Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan broke through to the Seventh Layer of the Beast-Taming Stage and awakened the Heavenly Will Record, then disguised his breakthrough as a miraculous pill refinement. After the Daimyo summoned him to learn about the supposed life-extending Divine Elixir, Ye Fan offered one to Lady Shijimi.

• Ye Fan reached the Seventh Layer of the Beast-Taming Stage as a pillar of light drew guards and onlookers to his courtyard.
• Ye Fan used a pill furnace and five glowing pills to convince the guard captain that he had refined Divine Elixirs, then asked him to keep the matter quiet.
• The guard captain reported the flying pills to the Daimyo, who summoned Lady Shijimi and Ye Fan to the main hall.
• Ye Fan told the Daimyo and Lady Shijimi that the Divine Elixir could extend lifespan and restore youth, but refused to show it to the Daimyo.
• Ye Fan offered a Divine Elixir to Lady Shijimi as thanks for her hospitality.

Ye Fan gave Lady Shijimi a Divine Elixir, and she took it to prove it was safe. The pill restored her youth and beauty, leaving the Daimyo desperate to obtain one as Ye Fan began to leave the hall.

• Ye Fan presented a Divine Elixir to Lady Shijimi, but Asuma Sarutobi and Team 10 arrived before she could receive it.
• The Daimyo examined the pill, and the guard captain questioned its safety; Lady Shijimi insisted she trusted Ye Fan and volunteered to take it.
• After Lady Shijimi swallowed the pill, Ye Fan stopped the royal physician from disturbing her, and Laiyun guarded Ye Fan as the hall’s guards surrounded them.
• Lady Shijimi transformed into a youthful, beautiful woman, and the royal physician confirmed the pill’s miraculous effects.
• The Daimyo eagerly decided the Divine Elixir was worth even a billion taels, then called for Ye Fan to be stopped as he walked out of the hall.

Ye Fan received the Firecloud Token from Madam Shijimi, then shared his pills with her and the Daimyo, who both became younger. Later, he gave pills to Asuma Sarutobi for Kurenai Yuhi and to Ino Yamanaka, leaving Asuma and Team 10 stunned by his generosity.

• Madam Shijimi gave Ye Fan the Firecloud Token and declared that even the Hokage could not make trouble for him.
• The Daimyo accepted a pill from Madam Shijimi and visibly regained his youth and strength.
• Ye Fan left the hall, assured Asuma Sarutobi he would not misuse the token, and returned to his courtyard with Asuma and Team 10.
• Asuma Sarutobi asked Ye Fan about the pills, and Ye Fan gave him a bottle to pass to Kurenai Yuhi.
• Ye Fan gave Ino Yamanaka another pill and urged her to take it before its medicinal power faded.

Ino Yamanaka took a Divine Elixir from Ye Fan, and Madam Shijimi sent him crates of money in gratitude. At a banquet, Ye Fan recognized a disguised maid as the woman he had saved during the Uchiha Incident and provoked her by mentioning Itachi Uchiha; later, she confronted him in the courtyard.

• Ino Yamanaka took the pill and felt refreshed, while Ye Fan said he had given it to her because he liked her, leaving her flustered.
• Servants delivered eighteen crates of money and gold from Madam Shijimi, worth more than two hundred million taels, and Ye Fan had them sealed away.
• The daimyo invited Ye Fan and the others to a banquet and promised him another reward.
• Ye Fan recognized a veiled maid as the woman he had saved during the Uchiha Incident and quietly mentioned Itachi Uchiha, startling her into crushing an orange.
• The woman secretly followed Ye Fan back to the courtyard, where he waited for her; she demanded to know who he was, and he proposed they sit and talk.

Ye Fan revealed to Izumi Uchiha that he had witnessed her encounter with a spiral-masked Uchiha and shared clues about the attacker. After the Daimyo summoned Ye Fan and let him choose a reward from the treasury, Ye Fan discovered a rare ore that could help him refine a Profound Purification Bottle.

• Ye Fan reminded White Water of the night a spiral-masked man attacked her, and she recognized him as the child who had been there.
• Ye Fan told Izumi Uchiha that the masked attacker was an Uchiha from Konoha and might be around twenty-six or twenty-seven years old; he introduced himself as Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan speculated that Itachi Uchiha might have killed his clan under orders or threats, but he did not share a definite conclusion with Izumi Uchiha.
• Izumi Uchiha left after questioning Ye Fan, and the next morning the Daimyo summoned him and offered him a choice of rewards from the treasury.
• Ye Fan entered the treasury and found a large piece of Profound Heaven Blue Kun Treasure Jade, which he chose to take so he could refine a Profound Purification Bottle.

Ye Fan refined the Profound Heaven Blue Kun Treasure Jade into his first Magic Treasure, the Profound Purification Bottle, and tested its abilities. After declining Madam Shijimi’s invitation to stay, he returned to the Spirit Vein to let the bottle absorb spiritual energy.

• Ye Fan told Asuma Sarutobi he would stay longer to try refining another Divine Elixir, and Asuma agreed to return to Konoha with Team 10 and come back when Ye Fan was ready to leave.
• After Asuma and Team 10 departed, Ye Fan purified the Profound Heaven Blue Kun Treasure Jade with Earth Spirit Flame and refined it into the Profound Purification Bottle.
• Ye Fan bound the low-grade Magic Treasure with his blood and discovered it could store living things, hold ten cubic meters of space, and absorb spiritual energy.
• Madam Shijimi invited Ye Fan to stay and offered him the flowers and plants in her garden, but Ye Fan politely declined her invitation.
• After Madam Shijimi left, Ye Fan went above the Spirit Vein and summoned the Profound Purification Bottle to let it absorb spiritual energy.

Ye Fan caught Izumi Uchiha sneaking into his room to steal his Divine Elixirs and learned from her memories that Danzo Shimura was behind her. After defeating and disarming her, he offered to make her stronger and recruit her, but her threats pushed him to say he would kill her.

• Ye Fan collected plants in the daimyo’s garden, returned to his room to meditate, and later let Izumi Uchiha enter after his Ninja Hounds detected her.
• Izumi Uchiha revealed herself and demanded Ye Fan hand over his Divine Elixirs, warning that powerful people were plotting to take them.
• When Izumi attacked, Ye Fan’s Ninja Hounds struck her while he used medicinal powder to weaken her and a barrier to prevent anyone from hearing her.
• Izumi used her Sharingan Genjutsu, but Ye Fan read fragments of her memories and discovered that Danzo Shimura had recruited her into Root.
• Ye Fan searched Izumi for weapons, challenged her lack of progress toward revenge, and offered to make her stronger if she became his subordinate.
• After Izumi threatened to kill him, Ye Fan stood up and said he would have to send her on her way.

Ye Fan experimented on Izumi Uchiha, restoring her body and greatly strengthening her chakra and Sharingan before leaving for Konoha. On the road, he tested his new Heavenly Will Record by empowering a beetle, but the carriage stopped after guards spotted enemies.

• Ye Fan used silver needles and medicines on Izumi Uchiha, awakening her Six-Tomoe Sharingan and leaving her unconscious for days.
• Izumi Uchiha regained her strength, discovered Ye Fan had left a note, and learned he had departed for Konoha with guards.
• Ye Fan reflected on his gains, including the Heavenly Will Record, and how it could create and strengthen puppets and Mind Soldiers.
• Ye Fan placed a Cursed Seal on a beetle and fed it spiritual energy from the Profound Purification Bottle until smoke rose from its body.
• The carriage jolted to a stop, and the escort guards shouted a warning about enemies.

Ye Fan lured the masked attackers into a dead end and used the Heavenly Will Record to refine two of them into Living Puppets. After Izumi Uchiha caught up, he revealed that a cabinet minister had ordered the ambush to seize his Divine Elixir and offered to discuss improving her Sharingan, leaving Izumi tempted by the possibility of greater power.

• Masked enemies ambushed Ye Fan's escort, and his modified beetle killed several attackers before Ye Fan rode away with Laiyun to draw the enemies off.
• Ye Fan lured the masked men into a dead end, trapped them in a formation, and used the Heavenly Will Record to try to refine them into Living Puppets.
• Izumi Uchiha followed Ye Fan's trail and found him with two metal-bodied Living Puppets, which Ye Fan said were now his subordinates.
• Ye Fan told Izumi that a cabinet minister had ordered the attack to obtain his Divine Elixir and sent the Living Puppets to bring the mastermind to him.
• Ye Fan said he had found a way to improve Kekkei Genkai through experiments on Izumi's Sharingan, then urged her to follow him instead of Shimura Danzō.

Ye Fan captured the cabinet minister who had ordered an ambush, then left him transformed into a young, obedient servant. After returning to Konoha Village with Izumi Uchiha, Ye Fan was summoned to the Third Hokage and accused him of taking the Divine Elixir meant for Teacher Kurenai Yuhi.

• Ye Fan waited at an abandoned temple until his masked men returned with the captured cabinet minister, and Izumi Uchiha recognized him as a powerful official.
• Ye Fan had the masked men break the cabinet minister’s legs and forced him to confess that he had arranged the ambush to seize the Divine Elixir.
• Ye Fan dealt with the cabinet minister inside the temple, and the man emerged young and submissive, promising to carry out Ye Fan’s orders.
• Ye Fan reunited with the guards and reached Konoha Village, where he introduced Izumi Uchiha and warned her to conceal her evolved Sharingan.
• An ANBU member escorted Ye Fan to the Third Hokage, whom Ye Fan immediately accused of taking Teacher Kurenai Yuhi’s Divine Elixir.

Ye Fan confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi after discovering that he had taken the pill meant for Kurenai Yuhi, then challenged Asuma Sarutobi for letting the Sarutobi Family accept it without compensating her. Asuma recognized that he had taken advantage of Kurenai Yuhi’s kindness, while she learned the pill’s true value and questioned his silence.

• Ye Fan accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of taking Kurenai Yuhi’s pill and left the Hokage’s office after Hiruzen ordered the ANBU ninja to let him go.
• At Team 8’s training grounds, Ye Fan learned from Kurenai Yuhi that she had willingly given the pill to Hiruzen Sarutobi and received no compensation.
• Ye Fan confronted Asuma Sarutobi at Team 10’s training grounds, criticizing him for failing to protect Kurenai Yuhi’s interests.
• Ye Fan revealed that the pill was worth hundreds of millions of ryo and that the Daimyo and Lady Shijimi had rewarded him for a similar gift.
• Asuma Sarutobi realized he had treated Kurenai Yuhi’s generosity as natural, while Kurenai Yuhi looked to him for an explanation.

Ye Fan tended his medicinal field and refused to be intimidated by Root agents sent to fetch him for Shimura Danzō. After learning Izumi Uchiha had been imprisoned, he followed them underground and met Danzō, whom he immediately taunted about his injuries.

• Ye Fan fed Nine-Tails chakra to chakra bugs, refined them with the Heavenly Will Record, and sent them to eliminate pests from his medicinal field while Laiyun and Dark Shadow pulled weeds.
• Root detained Izumi Uchiha and interrogated her about her disappearance, her time with Ye Fan, and her return to Konoha; she stayed silent when asked why she had returned with him.
• Ye Fan worked on a wooden puppet, then confronted two Root members who demanded he visit Shimura Danzō and threatened to break his limbs.
• Ye Fan showed the Root members his Firecloud Token and refused to go until they told him Izumi Uchiha had been imprisoned.
• Ye Fan followed the Root members into their underground base, found Izumi Uchiha's cell with his perception, and met Shimura Danzō.
• Ye Fan greeted Shimura Danzō by claiming a Root subordinate had said Danzō was near death and needed the Divine Elixir.

Ye Fan traded a Divine Elixir to Shimura Danzō for Izumi Uchiha and escaped with her, after using Danzō’s Genjutsu to read his memories. Learning that Konoha’s leaders had orchestrated atrocities against the Uchiha and Hyuga clans, Ye Fan decided to go to the Hyuga Clan and take Hanabi Hyuga away.

• Shimura Danzō used Kotoamatsukami on Ye Fan, but Ye Fan read Danzō’s memories and insisted on trading the Divine Elixir for Izumi Uchiha.
• Ye Fan exchanged the elixir for property deeds and Izumi Uchiha, then left with her after Danzō consumed the pill and grew more than ten years younger.
• Ye Fan gave Izumi Uchiha the Firecloud Token and told her to use it to protect herself from Danzō’s and the Hokage’s people.
• Ye Fan learned from Danzō’s memories that Danzō and Hiruzen Sarutobi had helped cause the Uchiha massacre and manipulated the conflict within the Hyuga Clan.
• After staying awake through the night, Ye Fan set out to take Hanabi Hyuga away from the Hyuga Clan.

Ye Fan asked Hyuga Hiashi to let Hanabi Hyuga stay with him and warned that Konoha’s leaders had manipulated the Uchiha Clan’s massacre and the Hyuga Clan’s internal conflicts. He revealed his overwhelming cultivation power and offered to teach Hanabi, leaving Hyuga Hiashi shaken by both the danger facing his clan and Ye Fan’s strength.

• Ye Fan arrived at the Hyuga Main House with Izumi Uchiha and asked Hyuga Hiashi to let Hanabi stay by his side.
• Ye Fan told Hyuga Hiashi that Shimura Danzō and Hiruzen Sarutobi had orchestrated the Uchiha Clan’s downfall and were undermining the Hyuga Clan.
• Ye Fan revealed that Shimura Danzō had used Shisui Uchiha’s eye, planted a spy in the Hyuga residence, and aided the Lightning Country ninja leader’s attempt to abduct Hinata.
• Ye Fan explained that Konoha’s leaders had used Hizashi Hyuga’s death to deepen the Main House and Branch House conflict, warning that the clan could be pushed into civil war.
• Ye Fan displayed his immense cultivation aura and destroyed the room’s furnishings without harming Hyuga Hiashi.
• Ye Fan offered to teach Hanabi the path of cultivation and promised that his presence would protect the Hyuga Clan.

Hyuga Hiashi agreed to let Hanabi Hyuga move in with Ye Fan so she could train, and Ye Fan helped her settle into his courtyard with Izumi Uchiha. After Hanabi defeated Izumi in a spar and Ye Fan strengthened her ocular power overnight, Hanabi knocked Izumi unconscious in their rematch.

• Hyuga Hiashi sent Hanabi Hyuga to live and train with Ye Fan, while he focused on reforming the Hyuga Clan.
• Ye Fan took Hanabi Hyuga and Izumi Uchiha to the commercial district, furnished his courtyard, and gave them separate rooms.
• Ye Fan had Hanabi Hyuga spar with Izumi Uchiha, and Hanabi caught Izumi off guard and sent her flying.
• Izumi Uchiha activated her Six-Tomoe Sharingan in a rematch, and she and Hanabi fought to a stalemate before Ye Fan stopped them.
• Ye Fan used Nature Force overnight to clear key meridians for Hanabi Hyuga and improve her ocular power.
• Hanabi Hyuga sparred with Izumi Uchiha the next morning and accidentally knocked her unconscious.

Hanabi Hyuga awakened the Byakugan ability Vastness and defeated Izumi Uchiha, while Ye Fan explained that the Byakugan could evolve. After demonstrating Vastness to Hyuga Hiashi, Ye Fan invited him to come secretly that night for marrow cleansing and physical training.

• Izumi Uchiha woke after Hanabi Hyuga had knocked her unconscious and challenged Hanabi to spar again, but Vastness disoriented her and Hanabi defeated her with one strike.
• Ye Fan explained that Hanabi’s Byakugan had awakened Vastness, a mental attack, and told Izumi that he would help her train before attempting to evolve her Sharingan.
• Hyuga Hiashi defended his decision to let Hanabi stay with Ye Fan while clan members questioned him, and he privately considered Neji Hyuga as a future clan head.
• Hanabi returned to the Hyuga Estate with Ye Fan, demonstrated Vastness to Hyuga Hiashi, and stunned him with the Byakugan’s new ability.
• Ye Fan described his discoveries about Byakugan evolution and invited Hyuga Hiashi to visit him secretly that night for marrow cleansing and physical transformation.

Ye Fan helped Hyuga Hiashi undergo Meridian-Changing Marrow-Cleansing, strengthening him and his Byakugan, then repelled Shimura Danzō’s men when they tried to summon him. The next morning, Ye Fan quit being a ninja despite Hiruzen Sarutobi’s refusal and left the Hokage’s Office with Izumi Uchiha and Hanabi Hyuga.

• Ye Fan completed Hyuga Hiashi’s body tempering, and Hiashi discovered that his chakra, senses, and Byakugan had grown stronger.
• Hyuga Hiashi saw Shimura Danzō’s men approaching and entrusted Hanabi to Ye Fan’s care.
• Izumi Uchiha asked whether she should answer Shimura Danzō’s summons, and Ye Fan told her to ignore it.
• Two Root subordinates entered Ye Fan’s courtyard to summon him, so Ye Fan crippled their meridians with fiery needles and had Laiyun take them to Shimura Danzō.
• Ye Fan told Kurenai Yuhi that he was leaving the ninja ranks to focus on alchemy and medicine.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi refused Ye Fan’s resignation, but Ye Fan left his forehead protector on the desk and walked out with Izumi Uchiha and Hanabi Hyuga.

Ye Fan defeated Neji Hyuga and revealed the truth about his father’s death, prompting Neji to reconcile with Hyuga Hiashi. The chapter ended with Hiashi proposing that Neji succeed him as clan head and that the Main House and Branch House system be abolished.

• Ye Fan provoked Neji into a fight and repeatedly knocked him down with an unseen force while Izumi Uchiha stopped Tenten from intervening.
• Ye Fan privately told Neji that his father had died in Hyuga Hiashi’s place after killing a Lightning Country ninja who tried to abduct Hinata Hyuga.
• Neji went with Ye Fan to the Main House, where Hyuga Hiashi explained the circumstances of his father’s death and gave him his father’s written account.
• Neji learned that his father had died to protect his brother and the village, and his hatred for the Main House faded as Hyuga Hiashi knelt before him.
• Hyuga Hiashi proposed that Neji succeed him as clan head, abolish the Main House and Branch House system, and let Ye Fan see whether he could remove Neji’s Caged Bird Seal.

Ye Fan offered to remove Neji Hyuga’s Caged Bird Cursed Seal or help him refine it, and Neji chose the painful refinement method to gain strength and eliminate the seal’s danger. After the first round, Neji’s Byakugan improved and he hurried outside, where Might Guy, Rock Lee, and Tenten had come to find him.

• Ye Fan examined Neji Hyuga’s Caged Bird Cursed Seal and explained that removing it immediately could leave him muddleheaded, while refining it nine times could increase his strength and strengthen his Byakugan.
• Neji chose to refine the seal despite the pain, and Hyuga Hiashi guarded the room while Ye Fan began the first round using the Heavenly Will Record.
• Neji screamed through the procedure as Ye Fan altered the seal, and Hyuga Hiashi went outside to deal with Might Guy, Rock Lee, and Tenten, who had come looking for Neji.
• After Ye Fan released Neji’s acupoints, Neji activated his Byakugan and discovered that his blind spot was gone and his perception had improved.
• Ye Fan ended the first round and told Neji the Main House could no longer use the seal to kill him, then Neji rushed outside and found Tenten worried about him and Might Guy preparing to act.

Ye Fan helped Izumi Uchiha undergo Body Tempering, guided Hanabi Hyuga into a breakthrough, and refined pills that transformed both girls’ chakra into Senjutsu Chakra. He revealed the dangers of evolving the Sharingan and offered Izumi a safer method, leaving her to decide whether to try it.

• Neji Hyuga told Might Guy that medicinal powder had caused his defeat and privately confirmed to Hyuga Hiashi that he had completed the first of nine Body Tempering sessions.
• Ye Fan performed Body Tempering on Izumi Uchiha while Hanabi Hyuga studied his method and entered a state of enlightenment.
• Izumi Uchiha and Hanabi Hyuga sparred, and Hanabi used her new abilities to immobilize Izumi by striking an acupoint.
• Ye Fan refined pills overnight and gave Izumi and Hanabi Foundation-Stabilizing Pills, then guided them as their chakra transformed into Senjutsu Chakra over the following days.
• Ye Fan explained the risks of Mangekyō Sharingan evolution to Izumi and offered her a new method that would avoid the usual cruel process.