Chapter Summaries

Qian joined Uchiha Tekka and a group of Leaf ninja on a coastal patrol to investigate Kirigakure’s unusual movements. While the others kept watch, Qian trained with shadow clones and considered developing a telepathy technique to communicate with them over long distances.

• Qian told Uchiha Tekka that he would join the day’s mission to patrol the waters and investigate Kirigakure.
• Qian and Uchiha Tekka set out with a dozen Leaf ninja on a small sailboat to patrol the coastal waters.
• Qian left a shadow clone with the team to signal him if anything happened, then departed with eight other clones to train.
• Qian considered developing a long-range communication technique based on the Yamanaka Clan’s Telepathy Technique.
• Qian decided to focus first on mastering Wind Style: Wind Blade and improving Wind Style: Rasenshuriken.

Qian trained on a reef while his Shadow Clones practiced assigned skills, then rejoined Uchiha Tekka’s boat after the team found no sign of Kirigakure. On the return trip, he absorbed the clones’ training results at hourly intervals to maximize his proficiency gains.

• Qian had a Shadow Clone flatten a stretch of reef, then assigned his eight Shadow Clones different skills to practice while he trained himself.
• Qian alternated the Mystical Palm Technique and Mind Reflection Technique, replenished his stamina with Soldier Pills, and continued training through the day.
• Uchiha Tekka and the others returned at dusk without encountering any people or finding traces of Kirigakure.
• Qian joined the boat, told Uchiha Tekka to return to Eagle Beak Cliff, and dispelled the Shadow Clone Technique.
• Qian digested the clones’ memories and cultivation experience, following his tested method of converting their results into proficiency every hour.

Qian spent several days training while Kirigakure scouts appeared near other strongholds but avoided Eagle Beak Cliff. After perfecting Wind Style: Wind Blade, he considered shifting his training resources to Wind Style: Rasenshuriken, then reacted to a memory and looked toward Uchiha Tekka’s patrol.

• Qian learned that no patrol teams had encountered Kirigakure ninja near Eagle Beak Cliff, though scouts had appeared elsewhere, and ordered the stronghold to strengthen its night watch.
• Qian continued training while the stronghold remained quiet and Kirigakure activity increased near other positions along the defense line.
• On the third day, Qian created nine shadow clones, left one behind to maintain contact, and trained with the other eight at Reef Beach.
• Qian perfected Wind Style: Wind Blade and tested its larger, faster attack against a reef.
• Qian decided that the Chakra freed by perfecting Wind Style: Wind Blade should go toward Wind Style: Rasenshuriken, then noticed a memory and looked toward Uchiha Tekka’s patrol.

Qian learned that Kirigakure forces had ambushed Uchiha Tekka’s group and rushed to help them after ordering a Shadow Clone to warn the stronghold. He joined the battle at Reef Beach and cut down several Mist Ninja before facing a Special Jonin.

• Qian learned from his Shadow Clone’s memories that Snow Wind and several Kirigakure warships had attacked Uchiha Tekka’s group.
• Qian sent a Shadow Clone to the stronghold to gather everyone, then ran after Uchiha Tekka and the others.
• Qian found the Leaf ninja fighting Mist Ninja near Reef Beach and joined the battle.
• Qian killed three Mist Ninja with his Flash Sword Technique and Genjutsu: Sharingan.
• Qian’s Wind Blade forced a Special Jonin to escape with Water Replacement Technique, and Qian attacked him with his wind-infused sword.

Qian fought off the Mist Ninja assault, killing several and capturing one as the others retreated. He ordered Uchiha Tekka and the survivors to return, with four Mist Village warships still on the horizon.

• Qian dodged the Mist Ninja’s shuriken and explosive kunai, then killed Kojima Mizuki with a Rasengan and a sword strike.
• Qian used Genjutsu: Sharingan to restrain a middle-aged Mist Ninja and killed him with a kunai.
• Qian fought off the remaining Mist Ninja, killing two more before they called for a retreat.
• Qian pursued a fleeing Mist Ninja and captured him after restraining and knocking him unconscious.
• Uchiha Tekka asked what to do next, and Qian ordered everyone to head back while four Mist Village warships remained in the distance.

Qian learned that Kirigakure’s attack on Eagle Beak Cliff was a probe that could become a full invasion if successful, then prepared the Konoha defenders for battle. When the Mist Ninja arrived, he scattered their formation with a powerful Wind Release attack and led a countercharge.

• Qian used Genjutsu: Sharingan to uncover Kirigakure’s plan and killed the captured chunin after extracting his chakra, Spirit Energy, and Body Energy.
• A Konoha chunin reported that Captain Kurosawa was mobilizing troops to intercept the Mist Ninja’s retreat, and Qian ordered the defenders to prepare according to plan.
• More than two hundred Konoha shinobi gathered at Eagle Beak Cliff as four Mist Village warships arrived carrying three or four hundred Mist Ninja.
• Qian leaped onto the sea and charged toward the enemy, then unleashed Wind Release: Great Breakthrough, scattering their formation.
• About a hundred Konoha shinobi followed Qian down from the cliff and rushed the disorganized Mist Ninja.

Qian fought the Mist Village forces after disrupting their formation, then faced five Mist Village Jonin at once. He used genjutsu and a Rasengan to incapacitate one of them, though another wounded his shoulder.

• Qian killed several Mist Ninja after his Wind Release: Great Breakthrough broke up their formation.
• Snow Wind and the other Mist Village Jonin attacked Qian from several directions, but he evaded their coordinated assault.
• Qian used Genjutsu: Sharingan and sword techniques to draw the Mist Village Jonin into close combat.
• Qian anticipated the Jonin’s movements and created an opening as the Mist Village Jonin’s attacks failed to connect.
• Qian hit one Mist Village Jonin with a Rasengan, incapacitating him, while another cut Qian’s shoulder.

Qian fought the Mist Village jonin, killing Matsushita Akio and holding off the remaining four as they combined Genjutsu, water techniques, and Snow Wind’s ice dragon against him. Seeing the Leaf ninja being pushed back, Qian decided they had to withdraw and charged toward the ice dragon with a new power gathering in his left palm.

• Qian gravely wounded Matsushita Akio with a Rasengan, then killed him with his sword.
• Qian fought the four remaining Mist Village jonin and wounded one as Snow Wind grew wary of his rapid improvement.
• A Mist Village jonin caught Qian in an auditory Genjutsu, but Qian broke free and defended against their water attacks with Water Style: Great Shark Bullet Technique.
• Snow Wind attacked Qian with an Ice Crystal Giant Dragon while the other jonin threw Kunai, but Qian dodged the dragon’s claw and deflected the Kunai.
• Qian countered the ice dragon’s cold mist with Fire Release: Fire Dragon Technique, then decided the Leaf ninja had to retreat as the Mist Ninja gained the upper hand.
• Qian used the Flash Sword Technique to charge toward the ice dragon, and an extraordinary power began gathering in his left palm.

Qian used Wind Style: Rasenshuriken to destroy Snow Wind’s Ice Crystal Giant Dragon and ordered the Leaf shinobi to retreat. As he tried to escape, Kirigakure Anbu trapped him inside a cubic barrier cage.

• Qian destroyed the Ice Crystal Giant Dragon with Wind Style: Rasenshuriken and ordered the Leaf shinobi to retreat.
• The Kirigakure ninja pursued the Leaf shinobi, but a Leaf rear guard on Eagle Beak Cliff slowed them with kunai, Exploding Tags, ninjutsu, and genjutsu.
• A Kirigakure jonin cast Water Release: Hidden Mist Technique, but Qian dispelled the fog with a gust of wind so the Leaf shinobi could continue escaping.
• A Kirigakure jonin attacked Qian with sound-based genjutsu while two others tried to stop him with Water Release: Wild Water Wave; Qian countered with Water Style: Great Shark Bullet Technique.
• Snow Wind blocked the shark’s wave with an Ice Wall as Qian turned to flee toward Eagle Beak Cliff.
• Four Kirigakure Anbu raised linked barriers around Qian, sealing him inside a cubic cage.

Qian was trapped by Kirigakure’s Four Mist Sealing Formation, which resisted his ordinary attacks and obscured his Sharingan. He used his Mangekyō Sharingan ability, Ame no Minaka, to pass beneath the barrier and kill one of the Anbu maintaining it.

• Qian ordered Uchiha Tekka and the other Leaf ninja not to come to his aid as Kirigakure’s forces cut them off.
• The four Kirigakure Anbu filled the sealing formation with dense mist to hinder Qian’s vision and perception.
• Qian tried Wind, Water, and Fire Release attacks against the barrier, but none of them broke it.
• Qian activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and used Ame no Minaka to pass through the barrier from below.
• Qian emerged beside a Kirigakure Anbu, drained his chakra, and broke his neck.

Qian escaped the barrier and turned the Mist Village formation into chaos, giving Uchiha Tekka and the Leaf ninja a chance to counterattack. After cutting through Snow Wind’s ice wall and fighting through the Mist Ninja, Qian targeted the jonin who had interrupted his focused state.

• Qian killed a Mist Village Anbu, escaped the barrier, and attacked the Mist Ninja from behind with Wind Release: Great Breakthrough.
• Snow Wind raised an ice wall to shield the Mist Ninja from Qian’s gale, while Uchiha Tekka and the Leaf ninja launched a counterattack.
• Qian stopped his wind technique, carved through the ice wall with Wind Style: Rasenshuriken, and killed Mist Ninja who confronted him.
• Qian used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to evade and counter the Mist Ninja until an auditory-genjutsu jonin incapacitated those around him.
• Qian resisted the genjutsu, became angry at the interruption, and used Flash Sword Technique to rush toward the Mist Village jonin.

Qian killed Minaguchi Hideo and fought alongside the Leaf ninja against the Mist forces. When Kirigakure sounded the retreat, Qian let the exhausted Mist Ninja withdraw rather than risk a costly fight or reveal his hidden ability.

• Qian resisted Minaguchi Hideo’s sound-wave attack, wounded him, and beheaded him with his sword.
• The Mist Ninja attacked Qian, who entered a focused state and cut down their fighters as the Leaf ninja joined the battle.
• The fight continued for more than half an hour until a horn sounded from the Kirigakure warship and the Mist Ninja began retreating.
• Qian and the exhausted Leaf ninja did not pursue, while several Kirigakure jonin watched Qian closely.

After repelling Kirigakure’s attack, Qian trained while a shadow clone struggled to develop a Wind Style Flight Ninjutsu. He broke through the Sharingan’s evolution threshold, awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and advanced Susanoo to its first stage.

• Qian confirmed Kirigakure’s warships had retreated, ordered the battlefield cleared, and resumed training after reinforcements arrived.
• Qian’s Wind Style: Rasenshuriken reached lv6, giving him confidence to develop a Wind Style Flight Ninjutsu, which he assigned to a shadow clone.
• Over the next five days, Qian’s clone repeatedly failed while developing the Flight Ninjutsu, and Qian continued training his Sharingan with the Mind Reflection Technique.
• Qian broke through the Sharingan’s ten-thousand-point Evolution Progress threshold, gaining Spiritual Power and raising his Pupil Power.
• Qian awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and manifested Susanoo’s first stage as a complete silver-white skeleton.

Qian tested his Susanoo and assessed the effects of his Spirit attribute reaching 20, including major increases to his chakra limit and daily recovery. He allocated the extra chakra among his ninjutsu and Flight Ninjutsu before resuming cultivation.

• Qian felt the strain of maintaining Susanoo and withdrew it, recognizing that his physical constitution still needed improvement.
• Qian checked his Status Panel and found that his Spirit had risen to 20 as his Sharingan progress reached 10,000.
• Qian realized the Spirit increase had greatly raised his theoretical chakra limit and daily chakra recovery, though his physical constitution limited the full benefit.
• Qian assigned the extra daily chakra to Wind Style: Rasenshuriken, two water techniques, Rasengan, and Flight Ninjutsu.
• Qian closed the Status Panel and began cultivating.

As Konoha and Kirigakure remained locked in a fierce stalemate, Qian used the lull after Might Duy killed five of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen to resume training. He advanced Wind Style: Rasenshuriken to lv7 but still could not launch it, and continued working toward developing Flight Ninjutsu.

• Kirigakure's offensive spread across Konoha's defensive lines, but the defenses held and the fighting became deadlocked.
• Qian learned that Might Duy had killed five of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, prompting Kirigakure to halt its offensive.
• Qian finished a round of training and absorbed his shadow clones' experience, which he could now handle easily with his improved Spirit attribute.
• Qian raised Wind Style: Rasenshuriken to lv7 but failed to throw it, and he sensed that developing Flight Ninjutsu was close.
• Qian reviewed the levels and improvements of his other techniques, then created shadow clones and resumed training.

Qian perfected his Illusion Sword Technique and began developing a Shadow Sword Technique, then completed the first stage of his Wind Release: Wind Wings flight ninjutsu. By the end, the wings could do more than keep him hovering, though he continued refining their abilities.

• Qian reached perfection in the Illusion Sword Technique, which let him keep Genjutsu on his blade at the cost of chakra and Spiritual Power.
• Qian decided to develop the Shadow Sword Technique himself and assigned one of his shadow clones to research the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique.
• After nearly a month of work, Qian developed Wind Release: Wind Wings and tested it above the sea near Eagle Beak Cliff.
• Qian and twenty shadow clones practiced the flight ninjutsu, sharing their experience every half hour to improve their proficiency.
• Qian reached entry-level mastery of Wind Release: Wind Wings in two hours and advanced its effects beyond hovering.

Qian successfully developed Wind Release: Wind Wings and learned to fly, then returned to his residence and planned his next studies. He decided to research communication and shadow-clone techniques while asking the Uchiha clan for materials to develop Earth Release.

• Qian tested his Wind Wings at high altitude, discovering that he could fly at about ten meters per second but consumed chakra quickly.
• Qian approached Eagle Beak Cliff, landed after Leaf sentries challenged him, and confirmed his identity with the password.
• Uchiha Wako asked whether Qian had succeeded, and the other sentries teased Wako when he vowed to surpass Qian.
• Qian returned to his residence and planned to study the Mind-Link Secret Technique and the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique.
• Qian decided to ask the Uchiha clan for books and scrolls on Earth Release so he could learn defensive ninjutsu, then began writing a letter.

Qian trained and managed his stronghold while waiting for his body to reach the threshold for another transformation. Meanwhile, Kirigakure launched a coordinated full-scale attack against weak points in Konoha’s defenses, including Eagle Beak Cliff.

• Qian gave Uchiha Tekka a letter for Elder Huo Xuan, and Tekka sent it with his summoning beast, Little Orange.
• Qian’s Wind Release: Wind Wings reached lv2, doubling its flight speed to seventy-two kilometers per hour, and he sensed that his body was nearing another transformation.
• Qian heard his subordinates’ reports, assigned tasks for the next day, and then trained his body and Sharingan before falling asleep.
• Kirigakure warships sailed toward Eagle Beak Cliff and other targets after Kirigakure obtained intelligence about Konoha’s troop deployments.
• Kirigakure brought its main force out to attack several weak points at once, aiming to break through Konoha’s eastern defensive line and push the front into the Land of Fire.

Kirigakure launched a surprise attack on the Konoha stronghold after its Anbu silently eliminated the sentries. Qian joined the battle from the air and attacked the Mist Ninja ranks, buying the Leaf defenders time to organize.

• Kirigakure Anbu killed Ikeda Takeshi and his squad, then confirmed that the hidden sentries had also been eliminated.
• The Anbu concealed themselves and waited for Kirigakure's main force, leaving Konoha unaware of the approaching attack.
• A whistle and explosion woke Qian, who detected nearly five or six hundred Kirigakure ninja attacking the stronghold.
• Qian used Wind Release: Wind Wings to fly behind the Kirigakure force and struck its ranks with Fire Release techniques.
• Qian moved between targets as he attacked, disrupting Kirigakure's rear and slowing its advance.

Qian used his flight ninjutsu to disrupt Kirigakure’s advance, but Terumi Mei and the Kirigakure Anbu countered him with Water Release techniques and forced a stalemate. He ultimately flew past them to attack the Mist Ninja farther ahead, leaving Terumi Mei and the others unable to stop him.

• Qian flew to another group of Kirigakure ninja, dodged Terumi Mei’s Water Dragon Bullet Technique, and wounded several Mist Ninja with Wind Style: Wind Blade.
• A Kirigakure Anbu used Water Release: Rain Cutter to weaken Qian’s Chakra Wings, but Qian countered with Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique before Terumi Mei blocked his attack with another water dragon.
• Three more Kirigakure Anbu and several Kirigakure jonin arrived, and Qian scattered their Rain Cutter with a powerful Wind Release: Great Breakthrough.
• Terumi Mei ordered the Kirigakure forces to attack together, driving Qian higher until both sides reached a stalemate.
• Qian flew past Terumi Mei and the jonin toward the Mist Ninja ahead, forcing them to trail after him.