Recaps

After awakening in the Naruto world with a JoJo Stand System, Lin Qing discovered that the Uchiha Compound had been massacred and reached Sasuke as Itachi Uchiha and Obito stood over him. He risked mortgaging his soul to perform a ten-pull before confronting them.

• Lin Qing learned he had inherited Uchiha Qing’s body and received a JoJo Stand System offering a guaranteed five-star Stand in his first ten-pull.
• Lin Qing found a young girl mortally wounded, carried her outside, and discovered the Uchiha Compound was filled with corpses.
• Lin Qing heard a child scream and chose to follow it despite fearing the powerful murderer.
• Lin Qing arrived to find Sasuke facing Itachi Uchiha and Obito, then told Sasuke to move aside.
• Lin Qing put his soul up as collateral and ordered the system to perform a ten-pull.

Lin Qing used a ten-pull to obtain Hermit Purple and Star Platinum, then fought Itachi and Obito to protect Sasuke. After pledging his entire soul to upgrade Star Platinum, he shattered Itachi’s Susanoo and grabbed him by the throat.

• Lin Qing spent seventy Soul Shards and a wisp of his soul on a ten-pull, receiving Hermit Purple and Star Platinum.
• Itachi approached Lin Qing with a knife, while Obito watched and Sasuke shut his eyes.
• Star Platinum struck Itachi and battered him as Obito tried to rescue him, but Obito’s phased hand passed through Itachi.
• Itachi summoned Susanoo to protect himself from Star Platinum’s next punch.
• Lin Qing pledged the rest of his soul to upgrade Star Platinum to Level 2, leaving him twenty-four hours to obtain 500 Soul Shards or lose his soul.
• Star Platinum broke through Itachi’s Susanoo, seized him by the throat, and tightened its grip.

After defeating Itachi Uchiha, Lin Qing expected Konoha to help the surviving Uchiha, but Danzo ordered Root to kill him. Lin Qing escaped the interrogation room by crushing his would-be killers, realizing the village was far darker than he expected.

• Obito rescued the badly injured Itachi, and the two left instead of returning to fight Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing received 800 Soul Shards for defeating Itachi, repaid his debt, and decided to save his remaining shards.
• Sasuke asked Lin Qing whether Itachi was dead, and Lin Qing told him that Itachi had escaped.
• Root detained Lin Qing and questioned him about the massacre while Sasuke remained outside.
• Lin Qing used Hermit Purple to overhear Danzo's order for Yamanaka So to kill him.
• Lin Qing smashed the interrogation-room door into Yamanaka So and used Star Platinum to incapacitate the Root messenger.

Lin Qing escaped Root with Sasuke and fought his way through Konoha, convinced that the village had abandoned justice and its powerful clans were staying out of the Uchiha massacre. As they neared the village’s edge, Gojo Satoru appeared and blocked their path.

• Lin Qing used Hermit Purple to find his way through Root’s base, freed Sasuke, and escaped with him using Star Platinum.
• Lin Qing fought through Root’s forces and collapsed the underground entrance behind him, while Danzo and Hiruzen argued over Danzo’s actions.
• Lin Qing fought off Konoha ninjas on their way out and realized the major clans and powerful shinobi were avoiding the Uchiha affair.
• Sasuke asked where they would go, and Lin Qing promised they would find somewhere they could live like human beings.
• Gojo Satoru caught a Kunai aimed at Lin Qing, then landed in their path and told them the road ahead was closed.

Lin Qing fought Kakashi to secure his and Sasuke’s departure from Konoha, using Star Platinum and Hermit Purple to outmaneuver him. After trapping Kakashi with a vine net and threatening him with an Explosive Tag, Lin Qing spared him and left Konoha with Sasuke.

• Lin Qing asked Kakashi to let him and Sasuke leave, but Kakashi attacked, testing Star Platinum with shuriken, a Water Clone, and a Water Dragon Bullet.
• Kakashi used Earth Style: Headhunter Jutsu to pull Lin Qing underground, but Hermit Purple vines rescued him and helped Star Platinum strike at Kakashi.
• Kakashi escaped Star Platinum’s punch with the Substitution Technique, and Sasuke warned Lin Qing about an Explosive Tag on the wooden post.
• Observers including Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo watched as Kakashi kept his distance, while Lin Qing assured Sasuke that he would win.
• Lin Qing revealed that he had laid a twenty-meter net of Hermit Purple vines, trapping Kakashi when he used the Substitution Technique.
• Lin Qing relit the Explosive Tag to force Kakashi to stay put, then left with Sasuke as the explosion lit the sky.

After escaping Konoha, Lin Qing explained to Sasuke why the village’s leaders and Kakashi had allowed them to leave, then helped him through his grief over Itachi. During their flight, Lin Qing checked his battle rewards and decided to use his Soul Shards to draw a new Stand to improve his ranged combat.

• Lin Qing reasoned that clan politics, Sarutobi Hiruzen’s inaction, and Kakashi’s intervention had allowed them to escape Konoha, while Kakashi had also hoped to investigate the truth behind the Uchiha Clan Massacre.
• Lin Qing offered to teach Sasuke logical reasoning, and Sasuke agreed before Lin Qing told him to start with math.
• Lin Qing caught a rabbit with Hermit Purple, and Sasuke prepared it while recalling his training with Itachi and asking why Itachi had acted as he did.
• Lin Qing told Sasuke that Itachi might have had reasons but should be judged by his actions, and Sasuke gradually emerged from his grief as they talked.
• Lin Qing checked his 652 Soul Shards, recognized his lack of mid- and long-range combat ability, and chose to draw for a new Stand.

Lin Qing obtained the Ripple Breathing Method from the system and traveled with Sasuke to the Land of Waves, aiming to reach the Land of Water and hunt missing-nin. They boarded a ship carrying stowaways, where Sasuke shared an orange with a girl named Xiaotao as the vessel set sail.

• After fifty pulls, Lin Qing drew the Ripple Breathing Method and decided it would strengthen his vulnerable body, then stopped pulling for the day.
• Lin Qing and Sasuke traveled for more than half a month, sold their hunting pelts, and headed toward the Land of Water through the Land of Waves.
• The caravan leader gave Lin Qing a letter of introduction to help them board an official ship from the Land of Waves.
• At the harbor, a bald samurai led Lin Qing and Sasuke onto a cargo ship and showed them a hold filled with stowaways.
• Lin Qing stopped Sasuke from attacking a sailor and explained that they only needed the crew to take them safely to the Land of Water.
• At Lin Qing's urging, Sasuke gave half his orange to Xiaotao, who thanked him with a kiss on the cheek as the ship set sail.

Lin Qing and Sasuke defended the passengers when a samurai and sailors revealed themselves as pirates and tried to rob them. Lin Qing defeated the attackers, then found a bag of white powder on the deck.

• Lin Qing told Sasuke he would teach him Ripple Qigong after they left the ship, but the ship stopped a day earlier than expected.
• A bald samurai and two sailors entered the cargo hold and demanded that the passengers surrender their valuables, while the samurai grabbed Xiaotao's mother.
• Sasuke threw a Kunai that pierced the samurai's palm when he tried to strike Xiaotao, and Lin Qing reassured Sasuke before confronting the samurai.
• Lin Qing blocked the samurai's sword with a Kunai, burned his hands with Ripple Qigong, and knocked him and two sailors onto the deck.
• Lin Qing left the cargo hold, picked up a bag of white powder, and asked what the people of the Land of Waves sold.

Lin Qing and Sasuke destroyed a drug-smuggling operation at sea, then Lin Qing explained that choices were measured by whether they were true to oneself and whether one accepted their consequences. Their ship reached the Land of Water by dusk.

• Lin Qing recognized the white powder as drugs, and he and Sasuke defeated the sailors who attacked them before Star Platinum destroyed their fishing boat with its own cannonballs.
• Lin Qing dumped the drugs into the sea and forced the surviving sailors to sail their ship, while the bald warrior and other sailors were attacked by fish driven mad by the drugs.
• Sasuke worried that their actions had drawn attention, and Lin Qing told him that a choice was right if he had thought it through, stayed true to his values, and accepted the consequences.
• Sasuke realized he had been willing to risk Danzo's pursuit to save Xiaotao, who then hugged him as Lin Qing watched.
• Lin Qing's ship reached the Land of Water by dusk.

After arriving in the Land of Water, Lin Qing and Sasuke began taking bounty jobs through information broker Hayato Kamihara. Lin Qing swiftly captured four fugitives alive and asked for more targets, leaving Kamihara eager to keep working with him.

• Lin Qing sold the cargo ship, released its crew after breaking one man's leg, and encouraged Sasuke to say a proper goodbye to Xiaotao.
• Hayato Kamihara introduced himself as an information broker, offered Lin Qing a discount, and gave him files on nearby bounty targets.
• Lin Qing chose four fugitives, including the B-rank Mountain Demon and three rogue ninja brothers, and left with Sasuke to hunt them.
• Before ten hours had passed, Lin Qing and Sasuke returned to Kamihara's agency with all four targets bound and alive.
• Lin Qing said the fugitives had been too weak and asked Kamihara for more bounties, while the captured men wept with humiliation.

Lin Qing finished a two-week bounty-hunting spree, received a warning that a Konoha Root ninja was searching for him and Sasuke, then used his accumulated Soul Shards to pull the five-star Stand Aero Smith. He tested its scouting abilities at the bathhouse, where it detected someone spying on him from the roof.

• Lin Qing thanked Hayato Kamihara for finding targets and gave him extra money before learning that a Root ninja from Konoha had come to the city.
• Hayato Kamihara offered Lin Qing and Sasuke Konoha Forehead Protectors and suggested they become rogue ninjas, but Lin Qing refused.
• After capturing fifty-three fugitives and rogue ninjas, Lin Qing had 614 Soul Shards and used them for sixty-one pulls.
• Lin Qing obtained the five-star Stand Aero Smith, whose carbon dioxide radar could locate people and reveal nearby surroundings.
• Lin Qing tested Aero Smith's scouting system and discovered a person watching him through a gap in the bathhouse roof.

Lin Qing ambushed Root operative Sato Takizo and persuaded him to reveal intelligence about the Fourth Mizukage’s secret dealings and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen. After learning that a Masked Man may be involved, Lin Qing knocked Sato unconscious and prepared to investigate.

• Lin Qing and Aero Smith drove Sato Takizo’s Shadow Clone away from his surveillance of Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing and Sasuke waited at Sato’s safe house and confronted him when he returned.
• Sato agreed to share what he could, explaining that the Fourth Mizukage was secretly gathering and funneling money and had met with a Masked Man.
• Sato identified Biwa Juzo, Suikazan Fuguki, and Raiga Kurosuki as the Seven Ninja Swordsmen involved in a money-raising operation.
• Lin Qing knocked Sato unconscious and said he would keep him until the investigation was over.
• Sasuke asked whether they were leaving, and Lin Qing said they first needed to find someone.

Lin Qing and Sasuke reached Mirage City and discovered that a sausage-processing plant was secretly holding hundreds of people captive. They found Xiaotao among the prisoners, clutching a rotten orange, as they began their rescue.

• Hayato Kamihara decoded the message and warned Lin Qing that Mirage City was dangerous, but Lin Qing chose to go there with Sasuke.
• Lin Qing and Sasuke arrived in Mirage City and found the city rife with theft and violence.
• Lin Qing sent Aero Smith to scout the Murata Sausage plant and discovered more than four hundred people locked in cages.
• Lin Qing and Sasuke decided to rescue the captives that night and stealthily entered the plant after disabling guards.
• Lin Qing found Xiaotao in a cage, holding a shriveled, rotten orange marked with a twisted smiley face.

Lin Qing rescued Xiaotao from a trafficking factory, but found her mother dead and killed the six Kirigakure shinobi responsible. He and Sasuke decided to free the prisoners and destroy the factory, even if the Seven Ninja Swordsmen came after them.

• Lin Qing broke Xiaotao out of her cage and learned that her mother had been taken to another room.
• Lin Qing found Xiaotao's mother dead and killed the six Kirigakure shinobi in the room.
• Lin Qing carried Xiaotao's mother's body outside while Sasuke comforted the grieving girl.
• Sasuke despaired over the prisoners' plight, and Lin Qing told him to open the cages and destroy the factory.
• Lin Qing vowed to kill the Seven Ninja Swordsmen if they came after them.

Lin Qing freed more than four hundred prisoners and confronted Suikazan Fuguki, the Kirigakure ninja guarding them. He defeated and killed Suikazan Fuguki, earning 450 Soul Shards, while the prisoners witnessed their captor fall.

• Lin Qing used Star Platinum to destroy the cages and tell the prisoners they were free.
• Suikazan Fuguki arrived with four Kirigakure ninjas and tried to intimidate the prisoners and Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing killed one Kirigakure ninja, then blocked Suikazan Fuguki’s Samehada with Star Platinum.
• Lin Qing ordered Star Platinum to punish Suikazan Fuguki with one punch for each prisoner, tearing out his hair and striking him with four hundred punches.
• Star Platinum delivered a final punch that embedded Suikazan Fuguki in the wall, and Lin Qing gained 450 Soul Shards.

Lin Qing killed Suikazan Fuguki and the three Kirigakure shinobi, freeing more than four hundred captives from the processing plant. He led them out of Mirage City after destroying the plant, while the watching spies witnessed his defiance of Kirigakure and the criminal organizations.

• Lin Qing's Aero Smith killed the three Kirigakure shinobi as they fled after Suikazan Fuguki's death.
• The freed captives knelt before Lin Qing, and he told them they were free and invited them to come with him.
• Lin Qing picked up Suikazan Fuguki's corpse and led the captives out of the processing plant as spies watched.
• Lin Qing upgraded Aero Smith, then ordered it to destroy the processing plant with missiles.
• Lin Qing and the captives walked away through the firelit city, leaving the hidden watchers to see them as living in a different world.

Lin Qing led the survivors away from Mirage City and offered them three choices for their future. When many asked to follow him, he refused, warning that Kirigakure and the Land of Water would pursue him for killing Suikazan Fuguki.

• Lin Qing led the four hundred survivors through Mirage City and commandeered a pleasure ship at the harbor.
• Aero Smith destroyed the sterns of the pursuing ships, and the survivors escaped across the sea.
• At dinner, Lin Qing gave his serving to Xiaotao and Sasuke and urged Xiaotao to stay alive while she decided what to do.
• Lin Qing offered the survivors three paths: return home, seek political asylum in Konoha, or establish a village of their own.
• Many survivors asked to follow Lin Qing, but he refused because their presence would put them in danger from Kirigakure and the Land of Water.

After killing Suikazan Fuguki, Lin Qing divided the survivors, took Xiaotao under his protection, and planned how to strengthen himself against genjutsu. In Kirigakure, the scandal over Yagura’s sale of citizens led him to secretly order Mei Terumi to kill Lin Qing.

• Lin Qing counted his Soul Shards, assessed Samehada, and resolved to find a way to defend against genjutsu.
• The survivors left the boat to seek new lives, while Xiaotao chose to stay with Lin Qing and Sasuke.
• The Land of Water’s Feudal Lord confronted Yagura over the exposure of the citizen-trafficking operation, and Mei Terumi speculated that they were negotiating a revenue share.
• Mei Terumi and Ao discussed Lin Qing’s motives for rescuing the captives and killing Suikazan Fuguki.
• Yagura summoned Mei Terumi and assigned her a covert mission to kill Lin Qing, which she accepted.

Lin Qing traveled with Sasuke and Xiaotao toward the Swordsmith Village while bounty hunters pursued them, and they reached Snowfall Village after meeting Haku. There, Lin Qing encountered Mei Terumi in Haku’s home.

• Lin Qing read Hayato Kamihara’s letter recommending a swordsmith in a snowy village and warning that organizations were targeting him.
• Lin Qing, Sasuke, and Xiaotao traveled north, fought off repeated attacks, and Sasuke taught Xiaotao the breathing technique.
• As the group camped in the snow, Sasuke comforted Xiaotao by sharing Lin Qing’s advice about finding meaning in an empty world.
• Lin Qing found Haku gathering herbs and offered to treat her sick mother in exchange for directions to her village.
• Haku led them to Snowfall Village, where Lin Qing entered her home and saw Mei Terumi serving dinner.

Lin Qing confronted Mei Terumi, who had come to Snowfall Village under the guise of a teacher, and fought her when she denied knowing him. After defeating and binding her, Lin Qing prepared to question her.

• Haku introduced Mei Terumi as Teacher Zhao, who had been helping his family while his mother was sick.
• Lin Qing took Mei Terumi outside and accused her of coming to kill him, but she denied knowing him.
• Lin Qing attacked Mei Terumi with Star Platinum, and she countered with Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique.
• Star Platinum blew away Mei Terumi's mist, then knocked her through trees despite her Earth Release: Hardening Technique.
• Mei Terumi asked to stop fighting, but Lin Qing punched her twice and bound her with Hermit Purple.
• Lin Qing sat across from the bound Mei Terumi and said they could talk.

Lin Qing confronted Mei Terumi, learned how she had tracked him to Snowfall Village, and let her observe him as a traveler. The next morning, he intervened when samurai tried to seize villagers’ food and Xiaotao, then went to the blacksmith to have Samehada reforged.

• Lin Qing questioned Mei Terumi, who explained that she had deduced his route and suspected he planned to reforge Samehada; he released her after she promised to keep her distance.
• Lin Qing returned to Haku’s home, cured Haku’s mother’s cold with Ripple Qigong, and warned Sasuke to be cautious around Mei Terumi.
• The next morning, Lin Qing learned from Haku that a new County Magistrate had imposed harsh taxes, including a heating tax, and that samurai were taking villagers’ food and wives to collect them.
• When a samurai threatened Xiaotao, Lin Qing broke his arm and told Sasuke to break the samurai’s legs; Xiaotao said she was no longer afraid.
• Lin Qing visited the blacksmith, who recognized him and asked how he wanted Samehada reforged.

Lin Qing worked with Blade Master to plan a Ripple-compatible reforging of Samehada, leaving the swordsmith to complete the work over the next half month. As Mei Terumi followed Lin Qing through Snowfall Village, she questioned his choices and began to understand why he had protected Xiaotao.

• Blade Master explained Samehada’s layers and asked Lin Qing to demonstrate his power on an unfinished blade.
• After examining Ripple’s effects and discussing the sword’s needs, Lin Qing and Blade Master planned to replace Samehada’s teeth and flesh while preserving its bones and soul.
• Blade Master asked Lin Qing to stay in the village and return in half a month to test the reforged sword.
• Mei Terumi offered Lin Qing a rice ball and teased him as he left Blade Master’s home.
• Mei Terumi asked why Lin Qing had released the samurai and risked drawing the County Magistrate’s attention, and Lin Qing explained that he had acted to protect Xiaotao from feeling powerless again.
• Mei Terumi recognized Lin Qing’s gentle, principled nature as she walked with him.

Lin Qing broke through to the Ripple’s second stage while treating villagers in Snowfall Village, gaining several new ways to shape its power. Meanwhile, County Magistrate Morimura learned that Lin Qing and Sasuke had defeated his tax collectors and sent a gift to the village.

• Lin Qing used the villagers’ chill to break through his Ripple bottleneck and discovered crimson, cyan, silver, and stronger Sunlight Yellow Ripple techniques.
• Lin Qing joked with Sasuke and Xiaotao about what might happen if another group captured Sasuke for his Sharingan.
• County Magistrate Morimura heard that Lin Qing and Sasuke had broken the legs of the samurai sent to collect Snowfall Village’s heating tax.
• Morimura ordered gold and silver jewelry, cloth, and two women prepared as gifts, and sent the Dire Wolf Squad to Snowfall Village.

Dire Wolf and his squad arrived in Snowfall Village to find Lin Qing after County Magistrate Senmura sent them with gifts and threats. When the Village Chief claimed Lin Qing was away, Dire Wolf set out to extort five times the heating tax from every household.

• Dire Wolf explained that County Magistrate Senmura had sent him to offer Lin Qing wealth and an honored position, but the squad was prepared to force him to comply.
• Third Brother burned a village house and threatened the family inside, drawing the villagers out.
• Dire Wolf showed the villagers the gifts and asked them to identify Lin Qing, but the Village Chief claimed Lin Qing had gone away.
• Dire Wolf decided the squad would stay until Lin Qing returned and demanded the previous month's heating tax.
• Dire Wolf wounded a villager who tried to leave, then added travel expenses, a late fee, a fine, and the current month's tax to demand five times the usual amount from every household.

Dire Wolf’s men brutalized Snowfall Village and took the Lame Man’s wife, while Lin Qing trained to master his Ripple and explained his wish to give people the power to choose. The Lame Man reached Lin Qing with a plea to save the village, and Lin Qing set out to confront the men responsible.

• Dire Wolf imposed a fivefold tax on Snowfall Village, and his men forced villagers to pay, die, or be taken away as laborers.
• After Dire Wolf received word that two of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen had arrived, he took dozens of villagers toward the county seat and left the elderly, disabled, and poor behind.
• The Lame Man asked Blade Master for a knife to rescue his wife, but Blade Master sent him north to find Lin Qing while he stayed to forge Lin Qing a blade.
• Lin Qing trained beneath a frozen lake, then told Mei Terumi that he wanted people to have the power to choose rather than submit to fate.
• The Lame Man reached Lin Qing gravely injured and asked him to save Snowfall Village; Lin Qing agreed, and the Lame Man died.