Chapter Summaries

After Nagato revived hundreds of thousands of people, Lin Qing allowed Konan to take Nagato’s body and then rushed to the coastal battlefield. He rescued Amber’s forces, defeated the invading army, and confirmed that the war was won.

• Nagato revived hundreds of thousands of people before dying, and Lin Qing promised to keep winning as Konan arrived to take Nagato’s body.
• At the coastal battlefield, Amber fought on despite severe injuries and the loss of his left arm while Allied forces pressed forward.
• A hidden Daimyo ninja stabbed Amber, but Amber killed him and continued fighting alongside his comrades.
• Lin Qing arrived as Amber was surrounded, used water dragons to destroy the invaders, and overturned thousands of warships.
• Lin Qing told Amber that they had won, and the system awarded him 1 Dimensional Ascension Star Core.

After the war ended, Lin Qing sent the surviving Allied Forces to prison labor, while ensuring they received clothes and basic dignity. Back in Kirigakure, the people celebrated victory as Lin Qing mourned Whitesnake and accepted that he could not bring him back.

• Lin Qing ordered the disarmed Allied Forces imprisoned and assigned to labor, telling Akatsuchi that experts would determine when they had atoned for their crimes.
• Lin Qing gave Kurotsuchi a coat and explained that even criminals deserved basic human dignity, prompting her to understand why people followed him.
• Lin Qing returned to Kirigakure as the evening news announced the victory and crowds poured into the streets to celebrate.
• Lin Qing told C-Moon that he had earned the Dimensional Ascension Star Core and reflected on the system's inability to restore Whitesnake.
• Lin Qing watched the celebrating village and quietly mourned Whitesnake as footsteps sounded behind him.

After mourning the thousands killed in the war, Lin Qing reviewed his rewards and discovered Fate Ink, an item that might let a fully upgraded Stand surpass its limits. He weighed the risks and mysteries surrounding the item, then decided to spend his Soul Shards on a limited-time draw.

• Lin Qing asked Mei Terumi how many people had died, and she reported 3,126 casualties among Kirigakure ninja, the Extermination Army, and Oda Ieyasu’s samurai.
• Lin Qing vowed to make those responsible pay, while Mei Terumi stayed beside him and eventually fell asleep against his shoulder.
• Lin Qing counted his rewards and found that he had 42,000 Soul Shards, enough for many limited-time draws even after upgrading C-Moon.
• Lin Qing examined the Fate Ink he had received after killing Zetsu and learned it could help a fully upgraded Stand surpass its limit, though using it required a special pen and carried a price.
• Lin Qing considered the threats posed by Kaguya, Black Zetsu, and possible aliens, then decided to begin a limited-time draw.

Lin Qing used the Dimensional Ascension Star Core to open a limited-time draw and won the five-star Stands Pearl Jam and Ticket to Ride. With 140 pulls left and no six-star yet, he felt a summons from the white-hole lottery and walked toward it.

• Lin Qing crushed the Dimensional Ascension Star Core and entered the cosmic draw interface, where he learned that planets bought with Soul Shards could be fed to a black hole for Stand draws.
• Lin Qing rejected the white-hole lottery as an overpriced slot machine and spent 150 pulls, winning the five-star Stand Pearl Jam.
• Lin Qing recognized Pearl Jam's potential to heal injuries and restore chakra through specially prepared food, making it valuable for his team.
• Lin Qing spent another 130 pulls and won the five-star Stand Ticket to Ride, whose tear blade could redirect misfortune at the cost of life force.
• Lin Qing noted that he still had 140 pulls but no six-star Stand, then felt drawn toward the white-hole lottery and walked over to it.

Lin Qing used the white hole draw to obtain the six-star Stand Weather Report after Mei Terumi’s sleeping movement disrupted his timing. The limited-time draw ended with 41 pulls unused, and Mei Terumi woke as Lin Qing thanked her.

• Lin Qing switched from drawing cards from the black hole to the white hole, where he could target a six-star Stand by timing his presses.
• Lin Qing successfully drew two rosy-glow planets, but the white hole’s rotation accelerated until he had to predict when the third would appear.
• Mei Terumi shifted in her sleep and bit Lin Qing’s arm, distracting him as he pressed the button and completed a set of three aurora planets.
• The white hole produced Weather Report, whose weather control gave Lin Qing a powerful large-scale offensive option against future enemies.
• Lin Qing ended the draw with 41 pulls remaining; the 379 draws had also given him Ticket to Ride and Pearl Jam, and the limited-time card draw then expired.
• Lin Qing thanked the sleeping Mei Terumi, who woke up and reacted coyly when he asked whether she had dreamed about something delicious.

Lin Qing led the advance into the Land of Earth alone, drawing a crowd behind him as he walked toward its capital. There, the people seized Feudal Lord Sanada Kenshin, and Lin Qing declared that the land would follow his rules.

• The armies allied with Konoha and Kumogakure advanced toward the capitals of the Lands of Fire and Lightning, while bureaucrats surrendered and Sky Battleships broke through resistance.
• Lin Qing entered the Land of Earth alone and deflected attacks as he walked toward its royal capital, with a growing crowd following him.
• The Daimyo of the three nations planned to negotiate, believing they could retain their positions and gradually regain power.
• Sanada Kenshin learned that the people had breached the city gates, his guards had fled with his treasures, and his peace letter had received only the reply, “Understood.”
• The crowd broke into Sanada Kenshin’s mansion and pinned him down before Lin Qing, who said the land would now follow his rules.

Tsunade visited the imprisoned Uesugi Tadakatsu and urged him to live until he could see how the Land of Fire had changed. In the Land of Wind, Yukino Tokugawa planned to strengthen her country and asked what Lin Qing had been doing, learning that he was looking for a woman named Kaguya.

• Tsunade visited Uesugi Tadakatsu in prison, encouraged him to live, and left him pastries.
• After Tsunade left, Uesugi Tadakatsu asked Sakamoto whether he had been a terrible daimyo, and Sakamoto said he had been born in the era of Lin Qing.
• Tokugawa Shingen and Yukino Tokugawa discussed Lin Qing's victory and the future of the Land of Wind.
• Yukino said she would make the Land of Wind strong enough that Lin Qing would need her, while Tokugawa Shingen approved of her ambition.
• Yukino asked about Lin Qing, and Tokugawa Shingen said he had heard Lin Qing was looking for a woman named Kaguya.

Lin Qing considered how Fate Ink might be used to evolve a Stand beyond its limits and focused on Kaguya as one possible key. After Hayato Kamihara gathered ancient records about her, Lin Qing decided to seek answers from Mount Myoboku’s Great Toad Sage.

• Lin Qing weighed Heaven's Door, the Stand Arrow, and Kaguya as possible sources of the pen connected to Fate Ink, and chose to investigate Kaguya without harming innocents.
• At an izakaya, Lin Qing told Hayato Kamihara about Kaguya and the pen, prompting Hayato to misunderstand his motive.
• Hayato mobilized his intelligence network and delivered ancient records from across the Ninja World that described Princess Kaguya as both a savior and a demon.
• Lin Qing noted that the accounts dated back a thousand years and decided to ask Mount Myoboku’s Great Toad Sage about that era.

Lin Qing traveled to Konoha and Mount Myoboku to learn the truth about Kaguya from the Great Toad Sage. The Great Toad Sage revealed that he remembered everything about her.

• Lin Qing discussed the newly appointed civil servants with Oda Ieyasu, who recognized that Lin Qing feared an enemy coming from beyond the sky and worried about others dying.
• Lin Qing arrived in Konoha with Hayato Kamihara, met Jiraiya, and persuaded him to summon a toad to Mount Myoboku.
• Lin Qing reached Mount Myoboku and asked Fukasaku whether he could speak with the Great Toad Sage.
• The Great Toad Sage confirmed that he had been waiting for Lin Qing, who had come to ask about Kaguya.
• The Great Toad Sage told Lin Qing that he remembered everything about Kaguya and could never forget her.

The Great Toad Sage revealed Kaguya’s history and warned Lin Qing that an overwhelming darkness would soon engulf the world. After explaining how the God Tree drained the planet’s Natural Energy, he left Lin Qing wondering whether the Otsutsuki on the moon were enemies or allies.

• The Great Toad Sage told Lin Qing that his visions had become chaotic and that he foresaw the world falling into endless darkness.
• The Great Toad Sage said that Kaguya surpassed every other being, including Lin Qing, the White Snake Sage, and the Katsuyu Sage.
• The Great Toad Sage recounted how Kaguya and the God Tree arrived, how he helped Hagoromo Otsutsuki and Hamura Otsutsuki seal her, and how the brothers chose different paths.
• The Great Toad Sage explained that the God Tree had drained the world’s Natural Energy and could eventually cause the world to wither and perish.
• Lin Qing asked whether the Otsutsuki clansmen on the moon would be enemies or friends.

Lin Qing learned from the Great Toad Sage about the Otsutsuki clan, Kaguya’s seal, and how Hagoromo’s plan to restore the world had led to ninjas using their power for war. He left Mount Myoboku intending to prepare for contact with the moon’s Otsutsuki, but Sage Fukasaku stopped him with a warning about Nagato’s Rinnegan.

• Lin Qing decided to accelerate the Research Institute’s space program, inspect Kaguya’s seal, and strengthen himself while seeking cooperation with the Otsutsuki on the moon.
• The Great Toad Sage explained that Hagoromo’s spread of ninjutsu had helped replenish the world’s Natural Energy, though ninjas had turned their abilities into weapons for war.
• Lin Qing speculated that the Otsutsuki were a small, powerful, resource-plundering people, while acknowledging that his assumptions came from limited evidence about Kaguya and Hagoromo.
• Lin Qing told the Great Toad Sage he did not expect to alter the world’s course soon, then left the toad palace as the Sage fell asleep.
• Sage Fukasaku asked Lin Qing to retrieve Nagato’s Rinnegan, saying it was very important.

Lin Qing sought advice from Sage Fukasaku about destroying Nagato’s Rinnegan, then traveled to Amegakure to speak with Konan about the village’s future. He found the village reduced to ruins, with no living people remaining.

• Sage Fukasaku urged Lin Qing to make sure Nagato’s Rinnegan was destroyed, and Lin Qing agreed to investigate.
• Lin Qing left an orange for the White Snake Sage before returning to the izakaya, where Jiraiya and Hayato Kamihara drank themselves unconscious.
• Lin Qing decided to visit Konan, who had become Amegakure’s highest leader after Nagato’s death.
• Lin Qing flew to Amegakure before dawn and found its buildings collapsed and its streets strewn with corpses.
• Lin Qing used a ripple through the rain to search the village and detected no living people.

Lin Qing discovered that Konan was buried beneath Amegakure’s ruins and rushed to save her. After he revived her with Ripple, their heartbeats answered one another, while Yahiko and Nagato watched from the darkness.

• Lin Qing used Star Platinum’s drawing to identify the buried Akatsuki member as Konan, then hurried toward her.
• Obito attacked Konan for Nagato’s Rinnegan, but she had prepared six hundred billion Explosive Tags to counter his Izanagi.
• Kabuto Yakushi and the White Snake Sage brought conscious Impure World Reincarnation puppets, including Kakuzu, Kisame, and Deidara, and they defeated Konan.
• Obito took Nagato’s body and detonated the Explosive Tags across Amegakure, killing everyone in the village while Konan survived underground with forbidden medicine.
• Konan saw Amegakure’s destruction through a paper mouse and, near death, encountered Yahiko and Nagato in a vision.
• Lin Qing pulled Konan from the ruins and restored her with Ripple, and their heartbeats resumed as Yahiko and Nagato watched.

After Amegakure's destruction, Konan mourned her losses and resolved to take revenge, while Lin Qing supported her and healed her injuries. Their attempt to spy on Obito revealed his hidden laboratory in the Kamui Dimension, and Lin Qing decided to upgrade Hermit Purple to its maximum level.

• Konan grieved for Amegakure and the people she had lost, then told Lin Qing she intended to take revenge.
• Lin Qing offered Konan a restorative medicine, which restored her injured body, and asked her what had happened.
• Konan explained that the Masked Man had taken the Rinnegan and likely summoned away the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Lin Qing used Hermit Purple to spy on Obito and saw him in the Kamui Dimension beside Kabuto Yakushi's laboratory before the surveillance ended.
• Lin Qing checked Hermit Purple's status and told the system to upgrade it directly to the maximum.

Lin Qing and Konan learned that Obito had gone to the Country of Demons, possibly to improve Impure World Reincarnation with the country's spirit-control techniques. They headed there in disguise, but on the way to the capital, Lin Qing encountered Kakashi.

• Lin Qing maxed out Hermit Purple and used it to photograph Obito meeting Shion, the shrine maiden of the Country of Demons.
• Konan explained the Country of Demons’ history with Mōryō, and Lin Qing guessed Obito wanted its expertise to improve Impure World Reincarnation.
• Lin Qing invited Konan into the Ghost Room to bathe, change, eat, and rest while he set out for the Country of Demons.
• Lin Qing and Konan reached the country’s border a day later, disguised themselves as a couple, and traveled toward the capital.
• Lin Qing encountered Kakashi on the road.

Kakashi brought Naruto, Neji, Tenten, and Rock Lee to the Country of Demons in response to a distress letter, while Lin Qing and Konan joined them to investigate Obito. The group discovered that the city’s people seemed like “false humans,” and learned that Mōryō and Yomi had taken over the Daimyo and were preparing to target Lin Qing, while holding Shion and more than a thousand children hostage.

• Kakashi explained that Konoha had sent his team to investigate a blood-written distress letter bearing the Country of Demons’ Daimyo’s seal, and Naruto joined early as a genin.
• Lin Qing and Konan joined Kakashi’s group in disguise, and Konan wore a Konoha forehead protector as they headed to the royal capital.
• The Daimyo claimed he had sent the letter while delirious and said a masked doctor had treated him, but Lin Qing found no illness or genjutsu and sensed something was wrong with the mansion’s occupants.
• Kakashi, Lin Qing, and Konan agreed that the people in the mansion felt like “false humans,” and Lin Qing decided to investigate the shrine.
• Yomi revealed that Mōryō had possessed the Daimyo by devouring his soul and planned to take Lin Qing’s body, while Shion agreed to cooperate after Mōryō threatened the children held in the dungeon.

Lin Qing infiltrated the shrine in the Country of Demons and discovered that its underground seal contained the demon god’s power, which he identified as extremely yin Natural Energy. After using it to strengthen his Ripple, he left the shrine suspecting the daimyo had been possessed by a ghost and that the Masked Man had taken some of the power.

• Lin Qing used Catch the Rainbow and Weather Report to reach the shrine, then found and opened a hidden passage beneath the priestess statue.
• Lin Qing entered the underground palace and learned that priestesses had used the sealed demon god’s power to cultivate sealing techniques.
• Lin Qing touched the purple jade, resisted its chilling power, and identified the power as a form of Natural Energy.
• Lin Qing refined the power with the Dragon Snake Treasure Orb and discovered that it transformed his Natural Energy and Ripple, offering a way past his Ripple bottleneck.
• Lin Qing concluded that the Masked Man had sought the demon god’s power and that the Country of Demons’ daimyo had already been possessed by a ghost.

Naruto tried to use the bathroom in the haunted palace, then learned from Shion that Yomi and Mōryō planned to attack Lin Qing that night. Naruto was captured while protecting Shion, as Mōryō’s attack began and Lin Qing extinguished the shrine’s flames.

• Naruto woke Rock Lee and asked Neji to accompany him to the bathroom because he was afraid to walk through the dark corridor alone.
• Neji left Naruto in the bathroom, and Naruto fled from a ghostly woman before finding Shion hiding in a dark room.
• Shion told Naruto that Yomi planned to activate the ghost-summoning formation and help Mōryō take over Lin Qing’s body.
• Naruto carried Shion out to find Kakashi, but Yomi’s subordinates struck Naruto with several ninjutsu and knocked him unconscious.
• Yomi ordered his subordinates to imprison Naruto with the captured women and children, then saw an explosion at the shrine.
• Lin Qing stood unharmed in the flames and extinguished them with wind and rain.

Lin Qing discovered that Mōryō had possessed the feudal lord of the Country of Demons and was corrupting the nation, so he descended into the demon-summoning formation to confront it. When Mōryō offered him immortality, Lin Qing recognized the offer as possession and launched a time-stopped attack.

• Lin Qing concluded that Mōryō had possessed the feudal lord and was tainting the people of the Country of Demons.
• Yomi learned that Neji had escaped and Priestess Shion had slipped away to contact Naruto Uzumaki, but he dismissed their chances of escape.
• Lin Qing used C-Moon to descend beneath the shrine, and an explosive trap destroyed the shrine and the statue of the first-generation priestess.
• Lin Qing dispelled Mōryō's demonic storm with lightning and confronted the demon as it rose from the summoning formation.
• Mōryō offered Lin Qing its power and memories in exchange for a small price, but Lin Qing identified the offer as body possession and drew the Blade of Ruin.
• Lin Qing stopped time with Star Platinum: The World and moved in to attack Mōryō alongside Star Platinum.

Lin Qing repelled Mōryō’s possession and pinned him to the demon-summoning circle while Naruto rescued the prisoners and defeated Yomi. Mōryō then broke the seal on his underground true body at the cost of his shattered soul.

• Lin Qing blasted Mōryō with lightning as Kakashi and the others fought Yomi and the undead army.
• Mōryō possessed Lin Qing, but Star Platinum and the other Stands overwhelmed him inside Lin Qing’s consciousness and shattered his confidence.
• Lin Qing hurled the Blade of Ruin through Mōryō and pinned him to the demon-summoning circle.
• Yomi threatened Shion and ordered her to unseal Mōryō’s true body, but Naruto and his clones rescued the prisoners and knocked Yomi unconscious.
• Mōryō slammed his head into the ground and broke the seal on his true body, sacrificing his soul and leaking power.