Chapter Summaries

Jingū Kiraku’s forces crushed a noble rebellion in the New East Region and arrested the nobles who had hired Kakuzu. He assigned the nobles and their retainers to the Labor Reform Corps while ordering the enslaved people restored to civilian status.

• A noble assured the lords gathered in Kikyo Town that Kakuzu, the Immortal Ninja he had hired, would defeat the Amegakure Leader’s forces.
• Kakuzu arrived carrying a corpse and announced that the Amegakure Leader had ordered him to execute the nobles for planning a rebellion.
• Kakuzu routed the nobles’ guards and captured the nobles until Jingū Kiraku arrived with Flying Ninja and ordered everyone bound for the Labor Reform Corps.
• Jingū Kiraku’s forces purged the New East Region in one day, arresting 1,316 people and freeing 1,704 slaves from the nobles’ households.
• Erika reported the arrests, and Jingū Kiraku ordered the nobles and retainers sent to the Mining Area while the former slaves were reviewed for restoration to civilian status.

After stabilizing the New East Region through tax relief and freeing slaves, Jingū Kiraku planned an expedition to Hell Valley to recruit the Chinoike Clan. Meanwhile, Uzumaki Yang began training Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato, as a cluster of paper scraps arrived in a valley in the northern Land of Fire.

• Jingū Kiraku lowered taxes in the New East Region from eighty percent to thirty percent, freed many slaves, and earned the people’s acclaim as Lord Clear Soup.
• The Loyalty Statue was completed atop Angkor Fortress, and loyalty to the Hidden Rain Village regime rose in the region.
• Jingū Kiraku received a system reward that increased all ninja units’ HP by twenty percent and decided to travel to Hell Valley.
• Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato returned to the Ninja School, where Uzumaki Yang began their formal ninja training after Yahiko passed his cultural studies retest.
• Uzumaki Yang taught Nagato Uzumaki techniques, guided Yahiko in Water Release, and helped Konan with Paper Release as the three children grew stronger.
• A cluster of white paper scraps descended into a valley in the northern Land of Fire.

Jingū Kiraku entered Hell Valley and discovered that a vast Genjutsu formation had trapped the Chinoike Clan there. He stopped their planned sacrifice of Aoie, then overwhelmed the villagers with his presence.

• Jingū Kiraku entered Hell Valley, endured its toxic gas, and used the four Three-Tomoe Sharingan on his left hand to open a path through the Genjutsu.
• Jingū Kiraku followed the path and discovered that the Chinoike Clan lived in a small village deep inside the valley.
• The Chinoike villagers prepared to sacrifice Aoie, believing the ritual would save their dwindling clan.
• Jingū Kiraku knocked the Clan Head's Ninja Blade away and condemned the villagers as idiots.
• The villagers crowded around Jingū Kiraku, eager to know who he was and how he entered, but his terrifying presence caused some to faint.

Jingū Kiraku defeated the Chinoike Clan Head’s Ketsuryūgan Genjutsu and learned that the clan had used sacrifices to provoke eye awakenings and escape Hell Valley. After restraining the villagers the clan head tried to use as weapons, Jingū Kiraku demanded that he choose between submission and death.

• The Chinoike Clan Head questioned Jingū Kiraku and trapped him in a Ketsuryūgan Genjutsu of a sea of blood.
• Jingū Kiraku countered with the ocular power of five Three-Tomoe Sharingan and tore through the illusion.
• Jingū Kiraku entered the clan head’s mental space and learned that the Chinoike Clan used sacrifices to increase the chance of awakening the Ketsuryūgan.
• Jingū Kiraku freed the bound sacrifice, then stopped the clan head from sending villagers at him as human bombs.
• Jingū Kiraku bound the villagers with Paper Release and aimed paper weapons at the clan head, demanding submission or death.

Jingū Kiraku forced the Chinoike Clan to submit and promised to take them out of Hell Valley. He appointed the devoted Aoie as clan head and led her away from the altar.

• Aoie knelt before Jingū Kiraku and pledged her loyalty, while the other conscious clansmen followed her lead.
• Jingū Kiraku exposed Chinoike Touya’s plan to use the hidden blood pool, and Touya surrendered with the rest of the clan.
• Jingū Kiraku ordered Touya to wake the other clansmen and prepare to leave Hell Valley.
• Jingū Kiraku named Aoie the new Chinoike Clan Head, and Touya accepted the appointment.
• Jingū Kiraku flew out of the village on his White Throne with Aoie following close behind.