Chapter Summaries

Mingren overwhelmed Kakuzu in a brutal close-range battle after surviving his combined elemental attacks. He broke through Kakuzu’s Earth Spear defense and continued attacking as Ōnoki failed to intervene.

• Kakuzu’s combined elemental attack left Mingren’s clothes tattered, but Mingren charged him with his greatsword and kicked him into the ground.
• Kakuzu used Earth Style: Earth Spear to harden his body and exchanged punches with Mingren, but Mingren’s greater speed overwhelmed him.
• Kakuzu’s water-amplified lightning attack wounded Mingren, who responded by battering Kakuzu into the air.
• Ōnoki prepared to use Dust Release, but Mingren forced him to evade with Dark Void Palm.
• Mingren struck Kakuzu hundreds of times with his two greatswords, shattering Kakuzu’s Earth Spear defense.

Mingren defeated Jūzō Biwa and drove Kakuzu to flee, bringing the three-village assault to a halt. He publicly denounced Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the leaders withdrew while Black Zetsu and White Zetsu assessed Mingren as a growing threat.

• Kakuzu escaped underground after Mingren broke through his defenses, confirming the failure of Iwagakure's strategy.
• Mingren challenged the gathered shinobi to send the next opponent, but Hiruzen Sarutobi judged that the divided alliance could not continue the fight.
• Mingren rebuked Hiruzen Sarutobi and accused him of enabling Konoha's betrayals, oppression of the Uchiha Clan, and other wrongdoing.
• Ōnoki proposed a Truce Agreement and led Iwagakure's forces away, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo departed to address Orochimaru's matter.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu learned that Amegakure's shinobi had captured Jūzō Biwa and concluded that Mingren had become a major threat.

Amakawa Mingren drove the allied forces of Konoha, Sunagakure, and Iwagakure from the Land of Rain and prepared to remake Amegakure. He recruited Jūzō Biwa, then branded him with the Dark Chakra Jutsu for strength and observation.

• Black Zetsu sensed that the Chakra reincarnations of Asura and Indra had entered a new cycle.
• Amakawa Mingren called Pakura back from her stalemate with Rasa, and she vowed revenge on Sunagakure’s leaders.
• Rasa withdrew his forces, and the people of Amegakure celebrated the collapse of the three-village alliance.
• Amakawa Mingren declared that he would begin reforming Amegakure and the Land of Rain.
• Amakawa Mingren ordered Yamada to untie Jūzō Biwa and offered him a choice between joining Amegakure and dying.
• Jūzō Biwa joined Amegakure, and Amakawa Mingren branded him with the Dark Chakra Jutsu.

Mingren began a brutal purge of corruption and crime in Amegakure and the Land of Rain after breaking the alliance of the Three Great Shinobi Villages. After investigating a town’s powerful trafficker, he confronted a relative of the Land of Rain’s Daimyo and accused her of trafficking people.

• Mingren ordered his subordinates to research the weapons he had seized and replicate them if possible.
• Mingren tasked Asuka with leading investigations and Jūzō Biwa with assisting her, while ordering that anyone who resisted be arrested or killed.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi investigated Orochimaru, who escaped, became a Konoha S-rank rogue ninja, and joined the Akatsuki Organization.
• Mingren reviewed intelligence and flew to a decadent town in the Land of Rain.
• Mingren forced his way into a luxurious building and confronted a wealthy relative of the Daimyo, accusing her of trafficking people.

Amakawa Mingren launched a violent purge across the Land of Rain, then sent Amegakure forces to hunt down criminals and build a prison for judging and reforming them. As the purge continued, he obtained Shennong’s prison jutsu formula to adapt for extracting negative emotions, while the country’s people began to see the purges as protection.

• Mingren killed a woman and her guards, turning her into a chakra-fueled bomb to terrorize evildoers in the Land of Rain.
• Mingren killed criminals and corrupt figures across the country, and over a thousand Amegakure ninja joined the purge.
• Mingren rejected Hozuki Castle as a prison and established a heavily sealed facility where prisoners faced punishments and forced labor.
• Mingren demanded the prison jutsu formula from Shennong and planned to modify it to extract negative emotions.
• Shennong handed over the formula and went to Hanzo’s medical facility to search for a cure, while Mingren began studying the jutsu.
• After a week, the turmoil eased, conditions improved, and the people of the Land of Rain came to know Amakawa Mingren’s name.

Mingren expanded his power by secretly absorbing the prison’s Negative Emotions, raising his Strength Value above 60, while his reforms brought the Land of Rain’s population and ninja under centralized control. As nobles and officials tried to withdraw their money and factories in protest, Mingren declared that their assets would remain in the country.

• Pakura told Jūzō Biwa that Mingren would not discard him and took him to a new job.
• Mingren improved the Negative Emotion absorption jutsu, and Guren inscribed it around the prison, quietly increasing Mingren’s Strength Value beyond 60.
• Mingren tested his physical strength by swinging an eight-ton Katana, then resolved to keep developing the Dark Chakra Jutsu.
• Mingren introduced population registration and required rogue ninja in the Land of Rain to join Amegakure or leave the country.
• Jūzō Biwa and Pakura suppressed resistance as Mingren brought the Land of Rain’s ninja under his control.
• Nobles and officials tried to withdraw their assets and relocate their factories, but Mingren declared the money and factories would stay in the Land of Rain.

Amakawa Mingren continued reshaping the Land of Rain and completed Dark Chakra Mode, while Aerial Fortress Ankbandian’s weapons reached a range of one thousand kilometers. Guren brought Mingren a report about a special mission as he worked to increase Yakushi Nonō’s Dark Chakra production.

• Amakawa Mingren exiled the remaining privileged figures and enforced reforms that made the people of the Land of Rain support his rule.
• Amakawa Mingren defended transforming criminals by extracting their negative emotions, while Shennong warned that he was trying to reshape humanity.
• Aerial Fortress Ankbandian completed testing with a strike range of one thousand kilometers, and Amakawa Mingren’s strength settled at [63.136].
• Amakawa Mingren completed Dark Chakra Mode and demonstrated a powerful Chakra punch against the Eight Trigrams Barrier.
• Amakawa Mingren removed Yakushi Nonō from her Life Support Pod to spur her Dark Chakra production, and Guren arrived with a report about a special mission.

Mingren reviewed the Land of Rain’s reforms and decided to answer a request for aid from the Land of Snow, where Kazahana Dōtō had seized power. Three years later, he set out for the Land of Snow while his allies reflected on how much time had passed and how difficult it was to understand his ambitions.

• Guren reported that crime and corruption in the Land of Rain had fallen, and Mingren said he would next challenge the unequal distribution of wealth.
• Mingren read Sandayu’s request for help after Kazahana Dōtō’s coup and resolved to visit the Land of Snow and bring it into a federation.
• Mingren increased Yakushi Nonō’s Dark Chakra production efficiency, ordered Guren to return her, and left.
• Three years later, Mingren met his allies and announced that he was traveling to the Land of Snow to test his plans for a federation.
• Mingren sped toward the Land of Snow while Pakura, Asuka, Yamada, and Jūzō Biwa discussed how he remained unhappy despite the Land of Rain’s prosperity.

Mingren flew to the Land of Snow as Kazahana Dōtō’s conspirators set a trap for Kakashi and Princess Koyuki in Fuhua City. After Kakashi was forced outside, Mingren extinguished the palace fire and pursued the attackers.

• Mingren crossed the Land of Earth and reached the Land of Snow, drawing notice from Iwagakure ninja along the way.
• Kazahana Dōtō ordered Nadare Rōga, Tsurugi Fubuki, and Fuyuguma Touu to start a fire in Fuhua City and kill Princess Koyuki.
• Kakashi arrived to rescue Koyuki, but the three Yukigakure ninja ambushed them in the burning palace.
• Kakashi’s Lightning Cutter damaged Nadare Rōga’s Chakra Armor, but Nadare counterattacked with Ice Release and forced Kakashi to escape with Koyuki.
• Mingren extinguished the palace flames, pursued the four ninja, and Nadare launched the Wolf Fang Avalanche Technique.

Amakawa Mingren reappeared to save Kakashi and Kazahana Koyuki, defeating Fuyuguma Touu with a single punch and confronting Nadare Rōga and Tsurugi Fubuki. After changing his appearance to look seventeen, Mingren asked Kakashi why Konoha had sent only him.

• Kakashi tried to escape with Kazahana Koyuki, but Nadare Rōga turned the frozen river into a giant One-Horned White Whale and sent it crashing down on them.
• Amakawa Mingren appeared and shattered the whale with one punch, leaving Kakashi stunned by the return of the man who had disappeared three years earlier.
• Fuyuguma Touu attacked Mingren, who destroyed his kunai and struck him in the abdomen with an Air Straight Punch, sending him flying.
• Mingren told Nadare Rōga and Tsurugi Fubuki to attack together, then used Dark Chakra Aura to grow into a seventeen-year-old appearance.
• Mingren asked Kakashi whether Konoha had sent only him to help the Land of Snow.

Amakawa Mingren revealed that he had come to avenge Kazahana Koyuki’s father and bring the Land of Snow into an alliance with the Land of Rain, chiefly to obtain its Chakra Armor and technology. He captured Tsurugi Fubuki and easily defeated Nadare Rōga, leaving Kakashi to witness the Land of Snow’s fate.

• Mingren criticized Konoha for sending Kakashi alone to help the Land of Snow and told Kakashi that living with his failure would be his punishment.
• Mingren offered to avenge Kazahana Koyuki’s father and reclaim the country in exchange for the Land of Snow joining the Land of Rain, and Koyuki accepted.
• Kakashi realized Mingren wanted the Land of Snow’s Chakra Armor, which could protect allied ninja from attacks and Genjutsu, along with the country’s advanced technology.
• Tsurugi Fubuki tried to fly away and summon reinforcements, but Mingren caught her, branded her with Dark Chakra, and threw her onto the snow.
• Nadare Rōga attacked Mingren with Ice Release: One-Horned White Whale, but Mingren shattered the whale with a punch and sent Nadare flying.

Amakawa Mingren defeated the Snow ninja, killed Kazahana Dōtō, and installed Princess Koyuki as the Land of Snow’s rightful ruler. He then declared his plan to make the country a vassal of the Land of Rain and eventually unite the Ninja World, while Kakashi remained conflicted about the destruction of Konoha.

• Mingren told Kakashi that ordinary ninja were tools of their leaders and argued that Konoha’s higher-ups may have helped bring about Hatake Sakumo’s death.
• Mingren flew to Fuhua City with Princess Koyuki and killed Kazahana Dōtō before the gathered Yukigakure ninja could respond.
• Mingren ordered the Snow ninja to obey Princess Koyuki, and they knelt in submission as Kakashi entered the hall.
• Sandayu thanked Mingren for saving Koyuki, and Mingren arranged for her to rest and summoned the ministers for the next morning.
• Mingren told Kakashi he would make the Land of Snow a vassal of the Land of Rain and eventually rule the Ninja World, including the Land of Fire after Konoha’s destruction.
• Sandayu returned with the ministers and servants, who wept with relief when they saw Koyuki unharmed.

Amakawa Mingren interrogated Tsurugi Fubuki, then installed Kazahana Koyuki as the Land of Snow’s new daimyo and made the country a subordinate ally of the Land of Rain. The chapter ended with Sandayu learning that the Kazahana family’s Hexagonal Crystal was merely a Geothermal Generator.

• Kazahana Koyuki woke during the night and saw Amakawa Mingren violently interrogating the bound Tsurugi Fubuki for information about Kazahana Dōtō’s plot.
• Amakawa Mingren announced Kazahana Koyuki as the Land of Snow’s rightful heir and new daimyo, while Nadare Rōga, Fuyuguma Touu, and the other Yukigakure ninja submitted.
• Amakawa Mingren declared the Land of Snow a subordinate ally of the Land of Rain and demanded access to its scientific and ninja technologies in exchange for protection.
• Amakawa Mingren secretly used a Negative Emotion Absorption Jutsu on the Yukigakure ninja and said he would spare them if they pledged loyalty to Kazahana Koyuki.
• Sandayu asked about the Hexagonal Crystal, and Amakawa Mingren explained that it was only a Geothermal Generator.

Mingren took control of Yukigakure and ordered Nadare Rōga to continue its technological research, while Hiruzen Sarutobi learned of the Land of Snow’s submission to the Land of Rain. After Kakashi warned that Konoha would soon make a truce with Kumogakure, Mingren resolved to go to Konoha.

• Mingren warned that the Geothermal Generator might never bring lasting spring to the Land of Snow and stayed to study its technology.
• Pakkun delivered Kakashi’s report to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who realized that Mingren had brought the Land of Snow under the Land of Rain’s control.
• Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Shimura Danzō told Hiruzen that Kumogakure planned to send diplomats to negotiate a truce in four days.
• Mingren examined the Chakra Armor, appointed Nadare Rōga head of Yukigakure, and instructed him to continue research into technology and ninja studies.
• Kakashi told Mingren about the coming Konoha–Kumogakure truce, and Mingren decided to visit Konoha after recalling the Hyuga clan’s coming tragedy and Kushina’s son.

Mingren returned to Amegakure with Tsurugi Fubuki and planned to disrupt the coming Kumogakure incident involving Hyuga Hiashi. In the Black Prison, he awakened Uzumaki Kushina and offered her news about Naruto in exchange for her cooperation.

• Mingren left Kazahana Koyuki and Sandayu, returned to the Aerial Fortress, and ordered Guren to put Tsurugi Fubuki in the Black Prison.
• Mingren considered how Hyuga Hiashi's death could let Konoha's leaders control the Hyuga Clan, and resolved to interfere with the plan.
• Mingren found Uzumaki Kushina suffering after years in a Life Support Pod and released her from it.
• Kushina asked about her son, Naruto Uzumaki, and Mingren told her she knew what he wanted in return for that information.

Mingren agreed to take Kushina to Konoha to see Naruto, using a Chakra Restraint Tool to prevent her from escaping. After entering the village in disguise, he brought her to Naruto’s home in the commercial district.

• Mingren showed Kushina the Chakra Restraint Tool, and she reluctantly agreed to wear it so she could see her son.
• The next morning, Mingren took Kushina from the Aerial Fortress Ankbandian toward Konoha, wearing Land of Snow Chakra Armor.
• Mingren and Kushina entered Konoha through the barrier with Kushina’s help while villagers gathered to welcome Kumogakure’s delegation.
• Mingren used Dark Chakra to dye Kushina’s red hair black, and the pair disguised themselves with cloaks and hats.
• Mingren led Kushina through the deserted streets to the commercial district and told her Naruto Uzumaki lived in a large house there.

Kushina saw Naruto from a distance for the first time, then spent the day observing his antics while Mingren kept her under the terms of their deal. Meanwhile, the Kumogakure delegation arrived in Konoha under the guise of peace talks, intending to steal the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan.

• Mingren led Kushina to Naruto's home, where she endured the Chakra Restraint Tool and watched Naruto through a window.
• Mingren told Kushina to hide in an alley and described Naruto's habits while she waited for him to leave home.
• Kushina followed the terms of her deal with Mingren, and Naruto ran out of his home after breakfast.
• Kushina watched Naruto in a nearby park, then spent the day observing him splash paint, play pranks, and tease others.
• The One-Eyed Dragon Ninja Leader arrived in Konoha with the Kumogakure delegation, whose true mission was to seize the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan.

Kushina learned that Danzo had exposed Naruto's identity as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, then continued her bargain with Mingren in exchange for chances to see Naruto again. That night, a Kumogakure ninja leader tried to kidnap Hinata, but Hiashi killed him, setting off a crisis between Konoha and Kumogakure.

• Mingren told Kushina that Danzo had secretly spread the news of Naruto's Jinchuriki identity, and Kushina said she only wanted Danzo to apologize publicly.
• Mingren promised Kushina future chances to see and acknowledge Naruto, then took her to dinner to fulfill her obligation to him.
• After the Hyuga Clan celebrated Hinata's birthday, a masked Kumogakure ninja leader abducted her from the compound.
• Hiashi pursued the kidnapper, killed him with Gentle Fist, and discovered that he was Kumogakure's ninja leader.
• Mingren watched Hiashi return with Hinata and anticipated that Hiruzen and the others would pressure the Hyuga Clan.
• Konoha's High Command learned that Kumogakure's delegation had sought the Byakugan, while the delegation demanded answers about its missing leader.

Konoha prepared for war after Kumogakure demanded Hyuga Hiashi, while Konoha’s leaders pressured the Hyuga Clan to surrender Hizashi Hyuga in his brother’s place. As Hizashi traveled toward the front lines to die, Fugaku Uchiha suspected the high command would target his clan next.

• Konoha High Command warned the village’s ninjas to prepare for war and went to negotiate with the Hyuga Clan.
• Under pressure, the Hyuga Clan agreed to surrender a corpse, and Hizashi Hyuga subdued his brother Hiashi before volunteering to die in his place.
• Hizashi left Konoha with two ANBU as the Kumogakure delegation received orders to leave the country under escort.
• Fugaku Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha discussed the standoff at the border, and Fugaku said the high command would target the Uchiha next.
• As Hizashi neared the front lines, the ANBU accompanying him apologized for handing a companion over to the enemy, but Hizashi told them they were only following orders.

Amakawa Mingren confronted Hizashi Hyuga as he prepared to die to settle Kumogakure’s dispute with Konoha, arguing that the sacrifice would accomplish nothing and doom Neji Hyuga to the same fate. He left Hizashi shaken and questioning his decision while challenging the two ANBU to stop him.

• Amakawa Mingren appeared before Hizashi Hyuga and asked him to come along, then questioned why he would die for the Main Family.
• Hizashi Hyuga said he had chosen to sacrifice himself to prevent war, while Mingren argued that Kumogakure could still demand his brother’s corpse and that his death would not change the outcome.
• Mingren warned that Neji Hyuga would grow up talented but die in someone else’s place, just as Hizashi planned to do.
• Mingren urged Hizashi to protect Neji from the Branch Family’s fate, and Hizashi closed his eyes as he struggled with the choice.
• The two ANBU accused Mingren of interfering in Konoha’s affairs, and Mingren challenged them to decide whether to attack him or kill Hizashi first.