Chapter Summaries

Zhang Miao kept Yashamaru away from Gaara and helped Gaara settle into a safe, comfortable night, earning both Gaara’s trust and Shukaku’s awe. The next morning, the Fourth Kazekage arrived, and Zhang Miao eagerly anticipated the money he would bring.

• Zhang Miao told Gaara that Yashamaru had gone on a mission, then entertained him and helped him sleep.
• The system awarded Zhang Miao Gaara fragments for earning Gaara’s absolute trust and Shukaku fragments for earning its awe.
• Gaara woke happy after sleeping beside Zhang Miao and eagerly helped with chores while Grandma Chiyo prepared breakfast.
• Grandma Chiyo sent Zhang Miao out of the kitchen, leaving him wondering how to fill his spare time.
• Baki announced that the Fourth Kazekage had arrived, and Zhang Miao perked up at the prospect of money.

Zhang Miao negotiated with Rasa to defend Sunagakure against Kirigakure in exchange for payment, while refusing to persuade Chiyo and Ebizo to return to service. Their deal was interrupted when a red smoke signal revealed that the Mist Ninja were attacking.

• Rasa arrived with twenty-four Gold Dust Cubes, and Zhang Miao eagerly counted the gold before inviting him inside.
• Rasa asked Zhang Miao to help Sunagakure and persuade Chiyo and Ebizo, but Zhang Miao refused both requests.
• Zhang Miao sold Rasa information about Might Duy crippling the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist for one million.
• Rasa agreed to Zhang Miao's higher rates for killing or capturing Kirigakure ninja, and Zhang Miao set a twelve-hour work limit and a return-home-for-dinner condition.
• Zhang Miao pointed out a plume of red smoke in the southwest, and Rasa realized the Mist Ninja were attacking.

Rasa and Zhang Miao rushed to reinforce Sunagakure’s southern defense after Kirigakure launched a major attack. They arrived to find Pakura’s Scorch Release turning the battle in Sunagakure’s favor, and Zhang Miao prepared to reveal a sword-wielding ally.

• Rasa learned that Kirigakure had sent more than a thousand attackers toward Sunagakure’s south, where Pakura’s unit had only around three hundred defenders.
• Rasa flew toward the battlefield on Gold Sand with Zhang Miao riding on his back, while Zhang Miao teased him about dying and becoming a human puppet.
• Zhang Miao’s talk of a dowry earned him ten Rasa ninja fragments and a bonus for mentioning the word again in the future.
• Rasa and Zhang Miao reached the battlefield and saw Pakura’s Scorch Release had killed many Kirigakure ninja, leaving their bodies dried into husks.
• Zhang Miao produced a Sealing Scroll and told Rasa it contained a Sword Saint.

Zhang Miao and Rasa joined the Sand Ninja in battle against the Mist Ninja, turning the tide and forcing them to retreat. Afterward, Zhang Miao bargained with Rasa over payment for his kills.

• Rasa arrived on the battlefield, and Zhang Miao jumped down with the Sealing Scroll for his Sword Saint puppet.
• Zhang Miao used the Sword Saint as a shield against incoming weapons, then controlled it to cut through the Mist Ninja.
• Zhang Miao boasted about his identity while Rasa attacked the Mist Ninja with Gold Dust Shuriken.
• Zhang Miao and Rasa helped the exhausted Sand Ninja drive the Mist Ninja into retreat.
• Zhang Miao claimed payment for killing two hundred Jonin, and Rasa offered him twenty million.

Zhang Miao met Pakura after she helped repel Kirigakure’s attack and immediately overwhelmed her with flirtation, declaring her his future wife. He left with Rasa, while Pakura and the Sand Ninja were left wondering how such a young child had earned the Kazekage’s tolerance.

• Pakura thanked Rasa for bringing reinforcements, and he praised her role in repelling Kirigakure’s attack.
• Pakura recognized Zhang Miao’s reputation, and Zhang Miao praised her Scorching Release and beauty before climbing onto her back and kissing her neck.
• Zhang Miao declared that Pakura would be his wife, then promised to revive her and grant her immortality if she ever died.
• Zhang Miao gave Pakura two apples and told her he would visit again the next day.
• Zhang Miao rode on Rasa’s back as Rasa used gold dust to fly away, leaving the Sand Ninja curious about Zhang Miao’s influence over the Kazekage.

Zhang Miao returned to Grandma Chiyo after helping Pakura and the others, and Rasa warned Chiyo about human puppets. When Chiyo realized Sasori had killed the Third Kazekage, Zhang Miao told her the truth and comforted her as she blamed herself.

• Rasa brought Zhang Miao back to Grandma Chiyo, who scolded him for leaving without telling her.
• Rasa warned Grandma Chiyo to keep Zhang Miao away from human puppets, prompting her to ask him about Sasori.
• Zhang Miao told Grandma Chiyo that Sasori had killed the Third Kazekage and made a human puppet from his corpse.
• Grandma Chiyo blamed herself for Sasori's actions, but Zhang Miao comforted her and said Sasori alone was responsible.
• Grandma Chiyo said she felt at ease with Zhang Miao by her side, and they went home together.

Zhang Miao helped Ebizo understand why Grandma Chiyo was upset, then watched her recover and grow more protective of him. As Mist ninja attacks escalated and then abruptly stopped after pushing Sunagakure back hundreds of miles, Zhang Miao suspected a major threat was coming.

• Zhang Miao told Ebizo that Sasori had killed the Third Kazekage and turned him into a human puppet, and Ebizo insisted the news stay secret.
• Grandma Chiyo played dead to scare Zhang Miao, who retaliated by pretending to be poisoned before she took him inside to eat.
• Over the next month, Grandma Chiyo recovered but became more nagging, while Zhang Miao and Gaara began catching and eating scorpions with her and Ebizo.
• Zhang Miao noticed Mist ninja attack signals, reinforced Sunagakure's defenses, and earned pocket money from Rasa.
• The Mist ninja attacks grew less frequent but larger, and after driving Sunagakure's defensive line back several hundred miles, they suddenly stopped, making Zhang Miao fear something big was coming.

Zhang Miao took Gaara scorpion-catching before confronting a Sand Ninja messenger who attacked him with malice. He exposed a Mist Ninja ambush and killed the attackers with his Adamantine Sealing Chains.

• Zhang Miao and Gaara caught scorpions, and Gaara returned home with a full bucket.
• A Sand Ninja told Zhang Miao that Pakura had been attacked by the Mist Ninja, but Zhang Miao stabbed him after sensing his malice.
• Zhang Miao discovered Mist Ninja hiding beneath the sand and recognized that someone had betrayed him.
• Zhang Miao killed one Mist Ninja and bound the others with his Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Zhang Miao used Adamantine Cutting to slice apart the bound Mist Ninja.

Zhang Miao learned that Sunagakure had offered him up as a sacrifice to secure peace with Kirigakure, and Grandma Chiyo arrived to stand by him. As a large force of Kirigakure ninja approached, Zhang Miao prepared to fight alongside her.

• After defeating the Kirigakure ninja, Zhang Miao waited for reinforcements, intending to use genjutsu to eliminate them without exposing his Sharingan.
• Grandma Chiyo arrived and asked Zhang Miao why Kirigakure ninja had attacked him.
• Zhang Miao explained that Sunagakure's leaders might have made him a condition of peace talks because he had killed thousands of Kirigakure ninja.
• Grandma Chiyo refused to leave Zhang Miao and showed him the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu, promising to protect him.
• Zhang Miao summoned the Sword Saint puppet and prepared to fight as a large group of Kirigakure ninja arrived from the south.

Zhang Miao and Grandma Chiyo met a Mist ninja force led by Raiga Kurosuki and fought back against its assault. After Zhang Miao cut through the enemy ranks and baited Raiga into attacking, he found Raiga and charged toward him.

• Zhang Miao sensed about two thousand Mist ninja approaching and identified their leader as Raiga Kurosuki, warning Grandma Chiyo not to pit her puppets against his Lightning Blade.
• Zhang Miao blocked a lightning attack with Wood Golem Wall, then created two Wood Style Clones to protect Grandma Chiyo as she summoned the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu.
• Grandma Chiyo sent her puppets against the Mist ninja vanguard while Zhang Miao entered the formation, killing Mist ninja with the Sword Saint puppet and his Adamantine Chains.
• Zhang Miao noticed Raiga repeatedly avoiding him and taunted him about fleeing from Might Duy until Raiga stopped and launched a lightning attack.
• Zhang Miao blocked Raiga's strike with the Sword Saint puppet, rushed toward him, and recognized him as Raiga Kurosuki.

Zhang Miao destroyed the Mist ninja vanguard with Wood Style and his Black Flame serpent, but discovered Raiga Kurosuki had escaped using a Lightning Release clone. He sensed the real Mist force, more than five thousand strong, approaching a kilometer away.

• Zhang Miao struck Raiga Kurosuki with Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence, but the target vanished as a Lightning Release clone.
• Zhang Miao realized the two thousand Mist ninja were a vanguard and raised himself atop a wooden pillar with Wood Style: Great Tree Pillar Technique.
• Zhang Miao used Flame Release: Black Snake to burn the Mist ninja in sight to ash.
• Grandma Chiyo checked on Zhang Miao, and he told her the blood on him belonged to the Mist ninja.
• Zhang Miao sensed more than five thousand people a kilometer away and warned Grandma Chiyo that the real attack was coming.

Zhang Miao prepared to face the advancing Kirigakure forces, believing he would need to summon the Nine-Tails, but discovered his strengthened body could no longer be cut for blood. Gaara arrived to protect him, and the sand around Gaara transformed into a colossal creature as a strange voice announced its release.

• Zhang Miao explained to Grandma Chiyo why Kirigakure needed to kill him and Pakura, then persuaded her to return home while he faced the attackers.
• After Grandma Chiyo left, Zhang Miao admitted he had little Dojutsu Power remaining and planned to summon the Nine-Tails if necessary.
• Zhang Miao discovered that his strengthened skin could not be cut by an ordinary kunai, and the system told him his bones were beginning to strengthen too.
• Zhang Miao planned to attack the Kirigakure forces alone, but Gaara ran up and refused to leave because he wanted to protect his brother.
• Zhang Miao embraced Gaara, and Gaara's sand blasted Zhang Miao away before forming a colossal creature around him that announced it was finally free.

Zhang Miao accidentally triggered his Brother Complex's Majesty specialty, causing Gaara's sealed Shukaku to emerge in a berserk state. After Shukaku's teasing attacks led Zhang Miao to transform into the Nine-Tails, Zhang Miao realized Shukaku had only been joking and turned his attention to the Mist ninja.

• Zhang Miao learned that his Brother Complex's Majesty specialty had caused Shukaku to break free and that the berserk state would last between an hour and a day.
• Shukaku taunted Zhang Miao and attacked him while the Mist ninja halted their charge.
• Zhang Miao transformed into the Nine-Tails and pinned Shukaku beneath him as he prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Shukaku insisted his attacks had been jokes, and Zhang Miao released him after realizing he had sensed no hostility.
• Zhang Miao fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at the Mist ninja.

Zhang Miao unleashed a massive Tailed Beast Bomb against the Kirigakure forces, then had Shukaku crush thousands of buried ninja by compacting the sand. With Kirigakure’s army devastated, Zhang Miao prepared to attack the surviving forces.

• Zhang Miao fired a ten-meter-wide Tailed Beast Bomb, whose blast created a huge crater and buried the Kirigakure ninja in a sandstorm.
• Hundreds of Kirigakure ninja emerged to rescue their comrades, and Zhang Miao called on Shukaku to stop them.
• Shukaku sank the surrounding sand by one foot, killing more than three thousand Kirigakure ninja trapped beneath it.
• Zhang Miao realized Kirigakure had suffered an irreparable loss and launched another Tailed Beast Bomb at the surviving ninja.

After defeating most of the Kirigakure ninja with Shukaku’s help, Zhang Miao asked him to lead the way to a canyon where Pakura was in danger. They reached the canyon, where Shukaku warned that he smelled blood, and Zhang Miao went ahead to save her.

• Zhang Miao and Shukaku killed many Kirigakure ninja, though some escaped after the survivors panicked and fled.
• Zhang Miao told Shukaku that he was not Kurama, then asked him to guide him to the canyon south of their location.
• Shukaku refused at first but agreed to lead Zhang Miao to the canyon, and Zhang Miao rode on his head while carving a wooden sculpture.
• Shukaku said he smelled blood and warned that the person Zhang Miao wanted to save might already be dead.
• Zhang Miao jumped down, gave Shukaku the carving, and Shukaku recognized it as a sculpture of himself as a child.

Zhang Miao gave Shukaku a childhood carving that began earning him daily Shukaku fragments, then recovered Pakura’s corpse and discussed the possibility of resurrecting people after becoming a true god. He left the canyon with Shukaku and began carving another promised gift.

• Zhang Miao gave Shukaku a childhood statue, triggering a system reward of five Seven-Star Kage-Level Shukaku Fragments each day.
• Shukaku pretended to dismiss the statue, then secretly picked it up and treasured it after Zhang Miao left.
• Zhang Miao found Pakura dead in the canyon and collected her corpse, hoping Grandma Chiyo’s One’s Own Life Reincarnation could save her.
• The system explained that Zhang Miao could resurrect people and grant long life after becoming a true god, and clarified that the life-giving essence was his blood.
• Zhang Miao returned to Shukaku, who demanded the promised gift, and Zhang Miao began carving another wooden statue.

Zhang Miao returned Gaara safely after Shukaku’s rampage ended, then learned that Chiyo and Ebizo had gone to confront Sunagakure’s leadership. The next morning, Zhang Miao reassured Gaara and discovered his tooth enhancement was complete.

• Shukaku collapsed back into sand after giving Zhang Miao the chance to finish a wooden carving, leaving Gaara asleep amid the sand.
• Zhang Miao carried Gaara home, where Chiyo worried over him and Ebizo asked whether Zhang Miao blamed Sunagakure for the betrayal.
• Zhang Miao told Ebizo that only corrupt higher-ups were responsible, and Ebizo promised to prevent another incident.
• Chiyo and Ebizo left for several days, and Zhang Miao reassured Gaara that they had not abandoned him.
• Zhang Miao bit through a steel spoon and received the system’s notice that his tooth enhancement was complete.

Zhang Miao summoned Chiyo and chose her forbidden technique, One's Own Life Reincarnation, before renaming her Senki and ordering her to make puppets. Senki began repairing his Sword Saint puppet and preparing nine more.

• Zhang Miao summoned Chiyo after biting through his finger to provide the blood needed for recruitment.
• The system awarded Zhang Miao Chiyo's Chakra reserves and the Ten Finger Barrage specialty, and he selected One's Own Life Reincarnation from her specialty list.
• Zhang Miao renamed Chiyo Senki and told her to call him Boss.
• Zhang Miao ordered Senki to make nine puppets like his damaged Sword Saint puppet and repair the original.
• After Senki carried the puppet away, Zhang Miao asked the system to take out Pakura's corpse.

Zhang Miao revived Pakura with One's Own Life Reincarnation, but the system implanted memories that made her believe he was Hades. After Pakura went to bathe, Zhang Miao began reviving Kushina Uzumaki, knowing the same memories would have to be implanted in her.

• Zhang Miao used eight hundred ordinary Ninja Fragments to revive Pakura with One's Own Life Reincarnation.
• Pakura thanked Zhang Miao as Lord Hades, and the system explained that it had implanted memories to ensure her loyalty.
• Zhang Miao confirmed Pakura's belief that he was Hades and sent her to bathe, while the system warned him to maintain that identity until her memories stabilized.
• Zhang Miao asked the system to avoid implanting strange memories in Kushina Uzumaki, but it said that was necessary to prevent the Ninja Fragments' memories from overwhelming her.
• Zhang Miao began using One's Own Life Reincarnation to revive Kushina Uzumaki.

Zhang Miao revived Kushina Uzumaki, who recognized him through the Eight Trigrams Seal and scolded him like a mother. He then attempted to revive Minato Namikaze, but the system reported that Minato’s sealed soul prevented the revival.

• Zhang Miao used One's Own Life Reincarnation to heal and revive Kushina Uzumaki.
• Kushina Uzumaki explained that Minato Namikaze had sealed part of her Chakra inside Zhang Miao, allowing her to watch over him and recognize him.
• Kushina Uzumaki scolded Zhang Miao for his behavior, then went to bathe while he refused to join her.
• Zhang Miao asked the system to bring out Minato Namikaze's corpse and learned that Minato's spatial talent and Yin Nine-Tails had earned him an eight-star rating.
• Zhang Miao used One's Own Life Reincarnation on Minato Namikaze, but the system said the revival failed because Minato's soul was sealed.