Chapter Summaries

Mingye planned to recruit clans in the Land of Water and learned more about Hozuki Gengetsu and the local power struggle. After meeting a Boil Release clan member and receiving intelligence from Izuna, he turned his attention to the Hozuki family’s violent rivalries.

• Mingye told Izuna he intended to recruit the Kaguya, Yuki, and Hozuki Clans, then asked him to gather local gossip and stir up conflict between clans.
• Izuna warned that Byakuren might be backing Hozuki Gengetsu, but he and Mingye agreed to let the Land of Water establish a ninja village before destroying it.
• Hozuki Gengetsu arranged a meeting between Mingye and Zong Zuoliang, who wanted revenge on a couple in the Boil Release clan.
• Mingye offered to clear the way for Zong Zuoliang’s final attempt and gave him ten days to decide whether to join Konoha.
• Izuna told Mingye that Hozuki Gengetsu had two older brothers and four younger brothers, and that the brothers wanted to kill one another.

Mingye planned to use the Six-Tails to destroy Ravine Wharf and pressure Byakuren, while also seeking the Gongyu Clan’s Boil Release notes. He left Qiu Shan Xinyou weighing his offer to save her husband in exchange for the notes.

• Mingye told Izuna to control the Six-Tails and wipe out everyone at Ravine Wharf in three days, turning the wharf into ruins.
• Mingye met Qiu Shan Xinyou under a false appearance and warned her that her husband would be targeted at Ravine Wharf.
• Mingye demanded the Gongyu Clan’s Boil Release notes and offered to save Qiu Shan Xinyou’s husband in return.
• Mingye revealed that Zong Zuoliang’s jealousy was involved and told Qiu Shan Xinyou to return the next day with the notes if she wanted to save her husband.
• A subordinate reported that Qiu Shan Xinyou had left in a hurry, and Mingye prepared to issue another order.

Mingye maneuvered through the Land of Water’s clan conflicts while preparing to help a woman reunite with her husband in exchange for the Terumi Clan’s secrets. After she handed him part of the clan’s Boil Release manual, Terumi scouts attacked, and Mingye killed them before learning their deaths could alert the clan.

• Mingye ordered a subordinate to follow the woman and eliminate the lead if he was exposed, while Byakuren and Hozuki Gengetsu discussed their plan involving Zong Zuoliang and Mingye.
• Mingye rescued a hunted youth with a bone spike by using the Reverse Summoning Technique to make him disappear.
• The woman met Mingye at the rain shelter and handed him one-fifth of the Terumi Clan’s secret manual in exchange for protection for herself and her husband.
• Two Terumi scouts attacked and demanded the manual, but Mingye killed them both in a few moves.
• The woman told Mingye that the scouts’ deaths could alert the Terumi Clan through a special method and that she had stolen the manual only three or four hours earlier.

Mingye decided to protect a starving Kaguya child and pursue a scheme involving a Terumi woman who had stolen Boil Release and Lava Release. At Mountain Ravine Dock, Izuna attacked the Terumi Clan and captured its leading man after overwhelming the dock’s defenders.

• The woman offered Mingye Boil Release and Lava Release in exchange for safe passage for herself and her man, and Mingye accepted while planning to use the arrangement for his own ends.
• Mingye comforted the frightened Kaguya child with food and drink, then learned that five Kaguya children with awakened bloodline abilities had gone missing.
• Mingye ordered his ninja to search casually for the other four children and declared that the child he had found would become a child of Konoha.
• At Mountain Ravine Dock, Izuna summoned Saiken, blocked the mountain road with a Tailed Beast Bomb, and attacked the Terumi Clan ninjas.
• The Terumi man used mist and water techniques to fight Izuna, but Izuna drove him back and pinned him to the ground with a lightning-charged blade.

Izuna and Mingye secured the Terumi Clan’s secret manuals before returning to Konoha after learning the Senju Clan had joined the village. Mingye began a sweeping crackdown on suspected traitors, and Senju Hashirama stood to challenge him.

• Izuna killed Terumi Gaku and destroyed the docks with Saiken’s Tailed Beast Bombs, while Mingye confronted and Izuna killed the woman who had betrayed the Terumi Clan.
• Byakuren learned that the dock forces had been wiped out and ordered Hozuki Gengetsu to build connections with influential clans and establish informants in Konoha.
• Izuna and Mingye decided the Boil Release and Lava Release manuals should become S-rank rewards rather than clan inheritances, then received word that the Daimyo had ordered the Senju Clan to merge with Konoha.
• Madara told Mingye that the Senju Clan had already arrived in Konoha, and Mingye said he would handle the matter himself.
• Mingye summoned Konoha’s clan elders and announced that the Anbu would investigate every clan for enemy collaboration, with anyone arrested to be executed whether guilty or innocent; Senju Hashirama rose to confront him.

Mingye used an elders' meeting to announce Konoha's mobilization and plans to destroy the Land of Whirlpools' ninja village, while Senju Hashirama failed to stop him. Afterward, Senju Tobirama recognized that Mingye's public humiliation of the Senju Clan had been a political act to deter opposition.

• Mingye rebuked Senju Hashirama at the elders' meeting and declared that Konoha would force the Land of Fire's ninja clans to join.
• Mingye announced plans to expand into neighboring lands, beginning by destroying the Land of Whirlpools' ninja village and imposing Konoha's system.
• Senju Hashirama protested the plan, but Mingye accused the Senju and Uzumaki clans of plotting together and threatened further retaliation.
• Mingye argued that uniting the world under one nation required a great war, then left with Izuna after warning Senju Hashirama to obey him.
• Senju Tobirama told Senju Hashirama that Mingye's insults had been a calculated performance to reassure the elders and discourage opposition.

Mingye tasked Hatake Zangshuo with eliminating 175 people accused of destabilizing Konoha, including six Uchiha, and secured his agreement by giving the Hatake Clan valuable techniques. He then met with his uncle Uchiha Shimizu and handed him a letter, leaving its contents unrevealed.

• Mingye and Madara gave Hatake Zangshuo a Yin-Yang Release manual and the Chidori and Rasengan scrolls.
• Mingye ordered Hatake Zangshuo to eliminate everyone on a list of 175 people, including six Uchiha, within three days.
• Izuna objected when Mingye suggested dealing with their remaining relative, but Mingye insisted that internal unity took priority.
• Mingye visited Uchiha Shimizu, spoke of their bond, and placed a letter before him.

Mingye confronted Shimizu over his role in the deaths of their relatives and arranged for him to die, while promising to raise the infant Mirror. Later, Mingye explained to Senju Tobirama that he planned to attack the Uzumaki Clan to strengthen Konoha by developing and training talent through the Ninja Academy.

• Mingye told Shimizu that the Hatake Clan had eliminated all 175 members of the team sent to the Fire Temple and refused to spare him, though he promised to care for Mirror.
• Mingye made Shimizu drink tea, then left as a storm began; Izuna joined him under an umbrella, and they grieved the loss of their relatives.
• Madara told Izuna that Shimizu would be reported as having died naturally, while the Hatake Clan's team would be listed as missing.
• Mingye fell asleep in a hot-water tub and woke to find Senju Tobirama waiting there.
• Mingye explained that other nations would copy Konoha's village system and compete through skilled ninja, then described how the Ninja Academy could identify talent and provide specialized elite training.

Mingye explained to Senju Tobirama that he intended to destroy the Uzumaki Clan and seize its sealing techniques as part of his plan to make Konoha the source of all ninjutsu. After Tobirama left, Mingye led elite Konoha ninja into the Land of Whirlpools, where he met Byakuren ahead of the coming attack.

• Mingye admitted that he planned to destroy the Uzumaki Clan and take its sealing techniques, arguing that other great nations would eventually target the clan.
• Mingye and Senju Tobirama argued over whether world peace required continental unification or a balance among nations, and Tobirama asked Mingye to spare the Uzumaki Clan.
• Mingye told Senju Tobirama that he would target surrounding nations and collect their secret techniques for Konoha’s Ninjutsu Pavilion, then Tobirama vanished using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• The next morning, Mingye led more than a hundred elite Konoha ninja out of the village while Izuna departed for Okayama and Madara ordered an attack on the Land of Whirlpools in ten days.
• After four days of travel, Mingye met Byakuren on the coast of the Land of Whirlpools, where Byakuren offered to take the country’s treasury and fight for Mingye.

Mingye and Byakuren joined forces to attack the Uzumaki Clan, while Uzumaki Jingting ordered his clan to evacuate and stayed behind to face them. At the clan’s barrier, Mingye learned that breaking it meant defeating a duplicate—and then confronting an even more dangerous second defense.

• Mingye and Byakuren agreed that Byakuren would ambush the Uzumaki Clan and take its treasury while Mingye’s side seized the ancestral grounds and protected the capital’s resources.
• Uzumaki Jingting rejected Soza’s proposal to seek help from the Land of Fire, activated the clan’s evacuation, and went to face the attackers himself.
• Mingye’s Sage Arts failed to damage the Five-Seal Barrier, and Byakuren explained that they had to remove its five forbidden seals.
• Mingye and Byakuren sent ninja to break the seals, but the barrier produced enough duplicates to overwhelm their forces, so the two men went to handle the battlefields themselves.
• Mingye drove the other ninja back and faced his duplicate at a forbidden seal, while Ara warned him that defeating it would summon five destructive elemental beasts.

Mingye defeated the Vermilion Bird and continued helping Byakuren break through the Uzumaki Clan’s defenses. After they discovered the clan was likely preparing to escape, Byakuren unleashed a corrosive technique against the mountain barriers.

• Mingye destroyed the mirror image by infusing it with sage chakra, then defeated the Vermilion Bird with Ara’s help and a Sage Art: Spiral Wind Blade.
• Ara warned Mingye that his body had reached its limit and that pushing himself further could shorten his life.
• Mingye removed a sealing talisman and joined Byakuren at the entrance, where they broke through the outer barrier layers.
• Byakuren pierced the inner barriers while Mingye’s sage chakra prevented them from regenerating, and Byakuren killed three hidden Uzumaki Clan ninja who tried to flee.
• Mingye and Byakuren concluded that the Uzumaki Clan was planning an escape, then Byakuren unleashed Poison Sea to corrode the remaining barriers.

Mingye and Byakuren fought Uzumaki Jingting, whose barriers trapped them and their shinobi as lava and explosive attacks threatened to kill everyone inside. Mingye used a reverse summoning escape to bring the group beyond the barrier.

• Byakuren revealed his corrosive black seawater technique and used it to destroy the village's invisible barrier, exposing Uzumaki Jingting.
• Uzumaki Jingting activated the Eight Gates Closed Field, trapping Mingye, Byakuren, and dozens of their shinobi as the barrier resisted their attacks.
• Mingye summoned Saiken, whose Tailed Beast Ball breached the barrier, but Uzumaki Jingting blocked the blast with another barrier and then unleashed the Fire Tree Silver Flowers technique.
• Mingye learned from Ara that the barrier could only be broken by killing the person controlling its main formation, while lava and explosive specks steadily reduced the trapped shinobi's safe space.
• Mingye told Byakuren to retreat and used a rope and Reverse Summoning Technique to transport everyone through his snakes beyond the barrier.

Uchiha Mingye and Byakuren waited for the Uzumaki Clan’s defenses to collapse through betrayal and internal decay. After Uzumaki Xinxiu wounded Uzumaki Jingting and summoned them into the compound, Jingting revealed where the clan’s secret arts were kept.

• Mingye explained to Byakuren that a Uzumaki clansman had agreed to help destroy the clan, and they waited as Saiken weakened inside the barrier.
• Uzumaki Soza told Uzumaki Jingting that the clansmen had evacuated, while Jingting accepted that restoring the clan was unlikely.
• Uzumaki Xinxiu reported that unknown ninja had seized the capital, and Soza urged Jingting to abandon the compound.
• Xinxiu stabbed Uzumaki Jingting, then drew a summoning array and brought Mingye and Byakuren into the hall.
• Byakuren struck Soza with water bullets, while Mingye pinned him with a blade and told Jingting that Ryūchi Cave poison was weakening him.
• Uzumaki Jingting dismissed his barrier and revealed that the clan’s Yin-Yang Arts and barrier techniques were stored beneath his tower.

Mingye killed Uzumaki Jingting and Uzumaki Soza, then appointed Uzumaki Xinxiu as the new head of the renamed Namikaze Clan. He arranged for the survivors to merge with a civilian Namikaze village in the Land of Fire, but realized that Uzumaki Mito might be the only person left who knew how to control the clan’s barrier techniques.

• Uzumaki Jingting killed himself, and Byakuren killed the wounded Uzumaki Soza.
• Mingye appointed Uzumaki Xinxiu as clan head, renamed him Namikaze Nobuhide, and promised to return the Uzumaki secret techniques to the survivors.
• Namikaze Nobuhide described the clan’s layered barriers, forbidden techniques, and Blazing Trees and Silver Flowers summoning technique.
• Mingye warned Namikaze Nobuhide against betraying him again and told him to unite the Uzumaki survivors with a civilian Namikaze village before relocating to Konoha.
• Namikaze Nobuhide admitted he did not know the clan’s orally transmitted barrier secrets, and Mingye realized Uzumaki Mito might be the only person who could teach him.

Mingye helped Byakuren loot the Land of Whirlpools, then arranged for Konoha to take over its capital’s protection. Back in Konoha, he learned that Senju Hashirama had been nominated alongside him and was ordered to lead a ninja army north to bring the Hyuga Clan into Konoha.

• Mingye assured Byakuren that he would be rewarded for looting the Land of Whirlpools’ capital, and Byakuren’s men stripped the city of its valuables.
• Mingye told the Daimyo that Konoha had come to reinforce the Land of Whirlpools and secured a contract for Konoha to protect its capital in exchange for one-tenth of its annual income.
• Mingye returned to Konoha as Sarutobi Sasuke led three hundred replacement ninjas into the Land of Whirlpools.
• Uzumaki Mito asked Mingye where her father’s body was, then broke down in Senju Hashirama’s arms and said she wanted to kill Mingye.
• Madara told Mingye that Senju Hashirama had received two nominations from the Land of Fire and ordered Mingye to lead the ninja army north to bring the Hyuga Clan into Konoha.

Mingye prepared to receive the Hyuga Clan and opened Konoha Ninja Academy, hoping the school would ease the village’s tense atmosphere. At the ceremony, Madara’s intimidating presence unsettled the children, while Mingye reflected on Konoha’s leadership and the Uchiha Clan’s future.

• Madara told Mingye to eliminate internal dissent and take responsibility for receiving the Hyuga Clan, and Mingye agreed to settle matters within half a year.
• Mingye asked Madara to serve as principal at the academy’s opening ceremony, and Madara reluctantly accepted after Mingye explained the role.
• At the ceremony, Mingye explained that the academy could ease tensions caused by the Uchiha Clan’s harsh rule, while Madara noted that Sarutobi Sasuke had asked him to mentor Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Mingye wondered whether the Kage position should be hereditary, but Madara insisted that only the strongest and most capable person should lead Konoha.
• Madara’s stern stare frightened the children at the ceremony, until Senju Hashirama laughed and Mingye stepped in to restore the festive mood.
• Mingye announced that Konoha Ninja Academy was officially established, acknowledging that some children had already endured overly strict instruction.

Mingye opened Konoha’s Ninjutsu Pavilion and ordered Sarutobi Sasuke to deliver an ultimatum to the Hyuga Clan and bring the Kurama Clan under Konoha’s control. In the Land of Water, Mingye met a Kaguya youth and told him to gather the others and return to Konoha to build their clan without becoming a weapon.

• Mingye told the children that the Ninja Academy would focus on joyful living and practical experience, then announced that registered Konoha ninjas could each select one ninjutsu from the pavilion’s first two floors.
• An Uchiha Clan ninja explained the pavilion’s exchange rules and warned visitors not to enter the third floor, while Mingye and Sarutobi Sasuke watched the ninjas stream inside.
• Mingye gave Sarutobi Sasuke a letter for the Hyuga Clan head and ordered him to deliver a one-month ultimatum for the clan to join Konoha.
• Sarutobi Sasuke warned that pressuring the Hyuga and Kurama Clans could provoke fierce resistance, but Mingye insisted Konoha should gather its enemies and ordered him to bring the Kurama Clan under control.
• A Kaguya youth met Mingye in Jun City Township and said he wanted to save the other Kaguya; Mingye told him to find them, return to Konoha, and build a clan that would not be treated as a weapon.

Mingye fought Hozuki Gengetsu after Gengetsu ambushed his carriage and demanded to know why he was in the Land of Water. Their battle escalated into a deadly contest, ending with an unseen ally pulling Gengetsu from Mingye’s lava attack.

• Mingye knocked the boy from the carriage and deflected Hozuki Gengetsu’s water dragon as Gengetsu confronted him.
• Hozuki Gengetsu attacked Mingye with his clan techniques, and the two agreed to make death the prize of their fight.
• Gengetsu trapped Mingye in Steam Pavilion and used illusions, Iron Gun Cannons, and an exploding doll to keep him at bay.
• Mingye used snake substitutes to evade Gengetsu, then summoned Manda to break the clam shell, but the ghost-faced doll destroyed Manda’s tail.
• Mingye used Barrier Summoning Technique: Fire Tree Silver Flower to unleash lava and silver flames, then sent Shadow Clones to surround Gengetsu.
• A stream of black water pulled Gengetsu out of the lava’s path as the ghost-faced doll exploded to clear an escape route.

Mingye stopped fighting Hozuki Gengetsu and tried to recruit Kaguya Clan children before searching for the Tsuchigumo ninjas and Isobu. After being ambushed by suicide ninjas, he killed a surviving Hagoromo Clan remnant, but felt that something was wrong with his condition.

• Byakuren ended Mingye's fight with Hozuki Gengetsu, then agreed not to stop Kaguya Clan children from leaving if they chose to go.
• Mingye renamed the youth Kaguya Wu and encouraged him to face his fears, while another ninja offered to help relocate willing children.
• Mingye searched the abandoned Tsuchigumo village for two days but found no trace of the clan or Isobu.
• Three suicide ninjas attacked Mingye at a cliff, and he escaped their explosive tags before killing them.
• A masked Hagoromo Clan survivor attacked Mingye with Wind Release, but Mingye struck him from the air and discovered that he had died.
• Mingye felt no satisfaction after the fight because his own condition seemed wrong.

Zhanye rejected Tobirama’s offer to join Konoha and revealed that he lived to destroy the village after surviving its destruction of his home. Madara entered the ruined temple where the Sage of Six Paths once cultivated, experienced visions of a youth’s conflict with the old man and another warrior, then returned to the temple.

• Tobirama tried to persuade Zhanye to join Konoha, but Zhanye said he hated Konoha and wanted to destroy its dreams.
• Madara found the ruined temple, broke through its barrier, and entered among the skeletons inside.
• A voice and shifting scenery drew Madara into visions in which a youth questioned violence and heard the old man explain how power could either create peace or hatred.
• The youth argued that overwhelming power could prevent war, but the old man’s disregard left him furious and unwilling to accept the answer.
• The youth fought another warrior amid Susanoo and a massive Wisdom King before Madara returned to the temple.