Chapter Summaries

After a month of intense training, Xuan Ye had greatly improved his strength and reached maximum proficiency with the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu. His training was interrupted when the Casino Boss rushed in to report that ninjas were threatening the casino, and Xuan Ye promised to handle them.

• Xuan Ye advanced from a one-thousand-kilogram Weight Training Suit to a five-thousand-kilogram suit and increased his strength through a month of training.
• Xuan Ye maxed out his Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu proficiency and improved his other ninjutsu and taijutsu.
• After morning training, Xuan Ye ate breakfast and fell asleep beneath an osmanthus tree in the courtyard.
• The Casino Boss hurried into the courtyard and told Xuan Ye that ninjas were demanding the casino's money and threatening to kill everyone.
• Xuan Ye reassured the Casino Boss that he would help resolve the threat.

Xuan Ye accompanied the Casino Boss to the casino, where three armed rogue ninjas were threatening the staff and demanding the casino’s money. The Casino Boss looked to Xuan Ye for help, and Xuan Ye prepared to intervene.

• Xuan Ye explained that the Eight Inner Gates could greatly boost a ninja’s power but caused severe bodily harm, unlike his Divine Combat Skill.
• Xuan Ye followed the Casino Boss into the casino and saw that most customers had fled.
• A saw-blade-wielding ninja threatened a staff member, while his two companions mocked the frightened man.
• The staff member pointed out the Casino Boss and revealed that the casino’s earnings went into his pockets.
• The saw-blade-wielding ninja demanded the Casino Boss hand over his money or die, and the Casino Boss pleaded with Xuan Ye for help.
• Xuan Ye decided he had to act and reflected uneasily on his desire to kill.

Xuan Ye confronted three ninjas who were threatening the Casino Boss and mocked them despite their threats. After his blood-red eyes and killing intent frightened them, their leader charged at him, and Xuan Ye activated his Divine Eye to follow the attack.

• The lead ninja demanded that the Casino Boss hand over the casino’s money while the Casino Boss pleaded with Xuan Ye for help.
• Xuan Ye stepped forward, declared the casino his territory, and ordered the three ninjas to leave or face him.
• The ninjas mocked Xuan Ye and threatened to kill him, but his blood-red eyes and killing intent made them afraid.
• The lead ninja charged at Xuan Ye with his saw blade, and Xuan Ye activated his Divine Eye to slow his perception of the attack.

Xuan Ye fought three ninjas in the casino while deliberately holding back to test his physical combat ability. After removing his Weight Training Suit, he prepared to attack them with his fists and kill them.

• Xuan Ye blocked the leading ninja's saw blade with his kunai, noticed the weapon had cracked, and decided to prolong the fight as a warm-up.
• The leading ninja called the other two to attack Xuan Ye, who calmly defended himself while the Casino Boss watched anxiously.
• Xuan Ye continued holding back and struggled against the three ninjas, choosing not to use ninjutsu so he could test his physical combat ability.
• Xuan Ye removed his Weight Training Suit, leaving the three ninjas stunned when they realized he had been fighting while wearing it.
• Xuan Ye clenched his fists and prepared to attack the ninjas, intending to beat them to death without using weapons.

Xuan Ye defeated the three ninjas in the casino and killed the last one after granting his request for a quick death. He returned inside and found the casino employee begging the Casino Boss for mercy, then approached them as the employee pleaded for his help.

• Xuan Ye used his speed and strength to kill two ninjas and overpower the third.
• Xuan Ye granted the surviving ninja a quick death by throwing a Kunai into his head.
• Xuan Ye left the casino, deactivated the Divine Eye, and recalled how forgetting to do so had nearly cost him his life in a battle with a gorilla.
• Xuan Ye returned inside and saw the casino employee kowtowing to the Casino Boss for mercy.
• The casino employee begged Xuan Ye to save him, and Xuan Ye walked toward the Casino Boss before turning to look at the employee.

Xuan Ye let Casino Boss kill a treacherous casino employee while ordering him to compensate the employee’s family. After returning to the courtyard, Xuan Ye reflected that leaving Konoha Village had brought him the kind of life he preferred.

• Casino Boss told Xuan Ye that the employee had betrayed the casino and deserved to die.
• The employee begged Xuan Ye to spare him, claiming his elderly parents and young children depended on him.
• Xuan Ye ordered Casino Boss to give the employee’s family money because the employee would be killed.
• Casino Boss had his men kill the employee and arranged to send his family fifty thousand taels.
• Xuan Ye left for the courtyard, and Casino Boss waved him off.
• Back in the courtyard, Xuan Ye thought that leaving Konoha Village had been a good decision.

Xuan Ye was overwhelmed by a voice urging him to slaughter, as his eyes turned blood-red and a Divine Beast White Tiger appeared behind him. He briefly resisted the voice but succumbed to its influence, embracing slaughter.

• Xuan Ye collapsed in the courtyard as head pain and a voice commanding him to slaughter intensified.
• Xuan Ye struggled against the voice and briefly regained clarity, insisting that he did not want to become a killing machine.
• A towering phantom of the Divine Beast White Tiger appeared behind Xuan Ye as the voice's influence grew stronger.
• Xuan Ye's eyes turned blood-red, his killing intent filled the courtyard, and his punch split the ground with a huge crack.
• Xuan Ye wondered at his newfound strength, then accepted the thoughts urging him to slaughter.

Xuan Ye lost control to a murderous consciousness and entered a casino, where he began killing its patrons. The chapter ended with him savoring the blood of his first victim and remaining intent on slaughter.

• Xuan Ye's consciousness fell asleep as a twisted personality took over and craved bloodshed.
• The White Tiger Phantom roared, frightening people throughout the town and immobilizing those in the nearby casino with its murderous aura.
• Xuan Ye reached the crowded casino, where Casino Boss recognized him and assumed he had come with a request.
• Xuan Ye drew a Kunai and attacked the nearest gambler, cutting his neck and leaving him to die.
• Xuan Ye savored the sight and taste of blood, then opened his eyes still determined to kill.

Xuan Ye succumbed to a murderous frenzy and slaughtered the gamblers in the casino, leaving only the Casino Boss alive. He turned his attention to the owner as his laughter spread fear throughout the town.

• Xuan Ye watched a gambler bleed to death, then declared that he would kill everyone in the casino.
• The immobilized gamblers begged the Casino Boss to make Xuan Ye leave, and the Casino Boss cautiously tried to speak to him.
• Xuan Ye ignored the Casino Boss and killed the gamblers with fatal cuts to their necks.
• Xuan Ye found that only the Casino Boss remained and threatened to kill him with one strike.
• Xuan Ye's eerie laughter rang through the town as frightened residents hid in their homes.

Xuan Ye gave in to the voice urging him to slaughter and killed the Casino Boss and everyone else in the casino. He left for the town center to kill more people as the White Tiger Phantom behind him grew stronger, seemingly feeding on the dead.

• Xuan Ye paused before killing the Casino Boss, but a voice in his mind overwhelmed his hesitation and urged him to slaughter.
• Xuan Ye swiftly cut the Casino Boss's throat, and the man's head fell as he realized the headless body was his own.
• Xuan Ye savored the blood in the casino, then left after everyone inside had died.
• Xuan Ye headed toward the town center, killing people along the way and vowing to leave no one alive.
• The White Tiger Phantom grew larger and more oppressive, while the casino corpses shriveled and their blood and scent vanished, suggesting the phantom could eat people.

Xuan Ye slaughtered everyone in the street, including a little girl and her mother, while struggling against the White Tiger’s command to kill. Afterward, his own consciousness fought the White Tiger’s consciousness and lost, retreating into the depths of his mind.

• Xuan Ye prepared to kill a trembling crowd, but paused briefly when he saw a little girl and her mother together.
• Xuan Ye obeyed the ancient voice urging slaughter and killed everyone in the street, including the girl and her mother.
• Xuan Ye watched the night sky and reflected on the dead girl and the strength needed to survive.
• Xuan Ye’s dormant consciousness awakened and fought the White Tiger’s consciousness for control of his mind.
• The White Tiger’s consciousness defeated Xuan Ye’s own, which hid in the deepest part of his mind.

The White Tiger Phantom controlled Xuan Ye and drove him to continue slaughtering the town’s inhabitants. He flung a golden gate high into the sky, where it hurtled toward a distant town and sent its residents fleeing.

• The White Tiger Phantom’s growing power overwhelmed Xuan Ye, while his own consciousness hid in the sea of consciousness.
• Xuan Ye followed the Phantom’s command and headed toward streets where he sensed people hiding.
• Xuan Ye savored the townspeople’s fear and chose a luxurious courtyard as his next target.
• Xuan Ye flicked the courtyard’s golden gate into the sky, sending it flying far away.
• People in a distant town saw the golden gate coming toward them and ran for their lives.

After the White Tiger Phantom took control of Xuan Ye, he entered a luxurious courtyard and devoured the energy of its blue fish and plants, growing stronger. He then announced that his slaughter of the town’s residents would begin.

• Xuan Ye’s golden courtyard gate crashed down nearby, and a wealthy man mistook it for a meteorite before realizing it was gold and rushing to fetch guards.
• Xuan Ye entered the courtyard, where his Divine Eye let him see clearly despite the darkness.
• Xuan Ye pulled the blue fish from a pool and absorbed their energy through the White Tiger Phantom, which grew larger and more solid.
• Xuan Ye drained energy from the courtyard’s medicinal herbs and plants, increasing his strength and murderous aura.
• Xuan Ye laughed and declared that his slaughter of the town’s people would begin.

Xuan Ye entered a wealthy man's courtyard, driven by a murderous aura and the belief that the rich had exploited ordinary people. After breaking the weapons of five attackers, he confronted the terrified old owner, whose promise of money spurred his subordinates to attack again.

• Xuan Ye searched the luxurious courtyard and headed for its central room, sensing people hiding inside.
• Xuan Ye forced open the wooden door and followed the hidden occupants into a connected room.
• Three burly men and two ninja ambushed Xuan Ye, but he broke all five of their weapons with his Kunai.
• The old man fell back in terror at Xuan Ye's blood-red eyes and ordered his subordinates to kill him, promising them money.
• One burly man rallied the others to attack Xuan Ye together.

Xuan Ye slaughtered the remaining attackers and returned to the deserted town, where the White Tiger Phantom gathered and consumed the town’s blood. The phantom grew stronger and more solid, while Xuan Ye’s bloodlust intensified and the phantom showed a longing for rebirth.

• Xuan Ye killed three burly men and used his kunai to cut down the logs left by two ninjas’ Substitution Technique.
• The two ninjas begged Xuan Ye to spare them, but he refused and gave them a quick death.
• Xuan Ye returned to the silent town as the system warned him that he was in danger.
• The White Tiger Phantom gathered blood from across the town and swallowed it, then grew larger, more solid, and more powerful.
• The White Tiger Phantom looked at Xuan Ye with a trace of longing for rebirth as his violent aura and desire for slaughter grew stronger.

The White Tiger Phantom seized complete control of Xuan Ye’s body and unleashed its power by destroying the surrounding area. After Xuan Ye ignored the system’s warning for twenty minutes, the system began compulsory measures.

• The White Tiger Phantom entered Xuan Ye’s body and took control of his consciousness.
• The system warned that it would take special measures unless Xuan Ye acted within twenty minutes, unsettling the White Tiger Phantom.
• Xuan Ye leapt high into the air and smashed the ground, creating a crater nearly a hundred meters in radius.
• The White Tiger Phantom rampaged through the area, destroying the nearby buildings and everything else in sight.
• After twenty minutes, the system announced compulsory measures and counted down from three to one.

Xuan Ye and the system’s energy defeated and erased the White Tiger Phantom’s consciousness, though the battle badly damaged Xuan Ye’s own consciousness. The system rewarded him with the Great Sealing Technique and a Summoned Beast White Tiger, which he eagerly anticipated.

• The system released unfamiliar energy into Xuan Ye’s mind, where it fought the White Tiger Phantom’s consciousness and prevented it from controlling him.
• After an hour of fighting, Xuan Ye’s consciousness joined the system’s energy and drove the White Tiger Phantom’s consciousness into retreat.
• Xuan Ye pursued and erased the White Tiger Phantom’s consciousness, suffering severe damage to his own consciousness in the process.
• The system granted Xuan Ye the Great Sealing Technique to contain the remaining baleful aura and a Summoned Beast White Tiger made from excess energy.
• Xuan Ye questioned the sealing technique’s usefulness but was excited to see the White Tiger summon.

After defeating the White Tiger Phantom’s consciousness, Xuan Ye collapsed and woke with much of his memory sealed. He chose his name from the Blue Crystal Necklace and walked toward a new town, still wondering what had happened to the ruined place where he woke.

• After the battle, Xuan Ye grew dizzy and collapsed, then slept for a day among the ruins and corpses.
• Xuan Ye woke with no memory of who he was or where he was, and set off by following his feelings.
• A headache brought back memories of ninjutsu and taijutsu, leading Xuan Ye to suspect he was a powerful ninja.
• Xuan Ye found the name Xuan Ye engraved on his Blue Crystal Necklace and chose it as his own.
• Xuan Ye reached a busy town and wondered why the town where he had awakened was deserted and destroyed.

After sealing the murderous aura pouring from his body into a white tiger-like tooth, Xuan Ye found a prosperous town and entered a noodle shop. He had no money to pay, but the owner and diners offered him a free meal, leaving him grateful for their kindness.

• Xuan Ye mastered the Great Sealing Technique and gathered his uncontrolled murderous aura into a white tooth on his forehead.
• Xuan Ye found a prosperous town and celebrated that he could finally eat something besides sour wild fruit.
• Xuan Ye followed the smell of noodles into a shop, then tried to leave when he realized he had no money.
• The noodle shop owner offered Xuan Ye a free meal, and a diner volunteered to pay for it.
• Xuan Ye accepted the bowl of noodles and recognized that kind people still existed.

Xuan Ye received a free bowl of noodles from the kind noodle shop owner and ate until he was full. Five thuggish young men then entered, threatened the owner, and forced him to cook for them while Xuan Ye watched in silence.

• The noodle shop owner gave Xuan Ye a hearty bowl of noodles without charge, and Xuan Ye ate it all.
• Five young men carrying iron rods entered and demanded money from the noodle shop owner.
• The owner suppressed his anger because he feared the men would beat him and shut down his shop.
• The five men ordered bowls of ramen and threatened the owner as the other customers fled.
• The owner served them noodles and felt satisfied watching them eat, while Xuan Ye remained seated and watched coldly.