Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yue rejected serving under Danzo, and the Third Hokage promised to help him and address the Hyuga Clan's affairs. After a month of training, Yue arrived for the Anbu selection and discovered Hyuga Anya was competing too, with orders from her clan to defeat him.

• Uchiha Yue told the Third Hokage he would rather serve under Tsunade than Danzo, and the Third Hokage promised to settle the matter and eventually explain the Hyuga Clan's affairs.
• The Third Hokage urged Yue to protect the village and asked him not to target the Hyuga Clan, then discussed the Anbu selection to reassure him.
• Yue trained for a month, and Tsunade gave him advice before he left for the Anbu selection at Konoha's training grounds.
• Hyuga Anya greeted Yue at the selection and said she had passed her clan's selection to compete for the Anbu alongside him.
• Yue distanced himself from Anya, and a Hyuga Clan ninja told her that defeating Yue was her mission and the way to raise her standing in the clan.

Uchiha Yue observed that the Anbu selection’s registration was a trap that eliminated careless candidates. Jiraiya then announced the first round in Doomsday Forest, where the remaining candidates had three hours to kill three giant beasts.

• Uchiha Yue watched the Hyuga Clan ninjas mock Hyuga Anya and dismissed their behavior without reacting.
• An Anbu ninja called the candidates to register, but Uchiha Yue realized the registration was a test of their vigilance.
• The candidates who registered their information were eliminated from the selection.
• Jiraiya arrived, assessed the remaining candidates, and announced that the first round would take place in Doomsday Forest.
• Jiraiya ordered each candidate to kill three giant beasts within three hours to pass the first round.

Uchiha Yue learned the Anbu selection rules and headed to Doomsday Forest to hunt three giant beasts, determined to pass without shortcuts. Jiraiya’s Anbu captured Hyuga Clan ninja who had ambushed Yue, revoked their qualifications, and reminded Yue that those who turn on comrades could not become Anbu.

• Jiraiya announced that candidates had to personally kill three giant beasts in Doomsday Forest within three hours, and Uchiha Yue chose not to exploit loopholes.
• Jiraiya reminded Uchiha Yue that Anbu members had to obey orders, complete missions well, and avoid shortcuts.
• Uchiha Yue used Purple Eye at Doomsday Forest’s entrance and spotted Hyuga Clan ninja lying in ambush.
• An Anbu squad captured the Hyuga Clan ninja before Uchiha Yue could act, and Jiraiya revoked their selection qualifications.
• Jiraiya apologized to Uchiha Yue and warned him that anyone willing to turn on comrades had no right to become Anbu.

Uchiha Yue entered Doomsday Forest for the Anbu selection exam and began hunting a giant black bear. After evading its attacks and overpowering it with Monster Strength, he used Falling Moon Style: Body-Penetrating Force against its tough defenses.

• Uchiha Yue entered Doomsday Forest, needing to hunt three giant beasts within three hours.
• After searching for ten minutes, Uchiha Yue found a giant black bear and approached it with Basic Shatter Step.
• The bear sensed Uchiha Yue, stood to its full height, and attacked, but Uchiha Yue dodged its blows with his improved speed.
• Uchiha Yue struck the bear with Monster Strength, repeatedly knocking it back while struggling to injure its durable body.
• Uchiha Yue evaded another attack and slammed his chakra-filled fist into the bear's abdomen with Falling Moon Style: Body-Penetrating Force.

Uchiha Yue killed a giant black bear and found Hyuga Anya’s group hunting in the Doomsday Forest. As he watched them enter a dangerous river, he realized a swarm of piranhas was swimming toward them.

• Uchiha Yue used Falling Moon Style: Body-Penetrating Force to shatter the giant black bear’s internal organs, then evaded its desperate attacks until it died.
• Uchiha Yue cut off one of the bear’s ears with Fubuki Tachi and set out to hunt the other two giant beasts.
• Uchiha Yue spotted Hyuga Anya with Hyuga Clan shinobi and learned they had split into two teams to help her pass the Anbu selection exam.
• Uchiha Yue saw Hyuga Anya and the shinobi enter a river where an unknown danger lurked, but he could not warn them.
• Uchiha Yue spotted countless piranhas swimming toward Hyuga Anya and the others.

Uchiha Yue watched the Hyuga Clan shinobi lead Hyuga Anya into a piranha-infested river, where their defenses collapsed under successive attacks. Though he wanted the Hyuga Clan weakened, he drew Fubuki Tachi and prepared to save Anya.

• Uchiha Yue spotted piranhas gathering beneath the river and held back to learn why the Hyuga Clan shinobi had brought Hyuga Anya there.
• The Hyuga Clan shinobi used Rotation to repel the first wave of piranhas, but the creatures attacked in repeated waves and drained their chakra.
• Piranhas broke through the front line and devoured one Hyuga Clan shinobi, while the others and Hyuga Anya suffered serious wounds.
• Blood attracted more piranhas, leaving the exhausted Hyuga Clan shinobi surrounded with no way back to land.
• Uchiha Yue hesitated over whether to help the Hyuga Clan, then gripped Fubuki Tachi and decided to save Hyuga Anya.

Uchiha Yue fought through a school of Piranhas to reach Hyuga Anya and the Hyuga Clan ninjas, then prepared to carry the injured Anya to safety. As they tried to escape, a kunai flew straight toward his chest.

• Uchiha Yue used Falling Moon Style: Clone Slash and Basic Shatter Step to cut through the Piranhas and approach Hyuga Anya and the Hyuga Clan ninjas.
• Uchiha Yue reached the group and told Hyuga Anya he had saved her only to spare her a humiliating death.
• A Piranha bit Hyuga Anya's ankle, leaving her with a wound that reduced her mobility.
• Uchiha Yue lifted Hyuga Anya onto his back and prepared to break out of the encirclement.
• A kunai suddenly shot toward Uchiha Yue's chest.

Uchiha Yue punished the Hyuga Clan ninjas who attacked him while he rescued Hyuga Anya from the Piranhas. After carrying her to shore, he declared they would be enemies if they met again, but Hyuga Anya tried to stop him and reveal why her clan had come to Doomsday Forest.

• Uchiha Yue dodged a kunai thrown by the Hyuga Clan ninjas and realized they were trying to kill him.
• Uchiha Yue severed one Hyuga Clan ninja’s arms and left another badly wounded, allowing the Piranhas to kill them.
• Hyuga Anya pleaded with Uchiha Yue to stop, but he continued fighting alongside the Piranhas until every Hyuga Clan ninja was dead.
• Uchiha Yue carried Hyuga Anya out of the river, left her on shore, and told her they would be enemies if they met again.
• Hyuga Anya asked Uchiha Yue to stay and said the Piranhas in Doomsday Forest held a secret.

Uchiha Yue learned that the Hyuga Clan hunted Piranha for rare crystals that helped improve Byakugan mastery, but he left Hyuga Anya and secretly investigated the creatures himself. Using Purple Eye, he found crystals inside some Piranha and carefully extracted them.

• Uchiha Yue treated Hyuga Anya's injured ankle and asked her to reveal the Piranha's secret as payment.
• Hyuga Anya explained that rare crystals inside Piranha could help Hyuga Clan members master the Byakugan more quickly, and asked Yue to keep the secret.
• Uchiha Yue dismissed the crystals as useless to him and left to continue his Anbu selection examination.
• After Hyuga Anya departed, Uchiha Yue returned to investigate whether Piranha really contained the crystals.
• Uchiha Yue killed several Piranha at the river, examined their bodies with Purple Eye, and found and extracted crystals from some of them.

Uchiha Yue hunted the giant beasts needed to pass the first round of the Anbu selection exam and returned to the gathering point. After Hyuga Anya and the other candidates arrived, Jiraiya appeared to announce the second round.

• Uchiha Yue discovered that the crystals from the Piranhas melted quickly, then disposed of the remaining Piranha corpses to hide the Hyuga Clan's secret.
• Uchiha Yue hunted a giant wolf spider, collected its venom, and continued searching for the remaining giant beasts in the Doomsday Forest.
• Uchiha Yue concealed his presence and hunted the last giant beast shortly before the exam ended, then returned to the gathering point with proof of his kills.
• Uchiha Yue surprised the Konoha elites waiting at the gathering point, while Hyuga Anya passed the first round at the last moment.
• Jiraiya appeared at the gathering point to tell the candidates about the second round of the Anbu selection exam.

After Uchiha Yue and Hyuga Anya passed the first two rounds of the Anbu selection, Jiraiya began a test of the candidates’ ability to resist interrogation and genjutsu. Jiraiya personally took charge of questioning Yue, leaving Yue uneasy as the interrogation began.

• Jiraiya eliminated candidates who had broken the first-round rules, leaving only a little over twenty people, including Uchiha Yue and Hyuga Anya.
• Uchiha Yue concluded that Konoha had made the selection strict to replenish the Anbu after its wartime losses.
• Uchiha Yue and Hyuga Anya used their perceptive abilities to pass the tracking and counter-tracking tests, while three other candidates were eliminated.
• Jiraiya gave each remaining candidate outdated intelligence to memorize, then announced a test of their ability to keep it secret under interrogation.
• Jiraiya personally approached Uchiha Yue to interrogate him and teased him about being afraid he would fail.

Uchiha Yue resisted Jiraiya’s genjutsu and passed the most difficult Anbu selection test. Jiraiya explained Yue could not serve under Tsunade and offered him a choice of serving under Jiraiya, Orochimaru, or the Third Hokage; Yue chose someone else, and Jiraiya wished him success.

• Jiraiya used genjutsu to interrogate Uchiha Yue, but Yue resisted it without revealing anything.
• Jiraiya ended the interrogation, praised Yue’s performance, and passed him in the Anbu selection without requiring the remaining tests.
• Jiraiya told Yue that he could not serve under Tsunade and offered him the choice of serving under Jiraiya, Orochimaru, or the Third Hokage.
• Jiraiya explained that the Third Hokage had arranged those choices to keep Yue from serving under Shimura Danzō, while Tsunade had to avoid suspicion.
• Uchiha Yue asked whether Jiraiya would blame him for choosing someone else, and Jiraiya said he had expected Yue’s decision and wished him success in the Anbu.

Uchiha Yue chose to serve under Orochimaru in the Anbu, and Orochimaru arranged to train him privately after ten days of preparation. Yue returned to Tsunade’s residence, where she asked gravely whether he had truly decided to serve under Orochimaru.

• Uchiha Yue told Jiraiya he understood and chose Orochimaru over Jiraiya and the Third Hokage.
• Uchiha Yue watched Hyuga Anya pass the remaining Anbu trials with ease and join the successful candidates.
• Orochimaru appeared before Uchiha Yue, excused him from group Anbu training, and asked whether he was prepared for the risks of Anbu missions.
• Uchiha Yue accepted Orochimaru’s training and was given ten days to rest and prepare for missions.
• Uchiha Yue planned to visit Doomsday Forest to study the crystals inside the Piranhas, then returned to Tsunade’s residence.
• Tsunade asked Uchiha Yue whether he had really decided to serve under Orochimaru.

Uchiha Yue arranged to train under Orochimaru and persuaded Tsunade to investigate the crystals inside Doomsday Forest's Piranhas. After consuming one under Tsunade's protection, he discovered that the crystal purified his spiritual energy and helped him cultivate Purple Eye.

• Tsunade warned Uchiha Yue that Orochimaru's demanding training and extreme methods could be difficult, and urged him to seek her help if he struggled.
• Uchiha Yue asked Tsunade about the strange crystals inside Doomsday Forest's Piranhas, and she agreed to investigate them with him the next day.
• Tsunade and her Anbu hunted Piranhas and gathered their crystals for Uchiha Yue to examine.
• Uchiha Yue swallowed one crystal and endured a sudden impact to his spiritual energy.
• Uchiha Yue found that the crystal had considerably reduced impurities in his spiritual energy and concluded that more could help him cultivate Purple Eye.

After purifying his spiritual energy with crystals from Piranha, Uchiha Yue prepared to unseal Monster Ido and absorb its power. He began undoing only part of the seal so he could absorb the creature’s spiritual energy gradually and reseal it if necessary.

• Uchiha Yue explained to Tsunade that the crystals purified spiritual energy, though their impact could be dangerous to someone whose energy was weak.
• Uchiha Yue suggested the crystals might help Tsunade recover from the spiritual damage behind her hemophobia, but Tsunade said she would first have to overcome her psychological fear.
• Tsunade sent her Anbu to help Uchiha Yue hunt Piranha in Doomsday Forest and gather more crystals.
• After six days, Uchiha Yue cleared the impurities from his spiritual energy and decided to try absorbing Monster Ido’s power.
• Uchiha Yue planned to undo only part of Monster Ido’s seal and absorb its spiritual energy bit by bit before beginning to form hand seals.

Uchiha Yue partially released Monster Ido’s seal and fought to devour its spiritual energy without being consumed in return. He resealed Monster Ido, but his own spiritual energy was left impure, and he turned to examining what he had gained.

• Uchiha Yue used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to dispel Monster Ido’s illusion and expose its true body.
• Uchiha Yue began absorbing the spiritual energy Monster Ido released, but Monster Ido pulled at his energy and nearly took control of it.
• Uchiha Yue used his Sharingan’s ocular power to suppress Monster Ido and win their tug-of-war, absorbing the released spiritual energy.
• Uchiha Yue’s spiritual energy became too impure to absorb another wave, so he formed hand seals to reseal Monster Ido despite its resistance.
• Uchiha Yue collapsed from exhaustion after resealing Monster Ido and realized his spiritual energy would take months to purify, then prepared to inspect his gains.

After recovering from devouring Monster Ido's spiritual energy, Uchiha Yue discovered that his strength and Purple Eye had improved dramatically and gained the ability to control hearing. He then encountered a strange memory in his mind and wondered whose it was.

• Uchiha Yue used the Uzumaki Clan Secret Technique to sort out his spiritual energy and recover his strength in five minutes.
• Yue found that he had absorbed at least a quarter of Monster Ido's spiritual energy and believed he might need only two or three more devourings to absorb its power completely.
• Yue activated his Purple Eye and discovered its perception range had expanded to a thousand meters, with a new purple ripple resembling a pupil.
• Yue browsed Monster Ido's memories and gained the ability to take away another person's hearing.
• Yue noticed a strange new memory appearing in his mind and wondered whose memory it was.

Uchiha Yue investigated a mysterious memory about spiritual space, then spent several days purifying his muddled spiritual energy with crystals from piranhas. After the crystals stopped working, he joined Orochimaru’s Anbu and left Konoha with him for a mission.

• Uchiha Yue found that a strange, fragmented memory in his mind concerned spiritual space and suspected it had appeared after his Purple Eye advanced.
• Uchiha Yue hunted piranhas in the Doomsday Forest and used their crystals to purify his spiritual energy, but the crystals’ effect gradually faded and eventually stopped.
• Uchiha Yue returned to Tsunade’s residence, rested, and prepared to begin Anbu training under Orochimaru.
• An Anbu member explained the requirements of serving under Orochimaru and took Uchiha Yue to the gathering point at Konoha’s main gate.
• Orochimaru greeted Uchiha Yue at the gate and told him they were leaving.

Uchiha Yue impressed Orochimaru with his knowledge of ninjutsu and said he accepted experimenting on enemy shinobi to develop forbidden techniques. After resting on the journey, Yue followed a group of Anbu toward a village and wondered whether it concealed Orochimaru’s human-experiment base.

• Orochimaru called Uchiha Yue to walk beside him and tested his knowledge of ninjutsu, which Yue answered with ease.
• Orochimaru asked Yue what he thought of forbidden techniques, and Yue said he wanted to study them and considered experiments on enemy shinobi acceptable.
• Orochimaru ordered his Anbu to rest after half a day of travel, while Yue restored his spiritual energy and chakra with the Uzumaki Clan Secret Technique.
• Several Anbu told Yue that Orochimaru had assigned them a mission, then set off with Yue following close behind.
• Yue noticed they were heading toward a village and wondered whether it held Orochimaru’s secret base for human experiments.

Uchiha Yue and Orochimaru’s Anbu massacred a village, and Yue was ordered to identify the dead while the others searched for a stone tablet. The chapter left the purpose of the massacre and the tablet’s location unresolved.

• Uchiha Yue used his Purple Eye to inspect the village and found no villagers with chakra.
• The Anbu squad leader told Yue to memorize the villagers’ faces, then revealed Orochimaru’s order to massacre the village.
• Uchiha Yue and the Anbu attacked the village, killing its civilians, with Yue killing nearly a hundred people.
• The squad leader ordered Yue to check the villagers’ identities while he and the other Anbu searched for a stone tablet.