Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yan perfected Mind Reading and upgraded his Divine Clone Technique before sending a clone to infiltrate the Akatsuki and contact Nagato. At dinner with Minato, Kushina and Reina reunited with Uzumaki Mia, but after the gathering Kushina and Reina sensed that Mia was hostile toward them.

• Uchiha Yan mastered Mind Reading and upgraded his Divine Clone Technique to create two Divine Clones.
• Uchiha Yan sent a Divine Clone to the Land of Rain to infiltrate the Akatsuki and contact Nagato, warning it to avoid Uchiha Madara's attention.
• Uchiha Yan brought Kushina and Uzumaki Rena to dinner with Minato, where they met Uzumaki Mia, a relative Reina had once escaped with.
• Minato explained that he had found Mia in the Land of Hot Water and brought her back to Konoha after she was bullied.
• Kushina offered Mia Sealing Jutsu scrolls and urged her to grow stronger, while Mia and Minato left together.
• Back at Kushina's residence, Kushina and Reina told Uchiha Yan they had sensed hostility from Mia.

Uchiha Yan revealed that Mia came from the Uzumaki clan’s hidden settlement and had been sent to find scattered survivors. He also learned that the settlement was concealed in a valley near Takigakure, leaving Kushina and Rena eager to find it.

• Uchiha Yan explained that Mia’s hostility toward Kushina and Rena had faded after she learned they had not betrayed Whirlpool Country and had helped Uzumaki survivors.
• Uchiha Yan revealed that Mia had come from the Uzumaki clan’s hidden settlement in Whirlpool Country to search for scattered clan members.
• Uzumaki Rena recognized that Mia had initially resented them for what she believed was their betrayal of Whirlpool Country, while Kushina realized Mia had come to understand their circumstances.
• Uchiha Yan admitted that he had used his newly learned Mind Reading technique on Mia, prompting Kushina and Rena to warn him not to use it on them.
• Uchiha Yan told Kushina and Rena that the Uzumaki survivors were hidden in a heavily sealed valley near Takigakure.

Uchiha Yan told Kushina and Uzumaki Rena to wait before meeting the surviving Uzumaki Clan members, and they agreed to treat Mia as an ordinary clan member. Later, Yan caught Little Shukaku and Little Nine-Tails trying to steal money and kept Shukaku to help with an experiment for promised pay.

• Uchiha Yan advised Kushina and Uzumaki Rena to delay meeting the Uzumaki Clan survivors until Konoha was safer and the truth about Whirlpool Country could be addressed, and they agreed.
• Uzumaki Rena asked how to treat Mia, and Kushina said they should act as if they knew nothing about her and treat her like an ordinary Uzumaki Clan member.
• Little Shukaku and Little Nine-Tails sneaked into Uchiha Yan's house to steal money, but Yan caught them on their way upstairs.
• Little Nine-Tails admitted they wanted money for treats and entertainment, while Little Shukaku asked Yan for spending money.
• Uchiha Yan warned them not to steal again, sent Little Nine-Tails away, and offered Little Shukaku money to help with an experiment.

Uchiha Yan learned Shukaku’s Magnet Release and Sealing Jutsu, then paid it for the techniques and began investigating its innate storage space. The chapter left him examining the space’s sealing runes in hopes of reproducing the ability.

• Uchiha Yan studied Little Shukaku’s Magnet Release and quickly mastered it, using magnetic fields to fly.
• Shukaku taught Uchiha Yan nine Sealing Jutsu, including the Sandstorm Seal and the Desert Layered Imperial Funeral Seal.
• Uchiha Yan paid Shukaku nine million one hundred thousand ryo and offered more money for any new Sealing Jutsu it developed.
• Shukaku showed Uchiha Yan how it stored the money in its innate storage space, and he offered ten million ryo to study the ability.
• Uchiha Yan examined Shukaku’s dimensional storage space and discovered that sealing formulas and runes covered it.

Uchiha Yan developed a method for refining storage equipment after studying Little Shukaku’s innate storage space, then made and distributed several pieces. Tsunade warned him that the equipment was extremely valuable and strategically significant.

• Uchiha Yan discovered that Little Shukaku’s innate storage space was bound to his soul and spent five months studying it.
• Uchiha Yan devised the Storage Space Refinement Method, paid Little Shukaku ten million ryo, and let him leave the laboratory.
• Uchiha Yan refined a Chakra Metal bracelet with about thirty cubic meters of storage space, then made forty more storage items over five days.
• Uchiha Yan distributed storage equipment to Kushina, Reina, Tsunade, Mikoto, Kurenai Yuhi, his family, and Root operatives and spies.
• Kushina, Tsunade, and the other women tested their storage equipment, and Tsunade warned Uchiha Yan about its strategic value.

Uchiha Yan’s Divine Clone Xuanming joined the Akatsuki and began steering its leaders toward a systematic plan for peace while concealing his influence from Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu. The chapter left Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato discussing whether understanding or power could bring peace.

• Tsunade warned Uchiha Yan to keep his transportation and storage ability secret until he no longer feared the Ninja World, and he agreed.
• Xuanming passed the Akatsuki’s test and was welcomed into the organization after spending months infiltrating it and building Yahiko’s trust.
• Xuanming sensed White Zetsu spores hidden on Yahiko and planted an illusion to corrupt any information they transmitted.
• Yahiko asked Xuanming to explain his proposed peace platform, and Konan and Nagato agreed to hear his ideas.
• Xuanming argued that the Akatsuki needed practical goals and asked how peace could be achieved; Yahiko advocated mutual understanding, while Nagato said absolute power was necessary.

Xuanming helped Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan examine the causes of war and proposed two ways to achieve relative peace in the Ninja World. The chapter left Nagato and Yahiko excited by the idea that Nagato could become an immortal force strong enough to deter every nation.

• Nagato and Konan shared their views on the Akatsuki’s goals, with Konan emphasizing that the organization lacked the money to support its members.
• Xuanming argued that greed and unfair resource distribution made absolute peace impossible, but Nagato clarified that relative peace could still be achieved.
• Xuanming described uniting the Ninja World under one powerful leader as the first path to ending large-scale wars.
• Xuanming proposed that overwhelming, enduring power could deter every force from waging war, and Nagato and Yahiko saw the Rinnegan as a possible means to that end.
• Nagato wondered whether he could truly become an immortal god.

Xuanming helped Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan establish Akatsuki’s plans, while Uchiha Yan considered changes to the Uchiha clan’s education after meeting the young Shisui. The chapter ended with Yan offering to examine Shisui’s bedridden mother.

• Xuanming laid out a plan for Akatsuki to build its organization, recruit allies, gain strength, and eventually subdue the Ninja World, and the group spent nearly half a month refining it.
• Uchiha Yan learned that his Number Two Divine Clone had become a close adviser to Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, then updated Number One’s abilities and told him to prepare a safe refuge for the Yuki Clan.
• Uchiha Yan met the young Shisui Uchiha in the Uchiha Compound and decided the clan needed an enlightenment school and a Ninja Academy to better educate its children.
• Uchiha Yan walked Shisui home, where Shisui’s grandmother told him that the boy’s father had died on the Hidden Mist Battlefield and his mother was bedridden after giving birth.
• Uchiha Yan offered to examine Shisui’s sick mother, saying his medical skills were decent.

Uchiha Yan cured Shisui’s mother and learned that her late husband had served the clan head, then proposed rebuilding the Uchiha Clan School. The Third Elder supported the plan and told Yan to secure the other elders’ backing before the clan meeting.

• Uchiha Yan treated Shisui’s gravely ill mother, restoring her health and clearing her hidden injuries.
• Shisui’s mother told Uchiha Yan that her late husband had worked for the clan head and died saving Fugaku, but his family received little support afterward.
• Uchiha Yan assured Shisui’s mother that she would recover and urged her to raise Shisui well; Shisui and his family vowed to remember Yan’s kindness.
• Uchiha Yan visited the Third Elder and proposed restoring the Clan School with early education, core subjects, and practical ninja training.
• The Third Elder approved Yan’s school proposal and advised him to gain the First Elder’s and Second Elder’s support before the clan meeting.

Uchiha Yan and the elders pushed through plans to establish a stronger Uchiha Clan School despite Clan Head Uchiha Tianrong’s objections. The dispute turned violent, and Yan exposed Tianrong’s hidden Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Uchiha Yan met with the First, Second, Third, and Fifth Elders and finalized their plans for the Clan School.
• The Third Elder proposed improving the Clan School, but Uchiha Tianrong opposed the plan while the elders announced they would proceed without his approval.
• Uchiha Yan confronted Tianrong over his resistance and threatened to deal with him if he interfered.
• Tianrong ordered guards to seize Yan, but Yan unleashed his chakra and Magnet Release: Gravity Field, pinning the attackers into the floor.
• Uchiha Yan’s Three-Tomoe Sharingan overwhelmed the clan members, and Uchiha Tianrong revealed his weak, nearly blinding Mangekyō Sharingan.

Uchiha Yan suppressed Uchiha Tianrong’s Mangekyō Sharingan, seized control of his Tsukuyomi space, and studied its workings. He then branded Tianrong’s soul with an Enslavement Mark, leaving the clan head under his control.

• Uchiha Tianrong revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and used Tsukuyomi to trap Uchiha Yan in an illusion space.
• Uchiha Yan resisted the dōjutsu, reversed control of the Tsukuyomi space, and bound Uchiha Tianrong there.
• Uchiha Yan studied the space and Tianrong’s left Mangekyō for three days, creating a Tsukuyomi Cultivation Method and an incomplete Mangekyō Sharingan Cultivation Method.
• Uchiha Yan tortured Uchiha Tianrong while analyzing the dōjutsu, then decided not to kill him to avoid the charge of murdering the clan head.
• Uchiha Yan used the Spiritual Secret Technique: Enslavement Seal, and the mark branded itself onto Uchiha Tianrong’s soul after he lost consciousness.

Uchiha Yan subdued Uchiha Tianrong and used the clan leader’s defeat to strengthen his position among the Uchiha. He resolved to establish the Uchiha Clan School despite the possibility of Hiruzen Sarutobi interfering.

• Uchiha Yan added safeguards to Uchiha Tianrong’s soul, released Tsukuyomi Space, and left Tianrong unconscious with his left eye bleeding.
• Uchiha Yan claimed Tianrong’s Mangekyō technique had backfired, warned his faction to keep him away from the village hospital, and watched them leave with him and their injured companions.
• Uchiha Yan’s clansmen and elders celebrated his revealed Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and he said he had kept it secret to avoid attracting attention.
• Uchiha Yan insisted the Clan School would proceed, and the elders discussed recruiting Uchiha children and the risk of Hiruzen Sarutobi intervening.
• Uchiha Yan agreed with the Third Elder that the Hokage had no right to interfere and joked that the Sarutobi children could attend the Uchiha Clan School.

Uchiha Yan’s clan school proposal alarmed the Third Hokage and Danzo, who worried that Yan’s faction would unite the Uchiha Clan. Yan secretly brought the clan leader faction’s supporters under his control and began examining Uchiha Tianrong’s Mangekyō Sharingan.

• The First Elder and the others supported Uchiha Yan’s plan to accept children from other clans into the Uchiha school, hoping to build influence in Konoha.
• The Third Hokage learned of the school plan and Yan’s Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and feared Yan would soon take control of the Uchiha Clan.
• The Third Hokage decided to preserve a public show of harmony with Yan while hoping Fugaku would win the clan leadership wager and keep the Uchiha divided.
• Danzo resolved to undermine Uchiha Senichi’s bid for clan leadership and deepen his informants’ infiltration of the Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Yan secretly controlled the clan leader faction’s supporters and their families, then revived Uchiha Tianrong and ordered him to activate his Mangekyō Sharingan for study.

Uchiha Yan studied Uchiha Tianrong’s Mangekyō Sharingan, uncovered why its use damaged vision, and developed several Sharingan techniques. He chose to delay pursuing the Eternal Mangekyō until after achieving the Nine-Tomoe Sharingan and released Tianrong to resume his role as an informant.

• Uchiha Yan examined Uchiha Tianrong’s Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu, then observed Amaterasu and concluded that the Mangekyō’s limited ocular power caused its users’ vision to decline.
• After two days of research, Uchiha Yan developed methods to cultivate Amaterasu and control its flames, then continued studying the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• A month later, Uchiha Yan created cultivation methods for forcibly awakening the Mangekyō and advancing the Perfect Three-Tomoe Sharingan to the Eternal Mangekyō, but decided to wait until his Nine-Tomoe Sharingan was stable before advancing.
• Uchiha Yan released Uchiha Tianrong and ordered him to report any contact from Danzo or the Third Hokage, as well as anything suspicious involving Fugaku.
• At dinner, Uchiha Yan told Uchiha Meixin about his research and his decision to delay the Eternal Eye; she reassured him that the family could wait.

Uchiha Yan and Uchiha Meixin witnessed Little Blue's breakthrough into the Blue Silver King and learned about her new healing ability. After sharing life energy with Little Blue, Yan strengthened his body and Ice Release, while Little Blue's spiritual projection grew more solid.

• Uchiha Yan sensed a surge of Natural Energy and reinforced the backyard barrier as Little Blue began to break through.
• Little Blue grew into the Blue Silver King, formed an energy projection, and began speaking with Uchiha Yan and Uchiha Meixin.
• Little Blue revealed that she could heal injuries, even reattach severed limbs, and had discovered a healing talent rune in her Origin Core.
• Uchiha Yan and Little Blue shared energy, helping her stabilize her realm while his body and Kekkei Genkai grew stronger.
• Uchiha Yan created Ice Release and told Uchiha Meixin that he had obtained a Yuki Clan blood sample on the Hidden Mist Battlefield.
• Little Blue returned with a more solid energy projection, and Uchiha Meixin marveled at the effects of their energy sharing.

Uchiha Yan advanced his Sage Body and chakra techniques, then sensed Uchiha Mikoto in danger near the Hidden Mist Battlefield. The chapter left Mikoto facing an attack from the Third Mizukage and another powerful figure as she tried to protect her squad.

• Uchiha Meixin contracted an eight-hundred-year-old Blue Silver Grass, which rapidly gained vitality and nearly reached evolution after absorbing her spiritual power and vitality.
• Uchiha Yan upgraded the Senju Sage Body Cultivation Method and comprehended Wood Release, the Hashirama Sage Body, and the Ashura-version Chakra Ascension Method.
• Uchiha Yan tested his new Wood Release, began cultivating the Hashirama Sage Body, and found that Ashura-like chakra strengthened it and warmed his Sharingan.
• Uchiha Yan sensed Uchiha Mikoto's aura and rushed toward her location near the Hidden Mist Battlefield.
• Uchiha Mikoto and her squad were attacked by the Third Mizukage and another terrifying figure, so Mikoto struck at the Mizukage and ordered her teammates to flee.

Mikoto and her teammates faced the Third Mizukage and Uchiha Madara until Uchiha Yan arrived and drove them back with a devastating sword technique. He sent Mikoto and her teammates toward camp while he stayed to fight Madara, and their clash continued with Madara’s Complete Susanoo.

• Mikoto signaled Uchiha Yan for help as the Third Mizukage attacked and Uchiha Madara unleashed his Majestic Destroyer Flame.
• Uchiha Yan appeared in time to cut through Madara’s flames and damage his Susanoo, then used Flying Raijin Technique to retreat with Mikoto and her teammates.
• Uchiha Yan ordered Mikoto and her teammates to return to camp, and Mikoto left after receiving instructions from him.
• The Third Mizukage recovered from the attack and pursued Mikoto’s group after hearing a voice in his mind.
• Uchiha Madara formed his Complete Susanoo and attacked Uchiha Yan, who blocked its giant sword with another Heaven-Cleaving Sword-Drawing Technique and began using Spatial Teleportation.

Uchiha Yan battled Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo, damaging it with his taijutsu before the two clashed with their swords. As Madara recognized Yan’s formidable skill and resolved not to spare him, Uchiha Hao headed toward the fight while Uchiha Senichi went to meet Orochimaru.

• Uchiha Yan struck the crystal on Madara’s Susanoo with Eight Extremes Collapse, cracking it and forcing Madara to retreat into the sky.
• Uchiha Madara reflected on Yan’s strength and considered using Black Zetsu’s backup plan.
• Uchiha Hao persuaded Uchiha Senichi not to leave the camp and volunteered to investigate the battle with Uchiha Inabi and the others.
• Uchiha Senichi went to the command tent after a Konoha ninja relayed Orochimaru’s request.
• Uchiha Yan attacked Madara’s Susanoo with his newly forged sword, and the two fought evenly with their sword techniques.
• Uchiha Madara praised Yan’s swordsmanship, then declared that he could not spare him and attacked.

Uchiha Yan’s Shadow Clone foiled Black Zetsu’s attempt to capture Mikoto and sealed the severed arm he left behind. After warning Mikoto about the Mizukage’s ambush, the clone vanished, and Mikoto attacked the Third Mizukage as he emerged from hiding beneath a stream.

• Black Zetsu ambushed Mikoto, but Uchiha Yan’s Shadow Clone emerged from her shoulder and cut off Black Zetsu’s arm with the Spirit Sword.
• Black Zetsu escaped underground, while the Shadow Clone used Yin-Yang Release to seal his severed arm in a scroll.
• The Shadow Clone told Mikoto that Black Zetsu could not be harmed without Yin-Yang Release or the Spirit Sword, then sent her a warning before vanishing.
• Mikoto hurried ahead of her team and reached a stream where the Third Mizukage was waiting to ambush her.
• Mikoto used Flash Step and Eight Extremes Collapse to strike the water, blasting the Third Mizukage’s hiding place with a towering column of water.

Mikoto drove the injured Third Mizukage into retreat while Uchiha Yan ended his even fight with Madara by unleashing the Seventh Gate. Yan's explosive kick shattered Madara's Susanoo and blasted his body away.

• Mikoto struck the Third Mizukage with Eight Extremes Collapse, badly injuring him and forcing him to flee through the stream.
• Mikoto pursued the Third Mizukage, and her teammates followed after realizing he had been hiding nearby.
• Uchiha Yan absorbed memories from Black Zetsu's severed arm and told Madara he had recognized that Madara was using another body.
• Madara poured his remaining Chakra and ocular power into Susanoo as Yan opened the first seven gates with his perfected Eight Gates Released Formation.
• Yan used Explosive Flash Step and Eight Extremes Sky-Shattering Step to shatter Susanoo's brow crystal and blast Madara's body away.