Chapter Summaries

Tang Ping, a transmigrator in Konoha, went to his graduation assessment determined to fail and avoid becoming a ninja. After watching the other students’ practical tests, he was called up to face the chunin examiner, with the assessment still ahead.

• Tang Ping woke up to Honda Taka and Yamaa Koji reminding him that the graduation assessment was that day.
• Tang Ping headed to the training grounds with his two friends, planning to fail and continue living off his Uchiha wife.
• Tang Ping noticed the Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo, and other village figures watching the assessment.
• The students completed practical fights against a chunin examiner, and Tang Ping considered how graduation results could shape their futures.
• Sarutobi Nagakawa called Uchiha Tang Ping to take his turn, while Honda Taka and Yamaa Koji urged him on.

Tang Ping arrived for his graduation assessment expecting to lose to a Chunin, but Danzo replaced the examiner with Kakashi and sealed the training ground to prevent anyone from intervening. As Kakashi drew his sword and refused to let Tang Ping surrender, Tang Ping realized he had been trapped in a scheme that could get them both killed.

• Tang Ping entered the training ground, ignored the crowd’s insults, and planned to fail the assessment so he could avoid drawing attention to himself.
• Danzo replaced the Chunin examiner with Kakashi, who had applied for an early graduation assessment after only one year at the Academy.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Mitokado Homura challenged Danzo’s decision, but Danzo claimed Kakashi was merely facing an Uchiha dead last.
• Four Anbu sealed the training ground, preventing Tang Ping from escaping and the Uchiha from interfering.
• Tang Ping asked Kakashi if he could surrender, but Kakashi drew his short sword, leaving Tang Ping convinced Danzo had arranged the confrontation to end in his death.

Tang Ping summoned Taiyi to survive Kakashi’s attack, but the barrier prevented him from surrendering and the fight escalated until Taiyi’s flames knocked Kakashi unconscious. The Anbu then accused Tang Ping of being a spy and took him for investigation, leaving him to consider whether to resist.

• Kakashi charged at Tang Ping under orders, and Tang Ping summoned the powerful Ninja Crow Taiyi before trying to surrender.
• The barrier blocked Tang Ping’s surrender, so he ordered Taiyi to kill Kakashi as Kakashi attacked again.
• Taiyi deflected Kakashi’s shuriken, battered him in close combat, and engulfed him with a powerful wave of flames.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi broke through the barrier and found Kakashi unconscious but alive, while Taiyi ran out of Chakra and vanished.
• Anbu surrounded Tang Ping, accused him of being a spy from another ninja village, and ordered him to come in for investigation.
• Tang Ping blamed Danzo for the attempt on his life and considered whether to make a desperate gamble.

Tang Ping survived Danzo’s attempt to have him taken into custody after defeating Kakashi, and Uchiha Fugaku and Hiruzen Sarutobi intervened to stop the dispute. With Danzo now wary of him, Tang Ping returned to the Uchiha district and agreed to move back in with his fiancée, Uchiha Mei.

• Uchiha Fugaku blocked Danzo from taking Tang Ping, and Hiruzen Sarutobi declared the clash with Kakashi an accident.
• Hiruzen praised Tang Ping, who credited his Summoning Technique to the Will of Fire and eased the Hokage’s suspicion.
• Tang Ping left the academy after answering his classmates’ questions by saying his family had given him the Summoning Beast.
• Tang Ping returned to the Uchiha district and found Uchiha Mei waiting at her courtyard.
• Uchiha Mei told Tang Ping to move back in, and he agreed because Danzo had taken an interest in him.

Tang Ping showed Uchiha Mei his research room and discovered that someone had stolen a Healing Potion, which Mei suspected Danzo had taken. He demonstrated a stronger version of the potion, and Mei tested it on herself, confirming its remarkable healing effect.

• Tang Ping revealed some of his secrets to Uchiha Mei, and they went to his residence on the edge of the village.
• Tang Ping found that someone had entered his room and stolen a bottle of diluted Healing Potion.
• Uchiha Mei suspected Danzo and asked Tang Ping whether the potion's claimed effects were real.
• Tang Ping prepared a Healing Elixir from emerald-green algae and explained that the stolen potion was a diluted version.
• Uchiha Mei cut her palm with a kunai and poured the elixir over the wound, which quickly stopped bleeding and healed.

Uchiha Mei helped Tang Ping remove his plants and books before they could be seized, while Hiruzen Sarutobi blocked Danzo from taking control of the Healing Potion and its creator. The chapter ends as Mei and Tang Ping arrive at a meeting of the Uchiha Elder House Lineage.

• Uchiha Mei summoned two clansmen to take Tang Ping's plants and books and dispose of the remaining belongings, then hurried away with him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Danzo, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu after receiving a document about Root's interest in the Healing Potion.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi refused Danzo's demand to let Root take Tang Ping and assigned Utatane Koharu to negotiate with him.
• Danzo stormed out after Hiruzen Sarutobi asserted his authority as Hokage, while Mitokado Homura warned Hiruzen to be wary of him.
• Uchiha Mei and Tang Ping entered a meeting of the Uchiha Elder House Lineage, where six branch members were waiting.

Uchiha Mei brought Tang Ping to the Eldest Branch Meeting, where the clan agreed to negotiate the handover of his Healing Potion in exchange for compensation and equipment for his research. After defeating Kakashi and graduating, Tang Ping went to receive his team assignment, only to dodge someone rushing out behind him.

• Uchiha Mei defended Tang Ping’s presence at the meeting and announced that it concerned him.
• Tang Ping presented the original Healing Potion, and the six Eldest Branch Jonin agreed to hand it over in batches in exchange for village compensation.
• Uchiha Mei arranged for Tang Ping to receive ten percent of the compensation, which he would use to obtain research equipment, materials, and knowledge.
• Tang Ping returned to his room and looked forward to using the deal to advance his experiments.
• After graduating and becoming a Registered Ninja, Tang Ping headed to his team assignment and dodged a figure rushing out behind him.

Tang Ping watched the newly graduated students receive their team assignments and worried about who would train and protect them. After giving Healing Potions to his friends Honda Taka and Yamaa Koji, he and Yamaa Koji were left waiting as two figures entered the classroom.

• Tang Ping saw Uchiha Obito leave with Nohara Rin and reflected on Obito's future crimes.
• At the academy, Tang Ping asked Honda Taka about rumors of changes to the team leaders, which Honda said were likely connected to Tang Ping's victory over Kakashi.
• As instructors announced the teams, Tang Ping gave Honda Taka diluted Healing Potions and a set to Yamaa Koji.
• Tang Ping observed that most graduates were assigned to Chunin instructors, while clan members and geniuses were taken by Special Jonin.
• Tang Ping and Yamaa Koji remained in the classroom until a tall figure and a short figure entered.

Minato Namikaze became Team 3’s leader and took Uchiha Tang Ping, Yamaa Koji, and Hatake Kakashi out for barbecue before bringing them to the training ground. As the three introduced themselves, Minato asked Tang Ping about his dream, whose answer left him surprised.

• Minato Namikaze introduced himself as Team 3’s leader and welcomed Uchiha Tang Ping and Yamaa Koji, while Hatake Kakashi joined the team.
• Minato took Tang Ping, Koji, and Kakashi to Barbecue Q, where they ate twenty portions of meat together.
• Minato paid the bill and led Team 3 toward the training ground to learn about their progress.
• Minato introduced himself and asked his students to share their names, interests, and dreams.
• Kakashi said he wanted to wash away the Hatake Clan’s disgrace, and Koji said he dreamed of reviving the Yamaa Clan.
• Minato asked Tang Ping about his dream, and the chapter ended as he reacted with surprise.

Uchiha Tang Ping and his teammates completed Minato Namikaze’s assessment and received their Konoha Genin forehead protectors. Back at the Uchiha grounds, Tang Ping discovered that Uchiha Mei had prepared a laboratory and research materials for him, including a chakra scroll written by Madara Uchiha.

• Tang Ping introduced himself to Minato Namikaze and Kakashi, then listened as Minato explained practical lessons about ninja work.
• Minato assessed Kakashi, Yamaa Koji, and Tang Ping’s ninja fundamentals at the Training Ground and planned individual training for them.
• Minato gave the three their forehead protectors, ordered them to gather at the Hokage Building the next day, and dismissed them.
• Tang Ping returned to the Uchiha grounds, where Aunt Mu Xiang told him that Uchiha Mei had left on an emergency mission and arranged his belongings.
• Tang Ping found a fully equipped laboratory and Uchiha research materials, including Madara Uchiha’s scroll, Chakra's Nature and Analysis.

Tang Ping prepared a stronger Natural Power Potion from his special blood and a mulberry tree that filtered Natural Energy, then injected it into Taiyi to improve its strength. The potion’s effects began to appear, leaving Tang Ping to see how Taiyi would change.

• Tang Ping reviewed the Uchiha Clan’s advanced materials and decided to focus on building strength because Danzo had targeted him.
• Tang Ping explained that his blood enabled powerful fusion and adaptation, which he had used to cultivate a mulberry tree that absorbed and filtered Natural Energy.
• Tang Ping harvested branches from the tree and used them with his blood to make two stronger tubes of Natural Power Potion.
• Tang Ping summoned Taiyi to his underground Training Ground and injected one tube of potion into it.
• The potion quickly began changing Taiyi.

Tang Ping endured the Natural Power Potion’s painful effects and saw his Chakra increase, while continuing his plan to cultivate Taiyi and the mulberry trees into a Three-Legged Golden Crow and Fusang Tree. The next morning, he joined Minato Namikaze and his teammates at the Hokage Building to begin their missions.

• Tang Ping injected himself with the last Natural Power Potion and endured hours of intense burning pain as it transformed his body.
• Tang Ping moved the cultivated mulberry tree into the courtyard sunlight and reflected on his ambition to raise a Three-Legged Golden Crow and Fusang Tree.
• The next morning, Tang Ping woke with greatly increased Chakra, which he estimated was at least comparable to an ordinary Chunin’s.
• Tang Ping met his teammates and Minato Namikaze outside the Hokage Building.
• Minato Namikaze accepted several D-Rank Mission scrolls and led the team out to carry out their missions.

Team 3 completed its first D-rank river-cleaning mission, then Minato Namikaze trained the genin and taught Yamaa Koji and Tang Ping new ninjutsu. As Tang Ping returned through the forest at dusk, he heard movement nearby.

• Minato Namikaze led Kakashi, Yamaa Koji, and Tang Ping to clear a river and taught them to walk on water.
• Tang Ping fell into the river, and Yamaa Koji fell in while trying to help him; Kakashi stayed on the water.
• After the mission, Minato Namikaze assigned Kakashi combat training and offered Yamaa Koji Wind Release: Gale Palm and Tang Ping Fire Release: Flame Bullet.
• Tang Ping learned Flame Bullet after half a day of training, while Minato Namikaze noticed his progress was unusually fast.
• Tang Ping headed home at dusk and heard movement as he passed through a patch of forest.

Tang Ping rescued an injured Hyuga girl and collected her blood, unaware that Hinata Cang Yue had been secretly watching him. Team 3 left Konoha to begin a B-rank bandit mission, and Tang Ping expected trouble ahead.

• Tang Ping overheard Hyuga youths bullying a one-legged girl whose parents had died, then gave her a Healing Potion and collected the blood around her.
• The girl woke and called after Tang Ping, but he left without turning back.
• For half a month, Team 3 trained with Minato Namikaze before he assigned them a B-rank mission to eliminate bandits who might include enemy ninjas.
• Hinata Cang Yue identified Tang Ping and secretly watched him train, using her Byakugan without Minato noticing.
• Minato Namikaze led Team 3 out of Konoha after registering for the mission, while Tang Ping sensed that danger might be waiting beyond the village.

Team 3 investigated a bandit base and discovered that it was stocked with smuggled ninja weapons. After realizing the mission involved something larger than ordinary banditry, Tang Ping and his teammates decided to withdraw, but found it was already too late.

• Tang Ping led Team 3 into a distant town to gather information about the bandits while Minato Namikaze observed from the shadows.
• Tang Ping, Kakashi, and Yamaa Koji learned that roughly a hundred bandits lived in a valley southeast of the town.
• Tang Ping ordered the team to wait until midnight before infiltrating the guarded valley base.
• The team entered a cave warehouse and found crates filled with Kunai, Senbon, Shuriken, and other ninja tools.
• Tang Ping suggested withdrawing after recognizing the weapons as smuggled arms, and Kakashi and Yamaa Koji agreed, but it was already too late.

Tang Ping, Kakashi, and Yamaa Koji fought rogue Hidden Mist ninjas and bandits at a cave entrance. After Tang Ping’s ninjutsu and Taiyi’s attacks disrupted the enemy, he faced an approaching genin in close combat and prepared to use his trump card.

• Tang Ping assigned Kakashi to fight the rogue chunin, Yamaa Koji to handle the bandits, and himself to take on the genin.
• Kakashi engaged the chunin while Yamaa Koji used Gale Palm to deflect shuriken, and Tang Ping summoned Taiyi.
• Taiyi’s fireballs scattered the bandits, allowing Yamaa Koji to chase them outside the cave.
• Tang Ping struck two genin with Flame Bullet, while Kakashi continued fighting the chunin.
• Two genin held Taiyi back as the last one charged Tang Ping, who drew a kunai and prepared to use his trump card.

Tang Ping, Kakashi, and Taiyi defeated the Hidden Mist attackers, with Tang Ping using lime powder and ninjutsu while Kakashi struck down the last chunin. Minato Namikaze and Yamaa Koji rejoined them after the fighting, leaving the team to handle the mission’s aftermath.

• Tang Ping blinded a charging genin with lime powder disguised as his Fire Mist Technique and killed him with a kunai.
• Taiyi unleashed a fan-shaped burst of fire that killed two Hidden Mist genin and shielded Kakashi from a thrown kunai.
• Kakashi distracted the Hidden Mist chunin while Tang Ping attacked with Flame Bullet, then Kakashi killed the chunin after Tang Ping escaped an ambush with the Substitution Technique.
• Tang Ping and Kakashi left the cave to regroup with Koji, and Minato Namikaze arrived after dealing with the enemies who had delayed him.
• Yamaa Koji returned, and the team finished the mission and prepared to handle the aftermath.

After Team 3 destroyed the smuggling site and returned to Konoha, Tang Ping organized the rare materials he had collected and planned how to obtain Medical Ninjutsu and Sealing Technique. Minato Namikaze went to report the mission, leaving Tang Ping to pursue his research and seek access to restricted knowledge.

• Minato Namikaze ordered Team 3 to burn the valley and keep the mission’s details secret, then divided the spoils among the team while taking the ninja tools in a Sealing Scroll.
• Minato Namikaze lent Tang Ping a Sealing Scroll so he could carry the materials he had collected during the mission.
• After Team 3 returned to Konoha, Minato Namikaze left to report to the Hokage, while Yamaa Koji and Kakashi went their separate ways.
• Tang Ping returned to his laboratory with rare materials, including regenerative lizards, and considered using them to make stronger healing potions.
• Tang Ping began planning how to learn Medical Ninjutsu and systematic Sealing Technique through Minato Namikaze, since both were restricted forms of knowledge.

After Team 3 completed its mission, Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned them to the Hokage Office to grant rewards. Kakashi, Yamaa Koji, and Tang Ping each requested resources or knowledge suited to their needs, and Hiruzen approved their requests.

• Tang Ping returned to the Uchiha Clan Grounds, found Uchiha Mei away on missions, and prepared to conduct research in his laboratory.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Team 3 to the Hokage Office after Tang Ping reported on the mission and handed over the ninja tools.
• Minato Namikaze told the team that they could choose a B-Rank Ninjutsu or another reward.
• Kakashi requested Secret Pill resources to improve his physical abilities, and Yamaa Koji requested a method to increase Chakra.
• Tang Ping requested knowledge of Medical Ninjutsu, and Hiruzen Sarutobi approved all three requests before dismissing the team.

Tang Ping used the credentials he received to visit Konoha Hospital and begin studying medical knowledge. He left with ten introductory books, confident he could master them quickly.

• An Anbu gave Tang Ping and his companions secret techniques, pills, and credentials, warning them not to share the secrets.
• Tang Ping went to Konoha Hospital, where an administrative ninja explained the library rules and the training resources available to him.
• Tang Ping borrowed ten introductory books on medical knowledge after browsing the hospital library.
• Tang Ping considered learning the basic medical techniques but chose to study the fundamentals first.
• Tang Ping happily left the hospital carrying the books when a small accident occurred.