Chapter Summaries

Genma arranged for Kushina to train during a mission while Minato handled caring for Naruto whenever possible. After a day of Shadow Clone training in Wind Style Chakra Nature Transformation left Kushina dizzy and exhausted, Genma brought her back to Minato.

• Genma explained that Minato could use the Flying Thunder God Technique to help care for Naruto while Kushina was away, though neither parent might always be able to pick him up.
• During the mission, Kushina used Shadow Clones to train in Wind Style Chakra Nature Transformation, following Genma’s advice to set small goals and build experience gradually.
• After about a day, Kushina reached the beginner stage of Wind Style Chakra Nature Transformation but became dizzy and nearly collapsed.
• Kurenai caught Kushina and carried her to Genma, who used the Flying Thunder God Technique to bring them to Minato.
• Minato caught Kushina as she stumbled toward him at the training ground.

Kushina told Minato that Genma had taught her a Shadow Clone training method that let her learn Wind Style Chakra nature transformation, and Minato agreed to teach her sage techniques if he confirmed the training was safe. Later, Genma choked on Lamb Egg when someone suddenly appeared before him.

• Kushina asked Minato to teach her sage techniques, and he agreed if he could confirm that training would not put her life at risk.
• Kushina explained that Shadow Clone training had helped her begin learning Wind Style Chakra nature transformation, apparently with the Nine-Tails' help.
• Kushina fell asleep at home, and Minato covered her with his robe and took responsibility for dinner.
• Genma and Kurenai ate at a roasted meat restaurant in Tanzaku Quarter, where Genma ordered the famous Lamb Eggs.
• Someone suddenly appeared before Genma, making him choke and blast Lamb Egg from his nose and mouth.

Genma and Kurenai spent a mission night eating lamb eggs and dealing with the consequences of Genma’s teasing. The next day, Minato and Kushina arrived to speak with Genma, leaving their important conversation still to come.

• Minato interrupted Genma and Kurenai’s dinner, and Genma repeatedly sneezed after choking on lamb eggs.
• Kurenai teased Genma about the lamb eggs, and he spent the night tormenting her in revenge for the interruption.
• Kurenai woke near noon, scolded Genma, and twisted his waist before he carried her out for ramen.
• Minato and Kushina appeared as Genma was about to leave with Kurenai on his back, and he persuaded her to stay there so they would not give themselves away.
• Minato and Kushina exchanged a knowing look and said they needed to ask Genma about an important matter.

Genma, Minato, and Kushina discussed training with Shadow Clones and Sage Arts, agreeing that Genma would help Kushina sense Nature Energy while Minato taught her Mount Myōboku’s techniques. Months later, Kurenai learned she was pregnant, and she and Genma prepared to share the news with their families.

• At lunch, Minato asked Genma how Kushina could train with Shadow Clones and how to avoid dying while learning Sage Arts.
• Genma explained his training methods, compared his human Sage Arts with Minato’s Mount Myōboku training, and proposed teaching Kushina to sense Nature Energy while Minato taught her Sage Arts.
• Minato agreed to the training arrangement, and Genma, Kurenai, and Kushina continued their mission after lunch.
• A month later, the group defeated the samurai challengers, Kushina advanced her Wind Style training, and she returned to Konohagakure to train further.
• About three months later, a Medical Ninja confirmed that Kurenai was pregnant, and Genma and Kurenai decided to tell their families.

Genma and Kurenai told Kurenai Yuhi that they were expecting a child, and he urged them to pray for blessings and undergo purification at the Temple of Fire. Genma set out with Kurenai Yuhi the next morning, wondering what talents their child might inherit.

• Genma and Kurenai decided to visit Kurenai Yuhi and tell him they were having a child.
• Kurenai Yuhi welcomed the news and asked Genma to pray for blessings at the Temple of Fire.
• Kurenai Yuhi explained that Genma and Kurenai should later undergo purification to cleanse the sins of their past as ninja.
• Genma and Kurenai stayed for dinner, and Genma agreed to leave with Kurenai Yuhi the next morning.
• Kurenai Yuhi mentioned that the Third Hokage's daughter-in-law was also pregnant, while Genma wondered whether his child might inherit affinities for several Chakra attributes.

Genma and Kurenai Yuhi visited the Temple of Fire, where Master Chishen performed a blessing and scheduled Genma’s purification ritual for a week later. Back in the Land of Iron, Genma pressed Snow Eagle Cang for the location of the Snow Eagle Clan in exchange for helping it cultivate.

• Genma and Kurenai Yuhi traveled to the Temple of Fire using a pass obtained from the Third Hokage.
• Master Chishen invited Genma to study Buddhism, then guided him through a brief blessing ceremony and arranged a purification ritual for a week later.
• Genma returned to Konohagakure, spent time with Kurenai, and then went to the Land of Iron.
• Genma saw that Ito Genshō could briefly maintain the eye markings, while Snow Eagle Cang watched Kana hungrily.
• Genma asked Snow Eagle Cang to reveal the Snow Eagle Clan’s location, offering to make it the next one to cultivate.

Genma pressured Snow Eagle Cang into testing whether it could learn senjutsu before revealing its clan’s location, then honored Cang’s request to view the territory from afar. As they flew away, Genma asked how the Snow Eagle Clan knew about senjutsu despite having no users of Nature Energy.

• Genma argued that Snow Eagle Cang would be the first in its clan to cultivate senjutsu and persuaded it to test his method before disclosing the clan’s location.
• Snow Eagle Cang trained with Shadow Clones, and Kana healed it after its clone turned to stone; Cang survived and confirmed it could cultivate senjutsu.
• Snow Eagle Cang agreed to guide Genma to its clan territory, asking him not to approach until it succeeded in cultivating.
• Genma flew with Snow Eagle Cang to the territory, observed the Snow Eagles from afar, and left without breaking his promise.
• Genma asked Snow Eagle Cang why its clan knew about senjutsu when he had sensed no one there who could use Nature Energy.

Genma learned that the Snow Eagles had preserved their senjutsu inheritance and arranged for Karin and Kana to help Snow Eagle Cang train. He accompanied the pregnant Kurenai to the Temple of Fire for a seven-day purification, where a mysterious monk invited him to learn cooking.

• Genma reassured Snow Eagle Cang that he had no reason to harm his clan and asked about their senjutsu inheritance.
• Snow Eagle Cang began learning senjutsu, with Karin joining Kana to help him recover from Shadow Clone training.
• Genma and Kurenai arrived at the Temple of Fire for purification and began following the monks' daily routine.
• Genma went to the temple kitchen to get more rice and sensed an unfamiliar aura.
• An elderly monk named no name tested Genma, then invited him to learn cooking.

Genma discovered that Nicholas, the Temple of Fire’s secret Sage Arts inheritor, had learned the art through cooking and agreed to teach him. As Genma kept visiting the kitchen, he uncovered Nicholas’s remarkable precision and witnessed him cooking five dishes at once.

• Genma confronted the old monk about using force, but lowered his knife after the monk warned that his anger would interfere with cleansing.
• Nicholas explained that he had accidentally mastered the Temple of Fire’s Sage Art through his love of cooking and had kept it secret because his spiritual nature did not suit the Buddhist path.
• Genma apologized, accepted Nicholas’s offer to teach him cooking, and left with enough rice to eat his fill.
• Nicholas supported Genma and Kurenai with special meals, while Genma noticed Nicholas’s exceptional precision and steady hands.
• After completing his cleansing, Genma returned to the kitchen and saw Nicholas calmly cooking five pots at once.

Genma witnessed Nicholas use a mysterious method to cook five dishes at once and asked him to teach it. Back in Konohagakure, Genma gave Rock Lee a book about Bruce Lee, whose story inspired Lee as he began reading.

• Nicholas used a method taught by Master Chishen to control five spatulas and cook in five woks at once.
• Genma asked Nicholas to teach him the cooking method, and Nicholas agreed.
• After finishing his purification at the Temple of Fire, Genma returned to Konohagakure and visited Str.
• Genma gave Rock Lee a rare copy of The Legend of Bruce Lee and told him it was about an ordinary person without Chakra.
• Lee read the book and found inspiration in Bruce Lee's perseverance and growth.

Genma urged Str to prepare Rock Lee for combat and asked about teaching him the Drunken Fist Constitution. He then revealed that he had mastered sage arts and a safer way to learn them, leaving Str shocked and offering to help him cultivate.

• Genma asked why Str had not taught Rock Lee about his Drunken Fist Constitution, and Str said Lee needed more time.
• Genma persuaded Str to prepare Lee for real combat and strengthen his Taijutsu before graduation.
• Genma told Str about the Temple of Fire and asked what he thought about Lee learning sage arts.
• Genma revealed that he had learned sage arts, displayed his Sage Eyes, and told Str that he had developed a method to learn sage arts without side effects.
• Str reacted with shock and tears as Genma offered to help him cultivate sage arts.

Genma told Str about the sage technique experiment, and Str agreed to try it. Later, Yana challenged Genma to spar and revealed her Wood Style, but Genma overwhelmed her as their fight continued.

• Genma explained the Land of Iron experiment to Str, who agreed to try sage techniques after hearing about the side effects.
• Genma traveled between Konohagakure and the Land of Iron while Snow Eagle Cang anxiously waited to master sage techniques.
• Yana arrived at Genma's home and demanded that he spar with her, then challenged him at the training ground.
• Yana used a Wood Clone and Wood Style: Wood Dragon Technique against Genma, but he dodged her attacks and charged toward her.
• Yana unleashed Divine Tree Descent, and Genma cut through the forest of vines as Yana began to panic.

Genma defeated Yana after she challenged him, then explained why her confidence in beating him had been misplaced. After learning she had challenged him because of her humiliating losses to Itachi, he freed her and reassured her that she had time to grow stronger.

• Yana hid in her Wood Style trees and tried to ensnare Genma, but he evaded her attacks and burned the divine tree with Fire Release.
• Genma caught and bound Yana after she emerged from the ground, and she protested that he had not fought her head-on.
• Genma questioned why Yana thought she could defeat him and pointed out that her victories over Konohagakure's jonin had been one-on-one.
• Yana admitted she thought she could fight two or three jonin at once, and Genma mocked her for underestimating his strength by rank and title.
• Genma realized Yana had challenged him after being humiliated by Itachi, then freed her and told her not to rush her progress as a ninja.

Genma learned of Summoning Beast Island, where researchers had created a powerful devouring creature, and decided to visit in search of scientific talent for Baoduoduo. The chapter ended with him preparing to travel there, uncertain whether anyone on the island remained alive.

• Genma advised Yana not to measure herself against others and suggested White Fang Lord as a sparring partner.
• Baoduoduo's fleet discovered Summoning Beast Island, while Tony planned to recruit merchants from Merchant Ninja Village.
• Baoduoduo opened a trade route to the Land of Snow, completing its spread across the continent and establishing a basic intelligence network.
• Genma considered how the island's researchers might advance his scientific team, while recalling that their experiments would eventually cause the island's inhabitants to perish.
• Genma prepared his equipment and set out to visit Summoning Beast Island.

Shiranui Genma landed on Summoning Beast Island and fought off several giant creatures as he searched for a wooden cabin. He found a frightened red-haired young woman inside, who asked who he was.

• Genma heard the exploration captain's report about the island's tremors and giant beasts, then went ashore alone.
• Genma entered the forest, sensed people nearby, and raced toward their location.
• A giant centipede and spider ambushed Genma, but he knocked them aside without killing them.
• Genma tested a giant beetle's Genjutsu, dispelled it, and defeated it before continuing through the forest.
• Genma reached a wooden cabin and knocked politely on the door.
• A frightened young woman with fiery crimson hair opened the door and asked Genma who he was.

Genma introduced himself to Honoka on Summoning Beast Island and revealed that he knew about the Ultimate Summoning Beast they were raising. He warned that it might kill them, prompting Honoka to go consult her family.

• Genma told Honoka he was a ninja seeking powerful Summoning Beasts and introduced himself as Shiranui Genma.
• Honoka cautiously welcomed Genma, and he reassured her that the Summoning Beasts he had knocked down were still alive.
• Genma asked Honoka about the people on the island and said he knew others were in the house and a volcano cave.
• Genma told Honoka that the Ultimate Summoning Beast might kill her and that he had come to protect her.
• Honoka said she needed to discuss Genma's warning with Mom, Auntie, and Sister, then went into the wooden house.

Genma learned about Honoka and the researchers on Summoning Beast Island as they led him to the volcano laboratory. He discovered a huge creature in the laboratory’s tank while the researchers gathered to decide how to deal with him.

• Honoka returned with three women, including her mother, and told them Genma had defeated six improved Summoning Beasts while holding back.
• Honoka persuaded her mother to lead Genma to the volcano base and warn the researchers there.
• As they walked, Honoka told Genma about her life on the island, her Uzumaki Clan heritage, and the island’s Summoning Beasts.
• The group reached a laboratory inside the volcano, where Honoka and the women spoke with a wary middle-aged researcher.
• Genma examined the laboratory and looked into a large tank, where he saw an enormous doll-like creature.

Shiranui Genma offered to support the Summoning Beast researchers in exchange for their work, while allowing them to finish cultivating the Ultimate Summoning Beast. He demonstrated his Space Ninjutsu by taking Honoka and her father to visit his organization.

• Honoka introduced Shiranui Genma to her partially bald father and the researchers, who wanted his help with their experiment.
• Genma asked the researchers to conduct research for his organization and promised them funding, materials, manpower, and other support.
• Honoka's father asked to finish the Ultimate Summoning Beast experiment first, explaining that its cultivation would take about another week, and Genma agreed.
• Genma said he could use Space Ninjutsu to travel anywhere and offered to take the researchers to his organization.
• Genma transported Honoka's father to his organization, returned to the Kunai, and then took Honoka as the researchers marveled at his ability.

Genma helped Honoka and her father, Hando, explore the Capital’s research institute, where Microscopes and genetic inheritance research impressed them and advanced the researchers’ work on Summoning Beasts. When the Ultimate Summoning Beast emerged on Summoning Beast Island, Honoka’s golden chains bound it, but its tentacles lashed out and Genma called on Kana to help restrain it.

• Genma took Honoka and Hando to the research institute, where they became fascinated by Microscopes and genetic inheritance.
• Genma brought Microscopes and books back to the researchers, strengthening their confidence in his knowledge and helping them investigate Hai Fang Sheng’s effects on cells.
• Genma traveled repeatedly between the Capital and Summoning Beast Island as the researchers prepared for the Ultimate Summoning Beast’s birth.
• Genma brought Kana to the tank, and Honoka used a scroll and hand seals to prepare as the researchers waited for the beast to emerge.
• The Ultimate Summoning Beast rose from the water, and Honoka’s golden chains wrapped around it.
• The beast roared and extended its tentacles, so Genma told Kana to bind it and created Shadow Clones to block the tentacles.

Genma helped Kana and Honoka restrain the Ultimate Summoning Beast while Honoka formed a summoning contract with it. After Hando explained why the beast needed a powerful contractor, Genma signed the contract, and the beast's gaze softened toward him.

• Genma cut apart the Ultimate Summoning Beast's tentacles, giving Kana time to bind it with golden chains.
• Honoka placed a contract seal on the Ultimate Summoning Beast, which stopped struggling but remained restrained by Kana.
• Honoka and Hando urged Genma to sign the contract, explaining that the newborn beast might see the island's researchers as food and that a contract alone could not guarantee obedience.
• Genma agreed to become the beast's contractor, bit his finger, and signed the contract scroll.
• Genma felt a faint connection with the Ultimate Summoning Beast, whose gaze gradually softened toward him.