Chapter Summaries

Momoka Senju offered to teach Jueming and Sayuri the Senju Clan’s inheritance, but warned them that their bloodline made training dangerous. Jueming abandoned the lessons before her willpower test began, leaving Momoka stunned and angry.

• Momoka Senju described the Senju Clan’s techniques and said disciples would have to pass trials to receive her inheritance.
• Jueming asked about Sealing Techniques and Barrier Jutsu, but Momoka explained that those arts mainly came from the Uzumaki Clan.
• The Great Elder warned Jueming to behave, and Momoka brought Jueming and Sayuri into an Illusion Technique world to begin training.
• Momoka said the Senju bloodline made every path dangerous and prepared to test Jueming and Sayuri’s willpower.
• Jueming gave up immediately rather than risk mutation, leaving Momoka and Sayuri speechless.

Momoka Senju forced Jueming and Sayuri into an illusion that stripped away their senses, intending to test Jueming’s will and correct his attitude. Jueming used his resistance abilities to endure the illusion, leaving Momoka stunned after he remained calm through ten days inside it.

• Momoka Senju refused to let Jueming leave and cast an illusion that plunged him and Sayuri into darkness.
• Jueming recognized the illusion from his entrance exam and lay prone to activate his stamina gain.
• Momoka explained that the illusion imitated Tsukuyomi and made one outside hour feel like a month, then sentenced Jueming to endure it.
• Momoka offered to make Jueming her disciple if he passed, hoping he could become a future for the Senju Clan.
• Jueming combined the defenses of his prone posture, handstand, and Like a Dream to resist the illusion.
• After ten days in the illusion, Jueming remained calm and prone, leaving Momoka astonished by his willpower.

Momoka Senju tested Senju Jueming and Sayuri by trapping them in A Void, where Jueming endured the full thirty days and Sayuri lasted twenty-nine. After Jueming passed the second trial, Momoka sent him into a 365-day illusion as the third trial, while he calmly planned to endure it and get revenge on her later.

• Momoka Senju asked Sayuri if she wanted to give up, but Sayuri chose to follow Jueming's example after learning he remained motionless in A Void.
• Momoka watched Jueming endure all thirty days and concluded that his iron will qualified him to lead the Senju Clan if he could correct his personality and pass the final test.
• Sayuri broke free after twenty-nine days, and Momoka announced that Jueming had lasted the full thirty days.
• Jueming regained his senses and learned from Momoka that he had passed the second trial and would face a 365-day illusion as the third trial.
• Momoka explained that the trial would teach him how catastrophe could strike when victory seemed certain, then sent him back into A Void.
• Jueming calculated that the trial would take twelve more hours in reality, stayed calm, and vowed to become Momoka's disciple before making her repay him for the ordeal.

Senju Jueming endured Momoka Senju's illusion trial and was accepted as her disciple, beginning his Senju training with a Water Style technique. He returned to reality with increased Genjutsu Resistance and learned that Momoka would teach him through Wood Clones, leaving him wondering whether her Wood Release Cells could restore the Senju Clan's former glory.

• Senju Sayuri left Jueming to face Momoka Senju's illusion trial, believing his willpower surpassed hers but doubting his pure-blooded lineage could revive the Senju Clan.
• After ten more illusion days, Momoka declared Jueming had passed and accepted him as her disciple.
• Momoka showed Jueming the Senju Clan's library, explained why he should avoid C-rank techniques, and assigned him the D-rank Water Style: Water Bullet Technique.
• Momoka expelled Jueming from the illusion before he could begin training, and he returned to the Great Elder with his mental connection to Mito Uzumaki restored and Genjutsu Resistance increased by 20.
• The Great Elder explained that Momoka's immobile original body would teach Jueming through Wood Clones, and Jueming wondered whether suppressing her Wood Release Cells could restore Hashirama Senju's power.

Momoka Senju took Jueming as her disciple and warned that training and powerful techniques could trigger the Wood Release Factor’s irreversible Mutation. Meanwhile, Danzo planned to use Senju Sayuri to prove mixed-blood Senju could lead the clan’s reform, while secretly intending to turn dangerous pure-blood Senju into test subjects.

• Momoka Senju told Jueming that Hashirama’s strength, not Wood Release alone, had made him exceptional, and stressed that Jueming must focus on his own growth.
• The Great Elder entrusted Jueming to Momoka Senju, whose clone merged with another clone before she explained that Yin Release could suppress Mutation caused by the Wood Release Factor.
• Jueming checked his system and found later skills that could help him resist Mutation as he grew stronger.
• Senju Sayuri reported the forbidden-area events to Shimura Danzō, who told her to prove mixed-blood Senju were as capable as pure-blood Senju in the Chunin Exams six months later.
• After Sayuri left, Shimura Danzō resolved to advance the Senju Clan’s reform and went underground, where Senju Takeshi was being dissected as a test subject.

Jueming convinced Rin Nohara to bring other female classmates to his home for study guidance, then sent her away with a scroll for the Four Legs Technique. Momoka Senju warned him about exposing the Senju compound’s secrets, but Jueming remained confident in his talent and his plan to help medical ninjas run from danger.

• Rin Nohara asked Jueming to guide her studies, and he agreed on the condition that she bring other female classmates along.
• Jueming returned to his residence by crawling, impressing Rin Nohara with his claim that every posture could be used for cultivation.
• Momoka Senju recognized Rin Nohara’s medical ambitions and advised her to study Yang Release and Medical Ninjutsu.
• Jueming gave Rin Nohara a Four Legs Technique scroll, and she left eager to train.
• Momoka Senju warned Jueming not to bring outsiders into the Senju compound, while he defended the technique as a way for medical ninjas to escape danger.

Senju Momoka trained Senju Jueming in the Water Bullet Technique, then accompanied him to accept his first D-rank mission. At the Mission Issuance Office, Hiruzen Sarutobi revealed to Minato Namikaze that Momoka was Jueming’s Jonin Instructor and began explaining secrets of the Senju Clan.

• Senju Momoka ordered Senju Jueming to practice the Water Bullet Technique, and he learned to cast it quickly.
• Senju Momoka told Jueming they would take a D-rank mission after he rested.
• Tekka Uchiha spotted Jueming and vowed to defeat him once he mastered the Four Legs Technique.
• Senju Momoka and Jueming accepted a D-rank mission at the Mission Issuance Office, where Hiruzen Sarutobi greeted Momoka respectfully.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Minato Namikaze that the little girl was Senju Jueming’s Jonin Instructor and began sharing Senju Clan secrets.

Jueming completed a zoo mission with Momoka Senju, then returned home and considered pursuing higher-ranked missions and becoming stronger. When Rin Nohara brought him food, he offered to train her and gained attributes by striking her during practice.

• Jueming used an illusion to stop a rampaging tiger and water bullets to bring down fleeing birds, completing the zoo mission without injuring the animals.
• Momoka Senju collected the mission reward for Jueming, told him to rest, and left using the Body Flicker Technique.
• At home, Jueming considered the Chunin Exams, C-Rank missions, and the conflict between Mito Uzumaki and Momoka Senju.
• Rin Nohara brought Jueming a homemade lunchbox after noticing his instant noodle wrappers, and he accepted it.
• Jueming pointed out Rin's weaknesses in Taijutsu and Ninjutsu and began training her, earning attribute increases as he struck her.

Jueming asked to take C-Rank missions so he could leave Konoha and train, but Momoka Senju and Mito Uzumaki refused because he was too young. When Momoka immobilized him, Jueming unexpectedly escaped by scrambling away on all fours, leaving her stunned as she chased after him.

• Rin Nohara left Jueming’s home happy with her improved taijutsu, and Jueming told her to bring other girls from class.
• Momoka Senju taught Jueming how to climb walls and walk on water, and he mastered the basics before beginning D-Rank missions.
• Over the next week, Jueming completed enough D-Rank missions to qualify to apply for the Chunin Exams in half a year.
• Jueming asked Momoka Senju to let him take C-Rank missions and leave Konoha, but Momoka Senju and Mito Uzumaki warned him that it was too dangerous.
• When Jueming tried to run, Momoka Senju used the Immobilization Technique, but he broke free and crawled away at high speed as she chased him.

Jueming escaped Momoka Senju’s restraints and raced through the streets, trying to reach the outside world and join a C-Rank mission. Momoka pursued him, while Tekka Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake joined the chase; she finally blocked Jueming and ordered him to return, and he attacked her knee.

• Jueming broke free and fled toward the outskirts, while Momoka Senju pursued him using the Body Flicker Technique.
• Jueming used his prone movement and chakra adhesion to evade Momoka through an alley and a ventilation duct, but she tracked his route with Chakra Perception Mode.
• Tekka Uchiha spotted the chase outside Ichiraku Ramen and followed, intent on challenging Jueming.
• Kakashi Hatake suggested to Minato Namikaze that they invite Jueming to join them on a C-Rank mission, and they joined the pursuit.
• Momoka Senju accelerated ahead and blocked Jueming with a Wood Clone, ordering him to come back; Jueming drove a punch toward her knee.

Jueming fought his master, Momoka Senju, and used Grass Release clones and a Water Bullet Technique to soak her. As he threatened her with Thousand Years of Death, his defiance earned him a system enhancement that strengthened his scumbag techniques.

• Momoka Senju overwhelmed Jueming with a series of Konoha-style taijutsu kicks, and he used Grass Substitution to escape.
• Jueming created eighteen Grass Clones and had them attack Momoka Senju with Water Bullet Technique, drenching her.
• Momoka Senju realized the clones had soaked her clothes and blushed while Minato Namikaze looked away.
• Jueming threatened to use Thousand Years of Death, and the system rewarded his defiance with Grass Scumbag Energy that slightly strengthened his scumbag techniques.

Momoka Senju tested Jueming and refused to approve C-rank missions until Minato Namikaze offered to take him onto his team. She accepted, and Jueming prepared to leave Konoha as the Great Elder hurried to arrange supplies.

• Momoka Senju used Earth Splitting Palm to destroy Jueming's clones, and Jueming pointed out that she had exceeded their agreed limits and lost.
• Minato Namikaze proposed that Jueming join his team, while Tekka Uchiha also asked to join and Kakashi Hatake challenged Jueming to team up.
• Momoka Senju agreed to Minato's proposal despite worrying about the dangers awaiting young Senju on the battlefield.
• At the Senju Clan Forbidden Ground, Jueming told the Great Elder that he wanted to become stronger and address the clan's bloodline problem.
• The Great Elder went to arrange supplies for Jueming, leaving him alone with Momoka Senju in the underground cave.

Momoka Senju gave Jueming an S-Rank Water Release technique sealed in his body before resting, worsening her Mutation. Jueming left determined to grow strong enough to cure her, while the Great Elder prepared to help with his C-Rank mission.

• Momoka Senju told Jueming to conceal his identity when he went out, and Jueming asked her for a weapon or treasure to protect himself.
• Momoka Senju sealed Water Release: Water Severing Wave inside Jueming, then fell asleep as her Mutation spread further.
• Jueming promised to become strong enough to cure Momoka Senju and began taking the Senju Clan's future seriously.
• Mito Uzumaki comforted Jueming, and the Great Elder offered to help with the C-Rank mission using his Sealing Techniques and Barriers.
• The Great Elder approached Jueming with a basket of ninja tools while privately worrying that Jueming might have schizophrenia.

Minato Namikaze led Kakashi, Tekka Uchiha, and Senju Jueming on a C-Rank patrol mission to the Ruins of the Land of Whirlpools. Jueming trained his leaf-throwing technique throughout the journey, and the team camped for the night as his training approached a breakthrough.

• Kakashi left home eager to challenge Senju Jueming, while Hatake Sakumo trusted Minato Namikaze to lead the team.
• Minato Namikaze assigned the team their roles and explained that they were headed to the Ruins of the Land of Whirlpools to patrol and scout the western coast.
• Jueming ran with the others and trained Life Grass by throwing leaves, impressing Minato Namikaze with his technique.
• Jueming threw leaves throughout the day, while Kakashi and Tekka Uchiha watched his tireless training.
• At camp, Jueming reflected that Life Grass had reached a bottleneck and anticipated a breakthrough; Kakashi and Tekka Uchiha then treated dinner as another training challenge.

During a camp dinner, Kakashi and Tekka Uchiha challenged Senju Jueming to a spar, and Kakashi tested Jueming’s remarkable defense with Lightning Release techniques. Kakashi acknowledged Jueming as the toughest and strongest peer he had ever met.

• Kakashi and Tekka Uchiha competed over the camp meal, then joined forces to challenge Senju Jueming.
• Jueming lay prone and invited them to attack, while Minato Namikaze watched to investigate his defense.
• Kakashi struck Jueming with the D-rank Lightning Strike Technique, but Jueming remained unharmed.
• Kakashi used the C-rank Lightning Release: Ground Running, which slightly strengthened Jueming’s epidermis without injuring him.
• Minato Namikaze suspected Jueming had inherited the First Hokage’s Sage Body, and Kakashi acknowledged Jueming as the strongest peer he had met.

Kakashi used a lightning-enhanced kunai in a serious attack against Jueming, but Jueming defeated him with two palm strikes. After Kakashi demanded to know why he kept losing, Jueming advised him to abandon his pride, while privately viewing him as a useful source of growth.

• Kakashi revealed his Chakra Flow technique and warned Jueming that his next attack was dangerous.
• Kakashi charged Jueming with his lightning-enhanced kunai, but Jueming slapped the weapon aside and sent it into a tree.
• Jueming struck Kakashi across the face, sending him tumbling and leaving him shocked by his defeat.
• Tekka Uchiha acknowledged that Jueming was stronger, and Minato Namikaze attributed the victory to Jueming's superior physical fitness.
• Jueming realized Kakashi's Lightning Release had improved his defense and decided Kakashi remained useful to him.
• Kakashi asked why he could not defeat Jueming, and Jueming advised him to cast aside his pride and do whatever it took to win.

Jueming argued that abandoning pride was essential to becoming strong, and his words changed how Kakashi and Tekka viewed their rivalry. The squad reached the ruins of Uzushio Hidden Village, where they encountered a teenage Konoha ninja wearing the Senju Clan Crest.

• Jueming told Kakashi that pride could hold back strength, and Kakashi and Tekka took his words to heart.
• Minato Namikaze led the group across the Land of Fire's eastern coast and over the sea, setting traps along the border before they continued.
• The squad arrived at the ruins of the Land of Whirlpools, stirring Mito Uzumaki's grief over the vanished Uzushio Hidden Village and her clan.
• A storm forced Minato Namikaze and the three Genin to take shelter among the ruins of Uzushio Hidden Village.
• Minato Namikaze sensed someone nearby, and a teenage Konoha ninja wearing the Senju Clan Crest emerged and greeted him.

Aoki Senju and Minato Namikaze encountered Suikazan Fuguki and three Kirigakure Genin while sheltering from the rain at the ruins of the Land of Whirlpools. As both sides prepared for a possible fight, Mito Uzumaki recognized the enemies who had helped destroy her homeland.

• Aoki Senju introduced himself to Jueming and talked with Minato Namikaze as the group took shelter from the rain.
• Suikazan Fuguki arrived with Mei Terumī, Kaguya Bone, and another Kirigakure Genin, and Minato Namikaze recognized him as a wielder of Samehada and one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
• Kaguya Bone noticed the Senju and Uchiha crests and called for Suikazan Fuguki to let him attack the Konoha Genin.
• Aoki Senju drew his weapon, Minato Namikaze signaled the group to prepare for a fight or flee, and Mito Uzumaki reacted with anger at the enemies who had destroyed the Land of Whirlpools.

Suikazan Fuguki unleashed a massive Water Style attack that split the battlefield, leaving the Konoha team facing separate fights. Jueming tried to team up with Tekka Uchiha, but Tekka charged Mangetsu Hōzuki alone while Kaguya Bone pursued Jueming.

• Suikazan Fuguki used Great Exploding Water Wave to flood the battlefield and separate the fighters.
• Tekka Uchiha used his four-limbed running technique to escape the wave, and Jueming ran alongside him while they argued about the technique.
• Mei Terumī confronted Kakashi, while Suikazan Fuguki fought Aoki Senju.
• Kaguya Bone sent Mangetsu Hōzuki after Tekka Uchiha and pursued Jueming himself.
• Mito Uzumaki advised Jueming to join Tekka, but Tekka refused and engaged Mangetsu Hōzuki alone.
• Jueming faced Kaguya Bone, whose Shikotsumyaku and speed made him a dangerous opponent.

Jueming fought Kaguya Bone and broke through his Grass Release training, learning two new techniques. The battle continued as Kaguya Bone endured Jueming’s barrage and demanded to know his name.

• Jueming traded attacks with Kaguya Bone, who used the Kaguya Clan’s Tsubaki Dance to block his grass blades and close the distance.
• Jueming’s proficiency in Grass Release: Life Grass increased, and he learned Flying Leaf Dagger and Parasitic Seed.
• Jueming fired twenty grass blades at Kaguya Bone, who blocked the strikes to his face and endured the rest with cartilage beneath his skin.
• Mito Uzumaki explained Kaguya Bone’s defenses and identified Mangetsu Hōzuki’s Water Transformation Technique as the reason Tekka Uchiha was struggling.
• Kaguya Bone healed his wounds and demanded that Jueming tell him his name.