyoshi traveled to Rainbow Country’s harsh surrounding waters, chose a remote island for his base, and built a small home and laboratory. He completed a large chakra-isolating barrier around the island, but its energy consumption left him wondering how other villages powered their formations.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi warned his clones to alert him before their memories returned and refreshed Maka’s sealed Shadow Clone so he could pass along the same message.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi crossed the sea to Rainbow Country and searched its stormy, dangerous waters for a suitable base site.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi chose a high island with wildlife and fish, then built a two-story house and dug a basement laboratory.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi and his Shadow Clones carved and connected sealing formulas to create an isolation barrier around the island.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi activated the barrier and found that it consumed one Ka per second, prompting him to wonder how village formations sustained themselves.

Uchiha Kiyoshi reduced the range of his Chakra Formation and prepared to resume his research while his Shadow Clone, Maka, joined a Sand Village operation against Konoha. Maka's squad drew Konoha forces away from the strategic location and fought a stronger group, leaving Maka to face three injured Chunin after killing one.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi built a smaller Barrier around his home, added a Chakra storage seal, and reduced the Formation’s energy use enough to begin his research.
• After seven days of preparation, Suna told Maka that the Sand Village forces were ready to move and advised him to fight alongside teammates of similar rank.
• Maka joined Gui and Kong on a diversionary attack behind Konoha’s position, where Sand Village squads defeated two groups of Konoha ninja and drew out three Jonin.
• Maka reported the three Jonin to Suna, then faced eight Konoha ninja with Gui and Kong while their puppets engaged the enemy’s stronger fighters.
• Maka used Wind Release: Gale Palm to empower his thrown kunai, killing one of the four Konoha Chunin and injuring the other three before running out of kunai.

Maka killed the remaining Chunin and Elite Chunin, then lured away and defeated a Konoha Jonin from the Utatane Clan. After recovering, he sent a Shadow Clone to bury the nearby battle spoils two hundred meters underground, while the main body waited for rescue.

• Maka defeated four Chunin and two Elite Chunin with help from Kong’s puppet and recovered his Chakra with a Soldier Pill.
• As Maka prepared to return to the battle, a Konoha Jonin approached, so Maka drew the Jonin away from Gui and Kong.
• Maka identified the Jonin as a member of the Utatane Clan and killed him after slowing his pursuit with Great Breakthrough and striking him with Gale Palm and kunai.
• Maka treated his injuries, restored his Chakra, and decided not to kill the other nearby ninja to avoid exposing his identity.
• Maka created a Shadow Clone, which used the Earth Movement Technique to collect nearby corpses, puppets, and other spoils and hide them two hundred meters underground.

Maka recovered from his mission, earned a promotion, and gained recognition in Sunagakure. Meanwhile, Uchiha Kiyoshi began a new period of research focused on understanding Spiritual Energy, starting by reviewing his theories and preparing an experiment.

• Maka No. 1 sent his memories to Uchiha Kiyoshi, who passed the location of the buried spoils to the Doseki Clone, and Doseki retrieved them to sell at the Black Market.
• Sand ninja rescued Maka, and the Sand High Command praised him, credited him with five A-rank missions, promoted him to Elite Chunin, and granted him a week to recover.
• Suna visited Maka after advancing to Elite Jonin, while Gui and Kong expressed admiration for Maka's victory over a Konoha Jonin.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi set up an Isolation Barrier and began preparing to study Spiritual Energy after organizing his research and reviewing his theories about Chakra.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi released a ball of Chakra and set up protective measures and a substitute kunai for his first experiment.

Uchiha Kiyoshi investigated how Chakra and Spiritual Energy might interact with the world’s Rules, using Shape Transformation and Nature Transformation to develop a theory about insight. He concluded that Nature Transformation insights resided in the soul but also required the body to adapt, and decided clones must cultivate new insights rather than rely on the original body’s progress.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi theorized that Spiritual Energy could touch the world’s Rules and explain how Chakra performed Shape Transformation and amplified Ninjutsu through Nature Transformation.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi compared Nature Transformation cultivation to repeatedly recording insights with Spiritual Energy and considered whether those insights were stored in the soul or body.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi examined Shadow Clones and Orochimaru’s Body-Switching Technique, then concluded that insights were in the soul while the body also needed to adapt before using them.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi reasoned that clones could adapt to existing insights but should cultivate new content themselves, even when practicing the same nature.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi wondered whether Spiritual Energy was unattributeed Rule Power and declared, “Chakra, the Heaven-Piercing Technique!”

Uchiha Kiyoshi reconsidered the flaws of the ninja system and developed his plan for an Immortal Cultivation system, beginning with a Return to Innate transformation. Since his body needed a qualitative breakthrough, he chose to develop Lava Release and set aside time each day to train it.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi concluded that ninjas’ fragile bodies were mismatched with the immense power of Chakra and began outlining an Immortal Cultivation path based on Spiritual Energy and Rule Power.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi identified absorbing Natural Energy without letting it assimilate his body as the first challenge of Return to Innate, and favored accelerating the body’s ability to gentle that energy.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi realized his Body Nourishment Technique and Body Forging Technique had built up his body but could not trigger the qualitative transformation he needed, so he considered developing a Kekkei Genkai.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi ruled out Wood Release and Ice Release, then compared Lava Release with Boil Release and chose Lava Release for its versatility and potential to advance into Kekkei Tōta.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi allocated three hours each day to developing Lava Release while continuing his other research and cultivation.

Uchiha Kiyoshi maintained his training and research while devising a system for classifying bodily cultivation and exploring how the body and soul could deepen Nature Transformation. He ended with a theory that cultivating both could make Chakra carry Nature Transformation traits and potentially let the effects stack.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi kept to his daily schedule while assigning his five Shadow Clones to train in Chakra Nature Transformation and develop his Kekkei Genkai.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi classified bodily cultivation into Body Forging Early, Mid, and Late Stages, placing most ninjas in the Early Stage and Kekkei Genkai users in the Mid Stage.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi theorized that reaching the Late Stage would require fully tempering the body and using a second Kekkei Genkai as a catalyst for comprehensive genetic change.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi reconsidered advanced Nature Transformation and proposed that the body itself might acquire natural traits, reducing the barrier between the body's abilities and the soul's comprehension.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi concluded that cultivating both body and soul might imbue Chakra with Nature Transformation traits and allow further transformations to stack.

Maka returned to the front after recovering and training, then joined Konoha’s army in the decisive battle against Sunagakure. As the two sides’ strongest fighters clashed and the armies fought across the plain, Maka focused on surviving and waiting for a chance to distinguish himself; in Konoha, Uchiha Kai regretted Uchiha Kiyoshi’s death.

• Maka learned Wind Cutter Jutsu and Net, received a Body Flicker Jutsu scroll from Suna, and returned to the front with Gui and Kong.
• After half a month, Maka and his team received orders to begin the decisive battle in four hours and prepared for combat.
• The Third Kazekage led Sunagakure’s army, while Senju Taku led Konoha’s forces into battle.
• White Fang suppressed Chiyo, the Ino-Shika-Cho Clan Heads fought Ebizo, and Orochimaru and Tsunade held off the Third Kazekage while Tsunade treated poison victims.
• Maka fought amid the main armies, avoided drawing attention, and waited for the battle to develop before making a move.
• In Konoha’s Hokage’s Office, Uchiha Kai reflected on Uchiha Kiyoshi’s death and regretted that the young shinobi had died in the war.

As Konoha and Sunagakure fought their decisive battle, Hanzo arrived to support Konoha after negotiating with Danzo, turning the tide. The Third Kazekage surrendered, ending the Second Shinobi World War.

• Maka judged that Sunagakure held the advantage as Tsunade's hemophobia worsened and Konoha's forces struggled.
• Danzo arranged Hanzo's support, and Hanzo came to oppose Sunagakure after condemning Danzo's schemes against the Senju Clan.
• Hanzo's arrival reversed the battle, and Maka wounded and killed his Shimura Clan opponent.
• The Third Kazekage lost to Hanzo and announced his surrender, ending the Second Shinobi World War.

After the Second Shinobi World War, Konoha and Sunagakure began rebuilding while Uchiha Kiyoshi and his clones pursued their separate plans. Konoha encouraged childbirth, but most high-ranking shinobi had already arranged to have children before the war ended.

• Konoha's clans blocked Danzo's restoration as an Elder, though Third restored his authority over Root, while the Senju Clan retired from public life after taking one final stand against him.
• Sunagakure promoted Maka to Special Jonin and promised him Gold Sand, which he planned to use to forge kunai for Doseki's dangerous mission to steal an Iwagakure Secret Jutsu.
• Maka decided to seek more Gold Sand in Sunagakure and considered whether he could eventually turn it into Chakra Metal to support Uchiha Kiyoshi's organization.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi continued his research while his clones gathered intelligence, earned money, and prepared for their assignments in Konoha, Sunagakure, Iwagakure, and the Rain Country.
• Konoha encouraged shinobi families to have children after the war, but most high-ranking shinobi had already conceived or produced descendants before the fighting ended.