Chapter Summaries

After Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul evolved and her spirit skills changed, Uchiha Huan visited Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy and reunited with Xiao Wu. Tang San grew jealous and hostile, then challenged Uchiha Huan to a sparring match that was about to begin.

• Zhu Zhuqing woke feeling transformed, discovered her Martial Soul and first two spirit skills had changed, and shared her gains with everyone the next day.
• Uchiha Huan left the Spirit Hall Branch Hall to investigate the Dark Demon Tiger and went to Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Xiao Wu embraced Uchiha Huan, and Tang San became jealous before secretly using Mysterious Jade Hands to squeeze his hand.
• Uchiha Huan recognized Tang San’s Mysterious Jade Hands and instantly copied the technique, prompting Tang San to decide that Uchiha Huan had earned his death.
• Tang San challenged Uchiha Huan to a sparring match, intending to defeat him and possibly use hidden weapons, while Uchiha Huan agreed without using his Martial Soul.

Uchiha Huan defeated Tang San, punished him for a poisoned sneak attack, and forced him to apologize before leaving Notting City. He recognized that Tang San’s repeated failures were draining his fate, then encountered a foul-smelling, hooded man blocking the road.

• Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and Tang Sect techniques failed to harm Uchiha Huan, who easily evaded his attacks.
• Tang San launched a poisoned sneak attack with Bone-Piercing Nails, so Uchiha Huan snapped two of his fingers and punched him down.
• Yu Xiaogang rushed in to defend Tang San, but Uchiha Huan slapped him, kicked away Luo Sanpao, and challenged his claim to be a Spirit Hall elder.
• Uchiha Huan made Tang San say, “Sorry, I was wrong,” and realized Tang San’s failures were consuming his fate.
• Uchiha Huan told Xiao Wu to avoid drawing Tang Hao’s attention, then left Notting City and confronted a foul-smelling man blocking the road.

Tang Hao attacked Uchiha Huan after Uchiha Huan insulted him and Tang San, but Uchiha Huan repeatedly evaded his attacks with Teleportation and clones. After failing to kill him even by detonating his spirit rings, Tang Hao fled to treat his injuries.

• Uchiha Huan provoked Tang Hao by insulting Tang San and their family, and Tang Hao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and spirit rings.
• Tang Hao attacked Uchiha Huan, who avoided his blows with Teleportation and mocked his inability to hit him.
• Tang Hao threatened to destroy the Spirit Hall Branch Hall, while Uchiha Huan threatened to find Tang San and later claimed the Worship Hall would heed him.
• Tang Hao detonated his first five spirit rings and struck the ground with the Great Sumeru Hammer, but Uchiha Huan escaped beyond its range.
• Tang Hao detonated his sixth ring and grabbed Uchiha Huan, only for the body to vanish as a clone.
• Tang Hao detonated his ninth ring, but Uchiha Huan disappeared, and Tang Hao fled after spitting blood and suffering severe injuries.

Uchiha Huan investigated the costly effort to lure a Dark Demon Tiger toward Notting City and ordered his group to capture it. When the nine-thousand-year Soul Beast entered the city and slaughtered civilians, Hu Liena and the others went to confront it, with Uchiha Huan bringing Gui Wuyan along.

• Hu Liena and the others told Uchiha Huan that Soul Masters had been paid to lay Soul Beast meat along a route from the Star Dou Great Forest to the Soul Hunting Forest outside Notting City.
• Uchiha Huan questioned Ma Xiunuo about local Soul Ancestors and decided they would capture the Dark Demon Tiger the next day to draw out whoever had arranged the bait.
• A nine-thousand-year Dark Demon Tiger charged into Notting City, broke through the city guards, and rampaged through the market streets.
• City Lord Xiao Zhan asked Ma Xiunuo for help, and Uchiha Huan ordered Hu Liena and the others to fight the tiger while leaving Wuyan behind.
• Zhu Zhuqing raced toward the market, Jin Yue'er crashed through a roof, and Uchiha Huan carried Gui Wuyan to the scene, where they found dozens of corpses and bloodied streets.

Zhu Zhuqing and the Spirit Hall team battered the Dark Demon Tiger, but it began absorbing the corpses’ energy and healing as it neared a ten-thousand-year breakthrough. After Zhu Zhuqing and Jin Yue'er finally brought it down, a black-robed man appeared and revealed that their battle had helped his plan.

• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Qian Gupan attacked the Dark Demon Tiger, but its spiritual roar blasted them away.
• Jin Yue'er and Zhu Zhuqing wounded the Dark Demon Tiger with successive ambushes and strikes.
• The Dark Demon Tiger absorbed red light from nearby corpses, healed its wounds, and began advancing toward ten thousand years.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Jin Yue'er overwhelmed the Dark Demon Tiger, leaving it unable to stand as they both exhausted themselves.
• A black-robed man emerged and thanked them for helping him complete his plan.

Uchiha Huan and his companions defeated the man in black who had set the Dark Demon Tiger against Notting City, then helped Zhu Zhuqing absorb the tiger’s ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring. The chapter ended with Zhu Zhuqing stabilizing her black third ring and Gui Wuyan asking if he could also get a ten-thousand-year first ring.

• The man in black revealed that he had lured the Dark Demon Tiger to Notting City so it would grow stronger and leave its victims weakened, but Uchiha Huan arrived and the Golden Tree restored the exhausted group.
• Uchiha Huan told Zhu Zhuqing to kill the dying Dark Demon Tiger, and she killed it and began absorbing its black Spirit Ring.
• The man in black attacked Uchiha Huan, who trapped him with Wood Release: Thorn Slaughter Technique and drained his Soul Power and life force.
• Xiao Zhan and Ma Xiunuo arrived, but Hu Liena and the others kept them from entering while Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Spirit Ring.
• Uchiha Huan helped Zhu Zhuqing withstand the tiger’s spiritual assault, and after six hours her yellow, yellow, black Spirit Rings stabilized.
• Gui Wuyan asked whether his first Spirit Ring could be ten-thousand-year, and Uchiha Huan told him that even a thousand-year ring would be pushing it.

Uchiha Huan helped Xiao Wu evolve into a Golden Sun-Moon Crown by supplying her with Soul Power and Sage Art Chakra. After completing her second Life Trial and gaining powerful new abilities, Xiao Wu stayed in Notting City while Uchiha Huan departed.

• Uchiha Huan returned to Notting City with his friends and introduced them to Xiao Wu, who quickly became friendly with the group.
• Xiao Wu told Uchiha Huan she had reached level 40, and he took her to a cave to protect her as she began forming a Spirit Ring.
• Uchiha Huan supplied Xiao Wu with Soul Power and vitality as her Soft Bone Rabbit form began an incomplete evolution and the second Life Trial appeared.
• Uchiha Huan used Sage Mode to send Sage Art Chakra through their contract, allowing Xiao Wu to complete her evolution into a Golden Sun-Moon Crown.
• Xiao Wu explained her new Soul Power traits and soul skills to Uchiha Huan, who urged her to grow stronger before he left her in Notting City.

Gui Wuyan reached level ten, and Uchiha Huan brought the group to Sunset Forest to investigate his unusual eye Martial Soul. The Goddess of Life identified it as the ancient Sealing Eyes, while the God of Destruction initiated a divine trial for Huan.

• Gui Wuyan reached level ten, so Uchiha Huan led the group toward Sunset Forest to find him a Spirit Ring.
• Uchiha Huan used the Puppet Slave Release Technique to examine Gui Wuyan but found no obvious clues about his eye Martial Soul.
• Uchiha Huan visited the Life Forest and met the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction, who recognized him as their godson from another time and space.
• The God of Destruction initiated the Destruction Nine Trials for Uchiha Huan.
• The Goddess of Life identified Gui Wuyan's eyes as Sealing Eyes, an Ancient Martial Soul that could preserve Spirit Beast souls and summon them to fight.

Uchiha Huan explained Gui Wuyan’s Sealing Eyes and gave him an Immortal Herb to strengthen his Soul and Mental Power before the group searched Sunset Forest for a suitable Soul Beast. With Dugu Bo’s help, they set out to find a rare Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and Uchiha Huan warned Dugu Bo about the grim future awaiting him and Dugu Yan if Tang San manipulated them.

• Uchiha Huan told Gui Wuyan what the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction had revealed about his Sealing Eyes and gave him the Primordial Unity Immortal Herb.
• After two days of searching, Uchiha Huan’s group encountered Dugu Bo, who offered to guide them to a top-tier Soul Beast for Gui Wuyan’s Spirit Ring.
• Uchiha Huan summoned Gray-Clothed Birds to carry the group, and Dugu Bo led them toward a nine-hundred-and-fifty-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear.
• Uchiha Huan showed Dugu Bo Immortal Herbs and revealed that Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden contained herbs capable of granting the potential to become a god.
• Uchiha Huan described how Tang San would use Dugu Bo, bring ruin to him and Dugu Yan, and leave Dugu Yan to die; Dugu Bo thanked Uchiha Huan and asked where Tang San was.

Uchiha Huan recruited Dugu Bo into Spirit Hall with the promise of Soul Bones and helped Gui Wuyan absorb a Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear Spirit Ring. After the group celebrated with roasted bear meat, a huge Poison Abyss Giant Salamander approached and politely asked for the leftovers.

• Uchiha Huan offered Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan a set of powerful Soul Bones, and Dugu Bo agreed to join Spirit Hall and guard his herb garden.
• Uchiha Huan and the others found a sleeping Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Gui Wuyan killed it so Gui Wuyan could absorb its Spirit Ring.
• Uchiha Huan used the Golden Domain to help Gui Wuyan endure the absorption, and Gui Wuyan gained the ability to summon a Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear and borrow its attributes.
• Dugu Bo asked Uchiha Huan to take Dugu Yan along on his travels, and the group celebrated Gui Wuyan's success by roasting bear meat.
• A Poison Abyss Giant Salamander approached the group and asked for leftover bear meat, while Dugu Bo explained that even two Title Douluo had failed to kill it.

Uchiha Huan befriended the Poison Abyss Giant Salamander and contracted it as a Summoning Beast, then brought Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to the Icefire Yin-Yang Well. There, he advised Dugu Yan to eat the Earth Dragon Golden Melon immediately so her Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul could evolve.

• Uchiha Huan explained the Poison Abyss Giant Salamander's strength and offered to feed it more roasted soul beasts.
• Uchiha Huan persuaded the Salamander to become his Summoning Beast and sealed their contract with a Summoning Scroll.
• Uchiha Huan explained the contract's costs and rules, prompting Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to consider finding Summoning Beasts of their own.
• Uchiha Huan, Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and the Spirit Hall group traveled to the Icefire Yin-Yang Well on the Gray-Clothed Bird.
• Uchiha Huan told Dugu Bo to give Dugu Yan the Earth Dragon Golden Melon immediately, and Dugu Bo handed it to her.

Dugu Yan evolved her Jade Phosphor Serpent into the Black Jade Ice Dragon and began expelling her poison. Uchiha Huan then visited Qian Renxue at the Crown Prince's Residence, mocked her undercover mission, and left her longing for the freedom to travel.

• Uchiha Huan used the Golden Domain to help Dugu Yan's Martial Soul evolve, and she discovered that its poison attribute had become an ice attribute.
• The next day, Uchiha Huan went alone to Heaven Dou City and entered the Crown Prince's Residence while Qian Renxue was away.
• Qian Renxue returned to find Uchiha Huan in her study, and he introduced himself as Yue Guan's disciple before dismissing Snake Lance and Pufferfish as threats.
• Uchiha Huan mocked Qian Renxue's undercover mission, revealed his five red Spirit Rings, and told her that Dugu Bo had joined Spirit Hall.
• Uchiha Huan announced plans to travel across the continent and left, while Qian Renxue felt tempted to go with him but worried about abandoning her mission.

After returning to Spirit City, Uchiha Huan learned that Bibi Dong suspected the Rakshasa God was causing her emotions to spiral out of control, so he consulted the God of Destruction. The God of Destruction explained how Uchiha Huan could create a Primordial Godhood and urged him to pursue one related to fertility.

• Uchiha Huan returned to Spirit City with the group, and Bibi Dong asked everyone else to leave so she could speak with him alone.
• Bibi Dong asked about the little rabbit from Notting City, and Uchiha Huan revealed that she was his Summoning Beast and gave Bibi Dong a God-bestowed Spirit Ring.
• Bibi Dong told Uchiha Huan that the Goddess of Life's blessing had once steadied her emotions, but that they had begun slipping out of control again, making her suspect the Rakshasa God.
• Uchiha Huan contacted the God of Destruction, who explained that the Rakshasa God was a subordinate of the Asura God and that Uchiha Huan could kill the Asura God before he reached the Divine Realm.
• The God of Destruction explained that Uchiha Huan could create a godhood by resonating with the Divine Realm Core and obtaining Chaos Origin, then urged him to pursue a godhood related to fertility.

Uchiha Huan told Bibi Dong that the Rakshasa God Trial would make her and Spirit Hall sacrifices for the Asura God’s heir, then proposed sealing the Rakshasa God inside her as a Jinchūriki. After giving Bibi Dong a powerful Soul Bone, he returned home and explained his plan to condense a Soul Core at level 60.

• Uchiha Huan warned Bibi Dong that the Asura God’s heir would use her and Spirit Hall as stepping stones, and suggested she abandon the Rakshasa God Trial.
• Uchiha Huan proposed making Bibi Dong a Jinchūriki by summoning and sealing the Rakshasa God, though he admitted he had not worked out how to do it.
• Uchiha Huan gave Bibi Dong his 250,000-year Evil Eye Tyrant spiritual skull to help stabilize her spiritual power.
• Yue Guan examined Uchiha Huan’s Soul Power and discovered that he had been refining it toward condensing a Soul Core.
• Uchiha Huan told Yue Guan he planned to fill Wood Release with five Spirit Rings at level 60 and use the resulting Soul Power to condense a Soul Core.

Uchiha Huan left to search for sealing techniques and tested storing Sage Art Chakra before wandering through an unfamiliar region. He met the caravan leader Ebu and the long-lived ferret Kuyi, whom he secretly marked with Flying Thunder God Technique, and invited Ebu’s group to visit the Land of Waves.

• Uchiha Huan told Yue Guan he planned to leave for one or two years to search the Shinobi World for Sealing Jutsu.
• Uchiha Huan visited Shikkotsu Forest, refined Sage Art Chakra, and filled a Milk Bottle with it.
• Uchiha Huan flew for days without finding a town until he spotted Ebu’s caravan camp and joined them for a meal.
• Uchiha Huan recognized Kuyi as a potentially long-lived ferret linked to Gelel Stone and secretly placed a Flying Thunder God mark on him.
• Uchiha Huan invited Ebu to visit the Land of Waves, and Ebu wondered whether the country would welcome wandering groups.

Uchiha Huan followed Kuiyi to an underground Ancient Kingdom ruin, found the Gelel Stone vein, and gathered a large supply before bringing Ebu’s caravan to the Land of Waves. There, he reunited with Orochimaru, Genno, Kakuzu, and Zabuza, heard about the country’s development, and gave Orochimaru a Milk Bottle to study.

• Ebu agreed to lead his descendants of the Ancient Kingdom to the Land of Waves, and the caravan changed course.
• Uchiha Huan tracked Kuiyi across thousands of kilometers with the Flying Thunder God Technique and found it in an underground ruin beside a vast Gelel Stone vein.
• Uchiha Huan collected Gelel Stone and learned that its pure natural energy could be converted into Sage Art Chakra and used to increase the age of his Spirit Rings.
• After a month of travel, Uchiha Huan brought Ebu’s group to the Land of Waves, where Kakuzu arranged lodging for them.
• Orochimaru reported that he had replicated Storage Soul Tools, while Kakuzu described their sales and the Land of Waves’ finances.
• Uchiha Huan gave Orochimaru a Milk Bottle to study, and Orochimaru and Kakuzu recognized its potential value for ninja forces and the arms business.

Uchiha Huan tested whether Kimimaro could cultivate a Spirit Ring using External Meridians, helping him condense a black ring. The experiment greatly increased Kimimaro’s Chakra and awakened a bloodline ninjutsu, but Uchiha Huan stopped it when Kimimaro’s skin began cracking and ordered Orochimaru to examine him, especially for changes to his Bloodline Disease.

• Genno reported on infrastructure construction in the Land of Waves, while Zabuza continued training its ninjas.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Huan that Shin had accommodated his Wood Release tissue without adverse effects, though Shin lacked the talent to use it well.
• Uchiha Huan asked Orochimaru to bring him to Kimimaro and gave Kimimaro a scroll describing how to cultivate a Spirit Ring.
• After Kimimaro and Orochimaru failed to construct External Meridians, Uchiha Huan used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to build them and connect them to Kimimaro’s Chakra.
• Kimimaro absorbed energy through the External Meridians as his Spirit Ring changed from white to yellow, purple, and then black; Uchiha Huan stopped the process when cracks and blood appeared on Kimimaro’s skin.
• Kimimaro reported increased Chakra and an awakened bloodline ninjutsu, and Uchiha Huan ordered Orochimaru to examine his body and Bloodline Disease.

Kimimaro and Orochimaru gained Spirit Rings from Uchiha Huan, along with several other allies, and Kimimaro’s Bloodline Disease was cured. Meanwhile, Danzo learned that Uchiha Huan was in the Land of Waves and prepared to attack him with Root by sea.

• Orochimaru examined Kimimaro and discovered that his new Bone Blade skill increased his strength while easing his Bloodline Disease.
• Uchiha Huan gave Spirit Rings to Kimimaro, Orochimaru, Genno, Haku, Deidara, Zabuza, and Kakuzu, greatly increasing their strength and curing Kimimaro’s Bloodline Disease.
• Orochimaru began researching his Spirit Rings while Uchiha Huan noted that he could not provide them to everyone.
• A Root ninja told Danzo that Uchiha Huan had appeared in the Land of Waves, and Danzo ordered Root to mobilize for revenge.
• Danzo planned to lead Root around the Land of Whirlpools by sea to avoid Konoha’s border guards and maritime patrols.

Uchiha Huan set out with Karin for the Land of Whirlpools to search its ruins and study its sealing arts. On the way, Karin detected a ship carrying hundreds of powerful ninjas bound for the Land of Waves, and Huan recognized Shimura Danzō among them before moving to confront the threat.

• Uchiha Huan told Orochimaru he planned to search the Land of Whirlpools for Sealing Jutsu, and Orochimaru agreed to let Karin go with him.
• During the next half month, Uchiha Huan prepared for the trip while keeping the Land of Waves stable under his rule as its daimyo.
• Uchiha Huan and Karin sailed toward the Land of Whirlpools, and Karin said her Mind's Eye of the Kagura could sense Chakra within a five-kilometer radius.
• Karin detected a ship carrying hundreds of ninjas toward the Land of Waves, and Uchiha Huan identified Shimura Danzō aboard it.
• Uchiha Huan flew high above the ship as Danzō ordered his Root ninjas to eliminate the ferry and sent Shin into the sky to investigate.

Uchiha Huan destroyed Danzo’s ship and Root forces with an Armored Wood Human, then confronted Danzo and resisted his Kotoamatsukami. Their battle continued over the sea, with Danzo switching to Wind Release as Huan pressed the attack.

• Shin flew toward the mass of black energy on an ink bird as Uchiha Huan formed an Armored Wood Human in midair and sent it crashing down onto Danzo’s ship.
• The impact destroyed the ship and killed hundreds of Root shinobi, while Danzo was killed by the shockwave and revived using Izanagi.
• Uchiha Huan confronted Danzo, who revealed a Mangekyō Sharingan and tried to control Huan with Kotoamatsukami.
• Danzo realized he had targeted Huan’s Shadow Clone, then attacked him with Water Release; Huan countered with the same technique before the two began trading kunai blows.
• Huan’s Danger Sense helped him predict Danzo’s close-range attacks, so Danzo retreated and used Wind Release techniques against him.