Chapter Summaries

Sun Keiyun guided Team Nine through missions and trained Mitaraishi Anko and Yamashiro Aoba while watching the village’s political struggle over Snake Uncle’s future. In September, a mysterious space summoned Sun Keiyun again, where a lotus began to bloom and promised another World Secret Treasure.

• Sun Keiyun concluded that Snake Uncle had been sidelined by Sarutobi Hiruzen and planned to wait for a battlefield setback to bring Snake Uncle back into command.
• Sun Keiyun gave Mitaraishi Anko and Yamashiro Aoba specialized training and Ninjutsu scrolls, then led them through D-rank missions for more than two months.
• After Team Nine protested the exhausting outdoor work, Sun Keiyun chose C-rank missions to hunt Wild Boars and explained how doing so helped villagers.
• By September, Yamashiro Aoba embraced Sun Keiyun’s idea of serving the people, and the team prepared to accept another Wild Boar mission.
• Sun Keiyun suddenly returned to the mysterious space, noticed fish and additional lotus buds, and watched the lotus that had granted Heaven Rewards Diligence begin to open.

Sun Keiyun gained the Ancient Starry Sky Tree, a World Secret Treasure that could convert different kinds of power into Divine Light and eventually transform him into an Ancient Starry Sky Dharma Body. After discovering the abilities he could already use, he demonstrated a Light Release technique to Snake Uncle, leaving its nature and secrecy under scrutiny.

• A silver-gray seed from the World Secret Treasure took root in Sun Keiyun’s sea of consciousness and revealed itself as the Ancient Starry Sky Tree.
• Sun Keiyun learned that the tree could absorb Star Power, strengthen its host, and convert different systems of power into Divine Light.
• After accepting the mission, Sun Keiyun sensed the planet’s magnetic field and discovered he could produce Divine Light from five systems: Sword Dao, Pill Dao, Mana, Mind, and Philosophy.
• Sun Keiyun decided to test his new Light Release and told Snake Uncle that he had developed another Kekkei Genkai.
• Sun Keiyun fired Acceleration Divine Light at Snake Uncle, boosting his speed, and Snake Uncle recognized it as a modification of High Heaven Long Song.

Sun Keiyun discussed the suffering caused by the Land of Fire’s tax system and challenged Orochimaru to consider the responsibility of Konoha and the ninja. He revealed that he wanted a revolution to replace the existing order, and Orochimaru listened instead of rejecting him outright.

• Sun Keiyun demonstrated several Support Ninjutsu reinterpreted through Divine Light and joked that his power had made him invincible.
• Sun Keiyun questioned Orochimaru about mission fees, village taxes, and Konoha’s funding from the nobles, arguing that the ninja benefited from a system that left farmers destitute.
• Orochimaru recalled a case from Sacred Hand Shinnō, Volume Five, in which a tenant family killed a landlord after disaster and debt left them with no way out.
• Sun Keiyun told Orochimaru that he wanted to change the fate of oppressed people, and Orochimaru asked whether he meant to become Hokage or daimyō.
• Sun Keiyun rejected both roles and explained that he wanted to overthrow the Kage, daimyō, and nobles together and establish a new government through revolution.

Sun Keiyun persuaded Orochimaru to join the Cloud Leaf Society and support its revolution to unify the ninja world. Orochimaru agreed to join, and Sun Keiyun revealed that Utatane Koharu was the Konoha higher-up backing their plan.

• Sun Keiyun explained how his schools and the popular Sacred Doctor Shinnō books would help spread revolutionary ideas throughout the Land of Fire.
• Sun Keiyun outlined his plans to enlist Orochimaru as Hokage, expand their cause across countries, and unite the ninja world; he also described the powerful allies and support ninjutsu that could help them succeed.
• Orochimaru questioned whether the plan could overcome the ninja villages, and Sun Keiyun claimed his trained Uzumaki descendant and strengthened Konoha Jonin could defeat their opponents.
• Sun Keiyun told Orochimaru that the Cloud Leaf Society had six members, including a Konoha higher-up and two Kirigakure higher-ups.
• Orochimaru agreed to join the Cloud Leaf Society but declined the president's position, and Sun Keiyun identified Utatane Koharu as the Konoha higher-up supporting his rise to Hokage.

Sun Keiyun helped Snake Uncle plan to replace Sarutobi Hiruzen as Hokage and revealed that Cloud Fox belonged to their group. He identified the cells Snake Uncle and Danzo had studied for five years as cancerous Hashirama cells, leaving Snake Uncle ready to stop the experiment but agreeing to preserve the cells for future research.

• Sun Keiyun persuaded Utatane Koharu to support Orochimaru’s rise and outlined how battlefield losses could pressure Sarutobi Hiruzen to step down.
• Snake Uncle revealed that Danzo supported his bid for Hokage and praised Cloud Fox’s influence and abilities in Root.
• Sun Keiyun told Snake Uncle that the First Hokage’s unusually proliferative cells sounded like cancerous cells, and Snake Uncle sent Tsunade a letter to confirm it.
• Tsunade replied that she had treated the condition Sun Keiyun described, convincing Snake Uncle that Hashirama had died of cancer and that his cells were diseased.
• Snake Uncle decided to end the Wood Release experiment, but Sun Keiyun persuaded him to keep the cells for future research into cancer treatments.

Sun Keiyun taught Snake Uncle Secret Sound Transmission and stunned him with scientific explanations, including a theory of immortality and the planet’s orbit. As they continued their mission, Snake Uncle joined the Cloud Leaf Society, and Sun Keiyun revealed its plans to recruit Uzumaki Kushina and that its God of Shinobi was an Uzumaki.

• Sun Keiyun taught Snake Uncle Secret Sound Transmission and demonstrated the Cloud Mirror Technique while explaining sound, light, and atomic theory.
• Sun Keiyun proposed that Chakra could extend human life and announced that he planned to name the planet Cloud Leaf Star.
• Sun Keiyun introduced Hei Bei, the Cloud Leaf Society’s Konoha intelligence chief, and welcomed Snake Uncle into the society.
• Snake Uncle explained Natural Chakra, and Sun Keiyun learned he had missed the chance to use it for cultivation.
• Sun Keiyun explained how he awakened animals’ intelligence and revealed that he had sent a cat to Uzumaki Kushina to help recruit her for her sealing techniques.
• Sun Keiyun told Snake Uncle that the Cloud Leaf Society’s God of Shinobi was an Uzumaki.

Sun Keiyun learned about Konoha’s founding and the Uchiha Clan’s troubled place in the village while discussing political alliances with Orochimaru. Their conversation revealed that Namikaze Minato was being positioned as a Hokage candidate, and Orochimaru believed Minato had grown strong enough to rival him.

• Orochimaru told Sun Keiyun that Hashirama and Madara had founded Konoha together before Madara turned against the village and fought Hashirama at the Valley of the End.
• Sun Keiyun asked whether Orochimaru opposed the Uchiha Clan, and Orochimaru explained that Fugaku wanted to integrate the clan into Konoha.
• Sun Keiyun deduced that Minato was a Hokage candidate, and Orochimaru confirmed that Hiruzen had sent him to the Cloud Ninja Battlefield with the Ino-Shika-Cho clan heads as subordinates.
• Orochimaru said Minato had created the Rasengan and learned the Flying Thunder God Technique, and admitted that Minato might have surpassed him.
• Orochimaru imagined Sun Keiyun going to the battlefield and impressing everyone, especially Jiraiya.

After Uzumaki Mito died and the Nine-Tails was sealed into Uzumaki Kushina, Sun Keiyun worried that Namikaze Minato’s Hokage prospects had strengthened and went to recruit Kushina. He and Uzumaki Kagura flew toward Konoha, stopping to observe the nearby war zone and discovering that ninja patrol battles usually ended with both sides withdrawing.

• Sun Keiyun learned that Uzumaki Mito had died and that the Nine-Tails had been transferred into Uzumaki Kushina.
• Sun Keiyun read a battle report stating that Namikaze Minato had fought Kumogakure’s AB Combination to a draw, then decided to approach Uzumaki Kushina.
• Sun Keiyun flew to Sakura City and asked Uzumaki Kagura to return with him and persuade Kushina to join them.
• Sun Keiyun and Uzumaki Kagura flew toward the war zone, where Kagura explained that fighting had pushed closer to Sakura City and caused more orphans to arrive.
• Sun Keiyun and Kagura observed the Konoha–Sunagakure war and saw that patrol squads usually fought briefly before retreating rather than pursuing decisive battles.

Sun Keiyun and Uzumaki Kagura left the battlefield and secretly visited Uzumaki Kushina in Konoha. Kagura revealed that she was a surviving Uzumaki relative, and Kushina recognized her, though Kagura’s question about Kushina’s life in Konoha left her silent.

• Sun Keiyun watched the ninja battle with Kagura, dismissed the fighting as ineffective, and decided to pursue group-flying ninjutsu and aircraft research.
• Sun Keiyun and Kagura flew to Konoha and used concealment to enter the Senju Clan residence despite its ANBU guards.
• Kushina discovered Sun Keiyun and Kagura in her living room, but Lan reassured her that they were not dangerous.
• Sun Keiyun introduced Kagura as an Uzumaki, and Kagura named her parents and grandfather, Uzumaki Toury, to prove her identity.
• Kushina recognized Kagura as the granddaughter of the Third Elder’s family, and Kagura explained that she had survived the destruction of the Uzumaki Clan and settled in Kusagakure.
• Kushina asked why Kagura had not come to Konoha, and Kagura’s pointed question about Kushina’s comfortable life there left Kushina silent.

Sun Keiyun helped Kagura reconnect with Uzumaki Kushina and invited Kushina to join the Cloud Leaf Society, though she refused to recruit Minato before the Hokage succession was settled. After asking about the Nine-Tails, Sun Keiyun learned that tailed beasts existed from the One-Tail through the Eight-Tails.

• Sun Keiyun left Kagura and Uzumaki Kushina alone, then wrote advice about swordsmanship on the back of a purple-haired Uzuki Anbu.
• Kagura and Uzumaki Kushina embraced after sharing their painful pasts, while Sun Keiyun reflected on his family and resolved to find a way back to Earth.
• Sun Keiyun introduced himself to Uzumaki Kushina and invited her to join the Cloud Leaf Society.
• Uzumaki Kushina agreed to join but said Minato would not join before the Hokage was chosen because he was loyal to the office.
• Uzumaki Kushina explained that the Nine-Tails was one of several tailed beasts, with beasts from the One-Tail through the Eight-Tails also existing.

Sun Keiyun entered Kushina’s inner world to meet the Nine-Tails and tried to negotiate with it. The fox demanded proof of its strength, but its history left it with no battle achievements to boast about.

• Kushina explained that the Nine-Tails was a living creature sealed inside her and let Sun Keiyun enter her inner world.
• Sun Keiyun found the Nine-Tails restrained by Uzumaki Mito’s Adamantine Sealing Chains and tried to start a peaceful conversation.
• The Nine-Tails accused Sun Keiyun of wanting to use its power, while he considered how to approach its weaknesses.
• Sun Keiyun asked the Nine-Tails to describe its strength and provide notable battle records.
• The Nine-Tails recalled its defeats, forced battles, and lack of meaningful victories, then fell silent.

Sun Keiyun challenged the Nine-Tails’ pride and explained why cooperation with Uzumaki Kushina could lead to eventual freedom. The Nine-Tails relented, introduced himself as Kurama, and agreed to guide Kushina’s training.

• Sun Keiyun questioned the Nine-Tails’ claims of power, comparing his strength to human abilities and reminding him that Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara had defeated him.
• Sun Keiyun urged the Nine-Tails to respect human strength and wisdom, then asked why he treated Uzumaki Kushina poorly.
• Sun Keiyun and Uzumaki Kushina explained that Jinchuriki were also unwilling victims and that the Uzumaki clan could not keep risking lives to contain the Nine-Tails.
• Sun Keiyun suggested that if the Nine-Tails became trustworthy, he might eventually be freed and summoned when needed, especially after the ninja world achieved peace.
• The Nine-Tails agreed to guide Uzumaki Kushina’s training, revealed that his name was Kurama, and warned her that Sun Keiyun was scheming.

Sun Keiyun questioned Kurama about the tailed beasts’ origins, then studied the Sealing Technique scrolls Uzumaki Kushina had preserved. Kushina agreed to copy the scrolls for him after explaining that their seals would alert the Hokage Building if they left her residence.

• Sun Keiyun asked Kurama about his origins and the other tailed beasts, and Kurama said the Sage of Six Paths had created them before they scattered.
• Sun Keiyun gave Uzumaki Kushina a Vitality Replenishing Pill, which quickly restored the energy she had spent guiding him into the sealing space.
• Uzumaki Kushina showed Sun Keiyun four scrolls containing 127 True Words, basic and advanced Sealing Techniques, and Forbidden Jutsu.
• Sun Keiyun learned that Sarutobi Hiruzen knew the Reaper Death Seal and considered possible uses for the Inverse Four Symbols Seal.
• Uzumaki Kushina refused to let Sun Keiyun take the sealed scrolls from her residence, but offered to make copies for him.

Sun Keiyun learned how Sealing Techniques worked and received Mei Terumi’s warning that Kirigakure was preparing to enter the war. Snake Uncle exposed the Hashirama Cells as cancerous, then Konoha dispatched Uchiha Fugaku and 1,500 shinobi to reinforce the Land of Fire’s border.

• Sun Keiyun studied the Divine Script and considered using Sealing Techniques to create a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Mei Terumi warned Sun Keiyun that Kirigakure’s leaders were eager for war, and he alerted Snake Uncle that he might soon be sent to battle.
• Snake Uncle told Danzo that the Hashirama Cells were cancerous and that the Wood Release experiment had failed unless normal Hashirama Cells could be found.
• Snake Uncle transferred some Hashirama Cells and received Sun Keiyun’s message about Kirigakure’s impending attack.
• After Kirigakure attacked the Land of Fire’s border, Konoha ordered Uchiha Fugaku and 1,500 shinobi to reinforce it.

Sun Keiyun learned how Namikaze Minato had mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique and decided to develop his own space ninjutsu. As ANBU left their post outside the Senju Ancestral Home, Uzuki Aki discovered that someone had written a detailed analysis of her clan’s swordsmanship on her vest.

• Sun Keiyun questioned why the Uchiha Clan was being kept from the battlefield, and Orochimaru explained that Namikaze Minato could reach the front using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Orochimaru described the technique’s space-transfer principles and offered to write it down, but Sun Keiyun said he wanted to create his own version.
• Orochimaru explained how Namikaze Minato had obtained the technique and praised his exceptional abilities.
• Sun Keiyun wrote a message to Kisame Hoshigaki, telling him to remove his seal and fight Namikaze Minato at full strength.
• Uzuki Aki found weaknesses in her clan’s swordsmanship written on her vest and hurried home to inform the clan head.

Kisame Hoshigaki and Mei Terumi interpreted Sun Keiyun’s letter as a warning to hold back Namikaze Minato, while Uchiha Fugaku led Konoha’s vanguard into a Kirigakure trap at a sentry tower. Sun Keiyun then joined a supply convoy bound for the front, where the possibility of an enemy ambush left the escort’s Jonin on alert.

• Mei Terumi told Kisame Hoshigaki to carry out the president’s suggestion and hold back Namikaze Minato if they met him.
• Uchiha Fugaku led three hundred Konoha ninja to the front and used a Great Fireball to disrupt Kirigakure’s fog-and-arrow ambush before capturing the sentry tower.
• Fugaku realized Kirigakure had abandoned the tower to tie down Konoha’s forces, so he ordered his men to prepare for a major battle after the main force arrived.
• Sun Keiyun and Mitaraishi Anko joined a logistics squad transporting Explosive Tags and Military Rations Pills to the front lines.
• Sun Keiyun explained that enemy scouts might attack the supply convoy if they believed they could defeat it, prompting the escort’s Jonin to consider the risk of an ambush.

Yuki Kozue let Kaguya Makoto lead a separate force against Konoha, and their repeated assaults broke through the front lines. Sun Keiyun’s supply convoy then ran into Kirigakure ninja in Konoha’s rear, where his healing and enhancement abilities turned the fight in Konoha’s favor. The Seven Ninja Swordsmen also encountered Might Duy.

• Yuki Kozue rejected Kaguya Makoto’s plan for the whole army to seize territory, so Kaguya Makoto formed a separate Southeast Expeditionary Force and led away most of the major clans.
• Kaguya Makoto led repeated assaults that caused heavy casualties and eventually broke through Konoha’s defenses, fragmenting its forces across the front.
• Sun Keiyun’s supply convoy encountered Kirigakure ninja who had penetrated Konoha’s rear and moved to seize its supplies.
• Sun Keiyun handed Explosive Tags to Mitaraishi Anko and Yamashiro Aoba, then used wind and light techniques to enhance and heal Konoha’s fighters.
• White Dove used Sun Keiyun’s enhancements to overpower and kill a Kirigakure Jonin who had targeted Sun Keiyun.
• The Seven Ninja Swordsmen encountered Might Duy in the rear.

Sun Keiyun helped Konoha defeat a larger Mist Hidden force, and the victory report reached Uchiha Fugaku at the military camp. Fugaku reorganized the surviving team into a Special Mobile Unit and assigned Hyuga Fu, a Hyuga Main Family jonin, to join it.

• Sun Keiyun's wind disrupted a Mist Hidden jonin, allowing Anko and Yamashiro Aoba to wound him with an Explosive Tag and finish him with a sword strike.
• Sun Keiyun and two Konoha Jonin killed the remaining Mist Hidden jonin, while Sun Keiyun healed the Konoha survivors.
• White Dove praised Sun Keiyun, Anko, and Yamashiro Aoba, then reported that Konoha had defeated the enemy with few casualties.
• Uchiha Fugaku questioned White Dove and Nagataki Tomo about the victory report and learned that Sun Keiyun had recently changed his surname after joining Lord Orochimaru's team.
• Fugaku reorganized the logistics squad into a Special Mobile Unit and assigned Hyuga Fu, a Hyuga Main Family jonin, to support it on the battlefield.

Hyuga Fu organized the Special Mobile Unit and led it on a rescue mission, where Sun Keiyun’s Blessing Wind helped turn the battle against the Mist Hidden ninja. Afterward, Sun Keiyun healed the wounded with Healing Light, impressing the unit and raising his importance among them.

• Hyuga Fu became captain of the Special Mobile Unit, assigned White Dove and Nagataki Tomo as battalion commanders, and appointed Sun Keiyun and three others as squad leaders.
• After Uchiha Fugaku repeatedly said no one had requested help, Hyuga Fu used the unit’s authority to act independently and led it east in search of Konoha ninja in need.
• Hyuga Fu used his Byakugan to find a battlefield where two Mist Hidden squads had surrounded Konoha ninja, then directed the attack while Sun Keiyun used Blessing Wind to empower the two Jonin.
• The Special Mobile Unit defeated the Mist Hidden Jonin and rescued the Konoha group, whose Jonin agreed to return with them because his chakra was nearly depleted and his subordinates needed treatment.
• Sun Keiyun healed four injured ninja in seconds with Healing Light, astonishing Hyuga Fu and the others, who gathered around him on the journey back.

Hyuga Fu's growing Special Operations Squad learned that more than a hundred Konoha ninjas were imprisoned at Windchill Fortress and debated whether to rescue them. The squad decided to attack, and Sun Keiyun sarcastically praised Hyuga Fu's plan after spotting its obvious flaws.

• Hyuga Fu explained that Konoha's scouts and knowledge of the terrain gave its scattered forces an advantage, then said the Special Operations Squad should stop expanding.
• A scout reported that the Hidden Mist were holding over a hundred captured Konoha ninjas at Windchill Fortress.
• Hyuga Fu asked the squad whether it should attack the fortress, and its members argued over the prisoners' lives and the danger to their own forces.
• Sun Keiyun reflected on the squad's competing interests and lack of conviction before Hyuga Fu asked for his opinion.
• Hyuga Fu laid out a plan to lure the enemy from the front while attacking from the cliffs behind the fortress, and Sun Keiyun mocked the plan as brilliant.