Recaps

Uchiha Qian stole the Seven-Tails from Takigakure, sealed it inside Shibu, and continued training while keeping the captive under guard. Later, he undertook a mission in the Land of Lightning and rescued a Konoha spy from Kumogakure, leaving the injured spy unconscious in a forest as he treated him.

• Qian advanced his sealing techniques, infiltrated Takigakure, bound the Seven-Tails, and sealed it inside Shibu before taking him to a deserted island.
• Qian confined Shibu in a sealing array and assigned a shadow clone to guard him and extract chakra while Qian continued training.
• Qian returned to Konoha, briefed Namikaze Minato, and took four secret techniques from the Uchiha Secret Archive before leaving to train.
• Qian accepted a mission to escort a Konoha sleeper agent carrying stolen Kumogakure research and flew toward the Land of Lightning.
• Qian crossed Kumogakure’s defenses, learned through Mind Reading Technique that the spy was still hiding in the mountains, and fought Cloud squads to draw the spy out.
• Qian found the spy, who had been exposed as a fugitive, and helped him escape while facing Torii Ken and evading the surrounding Kumogakure forces.
• Qian carried the poisoned, unconscious spy away from the pursuit and treated his injuries in a forest in the Land of Lightning.

Qian created a new sealing technique, captured the Seven-Tails, and used its chakra to advance his training and Byakugan. After returning to Konoha, he confronted Obito Uchiha at the cemetery, took his Hashirama-cell-bearing arm, and began studying it.

• Qian escorted the wounded Konoha spy to Namikaze Minato, then returned to training and completed the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style.
• Qian developed All Things of the Universe Sealing and used it to trap the Seven-Tails in a Silver-White Metal Sphere, extracting most of its chakra for his own use.
• Qian built a Chakra Reservoir inside his body and used the Seven-Tails’ chakra to advance his Byakugan and train his techniques.
• Qian improved All Things of the Universe Sealing to lv8, expanded the reservoir’s capacity, and decided not to pursue another Tailed Beast for the time being.
• Uchiha Shisui told Qian that the Perception Barrier had detected a likely space-time intruder, and Qian suspected Obito Uchiha.
• Qian found Obito Uchiha at the cemetery, tore off his right arm, and forced him to escape with Kamui after a brief fight.
• Qian erased traces of the encounter, while Kakashi and Anbu found no useful clues at the cemetery.
• Qian returned home, unsealed Obito Uchiha’s severed arm, and infused it with Yang Release Chakra to study its Hashirama Cells.

Qian transformed his body with Hashirama Cells, awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and strengthened his techniques before taking an S-rank mission to investigate Kirigakure. There, he uncovered unrest surrounding Karatachi Yagura’s reforms and found another outsider operating inside the village.

• Qian extracted Hashirama Cells from the severed arm, then later assimilated them through his body transformation and improved his physical constitution and chakra capacity.
• Qian evolved his Mangekyo Sharingan into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, trained his techniques, and perfected the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Qian told Uchiha Shisui that the Spiral-Masked attacker was an Uchiha seeking the Nine-Tails and that Akatsuki planned to gather all the Tailed Beasts.
• Qian accepted Namikaze Minato’s infiltration mission, crossed into the Land of Water, and entered Kirigakure through its Perception Barrier using Ame no Minaka.
• Qian abducted four Mist Ninja and learned that Karatachi Yagura had recently replaced the Third Mizukage, ended the Bloody Mist Policy, and imposed martial law amid coup rumors.
• Qian captured a Mist Anbu and a suspicious Mist Ninja, then used the man’s memories to discover he was a spy carrying intelligence and that another outsider had infiltrated Kirigakure.
• Qian learned the Heart-Locking Seal from the spy before the man died, then considered using the unconscious Mist Anbu to expose the other outsider and exploit the resulting confusion.

Qian infiltrated Kirigakure’s pursuit of an Iwagakure spy, planted hidden agents, and returned to Konoha to advance his seals and Byakugan. After detecting Hiruzen’s surveillance and finding his chakra needs growing, Qian set out to capture the Four-Tails.

• Qian stole the intelligence scroll, confronted the Iwagakure Anbu, and marked a Mist Anbu to conceal his own identity while planting agents among Kirigakure’s forces.
• Qian killed the fleeing Iwagakure Anbu, returned to Konoha, and reported the mission to Namikaze Minato without revealing his secrets.
• Qian trained several Fire, Earth, and Lightning Release techniques, then perfected All Things of the Universe Sealing and increased his available daily chakra.
• Qian sealed the Seven-Tails back into the Metal Sphere, drew on its chakra, and used the perfected seal to nurture his Byakugan until it evolved.
• Qian tested his evolved Byakugan and found that nurturing it consumed large amounts of chakra, while learning that the Population Disappearance Incident had resumed.
• Qian detected Sarutobi Hiruzen watching him with the Telescope Technique, while Hiruzen continued to suspect Qian in Danzo’s death.
• Qian decided to capture the Four-Tails, left a Shadow Clone in Konoha, and flew toward the Land of Earth.