Chapter Summaries

Qian killed six Rock Hidden Genin and helped his teammates defeat two more, then faced two Rock Hidden Chunin while three Chunin closed in. He aimed to keep the outnumbered Konoha forces from losing the battlefield without revealing his Sharingan.

• Qian killed a wounded Rock Hidden Genin and rushed to help Mizutani Shizuko, defeating the two Genin attacking her.
• Qian and Mizutani Shizuko joined Ryosuke's fight and killed two more Rock Hidden Genin.
• Three Rock Hidden Chunin targeted Qian, and he asked Ryosuke and Mizutani Shizuko to hold off one while he attacked the other two.
• Qian assessed the remaining forces and decided he needed to kill more Rock Hidden Chunin, but he would keep his Sharingan concealed unless forced to use it.

Qian exploited the Hidden Stone chūnin’s belief that he was distracted by his injured teammates to bait them into kicking him away, then used a Substitution Technique to turn the fight around. He killed both chūnin and finished the battle with Ryosuke and Mizutani Shizuko still alive.

• Qian pretended to lose focus when Mizutani Shizuko was injured, prompting the two Hidden Stone chūnin to exploit an opening and kick him away.
• Qian used the Substitution Technique to evade their pursuing weapons, then struck them with Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique.
• Qian used a kunai and Steel Wire to bind one Hidden Stone chūnin to a tree and burned him with Fire Release: Fire Dragon Technique.
• Qian used his Sharingan and shuriken to injure the second Hidden Stone chūnin, then killed both opponents with kunai.

Qian drew Shiroishi Kurato away from the battlefield and fought the Hidden Stone Special Jonin in the forest. After Shiroishi Kurato wounded and paralyzed him with Lightning Release, Qian revealed his Sharingan and used its hypnotic ability to create an opening.

• Qian realized Furukawa expected him to stall the approaching Shiroishi Kurato, then fled the battlefield to keep his Sharingan from being exposed to others.
• Shiroishi Kurato pursued Qian into the forest, where an Exploding Tag injured Qian’s clone and Shiroishi Kurato cut down Qian’s shuriken.
• Shiroishi Kurato attacked Qian with his Short Blade and sent Lightning Release chakra through Qian’s kunai, paralyzing him and cutting his chest.
• Qian activated his Sharingan and hypnotized Shiroishi Kurato, then retreated and threw several shuriken at him.

Qian fought Shiroishi Kurato after realizing the Special Jonin could use Lightning Release and had badly wounded him. Qian’s relentless fire attacks overwhelmed Shiroishi Kurato, leaving him unable to stand.

• Shiroishi Kurato woke in time to block most of Qian’s shuriken, then judged the injured young Uchiha as both a bounty opportunity and a threat.
• Qian recognized that he had underestimated Shiroishi Kurato’s second chakra nature and resolved not to become reckless again.
• Qian used a Great Fireball, an explosive-tag kunai, and repeated Phoenix Sage Fire techniques to keep Shiroishi Kurato on the defensive.
• Shiroishi Kurato attempted to close in with the Body Flicker Technique, but Qian escaped and blocked his pursuit with kunai.
• Qian concealed red-hot shuriken inside his Phoenix Sage Fire attack, forcing Shiroishi Kurato to block them before a fireball struck his chest.
• Shiroishi Kurato coughed and struggled several times to stand, but could not get up.

Qian defeated Shiroishi Kurato and his Shadow Clone by using the Sharingan to anticipate their plan and trap the original in genjutsu before detonating an Exploding Tag. Injured and nearly out of chakra, Qian left the battlefield to hide until the surprise attack ended.

• Shiroishi Kurato pretended to be injured, then transformed into lightning and charged at Qian, who trapped him with Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique.
• Shiroishi Kurato's Shadow Clone attacked Qian from behind, but Qian evaded it and triggered an Exploding Tag on the clone's back.
• Qian realized the Sharingan had helped him read Shiroishi Kurato's movements and infer that he had used the Shadow Clone Technique.
• Qian checked his panel, saw that the battle had raised his Sharingan's Evolution Progress by ten points, and rejected the idea of seeking another dangerous fight to increase it.
• Qian picked up Shiroishi Kurato's Short Blade and left the battlefield to find a place to hide while he recovered.

After surviving the night and rejoining the Leaf forces, Qian learned that the Rock Ninja and Sand ninja had attacked the Main Camp, and he reunited with his injured comrades. While recovering, he decided to spend his military merits on Leaf-Style Swordsmanship.

• Qian waited until a Leaf patrol found him, then explained how he had survived the night and killed Shiroishi Kurato.
• Furukawa brought Qian back to the Main Camp and explained that Rock Ninja and Sand ninja had launched coordinated attacks against the Leaf's defenses and Main Camp.
• Qian learned that Furukawa had lost his right arm, Nakajima Hiroshi and another Special Jonin had died, and Ryosuke and Mizutani Shizuko had survived with serious injuries after Okura Seiya came to help.
• Qian visited Ryosuke and Mizutani Shizuko, then went to the medical team to have his chest wound treated.
• Qian decided to exchange his military merits for Leaf-Style Swordsmanship after his injuries were treated.

Qian trained at the Main Camp while expecting Orochimaru to retaliate, though burned supplies would likely delay any major battle for at least a month. As he advanced his Leaf-Style Swordsmanship, he realized skills could boost related techniques and decided to prioritize Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique.

• Qian reasoned that Konoha's burned supplies would delay large-scale battles until replacements arrived, likely for at least a month.
• Qian practiced Leaf-Style Swordsmanship with a Short Sword he had seized from Shiroishi Kurato and quickly progressed with help from his mastered Basic Body Technique.
• Qian's Basic Body Technique disappeared from his Status Panel after being absorbed by Leaf-Style Swordsmanship, which he then raised to lv2.
• Qian reconsidered how related skills accelerated each other's proficiency and decided to raise Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique before his other Fire Release Ninjutsu.

After recovering, Qian reviewed his training progress and calculated how to speed up his Sharingan’s evolution. His class was sent to the Rain Country front line for a month-long outpost rotation, where the ruined town and its dead residents showed the cost of the war.

• Qian saw that his swordsmanship and ninja tool throwing had improved, but his Sharingan had reached only 160 points of evolution progress.
• Qian calculated that raising his Chakra Refining Technique and Mind Reflection Technique could help his Sharingan evolve to Two-Tomoe in four or five months.
• Qian joined more than a hundred Leaf ninja escorting supply carts to the front line, despite hoping for an easier mission.
• Qian and the group traveled for three days without an ambush and arrived at a ruined town in the Rain Country.
• Qian saw the devastation and smelled corpses in the collapsed buildings, where many civilians had died in battles between ninja.

During the rotation mission, Qian’s Leaf-Style Swordsmanship reached lv3 and raised his Physical Constitution from seven to eight. After testing his new limits, he confirmed that his daily usable chakra had increased to 4,200, accelerating his Sharingan’s evolution.

• Qian sparred with Furukawa and continued training while Ryosuke and Mizutani Shizuko followed his example.
• Qian’s Leaf-Style Swordsmanship advanced to lv3, raising his Physical Constitution from seven to eight.
• That night, Qian refined chakra and confirmed his increased physical potential had expanded his chakra capacity.
• After three days of testing, Qian confirmed his daily chakra-use limit had risen from 3,500 to 4,200, increasing the rate of his Sharingan’s evolution.

After Uchiha Qian’s unit repelled a Rock Ninja attack, Main Camp ordered the front-line outposts to launch a full-front assault on Iwagakure that night. Qian reviewed his recent training gains and prepared to rely on his improved skills to survive the raid.

• Uchiha Qian and the Leaf ninjas defeated the Rock Ninja assault on their outpost, one day before their garrison duty was due to end.
• Furukawa returned from a meeting with orders for the outpost to divide into four squads and attack the Rock Ninja outpost that night; the same command had reached nearly every front-line outpost facing Iwagakure.
• Uchiha Qian suspected the order might be Orochimaru’s revenge but decided to slack off if the mission did not require a specific objective.
• Uchiha Qian checked his Proficiency Panel and saw that his physical constitution, chakra, Sharingan, and several skills had improved during the past month.
• Uchiha Qian considered his stronger swordsmanship, ninja tool throwing, Fire Release, genjutsu, and Body Flicker Technique, and concluded that his increased strength gave him a better chance of surviving the raid.

Qian and Furukawa’s squad attacked the Rock Ninja stronghold after explosions signaled that other squads had engaged early. Qian warned the squad of an underground ambush, but their advance was halted when a Hidden Rock jonin and the stronghold’s defenders counterattacked.

• Qian and the squad followed Furukawa toward the village, then charged ahead when explosions erupted from the south and north.
• Qian sensed a tremor, pulled Ryosuke and Mizutani Shizuko aside, and warned the squad just before fissures and Rock Spikes struck.
• A Hidden Rock jonin emerged, and Furukawa assigned a Leaf jonin to confront him while leading the rest toward the stronghold.
• The Rock Ninja drove Qian’s group back with a volley of Kunai, and a Leaf jonin used Water Dragon Bullet against the village wall.
• A Rock jonin raised an Earth Flow Wall that stopped the water dragon, leaving the squad’s attack stalled.

Qian joined a three-Chunin squad infiltrating a Rock Hidden outpost to locate and destroy its supply depot. As the squad reached the depot area, Yamanaka Ichiryo’s sensing technique detected Qian’s unusually large Chakra amount, though the mission continued.

• Two Leaf Village Jonin infiltrated the Rock Hidden outpost and caused explosions behind its earthen wall, prompting Furukawa to assign squads to hold off enemies and search for supplies.
• Qian joined Fourth Squad, whose three Chunin teammates trusted his combat ability, while Furukawa intended him to act as a trump card.
• Yamanaka Ichiryo used Mind Reading Technique on a captured Rock Hidden Chunin, learning that the supply depot was beneath the village center.
• At the center of the village, Yamanaka Ichiryo used Mind Touch and sensed Qian’s unusually large Chakra amount, briefly mistaking him for a disguised Jonin.

Qian and his teammates stormed a building guarded by Rock Ninja, quickly killing the defenders before moving to the underground entrance. Their cautious approach avoided the initial trap, but explosions then erupted through the corridor.

• Yamanaka Ichiryo sensed two enemy Genin squads, one inside the building and one underground.
• Qian led the team into the building, deflected a volley of Kunai, and killed the Rock Hidden Chunin with help from a Leaf Village Chunin.
• Qian and his teammates overwhelmed and killed the three Rock Hidden Genin, then gathered weapons and asked Yamanaka Ichiryo for the underground entrance.
• Yamanaka Ichiryo led the team to room 107, where Kunai shot out as they opened the door.
• The four teammates dodged into rooms on either side, and several Exploding Tags detonated along the corridor.

Qian and his teammates destroyed the Rock Ninja supply warehouse and escaped as the village exploded, but their retreat cost them heavily. Back at the Town Outpost, Qian learned that Ryosuke and Teacher Furukawa had died and asked Mizutani Shizuko how they were killed.

• Qian and his teammates attacked room 107 with Exploding Tags, then killed the Rock Ninja defenders inside.
• The team planted Exploding Tags throughout the underground supply warehouse and escaped before it detonated.
• The blast signaled mission success, but the Leaf ninja faced fierce resistance while retreating, and one of Qian's teammates died.
• Qian returned to the Town Outpost and discovered that its numbers had been cut nearly in half.
• Mizutani Shizuko told Qian that Ryosuke and Teacher Furukawa were dead, and Qian asked how they had died.

After learning of Ryosuke and Furukawa’s deaths, Qian comforted the wounded Mizutani Shizuko and returned to the Main Camp with the surviving ninja. He trained until his Chakra Refining Technique reached level 4, doubling his chakra recovery and speeding up his future growth.

• Mizutani Shizuko told Qian that Furukawa had died covering the team’s retreat and Ryosuke had died protecting her from Hidden Rock chunin.
• Qian decided he did not feel guilty about their deaths, resolved to grow stronger, and sent Mizutani Shizuko to the Medical Ninja.
• Qian and the survivors completed the outpost handover and returned to the Main Camp, where he resumed training.
• After two days, Qian advanced his Chakra Refining Technique from level 3 to level 4 and found that his chakra recovery had doubled.
• Qian estimated that his daily usable chakra had risen to 5,500, allowing him to improve his Sharingan’s evolution progress faster.

Qian trained with Mizutani Shizuko and noticed that some ninjas had returned from the Town Outpost well before their rotation ended, making him suspect a major event was approaching. Back in his tent, he reviewed his improving skills and newly learned Healing Technique, then resolved to keep strengthening himself.

• Qian sparred with Mizutani Shizuko, disarmed her, and ended their training for the day.
• Qian recognized some returning ninjas as members of the group that had taken over their Town Outpost garrison, and warned Mizutani Shizuko to stay alert.
• Qian reviewed the early return and recent offensive in his tent, concluding that something major might happen and that he should improve his strength.
• Qian checked his Proficiency Panel and saw progress in his Sharingan, Mind Reflection Technique, Leaf-Style Swordsmanship, and other skills.
• Qian reflected on the difficulty of learning Healing Technique and considered it another step toward becoming a Hexagonal Warrior.

Qian noticed the Leaf Main Camp tightening security and continued training while its forces assembled. Orochimaru confirmed preparations for a retaliatory operation against Iwagakure, with Root planning assassinations to keep Sunagakure occupied, and ordered the operation to begin the following night.

• Qian observed that travel-worn ninjas were returning to the Main Camp, security had increased, and the Training Ground was closed, so he focused on practicing the Mind Reflection Technique.
• Orochimaru met with Leaf Village Jonin and learned that most personnel had arrived and the operation plan had not been leaked, though Sunagakure and Iwagakure had noticed unusual activity.
• A Root Organization ninja told Orochimaru that Root was ready to assassinate important Sunagakure figures in the Rain Country.
• Orochimaru ordered the operation to begin tomorrow night at seven, then remained alone in the tent and tried to calm his weariness and irritation.

Qian joined Orochimaru’s large-scale raid on Iwagakure’s main supply stronghold in the Rain Country, with his detachment assigned to intercept reinforcements. After waiting for hours in a river valley, Qian and the Leaf ninjas learned that the enemy was finally approaching.

• Qian understood that Orochimaru had drawn Iwagakure’s forces toward the front and created a temporary opening for the raid.
• Qian and the Leaf force reached their staging area, split into three sections, and assigned Qian and Mizutani Shizuko to a three-hundred-man interception detachment.
• Qian told Mizutani Shizuko to stay close during the expected battle, and she agreed.
• Qian and the detachment waited in hiding at the river valley for two and a half hours without seeing enemy reinforcements.
• A messenger arrived and reported that the enemy was three kilometers away, prompting the team leader to order everyone to prepare.

Qian’s Konoha unit ambushed the approaching Rock Ninja reinforcements, inflicting heavy casualties before the battle spread across the field. Qian fought an Iwagakure chunin with his sword, then faced Nishimura Ishihira, who charged him expecting fear but found him calm.

• The Leaf leader ordered a kunai ambush, and the Konoha ninja followed with a charge and ninjutsu attacks that killed or wounded many Rock Ninja.
• Qian stayed back until the jonin engaged, then fought an Iwagakure chunin with a sword and found his Leaf-Style Swordsmanship superior.
• Qian watched Mizutani Shizuko hold her own against an Iwagakure chunin and felt reassured.
• As the battle intensified, Qian and Mizutani Shizuko moved away from the jonin fighting, and Qian’s opponent broke away to fight someone else.
• Nishimura Ishihira, after killing two Leaf Village Genin, charged Qian expecting to frighten him, but Qian remained calm as Nishimura attacked with his kunai.

Qian defeated and killed Nishimura Ishihira after dominating their sword fight and overcoming the man’s escape attempt. The chapter ended with Qian reflecting that strength, rather than fearlessness, had let him face the threat calmly.

• Qian overwhelmed Nishimura Ishihira with rapid attacks, forcing him onto the defensive.
• Nishimura Ishihira made a mistake under pressure, and Qian wounded him before the man escaped with Earth Style: Earth Substitution Technique.
• Qian threw Shuriken at Nishimura Ishihira, then used the Body Flicker Technique to close in and prevent him from using ninjutsu.
• Qian stabbed Nishimura Ishihira through the heart, killing him.
• Qian dismissed the idea that he was a born ninja and concluded that sufficient strength was the best way to overcome fear.