Chapter Summaries

Lin Qing halted the rebellion in Warsaw City by turning a rain of Natural Energy-infused water into a force that temporarily petrified rebels and civilians. Tokugawa Shingen’s court watched in stunned silence as Lin Qing’s power became clear to everyone.

• Lin Qing gathered Natural Energy into thousands of Water Dragons and waited for Tokugawa Shingen’s signal flares to mark the fighting across Warsaw City.
• The Water Dragons flew toward the battlefields, then burst into droplets that fell over rebels, samurai, and civilians.
• Lin Qing’s Ripple carried Natural Energy into those caught in the rain, temporarily petrifying rebels and civilians and stopping the fighting.
• A samurai tried to strike an immobilized rebel, but his captain stopped him and warned him not to provoke Lin Qing.
• Tokugawa Shingen told his court that Lin Qing’s overwhelming strength was why he had surrendered, leaving the nobles convinced Lin Qing was invincible.

The Conglomerate heads surrendered, while Rasa defeated Fayi and Elder Chiyo killed Mukade. Lin Qing caught the fleeing Kurosaki and left him alive but gravely mutilated in the desert, where scavengers closed in.

• The six Conglomerate heads ordered their families to negotiate with Tokugawa Shingen and endure until Lin Qing died.
• Rasa crushed Fayi with Gold Dust, freeing Gaara from the chakra disturbance, and Gaara woke beside his father.
• Elder Chiyo revealed that Mukade had escaped in a puppet, then detonated a bomb at his hiding place and killed him.
• Lin Qing intercepted Kurosaki in the desert and used The Grateful Dead to make him rot as he struggled up a dune.
• Kurosaki crawled to Lin Qing, who restored a little of his vitality, stopped the ability, and rode toward Warsaw City, leaving Kurosaki at the mercy of desert scavengers.

Lin Qing returned to Warsaw City after defeating the rebels and planned how to heal the petrified people and judge those who had killed innocents. Tokugawa Shingen explained that he had accepted Lin Qing’s demands to buy time for a potential leader to challenge the Conglomerate, and Lin Qing recognized him as an outstanding investor.

• Lin Qing returned to Warsaw City, where citizens honored him for saving them, and went back to the Feudal Lord's Mansion.
• Lin Qing told Tokugawa Shingen to gather the petrified people so he could heal them and inspect their memories to determine who had killed and why.
• Lin Qing proposed that the Land of Water and the Land of Wind consult legal experts to decide how to handle rebels who had killed innocent people.
• Tokugawa Shingen described the Land of Wind as a fast-moving train headed toward a crisis as the Conglomerate drained ordinary people of their wealth and strength.
• Tokugawa Shingen admitted that he had accepted Lin Qing’s conditions to buy time while waiting for someone capable of opposing the Conglomerate.
• Lin Qing called Tokugawa Shingen an outstanding investor, and Tokugawa Shingen said Lin Qing invested in generations to come.

Lin Qing restored Warsaw City's petrified residents, then negotiated an agreement with Tokugawa Shingen that granted Gelin City independence and transferred Wangmi City to Lin Qing. The signed agreement triggered a system reward, while Tokugawa Shingen treated the city transfer as an investment in Lin Qing's eventual corruption.

• Whitesnake extracted the rebels' memories, and Lin Qing restored the petrified residents while investigators began reviewing the rebels and their victims.
• Amber found a little girl collecting scraps of her mother's body, and Hermit Purple reassembled the corpse so she could grieve; Lin Qing arranged for the girl to be cared for.
• Lin Qing told Amber that Tokugawa Shingen would have to help identify the Conglomerate's masterminds as part of his surrender.
• Lin Qing and Tokugawa Shingen signed an agreement recognizing Gelin City's independence, requiring reparations and other concessions, and transferring wealthy Wangmi City to Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing received 1,000 Soul Shards and a Dimensional Ascension Star Core when the agreement triggered a world deviation.
• Tokugawa Shingen told the Grand Minister that he had given Lin Qing Wangmi City as an investment, expecting its gambling, prostitution, and entertainment businesses to corrupt him.

Lin Qing stayed in Warsaw City to unpetrify overlooked survivors and treat those suffering from petrification, then prepared to leave for Gelin City. On the eve of departure, Yukino Tokugawa visited him with a gift box containing a list of six names.

• Lin Qing announced that he would remain in Warsaw City for three days to help survivors, and Hattori Hanzo thanked him and refused his offer to join because of his oath to Tokugawa Shingen.
• Lin Qing spent the next two days unpetrifying and treating people, gaining enough experience to reverse the petrification in his own legs.
• Yukino Tokugawa came to Lin Qing's room late at night with a parting gift, and he tried to send her away.
• Yukino Tokugawa climbed in through the window and pleaded to speak with Lin Qing, so he let her into the room.
• After Yukino Tokugawa was shut outside for joking about lacking a father's love, Lin Qing opened her gift box and found a paper with six names written on it.

Lin Qing rejected the conglomerates’ offer to buy their lives, choosing to have them publicly tried and executed while taking double their payment for Gelin City’s recovery. As Lin Qing’s party departed with the first installment of reparations, Shiratori became the new leader of the Rat and revealed that Hayato Kamihara had contacted him.

• Yukino Tokugawa told Lin Qing that the conglomerates offered enough money to rebuild Gelin City in exchange for their lives.
• Lin Qing said the conglomerate leaders would face public trials and executions, and he would take double their offer to compensate victims’ families and rebuild the city.
• Yukino Tokugawa agreed to relay Lin Qing’s demands to Tokugawa Shingen, then left after Lin Qing sent her out.
• Lin Qing and his party departed the next morning with documents, valuables, minerals, equipment, and the first installment of Gelin City’s war reparations.
• Shiratori, now leader of the Rat, watched Lin Qing leave and explained that the Rats planned to monitor events involving conglomerates and daimyos.
• Shiratori told his companion that Hayato Kamihara had sent him a telegram the previous night.

Lin Qing watched Tokugawa Shingen execute six Conglomerate executives and then learned that Fujikaze Yukie was an exiled princess seeking help to reclaim the Land of Snow. He declined to intervene personally, telling her through Kakashi to return with him to the Land of Water for an assessment, while Kakashi departed for Konoha.

• Tokugawa Shingen publicly tried and executed six Conglomerate executives, inspiring cheers and a new sense among the people that the conglomerates could be brought down.
• Lin Qing poured liquor for the dead before Kakashi joined him at the izakaya and reported what he had learned about Fujikaze Yukie.
• Kakashi revealed that Fujikaze Yukie was the exiled princess of the Land of Snow and had asked Lin Qing to help her reclaim her country.
• Lin Qing refused to help her directly, judging that she was not ready to rule, and told Kakashi to ask her to return to the Land of Water for an assessment.
• Kakashi ate with Lin Qing, then left the izakaya and headed alone toward Konoha; Lin Qing opened his system interface.

Lin Qing planned to spend the next three months saving Soul Shards, strengthening himself and the Extermination Army, then wiping out the Akatsuki and the Conglomerates. After watching the Warsaw City trial broadcast, Konan reflected on its impact, while Itachi Uchiha examined a new telescope.

• Lin Qing counted the 1,600 Soul Shards earned in Warsaw City and decided to save for a limited-time six-star Stand draw instead of upgrading Whitesnake.
• Lin Qing set a three-month plan to practice the Golden Spin, strengthen the Extermination Army, and gather enough Soul Shards for 300 draws before confronting the Akatsuki and the Conglomerates.
• Konan watched the delayed broadcast of the trial and believed its example would inspire common people to resist those in power and trust the law.
• Vegetative Zetsu questioned Konan's respect for Lin Qing, and Konan said they followed different paths rather than being enemies.
• Zetsu asked Itachi Uchiha about his new monocular telescope, and Itachi looked through it at Zetsu's spinning Sharingan.

Itachi Uchiha learned that Tsunade had expelled him from Konoha and decided to kill her, convincing himself it was the Will of Fire. Meanwhile, Lin Qing returned to Gelin City with the convoy’s wealth and brought the Blind City Official’s wife his final gift.

• The Akatsuki prepared for an inevitable battle with Lin Qing while the Conglomerates of the Land of Fire, Land of Earth, and Land of Lightning supplied them with resources.
• Itachi Uchiha received a letter stating that Fifth Hokage Tsunade did not recognize him as a Konoha Ninja.
• Itachi Uchiha blamed Lin Qing’s influence for Tsunade’s decision and resolved to kill her to save Konoha.
• Itachi Uchiha tore up the letter, returned to the base, and began training, leaving Konan, Zetsu, and Kisame puzzled.
• Lin Qing brought thirty carriages of gold, silver, and jewels back to Gelin City, where citizens celebrated the promised aid and rebuilding.
• Lin Qing visited Yui and gave her the hairpin her husband had picked out for her.

Lin Qing comforted Yui after Blind City Official's death, then spent the night coordinating Gelin City's recovery and sharing a meal with Iwao Genyako. The next morning, he left with Amber and Gaara for the Land of Water to attempt a Tailed Beast extraction experiment, while Rasa and Gaara shared an awkward farewell embrace.

• Lin Qing promised Yui he would avenge Blind City Official, and she explained that she mourned her husband's unfulfilled ambitions rather than his death.
• Lin Qing and Shirakawa discussed Gelin City's reconstruction, compensation, diplomacy, and coordination with Wangmi City before Iwao Genyako brought them meals.
• Iwao Genyako massaged Lin Qing's shoulders after he told her he was returning to the Land of Water because war was coming.
• The Warsaw City exploration team disbanded, with Chiyo and Rasa returning to Sunagakure and Lin Qing, Amber, and Gaara departing for the Research Institute.
• Rasa awkwardly embraced Gaara and told him to return alive before Lin Qing took Gaara and Amber through the Ghost Room.
• Lin Qing arrived at the Research Institute with Hiruko and Gaara, leaving the exhausted researchers speechless.

Lin Qing let the exhausted researchers return to work after realizing their curiosity about Hiruko had overridden their plans to rest. He then began a dangerous training plan to master the Spin’s Lesson 3, leaving himself inside Whitesnake’s battle illusion without his memories or other powers.

• Lin Qing gave the researchers the night off, but they soon returned to the institute to investigate Hiruko’s secrets after finding his note telling them to rest.
• Lin Qing sent Gaara to Sasuke and left Xiaotao at her lodgings before heading to an open area to train with the Steel Ball.
• Lin Qing explained that he needed to overcome his mental barrier to master Lesson 3 of the Spin and decided to use Whitesnake to create desperate battle illusions.
• Whitesnake removed Lin Qing’s memories and placed him in the illusory space, where he would have to rely only on the Steel Ball.

As war loomed, Tsunade and Kakashi discussed Konoha’s position in the conflict between the Daimyo and Lin Qing. Lin Qing completed his tracking-focused Golden Spin technique and, after receiving a telegram from Hayato Kamihara, prepared to test it with Sasuke.

• Shikamaru worried that the approaching war might force him and his friends to graduate early and fight, though he feared something else as well.
• Kakashi asked Tsunade where Konoha stood if the Land of Fire’s Daimyo went to war with Lin Qing, and Tsunade struggled to balance friendship with her duties as Hokage.
• Kakashi recalled Lin Qing’s story about capital protecting its true sources of wealth rather than sharing them, helping explain why conflict could be unavoidable.
• Lin Qing used Golden Spin to make a Steel Ball ricochet through a forest and strike a rabbit beyond his blind spot, demonstrating its tracking ability.
• Sasuke delivered a telegram from Hayato Kamihara, and Lin Qing invited him to test the new technique in a snowball fight before suggesting they bring along more test subjects.

Lin Qing reviewed the Research Institute’s progress, including the mass-producible Extinction Armor powered by Hidan flesh and the nearly finished sky carrier. He set a departure for the Land of Snow in one week and told Sasuke to invite Hayato Kamihara and the fugitive princess.

• Lin Qing returned to the Research Institute and saw Aoshe helping assemble the sky carrier while five suits of armor underwent final adjustments.
• Samui explained that the failed mass-produced Hidan project had led researchers to use the Chimera Technique to fuse Hidan flesh and create temporary Kekkei Genkai.
• Lin Qing learned that researchers had developed four artificial Kekkei Genkai and built Extinction Armor that could use them through replaceable Hidan energy cells.
• Samui reported that the Institute had fifteen armor sets and expected the sky carrier to be ready within a week.
• Lin Qing planned to head to the Land of Snow in a week and ordered Sasuke to send Hayato Kamihara a telegram asking him to bring the fugitive princess.

Kazahana Koyuki and Asama Sandayu received Hayato Kamihara’s plan to help reclaim the Land of Snow and prepared to join the Extermination Army. Meanwhile, Obito recovered from his injuries and decided to seek help from the Jashin Great White Snake, though Zetsu doubted the plan.

• Kazahana Koyuki and Asama Sandayu waited outside the Mizukage Building for a reply about the Land of Snow.
• Hayato Kamihara explained that Lin Qing would lead the Extermination Army in one week and asked Kazahana Koyuki to accompany him to the Research Institute.
• Asama Sandayu hurried off to pack, while Hayato Kamihara invited Kazahana Koyuki to celebrate with him after the mission and then set out with her.
• Zetsu tended to Obito as Hashirama cells accelerated his recovery, and Obito vowed to complete the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan.
• Obito proposed seeking help from the Jashin Great White Snake, prompting Zetsu to wonder whether they should dig up Madara Uchiha instead.

Lin Qing unveiled the Explorer, a massive sky battleship built to explore the moon, and led Hayato Kamihara, Sasuke, Kazahana Koyuki, and Asama Sandayu aboard as it departed for the Land of Snow. Late that night, Lin Qing found Kazahana Koyuki alone in the lounge, where she had hurriedly finished a cup of alcohol.

• Zetsu agreed to search for traces of the Jashin Great White Snake, while Obito sat in the cave hating Lin Qing.
• Sasuke brought Hayato Kamihara to meet Lin Qing, and the trio reunited at the Research Institute.
• Lin Qing ordered the Explorer ignited and revealed the hundred-meter sky battleship to Hayato Kamihara and the others.
• Lin Qing and the others boarded the Explorer, which used the Hidden Mist Technique to conceal itself as it flew toward the Land of Snow.
• After training, Lin Qing found Kazahana Koyuki in the lounge late at night, and she hurriedly drained her cup, which smelled of alcohol.

Lin Qing and Kazahana Koyuki entered the Land of Snow to investigate its brutal rule and prepare to reclaim the country. After seeing the suffering of its people firsthand, Lin Qing secretly enabled Nagano to kill a Snow ninja who had murdered his grandson.

• Lin Qing told Kazahana Koyuki that he would make her a transitional queen while the people chose their own leaders, and she agreed to give up hereditary rule to save her country.
• Lin Qing, Kazahana Koyuki, and Asama Sandayu landed near the royal city and met Nagano, an elderly farmer whose son and daughter-in-law had been killed under Kazahana Dōtō's rule.
• Nagano told the group that he was traveling to the city to bring his grandson home from forced labor, while Lin Qing helped his donkey pull its cart through the snow.
• A Snow ninja shot Nagano's grandson and announced that forced labor would continue under a new deadline, leaving the boy to freeze as the workers watched helplessly.
• Nagano attacked the Snow ninja with a shard of ice, and Lin Qing paralyzed the ninja with a spinning steel ball, allowing Nagano to bite through his throat.

A five-year-old girl watched Snow Ninja kill her mother and take her father away, while Kazahana Dōtō prepared a rail-bound war machine to defend his rule from Lin Qing. At a factory, Lin Qing retaliated against the overseers who attacked Nagano as Snow Ninja rushed in, and he challenged the workers’ fear that he would die.

• Snow Ninja killed a fleeing craftsman's wife and forced him to surrender, leaving his five-year-old daughter alone.
• Nadare Rōga reported that craftsmen had been conscripted as Kazahana Dōtō prepared the kingdom’s factories and war train for Lin Qing’s arrival.
• Kazahana Dōtō and Nadare Rōga praised the war train and vowed that Lin Qing would never return.
• At a factory, Nagano killed a Snow Ninja, and Lin Qing’s iron ball struck down the overseers who attacked him.
• The alarm brought more Snow Ninja toward the factory, and Lin Qing asked the frightened workers who they thought would die.

Sasuke led the Extermination Army in an assault on the Land of Snow, overwhelming Kazahana Dōtō’s forces with armored fighters and advanced weapons. The battle ended with Kazahana Dōtō discovering that the sky battleship was protected by a living wall of Hidan’s flesh, and he realized he was facing what he believed to be demons.

• Hayato Kamihara told Sasuke that Lin Qing had sent the signal, and Sasuke led ten Extermination Army soldiers in a dive toward the royal castle.
• The Extermination Army announced its declaration of war and landed before the castle, then Sasuke ordered the purge to begin.
• Sasuke and the armored soldiers slaughtered the Snow ninja, while Sasuke’s Steel Release armor withstood Mizore Fuyukuma’s snow tiger.
• Kazahana Dōtō ordered Nadare Rōga to deploy the rail battle train, which fired a massive kunai volley at Sasuke’s group.
• Explorer descended and destroyed the rail battle train with a chakra cannon, prompting Kazahana Dōtō to attack the sky battleship with Twin Dragon Blizzard.
• Kazahana Dōtō’s snow dragon pierced the battleship’s barrier and damaged its alloy plating, revealing a defensive layer of Hidan’s Steel Release flesh beneath it.

Lin Qing led the people of the Land of Snow against Kazahana Dōtō’s forces and defeated the tyrant after his army fell. Kazahana Dōtō was confirmed dead, leaving the country’s people free of his rule.

• The workers attacked their overseers and joined Lin Qing, who destroyed the Snow ninja pursuing him with Star Platinum and the Blade of Ruin.
• Lin Qing led Kazahana Koyuki, Asama Sandayu, and a growing crowd of civilians toward the royal castle, where Sasuke and the Extermination Army had already defeated hundreds of Snow ninja.
• Kazahana Dōtō charged at Lin Qing, but his Ice Release techniques failed and he could not escape the thirteen-step distance Lin Qing set for him.
• Star Platinum crushed Kazahana Dōtō’s Twin Dragon Blizzard and absorbed the dragons, then battered him until his Chakra Armor broke.
• Lin Qing struck Kazahana Dōtō with the Golden Spin · Ripple Flame · Rasengan, burying him beneath the railcar wreckage and confirming his death.

After Lin Qing’s forces conquered the Land of Snow, Kazahana Koyuki rejected the throne and placed a little girl on it instead. Hayato Kamihara later found Lin Qing spying on Uchiha Obito, and asked whether he knew the masked man’s identity.

• Hayato Kamihara recorded the Snow operation’s completion and reflected on how Lin Qing had truly conquered the Land of Snow.
• Hayato Kamihara entered the castle and found Kazahana Koyuki listening for the dead with a little girl in her arms.
• Kazahana Koyuki said the country did not need a king, then placed the girl on the throne instead of sitting there herself.
• A carpenter reunited with his daughter after the Extermination Army brought him back from searching for her.
• Hayato Kamihara offered Kazahana Koyuki coffee before finding Lin Qing using Spirit Photography to watch Uchiha Obito.
• Hayato Kamihara asked Lin Qing whether he knew who Uchiha Obito was.