Chapter Summaries

Xuan Ye failed to turn his hand-signless A-rank Wind Release—Half-Moon Slash into an S-rank technique, though its power increased. Three days later, Tsunade ended their sparring early while seeming troubled and determined, leaving Xuan Ye to wonder about her distraction as he treated his injuries.

• Xuan Ye accepted that he had not transformed Wind Release—Half-Moon Slash into a hand-signless S-rank ninjutsu, but noted that its power had greatly increased.
• Xuan Ye reflected on the rarity and destructive power of the hand-signless A-rank Wind Release—Rasengan.
• Three days later, Xuan Ye sparred with Tsunade and noticed that she seemed distracted; he could hold on more easily than usual but still took several punches.
• Tsunade told Xuan Ye to stop training, and he used Medical Chakra to treat his injuries.

Tsunade told Xuan Ye that he had outgrown her training and needed to leave to continue improving. She arranged for him to find Jiraiya and asked him to become a strong ninja and survive.

• Xuan Ye noticed Tsunade’s serious mood after she ended their combat training early.
• Tsunade explained that Xuan Ye would have to leave because he had learned all she could teach him and needed new training.
• Xuan Ye accepted her decision and thanked Tsunade and Shizune for caring for him.
• Tsunade gave Xuan Ye a letter and told him to find Jiraiya for ninjutsu instruction.
• Tsunade urged Xuan Ye to develop his talent, become a powerful ninja, and stay alive.

Xuan Ye left Tsunade to find Jiraiya and train as a ninja, but he failed to find him in the town. Hungry and without money, he entered a casino to win some, then left after beating its thugs.

• Xuan Ye promised Tsunade he would become strong enough to protect himself, and Tsunade sent him to find Jiraiya with her letter.
• Xuan Ye joked that Tsunade should give him tens of millions, making her chase him off and easing her sadness.
• Xuan Ye reached the place Tsunade had named but could not find Jiraiya, and he realized he had no money to buy food.
• Xuan Ye decided that casinos were a blight on society and entered one to win money.
• Xuan Ye left the casino after defeating its thugs, while the frightened owner and his men warned one another to show the powerful ninja respect.

After winning a fortune at the casino, Xuan Ye spent the day buying food for himself and Little White while searching town for Jiraiya. At night, they checked into the town’s largest inn and headed toward its hot springs.

• Xuan Ye returned to the streets rich and cheerfully promised to buy Little White whatever food it wanted.
• Xuan Ye and Little White visited the town’s food stalls, buying and eating snacks for several hours.
• As evening fell, Xuan Ye lamented that he and Little White had not found Jiraiya, and Little White encouraged him to keep searching.
• Xuan Ye found the town’s largest inn, paid for a room, and noticed its hot spring center.
• Xuan Ye invited Little White to soak in the hot springs.

Xuan Ye soaked in the inn’s hot spring and spotted a lecherous-looking man peeping at the women’s bath, whom he suspected might be Jiraiya. Later, Jiraiya approached him in the dark, and their argument ended with Jiraiya preparing to teach the insolent boy a lesson.

• Xuan Ye enjoyed the hot spring with White Tiger and noticed a white-haired man taking notes while peeping at the women’s bath.
• Xuan Ye recognized the man’s resemblance to Jiraiya but decided not to approach him before returning to the inn.
• Jiraiya appeared behind Xuan Ye at night and asked why he had been looking for him.
• Xuan Ye denied seeking the creepy man and mocked him for peeping at the women’s bath.
• Jiraiya grew angry at Xuan Ye’s disrespect and began considering how to teach him a lesson.

Xuan Ye discovered that the sleazy uncle he had been arguing with was Jiraiya, the Toad Sage, and challenged him to prove himself as a potential ninjutsu teacher. After dodging Jiraiya’s Water Dragon Bullet, Xuan Ye activated his Divine Eye and Tai Chi Palm as Jiraiya closed in with a powerful punch.

• Jiraiya revealed his identity as one of the Three Ninja, the Toad Sage, and challenged Xuan Ye after taking offense at his remarks.
• Xuan Ye accepted Jiraiya’s challenge and asked him to prove he deserved to be his ninjutsu teacher.
• Jiraiya formed hand seals and fired a Water Dragon Bullet at Xuan Ye.
• Xuan Ye activated his Divine Eye and dodged the Water Dragon Bullet, which blasted a crater into the ground.
• Jiraiya rushed at Xuan Ye, who activated Fast Mode with Tai Chi Palm and enhanced his strength with Superhuman Strength before Jiraiya’s punch reached him.

Xuan Ye proved to Jiraiya that Tsunade had sent him to become Jiraiya’s student, and Jiraiya agreed to teach him ninjutsu after taking some of his money. They planned to begin training the next day.

• Xuan Ye’s enhanced punch still failed to match Jiraiya’s strength, and Jiraiya questioned how he knew Monster Strength Punch.
• Xuan Ye explained that Tsunade recognized him as her younger brother and had sent him to Jiraiya to learn ninjutsu.
• Xuan Ye gave Jiraiya Tsunade’s letter, which confirmed his story.
• Jiraiya asked Xuan Ye for money in exchange for teaching him, and Xuan Ye handed him a stack of banknotes.
• Jiraiya rented a room beside Xuan Ye’s at the inn, and Xuan Ye thought of Tsunade and Shizune before going to sleep.

Xuan Ye searched for Jiraiya after finding him gone, then spent the morning trying and failing to scoop fish. He bought more nets and refused to leave until he caught one.

• Xuan Ye woke early, found Jiraiya's room empty, and went out to look for breakfast and his missing teacher.
• Xuan Ye ate seafood noodles, searched the town for Jiraiya, and found no sign of him.
• Xuan Ye spotted a fish-scooping game and paid for five paper nets.
• Xuan Ye repeatedly failed to catch a fish as the wet paper nets tore, then paid for more nets and kept trying.
• After fifteen failed attempts, Xuan Ye asked the old shop owner for another ten nets and resolved not to leave without catching a fish.

Xuan Ye persisted in catching goldfish, using chakra to reinforce his paper net until he succeeded and improved his control. After catching several more fish, he discovered that the pool was empty.

• Xuan Ye calmed himself and tried catching a goldfish, but it tore through the paper net and escaped.
• Xuan Ye infused the net with chakra and kept trying, gradually improving his control despite repeated failures.
• The elderly shop owner offered to give Xuan Ye two goldfish, but Xuan Ye refused to quit.
• After more than ten failures, Xuan Ye finally caught a goldfish and placed it in a plastic bag.
• Xuan Ye used his improved chakra control to catch two goldfish at once, then noticed there were no goldfish left in the pool.

Xuan Ye gave the goldfish stall owner his ten thousand taels after scooping up all the fish, then searched for Jiraiya and suspected he had gone to a casino. He left a casino with its thugs beaten and its money in his Storage Scroll.

• Xuan Ye offered the elderly goldfish stall owner his ten thousand taels, but the owner refused to keep it, so Xuan Ye ran off without taking the change.
• Xuan Ye wandered the streets looking for Jiraiya and wondered if the Toad Sage had gone to have fun with the money he had received.
• Xuan Ye decided to search the casino, hoping to find Jiraiya there.
• Xuan Ye gambled at a table and, after half an hour, stored the casino’s stack of banknotes in his Storage Scroll.
• Xuan Ye left the casino as its injured thugs trembled, then complained that casino workers always had to be beaten before they behaved.

After searching for Jiraiya all morning, Xuan Ye reunited with him and learned about the Rasengan. Xuan Ye formed an unstable sphere of Chakra on his first try, leaving Jiraiya stunned.

• Xuan Ye left the casino with a Storage Scroll containing another hundred million ryo and spent the morning shopping while looking for Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya returned and admitted he had gone out to gather material, prompting Xuan Ye to complain that he had been left waiting for ninjutsu training.
• Jiraiya explained the Rasengan’s origins and how it used shape transformation without nature transformation.
• Xuan Ye attempted the Rasengan and formed an unstable Chakra sphere on his first try.
• Jiraiya stared in disbelief at Xuan Ye’s quick progress.

Xuan Ye learned the Rasengan under Jiraiya’s instruction, succeeding after about twenty minutes despite Jiraiya’s attempts to play down his talent. Jiraiya announced that hellish training would begin the next day, and Xuan Ye spent his last day of rest at the hot springs, where he spotted Jiraiya again.

• Xuan Ye failed his first attempt at the Rasengan, then focused and made a chakra sphere begin to rotate.
• After more than twenty minutes of practice, Xuan Ye formed a large, continuously spinning Rasengan and told Jiraiya he had succeeded.
• Jiraiya criticized Xuan Ye’s control and chakra circulation, while Xuan Ye wondered why Minato Namikaze’s name stirred something in him.
• Jiraiya told Xuan Ye to rest for the day and warned that their hellish training would begin the next morning.
• Xuan Ye returned to the inn’s hot spring center and saw Jiraiya there again.

Jiraiya began Xuan Ye's training with a predawn run in a heavy Weight Training Suit, followed by sparring and ninjutsu practice. Xuan Ye used Medical Chakra to heal his injuries after Jiraiya repeatedly punished his mistakes, and the training continued with Jiraiya insisting that the harsh lessons would help him survive real battles.

• Jiraiya woke Xuan Ye before dawn and took him to a nearby forest to begin training.
• Jiraiya made Xuan Ye run for nearly three hours while wearing a heavy Weight Training Suit.
• Xuan Ye returned to the inn, soaked in the hot spring, and ate breakfast with Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya sparred with Xuan Ye using ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, and concealed weapons, punishing each opening.
• Xuan Ye healed his bruises with Medical Chakra and complained that Jiraiya hit too hard.
• Jiraiya said the painful training would teach Xuan Ye to avoid mistakes that could cost him his life in a real fight.

Xuan Ye spent the day training under Jiraiya, learning many ninjutsu and improving his skills. That night, Jiraiya asked about Xuan Ye’s unusual Tai Chi Palm, and Xuan Ye demonstrated its slow mode.

• Xuan Ye and Jiraiya sparred, then shared a lavish lunch that Xuan Ye paid for.
• Jiraiya taught Xuan Ye ninjutsu, including common techniques and Water and Earth Release, while Xuan Ye quickly practiced them.
• After a full day of training and a hot spring soak, Xuan Ye returned to his room to study his new techniques.
• Jiraiya visited Xuan Ye and asked about the Tai Chi Palm he had used earlier.
• Xuan Ye explained Tai Chi Palm’s slow and fast modes, including Hidden Strength and chakra-point sealing, then demonstrated Hidden Strength on an object.

Xuan Ye demonstrated Tai Chi Palm’s Hidden Strength to Jiraiya and explained that its Fast Mode could enhance his abilities sevenfold while Full Mode could weaken an opponent’s power sevenfold. Jiraiya eagerly asked to learn the technique, and Xuan Ye warned him that mastering it required hardship.

• Xuan Ye detonated Hidden Strength in front of Jiraiya, who praised its power.
• Xuan Ye explained Tai Chi Palm’s Fast Mode and Full Mode, revealing that each could affect strength by sevenfold.
• Xuan Ye told Jiraiya that Tsunade had learned the technique and could enhance and weaken by threefold.
• Jiraiya asked Xuan Ye to teach him Tai Chi Palm, and Xuan Ye agreed.
• Xuan Ye warned Jiraiya that learning Tai Chi Palm was difficult, but Jiraiya said he was willing to endure the hardship.

Xuan Ye taught Jiraiya the basics of Tai Chi Palm, which Jiraiya struggled to understand but remained determined to learn. The next morning, Jiraiya watched Xuan Ye practice Tai Chi Palm in full mode and saw how powerful and difficult it was.

• Xuan Ye explained Tai Chi Palm to Jiraiya, repeating the basics until Jiraiya felt he had memorized them.
• Jiraiya returned to his room and reflected on how difficult Tai Chi Palm would be to master.
• Xuan Ye thought about missing Tsunade, then went to sleep, accepting that they had to part so he could grow stronger.
• The next morning, Xuan Ye got up early and practiced Tai Chi Palm in an open area.
• Jiraiya woke, watched Xuan Ye practice, recognized the technique’s power, and resolved to learn it despite its difficulty.
• Xuan Ye’s movements grew faster and more difficult, leaving Jiraiya unable to understand them.

Xuan Ye perfected his hand-sign-free Wind Style technique after three years of training and renamed it Wind Style - Death Cutter. He prepared to test it against Jiraiya, while his Tai Chi Palm and physical abilities had also grown stronger.

• Xuan Ye practiced Tai Chi Palm, then soaked in a hot spring before joining Jiraiya for training.
• Xuan Ye used Wind Style - Half-Moon Slash to cut cleanly through a small mountain and reflected on how much the technique had changed.
• Xuan Ye renamed the improved technique Wind Style - Death Cutter and challenged Jiraiya to test it in a fight.
• Jiraiya accepted the challenge, confident in his strength, while Xuan Ye warned him that the technique could be deadly.
• Xuan Ye's training had raised his Chakra and physical strength to Elite Jonin level, and his Tai Chi Palm's enhancement and weakening effects had increased from sevenfold to tenfold.

Three years after their training began, Xuan Ye and Jiraiya fought to test their progress. Xuan Ye dodged Jiraiya’s attacks and launched a powerful Wind Style technique, leaving Jiraiya facing the incoming slash.

• Xuan Ye said his Tai Chi Palm could now amplify and weaken force tenfold, surprising Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya challenged Xuan Ye and attacked with Lion Combo, sending his hardened hair toward him.
• Xuan Ye activated Divine Eye and evaded the attack by leaping to a tree.
• Jiraiya’s Shadow Clone struck Xuan Ye’s former position with Wind Style—Rasengan, destroying the tree.
• Xuan Ye used Wind Style—Half-Moon Slash against Jiraiya, who braced himself as it rushed toward him.

Xuan Ye and Jiraiya continued their battle as Jiraiya blocked Xuan Ye’s Wind Style—Half-Moon Slash with Needle Jizo. Xuan Ye attacked with a Rasengan while Jiraiya began forming seals, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Jiraiya used Needle Jizo to shield himself from Xuan Ye’s Wind Style—Half-Moon Slash, though the attack cut and damaged some of his hair.
• Jiraiya recognized the power of Xuan Ye’s attack and considered the danger of Xuan Ye’s Tai Chi Palm.
• Xuan Ye rushed Jiraiya with a Rasengan, and Jiraiya leaped backward to evade it.
• Jiraiya began forming seals as Xuan Ye closed in, while Xuan Ye wondered whether Jiraiya was preparing a defensive ninjutsu.
• Jiraiya’s chakra had reached the level of a Hokage, but his physical strength remained below Xuan Ye’s Elite Jonin-level abilities.

Xuan Ye and Jiraiya fought, with Jiraiya using a Shadow Clone to trick Xuan Ye and attack him with Needle Jizo. Xuan Ye activated Tai Chi Palm’s fast mode and dodged the attack, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Xuan Ye attacked Jiraiya’s Earth Flow Wall with a Rasengan, but the Jiraiya beyond it turned out to be a Shadow Clone.
• Jiraiya appeared behind Xuan Ye and attacked with the piercing mode of Needle Jizo.
• Xuan Ye activated Tai Chi Palm’s fast mode, increasing his speed and reaction time tenfold.
• Xuan Ye dodged Jiraiya’s hair attack, which riddled the spot where he had stood with hundreds of holes.