Chapter Summaries

Su Xiao defeated a Female Fire Mage with a single devastating slash, then fought a Female Summoner bare-handed to learn how her beasts fought. After two consecutive victories, his Second Order ranking rose to 45,001st, and he continued seeking stronger opponents.

• Su Xiao broke through the Female Fire Mage’s Flame Shelter, and she surrendered after his slash severed her arm and part of her body.
• Su Xiao’s first victory raised his ranking from 49,506th to 49,307th, and he chose to continue matching.
• Su Xiao faced a Female Summoner, she called forth dozens of beasts, and he put away the Dragon Slayer Flash to fight her bare-handed.
• Su Xiao overwhelmed the Female Summoner and accepted her surrender after she pleaded for him to stop.
• Su Xiao’s second consecutive victory raised his ranking to 45,001st.

After winning his thirty-third Arena battle, Su Xiao learned that God Emperor's team and Brigade were at war over the Demon Hunter Set. He paid Xia for future intelligence and bought a broken weapon that might offer a dangerous chance to grow stronger.

• Su Xiao won his thirty-third consecutive Arena battle and rose to 9,600th place in the Second Order rankings.
• Su Xiao and Bubu Wang ate at Xia's Restaurant, where Xia told him that God Emperor Adventurer Team and Brigade had gone to war after Gulu killed God Emperor's sister, Xila.
• Xia explained that more than a dozen major Adventurer Teams were pursuing the Demon Hunter Set, whose ring was held by God Emperor Adventurer Team.
• Su Xiao paid Xia 100 Paradise Coins and asked her to alert him to similar news in the future.
• After resting, Su Xiao passed a stall in the Trading Plaza and spent 50,000 Paradise Coins on a broken consumable weapon that could help him grow stronger, but carried danger.

Su Xiao agreed to repay Wei Dong and the Cleaners for their past help by hunting three foreign Second Order contractors. After tracking their scent to a villa district, Su Xiao prepared to act under cover of night.

• Su Xiao used his remaining resources in the Trading Plaza to make Intermediate Alchemy Bombs and Superior Alchemy Secret Medicine before returning to the real world.
• Wei Dong asked Su Xiao to deal with three foreign contractors who had killed Cleaners, and Su Xiao agreed after reviewing photos of the battlefield.
• Su Xiao learned that the three outsiders had violated their agreement with the Cleaners and assaulted a hotel attendant before fighting them.
• Su Xiao collected the Cleaners' clues and gave a scrap of the outsiders' clothing to Bubu Wang, who tracked their scent.
• Su Xiao followed Bubu Wang to a villa district on the outskirts of the city at one in the morning, carrying Tang Hong.

Su Xiao raided a villa to confront three Contractors who had been causing trouble and fought them despite being unable to use active abilities or equipment in the real world. He severed Rahal’s arms and then charged at the remaining men, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Su Xiao coordinated with Wei Dong and the Cleaner to evacuate civilians and shut down surveillance around the villa district.
• Bach, Rahal, and Old Black argued over their earlier conflict with the Cleaner before Old Black sensed someone approaching.
• Su Xiao burst into the villa and deflected a shot, then forced Rahal to approach him as a test of strength.
• Su Xiao cut through Rahal’s makeshift shield and severed both his arms, while a girl hiding nearby screamed.
• Old Black fired at Su Xiao as Bach charged with a combat knife, but Su Xiao advanced and dragged Rahal back with a wire as pale-blue Blade Glow filled Rahal’s vision.

Su Xiao killed A-San, the black man, and Bach after they attacked him at the villa. He found the villa owner's daughter, Li Murui, hiding in a wardrobe and reported that there was a witness, leaving her bound on a bed.

• Su Xiao cut A-San in half with Blade Glow and crushed his head, then killed the black man as Bach fled.
• Su Xiao caught up with Bach, overcame his equipment-enhanced strength, and killed him after a grenade failed to stop him.
• Su Xiao heard a noise in the bedroom and found Li Murui hiding in a wardrobe, eager to become his disciple.
• Su Xiao bound and gagged Li Murui, then told someone through his earpiece that there was a witness and considered silencing her.

Su Xiao resolved the kidnapping incident with Fang Lao and left the Cleaners behind. Days later, Reincarnation Paradise summoned him to prepare for a new Derivative World, where he hoped to make a major advance in strength.

• Su Xiao freed Li Murui and arranged for her family to come to the villa after learning her identity made silencing her too risky.
• Fang Lao arrived with Li Murui's parents, spoke with Su Xiao about their past encounter, and agreed that the events at the villa would remain secret.
• Su Xiao left the villa, and Fang Lao warned the others not to spread what had happened.
• Several days later, Su Xiao relaxed on a beach while Bubu Wang caught a fish and he caught nothing.
• Reincarnation Paradise teleported Su Xiao to his Exclusive Room and announced that he would enter a new Derivative World in one hour.

Su Xiao used a damaged Beheading Greatsword to enter the Naruto World, hoping to strengthen Blue Steel Shadow by absorbing a Tailed Beast’s Chakra. He arrived in a dungeon in the Hidden Mist Village, where Reincarnation Paradise assigned him a choice-based main quest and a mission to eliminate a powerful violator.

• Su Xiao used the World Key item to replace the scheduled Claymore world with the Naruto World.
• Su Xiao considered how Blue Steel Shadow might burn Chakra and how Devour Core could absorb a Tailed Beast’s energy to raise its power.
• Su Xiao and Bubu Wang arrived in a dark prison cell and found a recently deceased body nearby.
• A hostile voice from the neighboring cell called out to Su Xiao, who did not answer.
• Reincarnation Paradise identified Su Xiao’s location as the Hidden Mist Village and assigned him a choice-based main quest and a hunt for Violator No. 10001.

Su Xiao found himself imprisoned in the Hidden Mist Village during the Blood Mist era, where he learned that Reincarnation Paradise had assigned him the identity of an assassin who had failed to kill the Fourth Mizukage. His neighboring prisoner revealed he was Hozuki Zangetsu, who had tried to assassinate Mei Terumi before she became Mizukage, and Su Xiao questioned why the dungeon could hold someone from the Hozuki Clan.

• Su Xiao reviewed his faction-choice quest and the hunt mission, then recognized that he was in the Hidden Mist Village during its brutal Blood Mist era.
• Su Xiao spoke with his talkative neighbor, who said he had tried to assassinate Mei Terumi and would have won if Chojuro had not intervened.
• The neighbor recognized Su Xiao as the assassin who had tried to kill the Fourth Mizukage, and Su Xiao realized Reincarnation Paradise had given him that identity.
• Su Xiao considered how Blue Steel Shadow could disrupt chakra and let him threaten even powerful ninja in close combat.
• The neighbor identified himself as Hozuki Zangetsu, and Su Xiao wondered why the dungeon could contain a member of the Hozuki Clan.

Su Xiao used Hozuki Zangetsu’s execution to learn that the Fourth Mizukage was dead and Mei Terumi was preparing to take power. He escaped his cell by killing the other prisoners, then faced Ao as Mei Terumi arrived to discuss a deal.

• Hozuki Zangetsu told Su Xiao to inform Hozuki Suigetsu that he was dead and that revenge was unnecessary, then the Mist ninja escorted him away to be executed.
• Su Xiao deduced that the Fourth Mizukage might be dead and weighed the risks of escaping the increasingly chaotic Mist Ninja Village.
• Su Xiao created spider-shaped bombs and detonated them, killing the prisoners around him and drawing the Mist ninja to the dungeon.
• Ao arrived, confirmed that the Fourth Mizukage was dead, and approached Su Xiao, the only surviving prisoner.
• Su Xiao proposed a deal, and Mei Terumi answered from the dungeon entrance that she was interested.

Mei Terumi visited Su Xiao in the Hidden Mist Village dungeon and discussed his assassination of the Fourth Mizukage, but their apparent negotiation ended without an agreement. Su Xiao realized Mei Terumi had arranged for him to escape, and he left the unlocked dungeon with Bubu Wang.

• Mei Terumi entered the dungeon with Ao and introduced herself to Su Xiao, who gave his name as Byakuya.
• Mei Terumi asked why Su Xiao had assassinated the Fourth Mizukage, and he said he had been hired but did not know by whom.
• Su Xiao offered to kill someone for Mei Terumi, but she said she needed loyal subordinates rather than an assassin and left with Ao.
• Ao reassigned the guards who had been watching Su Xiao and ordered more men and sensory-type ninja to take their place.
• That night, Su Xiao cut through his cell bars and walked out with Bubu Wang, finding the dungeon entrance unlocked and Mei Terumi's men pretending not to see him.

Su Xiao negotiated with Mei Terumi to perform three missions in exchange for safe passage out of the Hidden Mist Village. Though he accepted, he suspected Mei Terumi planned to kill him once he had served his purpose, and she ordered Ao to watch him.

• Su Xiao followed Chojuro to Mei Terumi's office, where she offered to spare him from prosecution for his attempted assassination of the Fourth Mizukage if he killed several members of the warmongering faction.
• Su Xiao rejected Mei Terumi's offer and asked for payment, but she said the village could not provide money, secret techniques, or advanced ninjutsu.
• Mei Terumi offered to let Su Xiao leave the village safely after three tasks, and Su Xiao agreed while secretly planning to escape before completing them.
• Mei Terumi restricted Su Xiao to a residence near the prison, allowing him outside only at night for missions.
• After Su Xiao left, Mei Terumi told Ao to keep him under surveillance.

Su Xiao used a nighttime assassination order as cover to plant Alchemy Bombs throughout the Mist Ninja Village while evading Ao’s surveillance. When Mei Terumi realized the danger and attacked him, Su Xiao detonated the bombs, setting off widespread destruction and fire across the village.

• Su Xiao told Bubu Wang that they would assassinate a target that night, then left his house under Ao’s watch.
• Su Xiao approached several target locations and repeatedly changed direction, leading Ao to suspect he was scouting the village.
• Mei Terumi joined Ao, realized Su Xiao’s discarded fruit pits might conceal something, and rushed to stop him.
• Su Xiao revealed hundreds of tiny Spiders and asked whether Mei Terumi had dealt with what was inside the fruit pits.
• Mei Terumi attacked Su Xiao with Lava Release: Melting Apparition Jutsu, but he detonated the Alchemy Bombs planted along his route.
• The explosions blasted away the lava and destroyed or set fire to one-tenth of the Mist Ninja Village’s houses.

Su Xiao escaped the Mist Ninja Village on Bubu Wang while Mei Terumi used the attack to unite the village and ordered Ao to pursue him. As the Mist Ninja closed in, Su Xiao shot their leading Jonin and continued fleeing.

• Mei Terumi extinguished the village fire, sent the Mist Ninja after Su Xiao, and ordered Ao to eliminate him.
• Su Xiao and Bubu Wang reached the village outskirts, but Ao led a force of ten Jonin and more than thirty Chunin in pursuit.
• A pursuing Jonin used a Water Style technique to make the ground slippery, but Bubu Wang drifted across it without falling.
• Su Xiao turned to face the pursuers, secured himself to Bubu Wang with Boundary Severing Thread, and aimed the Spider Empress at the leading Jonin.
• Su Xiao shot Tanigawa Yuichi through the chest, killing him and earning 2.1% World Source, then continued escaping without collecting the dropped Treasure Chest.

Su Xiao killed Ao and escaped Kirigakure, then turned back to prepare a long-range counterattack. As Mei Terumi reorganized the village’s defenses, an unseen sniper struck near Keisuke Elder.

• Su Xiao shot Ao repeatedly, crippled his leg, and killed him with a headshot, earning World Source.
• The pursuing Mist ninjas called off their chase and requested help from the Assassination Corps, while Su Xiao continued shooting before escaping with Bubu Wang.
• After treating his injuries, Su Xiao decided to circle back toward Kirigakure and exploit the Spider Empress’s long range to counterattack.
• Mei Terumi arranged the village’s recovery and handed security to Keisuke Elder, putting internal conflicts aside.
• A sensory-type ninja tackled Keisuke Elder as a sniper round blew up the ground nearby, prompting the Mist ninjas to prepare for an enemy attack.

Su Xiao retrieved two Treasure Chests and tried to escape Water Country while the Mist Nin pursued him. He found a ship bound for Fire Country, but an Assassination Corps ninja confronted him on its deck.

• Su Xiao fired three shots at Mei Terumi, but she dodged the last one, and Bubu Wang retrieved two Treasure Chests.
• Mei Terumi ordered Ao buried with his Byakugan and told the Anbu to hunt Su Xiao and warn the other great nations about him.
• Su Xiao learned that traveling by fishing boat to Fire Country would take at least five days, so he sought a large ship instead.
• Su Xiao disguised himself as a porter and boarded a ship preparing to leave Misty Rain Town for Fire Country.
• An Assassination Corps ninja appeared on the ship and said Mei Terumi had ordered him to take Su Xiao's head, and Su Xiao prepared to fight.

Su Xiao escaped the ship and lured the pursuing Kirigakure ANBU into a fog-covered trap. He used Boundary Severing Threads to hem in the enemy squad, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• Su Xiao took Nao hostage with an Alchemy Bomb, then jumped from the ship to escape while the Anbu pursued him.
• Nao refused to let the ship sail, fearing the bomb would kill her, while Bubu Wang remained hidden in a crate as a backup contingency.
• The Anbu tracked Su Xiao through the pier district, but Su Xiao struck a Water Clone and the real Anbu used the Hidden Mist Technique.
• Three Kirigakure ANBU attacked Su Xiao with Water Dragon Bullet Technique and Swamp of the Underworld, apparently making him disappear and dropping his sword.
• Su Xiao revealed he had laid Boundary Severing Threads around the area and used their vibrations to locate the ANBU as they tried to cut their way out.

Su Xiao escaped the Kirigakure Anbu ambush, killed two trackers, and sailed toward the Fire Country with Nao. He did not know Kirigakure had framed him as the Fourth Mizukage’s assassin, while Nao learned that Su Xiao had planted a bomb inside her and agreed to take him to Konoha.

• Su Xiao killed two Kirigakure Anbu trackers and drove the last one away from the dock.
• Su Xiao boarded Nao’s ship, and they sailed away from Kirigakure toward the Fire Country.
• Kirigakure informed the other great countries that Su Xiao had assassinated the Fourth Mizukage and used that story to explain the Mizukage’s death.
• Nao told Su Xiao she was bound for Konoha to perform at a festival, and Su Xiao promised to remove the bomb in her abdomen after they reached the Fire Country.

Aboard a storm-tossed ship, Su Xiao opened two Treasure Chests and began experimenting with a way to strengthen Ring Break. His attempt to wrap Blue Steel Shadow energy around the technique backfired, leaving him gravely wounded by his own attack.

• Su Xiao opened a Blue Treasure Chest and obtained 5,000 Paradise Coins and a Chakra Cultivation Method (Beginner).
• Su Xiao opened a Purple Treasure Chest and received only 1,000 Paradise Coins, an outcome he regarded as an empty chest.
• Su Xiao considered how to improve Ring Break’s cutting power by combining its Blade Glow with Blue Steel Shadow energy.
• After fusion failed, Su Xiao tried wrapping Blue Steel Shadow energy around the Blade Glow, causing it to form spikes that pierced him.
• Su Xiao collapsed on the cabin floor, bleeding from his wounds.

After nearly dying while testing a new sword technique, Su Xiao developed Shadow Thorn and reached the Fire Country, where he planned to join a faction. He opened the Derivative World Communication Platform and discovered that several powerful adventurer teams were preparing to fight over the Demon Hunting Ring near Konoha.

• Su Xiao woke from his self-inflicted wound, recovered, and developed Shadow Thorn by forming Blue Steel Shadow spikes along Dragon Slayer Flash.
• Su Xiao named Shadow Thorn, considered its uses and limitations, and went to sleep after cleaning up the blood.
• On the fourth day in the Naruto World, Su Xiao arrived by ship at the Fire Country and set out to find a faction to join.
• Su Xiao opened the Derivative World Communication Platform and saw God Emperor and Stan arrange a fight near Konoha over the Demon Hunting Ring, while other adventurers reacted.

Su Xiao learned about the contractors hunting for the Demon Hunting Set, then tried and failed to join Iron Country after traveling there. As he considered joining Sound Shinobi Village, Itachi and another figure appeared before him.

• Su Xiao learned that God Emperor, Blood Gate, and Man Tian were competing for the Demon Hunting Set, which Gulu had taken and was hiding with.
• Su Xiao chose Iron Country as the safest faction to join and traveled there with Bubu Wang.
• Gulu escaped Huang Fen after he searched the burned forest, then treated her injuries and disappeared again.
• Mifune refused Su Xiao's request to join Iron Country because of his notorious reputation as an assassin and terrorist.
• Su Xiao sensed someone nearby on the snowy plain, and Itachi and another figure emerged from an illusion.