Chapter Summaries

At the Jonin Meeting, Kensho Uchiha turned the expected public self-criticism over Wangjie Chouzhen’s suicide into a warning against harassment and a promise of stricter Uchiha policing. As the meeting shifted to the Land of Wind’s request for help exploring reopened ruins, Jiancheng volunteered the Uchiha Clan for the mission.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi called on Kensho Uchiha to speak about Wangjie Chouzhen’s death, and Kensho addressed the harm of public harassment and the need to protect ninja mental health.
• Jiancheng announced that the Konoha Military Police Force would treat verbal abuse as a crime and offer psychological support, including help from Uchiha using Sharingan Genjutsu.
• Jiancheng warned that the Uchiha were investigating harassment of Hatake Sakumo, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi to move the meeting on rather than let Danzo challenge him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi reported that the Daimyo of the Land of Wind wanted Konoha’s help exploring ruins that rogue ninja had reopened, and Shimura Danzō explained that two sealing specialists had been hired.
• After the jonin questioned the request and the risks of sending Hatake Sakumo, Jiancheng offered the Uchiha Clan’s combat strength for the mission.

The Uchiha Clan organized a mission to investigate the sealing specialists in the Land of Wind, with Akaseki and Yangyong joining the team alongside Ranwu, Kamizuki Kongyun, and Yakushi Nonō. Just as the squad prepared to depart, Kakashi arrived with a scroll.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi assigned the mission to the Uchiha Clan and added Ranwu, Kamizuki Kongyun, and a Root ninja to the team.
• Jiancheng ordered Akaseki, Yangyong, and Gongzhi Jiu to lead the Uchiha contingent, and they selected Uchiha Jie, Uchiha Yang, and Uchiha Yuchi Jiong as the younger members.
• Yangyong claimed the captaincy and named Akaseki vice-captain, while the Uchiha leaders warned one another to be wary of Shimura Danzō and Root.
• At the village gate, the squad discovered that Yakushi Nonō was the Root ninja assigned to accompany them, and Yangyong questioned her mission report about Miroku and Yomi.
• Ranwu defended Nonō's assessment, and Kakashi arrived with a scroll just as the squad was about to leave.

Akaseki and his team traveled to Wind Capital to investigate the ruins and stop the Daimyo of the Land of Wind's plot. After meeting the Daimyo, they learned he had considered hiring Sunagakure for the mission, and Yangyong challenged his claim that he had not contacted them.

• Kakashi delivered White Fang's account of the ruins, where ancient puppets and powerful creatures in extreme environments had forced White Fang and Wangjie to retreat.
• Akaseki speculated that the Daimyo's lineage might be connected to the Uzumaki Clan and asked the Hell Yama King about the ruins' strange abilities, but the king claimed ignorance.
• The nine Konoha ninja reached Wind Capital on June 6 after compressing their journey to five days.
• Yangyong sent Kamizuki and the others to find lodging and took Akaseki, Gongzhi Jiu, and Ranwu to meet the Daimyo.
• The Daimyo said he had also found a sealing ninja and suggested Sunagakure could handle the mission, prompting Yangyong to question whether he had contacted them.

Yangyong and the Konoha team arranged to explore the Land of Wind’s ruins with Yomi, Miroku, and Feng Qi, despite Miroku’s warning that a monster might be sealed there. That night, Akaseki sensed a faint, familiar power coming from the Daimyo’s Palace.

• Yangyong met Miroku and Yomi at the Daimyo’s Palace, favored Yomi, and agreed to work with both sealing specialists on the ruins mission.
• Miroku warned that breaking the ruins’ seal could release a terrible monster tied to a curse on her lineage, but Yangyong kept her on the team under his command.
• Yomi described the ruins’ location in the southwestern swamps, and Feng Qi joined the expedition as the Daimyo’s guardian ninja and representative.
• The Konoha team and their three companions arranged to meet at the Wind Capital’s south gate the next morning and travel to the ruins.
• That night, Akaseki sat up and sensed a faint, familiar power spreading from the Daimyo’s Palace.

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.