Chapter Summaries

After Xunjing returned to Konoha, the Third Generation tried to pressure him into giving up the Uchiha Antidote formula and lowering its price, but Tsunade and Xunjing refused. Xunjing learned that the Third Generation planned to send his squad to the front lines, and he and Uchiha Chisato prepared to retaliate while avoiding an open fight during the war.

• The Third Generation raised the critical front-line need for Uchiha Antidote, but Tsunade angrily rebuked him for trying to pressure Xunjing into surrendering the formula.
• Xunjing said the Uchiha clan could sell more Antidote but left the price and supply decisions to his mother and the clan elders.
• The Third Generation dismissed Xunjing's squad and secretly planned to send them to the front lines, where he hoped Danzo would ensure they never returned.
• Mikoto and Kushina told Uchiha Chisato what had happened, and Chisato offered to kill the Third Generation immediately.
• Xunjing urged Chisato to wait until after the war, warned that the squad might be sent to the front, and planned to target the Sarutobi and Shimura clans and Danzo there.

Uchiha Chisato and Xunjing planned for the war front while warning their allies about Danzo, Madara Uchiha, and White Zetsu. As Tsunade prepared to depart, Xunjing reminded her that she could use the Space-Time Gate to keep eating well during the campaign.

• Uchiha Chisato told Xunjing to watch for a chance to kill Danzo and the four clans’ elites, and considered recruiting Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura against Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo.
• Uchiha Chisato warned Xunjing, Mikoto, and the others that Madara Uchiha and White Zetsu might target them and use Minato and Kushina to provoke Mangekyo Sharingan awakenings.
• Xunjing and Mikoto explained that they and the Uchiha who had contracted with him were delaying Mangekyo awakenings to strengthen their bloodlines and preserve the possibility of reaching the Eternal Eye directly.
• Jiri recognized Xunjing’s plan to train the Uchiha as powerful allies for eventually unifying the Pirate World.
• Tsunade prepared to leave for the front and complained about missing good food, so Xunjing reminded her to use the Space-Time Gate and Shadow Clones to visit the Pirate World.

Xunjing and his companions accepted an urgent supply escort mission from the Third Generation, with Hatake Sakumo in command. As they set out, the Third Generation hoped the mission would eliminate Xunjing and the others, while Sakumo understood the danger of anything going wrong.

• Tsunade blamed Xunjing for her forgetting a travel technique, then left to return to the battlefield.
• Xunjing, Kushina, Minato, and Mikoto trained for two days before the Third Generation summoned them for a mission.
• At the Hokage Building, they met Hatake Sakumo and learned they would escort valuable medical supplies to the front lines under his command.
• Xunjing discovered that Sakumo already had a favorability score of 63 toward him and considered recruiting him and nurturing Kakashi.
• The Third Generation hurried the team onward, and Sakumo suspected that Danzo had a role in the dangerous assignment.

Hatake Sakumo led Xunjing and the others on a supply convoy toward the Land of Rain, and he explained how Uchiha medicines had saved his wife and newborn son, Kakashi. After Sakumo noticed their Advanced Nutrient Pills, Xunjing asked him about his swordsmanship.

• Hatake Sakumo led Xunjing and the other youngsters out of Konoha with a guarded convoy, and Hizashi Hyuga agreed to keep his Byakugan active.
• Sakumo told Xunjing that the Uchiha family's Nutrient Pills and Nourishing Potions had restored his wife's health and helped her safely give birth to Kakashi.
• Xunjing said Sakumo owed the Uchiha no gratitude because the medicines had been sold as a business transaction, but Sakumo insisted his gratitude was his own choice.
• The convoy camped after traveling a little over a hundred li, and Sakumo noticed Xunjing and his companions taking Advanced Nutrient Pills.
• Sakumo considered how to obtain Advanced Nutrient Pills for his family and training, while Xunjing asked him about his swordsmanship and Ninja Swordsmanship.

Xunjing and Hatake Sakumo discussed exchanging their swordsmanship traditions, but Sakumo waited for Lady Jiri’s approval. After reaching the Land of Rain’s front lines, Xunjing discovered that Root squads were still tailing them and decided to wait for Danzo to act before confronting them.

• Sakumo praised the unusual swordsmanship practiced by Uchiha fighters, and Xunjing offered to exchange their clan’s teachings with Sakumo.
• Sakumo asked Xunjing to get Lady Jiri’s approval, and Xunjing agreed to have her send a letter.
• Xunjing and his companions traveled for three more days, facing attacks from Rain, Rock, and Sand shinobi that Sakumo’s group repelled.
• Xunjing detected two Root squads following the convoy from a distance and told Minato, Mikoto, and Kushina not to attack them yet.
• Xunjing said they should wait for Danzo to make his move so they could deal with him and the Root squads together.

Xunjing and his companions reached Konoha’s frontline camp, where Danzo assigned them to patrol and prepared to ambush them with help from Hiruzen and Hanzo. Tsunade warned Xunjing, and they began planning to turn Danzo’s trap against him and the allied clan elites.

• Danzo ordered Xunjing Squad assigned to the Patrol Squad and celebrated Hiruzen’s secret order to kill Xunjing and the others.
• Xunjing and his companions received their patrol assignment, and Tsunade warned them that Danzo planned to strike during a patrol.
• Tsunade told Xunjing that Danzo had contacted Hanzo and might target the elites of the four frontline clans along with Xunjing’s group.
• Xunjing proposed using Danzo’s ambush to trap and kill the Sarutobi and allied clan elites, while preparing for Hanzo to intervene.

Xunjing planned to use Hanzo’s poisonous mist to kill Danzo, the Ninja from the four clans, and Root while making Hanzo appear responsible, then defeat Hanzo and the Rain Shinobi. The leaders prepared for the plan as Xunjing’s group began frontline patrols, while Danzo’s subordinates met Hanzo again with a letter.

• Xunjing proposed secretly mixing a volatile poison into Hanzo’s poisonous mist, and Tsunade agreed after hearing his plan.
• Xunjing said his Poison-Repelling Pills would protect their forces, and Tsunade warned that the Sand Ninja, Rock Ninja, and Madara Uchiha could interfere.
• Tsunade summoned the frontline leaders of the three clans for a meeting, and Xunjing gave them pills to distribute to their Ninja.
• Xunjing and his companions began patrol duty, while Root increased its surveillance to three squads.
• Danzo’s subordinates met Hanzo and delivered a letter, and Hanzo asked what Danzo wanted this time.

Danzo and Hanzo lured the Three Clans’ forces into a valley to destroy them, but Xunjing revealed he had prepared a massive sealing barrier that trapped both conspirators’ armies along with the Konoha ninja. Danzo failed to break the barrier as Hanzo’s poison spread, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Hanzo agreed to Danzo’s plan to ambush and wipe out the Uchiha, Senju, and Uzumaki elites, and the two men met to finalize the details.
• Half a month later, Danzo sent Tsunade and the Three Clans’ main forces to rescue Xunjing’s squad after urgent distress calls, while he followed with other troops.
• Hanzo summoned Ibuse to fill the valley with poisonous mist as Danzo’s forces sealed its entrance with an Earth-Style Wall.
• Xunjing reassured the trapped Three Clans’ ninja by Telepathy, told them to take Poison-Repelling Pills, and activated a vast Sealing Barrier around the valley and both armies.
• Danzo’s Wind Release attack failed to affect the barrier, and he realized Xunjing had anticipated the trap and turned it against them.

Xunjing released a powder that transformed Hanzo’s poisonous mist into a deadlier toxin, while the allied force’s barrier held. Danzo drank Hanzo’s antidote and led his men into the mist, where he realized too late that they had been deceived and collapsed.

• Danzo ordered his troops to attack Xunjing’s barrier, but its chakra reserves kept it intact.
• Xunjing shattered a bottle of powder into Hanzo’s mist, causing it to spread and create a stronger poison.
• Hanzo saw that the Three Clans’ ninjas were unharmed and waited for Danzo’s forces to attack.
• After the mist left them no room to retreat, Danzo and his men drank Hanzo’s antidote and charged in.
• Danzo and Owl quickly showed signs of poisoning, and Danzo realized the mist had been altered before he collapsed and died.

Xunjing killed Danzo and his forces, then used massive lightning strikes to decimate the Rain Shinobi while Tsunade fought Hanzo. With the remaining enemies left to Mikoto and the others, Hanzo suddenly charged toward Xunjing.

• Danzo, Owl, and the surrounding Root, Anbu, and clan ninja died after the barrier fell.
• Tsunade chose to fight Hanzo while Xunjing attacked the Rain Shinobi with lightning from the thunderclouds.
• Xunjing's two lightning attacks killed nearly all of the Rain Shinobi, leaving about twenty survivors for Mikoto and the others to face.
• Tsunade struck Hanzo and shattered his left arm when he became distracted by Xunjing's attack.
• Hanzo redirected himself toward Xunjing with a fast sword strike, and Tsunade shouted a warning.

Xunjing killed Hanzo with a Flying Thunder God attack, ending the battle and earning the Three Clans’ admiration. He shared his Flying Thunder God training with Tsunade, while Black Zetsu was blocked by Xunjing’s barrier and retreated to spy from a distance.

• Xunjing teleported above Hanzo and killed him with a single sword slash, prompting the Three Clans to cheer as their fighters killed the remaining Rain Shinobi.
• Tsunade praised Xunjing’s victory, and he explained that contract holders could improve their space-time talent through teleportation.
• Xunjing sent Tsunade his Flying Thunder God training and experience, then told Mikoto, Kushina, and Minato that he had forgotten to teach her earlier.
• Xunjing raised a barrier around the area, preventing Black-and-White Zetsu from approaching; Black Zetsu fled underground and hid nearby to investigate later.

Xunjing revealed that the uncontracted members of the Three Clans had now met the requirements to contract with him, and nearly all of them eagerly accepted. After organizing the cleanup of the battlefield, he collected Hanzo’s remains and prepared for a likely assault on Amegakure the next day.

• Xunjing explained that the clansmen’s rapid growth came from contracts with him and offered contracts to everyone who had newly qualified.
• Nearly all the uncontracted ninja accepted, receiving the contract marks and the information they contained.
• Tsunade told Xunjing that his improved Flying Thunder God method could let her get started in about half a month, and they discussed how difficult the Second’s original method was to learn.
• After the new contractors celebrated their gains, Xunjing ordered the ninja to clear the battlefield, preserve Hanzo’s and the Jonin’s bodies, and bring back the bodies of Danzo’s group as evidence.
• Xunjing sealed Hanzo’s remains and cleaned away the bloodstains, then asked Tsunade where Ibuse had gone.

Xunjing discussed learning Senjutsu from the Slug Sage with Tsunade, who hoped he could make the training easier. He then retrieved a Mangekyō Sharingan from Danzo’s body and identified it as Kagami Uchiha’s, leaving Tsunade to wonder why Danzo had it.

• Xunjing told Tsunade he planned to sign a contract with Katsuyu and learn Senjutsu after the war.
• Tsunade described her and Orochimaru’s difficulty learning Senjutsu, and Xunjing explained it required unity between man and nature.
• Tsunade asked Xunjing to improve the Senjutsu training method, and he said he would investigate after seeing the specifics.
• Xunjing teleported to Danzo’s corpse and detected a hidden Reverse Four Symbols Seal trap.
• Xunjing dismantled Danzo’s seal, removed the Mangekyō Sharingan from his right eye, and identified it as Kagami Uchiha’s.
• Tsunade questioned why Danzo possessed Kagami’s Sharingan, noting that Kagami had been his teammate.

Xunjing searched Danzo's memories, uncovering evidence of his and the Third Hokage's crimes, including Kagami Uchiha's stolen Mangekyō Sharingan and experiments with Hashirama Senju's cells. After returning to Konoha, he showed Kagami's eye to Uchiha Chisato, who confirmed its identity and confronted the truth about Kagami's death.

• Xunjing concluded that Danzo and the Third Hokage had likely arranged Kagami Uchiha's death and decided to search Root Headquarters for the other Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Tsunade warned Xunjing that Root's cursed seals would disappear with Danzo's death, so Xunjing searched Danzo's memories and found Root's secrets, Kagami's other eye, and numerous Sharingan and forbidden techniques.
• Xunjing's shadow clone told Tsunade that Danzo and the Third Hokage had resumed Tobirama Senju's experiments using Hashirama Senju's cells, enraging her.
• Xunjing teleported to Konoha and showed Uchiha Chisato a test tube containing Kagami Uchiha's right Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Chisato confirmed the eye belonged to Kagami, and Uzumaki Mito asked what they intended to do next.

Xunjing learned from Danzo’s memories that Root held stolen Uchiha eyes, Hashirama’s cells, and evidence implicating Hiruzen Sarutobi, while Danzo had plotted to sacrifice the Senju Clan for Wood Release experiments. Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Chisato planned to move against Hiruzen before the war ended, and Xunjing went to raid Root Headquarters.

• Uchiha Chisato detected that Root had discovered its Cursed Tongue Eradication Jutsu was missing and that one group had gone to report to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Xunjing told Uchiha Chisato and Uzumaki Mito that Danzo’s memories revealed the location of his stores, including eight pairs of Sharingan, Hashirama’s cells, and evidence of his crimes with Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Xunjing revealed that Danzo had secretly experimented on abducted Senju members and planned to sacrifice the clan, including Tsunade and Nawaki, to pursue Wood Release and the Hokage position.
• Uzumaki Mito ordered Xunjing to retrieve the evidence and proposed removing Hiruzen Sarutobi from office before the war ended, with the Senju, Uzumaki, and Uchiha clans working to sway public opinion.
• Xunjing teleported to Root Headquarters, used a genjutsu to trap the guards, sent shadow clones inside, placed an improved Cursed Tongue Eradication Jutsu on the guards, and knocked them unconscious.

Xunjing looted Root Headquarters before the Third Hokage arrived, then gave the seized evidence and Sharingan to Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Chisato. He left them time to act against the Third Hokage and revealed his plan to turn Kagami Uchiha’s Mangekyō abilities into techniques others could learn.

• Xunjing used his Shadow Clones to defeat Root’s ninjas, placed new Cursed Tongue Eradication Jutsu seals on them, and plundered Root Headquarters.
• A Root squad leader told the Third Hokage that the seals on Root members had lifted, suggesting Danzo was dead.
• The Third Hokage hurried to Root Headquarters with Anbu, but Xunjing had already taken its resources, Scroll of Seals, Sharingan, and evidence.
• Xunjing gave Uzumaki Mito and Uchiha Chisato the evidence against Danzo and the Third Hokage, and explained that he had reinforced the headquarters’ traps to delay them.
• Xunjing gave Uchiha Chisato Kagami Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan and eight pairs of ordinary Sharingan, then said he hoped to make Mangekyō abilities learnable without awakening the eyes.

Xunjing discussed researching Mangekyo techniques and Hashirama’s cells with Uchiha Chisato and Uzumaki Mito, promising potential benefits for their clans. Mito approved his research and asked whether Hashirama could be revived, and Xunjing said he could bring back Hashirama and possibly Tobirama once he obtained the Rinnegan or Madara’s eyes.

• Uchiha Chisato warned Xunjing not to let the Hyuga Clan obtain any Dōjutsu techniques he developed without submitting to him, and Xunjing said he would eventually change their Main Family and Branch Family system.
• Xunjing explained that studying Hashirama’s cells could reveal how the Sage Body worked and might eventually give the Senju, Uzumaki, and Uchiha clans Sage Bodies and Wood Release.
• Uzumaki Mito approved the research and offered to arrange for clan members to assist with future compatibility tests.
• Uzumaki Mito asked whether Hashirama could be brought back to life, and Uchiha Chisato said his return could help Xunjing.
• Xunjing said he could revive Hashirama after awakening the Rinnegan or obtaining Madara Uchiha’s eyes, and added that he also hoped to revive Tobirama.

Xunjing discussed becoming Hokage and reforming Konoha, then returned to the front lines to speak with Orochimaru. Orochimaru questioned why Xunjing had avoided the trap Danzo and Hanzo had prepared for him.

• Xunjing said he planned to use Impure World Reincarnation to bring Hashirama and Tobirama back, hoping to put them to work for Konoha.
• Uzumaki Mito warned that Tobirama might oppose Xunjing, but Xunjing said his strength and allies would keep him safe.
• Xunjing described plans to delegate Hokage duties and overhaul Konoha’s administration, and Mito agreed that he should bring Hashirama and Tobirama back sooner.
• Xunjing teleported to the front-line camp and found that Tsunade and the clan forces had not yet returned.
• Xunjing entered Orochimaru’s underground laboratory, where Orochimaru asked why he was not walking into the trap set by Danzo and Hanzo.

Xunjing told Orochimaru that Danzo, Hanzo, and their forces had been wiped out, then recruited him to lead Konoha’s planned Research Department. He offered Orochimaru additional rewards, including a life-extending art, leaving Orochimaru intensely eager to hear more.

• Xunjing told Orochimaru that Danzo, Hanzo, and all the ninja they had brought were dead, while the allied clans had suffered no deaths and only a handful of minor injuries.
• Orochimaru deduced that Xunjing had infiltrated Root’s headquarters and intended to move against the Third Generation.
• Xunjing offered Orochimaru the position of first director of Konoha’s planned Research Department, and Orochimaru accepted.
• Xunjing offered Orochimaru monthly Advanced Nutrient Pills and half of the Life-Nourishing Art, which could extend his life and improve his aptitude and bloodline.
• Orochimaru reacted with astonished excitement to the Life-Nourishing Art and its promise of a longer life.

Xunjing offered Orochimaru half of the Life-Nourishing Art and a chance to gain greater benefits by signing a binding contract. Orochimaru accepted the terms and decided he would sign if he met the hidden prerequisite, leaving him eager to pursue the promised path to immortality.

• Orochimaru concluded the Life-Nourishing Art might help him develop a genuine Immortality Technique, while suspecting Xunjing had hidden motives.
• Xunjing explained that signing a contract would bind Orochimaru against harming him and could bring two hundred years of life and other improvements; otherwise Orochimaru would receive the Research Department position, resources, and monthly Advanced Nutrient Pills.
• Orochimaru inferred that the Uchiha, Senju, and Uzumaki had signed similar contracts and credited Xunjing for their recent improvements.
• Xunjing offered Orochimaru half of the Life-Nourishing Art immediately and said that failing to meet the hidden prerequisite would cost him three research favors.
• Orochimaru agreed, received the technique through Xunjing's mental transmission, and resolved to sign the contract if he qualified.