Chapter Summaries

The Human Reform League continued surveying Hunter Star’s unexplored regions, capturing unusual creatures and cataloging dangerous plants, beasts, and resources. The exploration teams pressed on into the New World, where each region offered valuable discoveries alongside serious hazards.

• Machi and Melody’s team captured a Twin-tailed Snake in the Helbel Great Swamp, and Melody adapted to its Hell Demon Sound before putting it to sleep.
• Machi sent the snake to a portable spatial laboratory, where biological researchers began studying it.
• Chopper and Gore’s team explored the Trembling Grassland as Chopper collected and tested unfamiliar plants.
• The chapter described the dangers and resources of the Trembling Grassland, Honeycomb Mountain Range, and Excited Forest, including gravity-controlling Rolling Beasts, spatially traveling Void Reaper Bees, and deadly Laughing Overlord Flowers.
• Dr. Darwin, Leorio, and their companions found and collected Void Stone inside the Honeycomb Mountain Range.

Kurapika visited Kurta City and the Demon Realm, where Gon and Reiju showed him a mushroom that could awaken Nen abilities but caused severe obsession. Reiju suspected the Supreme Governor’s side had finished preparations for an experiment.

• Kurapika visited Kurta City with Pairo, a clone created from his companion’s recovered head, and reflected on his work coordinating between the Human Reform League and the Kurta Clan.
• Kurapika and Pairo traveled through a Space Gate to an Ecological Monitoring Station in the Demon Realm to visit Gon and Reiju.
• Gon showed Kurapika a solution made from the Obsession Mushroom, which could awaken Nen abilities but caused extreme obsessiveness.
• Reiju drank the solution while explaining that she needed to build antibodies against the poisons she formulated.
• Reiju recalled last year’s experiment and suspected the Supreme Governor’s side had finished preparing.

Wang Gao reviewed the Human Reform League’s expansion across the Hunter Universe and proposed a backup plan to protect its citizens from possible invasions by the Gourmet and Demon universes. After approving the plan, the leaders officially launched an exploration of the Ninja Universe.

• Wang Gao and the Human Reform League’s astronomers concluded that Hunter Star seemed enormous because lifeforms in the Hunter Universe were much smaller relative to their planets, and its thick atmosphere made space travel difficult.
• The Human Reform League surveyed more than a hundred thousand planetary systems in the Giant Galaxy, finding sixty-seven life-bearing planets, twelve with Intelligent Beings, and none with a civilization able to leave its home planet.
• Wang Gao reported that the League would continue expanding its military and aimed to explore the Hunter Universe and conquer its life-bearing planets within ten to thirty years.
• Wang Gao proposed that every citizen in This Universe create a clone to live in the Hunter Universe, while the League stopped opening the Crystal Wall Tunnel between them for the foreseeable future.
• Wang Gao said future Cosmic Crystal Wall experiments would be confined to This Universe, and Tsuru supported concentrating the risks there.
• Wang Gao announced the official launch of the Ninja Universe Exploration Plan after the leaders discussed their preparations and tests.

After a mysterious Life Exploration System appeared, Uchiha Akira learned about his bloodline and the Sharingan’s dangerous evolution, then traded points for mental training and genetic optimization. The optimization left him exhausted, and the fates of Konoha and the Uchiha Clan began to diverge onto a new path.

• Uchiha Akira heard a strange voice asking about the meaning of life, and the Life Exploration System loaded into his mind.
• Uchiha Akira examined the system, exchanged information about his Otsutsuki Jupiterian bloodline for 137 points, and read the Uchiha Secret Records.
• After consulting the system about evolving the Sharingan, Uchiha Akira rejected the risky pain-based method and spent 50 points each on a mental training method and beginner gene optimization.
• Uchiha Akira endured more than three hours of painful genetic changes, then fell asleep in his sweat-soaked clothes.
• The fates of Konoha and the Uchiha Clan turned toward a new branch overnight.

Uchiha Akira patrolled Konoha’s outskirts with his squad amid growing tension between the Uchiha and the village leadership, then began studying a mental power training method that caused his system to optimize his soul. As Akira started training, his bond with the system deepened, and mastering the method would eventually make their fusion irreversible.

• Akira ate breakfast on the Uchiha Clan Land and headed to his post at the Konoha Guard Division headquarters.
• Captain Uchiha Seika sent Akira and his squad, led by Uchiha Sanhara, to patrol the forests and mountains around Konoha.
• Akira’s squad encountered Uchiha Shisui’s team, and the two groups exchanged cold greetings before going their separate ways.
• After finishing his patrol and returning home, Akira studied the Mental Power Training Method and began his first training session.
• As Akira trained, his system adjusted the Meme Sequence in his soul, deepening their fusion and making future separation impossible if he mastered the method.

Uchiha Akira used the system to exchange points for a Quantum Learning Method and tested how it could improve his ninjutsu. After discovering that it could make the Small Fireball Technique faster and less costly, he heard someone applaud behind him.

• Uchiha Akira considered the threats facing him and decided he needed to earn more system points despite distrusting the system.
• Uchiha Akira exchanged 20 points for the Quantum Learning Method and used his new photographic memory to study ninjutsu scrolls.
• Uchiha Akira performed eleven Fire Release techniques so the system could record and optimize them.
• Uchiha Akira used an optimized Small Fireball Technique without hand seals, spending about 75.6% of its former Chakra cost.
• Someone behind Uchiha Akira applauded his Fireball Technique, and Akira did not turn around.

Akira used the system’s advice to conclude that the Uchiha could not survive in Konoha and planned to hide the clan in a Summoned Beast secret realm. After identifying a possible location in an old history book, he arranged leave and prepared to investigate it.

• Akira coldly dismissed Shisui and Itachi, then reviewed his training gains and spent system points asking how to grow stronger and save the Uchiha Clan.
• The system suggested several ways to save the clan, and Akira decided that finding a hidden Summoned Beast realm offered the best chance of relocating the Uchiha.
• Akira studied new manuals and concluded that the Uchiha’s conflict with Konoha was irreconcilable, making retreat from the village necessary.
• Akira asked the system where to find a suitable secret realm, then searched the clan archives and found records of an ancient country whose monarch had possessed a Summoned Beast.
• Akira memorized the ancient country’s location, obtained five days of leave from Aoka, and told close Uchiha Clan Members he would be training in seclusion.

Akira traveled to the ruins of Shizaki Castle and signed the giant lizard’s summoning contract, then summoned Shizaki Gosuke’s soul to negotiate for the beast’s cooperation. When the lizard attacked, Akira pulled Gosuke into his soul space and threatened to destroy his soul, forcing the lizard to stop.

• Akira used Fat Tiger to leave the Cat House secretly, then traveled toward the former Land of Forest to investigate reports of disappearances near Shizaki Castle.
• Akira followed Chakra traces into the fogbound castle and dodged the giant lizard’s attacks while searching for its summoning scroll.
• Akira found the contract scroll in the Imperial Library, wrote his name on it, and sealed the contract with his blood.
• Akira summoned Shizaki Gosuke’s soul and offered to revive him in exchange for persuading the giant lizard to serve him.
• Akira pulled Gosuke into his soul space and threatened the giant lizard, which halted its attack.

Uchiha Akira, Chūbei, and Shizaki Gosuke signed a Soul Contract that bound Akira to revive Gosuke within twenty-three years and Chūbei’s Lizard Clan to serve Akira for the same period. Akira traveled to Misty Isle, where the Dragon Lizard Sage offered him a chance to cultivate senjutsu, and the chapter ended as he prepared to begin.

• Akira showed Chūbei and Shizaki Gosuke a Soul Contract and agreed to revive Gosuke within twenty-three years in exchange for Chūbei and his clan serving him during that time.
• Akira, Chūbei, and Gosuke signed the contract, and Akira left Gosuke’s soul in his soul space before traveling with Chūbei to the Lizard Clan’s hidden realm.
• Chūbei brought Akira to Misty Isle, where they met Chūbei’s father and the Dragon Lizard Sage.
• The Dragon Lizard Sage offered Akira a chance to cultivate senjutsu, and Akira accepted despite Chūbei’s warning that failure could kill him.
• Akira transferred Gosuke’s soul to Chūbei’s soul space and told Soraryu to begin the cultivation process in the Earthfire Cavern.

Aka mastered Sage Mode almost instantly with the help of the system, astonishing Soraryu, Chūbei, and the Dragon Lizard Sage. After receiving Shizaki Gosuke’s soul back, he began learning the Lizard Clan’s Sage techniques and quickly demonstrated several powerful moves.

• Aka coated his body in Crimson Flame Blood and used the system to balance Natural Energy, Cellular Energy, and Spiritual Energy into Sage Chakra.
• Aka entered Sage Mode within minutes and produced golden flames, astounding Chūbei and Soraryu with his speed and ability to maintain the transformation indefinitely.
• Soraryu returned Shizaki Gosuke’s soul to Aka, then brought him before the Dragon Lizard Sage, who ordered Soraryu to teach Aka the clan’s sage arts.
• Soraryu taught Aka the Lizard Clan’s techniques, and Aka rapidly learned and demonstrated several Sage Arts, including Departing Fire Crow and Sky-Eating Tears.

After mastering the Lizard Clan's sage arts on Misty Isle, Akira returned to Konoha using a new Self-Summoning Jutsu anchored to Kotomi. With only one night of vacation left, he activated Sage Art—Realm Sea and sensed Natural Energy surging around him.

• Akira said farewell to Chūbei and used the Reverse Summoning Technique to return from Misty Isle to Konoha.
• Akira appeared in his courtyard beside Kotomi, who was startled by his sudden arrival.
• Akira explained how the Self-Summoning Jutsu used a contracted Summoned Beast as a spatial anchor and described its risks and limitations.
• Akira sat in his courtyard and activated Sage Art—Realm Sea, sensing Natural Energy within a one-kilometer radius.

Akira discovered that a hidden presence had planted numerous Wood Release clones throughout the Uchiha Clan Land and realized Konoha was closely surveilling the clan. During a patrol, he exposed and captured a strange white creature, which transformed into a towering tree before Akira could question it; he examined a branch for genetic information.

• Akira used Sage Art—Mirror Sea to detect numerous concealed presences resembling Wood Release clones around Uchiha homes and clan gathering places.
• Akira maintained limited surveillance overnight with the Lizard Secret Technique—Dual-Mind Technique, then found the hidden clones still motionless the next morning.
• Akira went on patrol with Captain Mihara, Qingmang, and Soma while tracking the Wood Release clone following them.
• When mist and kunai appeared, Akira cut through a tree and exposed a white creature hidden inside it, then restrained the creature with genjutsu.
• The white creature’s Chakra went berserk and its body transformed into a towering tree; Akira cut off a branch and had his system examine its genetic information.

Akira discovered a Wood Release Clone and warned his patrol that Konoha’s surveillance and the Uchiha’s political isolation made reporting the incident dangerous. He left Sanhara, Soma, and Seimou questioning their loyalties after declaring that Konoha was a cage built to weaken the Uchiha.

• Akira destroyed a Wood Release Clone during the patrol’s encounter with Mist Ninja, and the masked man learned that Akira had discovered it.
• The masked man identified Akira as Uchiha Ging’s younger brother and ordered White Zetsu to monitor him from a distance rather than kill him.
• Akira explained his suspicions about the Clone’s origins, but advised Sanhara not to report the matter to the Clan Head because they had no proof and could be exposed to ANBU.
• Akira urged the patrol to avoid going out alone and said he belonged to neither the Combat Faction nor the Pacifist Faction.
• Akira called Konoha a cage designed to imprison the Uchiha and argued that the clan had grown weaker under its protection, leaving Sanhara, Soma, and Seimou shaken by his words.

Akira persuaded Mihara, Soma, and Qingmang to leave Konoha with him, then bound them to a Soul Contract that guaranteed their secrecy and cooperation. After Mihara was prevented from revealing Akira to Tekka, Akira invited him and Qingmang to dinner, showing that he had anticipated their next move.

• Akira argued that Konoha was a trap for the Uchiha and claimed he had prepared a safe refuge for them.
• Akira subdued Mihara, Soma, and Qingmang with genjutsu and his Cloud Dream Body Technique, then brought them into his soul space.
• Akira presented a Soul Contract requiring their secrecy and twenty years of cooperation in exchange for strength and protection for their families.
• Mihara, Soma, and Qingmang agreed to sign the contract, and a subsystem was implanted in their Soul Bodies.
• Mihara told a patrol squad that they had encountered a Mist Ninja, then found himself unable to tell Tekka about Akira.
• Akira met Mihara and Qingmang outside Guard Division headquarters and invited them to dinner.

Akira hosted Mihara, Soma, Qingmang, and their families for dinner, then explained that the Uchiha Clan could not survive a direct fight with Konoha. He proposed evacuating to Misty Isle with help from the Lizard Clan, and the group began preparing to leave while Qingmang remained undecided.

• Akira shared dinner with Mihara, Soma, Qingmang, and their families, easing the earlier tension between them.
• Akira warned that Elder Setsuna's faction would likely attempt a coup within half a year and showed how badly the Uchiha Clan was outmatched by Konoha.
• Akira argued that fleeing was the Uchiha Clan's only chance to survive and proposed using reverse summoning to evacuate.
• Akira summoned Lin Huo of the Lizard Clan of Misty Isle, and Mihara and Soma agreed to retreat there.
• Qingmang hesitated, but Akira told her he would not force her; the others signed Lizard Clan Summoning Contracts and planned to have their families sign Soul Contracts before informing them.

Akira strengthened himself, awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, and learned that others with mental contracts could train toward awakening it. He expanded his surveillance network with scouting techniques and parasites as he prepared for the dangers surrounding the Uchiha.

• Akira spent points on intermediate mental training and gene optimization, and Wang Gao activated Akira's Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Akira learned that only people with mental contracts could use the training method and that ordinary Uchiha would need years to awaken the Mangekyo, with a continuing risk of blindness.
• Akira assessed his limited forces and exchanged for the Echo Map Technique and a Scouting Parasite.
• Akira attached the mother parasite to his arm, then used its offspring to implant covert scouts in plants near Uchiha leaders' homes.
• Akira implanted an Intelligent Data Processing Biological Computer in his brain and set it to flag information about the Uchiha, Konoha's forces, and possible threats.

Akira attended the Uchiha clan assembly as tensions with Konoha mounted, while quietly assessing which clan members he could recruit to save the Uchiha. The meeting ended in uproar, with the Combat Faction demanding action and Fugaku Uchiha resisting a coup.

• Akira learned that Soma had reached Three Tomoe and Qingmang Two Tomoe, while Mihara remained at Three Tomoe, and he discussed recruiting their Uchiha relatives and allies.
• Mihara told Akira the clan assembly would take place at Naka Shrine that night, where Akira encountered Uchiha Shisui and dismissed his attempt to explain his position.
• Tekka let Akira examine the Uchiha Stone Tablet, and Akira recognized that Otsutsuki Black Zetsu had altered its message to mislead the clan.
• At the assembly, Great Elder Setsuna Uchiha pressed Fugaku Uchiha to act against Konoha, while Fugaku argued that the timing was wrong and their weapons were not ready.
• Uchiha Shisui urged the clan to stay calm, but the Combat Faction rejected him, and Akira silently assessed who might join his camp as the meeting descended into chaos.

Akira joined Setsuna Uchiha’s Secret Guard on the condition that he report only to the Great Elder and choose three assistants. While his new squad investigated Konoha’s Barrier Division, Akira detected ANBU tailing him and wondered whether the Wood Release operative who had watched him before belonged to Root.

• Setsuna Uchiha asked Akira to join the Secret Guard and investigate ANBU, and Akira agreed under specific conditions after exposing the guards concealed around them.
• Munehiro Uchiha assigned Ryūfu, Yuki, and Kōrai to Akira’s squad, and Akira ordered them to investigate a Konoha Barrier Division office.
• Akira went on patrol with Mihara and the others and detected Kakashi and other ANBU members following them.
• Akira and his companions communicated privately through Communication Parasites and speculated that the earlier Wood Release operative might have been from Danzo’s Root.

Akira used intelligence about Konoha’s surveillance positions to persuade Setsuna Uchiha’s faction to target the Barrier Team, delaying a coup while he worked to save clan members. He prepared additional safeguards for his allies as the Uchiha adjusted their plans.

• Akira remained under Anbu surveillance for a week after meeting Setsuna Uchiha, then delivered Setsuna intelligence about Konoha’s forces surrounding the Uchiha Clan Land.
• Akira argued that the Uchiha should strike the Barrier Team first, and Setsuna rewarded him with the Mirror Heaven and Earth Change genjutsu and Izanagi.
• Akira estimated that redirecting the Uchiha’s preparations would delay the coup by at least two months, giving him more time to complete Soul Contracts with clan members.
• At Misty Isle, Akira told Mihara that his intelligence had delayed the coup, while Mihara reported that twenty-seven clan members were inclined to flee.
• Akira exchanged most of his remaining points for defensive and life-saving items, then gave Mihara, Soma, Qingmang, and others Death Substitute Magic Eyes.

Konoha’s elders debated cutting the Guard Division’s budget, while Shisui revealed to Itachi that he planned to use his Mangekyo ability against Fugaku at the Uchiha meeting. Akira learned of Shisui’s plan and hoped it would buy time for his own preparations.

• Danzo, Koharu, and Homura pushed to reduce the Guard Division’s budget, and Hiruzen reluctantly agreed to a thirty-percent cut while proposing missions and authority for younger Uchiha.
• Akira learned that the Uchiha Clan would meet at Naka Shrine the following day.
• Shisui told Itachi that if the meeting approved the coup plan, he would ambush Fugaku and place him under genjutsu without killing him.
• Shisui explained his Mangekyo ability and plan to Itachi, and the two left the cliff after making their decisions.
• Akira considered Shisui’s ability and hoped his plan would succeed, noting that his Soul Contract Book held 313 names and his backup plan might reach around a thousand people.