Chapter Summaries

Kamiya Keiyun arranged for the rescued captives to leave or stay and met Xi, a young opera performer with a mysterious cold constitution. Before he could test her Chakra, Kagura spotted a Kirigakure squad approaching, and Kamiya Keiyun and Kagura intercepted them at sea.

• Kamiya Keiyun asked Kagura to register the captives who wanted to leave and learned that many children and women wanted to stay, along with one opera performer.
• Kamiya Keiyun met Xi, who said she had nowhere else to go and explained that her family's cold constitution helped her survive captivity.
• Kamiya Keiyun offered to teach Xi to refine Chakra, but Kagura spotted a Kirigakure squad approaching their ships.
• Kagura identified the approaching squad's captain as a powerful Jonin and warned that the squad would catch them before they reached port.
• Kamiya Keiyun and Kagura left the ships to intercept the squad, whose captain ordered them to stop and demanded to know who they were.

Kamiya Keiyun rejected the identity of a ninja, renamed himself Sun Keiyun, and reached Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer as he challenged Kirigakure’s young Jonin to question his purpose. Ao fought Kagura at sea, and Mei Terumi led Kisame Hoshigaki and the other Genin to support him.

• Kamiya Keiyun declared that he was a Truth Cultivator and realized his cultivation path was tied to reforming the ninja world.
• Kamiya Keiyun cast off the name Kamiya Keiyun, reclaimed Sun Keiyun, and advanced to Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer.
• Kamiya Keiyun challenged Ao to consider why he cultivated, but Ao resolved to settle the matter over Suikazan Fuguki’s death.
• Kagura introduced herself as Truth Cultivator Kamikawa Hotaru and fought Ao, countering his Water Release with Earth Release and outmaneuvering him.
• Mei Terumi judged that Ao was losing and organized Kisame Hoshigaki and the other Genin to join the fight.

Keiyun used his newly strengthened spiritual power and several invented Kekkei Genkai to defeat Mei Terumi’s group’s attacks and persuade her to reconsider their mission. Mei Terumi stopped fighting but refused his advice, while Keiyun noticed her teacher was about to lose.

• Keiyun discovered that his Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer gave his spiritual power enough awareness to make his Six Dragon Roaming Finger far stronger.
• Mei Terumi attacked Keiyun with boiling water while Kisame Hoshigaki and two companions used water techniques, but Keiyun’s Lightning Style defeated their attacks and paralyzed the two companions.
• Keiyun used Curtain of Night to blind his opponents, but Mei Terumi dispelled it with sludge and revealed another of her Kekkei Genkai.
• Keiyun claimed to possess Light Release and Ice Release, leaving Mei Terumi stunned and prompting him to urge her to take missions that served the country and its people.
• Mei Terumi declined to continue fighting, and Keiyun pointed out that her teacher was about to lose.

Sun Keiyun and Kagura reviewed their battle with the Mist shinobi, then arranged medical care for the rescued captives. After learning that the wandering doctor Shinnō might be able to treat them, Keiyun left ahead of the ship to find him, while Kagura led the group to Qiushui City.

• Ao withdrew from the fight, admitted he could not defeat Keiyun and Kagura, and decided to return for tactical guidance rather than pursue the pirates on Crab Island.
• Kagura praised Keiyun's combat theories about Water Release, and he explained his ideas about Wind Release while planning to find a doctor for Xi and the other rescued people.
• Keiyun gave more than twenty freed captives grain and money at Kamikawa City, then hired a doctor to examine everyone aboard the ship.
• The doctor reported that the women and children suffered from severe malnutrition and several illnesses, but said he could not treat them and recommended the wandering doctor Shinnō.
• Keiyun planned to travel overland to Qiushui City and search for Shinnō, while Kagura took the ship there and sought Xi's advice if problems arose.

Sun Keiyun found Shinnō in Amber Village and asked him to treat the rescued women and children from the pirate nest. Shinnō agreed to leave immediately, and Kamikawa Sora saw how deeply the villagers valued the doctor as they gathered to send him off.

• Sun Keiyun reached Fujita Pharmacy in Qiushui City, where a clerk directed him to Shinnō in Amber Village.
• Sun Keiyun found Shinnō and presented medical reports about the sick women and children rescued from the pirates.
• Shinnō recognized the patients’ conditions and agreed to travel with Sun Keiyun to prepare medicine before they arrived.
• Shinnō reassured the middle-aged man that the village’s patients had already been examined and agreed to let the villagers gather before he left.
• The villagers came out in the snowy night to ask Shinnō to stay and offer him food, and he had Kamikawa Sora carry their gifts.

Sun Keiyun learned how Shinnō’s past shaped his belief that sincere relationships mattered more than wealth, and heard Shinnō argue that ninja warfare created the conditions for piracy. Shinnō remained committed to treating people despite having no answer for how to change the world, while Sun Keiyun decided not to recruit the elderly doctor.

• As Shinnō and Sun Keiyun walked home, Shinnō explained that commoners’ gratitude had taught him to value sincere bonds over transactions.
• Shinnō recalled how wealthy families betrayed him after war left him injured and dispossessed, while mountain families he had treated saved his life.
• When Shinnō asked why he fought pirates, Sun Keiyun said they deserved punishment, and Shinnō warned that clearing pirate nests treated only the symptoms.
• Shinnō blamed ninja warfare for producing refugees who became pirates, but admitted he did not know how to solve the problem and lacked the power to confront ninjas.
• Sun Keiyun sympathized with Shinnō but decided not to recruit him, believing the old doctor should spend his remaining years in peace.

Sun Keiyun asked Shinnō to teach him medicine and became his disciple, receiving an extensive herbal compendium and a meridian chart. Studying the chart improved and differentiated his Six-Vein Divine Sword techniques, leaving him with a stronger set of attacks.

• Sun Keiyun listened as Shinnō explained medicinal prescriptions and pill-making, and began imagining how to refine immortal pills.
• Shinnō described his long medical training, and Sun Keiyun asked to study medicine under him.
• Shinnō agreed to teach Sun Keiyun foundational medicine before traveling on, then accepted tea from his new disciple, Kamikawa Sora.
• Shinnō gave Sun Keiyun the Land of Fire Hundred Herbs Compendium, a Human Meridian and Acupoint Chart, and other books.
• Sun Keiyun compared the chart's meridians with his own and discovered that the standard routes made his Six-Vein Divine Sword techniques faster and gave each sword qi distinct abilities.

Sun Keiyun studied Shinnō’s meridian diagram, identified the Four Direction Bright Acupoints, and received medical texts to begin his studies. After selling the ships and helping the survivors recover in Qiushui City, he led a much larger group toward Sakura Castle, while Shinnō waited to see whether his rescue efforts would fail.

• Sun Keiyun examined Shinnō’s meridian diagram, recognized the Four Direction Bright Acupoints, and wondered if they explained how he awakened small animals’ intelligence.
• Sun Keiyun explained that he had created the Six-Vein Divine Sword himself, and Shinnō warned him not to reveal the technique’s secrets to others.
• Sun Keiyun imagined combining six chakra natures into a technique he called Six-Colored Divine Light and decided to study the idea later.
• Shinnō gave Sun Keiyun the Thousand Gold Prescription Rhymes and other foundational medical texts, telling him to memorize them.
• Kagura arrived safely in Qiushui City with the three ships, and Shinnō treated the sick while Sun Keiyun sold the ships for 450,000 taels.
• After nearly half a month of recovery, Sun Keiyun led 196 people, including 118 orphans from Qiushui City, toward Sakura Castle, as Shinnō watched without intervening.

During the journey to Sakura City, Sun Keiyun turned Shinnō’s medical case records into plans for a series of books and a publishing business. After arriving, he tasked Kagura with setting up a factory, printing house, and bookstore, leaving them preparing to launch the project.

• Sun Keiyun suggested publishing Shinnō’s case records as medical fiction, and Shinnō agreed while asking him to conceal sensitive prescriptions.
• Sun Keiyun sorted Shinnō’s stories into six categories and compiled the first two volumes of each while traveling.
• Kagura scouted roads, built bridges, and dealt with bandits as the group completed two-thirds of their journey and reached Sakura City.
• Sun Keiyun told Kagura their business would be a printing factory, printing house, and bookstore, using Shinnō’s case records as their first books.
• Sun Keiyun named the bookstore Youjian Bookstore and the printing house Yuelai Printing House, and told Kagura to establish both within a month.

Kagura secured a printing house and a worldwide sales deal for Sun Keiyun’s Sacred Doctor Shinnō, while Sun Keiyun revised the book and developed a new cultivation technique. He named the technique the Heavenly Cycle Star Scripture after discovering that it strengthened both his mana and his body.

• Kagura bought a printing house for 80 million and registered it at the Castle Lord's Mansion.
• Kagura invested 60 million for a 20% stake in Sanlian Bookstore and signed a worldwide sales contract for Sacred Doctor Shinnō through Youjian Bookstore.
• Sun Keiyun revised the book’s protagonist, Shinnō approved the portrayal, and Sun Keiyun continued compiling the volumes with help from his clones.
• Sun Keiyun devised a Great Heavenly Cycle through fourteen meridians and 365 acupoints, discovering that it improved his realm and strengthened his body.
• Sun Keiyun named the cultivation technique the Heavenly Cycle Star Scripture.

Sun Keiyun designed a school system to educate rescued children and a selection charter for the Cloud Leaf Society. The next morning, he appeared before the assembled students as the school was about to begin.

• Kagura told Sun Keiyun that worker training was finished and the school would officially begin the next day.
• Sun Keiyun gave Kagura a charter for selecting righteous, intelligent, and simple-hearted children for the Cloud Leaf Society, while others would remain peripheral members.
• Sun Keiyun outlined an elementary curriculum and a later six-year middle school program intended to develop highly educated, Jonin-level graduates.
• At six o'clock the next morning, rescued children and others gathered at Yuelai Printing House, where Shinnō watched from nearby.
• Sun Keiyun stepped onto the platform and greeted the crowd.

Sheng Taro recalled how Big Sister gathered orphans, including him, and brought them to Sakura City, where they received food, work, and schooling. After Sun Keiyun urged the children to study, he told Kagura he would travel with Shinnō to learn about the Old World, and they left Sakura City in mid-February.

• Sheng Taro remembered losing his parents and home, surviving as a beggar, and joining Big Sister’s group of orphans.
• Big Sister made the children bathe, wear clean clothes, study for food, and stop fighting before taking them to Sakura City to work and train.
• Sun Keiyun explained to the children why he wanted them to study and urged them to read so they could understand and change the world.
• Sun Keiyun told Kagura he planned to travel with Shinnō, and Kagura promised to protect their home.
• Sun Keiyun and Shinnō left Sakura City in mid-February and spent seven months traveling and practicing medicine.

After seven months studying medicine with Shinnō, Sun Keiyun returned to Konoha for the start of his second year at the Ninja Academy. He joined a reorganized class and chose the Way of the Sword as his focus, while Shinnō began considering advancing his own plans.

• Sun Keiyun used Light Release to examine and treat villagers in Shimura Village, impressing Shinnō with his medical skill.
• Black Shell delivered Minister Sanyō’s message that Sun Keiyun should return for the new school term, and Sun Keiyun told Shinnō he had to leave.
• Shinnō accepted Sun Keiyun’s departure despite suspecting his identity, and Sun Keiyun returned to Konoha and reviewed intelligence gathered during his absence.
• Sun Keiyun returned to the Ninja Academy on September 3rd, where seventeen students who had failed to extract Chakra had been reassigned and Sarutobi Asuma joined the class.
• Umino Iruka explained the second-year combat classes, and Sun Keiyun told his new classmate Hibari that he would train in the Way of the Sword.

Sun Keiyun completed his first Vitality Replenishing Pill after months of researching alchemy, and it nearly doubled his mana. He began preparing to refine larger batches so he could grow his reserves far faster than expected.

• Sun Keiyun explained the Six Harmonies Sword Style and revealed that he had mastered its nine principles while experimenting with adding elemental chakra to swordsmanship.
• Hibari said she could not afford swords and wanted to become a ninja academy teacher, while Sun Keiyun decided to keep developing quietly until graduation.
• Sun Keiyun used his underground Hive to refine the Vitality Replenishing Pill, combining processed medicinal powders with high heat, pressure, and chakra.
• Sun Keiyun swallowed the tiny pill and found that its medicinal power let him extract chakra continuously as he digested it.
• Sun Keiyun discovered that the pill nearly doubled his mana in half a day, then gathered five sets of ingredients to refine larger pills.

Sun Keiyun spent five years cultivating, traveling, and forging the Keiyun Sword and Keiyun Six Swords as tensions among the ninja villages escalated. After Sunagakure’s Third Kazekage disappeared and war broke out, Konoha moved the academy graduation exam forward, and Umino Iruka announced the test.

• Sun Keiyun refined pills, cultivated, traveled across the major lands, and secretly recorded what he learned about the ninja world.
• Sun Keiyun reforged the Six Harmonies Sword into the Keiyun Sword and created the Keiyun Six Swords.
• Hatake Sakumo failed another mission, lost his leadership post, and later took his own life while Sun Keiyun was away gathering herbs.
• Sun Keiyun learned that Sunagakure’s Third Kazekage had gone missing, and war spread among the ninja villages.
• Konoha advanced the academy graduation date, and Umino Iruka told the students their exam would test the Three Body Technique.

Sun Keiyun and his classmates completed their graduation exams, received their forehead protectors, and were assigned to teams. Sun Keiyun was placed on Team 9 with Mitaraishi Anko and Yamashiro Aoba, whose team leader was due to collect them that afternoon.

• Kotetsu Hagane passed his exam, and Umino Iruka tested the students on techniques suited to their abilities.
• Sun Keiyun passed the Substitution and Transformation Techniques and secretly took his forehead protector before Umino Iruka noticed.
• Hibari and Sarutobi Asuma tried to copy Sun Keiyun’s trick, but Umino Iruka caught them.
• After twenty-three students graduated, Umino Iruka announced the team assignments, including Obito’s team with a previously graduated ninja.
• Sun Keiyun learned he had been assigned to Team 9 with Mitaraishi Anko and Yamashiro Aoba, and Umino Iruka told the students to return that afternoon.

Sun Keiyun met his new teammates, Mitaraishi Anko and Yamashiro Aoba, and waited with them for their captain. Orochimaru finally arrived, and Sun Keiyun used a wind technique to speed his teammates up as they followed him.

• Mitaraishi Anko claimed Sun Keiyun as her little brother and made him buy into her big-sister act by treating him to a meal.
• Sun Keiyun met Yamashiro Aoba, his other teammate, after the academy students were assigned to their new teams.
• The other Jonin collected their teams, leaving Anko, Aoba, and Sun Keiyun waiting for their captain.
• Orochimaru arrived to lead the three Genin, surprising Anko and Aoba.
• Sun Keiyun cast Wind Release: High Heaven Long Song to boost Anko and Aoba's speed as they chased after Orochimaru.

Snake Uncle disguised himself as Orochimaru and led Anko, Yamashiro Aoba, and Sun Keiyun out of Konoha to test them in a staged fight. Sun Keiyun’s support ninjutsu helped the team pass, and Snake Uncle recognized its unusual potential.

• Snake Uncle revealed that he had transformed into Orochimaru, and Sun Keiyun convinced Anko and Yamashiro Aoba that they were facing an Iwagakure spy.
• Sun Keiyun sped up Anko and Yamashiro Aoba with Wind Release as they attacked Snake Uncle, who tested their teamwork and abilities.
• Sun Keiyun’s wind support helped Anko evade a teammate’s strike, strengthened their attacks, and disrupted Snake Uncle’s movements.
• Yamashiro Aoba combined his Fire Release with Sun Keiyun’s whirlwind to create a Fire Tornado, while Snake Uncle dodged and continued assessing them.
• Snake Uncle ended the test and asked about Sun Keiyun’s newly invented Support Ninjutsu, praising its potential to strengthen allies and weaken opponents.
• Anko and Yamashiro Aoba realized that Sun Keiyun had invented the technique and were stunned by their teammate’s talent.

Sun Keiyun joined Orochimaru’s squad with Anko and Yamashiro Aoba, and the team began its first D-rank mission. Afterward, Orochimaru asked Sun Keiyun about his growth and the techniques he had developed, then they set off to clear a river channel.

• Orochimaru introduced himself and invited Anko, Yamashiro Aoba, and Sun Keiyun to share their names, skills, likes, and ambitions.
• Sun Keiyun explained that he had changed his surname to express his wish to serve the people, and said he specialized in support ninjutsu and enjoyed planting things.
• Orochimaru set three rules for the squad and assigned them a D-rank mission to clear garbage from a 450-meter stretch of river.
• Orochimaru asked Sun Keiyun to stay behind and discussed his lack of growth, warning him about excessive chakra extraction.
• Sun Keiyun told Orochimaru that he had Earth, Water, and Wind chakra natures and had developed other techniques since inventing the Mud to Stone Technique.
• Orochimaru and Sun Keiyun ended their conversation and went to join Anko and Yamashiro Aoba for the mission.

Sun Keiyun helped Mitaraishi Anko and Yamashiro Aoba learn to walk on water while completing a week of river-cleaning missions with Orochimaru. Orochimaru kept assigning the team D-rank work, and the chapter ended by noting Anko’s extensive mission record by the time the Third Shinobi War began.

• Mitaraishi Anko questioned Sun Keiyun about his surname while she and Yamashiro Aoba cleared trash from a river.
• Sun Keiyun demonstrated water walking, explained how to practice it, and watched Mitaraishi Anko and Yamashiro Aoba learn the technique in under thirty minutes.
• Snake Uncle considered recruiting Sun Keiyun for experiments but decided not to rush, wary that Danzo might notice.
• Orochimaru assigned the team more water-related D-rank missions for seven days before selecting pasture-grass harvesting and cow milking.
• The chapter stated that Mitaraishi Anko had completed seventy-two D-rank and eighty-six C-rank missions by age twelve, when the Third Shinobi War had begun.