Chapter Summaries

Xunjing welcomed Minato and Kushina to Eternal Winter Island and warned Uchiha Chisato about the conflict on Sky Island before she set out to find Upper Yard. Chisato reached the island as the Skypieans and Shandians began fighting again.

• Xunjing gave Minato and Kushina warm coats, introduced them to Dr. Kureha, and began guiding their training.
• Mikoto and Uchiha Chisato arrived and welcomed Kushina, who complained about Xunjing bringing them to the freezing island unprepared.
• Uchiha Chisato told Xunjing she planned to visit Sky Island, and he explained the feud between the Skypieans and Shandians and urged her to be cautious.
• Uchiha Chisato teleported to Jaya Island, used Observation Haki to survey it, and flew upward with Ninja Hawk Little Black.
• Uchiha Chisato reached Upper Yard, sent Little Black back to rest, and moved deeper into the island as fighting broke out between the Skypieans and Shandians.

Uchiha Chisato arrived at the battlefield between the Skypieans and Shandians, defeated their leader Rosh, and demanded access to the Golden City while offering to trade for Magical Shellfish. Gan Fall agreed to trade and tried to mediate, as Chisato began addressing why the Shandians wanted to reclaim Jaya Island.

• Uchiha Chisato appeared at the battle between Gan Fall's Skypieans and Rosh's Shandians, and Rosh ordered her to leave Upper Yard.
• Chisato attacked Rosh with Fire Release: Dragon Flame Jutsu and burned him badly enough to leave him unable to move.
• Chisato announced she had come for the Golden City and wanted to establish a long-term trade for Magical Shellfish, but Rosh refused to surrender Shandia's ancestral homeland.
• Chisato manifested a towering chakra giant, frightening both sides into silence as Rosh hesitated to risk his people in a fight.
• Gan Fall stepped in, agreed to discuss a Magical Shellfish trade, and asked Chisato to hear him out about the Golden City.
• Chisato acknowledged the long history between the Skypieans and Shandians, then began explaining that she understood why the Shandians wanted to reclaim Jaya Island.

Uchiha Chisato offered to lead the Shandians to the Golden Bell and bring Mont Blanc Noland’s descendant Cricket to them seven years later, in exchange for the gold and peace between the Shandians and Skypieans. The Shandian Chieftain accepted her terms and promised three favors, leaving the two leaders ready to negotiate peace.

• Uchiha Chisato told Rosh that she knew where the Golden Bell was and foresaw Cricket arriving in seven years to clear Noland’s name.
• Rosh learned that Noland had been executed as a liar and vowed to apologize to his descendant, while Uchiha Chisato and Gan Fall privately considered Noland’s role in endangering the Shandians.
• Uchiha Chisato demanded all the Golden City’s gold except the bell and an end to fighting, with both peoples sharing Upper Yard.
• Rosh sent Aka to consult the Chieftain, who arrived and accepted Uchiha Chisato’s demands on behalf of the Shandians.
• The Chieftain promised Uchiha Chisato three favors, and she said she could reveal the Golden Bell’s location immediately and begin peace talks with Gan Fall.

Uchiha Chisato helped the Shandians find and restore the Golden Bell, then began collecting the gold from the Golden City. Xunjing arrived with Mikoto, Minato, and Kushina, expanded Chisato’s storage space, and discovered a Poneglyph while touring the underground city.

• Uchiha Chisato led the Shandians and Skypieans to the enormous vine and revealed that the Golden Bell was hidden at its summit.
• A giant serpent attacked Uchiha Chisato, but she knocked it unconscious and spared it after Rosh and the others identified it as Noland, descendant of Kashii.
• Rosh and the Shandians persuaded Noland to help them reach the Golden Bell, and Uchiha Chisato helped move it back to the former Golden City.
• The Chieftain gave Uchiha Chisato permission to take the Golden City's gold, and she began storing it in the Space-Time Gate.
• Uchiha Chisato summoned Xunjing, who arrived with Mikoto, Minato, and Kushina and created a time-frozen warehouse for the gold.
• Xunjing toured the underground city with Kushina and the others, found a Poneglyph, and considered seeking out Nico Robin.

Uchiha Chisato and her companions secured peace on Upper Yard, made a trade agreement with Gan Fall and the Shandians, and obtained a map to Birka. After returning to the Ninja World, Uchiha Chisato sensed Black Zetsu entering the Uchiha Clan Grounds.

• Uchiha Chisato collected over ten thousand tons of gold, and the Chieftain gave her the fallen gold pillar before the two peoples signed a peace treaty to share Upper Yard.
• Xunjing agreed to trade goods with Gan Fall and the Chieftain in exchange for soil, and promised to visit at least once a month.
• Gan Fall drew Xunjing a route map to Birka, and Uchiha Chisato decided she would handle the journey there.
• Uchiha Chisato and her companions returned to the Ninja World after the bonfire party, while Kushina went home with Mikoto.
• Uchiha Chisato detected Black Zetsu slipping into the Uchiha Clan Grounds despite her barriers.

Uchiha Chisato monitored Black Zetsu as he investigated the Uchiha Clan Compound and stole several medicines, while she concealed sensitive supplies and avoided provoking Madara Uchiha. Black Zetsu later learned that the Uchiha consumed their strongest pills immediately, leaving him unable to obtain any.

• Uchiha Chisato suspected Black Zetsu had visited the Land of Whirlpools to help Madara Uchiha obtain the Rinnegan and decided not to capture him while Madara remained alive.
• Uchiha Chisato hid sensitive items from the Merit Pavilion, her storeroom, and Xunjing's laboratory, then watched Black Zetsu with Observation Haki.
• Black Zetsu passed through the compound's barriers, found that the Uchiha were stronger than before, and stole medicines from Konoha residents.
• Black Zetsu returned to Madara Uchiha with the medicines, and Madara tested them but said they could not restore his exhausted lifespan.
• Black Zetsu later discovered that the Uchiha had Advanced Nutrient Pills but could not obtain them because Uchiha Chisato required every clansman to consume each portion on the spot.

Xunjing perfected the Chakra Refinement Technique and created the Essence Chakra Refinement Technique, which could continually strengthen and accumulate chakra. He explained the danger posed by the Sage of Six Paths and began teaching the new method to his family, leaving them ready to start practicing it.

• Xunjing broke through the limit of his Chakra Refinement Technique and developed a more powerful method that could open the middle dantian and acupoints, strengthen chakra, and potentially extend life.
• Xunjing told Uchiha Chisato and Mikoto that the Sage of Six Paths still existed in the Pure Land of the Underworld and had a scheme involving chakra.
• Xunjing explained that he would teach the Essence Chakra Refinement Technique to his family and later to Kushina and Minato, but would not yet spread it through the Uchiha clan.
• Jiri and Mikoto worried about the risk of alerting the Sage of Six Paths, but Xunjing assured them that practicing the method was safe.
• Xunjing said Uchiha Chisato might use the method to reach Super Shadow Level and purify her bloodline enough to awaken the Eternal Eye.
• Xunjing began teaching the Essence Chakra Refinement Technique while keeping Observation Haki active to watch for danger.

Xunjing guided Uchiha Chisato and Mikoto through switching to the Essence Chakra Refinement Technique, and Chisato’s breakthrough brought her close to super shadow level. The next morning, Xunjing explained the new technique to Kushina and Minato, who were astonished by what he had created.

• Xunjing helped Mikoto and Uchiha Chisato switch cultivation methods, and Mikoto quickly improved her chakra control.
• Uchiha Chisato opened her middle dantian and more than a dozen acupoints, condensing her chakra and reaching the threshold of super shadow level.
• Uchiha Chisato confirmed that chakra could temper her body and purify her bloodline, and Xunjing advised her and Mikoto to deepen their practice of the Life-Nourishing Art.
• Xunjing, Mikoto, and Uchiha Chisato went to bed late, while Chisato privately reflected on Xunjing’s hidden secrets.
• The next morning, Xunjing found no trace of Black Zetsu nearby and told Kushina and Minato about the Essence Chakra Refinement Technique, leaving them amazed.

After learning that chakra seeds might be tied to a contingency left by the Sage of Six Paths, Xunjing focused on helping Kushina and Minato grow stronger while the group resumed training in the Pirate World. There, Uchiha Chisato searched for Birka Island as the Skypieans and Shandians began building a town on Upper Yard.

• Xunjing, Kushina, and Minato agreed to stay alert about the Sage of Six Paths and planned to clear the chakra seeds from Kushina and Minato.
• Uchiha Chisato confirmed that Black Zetsu had left the area near Konoha, and the group decided to train on Sky Island while she searched for Birka Island.
• After breakfast, the group traveled to the Pirate World, where Uchiha Chisato flew off with Ninja Hawk Little Black to look for Birka Island.
• Xunjing taught Kushina and Minato the Essence Chakra Refinement Technique and helped them switch to it.
• Xunjing met Rosh on Upper Yard and learned that Gan Fall had gone to nearby sky islands to buy Magical Shellfish and expand their supply network.

Xunjing and his companions reunited with Uchiha Chisato on Birka Island, where she warned them about the hostile locals and revealed she had stolen the Rumble-Rumble Fruit from a temple. They escaped the pursuing Temple guards and returned to Drum Island with the fruit.

• Xunjing agreed to bring Rosh soil from the Blue Sea, then received Uchiha Chisato's message that she had reached Birka Island.
• Xunjing, Kushina, Mikoto, and the others teleported to Birka Island and met Uchiha Chisato, who warned them that its Skypieans hated outsiders and people without wings.
• Uchiha Chisato said she had seen Enel being beaten and offered to bring him to Xunjing, who said he was interested in recruiting him but wanted the Rumble-Rumble Fruit most.
• Uchiha Chisato revealed she had snatched the Rumble-Rumble Fruit from a temple, then noticed the Temple's people tracking it and urged everyone to leave.
• Xunjing and the others teleported away before the Temple guards arrived, and they returned to Drum Island to examine the fruit.

Xunjing purified the Rumble-Rumble Fruit by removing the wills within it and concluded that Devil Fruits carried human mental contamination. He planned to test purified fruits on other creatures before letting his companions eat them, while Minato Namikaze proposed extracting fruits from people who had already eaten them.

• Xunjing chose not to eat the Rumble-Rumble Fruit as it was and sent it into the Space-Time Gate Space to analyze its drawbacks.
• Xunjing found that the fruit contained a tangled mass of wills, stripped them away, and watched the extracted will vanish through a spatial rift.
• Xunjing explained that Devil Fruits likely carried the fantasies and wills of humans from centuries ago, which could pollute users' minds and cause the sea to reject them.
• Xunjing revealed that the purified Rumble-Rumble Fruit should no longer contaminate its eater and said he would test other purified fruits on creatures first.
• Uchiha Chisato agreed with Xunjing's cautious plan, and Minato Namikaze asked whether Xunjing could safely extract a Devil Fruit from someone who had already eaten it.

Xunjing tested whether removing a Devil Fruit’s will and corruption could eliminate its seawater weakness, then successfully extracted the power from a user without harming him. Uchiha Chisato warned that capturing Devil Fruit Users could cause problems if they did it too often.

• Uchiha Chisato offered to capture a Devil Fruit User she had found on Jaya Island, and she teleported Xunjing and the others to a deserted area before heading to Pirate Town.
• Uchiha Chisato hypnotized and kidnapped Violent Bear, the Bear-Bear Fruit user, from a bar; other pirate crews then attacked and killed his remaining crew to seize their loot.
• Xunjing removed the will and corruption from Violent Bear’s Devil Fruit power and confirmed that seawater no longer suppressed or rejected it.
• Xunjing extracted the Devil Fruit power from Violent Bear without harming him, and he and the others celebrated that they could now obtain powers from captured users.
• Uchiha Chisato cautioned that repeatedly capturing Devil Fruit Users could draw attention, even if a few incidents might be dismissed as coincidence.

Xunjing warned that extracting Devil Fruit abilities too openly would draw the Pirate World’s major powers’ attention, so the group needed to grow stronger and act discreetly. They planned to travel to Frostmoon Island to study swordsmanship and help change Kuina’s fate, while Xunjing also hoped to improve the lives of Nami and others.

• Xunjing explained that openly extracting Devil Fruit abilities could expose the group to powerful factions, and advised them to capture targets quietly while strengthening their taijutsu, haki, and swordsmanship.
• Kushina complained about her demanding training schedule, and Xunjing reassured Minato and Mikoto that their chakra and mental capacity would grow through their training.
• Xunjing announced that he planned to visit the One-Sword Dojo on Frostmoon Island, and Mikoto, Minato, and Kushina all decided to go with him.
• Kushina asked whether Kuina’s accident had happened yet, and Xunjing said she was about four years old and that they had roughly six years to change her fate.
• Xunjing said he also wanted to change Nami’s fate and help make both worlds more peaceful.

Xunjing and his family dealt with the captured Violent Bear and turned the extracted Bear-Bear Fruit into a tangible Devil Fruit. After his friends and family declined the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, they urged Xunjing to eat it so he could complete his attributes and grow stronger.

• Uchiha Chisato teleported Violent Bear to the beach, killed him with Great Fireball, and buried his remains beneath the sand.
• Xunjing asked Minato, Kushina, and Mikoto if they wanted the Bear-Bear Fruit, but they all refused because they disliked its abilities and appearance.
• Xunjing asked Uchiha Chisato to get fruit, then transferred one into his space and used it to give the Bear-Bear Fruit a solid form.
• Xunjing offered the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to the others, while Kushina asked for a powerful hand-to-hand combat fruit and warned him not to challenge Whitebeard for the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
• Minato, Mikoto, and Uchiha Chisato urged Xunjing to eat the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to gain lightning and advance toward Six Paths-level power.

Xunjing ate the purified Rumble-Rumble Fruit and tested its lightning power and Elementalization with Uchiha Chisato and the others. He discovered that ninjutsu could still damage him, though attacks from the other chakra natures were weakened, and the group returned to training.

• Xunjing ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and found that it tasted like pineapple; he speculated that original Devil Fruits tasted bad because of mental contamination.
• Xunjing saw lightning added to his chakra nature and skills, then blasted a nearby patch of ground with a powerful bolt.
• Xunjing demonstrated that weapons and people passed through his body when he used Elementalization, and said the ability mainly protected him from physical attacks.
• Uchiha Chisato tested chakra attacks against Xunjing, finding that lightning had no effect while the other natures caused reduced damage.
• Xunjing reasoned that chakra could hit Logia users because it combined cellular and spiritual energy, and Uchiha Chisato urged everyone to keep training.

Uchiha Chisato prepared to open a Uchiha shop selling Magical Shellfish while warning the clan not to grow complacent. Xunjing learned that Millennium Dragon blood could replace dragon bones in Longevity Pills, then brought Dr. Kureha to Warship Island to examine the living dragon.

• Uchiha Chisato asked the second elder about the shop renovation, and he said it would be ready to open the next day.
• Uchiha Chisato ordered the elders to protect the shop and warned them that the Uchiha must stay vigilant and keep training.
• Xunjing asked Dr. Kureha whether Millennium Dragon blood could replace dragon bones, and she said it could work even better.
• Dr. Kureha agreed to help Xunjing make Longevity Pills in exchange for three pills and hurried to join him.
• Xunjing teleported Dr. Kureha to Warship Island, where she surveyed the island with Observation Haki.

Xunjing restored the Millennium Dragon’s memories, prompting it to raise Warship Island and awaken its nesting grounds. As the dragon’s life neared its end, Xunjing offered a way to save it through a Rune, and the dragon agreed.

• Dr. Kureha used Observation Haki to locate the ancient Millennium Dragon and communicate with it, then led Xunjing and the others to its cave.
• Xunjing restored the dragon’s memories by sending images into its mind, and the dragon remembered its mission and promised him its blood and flesh.
• The Millennium Dragon flew out of the cave and performed a ritual that raised the seabed around Warship Island, exposing dragon bones, eggs, and a nesting ground.
• Millennium Dragons gathered to lay and hatch eggs, while the old dragon completed its mission and revealed that its lifespan was nearly over.
• Xunjing brought the dying dragon to a deserted island and offered to save it with a Rune in exchange for some control; the dragon agreed and touched the mark.

Xunjing bound the Millennium Dragon to him, then placed the aging dragon in stopped time inside the Space-Time Gate to preserve him while he worked on a way to extend his life. After collecting dragon bones with Uchiha Chisato, Xunjing and Dr. Kureha made two kinds of Longevity Pills.

• The Millennium Dragon agreed to Xunjing's binding contract, learned the Essence Chakra Refinement Technique, and began communicating with him telepathically.
• Xunjing placed the Millennium Dragon in a separate space inside the Space-Time Gate, put his soul to sleep, and stopped time to halt his bodily functions.
• Xunjing returned to Warship Island and told Uchiha Chisato that the Millennium Dragon was safe for now as the other Millennium Dragons flew away and the island began sinking.
• Uchiha Chisato used Susanoo to collect more than twenty dragon skeletons from the beach while avoiding the unhatched eggs.
• Xunjing and Dr. Kureha made Longevity Pills from dragon bones, then developed a dragon-blood version after more than a day of work.

After Dr. Kureha refined the Longevity Pills, Xunjing and the others took them, and Uchiha Chisato’s right eye fully recovered. The group concealed their increased vitality with seals, while Xunjing’s growing bond with Dr. Kureha brought her closer to joining him.

• Dr. Kureha took three Longevity Pills and became decades younger, then Xunjing gave five pills each to his mother, Kushina, Mikoto, and Minato.
• Xunjing took five Dragon Bone Elixirs, greatly increasing his lifespan and vitality, and suppressed his aura.
• Uchiha Chisato took five Longevity Pills, regained her sight in her right eye, and began recovering its ocular power.
• Chisato tested her Sharingan, reached the three-tomoe stage, and avoided straining her eye by attempting to activate the Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Mikoto, Kushina, and Minato took their pills, and Xunjing placed seals on them to conceal their increased vitality.
• Dr. Kureha’s favorability toward Xunjing rose to seventy-six points as she continued studying medical arts and considered relying on him to surpass the limits of life.

After the Life-Nourishing Art broke through its limits, Xunjing experienced an epiphany and created the Longevity Manual, which greatly improved his body and lifespan. He explained the new art to Kushina, Mikoto, and Minato, telling them to master the Life-Nourishing Art before attempting to learn it.

• Xunjing entered an epiphany while practicing the Life-Nourishing Art, and Kushina formed a soundproof barrier around him at Mikoto’s urging.
• Xunjing’s movements transformed as he developed a new cultivation art, while Kushina and Mikoto’s understanding of the Life-Nourishing Art improved.
• Xunjing created the Longevity Manual, extended his lifespan by twenty years, and underwent a cleansing that increased his physical abilities and strengthened his meridians.
• Xunjing teleported home to wash off the expelled impurities, then returned to Sky Island and explained what had happened.
• Xunjing told Kushina, Mikoto, and Minato that the Longevity Manual was ten times more effective but far harder to practice, and that they should first perfect the Life-Nourishing Art.