Chapter Summaries

Mingye sparred with Madara and demonstrated Ryūchi Cave sage arts, while Madara revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan. The Uchiha assigned Mingye to take over their responsibility in Okayama amid a dispute involving the Fuma Clan, and Madara warned that the clan’s growing faith in him could bring trouble.

• Mingye used Sage Art: Dragon Prohibition Martial to briefly disrupt Madara’s chakra, then clashed with Madara’s fire jutsu using Sage Art: Wild Dragon Manifestation.
• Madara revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and Susanoo, but Mingye threatened to reverse summon himself to Ryūchi Cave, ending their fight in a standoff.
• Izuna and Shimizu explained that Mingye was needed in Okayama to represent the Uchiha, where the Fuma Clan had become involved in the clan’s affairs.
• Madara vowed to avenge Shimizu and destroy the Fuma Clan, while Mingye agreed to go to Okayama with Shimizu and five assigned shinobi.
• Madara told Mingye and Izuna that the clan’s faith in him had grown dangerously strong since his eyes evolved, so they needed to prepare for what might come.

Mingye warned Madara that relying on invincibility would weaken the Uchiha Clan’s loyalty, but Madara insisted on pursuing power and ordered Mingye to stabilize Okayama. On the way there, Mingye and Shimizu destroyed a Fuma Clan ambush, then met Fujiwara Muneyoshi, a statesman connected to General Sato.

• Izuna explained that Madara needed a major victory to secure the clan’s trust after their losses and their father’s death.
• Mingye warned Madara that blind obedience could collapse if Madara ever lost, but Madara revealed the Sage Stone’s Mangekyō jutsu and ordered Mingye to stabilize Okayama.
• Izuna asked Mingye to investigate the Fuma Clan, and the brothers resolved to support Madara and clear obstacles from his path.
• Mingye and Shimizu traveled toward Okayama, where Mingye summoned Wu to devour more than thirty Fuma Clan shinobi lying in ambush.
• Fujiwara Muneyoshi appeared with a group of shinobi, and Shimizu identified him as General Sato’s chief strategist while Mingye sensed that the old man had no chakra.

Mingye and Shimizu met Fujiwara Muneyoshi, then reported to General Sato, where Mingye offered him a mysterious glowing bead and asked for land for the Uchiha Clan. General Sato considered the request for a remote forest a strange one, and Mingye continued to plead for it.

• Fujiwara Muneyoshi said he had come on General Sato's orders to escort Mingye and Shimizu, but both men walked past him without accepting his golden scroll.
• Shimizu told Mingye that Fujiwara Muneyoshi had advised the former Daimyo before joining General Sato after the Tokugawa House lost control of the country.
• Mingye met General Sato, introduced himself as Uchiha Tajima's son, and reported Tajima's death and the destruction of the Hagoromo Clan.
• Mingye presented General Sato with a glowing bead containing a tiny dragon, which soothed him and appeared to heal old battle injuries.
• Mingye asked General Sato to grant the Uchiha Clan a forest a thousand miles northwest of the Fire Temple, and General Sato questioned why they wanted the desolate land.

Mingye secured land and village tax revenue for the Uchiha Clan, then secretly infiltrated the Fuma Clan as a blind laborer to investigate it. After a month, Uchiha Yao reported that Fuma Kotaro would turn sixty in three days, leaving Mingye puzzled about the clan leader’s identity.

• The general granted the Uchiha Clan a mountain region and the tax revenue from its villages, while Fujiwara Muneyoshi advised killing Mingye and then persuaded the general to send him against the Fuma Clan.
• Mingye and Shimizu listened through a snake to the general and Fujiwara Muneyoshi’s conversation, and Mingye asked Shimizu to keep Fujiwara occupied while he left on a secret mission.
• Mingye infiltrated the Fuma Clan by posing as a blind youth, was taken in as a laborer, and was assigned to carry firewood by Shangguan Yingjie, who asked him to use the name Xiaojie.
• After a month, Mingye met Uchiha Yao, who reported that Fuma Kotaro would turn sixty in three days and that the clan had been gathering homeless people as laborers.
• Mingye wondered how Fuma Kotaro could be the clan’s leader, since he remembered that Fuma Kotaro had been its first leader.

Mingye poisoned the Fuma Clan’s ninjas and killed Fuma Kotaro, while sparing the servants, but Shangguan Yingjie discovered him and attacked. Mingye tried to avoid killing his former friend as their fight escalated.

• Mingye ordered Yao to seal off the mountain and bring clansmen to clean up three days later, then struggled with the weight of his plan.
• Mingye shared a friendly conversation with Shangguan Yingjie, who offered to help carry his firewood, while Ara challenged Mingye’s reluctance to follow through.
• Three days later, Mingye entered the Fuma Clan compound after poisoning the ninjas and confronted the still-conscious Fuma Kotaro.
• Mingye defeated Fuma Kotaro’s attack and killed him with a Wind Spike, then told the dying clan leader his name.
• Shangguan Yingjie caught Mingye at the compound and attacked him with kunai, a blade, and Earth Release techniques, while Mingye tried to spare him.
• Ara called Mingye a hypocrite for hesitating to kill Shangguan Yingjie, who declared that he wanted to kill Mingye.

Mingye killed Shangguan Yingjie during the Uchiha Clan’s extermination of the Fuma Clan, then buried his first true friend and left the slaughter behind. Shimizu reported the clan’s destruction to the general, who rewarded the Uchiha Clan and considered supporting it against Fujiwara Muneyoshi.

• Mingye defeated Shangguan Yingjie, disabled him, and killed him with a short blade despite his remorse.
• Shimizu found Mingye, who asked him to confirm that the Fuma Clan’s ninja were dead, then carried Shangguan Yingjie’s body to bury him.
• Mingye asked Ara to stop sucking his blood, and Ara used the Reverse Summoning Technique to take Manda back to Ryūchi Cave.
• Mingye left the mountain, troubled by his first killing of a true friend.
• Shimizu presented Fuma Kotaro’s head to the general, who rewarded the Uchiha Clan with security duties in West City and a share of its tax revenue.
• Fujiwara Muneyoshi asked how the Fuma Clan had been wiped out, but Shimizu refused to answer, prompting the general to consider supporting the Uchiha Clan.

Uchiha Mingye visited Hatake Zangshuo to propose uniting the clans in a village, and the Hatake head agreed to consider it for a month. Back at the Uchiha base, Madara revealed that the Senju Clan had moved east, and the Uchiha planned to act against three clans aligning with them.

• Mingye met Hatake Zangshuo and proposed a united village where clans could settle disputes while keeping their traditions.
• Hatake Zangshuo agreed to give the proposal a month of consideration, and Mingye returned to the Uchiha base.
• Izuna warned Mingye that the Hatake Clan had only five or six ninja but were formidable swordsmen.
• Madara told Mingye and Izuna that the Senju Clan had left the central Land of Fire and might be heading toward the Land of Whirlpools.
• Madara identified the Haguro, Togakushi, and Kurohabaki Clans as Senju allies and said the Uchiha should deal with them while the Senju were away.

Mingye was ordered by Madara to deal with the Wind-Thunder Clan as the Uchiha prepared to advance into the Land of Fire. Hashirama and Tobirama discovered the Uchiha had destroyed the Fuma Clan and worried about what the clan would do next.

• Madara told Mingye to collect the Wind-Thunder Clan’s repayment for its favors, and Mingye agreed to go himself.
• Hashirama and Tobirama discussed the Fuma Clan’s destruction and learned it had likely been wiped out by the Uchiha after Fuma Kotaro’s assassination plot against General Sato.
• Hashirama questioned Tobirama about their father’s secret plan to move the Senju Clan, but Tobirama refused to explain before they arrived.
• An Uchiha ninja killed two survivors near the Fuma village ruins and reported that seventeen had been eliminated.
• Hashirama and Tobirama arrived after the Uchiha departed, recognized the name Mingye, and feared the Uchiha might destroy more clans.

Tobirama and Hashirama buried two fallen shinobi and argued over how to bring order to a future village. After the White Snake Sage ordered Mingye to destroy the Wind-Thunder Clan, he confronted his own growing ruthlessness and redirected his plan toward the Hatake Clan.

• Tobirama argued that Madara’s harsh rule could prevent clan conflicts, while Hashirama insisted they could change the world through their will.
• Tobirama and Hashirama buried the two fallen shinobi before parting ways.
• The White Snake Sage summoned Mingye and ordered him to retrieve the Wind-Thunder Clan’s scroll and kill everyone listed on it.
• Mingye questioned the order because the clan had at least five hundred people, but the White Snake Sage insisted that Ryūchi Cave’s legacy followed survival of the fittest.
• Mingye returned to Lian, canceled the plan against the Wind-Thunder Clan, and decided to change course toward the Hatake Clan.

Mingye recruited the Hatake Clan to destroy the Wind-Thunder Clan, offering them priority in missions and the clan’s possessions in exchange. He then visited Tamaza Ryojin at the Wind-Thunder Clan’s fortified village and confronted him about being left off the Ryūchi Cave Blood Pact Scroll.

• Mingye told Lian to return to the Uchiha Clan with a letter for his elder brother, then left to meet the Hatake Clan head.
• Mingye persuaded the Hatake Clan head to destroy the Wind-Thunder Clan, promising the Hatake Clan favorable alliance terms and all of the Wind-Thunder Clan’s property.
• Mingye said the Wind-Thunder Clan had to die because its members were heirs to Ryūchi Cave like him, and ordered the Hatake Clan to kill everyone with chakra.
• Mingye entered the Wind-Thunder Clan’s well-defended village and met Tamaza Ryojin, praising the stronghold before asking why his name was missing from the Blood Pact Scroll.
• Tamaza Ryojin apologized for forgetting to add Mingye’s name to the scroll.

Mingye pressured Tamaza Ryojin to involve the Wind-Thunder Clan in the Uchiha Clan’s campaign, then signed its Blood Pact and went with Ara to Ryūchi Cave. Meanwhile, the Hatake Clan launched a nighttime attack on a village, where its chief confronted the silver-haired leader.

• Mingye told Tamaza Ryojin that Madara planned to target the Kurohabaki, Haguro, and Togakushi Clans, and demanded the Wind-Thunder Clan’s support.
• Tamaza Ryojin asked for time to consider, then had Mingye sign the Blood Pact Scroll.
• Ara arrived to take Mingye to Ryūchi Cave, where Mingye plunged into a pit filled with venomous snakes.
• A silver-haired Hatake and a giant white wolf approached a village at night, and the Hatake Clan began attacking it.
• The village chief confronted the sleepy-eyed silver-haired man and demanded to know why the Hatake Clan had come.

Ryunosuke and the Hatake Clan attacked the Wind-Thunder Clan while Mingye confronted Tamaza Ryojin amid a swarm of snakes. Mingye provoked Ryojin and warned that his people were defenseless, leaving Ryojin torn between fighting and rushing to protect his clan.

• Ryunosuke killed the village chief and battled Tamaza Ryojin before retreating as white wolves attacked the villagers.
• Tamaza Ryojin was reverse-summoned into a sea of venomous snakes, where the Wind-Thunder Clan's elite were swallowed.
• Mingye appeared and told Tamaza Ryojin that the White Snake Sage had chosen him as Ryūchi Cave's representative and that Ryojin had to die.
• Tamaza Ryojin ruptured his chakra network and charged Mingye with a forbidden technique, but Mingye blocked and evaded his attacks.
• Mingye admitted he could not defeat Ryojin directly and warned that the Hatake Clan was attacking Ryojin's unprotected people.

Mingye survived Tamaza Ryojin’s attack, but Tamaza escaped Earth Dragon Cave and was killed by Hatake Yūya after returning to find his clan under attack. Mingye then arranged for the Hatake Clan to disguise the massacre as the work of rival clans, creating a pretext for the Uchiha Clan to strike at Senju allies.

• Mingye used a sea of snakes and Ara to attack Tamaza Ryojin, but Tamaza tore the snakes apart and escaped through the barrier.
• Mingye recovered at the Dragon Transformation Pool while Tamaza returned to find the Hatake Clan surrounding the Wind-Thunder Clan.
• Tamaza fought Hatake Yūya to protect his people, but Hatake Yūya cut his throat and the Hatake ninjas slaughtered the Wind-Thunder Clan.
• Mingye returned to the blood-soaked ravine and asked Hatake Yūya to conceal the Hatake Clan’s role in the massacre.
• Mingye gave Hatake Yūya scrolls describing the techniques and weapons of the Kurohabaki, Haguro, and Togakushi clans so the Uchiha Clan could use the killings as a pretext to attack them.

Mingye rejected Madara’s plan to experiment on Uchiha shinobi and explained how the clan could use the Wind-Thunder Clan’s destruction as a pretext to attack three rival clans. On the way to Okayama, he urged Madara to confront the shinobi’s subservient place in society, and the chapter ended with Madara asking him a question.

• Hatake Yūya agreed to prepare an illusion and tell the Hatake clan head that the Uchiha would publicly take in the Hatake in three months.
• Mingye stopped Madara from pursuing experiments to awaken more Mangekyō Sharingan and argued that the clan should rely on laws rather than force once it established order.
• Mingye told Madara and Izuna that the Hatake had wiped out the Wind-Thunder Clan and would make it appear that the Kurohabaki, Haguro, and Togakushi Clans were responsible.
• Madara approved Mingye’s plan to spread the false story and asked what they should do next.
• Mingye took Madara toward Okayama and argued that shinobi remained hunting dogs for rulers, while Madara insisted that overwhelming strength could change their standing.
• Madara fell silent after Mingye questioned whether force could truly change society, then asked Mingye a question.

Mingye and Madara used Tsukuyomi to plant an ambition of ruling the Land of Fire in Sato, framing the Senju as his future assassins. After identifying the Senju crest, Sato learned of a border crisis that offered him a chance to gain power.

• Mingye told Madara to use an illusion to make Sato crave greater power, and Madara agreed to cast Tsukuyomi on him.
• Madara infiltrated Sato's bedroom and made him dream that he conquered the Land of Fire before shinobi bearing the Senju crest killed him.
• Sato woke unharmed, recalled the crest, and painted it; Fujiwara Muneyoshi identified it as the Senju of the Forest's crest and described the Senju-Uchiha feud.
• Fujiwara Muneyoshi told Sato that Akiyama Nobunori was fortifying the border with the Land of River and might invade, giving Sato a chance to make a name for himself.

Mingye manipulated General Sato toward conflict with the Senju Clan and planned to use an official decree to bring the Land of Fire’s ninja clans under Uchiha control. After Tobirama tried to assassinate Mingye, Madara pursued him into the forest, while Mingye planted false evidence to implicate the Senju.

• Fujiwara Muneyoshi urged Sato to establish his authority, and Sato dismissed him while considering the proposal.
• Shimizu told Madara and Mingye that Sato had ordered the Uchiha Clan to sabotage Akiyama Nobunori’s bridge project after asking whether they could defeat the Senju Clan.
• Mingye persuaded Madara and Shimizu to frame the Senju Clan through a third party and pursue a Daimyo decree that would authorize Uchiha control over the Land of Fire’s ninja clans.
• Tobirama attacked Mingye on a rooftop, but Mingye disrupted his chakra and Madara drove him toward the outskirts of Okayama Castle.
• Mingye planted a broken kunai bearing the Senju Clan’s insignia, then followed Madara and Tobirama into the forest.
• Tobirama fired a flare into the sky and turned to fight Madara.

Madara, Hashirama, Tobirama, and Mingye fought in the forest, with Mingye targeting Hashirama while Madara held Tobirama hostage. Hashirama and Madara began battling in earnest, but Hashirama discovered that the snake bite on his arm had turned black and begun to rot.

• Madara used Susanoo and powerful Fire Release attacks against Tobirama, who countered with Water Release and Hidden Mist while Mingye’s wind fanned the flames.
• Hashirama arrived and summoned Manda, but Mingye attacked him; Hashirama trapped the serpent in a swamp and then subdued it with Wood Release.
• Hashirama tracked Mingye through the forest, kicked him into a tree, and pinned him with a blade, while Madara seized Tobirama with Susanoo.
• Mingye urged Madara to kill Tobirama, but Tobirama escaped when Hashirama launched a surprise attack; Mingye fled into the forest as Madara and Hashirama began fighting.
• Hashirama tried to persuade Madara to stop, but they exchanged Fire Release and Wood Release attacks; Hashirama then noticed his snake bite had turned black and begun to stink.

Mingye and Madara fought Hashirama and Tobirama, but Hashirama rescued his brother before Mingye could finish him. Madara and Mingye suspected the Senju had entered the General’s Mansion for a larger purpose, while Hashirama emerged from a poisoned river weakened but alive.

• Hashirama attacked Madara with a Wood Dragon, while Mingye used summoned snakes to draw Tobirama into an ambush.
• Tobirama briefly sensed Hashirama’s condition, allowing Mingye to locate him; Mingye used Reverse Summoning to evade Tobirama’s speed and wound him with a segmented whip.
• Hashirama’s Wood Dragon swallowed Tobirama and carried him away, and Madara stopped pursuing them after Mingye warned that they had made enough commotion.
• Mingye told Madara that the Senju’s arrival could help them expose the purpose behind the Fuma Clan’s attacks on General Sato, then headed for Okayama Castle to begin his plan.
• Hashirama emerged from a foul river with poison still clinging to him, and Tobirama helped him onto the bank.

Hashirama accepted Tobirama’s blunt assessment of the Uchiha Clan’s political strategy and decided to claim leadership of the Senju Clan. Meanwhile, Mingye persuaded General Sato to support the Uchiha Clan’s plan to unite the Land of Fire’s ninja clans and form a state-sanctioned ninja army.

• Tobirama told Hashirama that the Uchiha Clan planned to use the Land of Fire’s laws to force ninja clans to submit, with those who resisted facing destruction.
• Hashirama praised Mingye and Madara’s approach, then announced that he would ask his father to hand him the Senju clan head’s position.
• General Sato confronted Mingye over Tobirama’s infiltration, then said he wanted the Senju Clan wiped out.
• Mingye urged Sato to make the Uchiha Clan state-sanctioned ninja and build a ninja army, promising that the clans of the Land of Fire could unite against the Senju.
• Sato reviewed Mingye’s prepared plan and nodded firmly.

Sato assigned the Uchiha Clan a mission to sabotage a bridge and assassinate Akiyama Nobunori, while the Uchiha began wiping out rival clans. After Hashirama learned of the attacks, Butsuma prepared to rescue the Kurohabaki Clan, with Uzumaki Aihara’s arrival changing his plans.

• Sato ordered the Uchiha Clan to sabotage the bridge and kill Akiyama Nobunori, then changed the deadline for the assassination to one month so he could take control of the project.
• Uchiha Izuna led shinobi who killed guards and attacked the Haguro Clan, while a white-haired man killed a boy who had helped Mingye cross a lake.
• Tobirama told Hashirama that the Uchiha Clan had wiped out the Togakushi and Haguro Clans, and Hashirama realized the Kurohabaki Clan might be next.
• Hashirama and Tobirama met Uzumaki Aihara, whom Butsuma introduced as their granduncle, and learned that Aihara was over fifty despite looking young.
• Butsuma said he would go alone to rescue the Kurohabaki Clan, explaining that the Senju had a more important matter to handle than fighting the Uchiha to the death.