Chapter Summaries

Ling Tian was arrested in Sunagakure's first major Traffic Bureau crackdown, then tried to turn the encounter into a chance to join the Bureau. The arrest helped the new regulations take hold across Sunagakure and the Land of Wind.

• Shatu and his squad arrested Ling Tian and his fellow street racers, including the descendants of influential families.
• Ling Tian threatened Shatu with his father's status, but Shatu slapped him and explained that the Land of Wind's Left Prime Minister had no authority over the Traffic Bureau.
• After Shatu said the racers would likely be detained for ten days or half a month, Ling Tian offered to help the Bureau and resolved to attach himself to its leadership.
• The next day, Sunagakure announced that Bunpuku headed the newly established Traffic Bureau and publicized the gang's arrest as a warning to others.
• The crackdown silenced most opposition, helped traffic regulations take effect, and improved traffic safety across Sunagakure and the Land of Wind.

Yunqing convened Sunagakure’s leaders to choose between military plunder and technological commercialization as Chakra Cars fueled a commercial boom. After hearing what war would cost their families, the officials increasingly supported commercialization, and Ye Xiu declared the Ye Clan’s backing for Yunqing’s path.

• Chakra Cars and Little Overlord trucks expanded trade in Sunagakure, drawing more small and medium-sized merchants and driving population growth.
• Yunqing explained to the gathered officials that Sunagakure could pursue military plunder or continue reforms and grow through technology and commerce.
• A middle-aged Jonin asked whether war would threaten his son’s schooling, food, and family shop, and Yunqing warned that it could.
• The Jonin, Jie Zhi, chose commercialization, saying his son’s happiness mattered more than a ninja’s dignity.
• Ye Xiu declared that the Ye Clan supported Yunqing and the path of getting rich through technology and commercialization.

Yunqing accepted his responsibility as Kazekage after Sunagakure’s leaders and ninjas pledged their support, then transformed the village into an open commercial city. As Sunagakure expanded, a white-haired, red-eyed visitor approached, and Yunqing prepared to meet him.

• Ebizo and the assembled Sand Shinobi affirmed their support for the Kazekage, and Suke led them in kneeling before Yunqing.
• Yunqing realized he had to lead Sunagakure as a real responsibility, while the Hua Ye and Irene templates fully fused and the Lottery System entered dormancy.
• Sunagakure opened to the outside world, reformed its institutions, built factories and markets, and pursued economic growth as the City of Freedom and City of Commerce.
• Yunqing and Pakura surveyed the growing city, and Yunqing predicted that someone would find a way to ease congestion at First Ray of Sky.
• Yunqing sensed a white-haired, red-eyed old man approaching Sunagakure and said it was time to return and meet the guest.

Madara Uchiha traveled toward Sunagakure and accepted a ride from a truck driver, whose practical views on work, Chakra, and protecting ordinary people challenged Madara's plans. The driver offered to find Madara a job once they reached the city.

• Madara Uchiha mistook a mirage for Sunagakure until a truck driver warned him and offered him a ride.
• Madara Uchiha told the driver he wanted to see Sunagakure and settle a score, and the driver warned him against causing trouble there.
• The truck driver explained how transporting goods for Sunagakure supported his family and gave him plans to expand his business.
• Madara Uchiha questioned whether the driver would support eliminating Chakra, and the driver argued that Chakra was not evil and that ordinary people needed it.
• The truck driver called Madara trapped in hatred and offered to help him find a job in Sunagakure.

Madara Uchiha entered Sunagakure with the truck driver Tuhao and was surprised by the village’s prosperity and modern conveniences. After receiving a temporary ID, Tuhao learned that Kakuzu wanted to meet him about a business deal.

• Tuhao brought Madara to a warehouse district, where Ye Nan checked their delivery and directed them inside.
• Tuhao explained Ye Nan’s influence and connections, prompting Madara to take another look at her.
• Madara toured the busy market and rode a bus toward Sunagakure, reflecting on the village’s prosperity.
• Madara told the ninja issuing temporary IDs that he had come to visit and might plant trees, then received permission to enter.
• A young ninja recognized Tuhao and told him that Kakuzu wanted to discuss a major business deal.

Tuhao showed Madara around Sunagakure, where they enjoyed the village’s food, hospital, and sauna, while Kakuzu argued with Yunqing and secured a 500-million-ryo loan. Madara learned how ninja clans had turned their abilities into businesses, and the chapter ended with Jiraiya watching the Uchiha pose for magazine covers in Konoha.

• Tuhao took Madara around Sunagakure, where Madara received free medical examinations and massage treatments.
• Kakuzu demanded an interest-free loan from Yunqing, who refused and argued with him over the amount before lending him 500 million ryo.
• Administrative ninjas watched Kakuzu leave the Kazekage Building with the loan and began recounting his bold bargaining as a legend.
• Tuhao took Madara to the Pakura Clan Sauna, explained how clans used their bloodline abilities for businesses, and told him about the Uchiha modeling for magazines.
• Jiraiya, Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Hiryu watched Uchiha models pose for Mina Uchiha’s magazine, and Jiraiya complained that he should be on the cover.

The Uchiha Clan tested a shift toward entertainment and modeling, with Mina Uchiha discussing the plan and its sales with Tsunade, Jiraiya, and the others. In Sunagakure, Madara Uchiha discovered the clan’s magazines and felt pleased by their success, while Yunqing watched him and considered the magazines for himself.

• Mina Uchiha invited Orochimaru, Tsunade, Hiryu, and Jiraiya to pose for group photos, and they joined the photo shoot.
• Tsunade asked whether the Uchiha Clan planned to stop being ninjas, and Mina Uchiha explained that the clan was testing whether entertainment work could support its members.
• Mina Uchiha told Jiraiya that the Uchiha Clan’s magazines and books sold well in Konoha and were being exported to Sunagakure and other countries.
• Madara Uchiha bought a magazine in Sunagakure, discovered its Uchiha Clan content, and praised the clan’s good looks and success.
• Yunqing watched Madara Uchiha through his Eye of Investigation and later opened an Uchiha Clan magazine in the Kazekage’s office.

Kakuzu recruited Tuhao to help establish the Sunagakure Logistics Company, using Tuhao’s connections and Big Trucks to expand freight operations into the Land of Earth. He explained Yunqing’s self-reliance policies, leaving Tuhao impressed but still unable to understand why they worked.

• Kakuzu summoned Tuhao and asked him to use his Land of Earth connections to find freight business.
• Tuhao promised to persuade merchants and nobles within three days, and Kakuzu showed him rows of Big Trucks at the company’s base.
• Kakuzu announced that the Sunagakure Logistics Company would be established, with himself as chairman and Tuhao as district director.
• Tuhao wondered whether the Kazekage had a stake, but Kakuzu said Yunqing was not corrupt and earned income from a small tavern.
• Kakuzu explained Yunqing’s belief that Sunagakure’s people should work toward self-reliance rather than depend on handouts, while Tuhao admitted he still could not understand the approach.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Orochimaru concluded that Sunagakure’s technology-driven trade had fueled its rise, prompting Konoha to fund civilian Scientific Ninja Tool research. Over the following year, the villages reformed their economies, and Konoha’s response to resistance made its resolve clear.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Orochimaru about Sunagakure’s development, and Orochimaru identified technology and trade as the key to its success.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave Orochimaru one billion and tasked him with developing civilian tools, including harvesters and improved Chakra Batteries.
• Orochimaru produced agricultural tools, Konoha-style Chakra Vehicles, and Chakra Batteries, though Konoha lagged behind Sunagakure in materials.
• Over the next year, Konoha and the other Great Hidden Villages diversified ninja work and developed secondary industries.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi destroyed Sky Village and carried out a massacre, leaving Konoha’s residents and Root stunned and compliant.

Tsunade, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Mina Uchiha brought Nawaki Senju to Sunagakure, where Yunqing welcomed them and promptly taught Nawaki a lesson about how ninja battles worked. Nawaki arrived unaware that Hiruzen Sarutobi had sent him there to learn and help plant trees.

• On the way to Sunagakure, Orochimaru asked Nawaki about his Wood Release and told him to act foolish and ask the Third Kazekage questions.
• Nawaki revealed that Masamura from school had warned him someone might kill him, prompting Tsunade and the others to keep him under close watch.
• Yunqing and Sunagakure's leaders welcomed the group at the cleared entrance to First Ray of Sky.
• Nawaki challenged Yunqing, who bound him with wind before he could complete his hand seals and explained that enemies would not wait for a ninja to prepare an attack.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru stopped Tsunade from intervening, suspecting Yunqing was following Hiruzen Sarutobi's plan to educate Nawaki.

Yunqing forced Nawaki Senju to train Wood Release in the desert, explaining that exhausting his chakra helped develop his Immortal Body. The chapter left Nawaki continuing his training while Yunqing privately believed he could reach Hashirama Senju’s level, though the process might cost him his life.

• Nawaki Senju struggled to use Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, producing only a small thicket as Yunqing and Tsunade watched.
• Yunqing ordered Nawaki to keep practicing the technique and explained to Tsunade that mastering it would make learning other Wood Release techniques easier.
• Tsunade questioned Yunqing’s practice of draining Nawaki’s chakra, and Yunqing said Nawaki’s Immortal Body could withstand the training and would grow stronger by absorbing Natural Chakra.
• Yunqing observed Nawaki becoming more sage-like and privately judged that he might surpass Hashirama Senju if he survived the training.

Yunqing continued training Nawaki Senju in swordsmanship, recognized his rapid progress, and told him to develop his own path with the sword. As Yunqing lectured at the training ground, Madara Uchiha and Tobi discovered that Nawaki's vitality and Chakra resembled Hashirama Senju's.

• Sunagakure residents and officials gathered to watch Yunqing and Nawaki Senju spar with real swords.
• Nawaki attacked fiercely, while Yunqing defended and praised Nawaki's sharp movements and growing determination.
• Orochimaru noted that Nawaki's strength rivaled an ordinary Jonin, while Tsunade scolded Jiraiya for boasting.
• Madara Uchiha ordered Tobi to sense Nawaki's Chakra, and Tobi found it unusually vital, like Hashirama Cells.
• Yunqing disarmed Nawaki, said he would teach him Sword Enlightenment the next day, and explained swordsmanship to the gathered spectators.

Mina Uchiha recruited Madara Uchiha to help record and produce educational content based on Yunqing’s swordsmanship lecture. As they worked together, Madara hinted that he had surviving Uchiha relatives but believed they would not want to see him.

• While Mina Uchiha struggled to record the lecture and its audio, Madara Uchiha offered to help and took over the Chakra Camera.
• After the lecture, Madara accompanied Mina to her villa to edit the footage, and Tobi joined them to review it.
• When the recording proved flawed, Mina said they needed a taijutsu expert to produce proper educational material, and Madara offered to teach.
• Madara delivered a convincing instructional segment, so Mina hired him to help create content for Kazekage Building review.
• Mina praised Madara’s skill and asked about his descendants, and Madara explained that his younger brother’s and other relatives’ descendants were alive but likely did not want to see him.

Mina Uchiha mistook Madara for an unaffiliated Quasi-Kage and offered him a job, while Yunqing approved her work and welcomed her plans for Sunagakure. The chapter ended with Madara and Tobi enjoying the city’s food, as Tobi teased Madara about being old.

• Mina Uchiha offered Madara a job with a salary, commission, and the promise of shares, and Madara considered accepting for the time being.
• Yunqing watched footage of Mina teaching Nawaki and praised her for passing his assessment.
• Yunqing told Mina that Sunagakure would welcome her efforts as long as she followed its constitution, and she left to develop its market.
• Yunqing watched the footage again and realized the voice teaching Nawaki was likely Madara Uchiha's.
• Tobi ate his way along Commercial Street with Madara, then called him naggy and joked that old age had given him dementia.

After Yunqing ordered Nawaki Senju to leave the Land of Wind, rumors and petitions against the Kazekage spread, while the country's leaders avoided intervening by claiming to be gravely ill. In an unknown base, Scarface raged that his allies had wasted their chance.

• Yunqing ordered Nawaki Senju to leave Sunagakure, and Tsunade escorted him toward the Land of Fire as Bunpuku followed to protect him.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Wind and the Left Prime Minister discussed the petitions and decided to stay out of the dispute.
• The Daimyo, the Left Prime Minister, and the Right Prime Minister each claimed to be seriously ill, frustrating those seeking to challenge Yunqing.
• Scarface smashed objects in an unknown base and berated his allies for abandoning what he called their best opportunity.

Yunqing responded to protests over Nawaki’s departure by securing Kazekage Building, mobilizing Sunagakure’s military and departments, and ordering the unrest suppressed. As order returned, Leikai began investigating how Nawaki had transformed battle ruins into green land and how many people depended on the work.

• Pakura urged Yunqing to explain Nawaki’s departure, but Yunqing asked whether anyone inside Kazekage Building had moved against him.
• Yunqing ordered Suke to investigate outside Sunagakure, mobilize the military, and arrest or kill violent resisters; he also warned Rasa against rash action.
• Yunqing directed Pakura to send Sashi’s police officers to disperse the crowd, have Shatu control traffic, and keep Kazekage Building stable.
• Sashi and Shatu mobilized their departments, while Ebizo and the Elders kept officials working and protected Sunagakure’s administration.
• At the desert settlement, Leikai asked Akai how Nawaki had created green land among the battle ruins and how many people relied on the work.

Akai and Leikai recognized that completing the Land of Wind’s greening could cost many people their tree-planting jobs, while rumors about Kazekage Yunqing’s motives and land distribution stirred public anger. Pakura confirmed that an enemy was manipulating the rumors, and a Sand Snake watched one of the agitators.

• Akai understood the employment risks behind Yunqing’s order and left after calling the Kazekage a good man.
• Rumors spread that greening the Land of Wind would deprive half the population of work, and residents praised Yunqing for supposedly protecting their livelihoods.
• A scar-faced man at a secret base ordered his underlings to spread claims that newly greened land would be divided among the unemployed.
• Leikai heard residents at a teahouse grow angry over the promise of land and went to seek Akai’s judgment.
• A Sand Snake watched the scar-faced agitator while Pakura reviewed reports and concluded that someone was deliberately causing trouble.

Yunqing revealed to Pakura that Nawaki’s green land had not been fully transformed and could not yet support farming. A dissident’s failed attempt to cultivate it turned the rumors against Yunqing into a boost to his reputation, while Suke tracked down the organization behind the rumors and launched an assault on its secret base.

• Yunqing showed Pakura sand beneath the grass and explained that Nawaki’s Wood Release had not yet made the land suitable for farming.
• A dissident publicly tried to cultivate an acre, dug up sand instead, and was fined and detained for destroying greenery, undermining the rumors against Yunqing.
• Yunqing regained an excellent reputation and once again became Kazekage of Sunagakure.
• At a secret base, Scarface berated his organization’s members and ordered them to set examples across every region within a month.
• Suke entered the meeting under orders from Lord Kazekage to eliminate the dissidents, and Scarface’s group attacked him.
• Suke used Magnet Release: Iron Sand Shower and Iron Sand Funeral, shaking the secret base as the battle began.

Suke uncovered that people from the Four Great Nations and Scarface’s group had spread rumors about Yunqing, then destroyed Scarface’s base. Yunqing’s reputation recovered, and Tsunade convinced Nawaki to return to Konoha after he understood why Yunqing had kept him away.

• Suke learned that Scarface’s people and a few agents from the Four Great Nations had spread the rumors, then used Iron Sand to kill everyone at their base.
• Sunagakure’s civilians realized they had wrongly accused Yunqing, apologized to him, and saw the village return to a harmonious state.
• Pakura questioned Yunqing about why he had not launched a larger purge, and Yunqing explained that Suke’s destruction of the base was enough.
• Tsunade told Nawaki that Yunqing had kept him away because his abilities were not yet strong enough to help the Land of Wind as he wished.
• Nawaki accepted that his efforts could harm Yunqing and set off with Tsunade toward Konoha.

After Nawaki Senju and Tsunade survived a massive assassination attempt but lay gravely weakened, Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered an investigation and suspected both foreign villages and factions within Konoha. He dispatched Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Hatake Sakumo to investigate by different means, leaving the conspirators’ identities unknown.

• Mito Uzumaki, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru grew furious as Tsunade and Nawaki Senju lay weak in the Senju residence.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered a thorough investigation into the Explosion Tags and the Jonin who attacked the siblings.
• Orochimaru suggested multiple factions had joined the attack, and he and Jiraiya considered whether Sunagakure’s Third Kazekage might have had a motive.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Hatake Sakumo to secretly investigate the attack site with clan specialists, while Orochimaru monitored Konoha and Jiraiya led the public investigation.
• Jiraiya recruited Jonin squads to investigate, Orochimaru continued his experiments as intelligent snakes appeared around Konoha, and Hatake Sakumo led an Anbu squad in secret.