Chapter Summaries

Ying Yue learned that his Sage Body potential was above average but far below Senju Hashirama’s, then discovered Deep Blue Points could improve his attributes using Destiny Points. He spent 2,000 points raising his Sage Body awakening from 21% to 36%, with the second increase yielding less progress.

• Ying Yue asked the system about Sage Body growth and learned that bloodline, potential, and Natural Energy influenced its awakening.
• The system estimated that Ying Yue could awaken about 40% of his Sage Body naturally, while Senju Hashirama had surpassed 80% and Senju Tsunade could exceed 60%.
• Ying Yue worried that his limited potential would prevent him from reaching Hashirama’s level of Wood Release, and the system revealed the Deep Blue Points ability.
• Ying Yue spent 1,000 Destiny Points to raise his Sage Body awakening from 21% to 31%.
• Ying Yue spent another 1,000 Destiny Points to raise his awakening from 31% to 36%, and realized that further improvements would cost more for diminishing gains.

Uchiha Ying Yue learned that his growing Sage Body supported the rapid development of his Sharingan eye power, and he resolved to keep balancing physical and spiritual training. Senju Mufeng then visited him and asked him to help revive the Senju Clan, beginning with continuing its bloodline and rebuilding the clan.

• Uchiha Ying Yue examined his status and questioned the system about his increased chakra and Sharingan eye power.
• The system explained that the Sage Body and Sage Eye supported each other, and that Ying Yue's fused soul made his spiritual power grow unusually quickly.
• Ying Yue decided to continue strengthening his Sage Body while cultivating his spiritual power and maintaining their balance.
• Senju Mufeng visited Ying Yue at the training ground and asked him to help restore the Senju Clan's former glory.
• Senju Mufeng asked Ying Yue to carry on the Senju bloodline and rebuild the clan, explaining that it had dissolved after Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama died and its younger generation weakened.

Elder Senju Mufeng asked Uchiha Ying Yue to revive the fading Senju Clan, and Ying Yue agreed while seeking to strengthen his Wood Release. Tsunade took him to visit Uzumaki Mito, and on the way she questioned him about awakening Wood Release.

• Elder Senju Mufeng explained how dissolving the Senju Clan had scattered its members and weakened its legacy, then asked Ying Yue to revive it.
• Ying Yue agreed to take responsibility for the clan's revival and asked Mufeng to teach him Senju Hashirama's Wood Release techniques.
• Mufeng told Ying Yue that Uzumaki Mito held records of Hashirama's techniques and summoned Tsunade to take him to her.
• Tsunade asked Ying Yue how he awakened Wood Release, and he vaguely described it as happening by chance during a battle.
• Tsunade accepted Ying Yue's uncertain explanation but admitted she had also been searching for a way to awaken Wood Release.

Uzumaki Mito welcomed Uchiha Ying Yue, told him about his Senju family history, and entrusted him with Senju Hashirama's Wood Release scroll. Back at home, Ying Yue opened it and began studying Hashirama's techniques, including his Sage Mode arts.

• Uchiha Ying Yue visited Uzumaki Mito and asked to learn Senju Hashirama's Wood Release techniques.
• Uzumaki Mito told Ying Yue about his grandmother Senju Toka and mother Senju Fuka, and explained his relation to Hashirama.
• Uzumaki Mito gave Ying Yue Hashirama's ancient scroll of Wood Release techniques, and Ying Yue vowed to carry on the legacy.
• Ying Yue returned home, opened the scroll, and studied its descriptions of Wood Release techniques and Hashirama's Sage Mode arts.

Uchiha Ying Yue adapted several Wood Release techniques to suit his current chakra control after discovering he could not match Senju Hashirama’s power. While continuing his training, he noticed a father and son sparring in Taijutsu at a secluded training ground.

• Uchiha Ying Yue tried Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence but produced a much smaller, weaker forest than Senju Hashirama’s.
• Ying Yue added and adjusted Hand Seals while practicing Wood Clone, then spent nearly half a month developing Wood Release techniques suited to his abilities.
• Ying Yue adapted Deep Forest Emergence, Wood Clone, Cutting Technique, and Wood Locking Wall into practical but weaker versions.
• Ying Yue trained daily and sent his Wood Clone to the Ninja Academy to study while he focused on improving his skills.
• Ying Yue went to a secluded training ground to practice Taijutsu and noticed a father and son engaged in a spar.

Uchiha Ying Yue met Might Gang and Might Duy, trained with them, and impressed Might Gang with his taijutsu ability. Might Gang taught Ying Yue the principles of the Eight Inner Gates, and Ying Yue began training in the technique as he learned that the Might family’s finances limited their access to resources.

• Uchiha Ying Yue introduced himself to Might Gang and Might Duy and joined their taijutsu training.
• Might Gang explained his history with the Eight Inner Gates and warned Ying Yue about the technique’s dangers.
• After Ying Yue impressed him in a spar with Might Duy, Might Gang offered to teach Ying Yue the Eight Inner Gates.
• Might Gang took Ying Yue to a secluded training ground and began teaching him how the gates worked.
• Ying Yue started practicing the Eight Inner Gates under Might Gang’s guidance.
• Ying Yue learned that Might Gang’s injuries and the family’s financial troubles had limited their ability to support Might Duy’s development.

Uchiha Ying Yue supported Might Gang and the Might Clan's training before Uchiha Setsuna urged him to pursue the Hokage position, warning that the Uchiha were being marginalized. The chapter left Ying Yue listening as he considered the danger Setsuna described.

• Uchiha Ying Yue offered financial support to Might Gang, who initially refused out of pride.
• Uchiha Ying Yue persuaded Might Gang to accept support as a shared investment in Taijutsu training.
• The Might Clan resumed medicinal baths and acquired better training resources, improving Might Duy's condition and the Uchiha's training.
• Uchiha Setsuna visited Uchiha Ying Yue and asked him to consider becoming Hokage.
• Uchiha Setsuna argued that Tobirama Senju and Sarutobi Hiruzen had suppressed the Uchiha, leaving the clan in danger of being pushed aside and wiped out.

Uchiha Setsuna urged Uchiha Ying Yue to pursue the Hokage position, offering the Uchiha Hawks’ support, but Ying Yue asked for time to decide. Root reported their meeting to Shimura Danzō, who tried to persuade Sarutobi Hiruzen to recruit Ying Yue into Root, but Hiruzen refused.

• Uchiha Setsuna told Uchiha Ying Yue that his Uchiha and Senju heritage and Wood Release made him a candidate to change the Uchiha Clan’s fate, and offered the Hawks’ support if he sought the Hokage position.
• Uchiha Ying Yue said he needed time to consider the responsibility and promised to work for the clan’s future whichever path he chose.
• Root shinobi recorded the meeting and delivered their report to Shimura Danzō, who decided to increase surveillance and recruit Ying Yue into Root.
• Shimura Danzō told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Ying Yue’s talent and Setsuna’s influence posed a threat, and urged Hiruzen to bring Ying Yue under Root’s control.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen refused, saying Ying Yue should grow up outside Root, while Shimura Danzō warned that the Uchiha Clan remained dangerous.

Danzo secretly increased surveillance of Uchiha Ying Yue after Sarutobi Hiruzen rejected his plan to recruit him into Root. Hiruzen tested Ying Yue's loyalty through a Ninja Academy essay and a private meeting, where Ying Yue declared that he wanted to become Hokage.

• Danzo left the Hokage Office resentful and ordered Root ninjas to watch Ying Yue closely.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen worried about Ying Yue's potential and set an exam question about the Will of Fire to assess his beliefs.
• Ying Yue recognized the essay prompt as a test and wrote about the Will of Fire, drawing on Hiruzen's future words and his own views.
• Hiruzen approved of Ying Yue's essay and decided to include some of its lines in future Ninja Academy textbooks.
• Hiruzen summoned Ying Yue, praised his sense of responsibility, and asked about his ambition.
• Ying Yue said he wanted to become Hokage and make Konoha prosperous and peaceful.

After earning Sarutobi Hiruzen’s recognition, Uchiha Ying Yue received a Destiny System draw and gained the Professor of Ninjutsu ability. He reviewed his growing powers and considered how Mito Uzumaki’s support had protected him from Konoha’s leaders.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen encouraged Uchiha Ying Yue, who left the Hokage Office and received 500 Destiny Points and a draw from the Destiny System.
• Uchiha Ying Yue used the draw and gained the Professor of Ninjutsu ability, which improved his capacity to learn and teach ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Ying Yue checked his status panel and found his Sage Body at 37%, his Sharingan eye power at 82%, his chakra at 3.5 cards, and his Destiny Points at 3460.
• Uchiha Ying Yue planned to train in advanced Wood Release techniques and improve his Sage Body and Sharingan, while reflecting on his chakra affinities.
• Uchiha Ying Yue concluded that Mito Uzumaki’s influence had helped Sarutobi Hiruzen secure leadership and kept Konoha’s leaders from targeting him.

Over two and a half years, Uchiha Ying Yue used Wood Clones to study while training his body and mastering the first four of the Eight Inner Gates. He befriended Orochimaru through their shared interest in ninjutsu and began imagining a laboratory where they could investigate hidden powers and the Otsutsuki Clan.

• Uchiha Ying Yue used Wood Clones to attend classes and study at the Konoha Library while training Taijutsu with Might Gang and Might Duy.
• Uchiha Ying Yue improved his physical abilities and learned to open the Gate of Opening, Gate of Healing, Gate of Life, and Gate of Pain.
• Uchiha Ying Yue met Orochimaru at the library, and they began sharing ideas about ninjutsu and advanced theories.
• Uchiha Ying Yue and Orochimaru discussed their ambitions, with Ying Yue hoping to become Hokage and Orochimaru seeking to master every ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Ying Yue began planning a laboratory with Orochimaru to study ninjutsu, Kekkei Genkai, chakra natures, and the source of the Otsutsuki Clan's power.

Uchiha Ying Yue persuaded Orochimaru to establish a laboratory with twenty million ryo in startup funding, in exchange for access to the research findings. As the laboratory began studying ninjutsu, Kekkei Genkai, human modification, and chakra, Ying Yue planned to use it to investigate Hashirama Cells and advance his Sage Body.

• Ying Yue suggested that he and Orochimaru establish a dedicated laboratory to research ninjutsu and Kekkei Genkai.
• Ying Yue offered Orochimaru twenty million ryo, full autonomy over the laboratory, and access to its findings in return for a copy of the research.
• Orochimaru accepted the offer and agreed that Ying Yue could visit and participate in the research.
• Ying Yue arranged the funding and helped Orochimaru set up a laboratory in a remote area outside Konoha.
• Ying Yue and Orochimaru began researching advanced ninjutsu, Kekkei Genkai, human modification, and chakra.
• Ying Yue planned to use the laboratory to study Hashirama Cells and improve his Sage Body, which would otherwise require an enormous number of Destiny Points.

Over two years of relentless training and study, eight-year-old Uchiha Ying Yue grew into a powerful, imposing young ninja with a Two-Tomoe Sharingan, a highly developed Sage Body, and mastery of the Sixth Gate. He reviewed his progress and abilities, while the costs and limits of the Eight Inner Gates remained a danger.

• Uchiha Ying Yue spent two years training, studying, and researching at the Konoha Library, Might Gang's training ground, and Orochimaru's laboratory.
• Uchiha Ying Yue grew to 172 centimeters tall and developed a muscular physique and a commanding presence that earned him loyal supporters in Konoha.
• Uchiha Ying Yue checked the Destiny System and saw that his Sage Body had reached 49%, his Sharingan had advanced to Two-Tomoe with 92% eye power, and his chakra had reached 8,008.
• Uchiha Ying Yue gained Wood Release, several Fire Release techniques, and other ninjutsu while deciding to focus more on Senjutsu and Taijutsu against powerful future enemies.
• Uchiha Ying Yue opened the Sixth Gate, the Gate of View, but recognized that higher gates strained his body and limited his ability to use ninjutsu.

Uchiha Ying Yue built a strong reputation through his skill, kindness, and support for his classmates, then graduated early and became a Konoha Genin. Sarutobi Hiruzen assigned him to Hatake Sakumo’s team with Yamanaka Chinatsu and Hyuga Ayane, leaving Ying Yue aware that the two girls seemed especially interested in him.

• Uchiha Ying Yue earned villagers’ and classmates’ respect by supporting the orphanage, teaching children, and helping his peers, including Namikaze Minato.
• Uchiha Ying Yue applied for early graduation, passed the Genin exam with near-perfect results, and became an official Konoha ninja.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen reviewed Ying Yue’s file and chose Hatake Sakumo to lead his team.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen assigned Yamanaka Chinatsu and Hyuga Ayane as Ying Yue’s teammates after considering recommendations from their clan leaders.
• Uchiha Ying Yue received his team assignment and suspected that Yamanaka Chinatsu and Hyuga Ayane had been unusually interested in him at the Academy.

Uchiha Ying Yue met his new teammates, Yamanaka Chinatsu and Hyuga Ayane, and they were introduced to their instructor, Hatake Sakumo. The three passed Sakumo’s combat test through teamwork and began their work as a team.

• Uchiha Ying Yue met Yamanaka Chinatsu and Hyuga Ayane at the Konoha training ground, where their shyness and admiration made him feel awkward.
• Uchiha Ying Yue, Yamanaka Chinatsu, and Hyuga Ayane introduced themselves and described their abilities and goals to Hatake Sakumo.
• Hatake Sakumo challenged the three genin to attack him together, and they coordinated their Taijutsu, Mind Body Switch Technique, and Gentle Fist.
• Yamanaka Chinatsu restrained Hatake Sakumo while Hyuga Ayane struck a chakra point, completing the team’s combination.
• Hatake Sakumo praised their teamwork and welcomed them as his team.

Hatake Sakumo assessed the strengths and weaknesses of Ying Yue, Chinatsu, and Ayane, then chose a C-rank mission to help the squad gain experience. The team left Konoha to eliminate bandits occupying a village in the Land of Fire, with their first real battle still ahead.

• Hatake Sakumo observed Ayane's close-combat skills and Chinatsu's tactical support abilities, while noticing Ying Yue's exceptional strength and that he was holding something back.
• Hatake Sakumo decided the squad had outgrown routine D-rank missions and arranged a C-rank assignment to eliminate bandits in a village in the Land of Fire.
• At the Hokage Building, Sakumo warned Ying Yue, Chinatsu, and Ayane that the bandits were ruthless and ordered them to stay alert and work together.
• The Ying Yue Squad prepared their gear and left Konoha with Sakumo leading the way.
• As they traveled through the Land of Fire, Sakumo shared mission advice, and Ying Yue listened as the team approached its first real battle.

Ying Yue led Chinatsu and Ayane in defeating the bandits and freeing the captive villagers, while Hatake Sakumo observed. After killing for the first time, Ying Yue awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and began coming to terms with the brutality of the ninja world.

• Hatake Sakumo tasked Ying Yue, Chinatsu, and Ayane with defeating the bandits without his help, and Ying Yue planned a coordinated ambush.
• Chinatsu used her Mind Body Switch Technique to sow confusion among the bandits while Ayane scouted with her Byakugan, allowing Ying Yue to attack with Fire Release and Wood Clones.
• Ying Yue killed a bandit for the first time, was shaken by the experience, and awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Ying Yue, Chinatsu, and Ayane worked together to wipe out the bandits and free the captive villagers.
• On the way back, Hatake Sakumo comforted Ying Yue about his first kill, and Ying Yue resolved to keep his kindness while surviving as a ninja.

After returning from a mission that exposed him to the suffering of ordinary people, Uchiha Ying Yue questioned the Ninja World's cycle of war and poverty. He decided he needed to understand the world better and began planning an intelligence network, hoping to use Konoha's Senju and Uchiha Clans to help build it.

• Uchiha Ying Yue and his team set out for Konoha after completing their mission and rescuing the villagers.
• Uchiha Ying Yue reflected on how war, taxes, and hardship drove ordinary people into poverty and sometimes banditry.
• Uchiha Ying Yue concluded that he needed to investigate the Ninja World firsthand before he could change it.
• Uchiha Ying Yue decided to find loyal allies and build an intelligence network starting in Konoha and the Land of Fire.
• Uchiha Ying Yue considered using the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan to strengthen his plan.

Uchiha Ying Yue proposed building an intelligence network to Elder Senju Mufeng as part of rebuilding the Senju Clan. Mufeng agreed to provide clan resources and recruit Senju members, leaving Ying Yue ready to seek Uchiha support next.

• Uchiha Ying Yue decided to use Senju and Uchiha resources to build an intelligence network and strengthen his position in Konoha.
• Uchiha Ying Yue visited Elder Senju Mufeng and argued that intelligence would help rebuild the Senju Clan and prepare it for threats.
• Elder Senju Mufeng approved the plan and promised to support it with Senju Clan resources.
• Elder Senju Mufeng offered to contact Senju members who still cared about the clan and invite them to join the organization.
• Uchiha Ying Yue thanked Elder Senju Mufeng and left, resolved to pursue the plan.

Uchiha Ying Yue won Elder Uchiha Setsuna’s support for an intelligence organization backed by the Uchiha Clan and the Ninja Cat Clan. With both the Uchiha and Senju supporting him, Ying Yue trained under Hatake Sakumo as Shadow Curtain began to take shape.

• Uchiha Ying Yue proposed a Ninja World-wide intelligence organization to Elder Uchiha Setsuna and argued it would help him become Hokage and restore the Uchiha Clan’s power.
• Elder Uchiha Setsuna agreed to support the organization with Uchiha resources and contact the Ninja Cat Clan to help gather and transmit information.
• Uchiha Ying Yue trained with the Ying Yue Squad under Hatake Sakumo, learned to open the sixth gate, and improved his taijutsu, ninjutsu, and combat strategy.
• Elder Senju Mufeng and Elder Uchiha Setsuna fulfilled their promises and put their clans’ strength toward building Shadow Curtain.