Recaps

Yang Xing’s phone awakened with a Strife Game system that displayed his low attributes, giving him hope of becoming stronger in the ninja world. When he joined a group of children, he declared that he wanted to conquer the world, and they left him behind.

• Yang Xing discovered that his phone had activated the Level 1 system and showed his attributes as low.
• A snotty little boy invited Yang Xing to play hide-and-seek, and Yang Xing followed him to the group.
• At the clearing, Yang Xing mocked the children’s game and was teased for his poor chakra level.
• Yang Xing said the Hokage was a minor character and announced that his goal was to conquer the world.
• The little leader led the children away, leaving Yang Xing alone.

Yang Xing was left alone at the academy as the Third Shinobi World War began and teams were set to form. When his teacher offered him a choice of teammates or instructor, Yang Xing suspected a hidden motive.

• Yang Xing told a four-year-old boy he could join his plan to conquer the world once he had grown some hair, then sent him home to his mother.
• As the Third Shinobi World War began, Yang Xing's academy teacher announced that the students would be assigned teams and new instructors.
• Yang Xing worried that joining a team would slow him down, though he also doubted he could graduate.
• The teacher asked Yang Xing which teammates or instructor he would choose, and Yang Xing questioned whether the offer involved a special exception or an unspoken rule.

Yang Xing agreed to join a team after his teacher promised that each team had a girl, then went to practice and explored his mysterious phone’s newly activated Strife Game. The chapter ended when a young boy interrupted his training, disappointing Yang Xing, who had hoped to meet a cute girl instead.

• Yang Xing told his teacher he would join a suitable team after the teacher insisted he needed guidance.
• Yang Xing asked whether his team would have a cute girl, then left the classroom after his teacher said every team had one.
• Yang Xing practiced throwing shuriken and lamented that he struggled with other ninja techniques.
• Yang Xing activated the Strife Game on his phone and found several locked features and five unclaimable missions.
• Yang Xing heard someone nearby and confronted a young boy who asked what he was doing, leaving Yang Xing frustrated that the newcomer was not a girl.

Yang Xing trained with Itachi and encouraged him to practice against moving targets, then followed his bespectacled teacher to a secluded training ground to meet a potential instructor. Yang Xing arrived before the teacher could explain how he should behave, and he was already eyeing the grassy clearing as a place to train.

• Yang Xing told Itachi that his stronger physical ability gave him more potential, and his system rewarded Yang Xing for being weaker with an attribute boost.
• Yang Xing said he could not teach Itachi much, but then advised him to practice shuriken against fast-moving animals or people.
• Yang Xing recalled how he had turned from chakra and Taijutsu to basic weapon training, which had led Itachi to admire him.
• Yang Xing complained to his bespectacled teacher about the early start and questioned the teacher's judgment about a supposedly cute girl.
• The bespectacled teacher brought Yang Xing to a secluded training ground, but Yang Xing ran ahead before hearing the teacher's instructions.

Yang Xing met his new instructor, Minato Namikaze, and joined a training team with Obito Uchiha, Kakashi Hatake, and Rin Nohara. Minato stopped Obito and Kakashi from fighting, then had the team introduce themselves.

• Yang Xing threw a kunai at Minato Namikaze when the Fourth Hokage surprised him, but Minato dodged it easily.
• Obito Uchiha challenged Kakashi Hatake to a fight while Rin Nohara tried to stop them.
• Minato Namikaze swiftly grabbed Obito and Kakashi by their collars and warned them not to fight their teammates.
• Minato called Yang Xing over and gathered him with Obito, Kakashi, and Rin as their new training group.
• Obito, Kakashi, and Rin introduced themselves to Yang Xing and Minato.

Minato Namikaze explained the war beyond the Land of Fire and began assessing his new team's abilities. Yang Xing's clone vanished in under ten seconds, and the chapter left off as Minato turned to assess Obito and Kakashi.

• Minato told Obito, Kakashi, Rin, and Yang Xing that other countries were fighting while the Land of Fire's shinobi protected their homeland.
• Obito declared that he would become Hokage, while Kakashi and Yang Xing scoffed at him.
• Minato asked Yang Xing to demonstrate a technique, and Yang Xing created a realistic clone that disappeared in less than ten seconds.
• Yang Xing celebrated improving his clone's duration by three seconds, while Obito and Kakashi reacted to his weakness.
• Obito performed the Great Fireball Technique, and Minato then told Kakashi he could skip his demonstration.

Minato Namikaze evaluated Yang Xing, Kakashi, Obito, and Rin Nohara before leaving them to meet again before sunrise. Yang Xing proposed a secret one-month wager to decide who would earn the team’s respect and become its Boss, and the others agreed.

• Minato Namikaze approved Rin Nohara’s Medical Ninjutsu and told the team to return before sunrise the next day.
• After Minato left, Obito and Kakashi prepared to go, but Yang Xing stopped them to discuss who would lead the team.
• Yang Xing proposed a secret contest to determine who would become the team’s top member, separate from the appointed squad captain.
• Yang Xing set a one-month wager in which the four would judge one another by their skills and experiences, and the one who earned the most respect would become Boss.
• Yang Xing, Obito, Kakashi, and Rin Nohara agreed to keep the wager secret and placed their hands together.

Yang Xing accepted a sudden S-rank mission requiring him to defeat Minato Namikaze within two days, disrupting his plans to earn Kakashi and Obito’s acceptance. At training, Minato arrived hours late and announced a contest in which the last person to lose would go without lunch.

• Yang Xing claimed the S-rank mission, which promised a fixed reward and a random unique dark-tier achievement if he made Minato admit defeat within two days.
• Yang Xing worried that the mission would interfere with his promise to become Kakashi and Obito’s leader within a month.
• Yang Xing, Kakashi, Obito, and Rin Nohara waited nearly three hours for Minato at their training ground.
• Minato appeared behind Yang Xing as he was staring at Rin, then offered the group lunch made by Kushina.
• Minato said one of the three lunch boxes was missing and announced that the last person to lose his game would not get to eat.

Yang Xing and Rin Nohara joined Minato Namikaze’s bell-grabbing test, and Yang Xing tried to catch Minato by setting an ambush instead of chasing him. Minato dodged their attack and landed on their hiding place, forcing Yang Xing to flee with Rin.

• Minato Namikaze explained the bell test and began it without giving Rin Nohara time to prepare.
• Kakashi and Obito pursued Minato while Yang Xing persuaded Rin to follow him at a steady pace.
• Minato used kunai and the Flying Thunder God Technique to evade Kakashi’s Water Wave and continued looking for the others.
• Yang Xing and Rin hid in the bushes and watched for Minato, who wondered where they had gone.
• Yang Xing threw a shuriken at Minato, but Minato dodged it and dropped toward their hiding place, so Yang Xing grabbed Rin and ran.

Yang Xing escaped Minato Namikaze with Rin Nohara and devised a plan to make Minato admit defeat without overpowering him. Minato sensed Yang Xing nearby and headed toward him, while Kakashi followed in confusion.

• Yang Xing tricked Minato Namikaze into turning around, then fled with Rin Nohara.
• Yang Xing claimed Minato was an impostor, and Rin Nohara became partly convinced.
• Yang Xing realized he could fulfill his mission by making Minato admit defeat and persuaded Rin to return with him.
• Minato Namikaze evaded Kakashi's attack and rushed toward Yang Xing after sensing his chakra.

Yang Xing challenged Minato Namikaze to a bell test and won by using Rin Nohara’s trust to create an opening. Minato admitted defeat, and Yang Xing received a five-star task rating.

• Yang Xing asked Minato to admit defeat if he took the bells, and Minato accepted the challenge.
• Yang Xing used a clone and projectiles to make Minato rush in and catch a kunai aimed toward him.
• Yang Xing took a bell and tossed it to Rin Nohara before Minato could reclaim it.
• Yang Xing argued that Rin’s willingness to trust him proved the friendship the test was meant to build, and Minato agreed that Yang Xing had won.
• Yang Xing heard that he had completed the task with a five-star rating and celebrated.

Minato declared Yang Xing the winner of the bell-snatching match and reprimanded Kakashi and Obito for failing to act as a team. After the group shared lunch, Yang Xing returned to his room and prepared to claim his reward from a sudden S-rank mission.

• Minato judged Kakashi and Obito to have failed the match and praised Yang Xing for winning the bell.
• Minato scolded Kakashi and Obito for ignoring teamwork, then reminded them that Yang Xing and Rin Nohara were indispensable teammates.
• Minato left the group and told Yang Xing to keep the bento, while Kakashi and Obito admitted that Yang Xing had won.
• Yang Xing shared a prepared lunchbox with Kakashi and Obito, and the three ate together as Obito joked that their wager still did not count.
• Yang Xing returned to his room, saw the reward for his five-star mission evaluation on his phone, and prepared to claim it.

After claiming his mission rewards, Yang Xing received two Evolution Fruits, two Unique auras, and a Unique Achievement that let him choose ninjutsu. He ate one fruit, woke with improved attributes, and began selecting techniques, but had not yet confirmed his choices.

• Yang Xing claimed his five-star mission rewards and received two Evolution Fruits, God's Plunder, Undying Body, and the Defeater of the Legendary Fourth Hokage achievement.
• Yang Xing ate an Evolution Fruit and fell asleep as its effects took hold.
• Yang Xing woke to find his chakra at the lower-middle level and his other attributes at the upper-low level.
• Yang Xing reviewed his achievement and rejected the Sharingan because learning it could draw the Uchiha Clan's attention.
• Yang Xing chose four C-rank techniques, including Clone Technique, Water Clone Technique, Great Fireball Technique, and Water Wave, then paused before confirming them.

With Minato away on an investigation at the Land of Fire’s border, Kakashi, Obito, Rin Nohara, and Yang Xing prepared to train through missions. At the mission office, Obito challenged Kakashi’s reputation and vowed to become Hokage.

• Kakashi told Yang Xing, Obito, and Rin Nohara that Minato had gone to investigate trouble at the Land of Fire’s border.
• A cat-masked Anbu delivered Minato’s instructions: Kakashi would lead the team, while Yang Xing would decide whether missions were feasible.
• Kakashi proposed that the team take missions together while Minato was away, and Yang Xing agreed despite having no mission experience.
• At Konoha’s Mission Assignment Office, Kakashi requested a B-rank mission, and a jōnin praised him as Minato’s prized student.
• Obito objected to the praise, declared that he would surpass Kakashi and become Hokage, and the jōnin reminded him of his failed solo B-rank mission.

Yang Xing, Kakashi, Obito, and Rin Nohara set out on a B-rank mission to survey the wilderness around Konoha and camp overnight. After making camp, Yang Xing persuaded the others to hunt a rabbit for dinner, and they began surrounding it.

• Kakashi accepted the emergency survey mission and told the group to prepare for an overnight trip, while Rin Nohara offered to bring extra Military Ration Pills.
• Yang Xing packed clothes, supplies, dried food, and condiments, then joined Kakashi, Obito, and Rin Nohara as they left Konoha.
• The group traveled for several hours and stopped in the woods to make camp, with Obito lighting a fire, Yang Xing setting up the tent, and Kakashi checking for danger.
• Yang Xing unpacked condiments and a knife, proposed catching wild game, and led Kakashi, Obito, and Rin Nohara toward nearby animal tracks.
• Yang Xing spotted a gray rabbit and told Obito to circle to the right and Kakashi to the left while he prepared to gut it.

Yang Xing, Kakashi, Obito, and Rin camped overnight after catching a rabbit, then set out at dawn to continue their mission. Kakashi discussed his thoughts about Yang Xing, while Rin secretly overheard them, and she seemed unwell as the team reached their destination.

• Kakashi and Obito caught a rabbit, and Obito lost its leg meat to Yang Xing and Kakashi, who claimed their team leader and deputy leader roles.
• Yang Xing considered sneaking over to Rin Nohara's tent but went outside with Kakashi, who said he understood why the Fourth Hokage felt that way about Yang Xing.
• Yang Xing asked Kakashi what he thought of Rin, and Kakashi called her an ordinary childhood friend; Yang Xing said they were on different paths and Kakashi could never keep up with him.
• After Yang Xing and Kakashi returned to their tents, Rin stepped out from behind a tree, watched Kakashi, and went back to her tent.
• At dawn, the team traveled through the treetops toward their destination, and Yang Xing noticed Rin was moving slowly and looked unwell.

Yang Xing, Kakashi, and Obito searched near Konoha for chakra traces, but Rin disappeared and was captured by shinobi from the Land of Earth. After Obito attacked, the enemy group surrounded Yang Xing and Kakashi, and the fight began with the two special Chunin targeting Kakashi.

• Kakashi divided the group into four areas and instructed them to check for chakra traces and water sources.
• Yang Xing returned to the meeting point and learned that Rin was missing and Kakashi could no longer sense her chakra.
• Yang Xing, Kakashi, and Obito found Rin bound and watched by five shinobi from the Land of Earth.
• Obito charged the group and used Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique, but an enemy blocked it with Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall.
• The Land of Earth shinobi found Yang Xing and Kakashi, surrounded them, and attacked, with the two special Chunin going after Kakashi.

Yang Xing held off two powerful Land of Earth Chunin while Kakashi rescued Rin Nohara and escaped with her and Obito. Yang Xing stayed behind, using Water Style techniques to evade the attackers as they charged him.

• Yang Xing dodged the two Chunin’s stone-hard attacks with repeated Substitution Techniques and created a Water Clone to approach them.
• Kakashi was trapped by Earth Style: Earth Flow River and nearly struck by a massive stone fist.
• Yang Xing unleashed Water Style: Water Wave, cutting through three trees and forcing the Chunin to retreat in alarm.
• Yang Xing told Kakashi to take Obito and Rin Nohara away, claiming Minato-sensei had left the Chunin to him.
• Yang Xing tricked the Chunin with a fake ninjutsu cue while Kakashi freed Rin Nohara and escaped with her and Obito.
• The Chunin charged Yang Xing, who used Water Clone Technique and Chain Water Substitution Technique to evade their attacks.

Yang Xing used an unexpectedly powerful Great Fireball Technique to defeat the Iwagakure pursuers, then escaped after exhausting his chakra. Kakashi turned back to check on him while Rin and Obito remained behind.

• Yang Xing created twelve Water Clones as the five Iwagakure ninjas charged at him.
• Yang Xing's clones unleashed Great Fireball Techniques that shattered the Special Chunin's Earth Flow Wall and overwhelmed the pursuers.
• Yang Xing received titles for killing an Iwagakure Genin and a Special Chunin, then fled with no chakra left.
• Obito protested that they had left Yang Xing behind, while Kakashi urged the group to keep moving.
• Kakashi sent Rin and the others ahead and went back to check on Yang Xing.

Yang Xing returned to Kakashi, Obito, and Rin after escaping the ambush, and the team abandoned their mission and headed back. Kakashi and Rin learned that five elite ninja had died at the scene and began suspecting Yang Xing, who remained unaware of their changed views of him.

• Yang Xing rejoined Kakashi, Obito, and Rin, claiming he had escaped the five pursuers, and Kakashi called off the mission.
• The team hurried away and rested after traveling for nearly four hours without lunch.
• Rin found Kakashi speaking with Pakkun, who reported that five elite ninja had been reduced to ashes at the scene.
• Kakashi and Rin suspected Yang Xing had killed the five ninja, but he denied nothing and returned to the team.
• Yang Xing asked Rin if she was hurt, while Kakashi and Rin watched him with suspicion and curiosity as they continued toward Konoha.

Yang Xing and Kakashi’s team returned to Konoha and were summoned to the Hokage Building after the Fourth Hokage came back. The Fourth Hokage revealed that he had discovered signs of a Land of Earth advance force, while Kakashi prepared to report what happened on their mission.

• Yang Xing returned to Konoha with Kakashi’s group, and a mission-office ninja told them the Fourth Hokage wanted them at the Hokage Building.
• On the way upstairs, Yang Xing nearly collided with Anko, who grabbed his collar until another kunoichi identified him as a student of the Fourth Hokage.
• Kakashi and the others entered the Hokage’s office, where the Fourth Hokage welcomed them back and checked that they were unharmed.
• Kakashi said he had something to report, but the Fourth Hokage explained that he had already found dead Anbu Chunin at the border and captured ninjas linked to a possible Land of Earth advance force.

Minato Namikaze told Kakashi, Obito, Rin, and Yang Xing that Konoha was facing attacks along its borders and asked them to join a special operations squad. After meeting Anko’s team, Yang Xing left Kakashi behind when Kakashi tried to speak with him, leaving the misunderstanding between them unresolved.

• Minato Namikaze praised Kakashi for stopping five enemy ninja and explained that their deaths had prevented an attack on Konoha.
• Minato Namikaze reported that several border villages had been attacked and asked Kakashi, Obito, Rin, and Yang Xing to defend Konoha as a special squad.
• Obito, Kakashi, Rin, and Yang Xing agreed to join the mission, and Minato Namikaze left to handle other matters.
• Anko introduced herself to the team and privately warned Yang Xing not to mess with her during their handshake.
• The teams agreed to meet at noon the next day after resting, and Yang Xing refused Kakashi’s attempt to talk before leaving.

Yang Xing selected four Earth Style techniques to strengthen his abilities, then unexpectedly had dinner with Rin Nohara and her Inuzuka Clan parents. After Rin walked him out, she stopped him late at night to ask him something, leaving her question unanswered.

• Yang Xing chose Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall, Earth Style: Earth Rain Clay, Hardening Technique, and Earth Spear through his new aura.
• Yang Xing went to a barbecue restaurant and ran into Rin Nohara, her parents, and their dogs.
• Rin's parents invited Yang Xing to join their table, where he shared a cramped dinner beside Rin.
• Rin walked Yang Xing out after dinner, then stopped and said she wanted to ask him something.

Yang Xing left Rin Nohara wondering whether he was stronger than Kakashi, then joined a mission team heading to investigate villages with missing reports. As rain fell near their first destination, his system issued a mission to survive the next three days, and he found Anko staring blankly into the woods.

• Yang Xing asked Rin Nohara whether Kakashi or he was stronger, then left without answering her question about the five ninjas.
• Anko, Kakashi, Obito, Yang Xing, and their jōnin instructor set out from Konoha to inspect three villages and investigate infiltrating ninjas.
• The instructor explained that the first village was believed safe, while the next two had sent no reports from their Anbu Ninja.
• Rain poured as the team approached the first village, and Yang Xing claimed a system mission to survive the next three days.
• Yang Xing noticed Anko had stopped and was staring blankly into the woods, then called out to her.

Yang Xing followed Anko into the rain and, with Rin, discovered her confronting her former teacher, Orochimaru. Anko attacked him, but he effortlessly dodged her snakes.

• Yang Xing left the inn after seeing Anko slip out into the rain, and Rin secretly followed him.
• Rin fell into the mud while trailing Yang Xing, who helped her up and led her to hide in bushes when he heard a sound ahead.
• Anko met Orochimaru, who revealed himself as her former teacher and said he had come to visit rather than take revenge on Konoha.
• Anko accused Orochimaru of using another person's body and attacked him with Shadow Snake Hand.
• Orochimaru vanished before the snakes could hit him, mocking Anko for using a technique he had taught her.