Chapter Summaries

Li and the others emerged from the Undead Barrier and discovered the City of Origin, Behemoth's vast royal city, besieged by an enormous Army of the Undead. Li spotted Timaria confronting the two Death Knights who were directing the assault.

• Li and the others reached a highland and saw a colossal city surrounded by hundreds of thousands of undead creatures.
• Azshara identified the city as Behemoth's royal city, the City of Origin.
• Bar recounted the legend that Behemoth and Leviathan were the world's first living beings and that Behemoth's head became the city.
• Azshara asked where Timaria had gone, and Li found her hovering above two Death Knights as they commanded the undead attack.

Timaria charged at two Death Knights during the siege of the City of Origin, while Li recognized that they were luring her into a trap. The Death Knights believed her time magic could not threaten them, but Timaria also possessed the power of order, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Li stopped Bar from rushing into the battle, arguing that the undead army made a direct approach too dangerous and that Timaria could defend herself.
• Gulman said Timaria was likely struggling to aim, and Bar asked why she kept flying instead of attacking.
• Timaria spotted the two Death Knights and dove straight toward them, intent on tearing them apart.
• Li realized the Death Knights were pretending not to notice Timaria and warned that they were setting a trap.
• One Death Knight turned to face Timaria as she came within ten meters, while the other stayed focused on the siege.
• The Death Knights believed their resistance to time magic made them safe from Timaria, unaware that she also wielded the power of order.

A death knight used an Elemental Dominion greatsword to disrupt Timaria’s time magic and overpower her, while another knight blocked Li’s spatial magic. Timaria forced the magic from her body and prepared to fight to the death, and Li jumped down to stop her as undead rushed to intercept him.

• The greatsword-wielding death knight struck at Timaria, but she dodged with her time-element magic before he attacked again and smashed her into the ground.
• Li recognized that the greatsword’s Elemental Dominion targeted time mages and could seize control of their magic.
• A second death knight drove a spear into the ground, expelling spatial magic elements and preventing Li from teleporting to Timaria.
• The greatsword-wielding death knight insulted Timaria, who dodged his next strike and dispersed the time magic within her body despite the strain.
• Li leaped down to stop Timaria, but a large number of undead charged at him.

Li destroyed thousands of undead with holy light magic, but when he rushed to help Timaria, the Death Knights revealed themselves as the Lord of Order and the Lord of Creation. They began to judge and imprison Li, whose power surged in response.

• Li wiped out thousands of skeletons and zombies with a vast blast of holy light.
• Timaria charged the Death Knight, dodged bone spears, and was trapped inside a giant phantom skull.
• Li rushed toward the Death Knights despite the system warning him to stop.
• The Death Knights revealed themselves as the Lord of Order and the Lord of Creation and recognized the Origin Artifact's aura on Li.
• The Lord of Order began to imprison Li and declared that he would pay for his arrogance as Li's power rose toward the Saint level.

Li found himself in an unfamiliar world after two Supreme God's Elite Guards sent him away, and discovered that he had arrived in a later era of the Naruto world. He watched Naruto teach at a school while trying to understand why his system had fallen silent.

• Li woke on a rooftop beneath the moon after the Supreme God's Elite Guards had enveloped him in white mist and transported him away.
• Li examined his body through the night and found no hidden injuries or unusual effects.
• Li saw Naruto teaching a group of children at a training field and realized he was in the Naruto world, though apparently a parallel or later-era version.
• Li received only a fragmented, static-filled message from his system and decided to learn more by starting with Naruto.
• Naruto demonstrated a basic ninja combination punch as girls cheered for him from the school building, while Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji watched and joked about his popularity.

Li followed Naruto through a peaceful Konoha while trying in vain to reconnect with his system. After spending several days hidden on rooftops, Li saw Hinata hurry toward Naruto at the ramen stand.

• Li learned that two years had passed since the Shinobi World War and watched Naruto teach Academy students and go about his quiet daily life.
• Konohamaru summoned Naruto to see belongings of his grandfather that had been found during a cleanup.
• Li sensed a concealed battle disturbance east of the village but did not know it involved the Hyuga clan.
• Li spent two or three days trying unsuccessfully to contact the system while remaining hidden from Konoha's ninja.
• Hinata arrived at the ramen stand and walked toward Naruto as he ate with Ino, Sakura, and Choji.

Li sensed an assault on the Hyuga Clan and followed Naruto, who detected him using sage energy. Li revealed his Sharingan and attacked Naruto, but struck a shadow clone instead.

• Naruto called to Hinata, but she retreated, and Sakura went after her.
• Li sensed more than ten intruders entering Konoha and realized the Hyuga Clan was their target.
• Naruto left the crowd and headed home, while Li followed him to a deserted plaza.
• Naruto sensed Li with sage energy and called him out, so Li stepped from the shadows and revealed his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Li claimed he had been a friend of the Fourth Hokage, then attacked Naruto, who turned out to be a shadow clone.

Li took over Naruto’s body after overpowering and devouring Naruto’s consciousness, then heard Hinata scream and rushed toward the Hyuga Clan compound. He arrived to find the compound eerily silent and empty, and suspected an exceptionally powerful force had targeted Hinata.

• Li knocked Naruto out of his Substitution Technique, seized him by the throat, and devoured his consciousness to take over his body.
• Li used Naruto’s memories to pass himself off as Naruto and went to Ichiraku Ramen with Kiba.
• Li and Kiba heard Hinata scream, so Li sent Kiba to find the security squad and rushed toward the Hyuga Clan compound.
• Li wondered whether the attackers were connected to Otsutsuki Hamura and the Byakugan’s secrets.
• Li reached the Hyuga Clan compound and found it deathly silent, with no signs of battle or anyone in sight.

Li pursued the puppet that had taken Hinata, fighting off waves of puppets that tried to stop him. He closed in on their leader and realized they had been luring him toward the rooftops.

• Li followed Hinata's scent and found more than twenty puppet-like figures with no Chakra Threads.
• Over a hundred puppets appeared on the rooftops and attacked Li with movements resembling the Gentle Fist.
• Li smashed several puppets, then created hundreds of Shadow Clones to hold off the pursuers while he continued after Hinata.
• The puppets switched to ranged attacks and tried to delay Li as he dodged through their volleys.
• Li drew to within a little over ten positions of the puppet leader and recognized that the pursuers had been leading him toward the rooftops.

Li pursued the puppet carrying Hinata and fought off the puppets blocking him. After breaking the leader’s grip, he watched it throw Hinata from a water tower and caught her just before she hit the ground.

• Li recognized the black-clad puppet carrying Hinata and saw dozens of puppets charge attacks around him.
• Li formed and threw a giant Rasenshuriken, slicing the airborne puppets apart.
• Li used a chakra-infused strand of hair to strike the puppet leader’s right-hand joint and break it.
• The puppet leader threw Hinata from the water tower and attacked Li with energy spheres.
• Li deflected the energy spheres as he descended and caught Hinata less than a meter above the ground.

Li rescued Hinata from a puppet attack and encountered another puppet that threatened him and promised to return for Hinata. After a meteor fell from the moon toward Konoha, a second one headed straight for Li, who prepared to strike it.

• Li caught Hinata, destroyed the attacking puppet, and checked her for injuries on top of the water tower.
• A white-haired man appeared through spatial magic and began warning that the world would be destroyed, but Li struck his face and discovered he was a puppet.
• The puppet threatened to come for Li and told Hinata to wait for him before disassembling itself.
• Li saw a meteor fall from the moon toward the forest behind Konoha's memorial wall.
• A second meteor came directly toward Li, and he stepped back and punched at it.

Li, inhabiting Naruto’s body, destroyed the meteor threatening Konoha and learned that most of the Hyuga clan had vanished, including possibly Hanabi. He returned to Naruto’s residence, where an Anbu arrived to question him about the attack.

• Li used a Rasenshuriken to shatter the meteor before it could hit Konoha.
• Li told Hinata that the Hyuga clan members seemed to be missing, and Hinata said her father had taken some clan members away on a mission and wondered whether Hanabi was gone.
• Li sent Hinata home under guard because Konoha considered her the last remaining Hyuga in the village.
• Li returned to Naruto’s home and reflected on how Naruto’s confidence had made him face danger alone.
• An Anbu wearing a white monkey mask arrived at Li’s door to question him about the incident.

Li recounted the previous night’s events to an Anbu and was later summoned by Sixth Hokage Kakashi to join a mission to rescue Hanabi Hyuga. The team learned of a secret countdown to the world’s destruction, though Kakashi could only connect the crisis to Hanabi’s abduction by intuition.

• An Anbu questioned Li about what had happened around midnight, and Li gave a partial account while hiding that he had entered Naruto’s body.
• After the Anbu left, Li failed to contact the system and spent the night frustrated by its absence.
• The next day, Kakashi summoned Li, Sakura, Shikamaru, Sai, and Hinata to assign them a mission to rescue the abducted Hanabi Hyuga, with Shikamaru as commander.
• Kakashi’s secretary activated a dial in Shikamaru’s palm that displayed a countdown to the destruction of the world.
• Shikamaru questioned whether the meteor and Hanabi’s kidnapping were connected, and Kakashi said his suspicion was based on intuition.

Li joined Hinata, Shikamaru, Sakura, and Sai in pursuing the group that abducted Hanabi, suspecting its leader was connected to Hamura. While searching by air, Hinata spotted something beneath the snow, and Li sensed metal there as well.

• Li concluded that the moon-related abduction and the falling moon likely involved the same enemy, a puppet user connected to Hamura.
• The five-person squad followed reports of a flying group heading north and traveled on giant birds created by Sai's Ninjutsu.
• Shikamaru, Sakura, and Sai split off to search for clues Hanabi had left behind, while Li and Hinata continued together.
• Li asked Hinata what was wrong, and she activated her Byakugan to search the snowy terrain.
• Hinata spotted something beneath the snow, and Li sensed a metallic response before guiding their bird down toward it.

Hinata recognized that the person in Naruto’s body was an impostor and confronted him, demanding to know what had happened to Naruto. Li claimed Naruto was dead and threatened to kill Konoha’s leaders and young shinobi, while Hinata refused to believe him.

• Hinata found a kunai with a tiny doll tied to its pommel and hid it in her bag.
• Hinata suddenly pressed a kunai to Li’s throat and accused him of not being Naruto.
• Li admitted that Naruto was dead and said he now possessed Naruto’s body.
• Li threatened to kill the Hokage, Shikamaru, Sakura Haruno, Sai, and Hinata if she exposed him.
• Hinata backed away but insisted that she did not believe Li’s claims.

Li used Genjutsu to make Hinata believe he was the real Naruto in another body, then joined her and the others in searching for Hanabi. Hinata located a cave with a spring of light at its bottom, leaving Li wondering what she had seen.

• Li used his Mangekyo Sharingan to make Hinata believe his story that he was the real Naruto in another body.
• Li told Hinata to call him Li in private, and she accepted his explanation and embraced him.
• Li sent Sai a message, and Sakura, Sai, and Shikamaru joined the search using Hanabi's Kunai as a clue.
• Hinata activated her Byakugan and found a cave containing what she described as a spring of light.

Li and his companions found the glowing Light Spring beneath the cave, where it blocked Hinata’s Byakugan and led into another underwater chamber. Li discovered a Genjutsu made of light spheres and entered it, finding himself in a Ninja Academy classroom with Iruka.

• Li led the group into the damp cave after sensing faint traces of chakra below.
• The group found a glowing green pool beneath a hall marked with the character for origin, but Hinata could not see through its water.
• Sai found that the pool would not wet their clothes, and everyone dove in; Li used his Sharingan to see an exit below.
• Li emerged into another lake filled with light spheres that formed a Genjutsu, then entered the illusion without warning the others.
• Li heard Iruka ask whom he would want to be with at the end of the world, saw a Ninja Academy classroom, and replied that the end of the world would never come.

Li experienced a Genjutsu that shifted from a childhood classroom under a falling moon to Naruto’s Chunin Exam match against Kiba Inuzuka. Limited to Naruto’s current strength, Li evaded Kiba’s opening attack with a precisely timed Substitution Technique but was exposed again as Kiba launched another charge.

• Li watched a stone sphere fall from the sky and destroy the classroom, then found himself in the Chunin Exams as Naruto.
• Sakura urged Li not to lose to Kiba, who immediately activated the Four Legs Technique and charged.
• Li realized his abilities were restricted to Naruto’s level and tried to make Kiba wait, but Kiba struck him and sent him flying.
• Li used the Substitution Technique at the instant Kiba hit him, impressing the Jonin watching the match.
• Kiba ran along the wall and launched another attack, exposing Li in the open arena.

Uzumaki Naruto defeated Kiba Inuzuka in the illusion and received ointment from Hinata, but the scene abruptly shifted to Pain attacking him. Li realized the encounter might be real and that dying there could kill him, while the system suddenly spoke to him.

• Li predicted Kiba Inuzuka's movement, grabbed his throat, and knocked him unconscious, winning the match for Uzumaki Naruto.
• Kurenai Yuhi encouraged Hinata to give Naruto ointment, and Naruto thanked her.
• Li was suddenly dragged from the spectator stands and found Pain gripping his throat.
• Pain pinned Li down and pierced him with a black rod, disrupting his chakra.
• Li pulled out the rod and feared that dying might be real before the system called out to him.

Li learned that he had been trapped in a created world and decided to destroy its inhabitants and structures to escape. Unaware that the system was impersonated, he attacked Pain’s Six Paths while Layla struggled to contact him from another world.

• The system told Li that he had been banished into a sealed world and claimed he could escape by destroying it, warning him not to attract its creators’ attention.
• Layla, ruling over part of the World of Death, worried that someone might be impersonating her while communicating with Li, and Meng Nan questioned why she sought him out.
• Li decided to destroy everything in the illusion to drain the caster’s mental power and charged at Pain’s Six Paths.
• Pain used Banshō Ten'in to pull Li toward him, intending to capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.