Chapter Summaries

Yunxiao tried to persuade Black Zetsu to trust his organization, but when Black Zetsu refused, he sealed him inside a bracelet made from Chakra Metal. The chapter ended with Yunxiao naming the artifact the Heart-Breaking Bracelet and wearing it.

• Yunxiao offered Black Zetsu help from his organization, but Black Zetsu remained silent and refused to trust them.
• Yunxiao weakened Black Zetsu's connection to White Zetsu and decided to seal him rather than imprison him as a criminal.
• Yunxiao took a Chakra Metal rod from the Uchiha weapons room and received Madara-sama's permission to use it.
• Yunxiao melted the rod, shaped it into a bracelet, and used spatial techniques to trap Black Zetsu inside its circuits.
• Black Zetsu tried to escape, but Yunxiao strengthened the bracelet's seal and explained that Black Zetsu could still see outside.
• Yunxiao named the artifact the Heart-Breaking Bracelet, shrank it, and slipped it onto his wrist.

Yunxiao showed the Cloud Leaf Society a Spiritual Artifact made with Uzumaki sealing techniques, then the organization established Rain Capital as its headquarters and began assessing the Land of Rain’s population and records. The chapter left Sun Keiyun preparing those records for a meeting about the organization’s future.

• Yunxiao demonstrated the Heart-Breaking Bracelet to Sun Keiyun, Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Uzumaki Kushina, explaining how divine script and Chakra Metal were used to make it.
• Yunxiao revealed that Black Zetsu was sealed inside the bracelet, and Sun Keiyun agreed to have the Primordial Spirit Jade Edict continue researching useful divine seals.
• Sun Keiyun proposed gathering the Cloud Leaf Society’s official members to meet and discuss the organization’s future, and Tsunade and Orochimaru agreed while Kushina worried about her newcomer status.
• The Cloud Leaf Society named Amegakure Rain Capital and made it its temporary headquarters, bringing in clerks and students to support its work.
• Yahiko showed Sun Keiyun the Land of Rain’s collected records and admitted he felt unqualified to lead, but Sun Keiyun encouraged him to keep learning.
• Sun Keiyun discovered records listing fourteen million households in the Land of Rain, reviewed the outdated geographical and hydrological data, and took the materials to the coming meeting.

Sun Keiyun opened a Cloud Leaf Society meeting, introduced the organization’s expansion into the Cloud Leaf Country, and welcomed Yahiko, Nagato, Konan, Yakushi Nonō, Kagura, Mei Terumi, Kisame Hoshigaki, and their recruits. After introductions, Sun began an academic exchange and distributed papers that caught Mei Terumi’s attention.

• Sun Keiyun brought the society members to the conference room, where Mei Terumi greeted Yakushi Nonō and reviewed the meeting charter.
• Sun introduced himself as the Cloud Leaf Society’s founder and president, announced that members would elect a new president, and said the former Land of Rain now belonged to the society as the Cloud Leaf Country.
• Yahiko, Nagato, and the other attendees introduced themselves and described their backgrounds and reasons for joining the society.
• Sun announced an academic exchange, and Uzumaki Kushina handed out papers about civilian ninja, village ideology, and the ninja population.
• Mei Terumi read the papers’ titles and became serious.

Sun Keiyun expanded the Cloud Leaf Society’s ideas through new articles and led a long meeting to discuss its future. The members unanimously chose Great Harmony Society as the organization’s new name.

• Sun Keiyun warned Mei Terumi that the Land of Water was too weak to put the society’s theories into practice yet.
• Orochimaru and Tsunade met Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, and the members discussed their problems while Sun Keiyun wrote five new articles for the Cloud Child Classics.
• Sun Keiyun explained that members struggled to understand cultivation, alchemy, divine seals, and his political ideas, so he had to write detailed guidance.
• Sun Keiyun asked the members to choose a formal name for the society, and they proposed Dawn Society, Great Harmony Society, Freedom Society, Gate of Truth, and Cloud Leaf Society.
• Sun Keiyun argued that Great Harmony Society would be clearer and easier to promote than Cloud Leaf Society, and every member voted in favor of the new name.

The Great Harmony Society formalized its name, leadership, departments, and branch plans, while Konoha transformed its Ninja Academy into a boarding school with open enrollment. The chapter ended with young doctors dispatched across the Land of Fire taking on tens of thousands of village medical apprentices.

• Sun Keiyun established the Great Harmony Society in the Land of Rain on September 1st and confirmed its leaders, branches, committees, and departments.
• The Society set plans for its branches: the Mist Hidden Branch would expand quietly, the Konoha Branch would recruit and cultivate talent, and the Land of Rain Branch would assess and absorb Amegakure's ninjas.
• Konoha's Ninja Academy reopened as Konoha First Experimental Elementary School, with new buildings, boarding, uniforms, free meals, and no entrance examinations.
• Fugaku brought Shisui to enroll, learned that students would board during the week, and rushed off to bring more Uchiha children after seeing the Nara Clan enroll six.
• Young village doctors arrived across the Land of Fire, and villagers persuaded them to teach their children medicine, increasing the number of apprentices to ten or twenty thousand.

Orochimaru defended the reformed Ninja Academy to wary parents and began enforcing new admissions, boarding, and academic rules. The school opened with an expanded curriculum and credit system, while Sarutobi Hiruzen worried about losing control and considered the Reaper Death Seal.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen voiced concerns about mixing children with and without Chakra talent, while Orochimaru defended the reforms and sensed his teacher’s fear of change.
• Orochimaru answered parents’ objections by explaining the revised talent selection, mandatory boarding, and the village’s commitment to reform, invoking Tsunade’s authority to quiet the crowd.
• Fugaku registered several Uchiha children, including one unusually tall child he claimed was five years old.
• Uchiha Shisui received a schedule with eleven daily classes, new subjects, and term exams that required an average above eighty to earn credits and advance.
• Tsunade questioned the passing standard, and Orochimaru explained that a lenient threshold would account for inexperienced teachers while still revealing disciplined students.

Sun Keiyun guided Yahiko toward gradually developing the Land of Rain instead of attacking its nobles, then returned to the front lines and continued cultivating. When his true essence stalled just before condensing into droplets, he realized something and appeared beneath the spring thunder.

• Amegakure’s ninjas completed their survey of the Land of Rain, revealing its population, administrative divisions, and powerful noble families.
• Yahiko proposed using a puppet made from Hanzo’s corpse to act under Hanzo’s banner, but Sun Keiyun rejected a mass purge and urged gradual development starting with their city.
• Sun Keiyun returned to Konoha and joined reinforcements bound for the Sunagakure front, where Sarutobi Hiruzen restricted his movements and assigned him a chain of command.
• Sun Keiyun visited his cultivation chamber beneath Konoha and found his dense true essence close to condensing, but unable to make the final breakthrough.
• Sun Keiyun suddenly appeared high in the sky during the rainy season and recognized the spring thunder as a possible clue to his breakthrough.

Sun Keiyun entered the spring thunder to undergo Tribulation Crossing and refine his Yang Release true essence with the intertwined qi of life and destruction. He survived, gained Pure Yang True Essence, and discovered that a Purple Mansion had opened in his mind.

• Sun Keiyun realized that spring thunder held the pure yin and yang qi needed to create Pure Yang and chose to undergo Tribulation Crossing despite being unprepared.
• Sun Keiyun entered the clouds and learned that the lightning’s yin and yang qi made it genuinely dangerous, then decided to press on.
• Spring thunder pierced Sun Keiyun’s Vacuum Barrier and overwhelmed his true essence, while his Spiritual Sense used Healing Light to keep him alive.
• Heaven Rewards Diligence helped Sun Keiyun’s true essence adapt and grow brighter as the lightning refined it.
• Sun Keiyun sensed that his Dantian’s mist had become golden liquid cores, which he called Jade Liquid Golden Cores.
• After the tribulation, Sun Keiyun found an empty space in his mind that he identified as the Purple Mansion, and realized his true essence had become Pure Yang True Essence.

Sun Keiyun tested the powers of his newly cultivated Pure Yang and Heavenly Gang True Essence, then built an elaborate pagoda atop a remote, snowbound mountain in the Land of Lightning as his cultivation base. He finished installing a Flying Thunder God Seal just as an alarm restriction alerted him to trouble involving Aoba.

• Sun Keiyun discovered that he could fly without being affected by gravity and reached a top speed of 3.2 times the speed of sound.
• Sun Keiyun placed Heavenly Gang True Essence in his Purple Mansion and found that it enhanced his Spiritual Sense, precision, and mental abilities.
• Sun Keiyun realized that his Pure Yang True Essence could briefly grant consciousness to Cloud Qi, but his attempt to create matter with Heavenly Gang True Essence failed.
• Sun Keiyun traveled north through the Land of Lightning and found a remote, snow-covered mountain with no signs of habitation.
• Sun Keiyun built the Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda on Keiyun Mountain, equipped it with thousands of Spirit Gathering Seals and protective restrictions, and added a Flying Thunder God Seal.
• Sun Keiyun sensed an alarm restriction and suspected that something had happened on Aoba's side.

Sun Keiyun confronted Fujima over a dubious mission order and uncovered that the supposed Genin was actually Sarutobi Shin, a Jonin planted by the Sarutobi Clan. After Fujima returned with an officially stamped reconnaissance order about Kirigakure at the Land of Rivers estuary, Sun Keiyun accepted the mission and prepared to investigate.

• Fujima tried to force his way into Sun Keiyun's tent with an order from Jonin Kiyoki, but Sun Keiyun refused to accept it without headquarters' seal.
• Sun Keiyun revealed that Fujima was really Sarutobi Shin, a twenty-one-year-old Jonin working undercover, and suspected the Third Hokage had placed him on the team to interfere with them.
• Fujima returned with a mission order bearing the command headquarters' seal, and Sun Keiyun accepted the reconnaissance mission.
• The order reported signs of Kirigakure ninja at the estuary of the Land of Rivers, prompting Konoha to suspect Kirigakure and Sunagakure might join forces against the Land of Fire.
• Yamashiro Aoba worried that the distant mission could leave the team without support, but Sun Keiyun reassured him and said they would go.

Sun Keiyun led his team into an ambush after Fujima guided them toward Sunagakure troops, then revealed a new three-nature lightning technique that destroyed the enemy’s insect warnings. He faced the puppet master Arashi Sō while Aoba, Anko, and Fujima took on the other enemies, and the chapter ended as Sun Keiyun charged the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets with his sword.

• Fujima led Sun Keiyun, Yamashiro Aoba, and Anko toward the harbor, subtly steering them into the path of two Sunagakure squads hidden beneath the sand.
• Sun Keiyun chose to fight and used Earthen God Thunder, a new Kekkei Tōta technique that killed the enemy’s scorpion warning system and exposed the ambush.
• Sunagakure Jonin Arashi Sō recognized Sun Keiyun and confronted him, while a Chunin attempted to summon his creatures and discovered they had been killed by the lightning.
• Sun Keiyun assigned Aoba, Anko, and Fujima to fight six enemies and faced Arashi Sō himself as the Jonin summoned six of the Chikamatsu Ten Puppets.
• Sun Keiyun drew his sword and charged Arashi Sō’s puppets.

Sun Keiyun defeated Arashi Sō’s six puppets, stopped his ninjutsu, and learned that Sunagakure had a young genius Puppet Master. After leaving with his teammates, he decided to investigate Sarutobi Hiruzen and seek out the young Puppet Master for possible recruitment.

• Sun Keiyun dodged Arashi Sō’s attacks and dismantled his six puppets, then analyzed the limits of their mechanisms and criticized his Puppet Technique.
• Arashi Sō claimed Sunagakure had a young genius Puppet Master, but refused to reveal the boy’s name and attacked Sun Keiyun with Wind Style: Great Breakthrough.
• Sun Keiyun dispersed the wind technique, proposed cooperation to Arashi Sō, and shattered his sword with a streak of lightning when Arashi refused.
• Sun Keiyun pulled Fujima and the other teammates away, claiming he had little Chakra left and that Earthen God Thunder was weak against people.
• Sun Keiyun decided to gather evidence of Sarutobi Hiruzen’s actions and investigate whether Sunagakure’s young Puppet Master could be recruited.

Sun Keiyun learned that Sasori of the Red Sands had vanished alongside Sunagakure’s Third Kazekage and suspected Sasori had killed him. As Sun Keiyun continued his mission with Anko and Yamashiro Aoba, he explained why they had not killed the Sunagakure ninja they encountered and reflected on how the Great Ninja Wars served the villages and daimyo.

• Sun Keiyun received a report describing Sasori’s talent and revealing that he and the Third Kazekage had been missing for 334 days.
• Sun Keiyun suspected Sasori had killed the Third Kazekage, then told Hei Bei to search for Sasori in industrial cities.
• Anko asked Sun Keiyun why they had not killed the Sunagakure ninja they encountered, and he explained that their mission was to investigate trade, not pursue kills for merit.
• Sun Keiyun used an example about returning lost money to explain that killing enemies could pressure other ninja into unnecessary battles and increase casualties.
• Sun Keiyun concluded that the Great Ninja Wars benefited ninja, villages, and daimyo while burdening commoners, and wondered whether Senju Tobirama had established the system.

Sun Keiyun watched the negotiations between Kirigakure and Sunagakure from Wind Cliff and analyzed the nature transformations behind several Kekkei Genkai. The chapter left him offering Anko a chance to learn Orochimaru’s long-range vision technique while Fujima silently struggled with his desire to learn it.

• Sun Keiyun and his companions arrived at South River Beach and watched the Kirigakure and Sunagakure camps from Wind Cliff.
• Sun Keiyun observed Pakura’s Chakra and deduced that Scorch Release combined Wind Style with Fire Style.
• Sun Keiyun fused Wind Style and Lightning Style to create a Chakra-based Light Release, then examined how Wind Style combined with other natures.
• Sun Keiyun lip-read the distant negotiations and told Anko that Sunagakure wanted financial support from Kirigakure to send more forces to the battlefield.
• Anko asked to learn Sun Keiyun’s vision-enhancing technique, and he told her to ask Orochimaru to teach her after they returned.
• Fujima watched the exchange and privately struggled with his desire to learn the long-range vision technique.

Sun Keiyun manipulated Fujima into resenting the Sarutobi Clan for blocking its members from attending Orochimaru’s reformed Ninja Academy. After locating Sasori in the Land of Birds, Sun Keiyun entered his cave and discovered the Third Kazekage being turned into a puppet, where Sasori confronted him.

• Sun Keiyun claimed Orochimaru would teach advanced techniques to Ninja Academy students, prompting Fujima to resent the Sarutobi Clan for keeping its private forces and their children out of school.
• Fujima left to scout ahead, while Sun Keiyun and Yamashiro Aoba planned to let resentment spread among Sarutobi clan members.
• Sun Keiyun received intelligence locating Sasori, submitted his mission report, and traveled to the Land of Birds.
• Sun Keiyun avoided the traps in Sasori’s cave and found a nearly completed puppet made from the Third Kazekage’s body.
• Sasori returned to his cave, discovered Sun Keiyun, and demanded to know who he was.

Sun Keiyun overwhelmed Sasori, then broadened his horizons by explaining computers, space travel, and Mechanical Immortality. After reading the Great Harmony Society Vision, Sasori agreed to join the organization.

• Sasori tried to attack Sun Keiyun with Chakra threads, but Sun Keiyun seized them and blocked Sasori's escape.
• Sun Keiyun discussed Sasori's plan to discard his body and introduced the ideas of Spiritual-Physical Separation and Mechanical Immortality.
• Sun Keiyun explained punched-tape computers and spacecraft, inspiring Sasori with the possibilities of technology.
• Sun Keiyun took Sasori to Jingyun Peak, where Sasori experienced the difficulty of breathing at high altitude and became more convinced that the body had limits.
• Sun Keiyun invited Sasori to help develop computers and spacecraft, then gave him the Great Harmony Society Vision to read.
• After reading the vision, Sasori agreed to join the Great Harmony Society.

Sun Keiyun recruited Sasori to develop mining machinery and showed him a surface petroleum deposit in the Land of Wind. Sasori agreed to buy the land and establish a Petroleum Industry University, while Sun Keiyun proposed building a Teleportation Hall to support it.

• Sasori explained that he killed the Third Kazekage to prevent war and planned to use his corpse as a puppet.
• Sun Keiyun assigned Sasori to the research department and described an internal combustion engine that could power mining machinery with fuel.
• Sun Keiyun took Sasori to the Black Sand Sea, where he parted the sand and revealed a surface petroleum deposit.
• Sun Keiyun explained petroleum's possible origins and encouraged Sasori to investigate them through research.
• Sasori agreed to buy the land and establish a Petroleum Industry University, and Sun Keiyun proposed building a Teleportation Hall there.

Sun Keiyun advanced teleportation technology and cultivation while pursuing reforms across the Sunagakure battlefield. By Great Harmony Year Four, he received word that Sarutobi Shinnosuke planned to tell the Third Hokage about Shana and marry her.

• The Primordial Spirit Jade Edict developed teleportation arrays, and Sun Keiyun arranged their locations and usage limits across the Land of Fire and Land of Wind.
• Sun Keiyun spent a year on the Sunagakure battlefield, then used Spring Thunder to refine his Heavenly Gang True Essence and gain the ability to leave his body as a soul.
• Sun Keiyun's soul form allowed others to visualize his lotus dharma form, and he used faith-powered Salvation Divine Light to convert shrine visitors into believers.
• Sun Keiyun discovered that Pure Yin True Essence let him sustain himself without an external power source, but he still lacked the accumulation needed to form a core.
• Kakashi, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Yamashiro Aoba became Jonin, while Rain Capital's school enrollment grew and Sasori designed the first gasoline-powered Internal Combustion Engine vehicle.
• Yakushi Nonō informed Sun Keiyun that Sarutobi Shinnosuke wanted to marry Shana and tell the Third Hokage about her.

Sun Keiyun, Yakushi Nonō, Tsunade, and Orochimaru agreed that their supporters and evidence gave them the advantage in pushing the ninja academy reforms. They arranged for Shana to meet Sarutobi Shinnosuke and Sarutobi Hiruzen at the Hokage Building conference room, where Hiruzen expected a marriage introduction, unaware of the plan against him.

• Sun Keiyun met with Yakushi Nonō, Tsunade, and Orochimaru, who reported clan support and resistance to the academy reforms, along with evidence against Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Sarutobi Clan.
• Tsunade reported that Hyuga Branch Family elders would support the reforms if the Caged Bird Seal were removed, while younger members of resistant clans were also sympathetic.
• Sun Keiyun and Yakushi Nonō reassured Shana that they would not wrong Shinnosuke and scheduled their meeting for the day after tomorrow at the Konoha conference room.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke told Sarutobi Hiruzen that he and Yakushi Nonō planned to marry and had arranged for her to meet Hiruzen at the Hokage Building conference room.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed to meet Yakushi Nonō at nine in the morning, believing the conference room was her preferred place for a private introduction.

Sarutobi Hiruzen tried to force Yakushi Nonō into marrying Shinnosuke and arranging Shana’s death, exposing his schemes and ambition. Nonō revealed that she had recorded his confession and brought Konoha’s clan leaders and other witnesses before impeaching him as unfit to serve as Hokage.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen met Shana, learned that she and Shinnosuke had been together for three years, and realized Yakushi Nonō had outmaneuvered him.
• Yakushi Nonō confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen, who admitted that he wanted her to marry Shinnosuke, join the Sarutobi Clan, and obey his family rather than merely the Hokage’s office.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen claimed Minato’s support would collapse if villagers learned his wife was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, then ordered Nonō to send Shana to her death.
• Yakushi Nonō played a recording of Sarutobi Hiruzen’s words, and he ordered the Anbu to arrest her for betraying Konoha.
• A Water Screen revealed Konoha’s clan heads, civilian ninjas, and medical ninjas had witnessed the exchange, and Yakushi Nonō impeached Sarutobi Hiruzen as unfit to remain Hokage.