Chapter Summaries

Nara Shikadai used strategic deduction to assess whether any ninja village could unify the ninja world. He concluded that every great and small power faced obstacles that made unification impossible.

• Nara Shikadai compiled maps and intelligence into a strategic map of the ninja world, identifying five great powers and five small ones.
• Nara Shikadai deduced that Konoha could not unify the world because each invasion route risked intervention by rival nations and a costly stalemate.
• Nara Shikadai found that Sunagakure, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure also could not succeed, as each faced powerful enemies, difficult terrain, or supply problems.
• Nara Shikadai reviewed the small powers and concluded that Rain Village, Grass Village, Waterfall Village, the Land of Iron, and Hot Water Village lacked the strength or unity to conquer other nations.
• Nara Shikadai concluded that no power in the ninja world could unify it.

Nara Shikadai brought Kamiya Keiyun his projection of the Five Great Nations’ military strength, which Kamiya Keiyun studied to assess the ninja world and its chakra attributes. Shikadai concluded that unifying the ninja world was impossible, but Kamiya Keiyun became more determined to pursue it himself.

• Nara Shikadai returned to school after completing his projection and handed Kamiya Keiyun the results, declaring that unifying the ninja world was impossible.
• Kamiya Keiyun examined the intelligence on the Five Great Nations, learning about their forces, terrain, special units, and powerful figures.
• Kamiya Keiyun considered how the Uchiha and Hyuga abilities might affect his plans and decided he needed to bring the Hyuga Clan under his control.
• Nara Shikadai explained that chakra had seven basic attributes, including the concealed Yin and Yang Releases, and warned Kamiya Keiyun not to pry into clan secret techniques.
• Kamiya Keiyun rejected Shikadai’s conclusion and said the projection had only strengthened his resolve to unify the world himself.

Kamiya Keiyun confirmed Nara Shikadai’s projection results and grew more determined to unify the ninja world against future alien threats. After asking Shikadai for Chakra Test Paper, Shikadai sought out Kotetsu Hagane and learned that Kotetsu and Izumo Kamizuki dreamed of guarding Konoha’s gate.

• Kamiya Keiyun checked Nara Shikadai’s projection calculations, wondered why Senju Hashirama had not unified the ninja world, and concluded that he himself would have to lead the fight against aliens.
• Kamiya Keiyun asked Nara Shikadai how to check his Chakra Nature and learned Chakra Test Paper was controlled, though Shikadai’s family had some.
• Kamiya Keiyun bargained with Nara Shikadai for twenty sheets, and Shikadai agreed to ask his clan head for them.
• Nara Shikadai approached Kotetsu Hagane after class to ask about his shrine background and dream.
• Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki told Nara Shikadai they wanted to become chunin, join the Konoha Security Force, and guard Konoha’s gate together.

Kamiya Keiyun studied Nara Shikadai’s war simulation and questioned whether ordinary people armed with technology could overcome ninja and unify the world. He rejected chakra-focused combat in favor of combining chakra with technological development, leaving his vision of Immortal Science Dual Cultivation clear.

• Kamiya Keiyun praised Nara Shikadai’s detailed war simulation, which concluded that the ninja world could not be unified.
• Kamiya Keiyun questioned why the world map was tilted, and Umino Iruka explained that it kept Konoha level with the capital of the Land of Fire.
• Kamiya Keiyun asked whether ordinary people could unify the world if given weapons capable of harming ninja, but Nara Shikadai argued that ninja’s power made ordinary armies irrelevant.
• Kamiya Keiyun considered how technology such as guns, bombs, and aircraft could be enhanced by chakra and ninja physiques.
• Kamiya Keiyun concluded that chakra should support production, healing, and technology, and named the combined approach Immortal Science Dual Cultivation.

Kamiya Keiyun reached Qi Cultivation Third Layer and discovered that he could move his entire Chakra reserve through his body. He used the Pure Tranquil White Lotus Sutra to quiet his thoughts and completed his first Great Heavenly Cycle.

• Kamiya Keiyun sent Snake Uncle a letter asking about making a Summoning Scroll so he could communicate through Hei Bei.
• Kamiya Keiyun advanced to Qi Cultivation Third Layer and found that his Chakra had grown stronger, improved his techniques, and extended the Primordial Spirit Jade Edict's range to 1.5 kilometers.
• Kamiya Keiyun discovered that he could mentally move his entire Chakra reserve, allowing him to circulate it and store Chakra within his body.
• Kamiya Keiyun began his first Great Heavenly Cycle, using the Pure Tranquil White Lotus Sutra to quiet his mind.
• Kamiya Keiyun guided Chakra through the Ren and Du Meridians and completed one Great Heavenly Cycle.

Kamiya Keiyun completed a Great Heavenly Cycle and discovered that the Chakra it refined was agile, easier to control, and strengthened his meridians. After emerging from seclusion, he learned he had spent eight days cultivating and began recovering while planning further experiments.

• Kamiya Keiyun completed a Great Heavenly Cycle and found that the Chakra had become more vigorous and familiar, though most of it dissipated into his meridians and strengthened them.
• Kamiya Keiyun realized that cultivation had lasted through the night and found food waiting outside his room, but misjudged how much time had passed.
• Hei Bei told Kamiya Keiyun that he had been in seclusion for eight nights and eight days, and that the group had kept watch and warmed food for him.
• Kamiya Keiyun ate and drank, then extracted Chakra again and used Hand Seals to send it into his digestive system while deciding to rest before cultivating further.
• Hei Bei remarked that Kamiya Keiyun looked healthier than before, and Kamiya Keiyun praised Hei Bei's ability to sense danger.
• Hei Bei said he had organized the information on Uzumaki Kushina and went to bring it to Kamiya Keiyun.

Kamiya Keiyun learned how Summoning Blood Pacts worked and considered their uses for travel and communication before deciding to contract with Hei Bei’s clan. After discovering Hei Bei had a large family, Kamiya Keiyun signed a Summoning Scroll with the Hei Bei Clan, bringing it into the Cloud Leaf Society.

• Kamiya Keiyun read Snake Uncle’s explanation of Summoning Blood Pacts and their four contract types.
• Kamiya Keiyun realized Summoning Techniques could enable travel and communication, but set aside his questions about their use in war.
• Kamiya Keiyun chose a contract type for Hei Bei, then learned Hei Bei had eleven wives and sixty-six children.
• Hei Bei asked Kamiya Keiyun to enlighten two more rats, and Kamiya Keiyun agreed to test his new discovery after a few days.
• Kamiya Keiyun and Hei Bei signed a Summoning Scroll with the Hei Bei Clan.

Kamiya Keiyun learned from Hei Bei’s surveillance that Uzumaki Mito was alive and told Uzumaki Kagura. Kagura chose not to seek out Mito, and Keiyun encouraged her to keep studying.

• Kamiya Keiyun learned that Hei Bei could be summoned only if he agreed, then asked him to find two promising young rats for the Cloud Leaf Society.
• Kamiya Keiyun read Hei Bei’s report on Uzumaki Kushina, who lived near Tsunade and was being taught by Uzumaki Mito.
• Kamiya Keiyun visited Uzumaki Kagura as she studied his writings and praised her recitation of a passage by Ouyang Xiu.
• Kamiya Keiyun told Uzumaki Kagura that Uzumaki Mito was alive in the Senju Ancestral Home.
• Uzumaki Kagura weighed her resentment toward Mito against the possible benefits of approaching her, but agreed she did not want to go.
• Kamiya Keiyun told Kagura not to risk herself for his sake and urged her to continue studying.

Kamiya Keiyun planned to reach Uzumaki Kushina through a kitten, then visited the construction site and received a letter from Yakushi Nonō. The letter warned that Infinite and Myriad Worlds would leave the science fiction category, leaving the genre’s future uncertain.

• Kamiya Keiyun considered approaching Uzumaki Kushina and decided to send an intelligent kitten disguised as a stray instead.
• Ruri complained about attending the Ninja Academy, but Kamiya Keiyun told her she still had to go.
• Kamiya Keiyun traveled through a tunnel to the construction site and asked Harutako to call him Jiro outside.
• Harutako told Kamiya Keiyun that Yakushi Nonō had visited, taught her intelligence work, and left a sealed letter.
• Kamiya Keiyun read Yakushi Nonō's letter, which said Infinite and Myriad Worlds would no longer belong to the science fiction category.

Kamiya Keiyun read Yakushi Nonō’s advice and received a scroll of medical and Wind Release ninjutsu. He brought home two kittens to enlighten later and began studying the scroll, while planning a larger home and the future use of The Hive base.

• Yakushi Nonō’s letter advised Kamiya Keiyun on hiding the farmstead, using a roof-beam compartment for intelligence, and learning ciphers; he replaced the scroll in the compartment with the Hei Bei Clan’s Summoning Scroll.
• Harutako returned with twelve kittens, and Kamiya Keiyun chose the two with the widest meridians while leaving the rest at the farmstead.
• Kamiya Keiyun brought the chosen kittens home, named them Wuhu Lan and Wuhu Bao'er, and Ruri took charge of them until they settled in.
• Kamiya Keiyun noted that the Training Room was too small and agreed with Kamiya Sanyō to look for a larger house once the perfume business earned money.
• Kamiya Keiyun read Yakushi Nonō’s scroll, which contained five Medical Ninjutsu, two Wind Release techniques, and Senju Tobirama’s article on Chakra transformation.

Kamiya Keiyun studied Senju Tobirama’s article on Chakra transformation and concluded that shape transformation depended on the user’s will, while Nature Transformation depended on Chakra intensity. He planned tests to verify his ideas and used a Wind Release technique to test whether his Chakra’s cutting power had increased.

• Kamiya Keiyun skimmed several healing and wind techniques before focusing on Senju Tobirama’s article about Chakra shape transformation and Nature Transformation.
• He connected the article’s concepts to his own techniques and concluded that shape and nature changes were outward effects, with the user’s will and Chakra intensity as their foundations.
• Kamiya Keiyun proposed using meditation or determination to strengthen will and the Bright Virtue Qi Cultivation Technique and Chakra Refining Method to increase Chakra intensity.
• He decided his hypothesis about Chakra intensity could be tested with Wind Release, since he had not specifically trained his wind’s cutting ability.
• Kamiya Keiyun performed Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique to test his Chakra’s cutting power.

Kamiya Keiyun tested Wind Cutting Technique and concluded that Chakra strength was the basis of Nature Transformation. He then used Chakra Test Paper to discover the group’s elemental natures and gave Sanyō and Uzumaki Kagura scrolls to study while he pursued a breakthrough in cultivation.

• Kamiya Keiyun summoned Yunxiao and had him test Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique, which sliced through a bamboo brush but only gouged a stone before shattering.
• Kamiya Keiyun concluded that sufficient Chakra strength could provide cutting power without specialized Wind Style training, supporting his theory that Chakra strength underpinned Nature Transformation.
• Kamiya Keiyun asked Ruri for the Chakra Test Paper Nara Shikadai had delivered and distributed sheets to Sanyō, Uzumaki Kagura, and Ruri.
• Kamiya Keiyun discovered he had Earth, Wind, and Water natures; Sanyō had Earth and Water, Uzumaki Kagura had Earth, Wind, and Water, and Ruri had Wind.
• Kamiya Keiyun gave Sanyō and Uzumaki Kagura Yakushi Nonō’s technique scrolls and said his research might revolutionize their cultivation system.

Kamiya Keiyun explored possible uses for Water Release, checked on the growing Dream Butterfly Cosmetics business, and taught the cat Lan to speak by giving him Chakra. He began his second seclusion to refine Agile Chakra and found that circulating his full Chakra took six and a half days, faster than before.

• Kamiya Keiyun imagined using Water Release for drip irrigation, desalination, and industrial work, and considered creating a Water Release-oriented clone.
• Kamiya Keiyun visited Dream Butterfly Cosmetics and saw the Ino-Shika-Cho Clan’s new perfume business gaining customers and expanding plans for branches.
• Kamiya Keiyun injected Chakra into Lan and taught him the Chakra Refining Technique, allowing Lan to speak; Hei Bei was away running an obstacle-course competition at The Hive.
• Kamiya Keiyun prepared food and water for his second seclusion, then found that circulating only part of his Chakra did not transform it into Agile Chakra.
• Kamiya Keiyun circulated all his Chakra and completed the cycle in six and a half days, improving on his previous eight-day effort.

Kamiya Keiyun refined Chakra through multiple stages, discovering that each refinement improved its control, quality, and ability to remain in his body. After creating permanent, colorless Mana, he named the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer the Mana Realm and defined the names of the lower cultivation phases.

• Kamiya Keiyun spent days accelerating Chakra circulation and refined Original Chakra into Level 1 and then Level 2 Chakra, which lasted longer and was easier to control.
• Kamiya Keiyun refined Level 2 Chakra into Level 3 Chakra and discovered that it remained in his body permanently after twenty-five hours.
• Kamiya Keiyun continued refining Chakra into Level 4 and Level 5, producing colorless energy that he named Mana.
• Kamiya Keiyun named the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer the Mana Realm and established the phase names Qi Condensation, Meridian Opening, Transport, Agile, and Mana.

Kamiya Keiyun converted his Original Chakra into spiritual power and discovered that spiritual power could produce a wide range of attributes, though his supply was limited. He also realized that its attributes differed from those of Original Chakra, giving him a potential way to hide his identity when using it.

• Kamiya Keiyun converted his Original Chakra into spiritual power and found that ordinary hand seals no longer worked, though he could command Chakra directly.
• Kamiya Keiyun tested the spiritual power on Chakra Test Paper, but it showed no attributes, so he asked Yunxiao to try an attribute-based ninjutsu.
• Yunxiao successfully used Wind Style Ninjutsu, and Kamiya Keiyun then cultivated Wind Release in seconds and created Wood, Ice, Light, and Electric Release effects.
• Kamiya Keiyun ran out of spiritual power and found that Chakra Test Paper could detect his attributes after he replenished his Chakra, showing wind and lightning.
• Kamiya Keiyun tested himself again using Original Chakra and found earth, wind, and water, then realized the two energy types had separate attributes that could conceal his use of spiritual power.

Kamiya Keiyun enlightened a Black Rat with spiritual power, discovering that it gained Light and Electric Release and that he could reclaim its Chakra with ease. Worried that Chakra might carry its giver’s intent and enable control over others, he asked the white snake about Chakra’s origins, but the scroll it brought was titled “Chronicles of the Rabbit Goddess.”

• Kamiya Keiyun successfully taught a Black Rat to refine Chakra, and it began glowing and speaking.
• The Black Rat, whom Kamiya Keiyun named Hei Qin, showed Electric Release affinity alongside Light Release, and Kamiya Keiyun sensed that her Chakra shared the origin of his spiritual power.
• Kamiya Keiyun explained to Yunxiao that Chakra might carry the intent of whoever passed it on, and that its elemental affinities could reflect that person.
• Kamiya Keiyun summoned the white snake and asked where Chakra came from, then gave it dried meat before it went to fetch an answer.
• The white snake returned with a large scroll titled “Chronicles of the Rabbit Goddess,” leaving Kamiya Keiyun speechless.

Kamiya Keiyun read a myth claiming the Sage of Six Paths had passed Chakra down, then considered how to protect Cloud Leaf Society from the Sage’s lingering influence. After deciding to pursue immortality and postponing his plans to spread his own Chakra, he emerged from seclusion on December 25 and remembered he needed to send Lan away.

• Kamiya Keiyun read Snake Uncle’s account of Otsutsuki Kaguya, the Rabbit Goddess, and the Sage of Six Paths, and learned that both figures were said to be gone.
• Kamiya Keiyun worried that the Sage’s will might still influence Chakra users and considered letting Cloud Leaf Society members use his own Chakra instead.
• Kamiya Keiyun reflected that spreading his spiritual power could be difficult, postponed the plan, and made defeating the aliens his small goal and becoming an immortal his great goal.
• Kamiya Keiyun noticed the snow, recalled the past months of training, and told Uzumaki Kagura that he would no longer remain in seclusion.
• Uzumaki Kagura asked whether they should send Lan away, and Kamiya Keiyun agreed, saying he would speak with him first.

Lan was sent to observe Uzumaki Kushina and invite her to the Cloud Leaf Society, but Uzumaki Mito detected his Chakra and questioned him. After Lan gave a misleading account of his past, Kushina welcomed him into her home.

• Kamiya Keiyun reminded Lan to observe Uzumaki Kushina carefully and avoid revealing himself too soon.
• Lan traveled through the snow to the Senju Ancestral Home and curled up at the entrance.
• Uzumaki Kushina found the freezing Lan and took him to Uzumaki Mito for help.
• Uzumaki Mito sensed Chakra in Lan and learned that he could speak, while Lan concealed his mission and connection to the president.
• Uzumaki Mito concluded Lan might be an independently awakened Ninja Cat, and Uzumaki Kushina invited him to stay with her.

Kamiya Keiyun successfully used Uzumaki Kagura’s Chakra to summon Sanyō into The Hive and discussed how to make the Hive’s visitor transport more sustainable. He then set out with Kagura, Bao'er, and Hei Rock for the house in Kiso County, testing a new wind-powered technique as they traveled.

• Kamiya Keiyun named Hei Bei's newly enlightened son Hei Rock after testing his Earth Style affinity, while Bao'er had Wind Style.
• Hei Rock failed to summon Sanyō with his limited Chakra, but Uzumaki Kagura supplied Chakra that let him summon her into The Hive.
• Kamiya Keiyun considered alternatives to relying on Kagura for transport and learned Sanyō could not visit the house because of her hospital duties.
• Kamiya Keiyun sent Yunxiao out with the Purple Jade Umbrella to test how far their connection reached, then prepared to leave with Kagura, Hei Rock, and Bao'er.
• Kamiya Keiyun used a wind-manipulation technique to race through the twenty-kilometer passage, but Kagura soon caught up because she was faster.

Kamiya Keiyun read Yakushi Nonō’s letter about Root, Kirigakure’s Seven Ninja Swordsmen, the Sky Fortress search, and piracy. When Nonō asked him to send someone to rescue orphans before winter, he decided Uzumaki Kagura would take over, and Yunxiao began preparing to train her.

• Kamiya Keiyun found Yakushi Nonō’s letter in their secret box and learned that she had joined Root as a C-Rank member and was gathering intelligence in Kirigakure.
• Yakushi Nonō reported that the Third Mizukage was forming the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and that she had sent people to search for the Sky Fortress.
• Yakushi Nonō described the different kinds of pirates and asked Kamiya Keiyun to send someone to bring orphans to safety before winter.
• Kamiya Keiyun asked Uzumaki Kagura to take over the orphan-rescue work, and she agreed because she knew how harsh winter was for orphans.
• Kamiya Keiyun planned to strengthen Kagura with combat techniques, and Yunxiao appeared to teach her the Supreme Limitless Light Splitting Shadow Manifestation Sword.