Chapter Summaries

Yutian intervened when Smoker cornered Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates in Loguetown. After stopping Smoker from striking Luffy, Yutian caught the Marine colonel’s smoke attack with one hand, leaving everyone stunned.

• After Yutian defeated the Buggy Pirates, Smoker and the Marines arrived and captured Buggy and his crew.
• Tashigi confronted Zoro over his identity and the Wado Ichimonji, and the two crossed swords while Zoro told the others to go ahead.
• Smoker blocked Luffy and the others, sent Sanji flying, and pinned Luffy beneath him.
• As Smoker thrust his Seastone Jitte toward Luffy, Yutian appeared and severed it with a flash of lightning.
• Smoker released Luffy and attacked Yutian with White Snake, but Yutian caught the smoke arm with one hand.

Leiyin rescued the Straw Hat Pirates from Smoker and a storm, then revealed his identity as the Yonko Rebel Admiral. After Nami recognized him, Leiyin said he had come to take Luffy’s head for his 30 million Beli bounty.

• Yutian easily defeated Smoker and boarded the Going Merry with Luffy and the others.
• The crew entered a violent storm near the Grand Line, and Yutian sent the ship safely out of it with a wave of air pressure.
• Yutian transformed from a fat uncle into a young man, and his sword changed into a supreme-grade blade.
• Nami recognized Yutian as the Yonko Rebel Admiral Leiyin and told the crew he had defeated Fleet Admiral Akainu and earned a 2.65 billion Beli bounty.
• Leiyin said he had followed the Straw Hat Pirates from near Rogue Town and had come to take Luffy’s head for his 30 million Beli bounty.

Leiyin tested the Straw Hat Crew, easily defeating them before giving Luffy a box containing rubbings of four Poneglyphs. The story ended with Leiyin becoming the Second Pirate King and disappearing, while Luffy later became the Third Pirate King.

• Sanji, Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, and Nami attacked Leiyin, but he effortlessly deflected or withstood every attack.
• Leiyin knocked the five Straw Hat Crew members to the ground, and Luffy declared that he would surpass him and become the Pirate King.
• Leiyin revealed that he had only been testing them, then gave Luffy a box and vanished.
• Luffy opened the box despite his crew's warnings and found rubbings of the four Poneglyphs Leiyin had taken from Totto Land.
• Half a year later, Leiyin found Laugh Tale and became the Second Pirate King before disappearing; three years after that, Luffy reached Laugh Tale and became the Third Pirate King.

Leiyin woke inside a coffin in the Naruto World, inhabiting the body of an eleven-year-old Konoha student who had died by suicide after his parents were killed. After breaking out, he returned to Buddha and confirmed that his abilities remained intact, though his age, rank details, and money had changed.

• Leiyin regained memories of the boy whose body he occupied and realized he had arrived in the Naruto World.
• As mourners prepared to bury him, Leiyin smashed open the coffin and startled the people carrying it.
• Leiyin returned to Sacred Buddha Ridge and asked Buddha why he had been placed in an eleven-year-old's body.
• Buddha told Leiyin that his abilities had not diminished, and Leiyin checked his system status.
• Leiyin noted that his age, ninja-rank classification, and money had changed, with his two billion Beli converted into twenty thousand ryo.

Buddha Tanuki sent Leiyin to the Naruto world after erasing his memories of Hancock, Baby-5, and his children. At Konoha Ninja Academy, Leiyin faced the other students’ fear and slept through Iruka’s lesson as the class began reviewing the Clone Technique.

• Leiyin confronted Buddha Tanuki about causing his crossing to Laugh Tale, and Buddha sent him to make his way in the new world.
• Tanuki Sword Sage noted that Leiyin no longer remembered his family, and Buddha explained that he had erased those memories so Leiyin could focus on growing stronger.
• Leiyin arrived at Konoha Ninja Academy, where students whispered about his supposed return from the dead and stared at him as he entered.
• Iruka began reviewing the Clone Technique, but most students ignored the lesson while Leiyin fell asleep at his desk.
• Iruka angrily ordered the class to demonstrate the technique, and Sakura Haruno, Hinata Hyuga, and Sasuke Uchiha each took their turns.

Leiyin passed Iruka’s clone test without revealing his full strength, then returned home and considered his power and the dangers of the Naruto world. After learning that Zabuza Momochi had killed his body’s parents, Leiyin resolved to avenge them.

• Leiyin created a perfect clone during Iruka’s test, surprising his classmates.
• Neji Hyuga created five clones, while Naruto Uzumaki failed and drew laughter from the class.
• Leiyin returned to his tidy home and judged that only Six Paths-level opponents could threaten him for now.
• Leiyin discovered that his system no longer let him use money to draw ninjutsu, though his existing techniques could continue to evolve.
• Leiyin recalled that Zabuza Momochi had killed his parents and silently vowed to avenge them.

Leiyin trained in secret on Konoha’s rear mountain and noticed Rock Lee working tirelessly under Might Guy’s watch. After Leiyin secretly drove away the classmates who bullied Lee, Kakashi and Guy discussed the incident, with Guy suspecting Lee had not caused the strange blast.

• Leiyin went to the rear mountain to refine his Wood Release Sage Mode and heard Rock Lee training nearby.
• Leiyin spotted Might Guy secretly watching Lee and left to continue his own training.
• At the Ninja Academy, Lee’s classmates mocked him, and Leiyin secretly released a Chakra shockwave that knocked them down.
• Kakashi asked Guy about the shockwave that had sent Lee’s classmates flying.
• Guy told Kakashi he knew Lee from seeing him train and believed the strange power had not come from Lee.

After a day at the Academy, Naruto was attacked by two drunken Chunins who mocked and beat him. Leiyin suddenly appeared and drove them off, leaving Naruto shocked that his timid classmate could defeat two Chunins.

• Guy told Kakashi he wanted to take a hardworking student as his pupil, and Kakashi and Guy left together to compete again.
• Naruto finished ramen at Ichiraku and walked home alone as two drunken Chunins approached him.
• The Chunins insulted Naruto, and he attacked them, but they beat him and threatened him with a kunai.
• Leiyin struck both Chunins and sent them fleeing, surprising Naruto, who knew Leiyin as a timid and weak classmate.

Leiyin encouraged Naruto to train for the upcoming graduation exam, then faced Tenten in his own match after the exams began. The chapter left Leiyin standing still as Tenten prepared to attack, while the spectators doubted him and Naruto defended his strength.

• Leiyin thanked Naruto for asking about his training and encouraged him to work harder for the graduation exam.
• The graduation exam began with one-on-one matches followed by a Clone Technique test.
• Neji repeatedly defeated Rock Lee and prepared to use the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms before the referee stopped the match and declared Neji the winner.
• Naruto lost his match against a student with above-average grades.
• Leiyin's match against Tenten began, and he stayed still as she took out a scroll while the spectators questioned his ability.

Leiyin defeated Tenten in the graduation exam and later helped Naruto learn the Clone Technique after Naruto failed his test. Naruto passed a few days later and became a Genin, while Mizuki remained alive because the scroll theft never happened.

• Leiyin dodged Tenten's attacks, then stopped his punch near her face and used Conqueror's Haki to make her submit.
• Tenten conceded and left the stage, and Leiyin advanced to the Clone Technique test alongside the other students.
• Neji Hyuga made five clones, Sasuke Uchiha made three, Leiyin made one, and Hinata Hyuga created a complete clone.
• Naruto Uzumaki failed the Clone Technique test, then shocked the students and Iruka with his Sexy Jutsu.
• Leiyin taught Naruto the Clone Technique and told him about Shadow Clone, which Naruto learned a few days later.
• Naruto demonstrated the Clone Technique to Iruka, passed the exam, and became a Genin; Mizuki did not steal the scroll or die.

Leiyin joined Team Sixteen with Er Hei and Meng Xiaomeng, under the leadership of Chunin Mizuki. Mizuki warned them that graduation did not guarantee Genin status and began their evaluation with a dangerous challenge, leaving them facing a rotten bridge over a deep ravine.

• Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno remained on Kakashi's Team Seven, while Leiyin was assigned to Team Sixteen with Er Hei and Meng Xiaomeng.
• Mizuki introduced himself as Team Sixteen's leader and told the students that only one in three graduates became a Genin after evaluation.
• Mizuki said he would decide whether the team passed and threatened to fail them if they objected to his strict evaluation.
• Leiyin asked for time to prepare, but Mizuki insisted that ninja had to be ready for danger at any time.
• Mizuki began the evaluation by pointing out a narrow, rotting wooden bridge over a ravine and telling the team to cross it.

Leiyin helped Meng Xiaomeng and Er Hei cross Mizuki’s dangerous bridge test, using an Earth Release technique to save Meng Xiaomeng when the bridge broke. Mizuki accepted that they had crossed but announced another round of testing.

• Leiyin crossed the bridge first and instructed Meng Xiaomeng and Er Hei to focus chakra on their feet.
• Mizuki pressured the frightened Meng Xiaomeng to cross, and she stepped onto the swaying bridge while Leiyin encouraged her.
• The wooden bridge broke beneath Meng Xiaomeng, but Leiyin used Earth Release—Earth Flow Bridge Jutsu to catch her on a new earthen bridge.
• Leiyin guided Meng Xiaomeng to safety, and Er Hei crossed the earthen bridge after him.
• Leiyin pointed out that Mizuki had only required them to cross, but Mizuki said they would continue to another test.

Leiyin confronted Mizuki after he forced the three graduates into a brutal test, then knocked the Chunin down with one punch. Mizuki struggled to rise as Leiyin warned Meng Xiaomeng and Er Hei to stay out of it.

• Mizuki revealed that passing the first test did not guarantee advancement and demanded that the three graduates fight to seize a white kunai.
• Leiyin called Mizuki a bastard and accused him of going too far, while Meng Xiaomeng and Er Hei reacted with shock.
• Mizuki charged at Leiyin and began forming hand seals, but Leiyin interrupted him with a punch that sent him sprawling.
• Leiyin told Meng Xiaomeng and Er Hei that his fight with Mizuki had nothing to do with them.
• Mizuki tried to get back up but collapsed again after Leiyin's blow.

Hiruzen investigated Mizuki’s abuse of his students, cleared Leiyin, Er Hei, and Meng Xiaomeng, and made them Genin. He assigned Yamato as their new team leader, and the three left the Hokage’s Office together, reaffirming their loyalty to one another.

• Leiyin took responsibility for beating Mizuki and told Hiruzen that Mizuki’s dangerous tests had been abusive, while Er Hei and Meng Xiaomeng offered to share the punishment.
• Hiruzen revealed that the Anbu had confirmed Mizuki’s misconduct and that Mizuki had been sent to the interrogation unit.
• Hiruzen apologized for choosing Mizuki as their teacher, officially made Leiyin, Er Hei, and Meng Xiaomeng Genin, and assigned Yamato to lead them.
• Yamato told the three to meet him at the bridge east of Konoha the next morning.
• Leiyin asked why Er Hei and Meng Xiaomeng had offered to take responsibility with him, and they said they were a team.

Yamato introduced himself to his new team and led Er Hei, Meng Xiaomeng, and Leiyin on their first mission, a search for a missing kitten. After completing it, the team asked Hiruzen Sarutobi for a more exciting assignment, but Iruka reminded them that new Genin had to gain experience through simple missions.

• Yamato appeared behind Er Hei, Meng Xiaomeng, and Leiyin, then praised Leiyin for stopping Mizuki and asked the three Genin to introduce themselves.
• Yamato welcomed the three as comrades and led them into the forest to track down a missing black cat.
• Er Hei and Meng Xiaomeng caught the black kitten, and the team returned it to its owner in the Hokage's Office.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi offered Yamato's team more basic D-rank tasks, but Er Hei interrupted to ask for a different mission.
• Iruka called the three beginners and explained that they needed to build experience through simple assignments.

The Third Hokage assigned Yamato’s team a B-rank mission to capture or kill Inoue, a rogue warrior from the Land of Iron. When the team reached a border village, they found its inhabitants brutally murdered.

• Er Hei complained about the team’s easy missions, and the Third Hokage explained the mission ranks before agreeing to give them a B-rank assignment.
• The Third Hokage briefed Yamato’s team on Inoue’s escape and gave them his photograph and mission details.
• Yamato led Leiyin, Er Hei, and Meng Xiaomeng toward the eastern border of the Land of Fire.
• Leiyin sensed something ahead and guided the team to a small village.
• Yamato’s team found the village covered with the bodies of its murdered residents, and Meng Xiaomeng covered her eyes in fright.

Leiyin, Yamato, and their team investigated a village massacre and discovered that the Sound Four had killed the villagers while framing a defecting samurai from the Land of Iron. The two groups confronted each other, with the Sound Four threatening the Konoha team.

• Er Hei blamed Inoue for the blood-soaked corpses, while Yamato and Leiyin judged that a blade-wielding ninja was responsible.
• Leiyin claimed his instincts led him to the scene and then directed the team away from bloody footprints toward movement elsewhere.
• The Sound Four killed an elderly villager and discussed collecting strong bodies for Orochimaru while framing a samurai from the Land of Iron.
• Leiyin arrived and recognized Kidomaru, Tayuya, Sakon Ukon, and Jirobo, but he told Yamato he did not know them.
• Yamato, Meng Xiaomeng, and Er Hei joined Leiyin, and the Sound Four insulted and threatened them.

Leiyin and his companions confronted four Otogakure shinobi who had been collecting human vessels and framing samurai for their killings. After Yamato freed them from Jirobo’s chakra-draining prison, the battle continued as Tayuya and Kidomaru attacked.

• Leiyin warned his companions that the four Otogakure shinobi were powerful, but Er Hei charged Jirobo and was knocked away by his Arhat Fist.
• Jirobo trapped Leiyin, Yamato, and Meng Xiaomeng in an Earth Prison Dome that drained their chakra.
• Leiyin pinpointed Jirobo’s position, allowing Yamato to bind him with Wood Release and break the prison.
• Tayuya hurled an explosive-tag kunai, and Yamato moved Meng Xiaomeng out of the blast while Leiyin escaped its range.
• Kidomaru covered the group with a spider web, which Leiyin burned away before Kidomaru spat sticky webbing at them.

Leiyin burned Kidomaru’s threads with a powerful Fire Style technique, shocking Yamato and the Sound ninja. Kidomaru activated his cursed seal and summoned a giant spider, while Yamato sheltered Meng Xiaomeng and Leiyin faced Jirobo’s counterattack.

• Leiyin used Great Dragon Fire Technique to burn Kidomaru’s threads and severely scorch three of his arms.
• Yamato and the Sound ninja were astonished that Leiyin could use a powerful B-rank technique as a Genin.
• Kidomaru activated his cursed seal, regenerated his arms, and summoned a giant spider to weave a web.
• Meng Xiaomeng fainted at the sight of the spider, so Yamato placed her inside a wooden house he created.
• Leiyin attacked the spider with Great Fireball Technique, but Jirobo blocked the fire with Gale Style - Arhat Fist.

Leiyin rescued Er Hei from the Sound ninjas and faced Kidomaru, who transformed and fired a barrage of arrows at him. Leiyin blocked Kidomaru’s first shot and threw a kunai at the next volley, whose outcome remained unknown.

• Jirobo dispersed Leiyin’s Fire Release, while Kidomaru’s spiders injured Er Hei and left him unconscious.
• Yamato tried to rescue Er Hei, but Tayuya and Sakon Ukon stopped him, and Sakon Ukon moved to kill Er Hei.
• Leiyin suddenly appeared, broke Sakon Ukon’s kunai, and carried Er Hei to safety inside Yamato’s Wood Release shelter.
• The Sound ninjas decided to target Leiyin, and Kidomaru transformed into Curse Mark State Two.
• Kidomaru fired a guaranteed-hit arrow at Leiyin, who blocked it with a kunai and challenged Kidomaru’s claim.
• Kidomaru launched dozens of arrows with his Secret Technique—Hidden Battle Bow—Lamentation, and Leiyin hurled a kunai at them.