Chapter Summaries

Tang Ping ran into Kushina Uzumaki, Uchiha Mikoto, and their young companions while shopping, then helped Obito’s squad choose an act for the New Year Celebration. The chapter ended with Tang Ping planning to have Kakashi, Obito, and Rin perform a famous song for his own amusement.

• Kushina Uzumaki greeted Tang Ping with his embarrassing childhood nickname, and he explained that security duties had kept him from visiting her.
• Hinata Cang Yue asked Kushina to help her and Tang Ping shop for clothes, while Tang Ping teased Kakashi about rolling his eyes at Kushina’s taste.
• Tang Ping noticed young Uchiha Itachi watching him and realized Itachi had already formed a favorable view of the village and its elders.
• Rin asked Obito what his squad would perform at the New Year Celebration, and Obito admitted he had not prepared an act after other squads claimed the usual performances.
• Tang Ping suggested that Kakashi, Obito, and Rin sing, intending to arrange a famous song for them to perform.

Tang Ping supervised the festival, watched fireworks with Hinata Cang Yue and their companions, then saw Minato Squad perform a song he had composed. Nohara Rin’s rendition captivated the crowd, while Tang Ping remained unaware that his involvement had changed her feelings and set him up for romantic trouble.

• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue joined Kushina Uzumaki, Uchiha Mikoto, and the Great Filial Son by the river to watch the fireworks.
• After the fireworks, Tang Ping followed the group toward the festival performances while preparing to keep himself and Hinata Cang Yue in public view until the plan began.
• Minato Squad performed Tang Ping’s song, “Unreachable Love,” with Nohara Rin singing and Kakashi and Obito playing electric guitars.
• Nohara Rin’s moving performance drew a growing audience, and the crowd praised the song after she finished.
• Tang Ping privately laughed at the song’s dedication to Minato Squad, unaware that Nohara Rin was comparing him favorably with Kakashi.

Genon attempted to detonate Exploding Tags planted across Konoha, but Yamaa Koji forced him to trigger the attack and survived the blast. The explosions devastated Hokage Rock as Tang Ping organized evacuations and headed to the destruction, while Itachi began to suspect him.

• Genon tried to kill Yamaa Koji with a genjutsu and short blade, but Yamaa Koji caught his wrist and exposed him.
• Genon activated the Exploding Tags he had planted throughout Konoha, and Yamaa Koji survived the close-range blast with only injured arms.
• Tang Ping heard the first explosion, then hundreds of Exploding Tags detonated across Konoha and destroyed much of Hokage Rock.
• Tang Ping sent Kushina Uzumaki to safety and ordered the children to help evacuate villagers before leaving with Hinata Cang Yue.
• Itachi suspected Tang Ping was connected to the explosions, while Konoha's ninja rushed toward Hokage Rock and the buried Hokage Building.

After an explosion destroyed Hokage Rock, Tang Ping deflected Danzo’s accusations while Konoha learned the attack had been carried out by a ninja from Kagerō Village. Meanwhile, Hinata Cang Yue infiltrated Root’s headquarters and broke into its treasury, where she was stunned by what she found.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi mobilized Konoha’s forces at the Hokage Building ruins and called on Tang Ping to help against any powerful enemies.
• Danzo blamed Tang Ping for the attack, but Tang Ping argued the attack was outside his festival-security duties and mocked Root’s failure to stop it.
• Yamaa Koji brought in the culprit’s corpse, and he identified the dead ninja as a man from Kagerō Village seeking revenge for his village and son.
• Hinata Cang Yue used her Tenseigan to evade Root’s traps, enter its headquarters, and fight her way to the core area.
• Hinata Cang Yue cut through the stones concealing Root’s treasury and was stunned by what lay inside.

Hinata Cang Yue raided Root’s headquarters, seized its wealth and ninjutsu, and left behind clues implicating the Shell Organization. As Konoha’s clan leaders investigated, they traced the attack to the long-destroyed Kagerō Village, while Danzo suddenly reacted to the raid.

• Hinata Cang Yue used temporary Sealing Scrolls to loot Root’s warehouse of Gold Certificates, pills, metal, and other supplies.
• Hinata Cang Yue blasted through Root’s underground base, killed the Root Ninja who attacked her, and collected ninjutsu scrolls and a mission scroll.
• Hinata Cang Yue continued the raid while making it appear that the Shell Organization was responsible.
• Nara Shikaku identified Kagerō Village as the source of the attackers, but Konoha’s leaders learned that its last survivor was already dead.
• Danzo’s expression abruptly changed, and he cursed furiously.

Danzo demanded help after the Shell Organization raided Root, but Hiruzen and the elders prioritized threats elsewhere in the village. Tang Ping joined Danzo’s return to Root, where he saw Hinata Cang Yue escape with the stolen goods and found the base’s warehouses emptied.

• Danzo reported that the Shell Organization had invaded Root and pleaded for reinforcements.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura opposed sending help until the dangers within the village were investigated, and Hiruzen ordered Danzo to handle the attack first.
• Danzo asked Hiruzen to send Uchiha Tang Ping with him, and Tang Ping agreed before racing toward Root in his Flame Garment.
• Hinata Cang Yue, disguised in a black cloak, escaped past Tang Ping as he approached Root.
• Tang Ping entered Root and saw the breached passage and emptied warehouses, relieved that Hinata Cang Yue’s raid had succeeded.

Tang Ping watched Danzo fail to find the Shell Organization after its warehouse was emptied, then returned to Konoha as the village declared the bombing case solved. After resting, he was summoned by Hiruzen Sarutobi to meet a priestess whose arrival left him facing a new assignment.

• Danzo arrived at the empty warehouse, ordered Root to search for the Shell Organization, and found no traces of its members.
• Tang Ping left Danzo to report to the Hokage, while Danzo vowed to capture the Shell Organization and seek support for Root.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi announced that Genon, a Kagerō Village Remnant, had planted Exploding Tags around the village, and the search teams confirmed there were no other threats.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi lifted the alert, and Tang Ping returned to his clan compound to sleep until an Anbu summoned him that afternoon.
• Tang Ping followed the Anbu to the Temporary Hokage Building, where Hiruzen Sarutobi introduced him to a priestess with gray-white hair and a golden crown.

Tang Ping accepted a joint mission to stop Mou Ryō in the Land of Demons, eager to seize the demon’s power for his own purposes. Before departing with Minato Squad, he delegated his experiments to Hinata Cang Yue and secured his resources and Nine-Tails Chakra.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Tang Ping that Yomi had broken Mou Ryō’s seal and assigned him the Five Great Nations’ S-Rank mission to stop the demon.
• Tang Ping accepted the mission and agreed to take Minato Squad, with departure set for the following morning.
• Tang Ping met Hinata Cang Yue outside the Hyuga Clan Grounds and entrusted her with some of his experimental work while he was away.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue secretly moved selected supplies to the Uchiha Clan Grounds, avoiding surveillance by the Anbu, the Third Hokage, and White Zetsu.
• Tang Ping obtained a considerable amount of Nine-Tails Chakra from Kushina Uzumaki before setting out.

Tang Ping escorted Miroku toward the Land of Demons and pressured Asari Kiyoo into giving him the Shadow Mirror Body Transfer Technique. After Miroku sealed the carriage against eavesdropping and prophecy, she began a private conversation with Tang Ping.

• Tang Ping departed Konoha with Minato Squad and Miroku's carriage, after Kushina Uzumaki warned Kakashi and Obito to obey orders.
• Tang Ping learned that Asari Kiyoo was a ninja and minister of the Land of Demons, then demanded the Shadow Mirror Body Transfer Technique.
• Asari Kiyoo refused until Miroku ordered him to hand over the secret technique.
• Tang Ping learned the technique required the Priestess's power and permanently changed a person's appearance without granting the target's talents.
• Miroku invited Tang Ping into her carriage, sealed it against listeners and prophecy, and told him the barrier could block prophecy.

Miroku explained that Tang Ping’s future could not be seen directly, though it could affect prophecies about others, and asked him to help change her fate. Tang Ping agreed on his own terms, then reached Konoha’s Northwest Shinobi Army and met Jiraiya.

• Miroku told Tang Ping that his future was obscured, but his influence could change the fates of people around him.
• Miroku revealed that Tang Ping’s appearance had altered the future in which she was destined to die and asked him to help; Tang Ping agreed while keeping control over how he would act.
• Tang Ping’s caravan reached the war-struck border region near Grass Country and Rain Country, where frightened refugees fled the fighting.
• Tang Ping sensed Jiraiya’s presence and stepped out of the carriage to meet him.
• Jiraiya greeted Tang Ping and invited him to rest, and Tang Ping accepted.

Tang Ping traded Sage Mode training insights with Jiraiya for two secret techniques, then learned more about the fighting between the ninja villages. He and his companions reached the Land of Demons on foot after abandoning their carriage at the border.

• Tang Ping persuaded Jiraiya to exchange the Needle Jizo and Lion's Mane Technique scrolls for his Sage Mode training experience.
• Tang Ping explained his conclusions about Sage Mode, and Jiraiya recognized their value.
• Jiraiya asked about strange events in the village, and Tang Ping told him about the Shell Organization and other developments.
• Jiraiya described how Iwagakure and Kumogakure were holding back while Sunagakure and Kirigakure fought more desperately.
• Tang Ping's group left Jiraiya, abandoned their carriage after crossing the border, and reached the Land of Demons after several days on foot.

Tang Ping led the team to the western border of the Land of Demons to help Yomi break the seal and revive Mou Ryō so he could capture him whole. At Border Canyon, they found the Land of Demons’ soldiers being overwhelmed by the Ghost Legion, and Tang Ping leaped into the battle with Miroku on his back.

• Tang Ping explained that the team would help Yomi open the way to Mou Ryō’s sealed soul, despite Miroku’s objections.
• Obito questioned the plan, while Tang Ping reassured him that Mou Ryō was no match for the strongest ninja in the world.
• Tang Ping asked Nohara Rin about her Medical Ninjutsu training and guided her through the medical knowledge keeping her from learning the Healing Technique.
• The team reached Border Canyon and saw the Terracotta Army smashing through the Land of Demons’ guards as the defenders traded lives to destroy the advancing soldiers.
• Tang Ping told Miroku to hold tight and leaped into the battlefield with her on his back.

Tang Ping forced Yomi to let the Ghost Legion advance toward the Sealing Shrine, promising to help until Mou Ryō fully revived so he could fight the monster himself. After Miroku ordered the Land of Demons’ guards to stand aside, the army reached the shrine, where Mou Ryō’s revival was imminent.

• Yomi led the Ghost Legion toward the Land of Demons, and the border guards lost hope as the army approached.
• Tang Ping arrived with Miroku, intimidated Yomi, and said he would help until Mou Ryō fully revived so he could fight him.
• Tang Ping ordered Miroku to clear the Ghost Legion’s path, and she directed the guards to move aside to prevent further casualties.
• Yomi held back the Ghost Legion instead of attacking the guards, while Tang Ping later learned Priestess Power and a Sealing Technique from Miroku.
• After several days of marching, Tang Ping and the Ghost Legion reached the Sealing Shrine, where Mou Ryō was about to revive.

Tang Ping and Yomi revived Mou Ryō at the Sealing Shrine, where the demon emerged and threatened the Land of Demons. Tang Ping sent Obito to face it first while Kakashi and Rin protected Miroku, and the chapter ended as Mou Ryō attacked Obito.

• Yomi unsealed Mou Ryō while Miroku and the others watched from a nearby cliff.
• Tang Ping told Kakashi to protect Miroku and assigned the nervous Obito to charge Mou Ryō first.
• Mou Ryō burst out of the Sealing Shrine and vowed to devour Miroku and destroy the Land of Demons.
• Obito charged to the edge of the lava pit, and Mou Ryō launched its first attack.

Tang Ping fought Mou Ryō at the Training Ground while Kakashi, Obito, and Rin protected Miroku. After saving Obito and clearing hundreds of Terracotta Army soldiers with powerful Fire Release, he provoked Mou Ryō into unleashing its ultimate move.

• Tang Ping saved Obito from Mou Ryō’s snake attack and ordered him to protect Miroku.
• Kakashi led Obito, Rin, and Miroku to the top of a waterfall as the Terracotta Army flooded the Training Ground.
• Tang Ping faced Mou Ryō alone and praised its ambition before declaring he would capture it.
• Tang Ping used the Fire Pillar Array and Fire Dragon Flame Bullet to destroy the snake heads and hundreds of Terracotta Army soldiers.
• Tang Ping taunted Mou Ryō, prompting the demon to unleash its ultimate move.

Tang Ping and Taiyi overwhelmed Mou Ryō with a combined assault, but Mou Ryō endured because of his link to the Priestess. Tang Ping sealed Yomi inside the flames, ending the battle with the demon in his possession.

• Mou Ryō gathered a dark sphere to attack Miroku, so Tang Ping summoned Taiyi to help stop him.
• Tang Ping cut apart Mou Ryō’s sphere with the Ama-no-Murakumo Sword, interrupting his ultimate move.
• Taiyi unleashed a massive pillar of fire that burned Mou Ryō, who revealed that he could not die while the Priestess lived.
• Tang Ping rushed into the pillar of fire and used the Four Symbols Sealing Technique on Yomi.

Tang Ping sealed Mou Ryō inside Yomi and helped end the crisis in the Land of Demons. He stayed to study the monster and learned that its power came from fear and other negative emotions, a force that predated Chakra.

• Tang Ping used the Eight Trigrams Seal and a Contract Seal to trap Mou Ryō inside Yomi, then bound and knocked him unconscious.
• Mou Ryō's sealing ended the storm and cooled the lava, while the Terracotta Army stopped moving.
• Tang Ping brought Yomi to Miroku and assured her that the Land of Demons would no longer need to fear Mou Ryō.
• Tang Ping stayed in the Land of Demons, guided Minato Squad, and watched Kakashi develop a Lightning Release technique that sounded like a thousand birds chirping.
• With Miroku's help, Tang Ping learned that Mou Ryō absorbed fear and other negative emotions as power, and that this force existed before Chakra.

Tang Ping discovered that Mou Ryō’s fear-powered terracotta warriors could serve as a vast labor force, though sunlight and dwindling fear limited them. He negotiated a shared arrangement with Miroku and left the Land of Demons, later regretting his dealings with the Priestess.

• Tang Ping realized Mou Ryō’s power of faith could offer a way to study abilities beyond Chakra, and he devised ways to gather fear without killing people.
• Tang Ping learned that Mou Ryō could sustain only one thousand weakened terracotta warriors after much of its fear had been spent, but saw their potential for construction and farming.
• Miroku blocked Tang Ping from taking Yomi, while Tang Ping asserted that his seals prevented her from removing it without his consent.
• Tang Ping and Miroku agreed that she would have Mou Ryō for twenty days out of every hundred in exchange for passing on her bloodline.
• Tang Ping later left the Land of Demons with an injured waist and swore he would someday repay Miroku, having developed a fear of Priestesses.

Tang Ping returned to Konoha with Minato Squad after completing the mission in the Land of Demons, where he had secured an alliance and arranged for Yomi to remain with Miroku. After being welcomed by Kushina Uzumaki and Hinata Cang Yue, he returned to his underground laboratory and saw the result of his work.

• Tang Ping concealed the cause of his weakness from Nohara Rin and reflected on how the Land of Demons and its Ghost Legion could benefit the Land of Rivers.
• Tang Ping guided Obito and Nohara Rin through practical combat training during the journey back to Konoha, and the group arrived after about a dozen days.
• Kushina Uzumaki welcomed Tang Ping and Minato Squad, praising them for their successful mission.
• Might Guy declared that he would run one hundred laps to celebrate Kakashi's mission, while Hinata Cang Yue detected signs that Tang Ping had been unfaithful and silently grew suspicious.
• Kushina Uzumaki led the group to a celebratory feast, and Hinata Cang Yue reassured them that she had helped prepare it.
• Tang Ping ate with the group, returned to the Uchiha Clan Grounds, and entered his underground laboratory to see his hard-won creation.

Tang Ping prepared a White Zetsu-grown Power Armor and an Extraordinary Organ for Hinata Cang Yue while laying plans to introduce the armor as a recovered Yamaa Clan ninja tool. Danzo secretly sent information to the Mist Ninja to provoke a conflict involving the Uchiha, and Yamaa Koji returned with the armor just as Tang Ping prepared to reveal its power.

• Hinata Cang Yue completed cultivating a deluxe Power Armor from White Zetsu, and Tang Ping checked that rumors about the Yamaa Clan's lost ninja tool were spreading.
• Tang Ping gave Hinata Cang Yue the Needle Jizo and Wild Lion's Mane secret technique scrolls and showed her the unfinished fox-tail Extraordinary Organ prepared for her.
• Danzo ordered a Root Ninja to send a letter through a Mist Ninja spy, plotting to pit the Mist Ninja against the Uchiha and use the conflict to advance his bid for the Hokage's position.
• Tang Ping spent several days preparing for surgery while Yamaa Koji handled trouble at the Honda Trading Company.
• Yamaa Koji returned with allied small-clan ninja and transported the enormous, several-ton Power Armor into the village as a supposed legendary ninja tool.