Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Cheng helped Konoha rout the Stone Ninja invasion of the Land of Grass by breaking their right flank and pursuing the fleeing soldiers. Konoha won a decisive victory, while commander Mihara Otake escaped with the remaining troops.

• The Stone Ninja charged Uchiha Cheng, but he reopened the Fifth Gate and used Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation to drive them into a panicked retreat.
• Konoha's ninja rallied and crushed the Stone Ninja right flank as Uchiha Cheng killed its battlefield commander with Chidori Sharp Spear and disrupted the fleeing troops with a flock of crows.
• Konoha White Fang, Konoha's Three Ninja, and the central forces launched an all-out attack that shattered the Stone Ninja formation and defeated the legion in the Land of Grass.
• Mihara Otake escaped under the cover of his guards with more than two thousand surviving ninja, conceding the failure of the invasion.
• Uchiha Cheng pursued the retreating Stone Ninja for over a thousand meters, then returned to the battlefield as the Eight Inner Gates' effects wore off and Konoha's ninja watched him in awe.

Uchiha Cheng reunited with Mikoto after the battle and received praise from Hatake Sakumo, while Konoha’s battlefield report revealed Cheng’s staggering kill count. The chapter ended with defeated Mihara Otake facing Ōnoki in Iwagakure.

• Mikoto Uchiha rushed to Uchiha Cheng, and he reassured her before they joined Hatake Sakumo.
• Uchiha Cheng claimed he had fought because he could not stay safely in the rear, and Hatake Sakumo praised his resolve and swordsmanship.
• Orochimaru teased Jiraiya about Cheng’s battlefield performance, while Tsunade checked on Cheng and left after seeing him with Mikoto.
• Hatake Sakumo read the battle report, which credited Uchiha Cheng with killing a commander, five Jonin, three hundred and seventeen Chunin, and seven hundred and twenty-nine Genin.
• Mihara Otake stood before Ōnoki in Iwagakure to answer for his crushing defeat in the Land of Grass.

After Iwagakure’s defeat in the Land of Grass, Uchiha Cheng became famous across the shinobi world and was promoted to Jonin as a Konoha hero. Ōnoki planned a renewed attack through Takigakure, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō discussed sending Cheng to the front lines; the chapter ended as the Uchiha clan gathered to discuss the intensifying war.

• Mihara Otake accepted responsibility for Iwagakure’s defeat, and Ōnoki ordered him to secure Takigakure’s support for another attack on Konoha while seeking peace with the Land of Wind.
• The Third Kazekage learned that Konoha had defeated Iwagakure with far fewer casualties and ordered Sunagakure’s forces to increase pressure in the Land of Rivers.
• Uchiha Cheng’s battle record and Three-Tomoe Sharingan spread across the shinobi world, earning him the title Konoha Little Asura.
• Shimura Danzō urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to eliminate Cheng, but Hiruzen proposed promoting him as a hero and sending him to the front lines away from Hatake Sakumo.
• Uchiha Cheng returned to Konoha, where he was publicly promoted to Jonin and honored as a Konoha hero.
• Uchiha Kagami, Uchiha Fugaku, and the clan’s Elders and Jonin gathered in the Uchiha clan hall as the Second Shinobi World War intensified.

Uchiha Cheng's clan debated the Hokage's order to send him to the front lines, and Fugaku offered to take his place. Cheng chose to go himself, but Fugaku challenged him to a match to decide whether he could leave.

• Uchiha Kagami told the clan that the Hokage had ordered Uchiha Cheng to support the front lines amid invasions by the Land of Rivers and Sunagakure and a Stone Ninja buildup.
• The clan members argued over whether Cheng should go, while Fugaku revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and offered to fight in Cheng's place.
• Uchiha Cheng rejected the clan's protection and declared that he would personally head to the front lines.
• Fugaku tried to stop Cheng, but Cheng insisted that his strength would keep him safe and warned that Fugaku would face greater danger.
• Fugaku challenged Cheng to a match, promising to stop opposing him if he lost, and Cheng tried to defuse the challenge by joking that he was good at running away.

Uchiha Cheng and Uchiha Fugaku fought to decide which brother would go to war, first battling through Fugaku’s layered Moon Veil genjutsu and then escalating into a fierce Fire Release contest. Cheng escaped the genjutsu and proved his spiritual power was greater, but the duel remained undecided as their flames consumed the training ground.

• Uchiha Cheng and Uchiha Fugaku left the family meeting to settle their dispute in a duel at the family training grounds.
• Uchiha Fugaku trapped Uchiha Cheng in his Moon Veil genjutsu, where Cheng’s apparent defeat was followed by a crow assault that shattered the illusion.
• Uchiha Fugaku approached the dazed Cheng, but Cheng escaped with a Crow Clone and revealed that his spiritual power had overcome Fugaku’s.
• Uchiha Cheng and Uchiha Fugaku exchanged powerful Fire Release techniques, setting the training ground ablaze as the spectators retreated from the heat.

Uchiha Cheng defeated Uchiha Fugaku in a spectacular training-ground battle, proving his strength and earning permission to go to the front lines. Three days later, Cheng trained with Mikoto beside the river after receiving an improved Rasenshuriken from his system.

• Uchiha Cheng and Uchiha Fugaku escalated their duel with powerful Fire Release, close combat, Water Release, and Chidori, astonishing the watching clan members.
• Fugaku used natural lightning to restrict Cheng, but Cheng created Lightning Blade and cleaved the descending bolt in two before defeating Fugaku's Shadow Clone.
• Fugaku admitted defeat, and the spectators no longer doubted Cheng's strength or his right to go to the front lines.
• Cheng received an improved Wind Release: Rasenshuriken that could be thrown without Sage Mode.
• Three days later, Cheng sparred with Mikoto atop the river in the forest where he had taught her and Kushina.

Uchiha Cheng trained with Mikoto Uchiha, shared a kiss with her, and then prepared to leave with Konoha’s force for the Land of Rain. The chapter ended as Mikoto saw him off and waited for his promised return in triumph.

• Uchiha Cheng corrected Mikoto Uchiha’s fighting technique during their training, then teased her before they ate together by the river.
• Uchiha Cheng kissed Mikoto Uchiha while pretending to wipe food from her mouth, leaving her flustered.
• Sunagakure invaded the Land of Rivers, prompting the Konoha White Fang to lead five thousand shinobi against Granny Chiyo’s guerrilla campaign.
• After Konoha’s force was ambushed in the Land of Rain and Yuji Senju’s vanguard was surrounded by Hanzo, Uchiha Cheng decided to go to the front.
• Orochimaru led a five-hundred-person force with Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Uchiha Cheng as aides to rescue the trapped troops.
• Mikoto Uchiha straightened Uchiha Cheng’s clothes and asked him to return safely, and he promised to come back in triumph.

Uchiha Cheng departed from Konoha with the expeditionary force after Mikoto kissed him and gave him a token bearing his name. As he left, he noticed Kushina watching from the crowd, and a Sharingan crow drew her into an illusion.

• Mikoto kissed Uchiha Cheng, gave him a waist token engraved with his name, and urged him to return safely.
• Uchiha Cheng joined Uchiha Daiki’s unit as deputy commander, with Uchiha Yuto and Uchiha Rinne among the roughly three hundred shinobi.
• Orochimaru ordered the expeditionary forces to move out, and Uchiha Cheng spotted a flash of red among the watching families.
• Kushina watched Uchiha Cheng depart while holding a silver kunai engraved with his name and wondering whether he would accept her as a Jinchuriki.
• A crow with a three-tomoe Sharingan caught Kushina’s attention and cast her into an illusion of her old classroom, where students mocked her.

Uchiha Cheng visited Kushina through a genjutsu, reassured her about the Nine-Tails, and left her a butterfly token before departing. Meanwhile, Fūno Musho led Rain Ninja in a swamp ambush for Konoha’s reinforcements, who arrived as the buffalo approached his hiding place.

• Uchiha Cheng appeared before Kushina in a flower-filled genjutsu and promised to protect her despite the Nine-Tails sealed inside her.
• Kushina gave Uchiha Cheng an engraved silver kunai, and he ran with her through the flowers and animals before saying goodbye with a kiss.
• Kushina woke in Konoha holding a pale blue, gold-edged butterfly after the crow and kunai disappeared.
• Fūno Musho and his Rain Ninja hid in a swamp to ambush Konoha’s reinforcements on Hanzo of the Salamander’s orders.
• Konoha’s reinforcements arrived, and Fūno Musho stayed concealed in the mud as a wild buffalo approached him.

Konoha’s reinforcement army crossed a dangerous swamp and defeated a Rain Ninja ambush, with Uchiha Cheng and Tsunade leading the fight. The army continued toward Songping Mountain, while the badly injured Fūno Musho survived long enough to regret failing Hanzo.

• A wild buffalo covered Musho in dung as Konoha’s army approached the swamp.
• Tsunade urged the army to cross the swamp quickly to reach her uncle Yuji Senju, and Orochimaru ordered Earth Release ninja to make a road.
• Uchiha Cheng detected the Rain Ninja ambush and struck them with Fire Release and Earth Flow River, disrupting their attack.
• Tsunade kicked Fūno Musho away from Uchiha Cheng, rescued Cheng from a Water Shark Bullet, and crushed Musho with Heavenly Foot of Pain.
• Konoha’s army defeated the ambush and crossed the swamp, while Musho crawled out gravely injured and apologized to Hanzo.

Musho awakened a healing Kekkei Genkai after being buried in cow dung, while Hanzo and Ebizo maneuvered their forces to draw Konoha into a trap at Songping Mountain. Konoha gathered its reinforcements and prepared to cross the Nanzawa River, where Mitokado Homura called for someone to guard the rear.

• Musho healed rapidly after being overwhelmed by nausea, realized he had awakened a Kekkei Genkai, and plunged into more cow dung to regain its power.
• Hanzo ordered an Anbu messenger to tell Ebizo to stop holding Mitokado Homura's forces back and let Konoha's main forces converge.
• Ebizo's officers discussed withdrawing from the Nanzawa River, and Ebizo decided to strike Konoha again once its troops were halfway across.
• Orochimaru's five hundred troops joined Mitokado Homura's three hundred, and Konoha's assembled forces occupied Sunagakure's abandoned camp before preparing to cross the river.
• Mitokado Homura assigned Jiraiya to lead the vanguard and Orochimaru to support the center, then asked who would guard Konoha's rear.

Uchiha Cheng chose to defend Konoha’s rear camp, secured a larger force after Tsunade intervened, and received a powerful physical enhancement and the Sixth Gate without side effects. As the Battle of Songping Mountain began, Ebizo and the One-Tail Jinchuriki Bunpuku arrived to attack Cheng’s isolated camp.

• Uchiha Cheng volunteered to defend the rear camp, but Uchiha Daiki objected to the assignment.
• Mitokado Homura agreed to give Cheng two hundred soldiers after Tsunade argued that protecting the retreat route was important.
• Uchiha Cheng accepted the command and received the system’s 10x Constitution Enhancement and the Sixth Gate of the Eight Gates without side effects.
• Konoha’s six thousand troops crossed the river and advanced toward Songping Mountain, where the battle against Hanzo’s forces began.
• Ebizo and Bunpuku led four hundred Sunagakure troops toward Cheng’s camp, defended by Cheng and two hundred Konoha soldiers.
• Bunpuku stepped forward from the Sunagakure ranks as Cheng considered how to break the enemy formation.

Uchiha Cheng challenged One-Tail Jinchuriki Bunpuku on the battlefield and overwhelmed him with powerful taijutsu and the Eight Inner Gates. The chapter ended as Bunpuku’s terrifying aura rose from the crater, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Bunpuku urged the armies to stop fighting, but the Konoha forces rejected his offer and rallied behind Uchiha Cheng.
• Uchiha Cheng confronted Bunpuku, refused to abandon the Konoha comrades who had crossed the river, and attacked him.
• Uchiha Cheng and Bunpuku exchanged powerful close-range blows as both armies watched in disbelief.
• Uchiha Cheng opened the Fourth and then Fifth Gates, broke through Bunpuku’s Sand Armor, and sent him crashing into a crater.
• A terrifying aura rose from the crater after Uchiha Cheng asked whether Bunpuku would unleash Shukaku.

Uchiha Cheng fought the One-Tail Shukaku after it emerged from Bunpuku, using his speed and jutsu to withstand its attacks. The chapter left Shukaku badly injured by Cheng’s Rasenshuriken while the battlefield watched.

• Uchiha Cheng beat Bunpuku, causing Shukaku to emerge as the Sand Ninja and Ebizo held back from intervening.
• Uchiha Yuto and Uchiha Rinne rushed to help Cheng, but he ordered them to stay back and faced Shukaku alone.
• Cheng evaded Shukaku’s claw, attacked it with Duan Xue and Chidori Sharp Spear, and blocked a Drill Air Bullet with Triple Rashomon.
• Shukaku fired three Drill Air Bullets, and Cheng’s Shadow Clones countered them with Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.
• Cheng’s Rasenshuriken tore off Shukaku’s arms and blasted a large hole through its belly.

Uchiha Cheng repeatedly battered Shukaku, then escaped its sand attack and found Bunpuku hidden inside the beast. He pressured Shukaku into cooperating, and the chapter ended with Shukaku turning its hatred toward the Sand Ninja forces.

• Uchiha Cheng and his Shadow Clones struck Shukaku with another Rasenshuriken, destroying its head, but Shukaku regenerated from the surrounding sand.
• Shukaku unleashed Sand Waterfall Funeral and swallowed Uchiha Cheng as the Konoha forces retreated.
• Uchiha Cheng opened the Sixth Gate and broke free, then attacked Shukaku with Morning Peacock and pierced its body with lightning to expose Bunpuku.
• Uchiha Cheng threatened Shukaku and offered it a chance to regain its freedom if it helped attack the Sand Ninja.
• Shukaku agreed to attack the Sand Ninja formation, while warning Uchiha Cheng that it would pursue Konoha and the Uchiha Clan if he deceived it.

Uchiha Cheng turned Shukaku against the Sand Ninja, forcing Ebizo to order a retreat while Cheng held off Sunagakure’s elites. Elsewhere, Yuji Senju led Konoha’s surviving force down Songping Mountain to join the main army, where Hanzo confronted the Three Legendary Sannin.

• Shukaku fired a Tailed Beast Ball into the Sand Ninja formation and rampaged through their ranks as Uchiha Cheng ordered Konoha to attack.
• Ebizo and the Sand Ninja Jonin tried to restrain Shukaku, but Uchiha Cheng freed it with a Rasenshuriken and drew the elites away; Ebizo then ordered a retreat.
• Yuji Senju led his remaining troops down Songping Mountain, while Hanzo let them join Konoha’s main force and continued delaying the battle with poison.
• The Three Legendary Sannin advanced with Konoha’s army and joined up with Yuji’s troops at the mountain’s foot.
• Hanzo appeared before the assembled Konoha forces, praised the Sannin, and asked where Uchiha Cheng was; the Sannin answered that they were enough to face him.

Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade fought Hanzo’s forces while rescuing Yuji Senju, then withdrew toward the river. As the Konoha army prepared to cross overnight, they worried Hanzo might flood them.

• Orochimaru summoned Manda, but Ibuse burst from underground and knocked the giant snake aside.
• Hanzo and his allies overwhelmed Jiraiya and Tsunade, while Ibuse’s poison forced the Konoha ninja to retreat.
• Tsunade ordered a withdrawal, and the Konoha army made feigned attacks before safely pulling back with Yuji Senju rescued.
• Orochimaru warned that Hanzo might have another plan and urged the army to cross the river overnight.
• At the riverbank, the Konoha ninja wondered whether Hanzo would release a dam and flood them during the crossing.

Hanzo of the Salamander unleashed a catastrophic flood to destroy Konoha's forces crossing the Nanzawa River, while Uchiha Cheng's separate force escaped and set out to find survivors. Hanzo watched the flood from Songping Mountain and accepted the civilian deaths as a price of survival.

• Orochimaru realized Hanzo had lowered the river's water level and caused the scouts sent upstream by Mitokado Homura to disappear.
• Mitokado Homura ordered the shinobi to raise defensive barriers, but the flood overwhelmed them, and Orochimaru saved Mitokado Homura, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and nearby elites inside Manda.
• Uchiha Cheng's force defeated and pursued Sunagakure's shinobi, then escaped the weakened flood and turned downstream to search for Konoha survivors.
• Uchiha Cheng ordered his troops to avoid fighting Rain Ninja alone, while Uchiha Daiki led more than two thousand shinobi downstream.
• Hanzo learned that the flood had swallowed Konoha's main force and planned to send Rain Ninja downstream after the flood crest passed.
• Hanzo rejected his subordinate's suggestion to blame Sunagakure for the civilian deaths and said the Land of Rain's survival mattered more.

After Hanzo’s flood devastated Konoha’s forces and the downstream region, Tsunade struggled to protect wounded survivors while Rain Ninja hunted them. She led the group toward the Nanzawa River, hoping Uchiha Cheng’s reinforcements might still arrive, but Rain Ninja intercepted them and surrounded her.

• Hanzo’s dam destruction flooded the Nanzawa River region, killing thousands of civilians and crippling Konoha’s main force.
• Rain Ninja searched the flooded territory as Uchiha Cheng’s forces delayed their pursuit, while Hanzo’s forces scattered Konoha’s elite, including Mitokado Homura, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade.
• Tsunade used the Mystical Palm Technique to treat wounded Konoha ninja, but Rain Ninja spotted them and attacked.
• Konoha ninja urged Tsunade and the wounded to escape while they stayed behind to hold off the pursuers.
• Rain Ninja killed two Konoha ninja who fell behind and chased Tsunade’s group along the Nanzawa River.
• Kitagawa Takashi of Amegakure’s Seventh Division intercepted Tsunade with roughly five hundred Rain Ninja and invited her to Amegakure.

Uchiha Cheng arrived with Konoha reinforcements and turned the Rain Ninja ambush around, rescuing Tsunade. When Hanzo of the Salamander appeared, Cheng chose to protect Tsunade and faced him with dozens of shadow clones.

• Uchiha Cheng's crow clones struck Kitagawa Takashi and defended against the Rain Ninja's attacks as Konoha ninja emerged from the water and counterattacked.
• Tsunade nearly collapsed from exhaustion, and Uchiha Cheng caught her while reassuring her companions that he would protect her.
• Uchiha Cheng ordered Uchiha Yuto to evacuate the injured and directed the remaining Konoha ninja to pursue the Rain Ninja cautiously.
• After reinforcements arrived, Uchiha Cheng carried Tsunade away, but Hanzo of the Salamander burst from underground and confronted them.
• Tsunade urged Uchiha Cheng to flee alone, but he held her close, ignored the system's choices, and summoned dozens of shadow clones to face Hanzo.