Chapter Summaries

Akaseki and Ranwu sensed a brief fluctuation resembling the ryūmyaku near the palace but could not investigate it. As the group traveled with Miroku, Akaseki learned that priestesses were rumored to foresee calamities and began to suspect her connection to the fluctuation, while Ranwu grew irritated by Miroku’s sudden interest in him.

• Akaseki and Ranwu discussed the fleeting ryūmyaku-like aura they had sensed near the palace and decided not to investigate.
• Akaseki noticed Nonō watching him after he left Ranwu’s room, then sensed another gaze from Yangyong’s room.
• On June 7, the Konoha squad met Yomi, Miroku, and Feng Qi at the Wind Capital’s south gate and set out on a grueling journey.
• Ranwu carried Miroku when she struggled to keep up, then confronted her about repeatedly looking at Akaseki and imagining a future with him.
• Yomi explained that priestesses were rumored to foresee calamities, prompting Akaseki to suspect Miroku’s visions were related to the strange fluctuation.

Akaseki suspected Miroku’s prophetic visions had caused the strange fluctuation, while Ranwu grew jealous and tried to learn more about the Miko’s power. Miroku revealed that she had foreseen a future daughter named Konoha, leaving Ranwu confused about the child’s identity.

• Akaseki considered whether Miroku’s ability to foresee the future had caused the previous night’s fluctuation, while Yomi’s remarks made him more suspicious of Yomi’s motives.
• Ranwu carried the exhausted Miroku, who teased her about liking Akaseki and admitted she had seen something in the future.
• Ranwu asked whether Miroku’s daughter would inherit the Miko’s role, and Miroku said her future daughter might live in Konoha.
• Miroku said she liked the flower aster but believed she might follow the father’s wishes, then revealed that the daughter’s name was Konoha.
• Ranwu wondered whether the future child was the Konoha she had carried for ten months, while Nonō looked on in confusion.

Ranwu, Akaseki, and their companions reached the sealed ruins in the Land of Wind, where Akaseki sensed an ominous presence unlike chakra. After another strange fluctuation came from Miroku’s room, Ranwu went to question her alone.

• Ranwu rejected Miroku’s claim that Konoha was Akaseki’s daughter and figured Miroku had misunderstood her vision.
• The party reached the ruins’ guarded entrance, where Yomi told the guards that Konoha’s ninja had come to unravel the seal.
• Akaseki sensed an evil emotional presence inside the cavern and asked the Hell Yama King whether it resembled a demon god; the king compared it to Void but knew of no such demon god.
• Akaseki warned Ranwu to be cautious of the ruins, Yomi, and especially Miroku, whom he thought was watching him.
• Ranwu and Akaseki sensed another strange fluctuation coming from Miroku’s room, and Ranwu went to question her alone.

Akaseki learned that Miroku had foreseen A Jie, A Yang, and Yuchi Jiong being killed by black-purple tentacles underground, so he tried to alter the prophecy by separating them. As the group prepared to enter the Underground Ruin, Hell Yama King linked Miroku’s foresight to the Byakugan abilities of Hyuga Tennin, and Ranwu confronted Akaseki for staring at Miroku.

• Ranwu told Akaseki that Miroku had seen three tentacles pierce A Jie, A Yang, and Yuchi Jiong underground, and Akaseki reasoned that separating them might prevent their deaths together.
• Akaseki explained the vision to the three Uchiha and assigned A Jie to descend with the group while A Yang and Yuchi Jiong guarded the entrance.
• Miroku warned that people in the Land of Demons had tried and failed to break prophecies, but Akaseki insisted the three should split up.
• Hell Yama King told Akaseki that Hyuga Tennin had once demonstrated space-time abilities through his Byakugan, prompting Akaseki to suspect a connection to Miroku’s foresight.
• Akaseki studied Miroku’s eyes until Ranwu stepped between them and gave him a dangerous look.

Akaseki and the others opened the Ruin’s entrance and were met by a massive legion of self-repairing clay puppets. After Akaseki held them back with powerful ninjutsu and Yomi and Miroku sealed the entrance, Yangyong ordered the group to charge inside.

• Gongzhi Jiu stayed outside with A Yang and Yuchi Jiong to guard the retreat route while Yomi removed the entrance seal.
• Yomi and Miroku began setting up new seals as the disturbed Ruin sent dense ranks of dark purple clay puppets toward the group.
• Akaseki used four Mirror Clones to unleash five combination ninjutsu, damaging and scattering the puppets but finding them remarkably durable and able to repair themselves.
• Akaseki trapped the advancing puppets in a vast swamp while Yomi completed her seal and Miroku added a second barrier.
• The sealed entrance slowed the puppets, and Yangyong ordered Kamizuki Kongyun and Akaseki to cover the sides as the group charged into the Ruin.

Yangyong’s squad fought through the Puppet Army and reached a cavern where they rested and planned their next move. Akaseki questioned what the others knew about the seal and Moryo, leaving the threat and the seal’s origins uncertain.

• Yangyong led the squad through the slow, resilient puppets using Taijutsu and reached the next level after two and a half hours.
• Akaseki left a Mirror Clone to guard the cave entrance while the squad rested for three hours.
• Akaseki suspected the puppets might be able to escape the seal, while Yomi and the others thought their power was confined to the ruin.
• Miroku said Miko legends foretold that Moryo could threaten the Shinobi World and that the Miko were tasked with sealing it away again.
• Yangyong ordered Kamizuki Kongyun to hold the position with A Jie and Nonō, then Akaseki asked Miroku about the seal’s history.
• Miroku said the First Miko had sacrificed herself to seal Moryo, but she knew no more about the seal’s origin.

Akaseki and the others discovered that the ruin’s destination spaces changed according to local time, and Miroku’s Eight Trigrams theory correctly predicted they had entered the Storm Space. Akaseki sent mirror clones to fight its puppets and kept replenishing them as they returned, leaving the group’s progress inside unresolved.

• Yangyong sent a shadow clone into the next space, where lightning and a puppet destroyed it.
• Miroku used local time and the Eight Trigrams to explain why the group had reached the Storm Space instead of the Flame Space.
• Akaseki and Yangyong recognized that Miroku’s Eight Trigrams resembled the Hyuga Clan’s Taijutsu, while Akaseki learned from the Hell Yama King that the Hyuga descended from the Sage of Six Paths’ younger twin brother.
• The group waited until the local time passed seven, and Yangyong confirmed that the destination was the Storm Space.
• Akaseki sent six mirror clones into the Storm Space and stopped Yangyong from entering while they fought the puppets.
• More than a dozen mirror clones returned, and Akaseki replenished their chakra before sending them back inside.

Akaseki used Mirror Clones to scout a sequence of spaces whose hazards matched Miroku’s Eight Trigrams predictions, while the group worked out how time shifted the route’s exits. As they reached the final Qian Trigram space, all of Akaseki’s clones vanished immediately, and Yangyong urged the group to enter themselves.

• Akaseki kept sending Mirror Clones into the ruin and learned that the spaces contained ice and powerful gravity.
• Miroku mapped the spaces to the Eight Trigrams, predicting the earth, lightning, and fire spaces as Akaseki’s clones confirmed her predictions.
• Feng Qi questioned how easily Akaseki was progressing, and Akaseki said the spaces suited his abilities while Yangyong praised him.
• Akaseki’s clones crossed the Quicksand, lightning, Lava, and Acid spaces, while Miroku identified their places in the Eight Trigrams sequence.
• Akaseki and Miroku realized that the initial entrance and the route out shifted with the time, and that the levels proceeded counterclockwise through the trigrams.
• Akaseki’s Mirror Clones disappeared as soon as they entered the final Qian Trigram space, so Yangyong proposed that the group go in themselves.

Akaseki and the others entered the final space, where they discovered that its bright, empty surroundings prevented them from using ninjutsu. As nearly a thousand puppets approached, the group realized they would have to fight with the techniques that still worked.

• After Yangyong's shadow clones vanished at the entrance, Feng Qi entered the space first, and the others followed when his summoned weasel remained alive.
• The group found a vast white expanse with no visible exits, then saw nearly a thousand puppets approaching.
• Feng Qi discovered he could not form ninjutsu, and Akaseki realized the space's prohibition had caused the clones to vanish.
• Akaseki found that ninjutsu and genjutsu were unusable, while Miroku's chakra release and Ranwu's Strength of a Hundred still worked.
• Akaseki concluded that techniques relying on pure chakra control, such as the Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist, might also function.

Akaseki and the others fought through the puppet-filled spaces, only to discover that the route looped back to the Storm Space and that the spaces reset when the trigram changed. After they left the Lava Dimension, Yomi separated Miroku and Yomi from the others, and Miroku revealed that Akaseki’s intuition about Yomi controlling the connections between spaces was right.

• Akaseki entered Sage Mode and battled through the puppet army with Yangyong and Feng Qi while Ranwu protected Miroku and Yomi.
• After the puppets were defeated, Akaseki sent a Mirror Clone through a new doorway and learned that it led back to the Storm Space, where the puppets had regenerated.
• Miroku speculated that the spaces reset when the current trigram changed, and Akaseki decided they should leave and try clearing the spaces during the next four-hour Kun Trigram period.
• Akaseki and Miroku stayed behind briefly as the group left the Lava Dimension, and Miroku later disappeared along with Yomi while the others emerged outside.
• Miroku found herself in a strange space with Yomi, confirmed that he could control how the spaces connected, and released Akaseki from the Bell.

Akaseki revealed that he had used a shadow clone to foil Yomi’s attempt to separate him from Miroku, then confronted Yomi in the hub dimension. Yomi invoked a powerful chakra entity he called Ninshu, and the chapter left Akaseki fighting it as it began to seethe.

• Akaseki explained that Miroku’s inherited bell had concealed the transformation chakra of his shadow clone while his real body stayed with her.
• Yomi refused to explain his actions and used a sealing technique as Akaseki attacked with Susanoo.
• Yomi’s black-purple chakra shield stopped Susanoo, and he claimed its power came from the legendary Ninshu.
• The Hell Yama King warned Akaseki that the dimension connected to eight outer dimensions and might let its controller absorb chakra from outside.
• Akaseki used Susanoo, Ame-no-Hoko Gunbai, and the Thunderflame Greatsword to cut through the chakra entity’s dragon-like appendages.
• Akaseki challenged Yomi’s claim to Ninshu, and the black-purple chakra began to seethe.

Akaseki fought the eerie chakra Yomi had awakened, but it possessed Miroku and revealed itself as Mahashri, the Third of Ninshu. Mahashri planned to purify humanity, while the Hell Yama King warned that accumulated corruption had driven her mad.

• Yomi's chakra surged toward Miroku after Akaseki suppressed him, and Miroku tried to seal it inside her bell.
• The chakra burst free, merged with Miroku, and transformed her before she blocked Susanoo's palm and blasted Akaseki away.
• Mahashri identified herself as the Third of Ninshu and said Miroku's line carried her reincarnated chakra.
• The Hell Yama King recognized Mahashri as Hamura's daughter and warned Akaseki that the corrupted chakra had overwhelmed her mind.
• Mahashri declared that she would purify humanity, and the surrounding space began showing images of the other eight spaces.

Akaseki fought corrupted Mahashri, who overwhelmed his Susanoo with Hyuga-like Taijutsu and an unexplained gravitational force. Mahashri assumed a stance resembling one used by the modern Hyuga Clan, while the battle outside the ruins began to spill toward the exit.

• Gongzhi Jiu, A Yang, and Yuchi Jiong saw the puppets destroy a seal and prepared to fight them.
• Akaseki mocked Mahashri for judging humanity after absorbing its negative emotions, and Mahashri attacked him with a Taijutsu Body Flicker and chakra-point strikes.
• Akaseki used Uchiha Sage Mode to withstand Mahashri's attacks and keep his chakra pathways from being sealed.
• Mahashri used an unexplained gravitational force to misdirect Akaseki's sword, then struck him again.
• Akaseki recognized Mahashri's opening stance as an ancestor of a stance used by the Hyuga Clan.

Akaseki used two sensory-disrupting techniques to weaken Mahashri, then entered her mind to reach Miroku and turn the fight in his favor. He found Miroku withdrawn and surrounded by dark chakra, while an ominous shadow formed behind her.

• Akaseki used the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique to obstruct Mahashri's vision and dojutsu, then attacked her with the Heavenly Marsh Sword.
• Akaseki followed with the Sage Art: White Rage Technique, further disrupting Mahashri's sight and hearing.
• Mahashri defended herself with Rotation, blocking Akaseki and his Mirror Clones while she waited for her senses to recover.
• Akaseki reclaimed chakra from his Shadow Clone and entered Mahashri's mind to awaken Miroku.
• Akaseki found Miroku sitting in a cave, unresponsive as black-purple chakra surrounded her and an evil-looking shadow appeared behind her.

Akaseki challenged Mahashri’s claims about humanity and used the Immersion Platform to make her experience a scripted corporate world. He and Miroku entered the scenario together, where Mahashri was cast as a blatantly selfish employee, leaving her furious and bewildered.

• Akaseki argued that Mahashri had failed to understand humanity and blamed people for the damage caused by her own misguided attempt to purify their darkness.
• Mahashri engulfed Akaseki and Miroku in her shadow to show them the darkness she had witnessed, but Akaseki activated the Immersion Platform and selected a year-end bonus scenario.
• Akaseki entered the scenario as Great Virtue Group president Hong Yan, while Miroku appeared as his secretary, Liu Yan.
• Akaseki and Miroku searched the company for Mahashri and found her playing Liu Ru, an employee who slacked off and manipulated her colleague Xiao Lin.
• Hong Yan confronted Liu Ru and separately scolded Xiao Lin for doing her work, while Liu Ru pressured Xiao Lin to take her to an expensive restaurant before his year-end bonus arrived.
• Akaseki smugly watched Mahashri struggle with her one-dimensional villain role as she wondered what kind of Genjutsu she was experiencing.

Mahashri experienced Liu Ru’s malicious workplace scheming through an illusion and watched it turn Hong Yan’s Project Department against him. Liu Ru summoned online streamers to smear Hong Yan, leaving Mahashri appalled by the internet’s role in spreading their lies.

• Mahashri was forced to experience Liu Ru exploiting and humiliating her coworkers, especially Xiao Lin, for her own pleasure.
• Liu Ru stirred the Project Department against Hong Yan by claiming the dried sweet potatoes were their bonuses and that he had hired them for selfish reasons.
• The employees followed Liu Ru to confront Hong Yan, missed him on the way, and cornered and struck Liu Yan instead.
• Liu Ru accused Hong Yan of mistreating the staff and threatened to ruin his reputation online, while Hong Yan tried to explain and showed them bonus contracts worth at least one hundred thousand each.
• Liu Ru dismissed Hong Yan’s contracts and summoned online streamers, who arrived to broadcast vicious speculation about him.

Hong Yan exposed Liu Ru's attempt to stir up a protest, demoted her and Lin Yong, and sent Liu Ru to clean toilets. After half a month, Liu Ru rallied employees against Hong Yan again, but Mahashri recognized the familiar setup as Chairman Wu was expected to arrive.

• Hong Yan revealed the cash and phones prepared as bonuses and holiday gifts, then reduced the project department's bonuses and had the legal department pursue the protesters and streamers.
• Akaseki demoted Liu Ru and Lin Yong, and Liu Ru was assigned to clean toilets before deciding to pursue Chairman Wu.
• Akaseki extended the Immersion with side quests until half a month had passed and Liu Ru announced that Chairman Wu would come to support her.
• Hong Yan and Liu Yan arrived at the conference room, where Liu Ru mistook Hong Yan for an impostor and slapped Liu Yan as she tried to explain.
• Liu Ru persuaded employees to pin Hong Yan and Liu Yan down and force them to their knees while they waited for Chairman Wu.

Akaseki and Miroku watched Mahashri play Liu Ru, first as she helped expose a fake chairman and then as she turned villagers against Hong Yan, who had come to fund a bridge. Hong Yan canceled the project after the villagers threatened him, and Mahashri realized the stitched-together illusion might continue indefinitely as Liu Ru faced another chance to cause trouble.

• Fatty Wang admitted he had pretended to be Chairman Wu, and the real Chairman Wu freed Hong Yan and fired Liu Ru and the employees who had attacked him.
• Chairman Wu announced that Hong Yan would become the company’s chairman, while Liu Ru lost her job and eventually returned to her village.
• Hong Yan traveled to Liu Family Village to fund a bridge, but Liu Ru and the villagers accused him of hurting people and tried to force him to sign a document.
• The village chief recognized Hong Yan as their benefactor, but Hong Yan canceled the project and tore up the construction contract after the villagers threatened him.
• The villagers blamed Liu Ru for losing the bridge, and Mahashri feared the illusion would keep forcing her into the villain’s role.
• Three days later, Liu Ru urged the villagers to confront Hong Yan after learning he planned to build a bridge in a neighboring village instead.

Akaseki forced Mahashri through another Immersion, and she retreated into Miroku’s consciousness, where Miroku’s Miko power sealed her beneath the Bell. After they escaped the Eight Trigrams Space, Akaseki found the Puppet Army had swept across the surrounding region before its puppets crumbled.

• At Liu Ru’s trial, Hong Yan refused to write her a letter of forgiveness, and Mahashri’s Immersion as Liu Ru ended.
• Akaseki began a new Immersion with Mahashri, but she fled into Miroku’s body when she saw the roles available to her.
• Miroku explained that her Miko power had resealed Mahashri, and Akaseki reminded her that she was Miroku, not Mahashri or the Sealing Demon.
• Miroku opened a gateway out of the Eight Trigrams Space, and Akaseki found that Ranwu and the others had left to confront the Puppet Army.
• Akaseki and Miroku flew toward the Wind Capital and found that the puppets had crumbled, leaving chakra-free material behind after sweeping across an area with a radius of nearly five hundred li.

Akaseki and Miroku met the Third Kazekage, confirmed that Miroku had sealed Moryo, and learned that Konoha and Sunagakure had both mobilized after discovering records of the ancient threat. At Konoha’s advance position, they found that Feng Qi had been possessed by Moryo’s chakra and had attacked A Jie and two others, but Ranwu stopped him and Orochimaru sealed him for study.

• The Third Kazekage told Akaseki that Sunagakure had come to investigate Moryo after receiving a request for help from the Wind Capital.
• Akaseki confirmed that Miroku had sealed Moryo and questioned the Third Kazekage about the Daimyo of the Land of Wind’s role.
• Akaseki and Miroku parted from the Third Kazekage and traveled to Konoha’s advance position, where Orochimaru and the others were gathering information.
• Ranwu told Akaseki that Feng Qi had attacked A Jie and two others after Gongzhi Jiu noticed Moryo’s chakra inside him.
• Ranwu explained that she had stopped Feng Qi, and Orochimaru said he had sealed him and was studying him.