Chapter Summaries

After Orochimaru’s defection was publicly announced, Konoha dealt with the fallout as Anko learned he had escaped and resolved to face him herself. At a Jonin Meeting, Jiraiya volunteered to pursue Orochimaru, while Yuhara observed how the departures and betrayal had weakened Konoha and affected the Third Hokage.

• Shimura Danzō reported Orochimaru’s actions to the Hokage and then publicized his defection, making Orochimaru an S-rank Rogue Ninja.
• Kakashi told Tenzo and Mitaraishi Anko that Orochimaru had escaped and warned Anko that her Cursed Seal was dangerous.
• Mitaraishi Anko said she would stay in Konoha and one day deal with Orochimaru herself; Kakashi revealed that Yuhara was one source of the Cursed Seal and described Crimson Crown’s identifying features.
• At the Jonin Meeting, Jiraiya volunteered to pursue Orochimaru alone, and the Third Hokage approved the plan.
• Yuhara watched the dispirited Third Hokage and considered how Orochimaru’s defection and Jiraiya’s departure had weakened Konoha.

Tenzo learned that Kushina could only seal Mitaraishi Anko’s Cursed Seal, while Yuhara left Konoha to pursue his plans. After failing to contact Orochimaru, Yuhara sold valuable Chakra-conducting iron at the Dark Exchange and made extra money by stopping thieves who followed him.

• Kushina told Mitaraishi Anko that Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal could not be removed, but she could seal away most of its power and harmful effects.
• Tenzo learned from Tigo that Yuhara had left Konoha to vacation, investigate Orochimaru, and capture Summoning Beasts.
• Yuhara summoned a white snake and sent Orochimaru a letter asking for his location, but he received no reply.
• Yuhara visited a Dark Exchange and sold a Chakra-conducting iron pillar for seventy million ryo.
• Yuhara flaunted his money, lured thieves into following him, and returned to the Dark Exchange with five captured men for a three-hundred-thousand-ryo public-order reward.

Kakuzu pursued Yuhara after learning he had taken seventy million ryō, but Yuhara had traveled to Rōran instead of the Land of Rain. Beneath Rōran, Yuhara found the Fourth Hokage’s seal and began a risky technique to absorb the Dragon Vein’s chakra.

• Kakuzu collected an eight-million-ryō bounty and learned that Yuhara had left toward the Land of Rain, so he set off to catch him and claim his seventy million ryō.
• Yuhara had changed course across several nations and reached Rōran, where he sensed that only about five hundred people lived in the desert settlement.
• Yuhara found a hollow cavern beneath Rōran’s tallest tower and located the Fourth Hokage’s Flying Thunder God kunai near the sealed Dragon Vein.
• Yuhara decided he could not undo the seal and prepared to destroy it, despite the risk of losing his human form.
• Yuhara used the White Snake Mimicry Technique to become a snake-like chakra creature and bit into the seal to begin absorbing its chakra.

Yuhara drained the Dragon Vein and transformed into a colossal Eight-Headed Serpent, destroying much of Loulan before returning to human form. He woke to find Sarah confronting him, discovered his immense new Chakra, and proposed rescuing the people of the ruined city.

• Sarah sensed that the Dragon Vein had been disturbed, went to its underground node, and found Yuhara draining it in the form of a white snake.
• Yuhara used the Eight Branches Technique to expand his body and extract the Dragon Vein's energy, accidentally wrecking much of Loulan as its frightened civilians fled.
• After draining the Dragon Vein, Yuhara triggered the White Dragon Sheds Scales to Reveal Technique and returned to human form, dazed and motionless.
• Sarah approached Yuhara and attacked him, but he caught her blade with his bare hand and snapped it as his Chakra surged.
• Yuhara retrieved his equipment, dressed, and questioned Sarah; she demanded to know who he was and what he had done to the Dragon Vein.
• Yuhara denied knowing about the Dragon Vein, but Sarah sensed its aura on him, so he suggested they rescue people and address the destruction first.

After destroying Rōran’s central tower and absorbing the Dragon Vein, Yuhara helped Sarah search the ruins for survivors while testing his greatly increased Chakra. He struggled to find a way to expend the energy, unaware that the massive Chakra surge would draw the attention of nearby ninjas.

• Yuhara gave Sarah a Flying Thunder God kunai and explained that he had safely ended the Dragon Vein’s danger.
• Yuhara sensed that three people were trapped and learned from Sarah that Rōran’s people lived away from the Dragon Vein because its power could not reach them there.
• Yuhara lifted the collapsed buildings with iron sand and uncovered a family of three, leaving the injured father for Sarah’s people to treat.
• Sarah’s people arrived, and she told them Yuhara was a Konoha Ninja who had defeated the snake monster.
• Yuhara tried to expend his new tailed-beast-level Chakra by lifting the ruins, but barely used any and considered changing his fighting style.

Yuhara took the Dragon Vein and offered to move Sarah and Rōran’s people to the Land of Fire in return. After killing a Sunagakure shinobi who discovered him, he escorted the group to safety and left to continue his own mission.

• Yuhara offered to help Sarah and the roughly five hundred residents of Rōran relocate to the Land of Fire after the Dragon Vein disappeared.
• A Sunagakure shinobi approached to investigate the Chakra disturbance, then fled when Yuhara recognized him as a possible witness.
• Yuhara seized and destroyed the shinobi’s puppet, killed him with iron sand, and caused Rōran’s towers to collapse again.
• Yuhara warned Sarah that Sunagakure might target the residents, prompting her to gather everyone and leave immediately.
• Yuhara escorted the group through the Land of Rivers into the Land of Fire and gave Sarah a metal plate and code phrases to contact Konoha.
• Sarah asked Yuhara to keep escorting them, but he left to pursue his mission to capture a Summoning Beast.

Sarah’s people contacted Konoha while migrating out of Loulan, and Yuhara searched the borderlands for Summoning Beasts. He forcibly contracted a Grey Eagle and a Green Snake, then named them and the Mottled Tiger Gan Wen Cui.

• Sarah’s people traveled through the Land of Fire, and Sarah used a communicator to contact Konoha and explain what had happened and what Yuhara had promised.
• Yuhara searched areas where tailed beasts had once been active and contracted a Mottled Tiger as a Summoning Beast.
• After finding little else, Yuhara sensed a Grey Eagle fighting a Green Snake in the Land of Earth.
• Yuhara used iron sand to capture the Grey Eagle and Green Snake and forcibly signed them to Summoning Contracts.
• Yuhara considered names for his three Summoning Beasts and named them Gan Wen Cui.

Nagato and Konan discussed Danzo and Hanzo’s secret meeting, Akatsuki’s intelligence, and the Three-Tails and Orochimaru. As Nagato began monitoring the Land of Rain, he sensed visitors in Amegakure, where Yuhara and Kakuzu were arriving for separate reasons.

• Konan told Nagato that Hanzo had secretly met with Danzo to discuss a joint Chunin Ninja Exam.
• Nagato dismissed the exam as meaningless, while Konan warned that Konoha was too powerful to attack directly.
• Zetsu reported that Konoha controlled the resurrected Three-Tails and that Orochimaru had defected from Konoha.
• Nagato decided to strengthen surveillance over the Land of Rain and used the Rain Tiger Justu to monitor it.
• Nagato sensed guests in Amegakure as Yuhara crossed the Land of Rain on a bird and Kakuzu searched for a seventy-million bounty.

Yuhara descended into the Land of Rain and encountered Black Zetsu and Konan while investigating the area. He struck Konan with a lightning-fast attack, but she reformed her body and prepared to fight from the air as he readied a Chakra shuriken.

• Yuhara used Grey Eagle to descend into the rainy forest, where Nagato's Chakra disrupted his senses.
• Yuhara cut down a tree and exposed Black Zetsu, who recognized him as a Konoha Ninja.
• Konan arrived and confronted Yuhara, while Black Zetsu urged her not to let him escape.
• Yuhara suddenly severed Konan at the waist with a lightning-fast attack, but she reformed her body using the Dance of the Shikigami.
• Konan kept her distance in midair as Yuhara prepared a high-density Chakra shuriken.

Yuhara attacked Konan but was interrupted by Yahiko’s Deva Path, forcing him to defend against their joint assault. The Deva Path also captured Kakuzu, who had come to the Land of Rain in search of the seventy million.

• Konan used a paper clone to intercept Yuhara’s Rasenshuriken, but the attack’s sensations left her briefly vulnerable.
• Yuhara kicked Konan and prepared to kill her, but Yahiko’s Deva Path pulled him away with Banshō Ten'in.
• Yuhara armored himself with thorns, survived the Deva Path’s Shinra Tensei, and blocked the ensuing attacks with iron sand.
• The Deva Path checked on Konan, who said her injuries were not serious.
• The Deva Path threw the unconscious Kakuzu into the mud and identified him as an intruder in the Land of Rain.

After retreating from Nagato’s Deva Path, Yuhara recognized that his vast Chakra had outgrown his ability to use it effectively. He went to the mountain where the Three-Tails was held and filled a cave with shadow clones to train his control.

• Yuhara tried to talk his way out of fighting the Deva Path, but Nagato attacked, so Yuhara dodged behind obstacles and escaped by flying away.
• Nagato identified Yuhara as a Konoha Magnet Release Ninja, while Black Zetsu recognized the unconscious Kakuzu and proposed recruiting him.
• Yuhara returned to his mount and reflected that he needed to master his excess Chakra before facing opponents like Nagato again.
• Yuhara traveled to the Three-Tails’ mountain, summoned Gan, Wen, and Cui to live there, and entered a cave.
• Yuhara used Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to fill the cave with clones and began training his Chakra control.

Kakashi went to Nameless Mountain to retrieve the Three-Tails and found Yuhara had stabilized the Dragon Vein’s power after a month of training. Yuhara agreed to return to Konoha, learned the Great Fireball Technique from Kakashi, and showed off his newly mastered Fire Release.

• Kakashi and Tenzo discussed Konoha’s recent peace, the Three-Tails’ return to Kirigakure, and Yuhara’s training near Nameless Mountain.
• Kushina gave Kakashi a mission to retrieve the Three-Tails, and he left Konoha carrying a special sealing jar.
• At the cave, Kakashi found Yuhara with a huge gray beard and learned he had made the Dragon Vein’s power his own.
• Yuhara asked Kakashi to teach him a Fire Release technique and learned the Uchiha Clan’s Great Fireball Technique.
• Yuhara teased Kakashi about using the Uchiha technique, and Kakashi reacted angrily to the jab.

Yuhara and Kakashi sealed the dormant Three-Tails and found the Loulan Remnants settling near its former location. Yuhara gave Queen Sarah forty million ryō to help build the village, then claimed he was twenty-four after she asked his age.

• Kakashi used Kushina's prepared sealing formula to place the weakened Three-Tails in the Octopus Jar, while Yuhara worried about finding a new source of Chakra for Tigo.
• Kakashi and Yuhara set off to escort the Three-Tails to Konoha and discovered that Kushina had settled the Loulan Remnants in a nearby village.
• Yuhara demonstrated his Clustered Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu and then decided to visit the village and help its residents.
• Queen Sarah thanked Yuhara for Konoha's support, and Yuhara gave her forty million ryō as construction funds.
• Sarah asked Yuhara how old he was, and he said he was twenty-four.

Yuhara broke the genjutsu controlling the Fourth Mizukage and withdrew from the Land of Water with Kakashi and Tenzo. After learning his plan had failed and his presence was exposed, Obito decided to leave the Mist Village for the Rain Village.

• Yuhara freed the Fourth Mizukage from Obito's genjutsu by striking him, then left with Kakashi and Tenzo as Suikazan Fuguki fled.
• Kisame Hoshigaki and Hozuki Mangetsu arrived and protected the injured Fourth Mizukage.
• Yuhara told Kakashi and Tenzo that the Mizukage had been controlled by genjutsu, while keeping Obito's identity secret.
• White Zetsu reported that Yuhara had thwarted Obito's plan and dispelled the genjutsu on the Fourth Mizukage.
• Obito accepted that he needed to avoid conflict with the great villages and decided to go to the Rain Village to meet his ally.

Kakashi reported the mission’s strange return journey, and Kushina gave him a scroll containing a technique Minato expected him to learn. Two days later, Anko joined the Crimson Crown, while Yuhara assigned Kakashi and Tenzo a massive tunneling project.

• Kakashi told the Third Hokage that the Fourth Mizukage had pursued them and that he had dispelled the genjutsu controlling him.
• Kakashi gave Kushina a detailed account of Yuhara using the Eight Branches Technique, and Kushina concluded that Yuhara was not a threat despite his connection to Orochimaru.
• Kushina gave Kakashi a scroll with a technique Minato had intended to teach him and insisted that he learn it.
• Kushina announced that Mitaraishi Anko had joined the Crimson Crown after other village departments had shunned her as Orochimaru’s abandoned disciple.
• Yuhara pulled Kakashi and Tenzo aside and ordered them to dig a tunnel from Konoha to Nameless Mountain for a special Chakra energy pathway.

Yuhara, Kakashi, and Tenzo secretly excavated and outfitted a deep underground tunnel for Konoha’s future infrastructure project. During a break, Yuhara hinted at a plan to make a place disappear by making it unreachable, then sent the others back to work.

• Yuhara, Kakashi, and Tenzo began digging the concealed underground tunnel, with Kakashi using Earth Style and Tenzo reinforcing the walls with Wood Style.
• Yuhara installed Chakra-transmitting conduits and added techniques and physical mazes to hide the tunnel from detection.
• Kakashi asked whether the three major institutions would operate smoothly, and Yuhara said the project would bring changes to Konoha.
• Kakashi rested with a Sage's Crystal under his tongue, then answered Yuhara’s question about making a place disappear with an explosion gesture.
• Yuhara explained that unreachable places had disappeared, said Kakashi would understand his plan later, and told him to resume digging.

Yuhara arranged for Shiranui Genma, Namiashi Raidō, and Iwashi Tatami to add a teleportation defense to Kushina’s barrier around Nameless Mountain. After returning to Konoha, he was summoned by Danzo and followed a Root Ninja into the village’s underground.

• Yuhara explained Kushina’s barrier formation and asked Shiranui Genma, Namiashi Raidō, and Iwashi Tatami to use the Flying Thunder Array Technique to keep intruders from reaching Nameless Mountain; they agreed to try.
• Yuhara left the three shinobi to work on the formation and returned to Konoha.
• Kakashi and Tenzo encountered the azure serpent while digging, and it recognized them before turning back the way it came.
• A Root Ninja told Yuhara that Danzo wished to see him, and Yuhara agreed to follow him.
• The Root Ninja led Yuhara into Konoha’s underground.

Yuhara confronted Shimura Danzō in Root Organization's underground base and refused to reveal the village's secret plans. He left after his hidden ally incapacitated Danzō's subordinates, leaving Danzō to discover that he had been surrounded.

• Yuhara met Shimura Danzō, who demanded to know what he had been planning since the Ninja World War ended.
• Yuhara said his confidential plan had been approved by the Third Hokage and challenged Danzō's authority to order him around.
• A hidden Yamanaka Clan ninja tried to use Mind Transfer Jutsu on Yuhara, but Yuhara resisted it.
• Yuhara offered to carry out an assassination if Danzō issued a formal written order, and Danzō called him insane before ordering his capture.
• Yuhara told Danzō to look behind him and left as an iron-tentacled figure revealed that it had bound Danzō's subordinates.

Yuhara and his team completed the barrier preparations at Nameless Mountain and returned to Konoha, where he recruited Jingū Maki for a secret project. The chapter ended as Jingū read the trial plan for the Information Integration Mental Body and Infinite Chakra Library.

• Yuhara finished digging the route from Penglai East Road to the Southern Heavenly Gate, then joined Shiranui Genma and the others to complete the barrier array and add a torii gate decoration at Nameless Mountain.
• The team reported their completed preparations to Kushina Uzumaki, who warned Yuhara to avoid further contact with Shimura Danzō.
• Yuhara commissioned Tsume Inuzuka to recruit as many dispatch agents as possible.
• Three days later, Yuhara approached Chunin Jingū Maki and brought her to review documents for a Hokage-authorized secret project.
• Jingū signed the confidentiality agreement and opened the trial operation plan for the Information Integration Mental Body and Infinite Chakra Library.

Yuhara’s team began testing Tigo’s Chakra library with nearly a hundred Konoha ninja, while the Third Hokage remained reluctant to provide it with ninjutsu. Jingū Maki joined the trial and made her first Chakra deposit at the library, which returned only half of what it collected.

• Yuhara planned to use Kakashi Hatake’s copied ninjutsu to start the library if the Third Hokage refused to supply techniques.
• Jingū Maki agreed to join the official trial, judging that the risks were low and the project worthwhile.
• Three days later, Tigo guided Jingū to a large building where the organization collected Chakra.
• Tigo told Jingū to refine and release Chakra as usual, explaining that the library would return half of the Chakra deposited.
• Yuhara dubbed the new enterprise the Leek Cultivation Industry and declared that it merely carried Chakra.