Chapter Summaries

Qian fought through Kumogakure’s encirclement, killing several Cloud ninja as he deliberately drew attention to his escape. Kumogakure identified a Konoha connection from a dying Anbu’s hidden mark and mobilized more forces, while Qian continued toward the edge of the encirclement to alert the Konoha spies.

• A Kumogakure Anbu examined his dead comrade and found a fading Leaf Hidden Village mark made with blood and Chakra.
• The Kumogakure jonin and Anbu connected the mark to a Konoha contact and requested reinforcements while the Sealing Team watched the Perception Barrier.
• The Kumogakure squad investigated a nearby blast and found four charred bodies, concluding the attacker had used Fire Release, Lightning Release, and powerful genjutsu.
• Qian scattered a Cloud ninja squad with his Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique and killed several of its members using genjutsu, kunai, Fire Release, and Lightning Release.
• Qian saw more Kumogakure ninja approaching and left the scene, deliberately fighting on his route to disrupt their plans and alert the hidden Konoha spies.

Qian drew Kumogakure’s attention through the mountains while searching for the Konoha spy, using his Byakugan and Ame no Minaka to evade encirclement. At dusk, he found the spy’s contact marks and followed them into a fog-covered area where he began searching for the hidden spy while avoiding Cloud teams.

• Noda Ru identified the fugitive as Uchiha Qian, and his squad continued following him while an Anbu ninja reported the discovery to Command Headquarters.
• Qian attacked Cloud mountain-search squads and drew out their pursuit, hoping to provoke a response from the Konoha spy.
• Qian evaded Kumogakure encirclements with his Byakugan and Ame no Minaka as he moved through the mountains for half an hour.
• As evening approached, Qian found the spy’s contact mark on a tree and followed its trail up the mountain.
• Qian reached a dense, fog-covered area where the spy was hiding and began searching from the Cloud teams’ blind spots.

Qian found the Konoha spy among Kumogakure’s search teams, but the Cloud ninja exposed that they had already identified the spy and were using him as bait to trap Qian. With Jonin closing in, Qian attacked the Cloud Chunin and moved to help the spy escape, but a shout rang out from afar.

• Qian followed the spy’s marks and spotted a Cloud ninja carving one into a tree, identifying him as the likely Konoha spy.
• Qian attacked the spy’s search squad, but the three Cloud Chunin turned against the spy, revealing they had discovered him and were using him as bait.
• Qian used his Byakugan to see Kumogakure Jonin approaching and decided to end the fight quickly.
• Qian wounded one Cloud Chunin, struck another with Fire Style: Plain Burn Technique, and blocked the third Chunin’s attack on the spy.
• Qian told the spy to flee, but a sharp shout came from afar.

Qian helped the Konoha spy escape west, then fought Torii Ken long enough to drive him back. He left a Shadow Clone to delay the pursuing Cloud Village Jonin and went after the spy.

• Qian dodged the lightning wolves with the Konoha spy and secretly placed a Flying Thunder God Seal on him.
• Qian told the spy to head west and climb the mountain while he stayed behind to face Torii Ken.
• Torii Ken attacked Qian with a rapid series of strikes, but Qian evaded them using his Sharingan and reflexes.
• Qian threw Kunai with Exploding Tags to block Torii Ken's escape routes, forcing him to retreat.
• Qian created a Shadow Clone to hold off Torii Ken and chased after the Konoha spy.

Qian rescued a poisoned Konoha spy from a growing Cloud Village encirclement and carried him to a safe forest. After confirming the area was clear, Qian treated the unconscious spy’s poison and injuries, leaving their return to Konoha for later.

• Qian reached the Konoha spy and used the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique to distract the Cloud ninja besieging him, allowing the spy to escape to his side.
• Qian led the spy through Cloud ninja blockades with Earth and Wind Release techniques until they temporarily broke out of the encirclement.
• Qian discovered the spy had been poisoned by a kunai, then used Wind Release: Wind Wings to carry him into the sky and evade the pursuing Cloud ninja.
• Nearly an hour and a half later, Qian landed in a forest in the Land of Lightning after checking that no enemies were nearby.
• Qian erased the Flying Thunder God Seal from the spy’s arm and treated his poison and injuries while the spy remained unconscious.

Qian rescued the injured Konoha spy and flew him back to Konoha, where they passed the village’s strict identity checks. The pair entered the Hokage Building to report the mission.

• Qian reassured the Konoha spy that he had removed the poison and stabilized his wounds, then continued escorting him through the night.
• Qian flew the spy across the Land of Lightning border and onward to Konoha, while the spy silently endured the cold at high altitude.
• Qian and the spy landed outside Konoha, and Qian checked that the unsteady, pale man was all right.
• A gate guard verified Qian’s order signed by Namikaze Minato, and the village gate opened for them.
• Qian and the spy entered Konoha and walked to the Hokage Building.

Qian reported his mission to Namikaze Minato without revealing his secrets, then returned to his island and intensified his training. As his Sharingan neared its next evolution and his body approached another transformation, he considered delaying the evolution to reduce the strain on his body.

• Qian escorted the Konoha spy to the Hokage Office, where he encountered Hatake Kakashi guarding the door.
• Qian recounted his mission to Namikaze Minato while concealing details about the Mangekyō Sharingan and the Byakugan.
• Namikaze Minato questioned Qian briefly, declared the mission complete, and let him leave with the Konoha spy still in the office.
• Qian returned home, left a shadow clone to keep watch, and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to travel to his island for more training.
• Qian created nearly a hundred shadow clones to train secret techniques while he used the Mystical Palm Technique and Mind Reflection Technique to strengthen his body and advance his Sharingan.
• Qian weighed delaying his Mangekyo Sharingan's next evolution until after his body transformed, concerned that the mental strain could overwhelm his body.

Qian took a break from his grueling training and spent the evening enjoying food on Konoha’s Gourmet Street. He ended the night at a luxurious barbecue restaurant, where he also planned to listen for village gossip.

• After a week of intensive training, Qian neared perfection in the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style but decided to rest before researching a new sealing technique.
• Qian returned home, bathed, changed into casual clothes, and left his ninja gear behind.
• Qian headed to Gourmet Street and reflected on his finances and the differing hardships faced by ninja ranks.
• Qian spent more than two hours sampling food before entering a luxurious barbecue restaurant to satisfy his cravings and gather village gossip.

Qian overheard rumors that a Kumogakure spy had stolen Tobirama Senju’s forbidden techniques and that Orochimaru might be involved. He suspected Orochimaru was preparing to defect, but chose not to intervene; after a restful night, he bought enhanced Soldier Pills and flew to his training island.

• At a barbecue restaurant, Qian overheard Konoha ninjas gossiping that a Kumogakure spy had stolen a forbidden technique left by the Second Hokage.
• A Leaf Special Jonin said the theft might involve Orochimaru, and Qian considered whether Orochimaru had arranged the spy’s actions to hide his own theft of forbidden techniques.
• Qian concluded that village hostility might push Orochimaru to defect within months or years, then finished eating and returned home without getting involved.
• Qian slept through the night and woke refreshed the next morning.
• Qian bought a large bag of enhanced Soldier Pills, used Wind Release: Wind Wings and Chakra Feather Cloak, and flew toward his southern training island.

Uchiha Qingming perfected the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style, improving his chakra control and reducing the chakra needed for training. He decided to delay evolving his Mangekyō Sharingan for up to ten days, until his body was ready for a breakthrough.

• Qingming trained with his shadow clones and perfected the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style.
• Qingming tested his improved Chakra Control and found that it reduced the chakra cost of skill training by about fifteen percent.
• Qingming calculated that his Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave, Flying Thunder God Technique, Bringer-of-Darkness Technique, and Temple of Nirvana Technique would advance faster with the improved control.
• Qingming saw that his chakra capacity had exceeded 370,000 and his Sharingan evolution progress had reached 47,036 out of 50,000.
• Qingming sensed his body nearing a critical point and decided to postpone evolving his Sharingan until after he attempted a bodily breakthrough in early July.

Qian used shadow clones to develop a prototype sealing technique for containing the Seven-Tails, naming it All Things of the Universe Sealing. He planned to use his Proficiency Panel and surplus Chakra to improve it, believing it could eventually become an S-Rank technique.

• Qian set aside practicing Izanagi and Izanami and focused on developing a new sealing technique as planned.
• Qian summoned more than a hundred shadow clones and had them combine the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style with three other sealing techniques to create a container for the Seven-Tails.
• Qian repeatedly recalled the clones, reviewed their memories, and sent them out to refine their approaches until nightfall.
• Qian completed the prototype and named it All Things of the Universe Sealing, a prison-like technique that combined a space, a stabilizing framework, restraints, and an isolating shell.
• Qian saw that All Things of the Universe Sealing had appeared on his panel at lv1 and planned to spend his surplus Chakra raising it toward lv7.

Qian trained All Things of the Universe Sealing until it reached lv7, confirming that it could create a vessel for sealing the Seven-Tails. He then inscribed the technique onto a giant scroll and used Flying Thunder God to leave with it.

• Qian tested All Things of the Universe Sealing on trees, measured its low chakra cost, and set his shadow clones to practice it while he trained other skills.
• Qian trained day and night for more than four days, then recalled his shadow clones and advanced All Things of the Universe Sealing to lv7.
• Qian confirmed that lv7 was sufficient to create the vessel he needed for sealing the Seven-Tails.
• Qian brought out a blank giant scroll, special ink, and a brush, then recorded All Things of the Universe Sealing across the scroll.
• Qian rolled up the completed scroll, picked up a metal sphere, and vanished using Flying Thunder God Technique.

Qian prepared to use a new sealing technique to remove and contain the Seven-Tails, while the weakened Shibu learned that the beast inside him could speak. The chapter ended with Qian placing a precious Chakra Conducting Metal sphere at the center of his sealing scroll.

• Qian visited Shibu, whose body and mind had deteriorated after weeks of having his Chakra extracted.
• Qian told Shibu that his scroll was meant to seal a Tailed Beast, prompting the Seven-Tails to warn Shibu that Qian intended to kill him.
• The Seven-Tails revealed its identity to Shibu and urged him to escape, but Shibu was too weak and restrained to resist.
• Qian finished preparing the scroll and set a silver-white sphere forged from high-purity Chakra Conducting Metal in its central seal.

Qian drained Shibu’s chakra, released his restraints, and undid the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style to draw out the Seven-Tails. After a fierce struggle, Qian trapped the fully formed beast with the All Things of the Universe Sealing and began pulling it toward a Silver-White Metal Sphere.

• Qian absorbed Shibu’s chakra, knocked him unconscious, and released the Self-Exerting Curse Binding Array.
• Qian undid Shibu’s Eight Trigrams Sealing Style, allowing the Seven-Tails’ chakra to surge out and take shape.
• The Seven-Tails attacked Qian with poisonous, hallucinogenic Scale Powder, but Qian countered with Wind Release, a Chakra Feather Cloak, and Fire Release.
• Qian caught the Seven-Tails in a Mangekyō Sharingan Genjutsu that misled its perception of how quickly it was breaking free.
• Qian activated the All Things of the Universe Sealing, immobilizing the Seven-Tails with illusory chains and pulling it toward a Silver-White Metal Sphere.

Qian sealed the Seven-Tails inside a Metal Sphere and began extracting its chakra, having resolved the main risks of absorbing it. He returned to the Training Island to test how much chakra he and the Seven-Tails could safely handle.

• Qian burned Shibu’s corpse and scattered the ashes after the Seven-Tails was extracted and sealed.
• Qian inspected the Metal Sphere and used his Spiritual Power to enter the sealing space, where the Seven-Tails struggled against the restraints.
• Qian reinforced All Things of the Universe Sealing with his chakra until the seal stabilized and the Guardian Seal concealed the sphere’s contents.
• Qian explained that he had trapped the Seven-Tails in an illusion before sealing it, then used the Chakra Absorption Technique to draw its chakra through the sphere.
• Qian confirmed that about ninety-nine percent of the Seven-Tails’ chakra converted into his own and returned to the Training Island to test his limits.

Qian postponed his cultivation test until he had recovered, then spent the day training and replenishing the Seven-Tails’ Chakra. The next morning, he began the test with over a hundred shadow clones while keeping his knowledge of the future hidden from the Tailed Beast and the Sage of Six Paths.

• Qian postponed the test for a day because his earlier cultivation and sealing work had depleted his Mental Strength, then trained with shadow clones and extracted Chakra from the Seven-Tails until nightfall.
• Qian rested overnight and, the next morning, found that the Seven-Tails had grown quieter but still hated and feared him after his Mangekyō Sharingan had affected its perception.
• Qian chose not to reveal that he knew the Seven-Tails’ name, fearing it could communicate with the other Tailed Beasts and expose his foreknowledge to the Sage of Six Paths.
• Qian summoned over a hundred shadow clones, assigned them cultivation tasks, and began the test.

Qian continued training with shadow clones, replenishing his stamina and chakra by consuming enhanced Soldier Pills and absorbing the Seven-Tails’ chakra. His Water Style: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave reached perfection, and he considered how mastering all seven chakra natures could help him gain Kekkei Mōra and survive the coming Fourth Ninja World War.

• Qian ate three enhanced Soldier Pills, absorbed around sixty thousand chakra from the Seven-Tails, and sent over a hundred shadow clones to train.
• After digesting another round of his clones’ memories and experience, Qian discovered that Water Style: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave had advanced to lv9 and reached the Perfected Realm.
• Qian recognized that perfecting the technique had improved his Chakra Control and deepened his understanding of water-nature chakra.
• Qian reflected that wind and yang were his strongest chakra attributes, while his limited use of Yin Release techniques had left his yin mastery behind.
• Qian planned to master more fire, earth, and lightning techniques so he could eventually combine all seven chakra natures and gain Kekkei Mōra.

Qian calculated how to allocate his growing Chakra reserves and used shadow clones to train several skills, discovering that the forbidden Dojutsu were especially inefficient to improve. He continued drawing Chakra from the Seven-Tails until he determined a safe daily limit of one million points.

• Qian assigned shadow clones to train Izanagi, Izanami, Demonic Illusion: Mirror Heaven and Earth Change, and Transcription Seal while he trained other skills.
• Qian absorbed the shadow clones’ experiences and calculated the Chakra cost and training speed for each of the four skills.
• Qian decided to limit training for Izanagi and Izanami because their slow Proficiency gains made heavier Chakra investment wasteful.
• Qian repeatedly drew Chakra from the Seven-Tails and created more shadow clones to continue training through the day.
• Qian noticed the Seven-Tails growing weak and concluded that it could safely provide one million points of Chakra per day, out of roughly 1.5 million in total.

After exhausting himself extracting chakra from the Seven-Tails, Qian returned to Konoha to sleep and found the tailed beast fully recovered the next morning. He decided to create a chakra reservoir to store the excess chakra and experiment with using it to advance his Byakugan, then returned to his training island.

• Qian extracted chakra from the Seven-Tails until both of them reached their limits, then returned to his home in Konoha to rest.
• The next morning, Qian found that the Seven-Tails had recovered, but realized he could not absorb all the chakra it could provide each day.
• Qian decided to build a chakra reservoir inside his body with All Things of the Universe Sealing so he could store excess chakra for later use.
• Qian chose the spot between his brows for the reservoir and considered using its stored chakra to encourage his Byakugan to evolve.
• Qian ate, left a Shadow Clone in the village, and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to his island.

Qian used shadow clones and a prepared scroll to safely construct a Chakra Reservoir with All Things of the Universe Sealing. After confirming its capacity, he linked it to his Byakugan and began feeding it chakra to drive its evolution.

• Qian surveyed the island with Wind Release: Wind Wings and the Byakugan, then had shadow clones test building the Chakra Reservoir.
• As the shadow clones repeatedly collapsed, Qian studied their memories, identified the difficulty of sealing a changing human body, and recalled the remaining clones.
• Qian wrote All Things of the Universe Sealing onto a scroll and used its formulas to guide the technique as he constructed the reservoir in his own body.
• Qian tested the new reservoir and estimated that it could hold nearly five million points of chakra.
• Qian connected the reservoir to his Byakugan and channeled chakra into it, allowing the seal to condense the energy and nourish the eye’s evolution.