Chapter Summaries

Qi Shuang organized the Agriculture Department’s collected farming knowledge and explained his plan to develop chakra-using Agriculture Ninjas. He assigned the old farmers to introduce children to agriculture at school, leaving them to prepare for their new role.

• Qi Shuang told the old farmers that the newly established Agriculture Department would initially pay lower wages, with possible increases if its research produced results.
• Mei Terumi and the Hidden Mist higher-ups replaced and refined the village’s old systems over several weeks, restoring order after the war.
• The Agriculture Department administrators compiled the registered farmers’ experience into thirty-two illustrated books, and Qi Shuang praised their work.
• Qi Shuang explained that Agriculture Ninjas would use chakra to research farming and improve agricultural techniques.
• Qi Shuang gathered the department members and assigned the old farmers to visit schools and spark children’s interest in agriculture by telling stories.

Qi Shuang explained to Kirigakure’s farmers how the Agriculture Department could improve crop yields, identifying seeds as a factor they had overlooked. He proposed using crossbreeding and selection to develop better seeds, leaving the farmers to consider his method.

• Qi Shuang told the old farmers that their first task was to teach agriculture classes, then asked what affected crop yields.
• A white-haired old man named weather, soil, and the planter’s care as the main factors, and Qi Shuang added seed quality.
• Qi Shuang said weather and terrain could not be changed, while farmers would need to improve cultivation methods through shared effort.
• Qi Shuang announced that seeds could be improved and explained how repeated crossbreeding and selection could stabilize desired traits.
• Qi Shuang connected the process to Hybrid Rice and said he could use it to improve Kirigakure’s crops.

Qi Shuang explained how hybridization and repeated selection could improve crops, then proposed using Agriculture Ninjas and chakra to overcome the long wait between generations. He left the farmers considering how chakra could speed up seed development.

• Qi Shuang explained hybridization to the farmers, using cross-pollination and animal breeding as examples.
• Qi Shuang described combining desirable traits in different rice varieties, and an old farmer warned that hybrid offspring were unpredictable.
• Qi Shuang used the farmers’ practice of saving seeds from the best pumpkins to explain selecting desirable offspring over many generations.
• The farmers and Agriculture Department administrators praised Qi Shuang’s knowledge, but an old man pointed out that breeding improved crops would take a long time.
• Qi Shuang said he planned to cultivate Agriculture Ninjas so they could use chakra to make up for the time required to grow successive generations.

Qi Shuang instructed the Agriculture Department to collect rice varieties and develop improved hybrids, then explained the basics of pollination to the farmers. The farmers left with a clearer idea of how to breed rice and manage pumpkin flowers for better harvests.

• Qi Shuang ordered the farmers to collect rice seeds from across the country and selectively crossbreed promising varieties.
• Qi Shuang told the farmers that the Engineering Department had set aside experimental fields and warned them to isolate rice plots and hand-pollinate flowers.
• When the farmers questioned whether rice could flower and asked what pistils and stamens were, Qi Shuang brought in a pumpkin flower to demonstrate.
• Qi Shuang explained that pollination allowed flowers to bear fruit, and the farmers realized it could explain why some of their pumpkin flowers produced no pumpkins.
• Qi Shuang advised the farmers to pollinate only some pumpkin flowers on each vine and remove the extras so the remaining pumpkins could grow well.

Qi Shuang taught the farmers how pollination caused empty rice husks and instructed them to prepare rice seeds for hybridization experiments. He then asked Kirigakure’s accident-prone Research and Development Department to build a device that could imprison criminals and extract and release their chakra.

• Qi Shuang explained that poor pollination caused empty rice husks and told the farmers to collect and cultivate different rice seeds for isolated observation.
• The farmers left to make preparations, and Qi Shuang went to the Research and Development Department to arrange a crucial step for hybridization breeding.
• An explosion at the department blasted several White Coats from the building, and Qi Shuang encountered the soot-covered staff and their bespectacled chief.
• Qi Shuang ordered the chief to manufacture a device that could imprison criminals and extract and output their chakra.
• The chief said the device was feasible and asked why Qi Shuang needed one when he already had Samehada.

Qi Shuang commissioned Kirigakure’s Research and Development Department to build a sealed device that could extract and transmit a dangerous person’s chakra for his experiments. Frustrated by the department’s focus on weapons instead of civilian needs, he left and sent a letter to Orochimaru, reluctant to owe him a favor.

• Qi Shuang told the Research and Development Department head to build a sturdy, fully sealed chakra extraction device that could use a living person as its supply source.
• Qi Shuang specified that the device should output chakra in its original form, regulate the amount released, and transmit it over a long distance; the department head agreed to make it within a month.
• The Research and Development Department head described its Chakra Bomb research, and Qi Shuang criticized the department’s lack of interest in research that would improve daily life.
• Qi Shuang left the department, returned home, and summoned a black Summoning Snake to deliver a letter to Orochimaru.

Qi Shuang and Mei Terumi discovered that seawater flowing through Kirigakure’s canal was damaging the island’s soil and contaminating its freshwater, putting the village’s future at risk. Mei proposed purifying the seawater with a jutsu barrier, and Qi Shuang said the plan might work.

• Assistant Mai reported that vegetation beside the canal was withering, and Mei Terumi and Qi Shuang read the warning.
• Qi Shuang realized seawater erosion was contaminating Kirigakure’s underground freshwater and causing villagers’ illnesses.
• Mei Terumi proposed blocking the canal, but Qi Shuang warned that abandoning it would devastate displaced residents, workers, and merchants.
• Mei suggested purifying the seawater with a jutsu barrier, then doubted it could handle the canal’s immense flow and chakra demands.
• Qi Shuang said the purification plan was feasible, leaving Mei Terumi astonished.

Qi Shuang proposed building dams to control Kirigakure’s canal and desalinate seawater, then suggested using the Six-Tails’ chakra to power the process. Mei Terumi approved his plan to assign research into hydropower and converting electricity into chakra, leaving Qi Shuang to arrange the project while keeping the Six-Tails’ role secret.

• Qi Shuang drew a plan for upstream and downstream dams to regulate the canal, and Mei Terumi raised concerns about the canal drying out, flooding, and the chakra needed for desalination.
• Qi Shuang proposed using the Six-Tails, sealed beneath the fountain plaza, as the temporary chakra source, and Mei Terumi worried that this would risk Kirigakure’s trump card.
• Qi Shuang argued that using the Six-Tails would be practical and insisted that knowledge of the plan be kept from other officials because Akatsuki was watching Kirigakure.
• Qi Shuang proposed installing hydropower equipment on the dams and having the Research and Development Department study converting electricity into chakra so the Six-Tails could eventually return to the village.
• Mei Terumi ordered Qi Shuang to assign the task to the Engineering Department and Research and Development Department, and he agreed.

Qi Shuang prepared to build dams and convert electricity while waiting for Orochimaru’s response. At their canal meeting, Orochimaru’s subordinate delivered the White Zetsu Qi Shuang had requested, giving him the resource he needed to pursue hybridization breeding.

• Qi Shuang assigned dam construction to the Engineering Department and electricity conversion to the Research and Development Department, whose members reluctantly accepted the work.
• A Summoning Snake delivered Orochimaru’s message, and Qi Shuang inferred that their meeting near Kirigakure would be with a nearby spy rather than Orochimaru himself.
• While waiting on the canal, Qi Shuang explained to an old fisherman that dams would restrict boat passage to set times but would not close the canal.
• Orochimaru’s subordinate arrived by covered boat, and Qi Shuang recognized him as the person sent to meet him.
• Qi Shuang found White Zetsu inside a glass tank and saw it as the valuable resource needed for his hybridization plans.

Qi Shuang sought a Wood Release user to accelerate agricultural breeding and decided White Zetsu was his best option. Orochimaru supplied him with a disabled White Zetsu in exchange for a future favor, leaving Qi Shuang with the specimen and a debt to repay.

• Qi Shuang considered how Wood Release could rapidly grow plants and identified Yamato, Shimura Danzō, White Zetsu, and Obito Uchiha as its known users.
• Qi Shuang chose White Zetsu as his target but concluded it would be too difficult and dangerous to locate one himself.
• Qi Shuang asked the fisherman what Orochimaru wanted in exchange for the White Zetsu, and the fisherman said Orochimaru would claim compensation later.
• The fisherman explained that Orochimaru had disabled the White Zetsu's thinking and telepathy, and Qi Shuang accepted it while promising to remember Orochimaru's favor.
• Qi Shuang warned the fisherman never to return to Kirigakure and said he would recognize his chakra signature.

Qi Shuang brought a White Zetsu back to Kirigakure and ordered the Anbu to keep the Agriculture Department’s work secret. By morning, the department’s members were sealed against discussing its affairs with outsiders, while their relatives and friends had their related memories erased.

• Qi Shuang froze the glass tank concealing the White Zetsu and carried it away, while the disguised fisherman abandoned his boat and disappeared into the forest.
• Qi Shuang decided to protect the Agriculture Department’s hybridization-breeding research so other villages could not catch up with Kirigakure’s agricultural progress.
• Qi Shuang ordered the Anbu commander to seal the department’s members and erase related memories from their family members and friends.
• The Anbu checked for leaks, set the seals, and erased memories overnight, completing the mission by sunrise.
• Agriculture Department members discovered they could no longer discuss the department with anyone outside it.

Qi Shuang demonstrated a Research and Development Department device that used White Zetsu’s chakra to rapidly ripen rice, showing the Agriculture Department’s farmers a way to speed up hybridization experiments. The farmers tasted and examined the rice, confirming that it resembled grain from the western region.

• The Engineering Department completed the dam’s design and began construction, while the Ninja Academy reopened with Medical Discipline and Agriculture Discipline classes.
• The Research and Development Department delivered the device Qi Shuang had requested and focused on seawater purification and power conversion.
• Qi Shuang gathered the Agriculture Department and used the device to ripen a rice seedling in less than a minute.
• The veteran farmers examined and tasted the mature rice, identifying its flavor as similar to rice from the west.

Qi Shuang explained the limits of the catalyst and warned the Agriculture Department’s farmers to keep hybridization breeding secret. He began demonstrating controlled catalysis, leaving the group ready to continue studying the rice seedling.

• Qi Shuang told the farmers that the catalyst could speed up hybridization experiments but could not reveal how new rice strains would fare through ordinary growing conditions.
• Qi Shuang explained that the catalyst relied on a scarce, limited chakra source and could not be mass-produced, then warned that relying on it would erode the villagers’ farming skills.
• Qi Shuang revealed that the Anbu had erased outsiders’ memories and placed seals on the farmers to protect the Agriculture Department’s secret techniques, and threatened to execute anyone who leaked information.
• Qi Shuang reduced the catalyst’s chakra output and grew a rice seedling through several months of development before stopping the process at its pale-green panicle stage.

Qi Shuang used an enlarged projection to teach the old farmers about rice flower structure and pollination. After they understood how wind and rain could reduce yields, he introduced artificial pollination as the first step in hybrid rice breeding.

• Qi Shuang had an administrator find a machine to enlarge and project a rice grain for the farmers.
• Qi Shuang explained that the immature grain was a rice flower and that successful pollination allowed it to mature into harvested rice.
• Qi Shuang cut open a grain and used a projected image and an ice pointer to identify the flower’s parts and describe how pollen reached the pistil.
• The farmers realized that strong winds could scatter pollen and that cold, rainy weather could hinder its release, causing poor harvests.
• Qi Shuang told the farmers that hybridization breeding began with collecting chosen anthers and using them to pollinate pistils on target rice plants.

Qi Shuang instructed the old farmers in Kirigakure on artificial pollination and hybrid rice breeding. He left the practical experiments to them, having explained how to cross local rice with other varieties and select later generations.

• The old farmers said their failing eyesight made it difficult to collect anthers and pollinate rice by hand, so Qi Shuang promised to provide suitable tools.
• Qi Shuang divided the farmers into small groups and told them to use the best local Kirigakure rice as the Mother Strain and other varieties as Father Strains.
• Qi Shuang explained how to remove stamens from the Mother Strain, spread pollen from the Father Strain, mark the Mother plants, and repeat pollination over several days.
• A bearded old farmer suggested transplanting Father Strains around the Mother Strains and using fans to blow pollen onto their ears, and Qi Shuang approved the idea.
• Qi Shuang explained that the farmers should select the best plants from first-generation hybrids and either repeatedly select later generations or continue crossbreeding before selecting.

Qi Shuang oversaw Kirigakure’s first hybrid rice test product and reflected on the village’s recovery, while spies began investigating the Agriculture Department. The chapter ended when four Agricultural Technicians failed to report for work without explanation.

• Qi Shuang approved the farmers’ plan to pursue both rice-breeding approaches and launched the Agriculture Department’s first task.
• A month later, a manager told Qi Shuang that the first-generation hybrid rice had been created, and Qi urged the technicians to prepare it for the next planting season.
• Qi Shuang questioned Kisame Hoshigaki about Kirigakure’s recovery and said Kisame’s final judgment would come later.
• Spies learned that the Agriculture Department was heavily protected and regretted overlooking its importance.
• A manager informed Qi Shuang that four Agricultural Technicians had failed to show up without requesting leave.

Qi Shuang learned that spies had killed three Agricultural Technicians and driven a fourth insane while trying to uncover Kirigakure’s agricultural secrets. After ordering an investigation and compensation for the victims’ families, he turned to studying Water Transformation Jutsu as he planned to treat Mei’s injuries with Yang Release.

• Qi Shuang ordered a search for four missing Agricultural Technicians and instructed the Anbu to find them alive or dead.
• A Kirigakure Anbu reported that three technicians had died and the survivor had gone insane after spies tampered with the seals in their brains.
• Qi Shuang ordered the Anbu to hunt down the spies and told the administrator to compensate the dead technicians’ families.
• Qi Shuang decided to increase security around the Catalyst because spies might target it.
• Qi Shuang took out Suigetsu’s handwritten copy of Water Transformation Jutsu and planned to use Yang Release to treat Mei’s injuries.

Qi Shuang continued studying Yang Release to find a way to heal Ming’s damaged meridians while the Agriculture Department completed a new rice variety. He named it Yuan Rice and prepared to introduce it to Kirigakure’s villagers through the department’s own plantings.

• Qi Shuang analyzed the Yang Release hidden in the Hozuki Clan’s Water Transformation Jutsu and recorded his findings, though he knew mastering the power would take much longer.
• An Agriculture Department administrator brought Qi Shuang the stabilized new rice seeds, announcing that they were ready for planting that season.
• Qi Shuang gathered the Agricultural Technicians and celebrated the completion of the department’s first breeding task as they chanted about living alongside the rice seeds.
• Qi Shuang told the technicians to plant Yuan Rice at home first so villagers could see its advantages, while spies worried that the department’s cultivation methods remained secret.
• At the farmers’ request, Qi Shuang named the new variety Yuan Rice.

Qi Shuang and Mei Terumi arranged to use the Six-Tails to power Kirigakure’s seawater purification barrier, while Qi Shuang revealed a new rice variety that could greatly increase harvests. That night, he went to the village fountain square and approached the imprisoned Kisame Hoshigaki.

• Mei Terumi told Qi Shuang that the seawater purification technique was ready and asked him to place the Six-Tails at the barrier’s energy nexus that night.
• Mei Terumi gave Qi Shuang documents showing the barrier design and the sealing technique for the bronze cauldron holding the Six-Tails.
• Qi Shuang showed Mei Terumi Yuan Rice and said it could raise yields by seventy or eighty percent initially, with the potential to double them after further optimization.
• Qi Shuang studied the Six-Tails seal and barrier design, then went to the fountain square at midnight and ordered hidden Kirigakure ninja to keep watch.
• Kisame Hoshigaki woke as Qi Shuang approached his place of confinement and asked why he had come.

Qi Shuang incapacitated Kisame Hoshigaki and used the mist to retrieve the frozen Six-Tails and Black Zetsu from beneath Kirigakure. He sealed Black Zetsu back underground and carried the bronze cauldron toward the dam, where his clone drew the guards' attention.

• Qi Shuang knocked Kisame unconscious, then covered the fountain square and nearby buildings with Hidden Mist.
• Qi Shuang found the Cold Chain beneath the fountain and used it to bring the frozen bronze cauldron, Six-Tails, and Black Zetsu to the surface.
• Qi Shuang taunted Black Zetsu about his plan to save Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, then returned him to the underground waterway inside unbreakable ice.
• Qi Shuang used Floating Technique to carry the bronze cauldron through the night sky toward the dam upstream of the canal.
• Qi Shuang sent an Ice Release clone down to the dam, and a Kirigakure guard immediately spotted it.