Chapter Summaries

Ming Jing took Hinata shopping while their companions investigated the wasp stings by visiting hospitals across Royal Capital. The hospital reports pointed the investigation toward the north of the city, where Neji’s group continued without Lee.

• Ming Jing and Hinata spent the afternoon visiting shops and enjoying milk tea and pastries while Yami followed them.
• Neji and Shino split their companions into two groups and deliberately got stung by wasps to investigate the outbreaks.
• At the First People's Hospital, a doctor treated Shino and told Kurenai that wasps were more numerous in the north of the city.
• At the Second People's Hospital, a doctor diagnosed Lee with an allergic reaction and ordered him to stay for observation.
• Might Guy left Lee at the hospital, and Neji concluded that the group should search the north of the city.

Neji's team investigated wasp sightings and found that the hives they saw were too small to explain the infestation. Kurenai inferred the wasps' main nest was underground, and Ming Jing connected the excavation to a land-reclamation project begun by Masao Kosaka before his death.

• Neji divided the investigators into three teams to survey areas with wasp sightings, while Shino warned them not to attack the wasps recklessly.
• Neji and Tenten found two hives in a persimmon grove, while Kiba and Kurenai found three hives in a rapeseed field and left without engaging them.
• The teams compared their findings, which showed only a few hives at each location, and Shino said he had heard no reports of a change to the Kamizuru Clan's secret technique.
• Kurenai connected the surveyed locations on the map and proposed that the visible hives were entrances to a much larger underground nest.
• Yami told Neji that the Land of Rivers had begun reclaiming land from the sea, and Ming Jing recalled that Masao Kosaka had proposed using mining waste for the project before he died.
• Ming Jing wondered whether the rubble had been transported using sealing scrolls.

Yami brought Yuki Haku to help Neji’s group infiltrate the Kamizuru Clan’s underground hive, where Haku froze the patrol hornets and Neji guided them through the traps. After Yami sent Gamabuta to inform Ming Jing, the group reached a massive cavern and split up to enter the tower.

• Neji’s group found hornets guarding the hive entrance and realized they could not reach it without alerting them.
• Yami introduced Yuki Haku, who froze the hornets with Ice Release and helped the group pass through the trapped underground passages with Neji’s Byakugan.
• Yami summoned Gamabuta and sent him to tell Ming Jing the hive’s location.
• Neji identified the tower’s entrances and layout, then Might Guy and Lee charged into one entrance.
• Neji and Tenten, Yami and Yuki Haku, and Shino and Kurenai split up, while Kiba hurried after Shino’s group.

Yami and Yuki Haku fought their way through a corridor of predatory plants in the Tower of the Underworld, then confronted its guardian, Tsubo Shichiintou. Yami opened the fourth gate and knocked him down, but the battle continued as he grabbed her leg and she kicked free.

• Yami and Yuki Haku entered a corridor filled with moving plants, and Yami blasted away vines while Yuki Haku froze the leaves.
• Yami opened the Gate of Life and charged through the plants’ barricades, escaping onto a platform above a pool of crocodiles.
• Yami and Yuki Haku met Tsubo Shichiintou, who guarded a concealed door and challenged them to fight.
• Yami and Yuki Haku attacked Tsubo Shichiintou, but he blocked their strikes and sent Yuki Haku crashing into a wall.
• Yami opened the Gate of Pain, launched Tsubo Shichiintou into the air, and slammed him into the floor with the Lion Combo.
• Tsubo Shichiintou grabbed Yami’s leg, but she kicked with all her strength and sent him flying away.

Yami defeated Tsubo Shichiintou with the Eight Inner Gates, then collapsed from the strain. In the main hall, Neji and Tenten encountered Anjin, whose Chakra vanished from Neji’s Byakugan as he disappeared into the darkness.

• Tsubo Shichiintou overwhelmed Yami with his strength and speed, but Yami opened the Gate of Limit and struck back with Siege Cannon and Morning Peacock.
• Yami pierced Tsubo Shichiintou’s chest with her final punch, defeated him, and collapsed after closing the Eight Gates.
• Neji and Tenten reached the main hall, where Neji detected a masked man named Anjin hiding in the shadows.
• Anjin extinguished Tenten’s torch with a Shuriken and evaded Neji’s Vacuum Palm attacks.
• Anjin vanished from Neji’s Byakugan, leaving Neji searching the darkness for him.

Kurenai, Shino, and Kiba met Rose Kamitsururyu, who guarded her client and challenged them to decide their dispute with a card game. Meanwhile, Neji and Tenten broke through Anjin’s attack and found Might Guy and Lee, but Anjin escaped upstairs.

• Rose Kamitsururyu introduced herself as a former Iwagakure Jonin and refused to let Kurenai, Shino, and Kiba reach her client because of her professional duty.
• Rose proposed three rounds of Fight the Landlord to settle the dispute, and Kurenai began shuffling the cards.
• Anjin attacked Neji and Tenten with a barrage of shuriken, forcing Tenten to defend behind a shield.
• Neji used Explosive Tags on kunai to blast through a wall, where he and Tenten found Might Guy and Lee.
• Neji spotted Anjin fleeing upstairs and led the others in pursuit.

Ming Jing learned that Yami had found the hideout and headed to Thunder Gate Villa while the Konoha teams pursued Kazuichi Kosaka’s escape carriages. Might Guy stayed behind to fight Shiratori Tsuki and Anjin as Neji, Lee, and Tenten split up to chase the carriages.

• Gama-X woke Ming Jing to report that Yami had located the hideout near Thunder Gate Villa, and Ming Jing set off after placing a barrier around Hinata’s room.
• Neji, Might Guy, Lee, and Tenten broke through a blocked passage and discovered that Kazuichi Kosaka had escaped in one of five decoy carriages.
• Might Guy stopped Anjin and Shiratori Tsuki from blocking the pursuit, then challenged Tsuki while Neji, Lee, and Tenten continued after the carriages.
• Might Guy fought Tsuki and knocked Anjin away when he tried to intercept the others.
• Neji told Lee and Tenten to avoid risking their lives for the mission, and the three split up to pursue the carriages.

Kurenai used genjutsu and the Mist Clone Technique to defeat the badly injured Anjin while Kiba and Shino tracked Neji's group. Might Guy and Yue continued their fierce battle, ending the chapter still charging at each other.

• Might Guy knocked Anjin through a wall, while Yue's strange staff technique let him strike Guy despite his dodges.
• Anjin left Yue to pursue Neji's group, but Kurenai attacked him with an explosive clone and Tree Binding Death.
• Kurenai used the Mist Clone Technique to switch places with her clone, then bound Anjin and struck him with three kunai.
• Kiba and Shino reported that Neji, Tenten, and Lee had split up to pursue three of five carriages.
• An explosion brought Kiba, Shino, and Kurenai back to the battle, where Yue revealed he had activated the Lotus Dharma but still could not defeat Might Guy.
• Might Guy shouted about youth and charged at Yue again.

Might Guy defeated Haku Mizuki in a taijutsu battle while Yami and the others regrouped. Ming Jing tracked Rose Kamitsururyu to the tower and fought through her hornet swarm, leaving her stunned as he continued inside.

• Might Guy broke through Mizuki’s Tiger Form and Dharma Protection with his Eight Gates techniques, then asked about Mizuki’s Suicho-ryu Staff Technique.
• Kurenai told Guy that Rose Kamitsururyu’s insect clone had delayed her group, and Yami and Yuki Haku arrived from the tower.
• Ming Jing stopped a carriage in northern city with a Genjutsu, noticed hornets leaving it, and continued toward the outskirts.
• Ming Jing found Rose Kamitsururyu inside the tower and explained that the carriage’s insect clone had exposed her again.
• Rose Kamitsururyu sent a swarm of hornets at Ming Jing, but his Supreme Goodness is Like Water shredded them before he walked farther inside.

Ming Jing caught Kazuichi Kosaka through a mirror and learned that he had been pursuing longevity, not wealth. Kazuichi revealed that he had made a breakthrough using resources from the alliance and vowed to continue his experiments, while Ming Jing insisted he would be punished for breaking the rules.

• Rose Kamitsururyu realized Ming Jing had trapped her with the Fox Heart Technique and lost track of him.
• Ming Jing found Kazuichi Kosaka in a mirror and pulled him through it into the hall.
• Ming Jing questioned Kazuichi, who confessed that his goal was longevity after watching his father die.
• Ming Jing revealed that he had used an altered Shibuki no Jutsu to make Kazuichi believe he had been captured.
• Kazuichi explained that the alliance had provided the resources for his longevity experiments and said he would not let Ming Jing stop him.

Ming Jing learned that Kazuichi Kosaka had escaped and imprisoned Rose Kamitsururyu and the injured Monk Soldier, while Neji and the others returned to Konoha. Yuexi returned with an alliance agreement from the Land of Wind, leaving Ming Jing to consider how to address its hardships and prepare for their next plans.

• Kazuichi Kosaka escaped from the Royal Capital after meeting Kabuto Yakushi, who vanished into an alley.
• Ming Jing told Rose Kamitsururyu that her employer had abandoned her and used Five Senses Manipulation to take her to prison for three years.
• Ming Jing reassured Neji and the others that they could pursue Kazuichi Kosaka again, and told Might Guy that the injured Monk Soldier would also be imprisoned for three years.
• Neji and the others returned to Konoha, and Yuexi came back five days later with an agreement making the Land of Wind the first of the Five Great Nations to join the alliance.
• Ming Jing discussed Gaara's studies with Yuexi, urged her to rest, and resolved to move forward with their plans one step at a time.

Ming Jing witnessed the Police Department purge dozens of officers who had been corrupted or fled, then decided to introduce a work evaluation system. The chiefs continued investigating the department, while Yuexi helped Ming Jing plan the system’s immediate implementation.

• Hizashi Hyuga reported that 53 Patrol Officers were absent, including 50 injured officers and three who had fled.
• Zuo Yang Kurama read out the names of 47 suspected officers, and their colleagues arrested them; Kiki stopped Yoshida Hoshizuki when he attacked the chiefs.
• Zuo Yang Kurama ordered nationwide warrants for Madoka Ozawa, Hirakawa Hirai, and Yasuo Nakajima, who had fled.
• Masamune Yagyu warned the officers to discipline themselves, and Hizashi Hyuga promised Ming Jing they would continue rooting out corruption and report back in three days.
• Ming Jing told Yuexi he would implement a work evaluation system directly rather than begin with a trial location.

Ming Jing entered meditation and met Bai Feixia, who took him through shifting scenes from other worlds while challenging him to question what was real. The chapter ended with Bai Feixia asking whether reality and illusion could truly be distinguished.

• Ming Jing began cultivating in his secret chamber and found himself on a bus beside an old man who introduced himself as Bai Feixia.
• Bai Feixia praised Ming Jing for reaching the Belief of All Beings stage and asked whether Ming Jing knew how to tell if his world was real.
• Bai Feixia and Ming Jing appeared in Saiki Kusuo's world, where they ate coffee jelly beside Saiki Kusuo.
• Bai Feixia and Ming Jing moved to a rooftop during the events of Avengers 3: Infinity War, where Bai Feixia offered Ming Jing pizza as Ebony Maw confronted Doctor Strange.
• Bai Feixia took Ming Jing to a library and questioned him about Yellow Millet Dream, Written on the Wall of Xilin Temple, and Zhuang Zhou's Butterfly Dream.
• Bai Feixia asked Ming Jing which was real and which was false.

Bai Feixia explained to Ming Jing how 2D, 3D, and 4D worlds relate, then left him with a library of books inside his Golden Finger. Ming Jing began studying in seclusion, while Qing Yan and Yuexi prepared to strengthen their team for coming trouble.

• Bai Feixia told Ming Jing that Naruto was a 2D world and that their abilities could make such worlds real, and he encouraged Ming Jing to learn through reading.
• Bai Feixia showed Ming Jing a library of collected works by famous figures from other worlds and said their contents were now in Ming Jing's mind.
• Ming Jing found himself inside his Golden Finger with the library, but his unlit Goose Illusion Techniques had disappeared; Bai Feixia faded away without explaining the change.
• Ming Jing decided to read the books and believed cultivation might eventually let him travel between worlds and return to the real world.
• Qing Yan returned from the Land of Rivers, and Yuexi and Qing Yan agreed to grow stronger while Ming Jing cultivated in seclusion.

After leaving seclusion, Ming Jing suggested that Yuexi develop her Ice Release through moving ice constructs, then sent Nadeshiko Kaoru to investigate a super weapon from Artisan Village. Kaoru reached the battlefield in the Land of Rivers and fought a blue-haired man wielding a transforming trident sword.

• Ming Jing left seclusion, learned that Nishinoki and Nadeshiko Kaoru had secured Nadeshiko Village, and decided to visit Yuexi later.
• Yuexi told Ming Jing she wanted to train her Ice Release, and he suggested creating mobile ice forms through Shape-Transforming Ninjutsu.
• Urgent intelligence reported that Artisan Village was bringing a super weapon to the Land of Rivers, so Ming Jing ordered Nadeshiko Kaoru to go there.
• Five days later, Nadeshiko Kaoru arrived as Shikamaru's team of Konoha rookies also reached the Land of Rivers.
• Nadeshiko Kaoru confronted a blue-haired man and struck at him, but his trident sword transformed and blocked her attack.

Nadeshiko Kaoru defeated the blue-haired swordsman and identified herself as a member of Nadeshiko Village. Back in the Land of Fire, Ming Jing uncovered signs of human trafficking by Kazuichi Kosaka, warned his allies of greater dangers ahead, and inadvertently prompted young ninja in Konoha Village to train harder.

• Nadeshiko Kaoru shattered the blue-haired man's serpent attack, disarmed him, and demanded that he surrender.
• Nadeshiko Kaoru introduced herself as Nadeshiko Kaoru of Nadeshiko Village.
• Nanakusa Kanae brought Ming Jing urgent documents, and Qing Yan reported that Konoha's reinforcements had reached the Land of Rivers.
• Masamune Yagyu and Kiki told Ming Jing that Kazuichi Kosaka was at the border of the Land of Fire and the Land of Rain, where he was conducting human trafficking; Ming Jing ordered surveillance of the Kosaka Family.
• Ming Jing refused Masamune Yagyu's request to travel to the Land of Rain and urged him to train for future threats.
• Ming Jing passed a warning to Hizashi Hyuga and Zuo Yang Kurama, and Yakumo, Xiangling, and Shikouin saw people in Konoha Village begin training intensely.

A year later, Kazuichi Kosaka tried to flee Anshui Harbor aboard a passenger ship while Sasuke and Kabuto secretly traveled with him. Masamune Yagyu and Hizashi Hyuga intercepted the ship, and Jikai Kanmaki prepared to face Masamune as the pursuit escalated.

• Kazuichi Kosaka boarded the passenger ship with Jikai Kanmaki and his guards after exchanging a coded greeting with Togo Kaname.
• Sasuke and Kabuto overheard the group, and Kabuto identified Jikai Kanmaki as one of the world's strongest samurai.
• Hizashi Hyuga confirmed that Togo Kaname worked for Orochimaru and ordered Patrol Officers to intercept the ship with Masamune Yagyu.
• Togo Kaname ordered the ship to accelerate and its crew to fire harpoons at the pursuing assault boats, but Masamune severed the harpoon lines and damaged a propeller blade.
• Jikai Kanmaki recognized Masamune Yagyu and announced that he would confront him, while Kazuichi Kosaka wished him luck.

Masamune Yagyu and Hizashi Hyuga confronted Jikai Kanmaki and Togo Kaname at sea. As Hizashi fought Togo, Masamune crossed swords with his former master, who unleashed a devastating sword-energy attack that split the patrol ship in two.

• Jikai Kanmaki blocked Masamune Yagyu’s mission and challenged him, while Hizashi Hyuga stepped forward to fight instead.
• Togo Kaname attacked Hizashi with a giant shuriken and a series of taijutsu moves, but Hizashi countered with Gentle Fist techniques and sent him into the sea.
• Jikai Kanmaki told Masamune that Ittōsai Itō was his only disciple and wounded Masamune’s right arm as Masamune defended himself with a sheathed sword.
• Masamune drew his blade in a reverse grip and exchanged strikes with Jikai, who then unleashed sword energy that split the patrol ship in two.

Jikai Kanmaki and Masamune Yagyu continued their fierce sword fight at sea while Hizashi Hyuga uncovered Togo Kaname's escape and confronted Sasuke and Kabuto. Kabuto escaped with Sasuke, and Hizashi ordered the patrol officers to board the ship and search for Kazuichi Kosaka.

• Jikai Kanmaki and Masamune Yagyu traded powerful sword techniques across the sea, with Masamune narrowly escaping several attacks and continuing the duel.
• Hizashi Hyuga discovered that Togo Kaname had escaped through a tunnel beneath the seabed and recovered the hollow, mechanism-filled giant shuriken.
• Sasuke asked Hizashi Hyuga why Akira Kurama had saved him but not the Uchiha Clan, and Hizashi replied that the Uchiha had rebelled.
• Kabuto attacked Hizashi with Water Release techniques, grabbed Sasuke, and broke through the patrol officers' encirclement.
• Hizashi told the patrol officers to board the ship and find Kazuichi Kosaka.

Hizashi Hyuga captured Kazuichi Kosaka after stopping the duel between Masamune Yagyu and Jikai Kanmaki. Days later, Sasuke returned to Otogakure and told Kabuto Yakushi that the person he wanted had been taken by the Police Department.

• Masamune Yagyu and Jikai Kanmaki fought fiercely at sea, but Masamune struggled to battle his former teacher.
• Hizashi Hyuga used Gentle Fist · 128 Palms to seal Jikai Kanmaki's acupoints and had him rescued from the sea.
• Hizashi Hyuga found Kazuichi Kosaka and four others aboard the ship, sealed their acupoints, and announced that they had finally caught Kazuichi.
• Sasuke and Kabuto returned to Otogakure, where Sasuke killed two men who demanded protection money.
• Sasuke told Kabuto Yakushi that the person he wanted had been taken by the Police Department.