Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng was ambushed by three Root ninjas seeking Shisui's intelligence, but used their synchronized Curse Seals to trap them in a genjutsu and steal a sealing scroll. He escaped into the fog, planning to turn the Curse Seal's tracking against Danzo.

• Three Root ninjas ambushed Lin Feng and used his Curse Seal to disrupt his chakra and track him.
• Lin Feng claimed Shisui was unconscious in the watchtower and warned that a trap would destroy it if they approached without him.
• Lin Feng led the Root ninjas across a narrow stone bridge and synchronized their Curse Seals to cast a genjutsu that made them believe the bridge had collapsed.
• Lin Feng freed himself, took a sealing scroll from Root Ninja A, and trapped the three Root ninjas in a genjutsu for sixty seconds.
• Lin Feng escaped into the fog with the scroll and resolved to use his Curse Seal to misdirect Danzo.

Lin Feng used the Curse Seal’s resonance and his Sharingan to turn an escort ambush against Root, then uncovered Danzo’s plan to use him in a forced Sharingan awakening and Kotoamatsukami sealing formula. With Danzo tracking him and Shisui’s chakra beginning to awaken, Lin Feng kept the scroll’s core and fled toward the Uchiha Clan Grounds.

• Lin Feng exploited the Root ninjas’ overlapping blind spots to cast Fox’s Dream, killing Ninja A and awakening his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Lin Feng forced Ninja B and Ninja C to hesitate, then escaped to the riverbank with the Body Flicker Technique as Ninja C sent up a distress flare.
• Lin Feng retrieved the sealing scroll from Ninja A’s body and opened it after his Curse Seal synchronized with Danzo’s formula.
• Lin Feng discovered the scroll’s plan for forced Sharingan awakening and Kotoamatsukami sealing, and found himself named as subject No. 001.
• Lin Feng hid the scroll’s core, threw the remaining pieces into the rapids, and fled toward the Uchiha Clan Grounds while Danzo tracked him and Shisui’s chakra began to awaken.

Lin Feng escaped Root's ambush with Shisui's help and showed him an official order describing Danzo's plan to take Shisui's eyes and control the Nine-Tails. They formed an alliance to gather evidence against Danzo and investigate how much the Third Hokage knew.

• Lin Feng found a Root execution order detailing the planned live transplantation of Shisui's eyes and their use to control the Nine-Tails.
• Two Root shinobi tracked Lin Feng and restrained him, but Shisui arrived, freed him, and drove them off.
• Shisui read the secret file, and Lin Feng warned him that Danzo planned to use Kotoamatsukami and that the Third Hokage might already know.
• Lin Feng and Shisui agreed to gather evidence against Danzo and verify the Third Hokage's knowledge before the coup.
• Shisui slowed the spread of Lin Feng's Curse Seal by reversing his chakra flow, buying them at most three days.
• The two established an abandoned outpost as a temporary base and divided their tasks: Shisui would contact the Third Hokage, while Lin Feng would analyze the sealing techniques.

Lin Feng convinced Shisui that Lord Third had known about Danzo’s schemes and chosen not to stop him. Shisui agreed to join Lin Feng in targeting Danzo’s Root Archive Room, and the two formed a temporary alliance under strict conditions.

• Lin Feng blocked Shisui from taking Danzo’s classified document to the Hokage and argued that Lord Third had long known about Danzo’s plans.
• Shisui recalled signs that Lord Third had been aware and admitted he had been deceiving himself about the Hokage’s intentions.
• Lin Feng proposed exposing Danzo’s crimes by raiding the Root Archive Room, and Shisui agreed to help if the plan protected Konoha and limited casualties.
• Lin Feng and Shisui shook hands and formed a temporary alliance to move against Danzo.

Lin Feng and Shisui planned an infiltration of Root’s archive to steal evidence of Danzo’s forbidden experiments, devising a way through the Living Blood Pact. They finalized their route and agreed to proceed the day after tomorrow, while Shisui planned to tell Itachi only the essential facts.

• Shisui revealed that he had carved the secret tunnel to Root’s interrogation room and identified a shift-change window for the archive infiltration.
• Shisui warned Lin Feng that a Living Blood Pact guarded the level beneath the archive and could kill anyone who triggered its backlash.
• Lin Feng showed Shisui research notes describing a 0.3-second recognition blind spot and proposed using his Curse Seal to let Shisui pass through it.
• Shisui described his former teammate’s death as blood-sacrifice material, and Lin Feng vowed to retrieve evidence without using anyone’s blood to neutralize the technique.
• Lin Feng and Shisui completed a three-stage infiltration plan, added routes around Root’s alarms, and synchronized their knowledge with the Dual Visual Sharing Technique.
• Shisui said he would tell Itachi about Danzo’s plan and the archive evidence without revealing the operation’s time or route, then he and Lin Feng split up.

Lin Feng discovered Shisui’s hidden intelligence network and medical supplies while recovering from Danzo’s Curse Seal. As Uchiha radicals gathered for a possible coup before dawn, Lin Feng established contact with the network and prepared to learn who supported taking action.

• Lin Feng found Shisui’s concealed Curse-Sealing Bandages, antidote pills, and coded locations for a secret intelligence network.
• Lin Feng saw dozens of Uchiha gathering and calling for a sit-in before the Hokage Building, while Fugaku watched silently from the edge.
• Lin Feng realized Shisui had prepared the supplies and network in anticipation of Danzo’s attack, then used the bandages to slow the Curse Seal’s spread.
• Lin Feng noticed the crowd distributing Explosive Tags and judged that the coup could begin before dawn.
• Lin Feng activated Shisui’s Crow Intelligence Network and prepared to find out how many Uchiha supported taking action that night.

Shisui met Itachi at Naka Shrine and gained his cooperation in a plan to act before the Uchiha coup, despite Itachi’s warning that he would stop the coup himself if Shisui failed. Shisui returned to the safe house with three days to prepare and a twelve-hour deadline to finalize the operation plan.

• Shisui showed Itachi Danzo’s assessment report and revealed that Danzo planned to use it to justify purging the Uchiha.
• Shisui told Itachi that he trusted him, and Itachi admitted the clan radicals would not listen to him but insisted the children should not die.
• Itachi gave Shisui intelligence that Danzo would attend the Uchiha Clan Council in three days and that the archives’ barrier would lose its chakra supply while Danzo was away from Root.
• Shisui and Itachi agreed to act two hours before the council began, while Itachi warned that he would not wait if Shisui’s plan failed.
• Shisui checked for Danzo’s agents on his way back and began planning with Lin Feng, aiming to finalize their operation within twelve hours.

Lin Feng and Shisui planned a simultaneous operation three nights later: Shisui would draw Danzo’s attention at the Uchiha Clan Council while Lin Feng infiltrated the Root Archive Room to retrieve evidence. The chapter ended with their countdown underway and both preparing for the only available window.

• Shisui told Lin Feng that Danzo would attend the Uchiha Clan Council in three nights, creating a brief opening in the Root Archive Room’s defenses.
• Shisui revealed that Itachi might intervene to stop the coup if their preemptive plan failed, adding another uncertainty to their operation.
• Shisui showed Lin Feng a six-year-old Crow surveillance map, and they combined it with Lin Feng’s sketch of the Root Archive Room to identify patrol gaps and defensive weaknesses.
• Lin Feng and Shisui determined that Lin Feng would infiltrate the archive and use his blood to neutralize a forbidden ward, while Shisui drew Danzo’s attention at the Council.
• Shisui said Danzo would treat him as a threat if he realized Shisui was free, and Lin Feng promised to recover the evidence while Shisui held him off.
• Lin Feng and Shisui began their final three days of preparation, with the Clan Council serving as their only window to act.

Lin Feng and Shisui infiltrated the Root stronghold beneath Naka Shrine, where they found an unusually reinforced seal and evidence that Root was monitoring a dangerous energy source. They opened the first seal, but Shisui’s Curse Seal began resonating with Danzo’s detection, and an unidentified presence pulsed behind the breach.

• Lin Feng and Shisui entered the secret passage beneath Naka Shrine while Shisui reported that Danzo had arrived at the clan meeting with two Root guards.
• Lin Feng noticed that the underground stronghold’s seal was designed to confine something, and Shisui began a two-minute breach as Lin Feng prepared to stop the approaching patrol.
• Lin Feng silently killed three Root patrol guards and discovered that one carried a chakra leakage sensor.
• Shisui’s Curse Seal began spreading and resonating as he finished breaking the seal, allowing Danzo to sense his general location.
• Lin Feng and Shisui opened the first seal and realized that the stronghold contained an unknown, highly concentrated chakra presence rather than documents.

Lin Feng and Shisui discovered Danzo’s laboratory, where Uchiha and other experimental subjects had been created using First Hokage cells, Sharingan, and Curse Seals. Shisui learned he was the prototype for a mass-production plan as his duplicate began awakening and resonating with him, leaving Lin Feng and Shisui to choose whether to retreat or destroy the subjects.

• Shisui and Lin Feng entered a hidden laboratory and found rows of human experimental subjects with Sharingan implanted in their eye sockets.
• Shisui recognized that the central subject resembled his younger self and learned that First Hokage cells, Sharingan, and Curse Seals had been fused to create another Uchiha.
• Shisui realized the subjects were calling to him through a resonance with his Curse Seal, while Lin Feng activated a data terminal.
• Shisui and Lin Feng discovered Danzo’s mass-production plan and Shisui’s designation as its irreplaceable prototype.
• Unit One began awakening and connecting with Shisui as the other subjects stirred, while Lin Feng copied the laboratory records and pulled Shisui back.
• The laboratory lights went out, and Lin Feng urged Shisui to choose between retreating and destroying the experimental subjects.