Chapter Summaries

Lin Qing considered using the Resonance Sound System to obtain a powerful Stand, then learned that the mural at Hamura Otsutsuki's residence described Kaguya's arrival and the Otsutsuki clan's plans. The mural's final revelations left Lin Qing focused on two important clues.

• Lin Qing tried to target Gold Experience with the Resonance Sound System but could not lock onto the already-drawn Whitesnake, so he decided to save the draw for a future enemy.
• Lin Qing went to check the exploration team's work at Hamura Otsutsuki's residence and saw that Toneri had dug up and made puppets of his deceased clansmen.
• Hayato Kamihara showed Lin Qing a mural and explained that experts had deciphered its ancient writing.
• Hayato Kamihara reported that the mural said Kaguya came to destroy the Ninja World but chose to protect humanity, killed her rebellious servant, and created super soldiers to resist future Otsutsuki arrivals.
• Lin Qing studied the mural and identified two points in its account that he needed to keep in mind.

Lin Qing considered the threat of future Otsutsuki attacks and discussed the surviving White Zetsu, possible hidden enemies, and the limits of seeing into the future. He decided how to handle the unconscious White Snake Sage No. 18 and left to conduct an experiment involving Obito Uchiha.

• Lin Qing and Hayato Kamihara identified White Zetsu as Kaguya's super soldiers and speculated that her servant might still be alive.
• Lin Qing asked the Great Toad Sage whether Absolute Darkness still blocked visions of the future, then asked if he could learn senjutsu chakra.
• The Great Toad Sage explained that he and the Katsuyu Sage could provide senjutsu chakra, while White Snake Sage No. 18 remained unconscious and difficult to awaken.
• Lin Qing said No. 18 should be judged by her own actions and contributions, and that her help saving the world outweighed any past faults.
• Lin Qing told the Great Toad Sage he was ready to begin an experiment testing a Ripple-infused Tailed Beast Bomb's effect on Obito Uchiha in the Kamui dimension.

Lin Qing and Kakashi tested whether attacks could reach Obito through the Kamui Dimension, then used Inoichi Yamanaka to uncover where Obito was hiding. Inoichi found that Obito and his allies had built a concealed base inside a miniature celestial body circling above the Ninja World.

• Kakashi absorbed a Tailed Beast Bomb measured at 3.27 bombs into the Kamui Dimension while researchers monitored its power.
• Lin Qing and Kakashi concluded that Obito could not be affected while outside the Kamui Dimension, and Hermit Purple suggested his hidden location was moving at immense speed.
• Lin Qing, Kakashi, and Naruto visited Hidan at the Research Institute and had Inoichi Yamanaka search his memories for Obito.
• Inoichi endured Hidan's hostile subconscious monsters, then revealed that Obito, Kabuto Yakushi, White Snake Sage No. 1, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path were hiding in a miniature celestial body above the Ninja World.

Obito and his allies transformed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path into the Ten-Tails, which Obito absorbed before entering a dormant state. Lin Qing watched the events through Spirit Photography and prepared to begin Kars' trial quest with the Dimensional Ascension Star Core.

• Kabuto Yakushi and Obito fed the gathered Tailed Beast chakra and Jinchuriki to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which transformed into the Ten-Tails.
• Obito absorbed the Ten-Tails and entered a cocoon-like dormancy, while the White Snake Sage swallowed him and fled with Kabuto Yakushi to Sky Base No. 2.
• The White Snake Sage told Kabuto Yakushi that he was their true trump card and would become the world's true sage.
• Lin Qing, Kakashi, Naruto, Hidan, and the others watched the events through Spirit Photography, and Naruto eagerly anticipated fighting Obito.
• Hidan explained that he worried about his friends because he wanted both them and Lin Qing to die, and Lin Qing promised to kill them.
• Lin Qing took out the Dimensional Ascension Star Core, and a system prompt asked whether to begin Kars' trial quest after Ripple Qigong reached its limit.

Lin Qing began the Kars Trial and discovered that he had descended into the body of a vampire during a town massacre. After confronting another vampire, he asked whether the man had ever eaten a person.

• Lin Qing reviewed the trial’s risks and prepared by eating a chocolate wafer and drinking coffee before activating the Kars Trial.
• Lin Qing awoke in a Western-style house, where Nina mistook him for a monster and screamed at his vampire appearance.
• Lin Qing realized he had become a vampire, leaving him unable to use Ripple and placing him among the lackeys of the Pillar Men.
• Lin Qing heard his fellow vampires killing people in the house and saw that the town outside was filled with slaughter.
• A gaunt vampire ordered Lin Qing to bring Nina downstairs, and Lin Qing asked him whether he had ever eaten a person.

Lin Qing killed the vampires terrorizing Nina’s town and absorbed their life energy to strengthen himself. He rode southeast toward Kars and Wamuu’s duel, aiming to stop Kars before he became the Ultimate Lifeform.

• Lin Qing killed the bare-chested vampire with Dio’s Vaporization Freezing Technique and discovered that he could use stored life energy to withstand sunlight and Ripple.
• Lin Qing confronted the vampires downstairs, killed their leader, and learned that Kars and Wamuu were dueling JOJO at a stone formation southeast of town.
• Lin Qing slaughtered the remaining vampires to gather life energy and learned that dawn was approaching, leaving him too little time to reach Kars before his transformation.
• Nina gave Lin Qing a shotgun and ammunition as he rode southeast, but he left without telling her his name.

Kars became the Ultimate Lifeform and defied the sunlight, forcing Joseph Joestar to flee. Lin Qing intervened and attacked Kars with Dragon Vein-charged shotgun shells, leaving the battle raging after he destroyed Kars’s hummingbirds.

• Kars completed his ascension into the Ultimate Lifeform and showed that sunlight no longer harmed him.
• Joseph Joestar announced that he would run, and Kars pursued him through the air.
• Lin Qing charged in on a vampire warhorse, which collapsed under the sunlight, and attacked Kars with an explosive shotgun blast.
• Lin Qing followed with another shot and a Ripple-powered machete strike, but Kars blocked the blade and transformed scattered flesh into hummingbirds.
• Lin Qing trapped the hummingbirds in his Ripple-reinforced cloak and fired four shots, destroying them.

Lin Qing fought Kars, using genetic contamination and a hidden Golden Spin to exploit Kars’s vulnerability and absorb his life force. With that energy, Lin Qing hoped to unleash the power of his Projection of the Past and kill Kars.

• Kars realized Lin Qing’s blood could contaminate his cells and saw that Lin Qing was rapidly consuming life energy in the sunlight.
• Lin Qing and Kars exchanged blows as Joseph Joestar and Stroheim watched, and Joseph recognized that Lin Qing was losing ground.
• Joseph Joestar charged Kars with Ripple, and Lin Qing shot Kars’s knee to help Joseph land a Ripple Overdrive to the groin.
• Lin Qing cut Kars’s back and secretly drove a Golden Spin steel ball into the wound, disrupting Kars’s control of his blood.
• Lin Qing began absorbing the life force flowing from Kars, preparing to use the energy to unleash his Projection of the Past.

Lin Qing used Joseph Joestar, the steel ball, and Kars’s arrogance to land a devastating attack, but Kars survived and took to the sky to wait out Lin Qing’s limited time in sunlight. Lin Qing pursued him by riding one of Stroheim’s shells.

• Joseph Joestar predicted Kars’s words, distracting him as Lin Qing transformed by absorbing life energy through the spinning steel ball.
• Kars stopped the energy transfer, but Lin Qing split him in two and cut off his head.
• Lisa Lisa recognized Ripple energy in Kars’s remains, and Kars used it to regenerate into birds and beasts before reforming himself.
• Kars admitted Lin Qing had nearly killed him, then flew higher to let the sun burn Lin Qing out rather than fight him directly.
• Stroheim ordered his soldiers to fire mortars at Kars, and Lin Qing leaped onto a shell and charged toward him in the sky.

Lin Qing burned his life energy to fight Kars in the sky, but Kars exhausted his remaining strength by luring him over a sunlit snowfield and lake. Joseph Joestar and Stroheim arrived with the Aja Red Stone, letting Lin Qing unleash the Golden Spin as the Spear of Longinus against Kars.

• Lin Qing used Ripple-powered blood mist to fly and battled Kars in the air, while Robert E. O. Speedwagon and Lisa Lisa watched from below.
• Kars and Lin Qing wounded each other brutally, and Kars destroyed Lin Qing's recovery plan by steering them over snow and lake water that reflected the sunlight.
• Lin Qing's Ripple flames went out, but he calmly told Kars to listen as Stroheim's plane approached.
• Joseph Joestar threw Lin Qing the Aja Red Stone, which Lin Qing caught as Stroheim flew overhead.
• Lin Qing recognized the convergence of his companions, Kars, and the surrounding scene as the Golden Spin's power, then hurled the spinning Aja Red Stone at Kars as the Spear of Longinus.

Lin Qing defeated Kars by combining the Golden Spin with the Aja Red Stone, then absorbed Kars’s genes and completed the trial mission. Back in the break room, Lin Qing began adjusting his genes toward becoming an Ultimate Lifeform and wondered how to obtain another Dimensional Ascension Star Core.

• Lin Qing used the Aja Red Stone to amplify his Golden Spin, pierced Kars’s heart, and drew life energy from his blood.
• Lin Qing fused the Ripple with the Dragon Vein and the power of gods and demons, then struck Kars into a crater and absorbed his genes.
• Kars asked why Lin Qing wanted to become an Ultimate Lifeform, and Lin Qing explained that he wanted to use his power to improve food production before Kars died.
• Lin Qing told Lisa Lisa and the others that Kars was dead, returned the Aja Red Stone to Joseph Joestar, and completed the trial mission.
• Back in the break room, Lin Qing began adjusting his genes using Kars’s template, while Samui blushed and left after he complimented her.
• Lin Qing reflected on gaining Kars’s genetic template and Lesson 4’s Golden Spin, then wondered how to acquire another Dimensional Ascension Star Core.

Lin Qing planned to redirect the Ninja World’s development, cultivate Ripple and Spin, and find Obito Uchiha before he became the Ten-Tails’ Jinchuriki. His surveillance of Obito’s allies led to an embarrassing misunderstanding with Kurotsuchi, while Jiraiya arrived with an update on Android 18.

• Lin Qing outlined plans to observe the Ninja World and adjust its development, strengthen his Ripple and Spin, and locate Obito Uchiha.
• Lin Qing used Spirit Photography to observe Obito, White Snake Sage No. 1, and Kabuto Yakushi, and saw White Snake Sage No. 1 enhancing Kabuto with cells from powerful figures.
• Lin Qing worried that Obito could become the Ten-Tails’ Jinchuriki and contact other Otsutsuki, but could not find a way to track the moving sky base.
• Lin Qing discovered that the surveillance image showed an explicit video playing beside White Snake Sage No. 1’s operating table, and Kurotsuchi mistook him for watching porn before fleeing.
• Jiraiya arrived, teased Lin Qing about the image, and then invited him to hear whether his research on awakening Android 18 had succeeded.

Lin Qing saved White Snake Sage No. 18 from irreversible collapse before hearing its secret. No. 18 revealed that the Otsutsuki who came to the Ninja World with Kaguya was still alive.

• Kabuto Yakushi and White Snake Sage No. 18 joked about spying on Lin Qing before No. 18 revealed it had removed Kabuto’s “lust reactor.”
• Jiraiya told Lin Qing that the newly awakened No. 18 was rapidly decaying and demanded to share vital intelligence with him alone.
• Lin Qing used Ripple to stop No. 18’s genetic collapse, then explained that he had saved it because it was a hero and comrade who helped save the world.
• No. 18 said it had witnessed Kaguya attack her companion and revealed that the Otsutsuki who descended with Kaguya was still alive.

Lin Qing learned from Number Eighteen that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had survived for a thousand years and founded Kara while searching for a compatible body. After weighing the danger and morality of confronting him, Lin Qing left the decision open, and Isshiki sensed someone watching him as he ate dinner.

• Lin Qing asked Number Eighteen about Isshiki and learned that he had possessed a bald man after Kaguya ambushed him and fed half his body to the God Tree.
• Number Eighteen explained that Isshiki had spent a thousand years hiding and founded Kara to search for a powerful, compatible body.
• Number Eighteen warned Lin Qing not to confront Isshiki before he was prepared and explained why she had kept his existence secret.
• Lin Qing asked whether Isshiki deserved to die, but Number Eighteen said she did not know and left the choice to him.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki cooked a steak and sat down to eat, then sensed someone watching him from behind.

Lin Qing tracked down Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and confronted him over his plans for the Ninja World. Isshiki denied that he would be humanity’s enemy, but Lin Qing saw through the lie.

• Isshiki reflected on his efforts to hide his identity and wait for a suitable reincarnation vessel while growing wary that Lin Qing might find him.
• Lin Qing appeared in Isshiki’s room with Star Platinum restraining him, then explained how Spirit Photography had helped pinpoint his location.
• Lin Qing said he wanted to know what Isshiki had done and planned to do, and asked whether he would be humanity’s enemy.
• Isshiki ate and drank before answering that he would not be humanity’s enemy.
• Lin Qing’s smile disappeared as he told Isshiki, “You’re lying.”

Lin Qing attacked Isshiki with Star Platinum and his Fourth Stage Ripple Qigong, severely injuring him with a technique called Space Slingshot. Isshiki recognized Lin Qing’s restraint but refused to retreat, transformed further, and promised Lin Qing would regret sparing him.

• Isshiki activated Kāma: State One and challenged Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing stopped time, had Star Platinum pummel Isshiki, and prepared a compressed Ripple Crystal.
• Lin Qing struck Isshiki with Space Slingshot, crushing him with layers of spatial force and leaving him seriously injured.
• Isshiki realized Lin Qing had chosen to confront him openly rather than ambush him, and understood that Lin Qing had not initially treated him as an enemy.
• Though reason told him to leave, Isshiki grew a horn and vowed that Lin Qing would regret not killing him.

Lin Qing battled Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, countering his shrinking black rods and forcing him to unleash Kāma State Two. As Isshiki’s borrowed body began to crack, he asked Lin Qing to stop fighting, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki entered Kāma State Two and attacked Lin Qing with black rods shrunk by Sukunahikona and stored in Daikokuten.
• Lin Qing used Star Platinum to catch the invisible rods, coated them with Ripple crystals, and hurled them back, causing explosions that obscured Isshiki’s view.
• Lin Qing attacked Isshiki with a spinning Steel Ball and the Blade of Ruin, while Isshiki fled into the sky and unleashed thousands of black rods against Lin Qing’s Ripple barriers.
• The White Snake Sage and Kabuto Yakushi watched the battle from the Sky Base, and the White Snake Sage told Kabuto he would one day defeat Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing cracked Isshiki’s body during their clash, and Isshiki asked him to stop before his borrowed body failed.

Lin Qing rejected Isshiki’s proposed truce and offered him a choice between accepting restrictions or leaving the Ninja World. When Isshiki tried to escape and threatened Lin Qing’s loved ones, Lin Qing stopped him and sealed his reincarnation, leaving Isshiki’s head in his hand.

• Isshiki proposed ending the fight and promised to remain a silent observer, but Lin Qing sensed his ambition and refused to let him go unrestrained.
• Lin Qing offered Isshiki two choices: let Killer Queen plant a bomb inside his true body, or undergo memory deletion and leave the planet.
• Isshiki rejected Lin Qing’s conditions and opened a spatial portal, but C-Moon destroyed it; he then tried to flee beyond its range.
• C-Moon and Star Platinum pulled Isshiki back as Lin Qing prepared Space Slingshot, and Isshiki threatened to kill Lin Qing’s friends if forced to reincarnate.
• Lin Qing used Star Platinum World to interrupt Isshiki’s escape, then struck his neck with Space Slingshot and stopped his reincarnation by detonating Ripple-infused blood inside his brain.
• Lin Qing sealed Isshiki’s power within his head, trapping him in a state between life and death, and caught his severed head.

Lin Qing took Isshiki’s trapped head to the Research Institute, where researchers proposed three ways to kill him and began developing them. Lin Qing left with Isshiki for a walk, while Samui’s awkward attempt to address rumors about Lin Qing ended in confusion.

• Lin Qing told Isshiki their contest would continue through hidden energy manipulation and technique, while Isshiki warned that Lin Qing would lose to his wisdom.
• Samui gave Lin Qing the three shortlisted plans for killing Isshiki: sending him into the Sun, disrupting his spatial abilities before attacking, or contaminating him with Hidan’s flesh.
• Lin Qing approved joint development of all three plans, citing the 5,339 researchers working at the limits of human knowledge.
• Samui warned that the Research Institute had no completely safe place to store Isshiki’s head, so Lin Qing took him along on his journey.
• Samui pulled Lin Qing aside and urged him to find a woman because of rumors that he had watched adult films; Lin Qing awkwardly denied needing an introduction and left.

Lin Qing traveled through the Land of Water and visited Blade Master in Snowfall Village, where he offered a Ripple Crystal to extend the old bladesmith’s life. Blade Master refused, choosing to accept aging and death, and Lin Qing resumed his journey after helping him carry coal.

• Lin Qing and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki set out on foot so Lin Qing could see how people lived across the land.
• Lin Qing reached Snowfall Village and found that Blade Master had grown frail since their last visit.
• Lin Qing offered Blade Master a Ripple Crystal that could extend his life by ten years, but Blade Master refused and explained that he accepted his life’s natural end.
• Blade Master asked Lin Qing to help move coal, and Lin Qing hauled it into the backyard before leaving with cured meat for the road.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki called himself an eternal god, and Lin Qing told him he was full of shit.