Chapter Summaries

The Daimyo of the Land of Wind learned that Sunagakure had taken the nobles’ belongings and realized he lacked the military strength to challenge the village. Meanwhile, Yunqing persuaded Sunagakure’s leaders and ninja to consider using their abilities for peaceful work and forming a dedicated army to protect the village, leaving them eager to put their skills to other uses.

• Scarface reported to the Daimyo of the Land of Wind that Sunagakure had taken the nobles’ belongings, and the daimyo promised compensation for his fallen men’s families.
• After Scarface left, the Daimyo of the Land of Wind concluded that Sunagakure no longer needed his support and feared he could not oppose the village without troops.
• Yunqing told Sunagakure’s leaders that improving the land had begun to succeed and asked them to consider a safer life beyond constant combat.
• Yunqing proposed an army dedicated to defense and argued that ninja talents in research, medicine, and other specialties could benefit the village more than fighting.
• Chiyo’s son, a small clan, and other ninja supported Yunqing, sharing ways their research and secret techniques could improve daily life and earn money.

Yunqing promoted Sunagakure as a place to settle and do business, drawing interest from people and rival villages while expanding the village’s development projects. As construction progressed, Sunagakure’s greening, water diversion, and desert-vegetation projects were all advancing quickly.

• Yunqing bet Pakura that Sunagakure’s houses and land would sell for the price of gold within a month, with the loser washing the winner’s clothes for a year.
• Yunqing’s promotion of Sunagakure spread across the ninja world, prompting merchants and workers to consider moving or doing business there.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s advisers discussed Sunagakure’s invitation to outsiders and decided Mitokado Homura would visit and possibly buy land.
• A Sunagakure Elder reported to Yunqing that the village’s forest planting, joint water diversion with the Land of Rain, and desert-vegetation projects were progressing quickly.

Yunqing prepared to promote cactus cultivation as a food source, arranging a Food Competition and asking Chiyo to endorse the effort. Meanwhile, Rasa and Karura mapped underground water sources and noticed that few rivers flowed from Konoha’s direction.

• Yunqing told Pakura to organize a Food Competition and offer a Forbidden Jutsu to a ninja winner or rewards to a civilian winner.
• Yunqing gave Chiyo a record of how to eat cacti and asked her to study their benefits and promote them; Chiyo agreed to change her next project.
• Rasa and Karura searched the Desert for underground rivers and marked the water sources they found on a map.
• Karura noticed that the underground rivers came mostly from the direction of the Land of Rain and the sea, with few coming from Konoha’s direction.

Rasa and Karura discussed Sunagakure’s plans for the Land of Rain, while the Uzumaki Clan arrived at the Land of Wind and considered how to establish themselves in Sunagakure. Aizawa Uzumaki and En Uzumaki agreed to promote Medical Ninjutsu while letting clan members choose their own paths.

• Karura warned Rasa that the Kazekage might try to control the Land of Rain, possibly by conquering part of it, and urged him to seize the opportunity to become the next Kazekage.
• Ebizo returned to the Land of Wind with the Uzumaki Clan and ordered preparations to receive them at the harbor.
• Suke flew ahead on Iron Sand with Sand Shinobi to arrange the harbor’s defenses.
• Aizawa Uzumaki told En Uzumaki that the clan needed to prove its value to Sunagakure, and proposed focusing on Medical Ninjutsu and selling its skills.
• En Uzumaki agreed with Aizawa’s direction but urged the clan to let members choose their own paths and avoid overreaching in Sunagakure.

Sunagakure welcomed the Uzumaki Clan refugees and helped them settle in, while Aizawa Uzumaki and En Uzumaki discussed their plans with Ebizo. The two proposed developing Medical Ninjutsu for ordinary people, and Ebizo indicated that Sunagakure would support the effort.

• Sand Shinobi guided the Uzumaki Clan refugees off the ship and reassured them as they were led to temporary lodging.
• Aizawa Uzumaki and En Uzumaki questioned Ye Nan about Sunagakure's unusually attractive reception staff, and she explained Yunqing's reasoning.
• Ye Nan told Aizawa Uzumaki and En Uzumaki stories about Yunqing as she led them to meet Ebizo, Suke, Bunpuku, and the others.
• Aizawa Uzumaki told Ebizo that the Uzumaki Clan planned to develop Medical Ninjutsu and make it accessible to ordinary people.
• Ebizo approved of the plan and learned that the Uzumaki Clan had incomplete research copied from the First Hokage and Mito.

The Uzumaki Clan built goodwill with Sunagakure by sharing Sealing Technique knowledge, while Yunqing and Chiyo discussed the village’s growing prosperity. The chapter left Sunagakure benefiting from new trade and technology as the Uzumaki Clan continued toward the village.

• As Ebizo escorted the Uzumaki Clan toward Sunagakure, its ninja taught basic Sealing Technique to Sand Shinobi and children along the way.
• Suke asked Ebizo whether they should stop the lessons, and Ebizo told him to trust his comrades and let the knowledge spread.
• Aizawa Uzumaki and En Uzumaki decided to share more advanced Sealing Technique as a token of the clan’s allegiance.
• The Uzumaki Clan ninja taught Sunagakure’s people basic and intermediate Sealing Technique, along with a few advanced techniques.
• Yunqing praised Chiyo for quickly analyzing cactus medicinal properties and discussed how Sunagakure’s businesses and trade had improved the village’s finances.

Yunqing and Chiyo discussed Sunagakure’s growth, the Uzumaki Clan’s arrival, and their competing approaches to Medical Ninjutsu. After leaving work, Yunqing noticed that resources and businesses in Sunagakure remained unevenly distributed, leaving him to consider how to redirect them.

• Chiyo admired Sunagakure’s rapid changes, and Yunqing predicted that genuine prosperity would begin after merchants and their shipments arrived.
• Yunqing gave Chiyo a scroll describing the Uzumaki Clan’s Medical Ninjutsu research and explained how it differed from Sunagakure’s pharmacology.
• Chiyo accepted the Uzumaki Clan’s research as a chance for healthy competition, and Yunqing approved of her refusal to engage in internal conflict.
• Yunqing left work to visit the young ladies, while Pakura arrived at his empty office, tidied it, and went home.
• As Yunqing walked through Sunagakure, he noticed that family-owned shops dominated and worried that scarce resources were limiting development.

Yunqing completed his fusion with Irene Belserion and unlocked Dragon Transformation, but learned that powerful female templates could accelerate his transformation. He spun the lottery wheel and drew the Heavenly (Harem) Palace King Hua Ye template, unaware that the system was recharging with no set return time.

• Yunqing completed fusion with Irene Belserion, gained Dragon Transformation, and asked whether further fusion would make him more feminine.
• The system warned that fusing three female templates would complete his transformation, and that a powerful template could trigger it sooner.
• Yunqing began his second lottery draw and saw that the wheel contained many powerful female character templates, along with items and cultivation arts.
• Yunqing asked the system what he needed and received the answer Holy Casca, whose template included weapons and abilities capable of overwhelming the world.
• Yunqing spun the wheel and drew the Heavenly (Harem) Palace King Hua Ye template.
• The system announced that it would recharge for an undetermined period, but Yunqing did not hear the notification.

After disappearing for half a day, Yunqing returned to the Kazekage Building with Pakura and showed her how his authority quelled Sunagakure’s turmoil. He then discussed his increasing strength with Chiyo and Sāmon and agreed to provide blood for research.

• Pakura confronted Yunqing at the little establishment and explained that his disappearance had thrown the Kazekage Building and Sunagakure into turmoil.
• Yunqing’s fused might overwhelmed Pakura, and he told her to follow him and watch how he handled the situation.
• Yunqing walked past the Anbu and returned to his office without incident, while the hidden unrest in Sunagakure subsided.
• Chiyo told Pakura that she and the others had been tempering her, while Sāmon remarked on Yunqing’s rapid growth in strength.
• Yunqing attributed his power to a vague evolution, then accepted Sāmon’s test tube and began drawing blood for research.

After merging Grandpa Hua’s memories and powers, Yunqing recorded advanced technology for Sunagakure and gave his notes to Sāmon. Sāmon recognized their potential for weapons and civilian applications and began developing ideas to put them into practice.

• Yunqing finished sorting through Grandpa Hua’s vast memories and tested his enhanced power, Chakra reserves, and control.
• Yunqing spent the night writing down technological knowledge about energy and imagined Sand Shinobi Puppet Masters using powered weapons.
• Yunqing gave Pakura his notes to deliver to Sāmon before she could apologize to him.
• Sāmon studied Yunqing’s notes and devised possible uses for magnetic repulsion and solar energy in vehicles and civilian life.

Yunqing received the Daimyo’s funding and updated mission territories, then discussed Sunagakure’s relationship with the Daimyo and the Daimyo’s request to enroll his children in the Ninja Academy. He agreed to the enrollment, recognizing that the children would serve as hostages while giving the Daimyo’s family a way to protect itself.

• The Right Prime Minister delivered the Daimyo’s documents and funding to Yunqing, who gave him two residences in Sunagakure.
• After the Right Prime Minister left, Pakura questioned Yunqing’s generosity, and Chiyo arrived to discuss the Daimyo’s offerings.
• Yunqing said the funding was unchanged and Sunagakure had gained another city’s missions, adding that they had no reason to keep pressuring the Daimyo.
• Chiyo and Yunqing agreed that Sunagakure’s strength and the Land of Wind’s prosperity would keep the Daimyo from acting against them.
• Chiyo gave Yunqing the Daimyo’s letter asking for his children to enter the Ninja Academy, and Yunqing agreed to the request while recognizing its purpose.

Yunqing proposed opening Sunagakure’s Ninja Academy to merchants’ children and making basic ninjutsu available to outsiders, arguing that commercial integration would bring prosperity and help create peace. After Chiyo accepted his reasoning, Yunqing launched the recruitment plan, and Ye Xiu recognized that the change could transform how ninja lived and worked.

• Yunqing proposed letting outsiders study at the Ninja Academy, angering Chiyo and Pakura.
• Yunqing explained to Chiyo that opening Sunagakure to ordinary people would help sell its accumulated supplies and bring merchants into the village.
• Chiyo understood that Yunqing intended to offer outsiders basic ninjutsu while keeping core technologies under Sunagakure’s control.
• Yunqing ordered Pakura to arrange a meeting with the Right Prime Minister and announce that merchants who bought houses in Sunagakure could enroll their children in the Academy.
• Pakura confirmed the rumors to Ye Xiu, who reflected that the opening of the village could free ninja from depending on missions for a living.

Yunqing negotiated with the Right Prime Minister for reconciliation, demanding sincerity, lives, and trade routes in exchange for a gift of ninja tools. As Sunagakure prospered, Yunqing toured its new attractions with Sāmon and discussed advanced weapons research.

• Yunqing demanded sincerity, lives, and trade routes from the Right Prime Minister as conditions for reconciliation.
• The Right Prime Minister agreed to provide sincerity and trade routes, and said he would discuss the lives with the Daimyo.
• Yunqing offered the Daimyo a newly produced batch of ninja tools as a gesture of sincerity.
• Sunagakure filled with visitors, businesses, and goods from across the ninja world as the village prospered.
• Sāmon showed Yunqing the Magnetic Levitation Series at the Amusement Park and described the technology behind its rides.
• Sāmon said he was researching the Magnetic Weapon Series and agreed that elite forces were more effective than human-wave tactics.

Sunagakure’s booming economy and Yunqing’s reforms led the Daimyo of the Land of Wind to agree to his demands, while Yunqing imagined new civilian uses for ninjutsu. The arriving Uzumaki Clan was stunned by Sunagakure’s prosperity.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Wind and the Right Prime Minister discussed Yunqing’s military advantage and the Chakra Weapons, then agreed to send him the lives he wanted and recruit craftsmen to support construction.
• Pakura waited outside the Kazekage's Office in dismay as high housing prices and Yunqing’s demands weighed on her.
• Yunqing led Pakura home and described how ninjutsu could be used for civilian work, from construction and farming to baking and deliveries.
• Pakura’s thoughts wandered as she considered Yunqing’s ideas, and she lost track of arriving at his home.
• Aizawa Uzumaki and the Uzumaki Clan arrived in Sunagakure and marveled at the city’s crowds and prosperity.

The Uzumaki Clan arrived in Sunagakure and learned that the village had arranged medical research, housing, loans, and jobs for them. Aizawa Uzumaki and En Uzumaki left eager to reorganize the clan into independent households while retaining overall leadership.

• Chiyo and Ebizo welcomed Aizawa Uzumaki, En Uzumaki, and the Uzumaki Clan at Sunagakure’s entrance.
• Aizawa Uzumaki observed Sunagakure’s prosperity and learned from Chiyo that the clan could join its medical system.
• Yunqing and Sāmon received Aizawa Uzumaki and En Uzumaki, and Yunqing offered the clan housing arrangements, loans, and employment opportunities.
• Pakura explained Sunagakure’s jobs and support, leaving Aizawa Uzumaki and En Uzumaki astonished by the options available.
• Aizawa Uzumaki and En Uzumaki decided to divide the clan into separate households that could support themselves while following the clan’s overall direction.

Aizawa Uzumaki established that the Uzumaki Clan Members in Sunagakure would choose their own work and keep their earnings, while the clan provided basic support. With Yunqing’s backing, the clan found jobs and opportunities to build a secure life, though Aizawa and En remained burdened by the loans they had taken.

• Aizawa Uzumaki addressed the Uzumaki Clan Members and affiliated ninja, telling them the clan would provide basic necessities but would not restrict their careers or take their earnings.
• Yi asked whether members would keep the Uzumaki name without being required to contribute, and Aizawa confirmed the arrangement before distributing supplies.
• Yunqing watched the gathering and decided to give the Uzumaki Clan preferential treatment so other clans would be less hesitant to join Sunagakure.
• Sunagakure reconciled with the Daimyo of the Land of Wind, profited by selling land, and avoided provoking an attack while the Second Ninja World War raged.
• Yunqing lent the Uzumaki Clan money at low interest for a research institute and hospital, while Sunagakure offered teaching and factory jobs, including work for the women in a new textile factory.
• Aizawa Uzumaki and En Uzumaki discussed their cramped shared room and their debt, and Aizawa reassured En that they might afford houses after the loans were repaid.

Uzumaki Kōshi enjoyed her work as a doctor in Sunagakure, where the growing community made her feel at home. In the Kazekage's Office, Yunqing defended strict tax collection to Pakura, who questioned the village's fading ninja spirit.

• Uzumaki Kōshi bought breakfast from Uncle Reili and began her day treating patients at Whirlpool Hospital.
• Kōshi reflected that Sunagakure had given the Uzumaki Clan work and a sense of home.
• Yunqing reviewed the month's tax revenue and noted that commercial taxes far exceeded revenue from ninja missions.
• Pakura told Yunqing that Elders complained Sunagakure's ninja cared more about money than their ninja spirit.
• Yunqing explained that he enforced taxes strictly to stop powerful businesses from evading payment, then told Pakura to ask her clan head about taxes on the Ye Clan's bathhouse and sauna shops.

Pakura learned how much the Pakura Clan earned from its sauna business, while Ye Xiu explained the role of money, strength, and Yunqing's power in Sunagakure's reforms. After an unseen visitor left Ye Xiu's room, the story shifted to White Zetsu and Black Zetsu observing the aftermath of a Konoha-Iwagakure battle.

• Ye Xiu showed Pakura the sauna profits and taxes, leaving her astonished by the clan's wealth.
• Ye Xiu advised Pakura to cultivate wisdom as well as strength and teased her about her future as his successor.
• An unseen visitor questioned Ye Xiu's view of the era, and Ye Xiu argued that Yunqing's overwhelming strength secured his authority and Sunagakure's position.
• The visitor vanished, and Ye Xiu decided to end their connection because he feared the visitor's presence could endanger the clan.
• White Zetsu and Black Zetsu watched Konoha and Iwagakure clear a battlefield near their border, then discussed returning to Lord Madara.

Madara Uchiha learned about Yunqing’s talent from Black Zetsu and ordered him to investigate whether Yunqing had Uzumaki blood, considering him as a possible heir to his eyes. Meanwhile, Yunqing trained Pakura in taijutsu and decided to put his combat knowledge into textbooks.

• Black Zetsu reported Sunagakure’s recent changes to Madara Uchiha, including the Third Kazekage’s strength and talent.
• Madara Uchiha became interested in Yunqing and asked Black Zetsu to investigate whether his red hair indicated Uzumaki Clan blood.
• Yunqing trained Pakura in combat, criticizing her taijutsu and explaining how physical strength supported a ninja’s overall abilities.
• Pakura began to understand Yunqing’s argument, and Yunqing resolved to record his knowledge in textbooks so others would have a clearer path to follow.

Yunqing recognized that Pakura’s training had left gaps in her foundation and promised to help her rebuild it. Meanwhile, his new training guide reached Sasori’s family, where Chiyo recognized it as a complete path toward Kage-level strength.

• Yunqing teased Pakura about her lack of common knowledge, then took her back with him and promised to strengthen her foundation.
• Sunagakure Ninja Academy students received Yunqing’s guide explaining how Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu worked together.
• Sasori questioned the guide’s claims, so Senra studied it with him and admitted he could not explain it.
• Chiyo read the guide and recognized that it explained how a talented ninja could steadily reach the Kage level.
• Chiyo told Sasori and Senra that the guide was correct and explained that she had already taught them its principles as part of their training.