Recaps

Mei Terumi flirted with Uchiha Mai after he helped deal with Kaguya Chengze, but Mai made clear that he preferred Tsunade. The groups returned to Konoha’s encampment, where Uchiha Mai’s advice about confidence led Sarutobi Asuma to embarrass himself by flirting with Yashamaru in disguise.

• Mei Terumi praised Uchiha Mai’s looks and proposed that he marry into Kirigakure, while Tekka and Shangfeng objected.
• Uchiha Mai showed Mei Terumi a photograph of Tsunade and said he liked women with her figure, prompting Mei to vow that he should wait for her to grow up.
• After Mei Terumi and her group left, Uchiha Mai warned Tekka and Shangfeng that she might still try to kill or abduct him despite her flirtation.
• The Konoha group returned to its encampment, where Sarutobi Asuma asked Uchiha Mai for advice on becoming more charming.
• Asuma followed Mai’s advice about confidence by flirting with a passing Sand ninja, who was actually Yashamaru in disguise.

Uchiha Mai learned that the Chunin Ninja Exams would include a written test and discussed how candidates could cheat. As Konoha’s team headed to the exam, Uchiha Tekka recounted how copying another candidate’s answers had once earned him a passing score by mistake.

• Uchiha Mai told Jiraiya about Kirigakure’s powerful ninja, and Jiraiya advised him not to worry about the upcoming battles.
• Jiraiya explained that the Chunin Ninja Exams included a written test and that cheating was allowed if candidates avoided getting caught.
• Uchiha Mai considered using the written test to eliminate strong opponents like Mei Terumi and Kaguya Chengze.
• After teams from small villages arrived and tensions stayed low, Konoha’s ninja went to the written test.
• Uchiha Tekka told Uchiha Mai that he had once copied a candidate’s answers and advanced despite getting only one question right.

Uchiha Mai struggled with Rasa’s brutally difficult written exam and studied the examinees’ cheating methods instead of answering. As the papers were collected, he prepared to make his move.

• Rasa explained the exam’s scoring and cheating rules, then distributed the papers.
• Uchiha Mai found that he could answer only two questions and used his Sharingan to observe six examinees who wrote confidently.
• Mai copied the six examinees’ movements and found they had each answered five questions, with three different answers for every question.
• Mei Terumi used Water Style to pass answers to her teammates, while Hizuki Jun froze the mist so they could feel the answers.
• Rasa expelled examinees who blatantly tried to peek, and Shangfeng and Tekka eventually copied answers with their Sharingan.
• When the bell ended the exam, Rasa told Mei Terumi to collect the papers, and Uchiha Mai prepared to perform his move.

Mei Terumi collected the exam papers while imagining a future with Uchiha Mai, who caught her when she tripped. After the written exam ended, Uchiha Mai’s teammates worried that his low score would keep their team from advancing.

• Mei Terumi told Uchiha Mai she expected to score eighty or ninety points, and he said he had earned twenty.
• Mei Terumi realized Uchiha Mai’s low score had made his team’s chances of advancing seem slim and privately planned to take him to Kirigakure after the exams.
• Mei Terumi tripped while carrying the papers, and Uchiha Mai caught her and helped her back up.
• Rasa sealed the papers, announced that the results would be posted the next day, and left the classroom.
• Uchiha Tekka and Uchiha Shangfeng worried about their team’s total score, and Uchiha Mai calmly confirmed that he had earned twenty points.

Uchiha Mai explained how he manipulated the Chunin exam results by rearranging the names on every test paper, leaving his team as the only one with a score. He argued that the exams had to continue for the noble audience and proposed using a Sunagakure retake to secure advantages for Konoha.

• Uchiha Mai told Uchiha Tekka and Uchiha Shangfeng that he had cheated once while the exam papers were being collected.
• Uchiha Mai explained that he rearranged the names on eighty-two papers, making every examinee except himself appear nonexistent after grading.
• Uchiha Shangfeng imagined that their team could claim the top three individual rankings, but Uchiha Mai explained that the exams were a spectacle for nobles and wealthy spectators.
• Uchiha Mai predicted Sunagakure would hold a retake for the zero-score teams and suggested Konoha could pressure it to keep Kaguya Chengze's and Mei Terumi's teams from advancing.
• Uchiha Tekka and Uchiha Shangfeng eagerly accepted the idea of rigging out rival teams.

After Uchiha Mai’s team scored 20 points and every other team scored zero, Yagura and Jiraiya challenged Sunagakure’s plan for a retest. The villages negotiated a compromise: Mai’s team would remain qualified, while the other teams would compete in a revival round.

• Mei Terumi and the other examinees realized that Uchiha Mai had tampered with the test papers, and Yagura filed a complaint demanding a new exam.
• Sunagakure announced that Mai’s team had qualified and that the remaining candidates would take another written test; Yagura accepted the arrangement to keep Kirigakure’s ninjas in contention.
• Jiraiya brought Mai to the Kazekage’s office and threatened to withdraw Konoha unless Sunagakure addressed what he called unfair treatment.
• Rasa explained that the rules required the top half to advance, so the zero-score teams needed another test to determine who qualified.
• Jiraiya negotiated with Rasa, the Third Kazekage, and Yagura, securing agreement to call the new test a revival round and officially treat all teams except Mai’s as eliminated.

Jiraiya negotiated with Rasa and Mizukage Yagura to eliminate one Kirigakure team from the written exam, then the contestants battled through a chaotic revival round. Rasa announced the teams advancing to the next day’s competition and dismissed a contestant’s accusations of unfair scoring.

• Jiraiya asked Rasa for the participant list and proposed excluding three Kirigakure teams, but Yagura insisted Mei Terumi Team remain in the exam.
• Uchiha Mai chose to eliminate the other Shikotsumyaku Team rather than take a chance against them, and Yagura agreed.
• Rasa announced that Uchiha Mai’s actions counted as eliminating all other teams and that teams with zero points would receive a written-exam revival round.
• The contestants disrupted one another’s cheating during the revival round, and the highest-scoring team finished with 120 points.
• Rasa selected the top half of the teams and announced the team competition for the next day.
• When a Kirigakure contestant questioned a score deduction, Rasa showed the marked exam paper and Yagura backed his claim of fairness.

Uchiha Mai faced a crowd of eliminated candidates who blamed him for their failure in the written exams, while Rasa initially refused to intervene. Mai challenged Rasa’s reasoning by asking whether he could summon Jiraiya to attack the crowd as a private matter.

• Hundreds gathered at Sunagakure’s entrance, including eliminated candidates seeking revenge on Uchiha Mai and spectators hoping to watch.
• Uchiha Mai and his teammates appeared atop a stone pillar, where their Three Tomoe Sharingan intimidated the crowd; Mei Terumi assessed Mai as the team’s real strength.
• An eliminated candidate accused Mai of ruining his exam and urged the crowd to attack him together.
• Mai appealed to Chief Examiner Rasa, who ruled that the eliminated candidates’ attack would be a private grudge outside the exam.
• Mai argued that Rasa’s logic would also make it acceptable for Jiraiya to attack the crowd, leaving Rasa speechless.

Rasa explained the team competition, in which teams had to gather four types of scrolls and reach a Stone Tower in the desert within three days. Uchiha Mai’s team collected their scroll as the stage began, drawing the attention of several teams eager to target them.

• Rasa stopped the eliminated candidates from attacking Uchiha Mai, and Mai told Uchiha Tekka that fighting and killing were only means to an end.
• Rasa announced that teams needed Wind, Forest, Fire, and Mountain Scrolls and had to reach a Stone Tower in one of nine oases within three days.
• Uchiha Mai reasoned that Sunagakure’s candidates would not have a decisive advantage, and Rasa distributed maps marking the oases.
• Mei Terumi asked why Sunagakure had not been built in an oasis, and Rasa explained that the original oasis had been swallowed by the desert.
• A gyrfalcon brought the last scroll to Uchiha Mai, and Rasa declared the second stage underway as several teams focused on the three Uchiha.

Uchiha Mai challenged the contestants who wanted to gang up on his team, while Mei Terumi decided not to join them. As the confrontation escalated, Uchiha Mai said he would redirect the crowd’s hostility toward Kirigakure if its teams attacked.

• Kusabana Juro urged the contestants to unite against Uchiha Mai, and more than a dozen ninjas from small villages answered his call.
• Mei Terumi explained that the small-village ninjas feared powerful teams and chose not to join the attack, warning Kisame Hoshigaki that doing so could let Uchiha Mai turn the crowd against them.
• Uchiha Tekka accused the attackers of ganging up on the Uchiha, while Uchiha Mai invited them to attack and dared them to come up and die.
• Uchiha Shangfeng worried that Mei Terumi or Kaguya Chengze might join the mob, and Uchiha Mai said he would shift the crowd’s anger toward Kirigakure if they did.

Uchiha Mai’s group faced Kusabana Juro’s larger force in the plaza, where Mai effortlessly turned back their attack. He restrained Juro before the latter could finish a jutsu, leaving the confrontation under Mai’s control.

• Kusabana Juro rallied the other contestants to attack Uchiha Mai’s group, then charged first when no one else would lead.
• Uchiha Mai used Super Beast Imitating Drawing: Tiger Descending the Mountain to knock one of Juro’s teammates off the pillar.
• Mai’s summoned birds intercepted Juro’s explosive-tag kunai and redirected them, killing another teammate in the blasts.
• Juro reached Mai and began forming hand seals for Wind Release: Great Breakthrough, but Mai’s Stealth Snake Hand restrained his arms, neck, and torso.

Uchiha Mai killed Kusabana Juro and claimed his wind scroll, then faced down the other teams in the plaza. Sato Daisuke challenged him with a puppet and clones as a distraction, while the real Sato circled behind Mai and Tekka.

• Uchiha Tekka used his Three Tomoe to control two ninjas who were rushing to rescue Kusabana Juro, while Uchiha Shangfeng and their teammates held off the others.
• Uchiha Mai crushed Kusabana Juro with two black dragons and took the wind-marked scroll, which he needed alongside the fire scroll to find the remaining scrolls.
• Uchiha Mai taunted the plaza, and Mei Terumi admired his strength while Kisame claimed he could match him.
• Sato Daisuke charged at Uchiha Mai with two teammates, but Mai's blue flames destroyed only Daisuke's puppet and passed through his teammates' clones.
• The real Sato Daisuke circled behind the stone pillar and reached the backs of Uchiha Mai and Tekka.

Uchiha Mai and his allies defeated Sato Daisuke’s team in the square and took a Forest-marked scroll. Mai then challenged the other teams before setting out to find the Oasis Stone Tower.

• Sato Daisuke and two teammates sent poisoned, blade-fingered puppets to attack Uchiha Mai and Uchiha Tekka, but Mai’s Black Dragons and insects disabled them.
• Mai used Dokugaku to destroy two puppets, while Tekka’s Phoenix Sage Fire Technique struck all three attackers as they dodged.
• Mai killed one attacker with Boom Axe: Yang, seriously injured Sato Daisuke with Kotsuki Yin, then slammed him into the ground and killed him with chakra flames.
• Uchiha Tekka and Uchiha Shangfeng finished off the team’s last member, and Mai took a scroll marked Forest from Sato Daisuke’s body.
• Mai said he would leave to find the Oasis Stone Tower and challenged anyone in the square who wanted to fight, but no one answered.

Uchiha Mai left the square with his teammates and used the journey to draw a new skill from the system. He gained Jackie Chan Never Dies Barehanded, which improved his ability to learn and wield physical objects, though only within ordinary human limits.

• Uchiha Mai left the square with Uchiha Tekka and Shangfeng after the other teams refused to challenge him.
• Over thirty kilometers from Sunagakure, Uchiha Mai sent birds to scout the oases and other teams, then had the Black-Gold Roc carry them into the sky.
• Uchiha Mai asked Uchiha Tekka and Shangfeng to keep watch while he used his Style Points to draw from the One-and-a-Half-Star Prize Pool.
• Uchiha Mai received Jackie Chan Never Dies Barehanded, a skill that helped him quickly learn to use objects as weapons.
• The system told Uchiha Mai that the skill could raise his weapon proficiency only to ordinary human limits, leaving extraordinary techniques for him to develop himself.

Uchiha Mai’s team collected the Mountain scroll and headed for the Oasis Stone Tower, discovering that one tower was a mirage. As they approached the real tower through a sandstorm, Kaguya Chengze and his group blocked their way.

• Uchiha Mai defeated an opposing ninja, took his Mountain scroll, and spared his team while giving them a duplicate scroll in return.
• Uchiha Mai told Uchiha Tekka and Shangfeng that his scouts had found eleven oases and two stone towers, more than the map showed.
• The three brothers flew to an unmarked oasis, but its tower vanished as they approached, and Uchiha Mai identified it as a mirage.
• Uchiha Mai led the team toward the other tower, and they continued on foot when a sandstorm made flying difficult.
• Uchiha Mai, Uchiha Tekka, and Shangfeng reached the real tower and found Kaguya Chengze and his group blocking their path.

Uchiha Mai fought Kaguya Chengze and his teammates in a sandstorm, using Kaguya Chengze’s own bone spear against him. Mai left Kaguya Chengze badly wounded, but an opponent who had slipped past Shangfeng attacked Mai from behind.

• Kaguya Chengze confronted Uchiha Mai, and Mai taunted him with the bone spear he had taken from him.
• Kaguya Chengze charged, but Mai deflected his bone spear thrust and ensnared his legs with Hidden Shadow Snake Hand.
• Mai drove his bone spear through Kaguya Chengze’s chest, but Kaguya Chengze unleashed Shikotsumyaku: Great Porcupine.
• Mai dodged the bone spikes and kicked the spear through Kaguya Chengze’s chest, then prepared to follow up with Dark Stroke.
• An opponent who had gotten past Shangfeng launched a bone spear at Uchiha Mai from behind, and Mai ducked out of its path.

Uchiha Mai defeated Kaguya Chengze with a rapid sequence of chakra-made crescent blades and blue flames, then absorbed the energy released by his death. The battle ended with Mai recovering much of his chakra and strengthening his Sharingan.

• Uchiha Mai used Hidden Shadow Snake Hand to retrieve a bone spear and hurl it into the Kaguya clansman fighting Uchiha Shangfeng.
• Uchiha Mai ordered Shangfeng to finish the pinned opponent and help Cousin Tekka while Kaguya Chengze pulled the spear from his body and broke it.
• Uchiha Mai manifested twin crescent scimitars and used a modified Triple Crane Wings sequence to overwhelm Kaguya Chengze's bone defenses.
• Uchiha Mai engulfed Kaguya Chengze in blue flames, killing him as he cried out in defiance.
• Uchiha Mai absorbed Chengze's life force and spiritual energy, restored most of the chakra he had spent, and strengthened his left Sharingan.

Uchiha Mai discovered his Sharingan had evolved to Two Tomoe and considered using absorbed spiritual energy to advance it further. After defeating their opponents and reaching the Stone Tower, his team passed the examination as the second team, and Mei Terumi’s smile froze when Mai told her Kaguya Chengze had challenged him.

• Uchiha Mai noticed his left Sharingan had gained a second Tomoe and reasoned that absorbing spiritual energy might help it evolve further.
• Uchiha Mai collected meat and internal organs from the defeated Shikotsumyaku users, explaining that he hoped to bring the valuable material back to Konoha.
• Uchiha Mai, Uchiha Tekka, and Shangfeng reached the Stone Tower before the sandstorm and presented their four scrolls to Rasa.
• Uchiha Mai’s precise throw embedded the four scrolls in the wall, and Rasa confirmed that the team had passed as the second to advance.
• Mei Terumi congratulated Uchiha Mai on avoiding injury, but her smile froze when he named Kaguya Chengze as the opponent who had blocked his path.

Uchiha Mai’s killing of Kaguya Chengze left Mei Terumi torn between her feelings for Mai and her duty to Kirigakure. After the team round ended with only Konoha and Kirigakure advancing, Jiraiya and Yagura proposed barring teammates from facing each other, and the Daimyo of the Land of Wind approved a village showdown.

• Mei Terumi learned that Uchiha Mai had killed Kaguya Chengze and his teammates, then watched Mai enter the Stone Tower with Uchiha Tekka and Shangfeng.
• Mei Terumi asked Kisame whether he could defeat Uchiha Mai, and Kisame assessed his chances as roughly even if Mai had shown his full strength.
• No other teams advanced during the next two days, leaving only the exceptional teams from Konoha and Kirigakure in the individual round.
• Jiraiya and Yagura proposed a rule preventing teammates from drawing each other, while Rasa and the Kazekage objected to the plan.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Wind approved the proposal, eager to watch Konoha and Kirigakure compete.

Rasa announced that the Daimyo of the Land of Wind would draw the Chunin Exam matchups, and the first bout paired Mei Terumi with Uchiha Shangfeng. Mei blanketed the Stone Tower arena in an exceptionally dense Hidden Mist, leaving Shangfeng with almost no visibility as Uchiha Mai realized he had little chance of winning.

• Rasa announced that teammates would not be paired unless no other draw was possible, and that the Daimyo would select the matchups.
• The Daimyo drew Mei Terumi against Uchiha Shangfeng, Uchiha Mai against Hizuki Jun, and Kisame against Uchiha Tekka.
• Uchiha Mai warned Shangfeng to surrender if necessary, but Shangfeng insisted that his Two-Tomoe Sharingan gave him a chance.
• Mei Terumi began their bout by using Hidden Mist Technique to cover the arena in dense mist.
• Uchiha Shangfeng and the spectators found their vision limited to a few meters, and Uchiha Mai concluded that Shangfeng could not defeat Mei.

Mei Terumi defeated Uchiha Shangfeng but spared him, and Uchiha Mai deduced that she wanted to warn him not to kill Hizuki Jun in their next match. As the next match began, Mai faced Hizuki Jun while Uchiha Tekka prepared to fight Kisame afterward.

• Mei Terumi overwhelmed Uchiha Shangfeng with a massive Water Shockwave and blasted him out of the arena, securing victory without killing him.
• Uchiha Mai and Uchiha Tekka discussed why Mei Terumi had spared Shangfeng, and Mai concluded she had sent him back as a warning to spare Hizuki Jun.
• Uchiha Mai warned Uchiha Tekka that Kisame would be a dangerous opponent, while Kisame overheard Mai's claim that he was no weaker than her.
• After five minutes, Hizuki Jun entered the arena and invited Uchiha Mai to begin their match.

Uchiha Mai fought Hizuki Jun in the tournament, countering her ice techniques with precise movement and a Phoenix Summoning attack. As Mai pressed his advantage, Mei Terumi warned Kisame not to give him an opening.

• Hizuki Jun challenged Uchiha Mai for her team's sake, and Mai agreed to go easy on her.
• Hizuki Jun attacked with Ice Release: Ice Shuriken, but Uchiha Mai shattered and redirected the cards with his hands and feet.
• Uchiha Mai used Super Beast Imitating Drawing: Phoenix Summoning to send flaming birds into Hizuki Jun's Ice Rock Dome and destroy it.
• Uchiha Mai followed with a hidden snake attack, but Hizuki Jun dodged and glided away on a path of ice.
• Mei Terumi judged that Hizuki Jun could not win and warned Kisame to avoid rushing in or giving Uchiha Mai an opening.

Uchiha Mai defeated Hizuki Jun in the second match and warned Uchiha Tekka about the strength of his next opponent, Kisame Hoshigaki. The third match began as Tekka prepared to face Kisame.

• Hizuki Jun used Ice Release techniques against Uchiha Mai, but he broke through her defenses and knocked her down.
• Uchiha Mai held back from killing Hizuki Jun, and she conceded the match.
• Rasa declared Uchiha Mai the winner and announced Kisame Hoshigaki versus Uchiha Tekka as the next match.
• Uchiha Mai warned Uchiha Tekka that Kisame excelled at ninjutsu, taijutsu, and swordsmanship, with his reliance on hand seals as a possible weakness.
• After five minutes, Rasa rang the bell and began the third match.

Kisame Hoshigaki overwhelmed Uchiha Tekka in the arena with massive Water Style techniques, then gained the upper hand in a sword fight through his strength and Chakra Absorption Technique. Tekka was left weakened as Uchiha Mai realized he had forgotten Kisame could drain chakra even without Samehada.

• Uchiha Tekka questioned why Kisame Hoshigaki would not use the Hidden Mist Technique, and Kisame said he preferred not to.
• Kisame flooded the arena with Water Release: Exploding Water Colliding Wave and countered Tekka's attacks with Water Style techniques.
• Tekka's chakra ran low as Kisame controlled the water-covered arena and repeatedly neutralized his Fire Style attacks.
• Tekka charged Kisame with a short sword, but Kisame suppressed him with his strength and swordsmanship.
• Kisame blocked Tekka's kick and used the Chakra Absorption Technique to drain his chakra, prompting Uchiha Mai to remember Kisame's ability.

Uchiha Mai stopped Kisame Hoshigaki from killing the defeated Tekka, and Rasa declared Kisame the winner. The final three were set as Mei Terumi, Uchiha Mai, and Kisame, leaving Mai to prepare for a difficult path to the championship.

• Uchiha Mai called forfeit for Tekka, but Rasa refused because Tekka could still fight, and Tekka continued battling Kisame Hoshigaki.
• Kisame wounded Tekka and launched a Water Shark Bullet Technique, but Uchiha Mai destroyed the attack and carried Tekka from the battlefield.
• Jiraiya pressured Rasa to declare the match, and Rasa named Kisame the winner and announced Mei Terumi, Uchiha Mai, and Kisame as the final three.
• A Sunagakure medical ninja assessed Tekka's injuries, and Tekka apologized to Uchiha Mai for failing to help him.
• Uchiha Mai reassured Tekka and explained how Kisame had used water over his eyes and avoided eye contact to weaken the effect of Tekka's Sharingan genjutsu.