Chapter Summaries

Sunagakure and Kirigakure joined forces against Heide’s Super Soldiers, who withdrew before Heide bombarded the coastal fortress. Jinin Akebino stopped the shells with his powerful Daijutsu, and Heide ordered the Super Civilization Ship to flee.

• Jinin Akebino revealed that the rescuers were Mist Village Anbu, and Seiho Masaga accepted their help against the Super Soldiers.
• Heide recalled his remaining Super Soldiers, who retreated into the sea, then fired more than a dozen shells at the fortress from the Super Civilization Ship.
• Jinin Akebino unleashed Daijutsu—Great Rending Blast and swept the incoming shells away with a towering typhoon.
• Heide and his three female knights were startled by Jinin Akebino’s power, and Heide ordered the Super Civilization Ship away from the coast.

Jinin Akebino’s Daijutsu drove Heide’s Super Civilization Ship away from the Land of Wind’s border fortress, and Heide turned his attention to finding the Ancient Ruins that sealed the Gelel Ore Vein. Jinin and the Mist Village Anbu then positioned themselves to track Heide and influence Sunagakure’s response as Baki arrived with reinforcements.

• Heide reassured Camilla, Ranke, and Fongwai that Jinin Akebino’s hurricane no longer threatened them, abandoned the fortress attack, and ordered his crew to search for the Ancient Ruins.
• Heide sent Timsi to find the ruins, while Jinin Akebino assigned Mist Village Anbu squads to follow Timsi and the Super Civilization Ship and to keep Sunagakure from interfering.
• Jinin Akebino introduced himself to Seiho Masaga under the codename Wind, and Seiho thanked the Mist Village Anbu for saving the fortress.
• Jinin Akebino waited for Sunagakure’s reinforcements so he could address the village’s leaders, and Baki arrived, initially mistaking the Mist Village Anbu for attackers before seeing them alongside Sunagakure’s ninjas.

Baki arrived with Sunagakure reinforcements, learned that Kirigakure had helped defend the border fortress, and agreed that Sunagakure would not join the pursuit of the Super Civilization Ship. He also asked Kirigakure to consider bilateral trade, leaving Jinin Akebino to relay the proposal to Mizukage-sama.

• Baki's thousand Sunagakure shinobi surrounded Jinin Akebino and the Kirigakure Anbu until Seiho Masaga explained that they had defended the fortress from the Super Civilization Ship's attackers.
• Baki thanked Jinin Akebino for Kirigakure's help and asked about the ship, while Jinin concealed its origins and said Kirigakure was tracking it to find its base.
• Baki offered to keep Sunagakure out of the pursuit in exchange for benefits, but Jinin refused and revealed that the ship's crew had massacred a village in the Land of Water.
• Baki agreed that Sunagakure would neither interfere nor compete with Kirigakure, then asked Jinin to pass along Sunagakure's proposal for bilateral trade.
• Jinin wrote a letter conveying Baki's trade proposal, and the Kirigakure Anbu were pleased that Sunagakure would leave the ship's potential benefits to Kirigakure.

Timsi followed his instincts toward the Ancient Ruins sealing the Gelel Ore Vein and rescued a ferret caught in a vine. The ferret clung to him, so Timsi continued his search with the Thousand-Year Snow Ferret at his side.

• Jinin Akebino and the Mist Village Anbu left the border fortress to track the Super Civilization Ship and Timsi, while Heide searched for clues and sent Timsi out alone.
• Timsi followed an unexplained inner pull toward the Ancient Ruins, unaware that his bloodline and the Gelel Ore in his heart guided him toward them.
• Timsi heard a noise in the bushes and found a pale yellow ferret hanging upside down from a vine.
• Timsi used green energy from his Knight Longsword to cut the vine and caught the falling ferret.
• The ferret grabbed Timsi’s clothes and refused to leave, so he let it accompany him as he resumed his search.

Timsi followed Nilu Gu to the Guardian Clan’s Merchant Group, where He Yan invited him to stay for the night. When Nilu Gu exposed a mark on Timsi’s chest, He Yan recognized him as a descendant of the Ancient Empire’s Imperial Royalty.

• Nilu Gu recognized Timsi’s Gelel Ore power as proof of his Imperial Royalty bloodline, though Timsi did not know its true identity.
• Nilu Gu reunited with He Yan, an elder of the Guardian Clan, then returned to Timsi’s shoulder and urged He Yan to bring him to the Merchant Group.
• He Yan invited Timsi to stay, and Timsi accepted after Nilu Gu showed how much it wanted him to remain.
• The Merchant Group welcomed Timsi with food and performances, and he relaxed among them despite Lord Heide’s orders.
• Nilu Gu pulled down Timsi’s undershirt to reveal a mark on his chest, and He Yan exclaimed that Timsi was Imperial Royalty.

He Yan revealed that Timsi was a descendant of the Ancient Empire’s Imperial Royalty and that the Merchant Group was the Guardian Clan guarding the sealed Gelel Ore Vein. Timsi then drew his sword on He Yan and demanded to be taken to the ruins so he could lift the seal, but He Yan refused.

• He Yan recognized the emblem on Timsi’s chest and realized Timsi was descended from the Ancient Empire’s Imperial Royalty.
• He Yan explained that the Ancient Empire collapsed after the Gelel Ore Vein went out of control, and that the Imperial Royalty had sealed it before leaving the continent.
• At Nilu Gu’s urging, He Yan told Timsi that his mark identified him as a royal descendant and that he might be able to lift the seal.
• Timsi realized this was why Heide had sent him to find the ruins, then drew his sword and demanded that He Yan take him there.
• He Yan refused, warning that lifting the seal could bring disaster upon the continent.

Timsi forced He Yan to reveal the location of the ruins sealing the Gelel Ore Vein, threatening Nilu Gu and the Merchant Group to make him comply. He Yan led Timsi and Nilu Gu through the night, and they reached the ruins on a distant mountain peak at dawn.

• Timsi insisted on obtaining the Gelel Ore Vein for Lord Heide’s utopia plan, despite He Yan warning that its power might still be out of control.
• When He Yan refused to reveal the ruins’ location, Timsi threatened Nilu Gu and the Merchant Group, prompting He Yan to agree to guide him.
• He Yan resolved that if the situation became dire, he would betray the royal family’s trust and stop guarding the mission.
• Timsi kept Nilu Gu as a hostage, and Nilu Gu chose to accompany them to judge whether Heide’s intentions were genuine.
• He Yan, Timsi, and Nilu Gu traveled through the night and reached the ancient ruins atop a mountain several thousand meters high at dawn.

Timsi found the Ancient Ruins sealing the Gelel Ore Vein, drawing Heide and the Kirigakure Anbu toward the site. After receiving the Anbu’s report, Soji left Kirigakure with Pakura and Ranmaru, planning to reach the ruins unseen and take advantage of Heide’s expedition.

• Timsi found the mountaintop temple with He Yan and Nilu Gu, then sent Heide the location of the Ancient Ruins.
• Chiyo’s Anbu squads watched Timsi enter the temple and alerted Jinin Akebino, who redirected his squads toward the ruins and sent the location to Soji.
• Soji received Jinin Akebino’s message, left his Mizukage paperwork with Genji, and departed Kirigakure aboard the Golden Eagle.
• Soji brought Pakura and Ranmaru with him, relying on Ranmaru’s Red Eye to conceal their trail as they headed for the ruins.

Soji took Ranmaru out of Kirigakure on the Golden Eagle and brought him toward the Ancient Ruins where Timsi and He Yan found the Gelel Ore Vein’s central chamber. As Heide arrived to claim the vein, He Yan activated a mechanism that sent Timsi and the cylinder carrying him deep underground, leaving Heide’s group stranded.

• Soji reassured Ranmaru that their flight on the Golden Eagle was an outing, and Ranmaru enjoyed soaring through the sky.
• Timsi, He Yan, and Nilu Gu reached the lowest level of the Ancient Ruins, where Timsi sensed the Gelel Ore Vein beneath three connected cylinders.
• Heide’s Super Civilization Ship crashed into the underground temple, and Heide arrived with Camilla, Ranke, Fongwai, and Cyborg Super Soldiers.
• Timsi told Heide that the Gelel Ore Vein lay below, while He Yan recognized Heide as a sinister man and decided to destroy the ruins.
• He Yan activated a mechanism that separated one cylinder and lowered it underground with Timsi aboard, sealing the space above and leaving Heide’s group unable to reach the vein.

Heide opened a pit beneath the underground temple and flew down to pursue He Yan, while Jinin Akebino’s Anbu ambushed the subordinates left behind to seize the Super Civilization Ship. The Anbu killed Heide’s forces and captured Camilla, and Soji arrived.

• Heide smashed open the temple floor, ordered Camilla to bring the Super Civilization Ship down later, and flew into the pit with four mechanical wings.
• Jinin Akebino’s Anbu squad appeared and surrounded Heide’s remaining subordinates, planning to take the ship and use Chiyo’s Ketsuryūgan to learn how to operate it.
• Jinin Akebino led the Anbu into battle as Camilla, Ranke, and Fongwai transformed into beastmen and fought back.
• Jinin Akebino used Great Fierce Break to kill the Cyborg Super Soldiers and the transformed knights, while sparing Camilla for Chiyo to control.
• Soji arrived as Jinin Akebino’s plan proceeded.

Soji arrived at the mountain temple and learned that Jinin Akebino’s squad had found the ruins and discovered how to operate the Super Civilization Ship. He rewarded the squad by appointing Chiyo captain, promoting Jinin Akebino to Deputy Minister of the Anbu, and granting the other members A-rank mission credit.

• Soji, Pakura, and Ranmaru reached the temple, where Jinin Akebino reported that Chiyo had learned how to operate the Super Civilization Ship.
• Soji praised Jinin Akebino’s squad for finding the ruins and securing valuable information about the ship.
• Soji proposed making Chiyo the squad captain, but Chiyo and Jinin Akebino both tried to refuse the position on the other’s behalf.
• Soji revealed that Chiyo would become captain and Jinin Akebino would be promoted to Deputy Minister of the Anbu.
• Soji awarded the rest of Jinin Akebino’s squad credit for an A-rank mission.

Soji sent the Anbu out of the ruins and descended alone to pursue Heide and seize the Gelel Ore Vein. In the Sealing Chamber, He Yan used Timsi’s blood to prepare the ancient teleportation array, intending to send the ruins, their occupants, and the vein into Space-Time Turbulence.

• Soji ordered Chiyo to kill Camilla, then assigned Pakura and Ranmaru to lead the Anbu away and conceal the ship.
• Soji unfolded icy white wings and leaped into the pit toward the Gelel Ore Vein.
• He Yan showed Timsi the murals in the Sealing Chamber, but Timsi became more determined to give the vein to Heide.
• He Yan attacked Timsi from behind and cut his arm, obtaining the blood needed to activate the array.
• He Yan explained that the array would send the Ancient Ruins and everyone inside into Space-Time Turbulence, then approached its activation center.

Heide stopped He Yan from sabotaging the Space-Time Teleportation Array and revealed his immense power and possession of the Book of Gelel. He admitted that he had destroyed the Timsi Family and deceived Timsi, leaving Timsi devastated after learning Heide intended to rule the world.

• He Yan tried to drive Timsi’s bloodied dagger into the array’s groove, but Heide blasted it away and broke through a wall to interrupt him.
• Heide showed Timsi and He Yan the large Gelel Ore embedded in his hand and demonstrated its power by destroying a distant stone wall.
• He Yan told Timsi that the Book of Gelel belonged to the Timsi Family, prompting Timsi to question how Heide had obtained it.
• Heide admitted that He Yan was right and confessed that he had acquired the book from Timsi’s family.
• Heide revealed that he had destroyed the Timsi Family, lied about building an ideal land without slaughter, and planned to rule the world.
• Timsi collapsed to his knees, devastated that his years of effort had served Heide’s ambition.

Heide revealed that he had murdered Timsi’s clan and raised him to exploit his imperial bloodline, then beat him and prepared to kill him. Just as Nilu Gu took a fatal blow to protect Timsi, a mysterious figure appeared and identified himself as the Fifth Mizukage.

• Heide confessed that he had slaughtered Timsi’s clan, spared him as a child, and raised him to find the Ancient Ruins and Gelel Ore Vein.
• Timsi, devastated by the truth, attacked Heide, but Heide dodged his strikes and crushed him with a blow to the abdomen.
• Heide aimed a Gelel-powered attack at the helpless Timsi, and Nilu Gu rushed in to shield him, taking the hit instead.
• Heide prepared another attack, but a mysterious voice interrupted him and a black figure appeared, claiming to be the Fifth Mizukage.

Soji, Kirigakure’s Fifth Mizukage, confronted Heide over the slaughter of an island village and announced his interest in the sealed Gelel Ore Vein. He blocked Heide’s attack and froze much of his body, leaving Heide badly wounded as Soji continued to toy with him.

• Soji arrived at the Ancient Ruins and introduced himself as Kirigakure’s Fifth Mizukage, shocking He Yan while Heide and Timsi did not understand the title.
• Soji told He Yan he had come to punish Heide for slaughtering a village under his jurisdiction, then revealed that he also wanted the Gelel Ore Vein.
• Heide admitted ordering the village’s slaughter and attacked Soji with an invisible shockwave.
• Soji raised an ice wall to stop the attack and transformed it into ice crows that repeatedly wounded and froze Heide.
• Heide destroyed the last ice crow with another shockwave, but nearly half his body was frozen and he had become much slower.
• Soji resolved to keep tormenting Heide rather than let him die easily.

Soji overwhelmed Heide, but Heide swallowed a Gelel Ore to escape defeat and transformed into a monstrous, more powerful form. He then declared that he would kill Soji, while Timsi and He Yan watched in fear.

• Heide cursed Soji after Ice Release left most of his body frozen, and Soji mocked him as a frog at the bottom of a well.
• Soji watched as Heide bit the Gelel Ore embedded in his hand and swallowed it, despite He Yan warning that this would greatly increase his power.
• The Gelel Ore’s power shattered the frost and transformed Heide’s body, changing his skin, height, face, and eyes.
• Timsi and He Yan felt overwhelmed by the transformed Heide, who announced that he would kill Soji.

Soji easily defeated Heide, freezing him alive after overpowering his strongest attack. Heide’s attack struck the ceiling of the Ancient Ruins, breaking the seal and revealing the Gelel Ore Vein.

• Soji taunted Heide, then knocked him flying with a kick and a punch when Heide charged him twice.
• Heide unleashed a tri-colored energy attack at Soji, who pierced through it with an ice-blue bone spur and froze Heide while keeping him alive for public execution.
• Heide’s energy attack hit the ceiling of the Ancient Ruins and caused it to collapse.
• He Yan realized the seal had broken, while Timsi saw the Gelel Ore Vein emerge after thousands of years.

Soji watched the Gelel Ore Vein revive Nilu Gu and strengthen everyone nearby, but the newly exposed vein began liquefying and devouring the ruins. As He Yan and Timsi prepared to teleport it away, Soji entered Sage Mode and trapped it inside his Seven Realms Ice Seal.

• The seal collapsed completely, exposing the Gelel Ore Vein, whose radiation strengthened Soji, rejuvenated He Yan, healed Timsi, and revived the dying Nilu Gu.
• Nilu Gu returned to Timsi, and the ferret's reunion with Timsi and He Yan resolved their misunderstanding.
• The Gelel Ore Vein liquefied and began devouring the ruins, prompting He Yan to tell Timsi to activate the teleportation array at the risk of his life.
• Soji objected to their plan, asserted control over the vein, and entered Sage Mode as its liquefaction slowed.
• Soji cast Sage Art: Ice Release—Seven Realms Ice Seal, enclosing the out-of-control Gelel Ore Vein in an enormous barrier.

Soji used his Sage Art: Ice Release—Seven Realms Ice Seal to freeze the out-of-control Gelel Ore Vein into a massive iceberg and claim it as his spoils. He left the Ancient Ruins with the iceberg, the Space-Time Teleportation Array’s rune formation, and Timsi, He Yan, and Nilu Gu, who agreed to visit the Land of Water.

• Soji cast Sage Art: Ice Release—Seven Realms Ice Seal, enveloping the out-of-control Gelel Ore Vein in a white Barrier that consumed a vast amount of Chakra.
• He Yan, Timsi, and Nilu Gu waited anxiously, unaware that Soji had other options if the Barrier failed.
• Soji declared the crisis over, and the disappearing Barrier revealed that the Gelel Ore Vein had been frozen into a massive green-glowing iceberg.
• Soji claimed the Gelel Ore Vein and told He Yan and Timsi that Heide was alive and would be taken to the Land of Water for execution.
• Timsi and He Yan agreed to go with Soji, and Nilu Gu joined them as Soji flew away carrying the iceberg and the Space-Time Teleportation Array’s rune formation.

Soji carried a glowing iceberg containing the Gelel Ore Vein, Timsi, Nilu Gu, and the frozen Heide toward the Land of Water, drawing attention across the Ninja World. His feat strengthened Mizuki Ember’s reputation as a living legend, while rival villages sent spies to investigate Kirigakure and Soji traded captured agents for benefits.

• Soji took Timsi, Nilu Gu, He Yan, and the frozen Heide along as he flew toward the Land of Water, intending to study Timsi’s blood-activated Space-Time Teleportation Array.
• Soji’s glowing iceberg flight exposed Mizuki Ember to witnesses, who spread conflicting rumors and made his reputation grow throughout the Ninja World.
• The other great villages and the Akatsuki Organization viewed Mizuki Ember as an extraordinary threat, while Kirigakure celebrated having him as its Fifth Mizukage.
• Minato, Kushina, Uchiha Homura, Kazahana Sōsetsu, and Kazahana Koyuki reacted to the news and recognized Soji’s growing influence.
• After Soji returned to Kirigakure, rival villages sent spies to investigate him, and his Mist Village Anbu captured many of them.
• Soji exchanged captured spies for benefits rather than killing them, especially because some belonged to Konoha.