Chapter Summaries

Qian and Mizutani Shizuko defeated the Rock Hidden Chunin Hirai Ichiro, but their respite ended when Haruki Mori ordered them to reinforce E3 Zone. Qian suspected Iwagakure had sent more forces toward another route between its headquarters and the logistics base.

• Qian killed Nishimura Ishihira and threw a Kunai to interrupt Hirai Ichiro as he fought Mizutani Shizuko.
• Qian used Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique while Mizutani Shizuko attacked with Shuriken, forcing Hirai Ichiro to retreat and injuring his left arm.
• Qian drove Hirai Ichiro into a direct fight and nearly severed his left arm before stabbing him in the lower abdomen.
• Hirai Ichiro tried to use an Exploding Tag against Qian, but Qian pulled away and the explosion killed Hirai Ichiro.
• Haruki Mori arrived and ordered Qian and Mizutani Shizuko to head to E3 Zone under the Second Squad captain's command.
• Qian realized E3 Zone was another route from Iwagakure headquarters to the logistics base and suspected more Iwagakure forces had arrived.

Qian and Mizutani Shizuko joined a Konoha force tasked with stopping Iwagakure reinforcements long enough for the Third Squad to destroy a stronghold. The enemy arrived as an elite unit led by Kitsuchi, and Qian realized the coming battle would be extremely difficult.

• Qian and Mizutani Shizuko hurried to E3 Zone, where more than a hundred Konoha ninja gathered.
• The Second Squad captain divided the ninja into six defensive teams to delay the approaching Iwagakure reinforcements.
• Qian and Mizutani Shizuko joined the Fourth Squad and took position in the middle defensive sector.
• A powerful Earth Style technique sent a river of sand through the forest, exposing the hidden Leaf ninja.
• Qian recognized Kitsuchi leading an elite group of Rock Ninja and understood that the battle would be difficult.

Qian fought Akabachi, an Iwagakure jonin who controlled swarms of giant bees, and burned away many of them with Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique. Akabachi eventually surrounded Qian, who considered provoking him as a chance to strike directly at their leader.

• Leaf and Rock ninja exchanged attacks before the battle broke into close-quarters combat.
• Qian spotted Akabachi directing a swarm of giant bees and tried to retreat as they pursued him.
• Qian used Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique to burn large numbers of bees while dodging their stingers and sticky honey.
• Akabachi brought the remaining swarms around Qian and blocked his attempts to escape.
• Akabachi confronted Qian, who realized the jonin held a grudge against Konoha's clans and considered provoking him to create an opening for a decapitation strike.

Qian provoked Akabachi into lowering his guard, then grievously wounded him with a sword strike. After Akabachi used the Crane Clan's Insect Fusion Technique, Qian destroyed the Bee Queen, but the chapter ended with cracks appearing in its abdomen and Qian questioning whether Akabachi was truly dead.

• Qian taunted Akabachi about the Crane Clan's skills and its defeat by the Aburame clan, enraging him.
• Qian used his Sharingan to catch Akabachi off guard and slashed him across the chest, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Akabachi used the Crane Clan's Insect Fusion Technique, and the Bee Queen swallowed him.
• Qian attached an Exploding Tag to the Bee Queen, then struck it with more tagged Shuriken and a Great Fireball Technique until it stopped moving.
• Qian noticed the surrounding swarm remained orderly and saw cracks forming in the Bee Queen's abdomen.

Qian fought Akabachi after the Insect Fusion Technique transformed him into a bee-like creature controlled largely by the Bee Queen. Qian exploited Akabachi’s reduced vigilance, killed him, and waited until his presence faded.

• Akabachi burst through the Bee Queen’s abdomen, escaped into the sky, and revealed his transformed appearance after using the Insect Fusion Technique.
• Qian recognized that the technique’s effects had allowed the Bee Queen to dominate Akabachi, leaving him with less human judgment and combat experience.
• Qian and Akabachi traded shuriken, bee stingers, and fire attacks as the swarm dwindled.
• Qian pretended to stumble into honey, used the Substitution Technique to evade Akabachi’s attack, and lured him into looking at his Sharingan.
• Qian trapped Akabachi with Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique, cut his throat with his Short Sword, and pierced his heart with a Kunai.

Qian escaped Akabachi’s swarm, defeated the Rock Hidden Chunin Ishimatsumi, and began treating the badly wounded Mizutani Shizuko. A hidden attacker killed Shizuko while she saved Qian from the strike, leaving him enraged.

• After Akabachi died, Qian found Mizutani Shizuko wounded and rushed to protect her from Ishimatsumi.
• Qian fought Ishimatsumi with his sword and killed him after overcoming his defenses.
• Qian used the Healing Technique to treat Mizutani Shizuko’s waist wound.
• A hidden attacker struck Qian’s face with a Kunai and stabbed Mizutani Shizuko in the throat after she pulled him aside.
• Qian froze at Shizuko’s death, then became furious at the attacker.

Qian revealed his Sharingan to survive Hideji Kohara’s ambush and fought back against the Iwagakure Jonin, who attacked Uchiha out of resentment over a past humiliation. Qian’s attacks failed to stop Hideji from closing in, leaving them locked in a close-range fight.

• Hideji Kohara ambushed Qian with a kunai, and Qian activated his Sharingan to dodge the strike.
• Hideji recognized Qian’s Sharingan and attacked him because he blamed the Uchiha for a past encounter in which his teacher and companions were killed.
• Qian threw shuriken and began casting genjutsu, but stopped when Hideji avoided looking into his eyes.
• Qian used Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique, but Hideji dodged the fireballs and closed the distance.
• Hideji repeatedly slashed and stabbed at Qian’s neck, forcing Qian to keep dodging in a close-range struggle.

Qian struggled against Hideji Kohara, recognizing his shortcomings in swordsmanship and Sharingan combat before a signal ended the mission and forced the Leaf shinobi to withdraw. After returning to Konoha’s frontline stronghold, Qian planned his training and decided to contact the Uchiha clan’s leaders for guidance.

• Qian fought Hideji Kohara with a short sword, fell into a defensive disadvantage, and realized his close-combat and Sharingan skills were inadequate against an experienced Jonin.
• When signal whistles announced the mission’s completion, Qian took an injury to escape Hideji Kohara and regrouped with the Leaf shinobi.
• Kitsuchi pursued the withdrawing Leaf force, but the returning River Valley survivors and other units strengthened Konoha’s numbers, and the Rock Ninja eventually let them leave.
• After more than ten hours of forced marching, Qian and the surviving Leaf shinobi reached a Konoha stronghold, where Medical Ninja treated the wounded.
• Qian planned to train his Sharingan, Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique, and Leaf-Style Swordsmanship, and resolved to contact the Uchiha clan’s higher-ups for instruction.

After awakening his Sharingan, Qian refused to join the Uchiha combat squad but received clan techniques and a notice that he would take part in the Chunin Exams in two months. He trained intensively through the intervening months, broke through with his Mind Reflection Technique, and brought his Sharingan closer to evolving into a Double Tomoe.

• Qian declined the Uchiha jonin's offer to join the clan's combat squad, and the jonin gave him scrolls on Sharingan techniques and Uchiha-Style Swordsmanship.
• The Uchiha jonin told Qian to prepare for the Chunin Exams in two months, while Qian reflected that he was the only survivor of Class 17.
• Qian followed a demanding training schedule while missions remained manageable after Iwagakure's logistics stronghold was destroyed.
• Two months later, Qian broke through to level five in Mind Reflection Technique and saw that his Sharingan Evolution Progress had reached 715/1000.

Qian assessed his improving skills and discovered that Mind Reflection Technique had greatly accelerated his Sharingan’s evolution. After another week of training, he prepared to return to the village with a group of Genin for the Chunin Exams.

• Qian reviewed his genjutsu and swordsmanship progress, noting how Genjutsu: Sharingan could disrupt opponents when paired with Uchiha-Style Swordsmanship.
• Qian tested his lv5 Mind Reflection Technique and found that using it twice increased his Sharingan Evolution Progress by one point for 340 Chakra.
• Qian calculated that his Sharingan could reach full evolution progress in a little over twenty days and decided the Chunin Exams posed no difficulty for him.
• A week later, Qian finished his patrol mission and received orders to return to the village the next day with a group of Genin for the Chunin Exams.
• Qian packed his luggage and checked his panel, finding his Sharingan Evolution Progress at 807/1000 and two genjutsu skills close to advancing.

Qian returned to Konoha after months on the battlefield, rested, and saw how wartime had left the village struggling. After signing up for the Chunin Exams, he began planning how to train during the ten days before they started.

• During the journey back, Qian leveled up his Sharingan genjutsu and raised his Sharingan Evolution Progress to 872/1000 and his Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique to lv2.
• Qian returned to Konoha, cleaned his dusty home, and slept for an entire day to recover from battlefield exhaustion.
• Qian noticed that wartime had emptied shops and driven prices up, then ate ten bowls of ramen at Ichiraku without finding the prices increased.
• Qian went to the Hokage Building, collected and submitted his Chunin Exam application, and learned the exam would take place in ten days.
• Qian returned home intending to train his Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique and Uchiha-Style Swordsmanship before the exam.

Qian raised his Uchiha-Style Swordsmanship to Lv. 4 and advanced his Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique to Lv. 3 while preparing to evolve his Sharingan. After completing two of his goals, he ended the chapter with only the Sharingan’s evolution remaining.

• Qian used his Sharingan and Short Sword to cut every falling leaf, confirming that his Uchiha-Style Swordsmanship had reached Lv. 4.
• Qian learned that Uchiha Shisui, a young Double Tomoe Sharingan prodigy, would participate in the Chunin Exams and decided not to delay his own Sharingan’s evolution.
• Qian went home with his Sharingan Evolution Progress at 992/1000, expecting his nighttime cultivation to trigger its evolution.
• Qian practiced Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique on a rabbit until it reached Lv. 3, completing two of the goals he had set ten days earlier.

Qian evolved his Sharingan from Single Tomoe to Double Tomoe, gaining sharper perception and increased physical and spiritual strength. He began testing how the evolution affected his chakra use and proficiency gains.

• Qian repeatedly used the Mind Reflection Technique until his Sharingan evolved to Double Tomoe.
• Qian tested his new eyes and found that they improved his vision and perception enough to give him confidence he could contend with Hideji Kohara.
• Qian checked the Proficiency Panel and saw increases to his Physical Constitution, Spirit, and several skills, along with the new Double Tomoe proficiency requirement of 5,000 points.
• Qian observed that activating his Double Tomoe Sharingan consumed two chakra points per minute and worried that reaching the next proficiency milestone would take more than a year.
• Qian returned to his room to test whether the Mind Reflection Technique and the Sharingan's passive proficiency gains still worked as before.

On the first day of the new Chunin Exams, Qian arrived late, briefly met Uchiha Shisui, and then slept while considering how to keep improving his strength without slowing his Sharingan’s evolution. He settled on raising Chakra Control and seeking chakra-absorbing techniques, planning to investigate the Uchiha clan’s collection after the exam.

• Qian entered the Ninja School classroom and drew the attention of the genin gathered for the Chunin Exams.
• Uchiha Shisui introduced himself and tried to get acquainted, but Qian responded coldly and went back to resting.
• Qian reviewed his Sharingan training results and realized the increased chakra cost would slow his evolution unless he found ways to save or gain chakra.
• Qian considered improving Chakra Control, obtaining chakra-absorbing weapons, and learning suitable ninjutsu, then decided to search the Uchiha clan’s collection after the exam.
• Qian fell asleep, and Uchiha Shisui watched him and wondered at his composure.

Qian passed the Chunin Exams’ written test and went to the Forest of Death for the second round. While waiting for the assessment to begin, he refined chakra and considered how quickly his training could expand his reserves.

• Qian answered the written test without cheating, and five candidates were caught and removed for cheating.
• After sleeping for two hours, Qian returned to the Ninja School and found that he had passed with fifty-nine other examinees.
• Qian concluded that Konoha was unlikely to make the second round too strict because it needed more manpower for the war.
• Qian went to the Forest of Death and waited with the other candidates, thinking of Mizutani Shizuko and Ryosuke.
• Qian refined chakra as the sixty successful Genin gathered, while other examinees discussed him and watched him.

Tanigawa Masaki explained the rules for the Forest of Death exam, and Qian entered the forest alone after it began. He tracked a three-person squad heading northwest, leaving him in pursuit.

• Tanigawa Masaki had all sixty candidates sign consent forms before explaining the Heaven and Earth scrolls and the five-day survival test.
• Tanigawa Masaki said squads needed both scrolls to reach the Central Tower and warned that casualties, inability to continue, or failing to arrive within five days meant elimination.
• Qian considered testing whether his Sharingan could resist the scrolls' Hypnosis Seal but decided against it.
• The second exam began, and Qian entered the Forest of Death through an iron gate.
• Qian used his Sharingan to find a nearby entrance and followed the tracks of a three-person squad heading northwest.

Qian escapes a carefully planned ambush by Nara Naruhira and his two teammates, then forces them to surrender and claims their three Earth Scrolls. With the scrolls secured, he leaves the defeated squad behind.

• Qian realizes the trap was set by the three-man squad he had been pursuing and dodges their barrage of Kunai using his Sharingan.
• Qian identifies Nara Naruhira’s Shadow Secret Technique, avoids its reach, and forces the trio out of hiding with Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique.
• Qian narrowly misses Sato Masaru with a thrown Kunai, then catches Aoki Beniko in a Sharingan genjutsu and knocks her away.
• Nara Naruhira concedes and gives Qian the squad’s three Earth Scrolls.
• Qian checks the scrolls for tampering and leaves, while Nara Naruhira finally relaxes.

Qian reached the Central Tower with both required scrolls and trained there until the second exam ended. Tanigawa Masaki announced that the remaining candidates had passed and that the final exam would take place in the tower the next morning.

• Nara Naruhira explained to Sato Masaru that Qian’s skill, rather than the Sharingan alone, had made him too dangerous to resist, and that surrendering one scroll had saved their team.
• Qian collected the Scroll of Heaven and Scroll of Earth, traveled to the Central Tower, and began training according to his chakra plan.
• Uchiha Shisui arrived at the tower shortly after Qian and repeatedly considered speaking with him but avoided interrupting his training.
• Over four days, more than twenty-five Genin arrived at the tower, including Nara Naruhira’s team, and twenty-eight candidates remained when the exam ended.
• Tanigawa Masaki announced that the candidates had passed the second exam and that the final exam would be held in the tower the next morning.

The third exam began with one-on-one fights, and Uchiha Qian was matched against Takakura Shota. Qian quickly overwhelmed him with his Double Tomoe Sharingan and forced his surrender.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen arrived with the examiners and teachers, and the examiner announced the third exam’s combat rules.
• Yang Dou defeated Akai Kaede by trapping him with the Mud Binding Technique and forcing him to admit defeat.
• The examiner drew Uchiha Qian and Takakura Shota for the second match.
• Qian blocked Takakura Shota’s counterattack with the Double Tomoe Sharingan, struck him, and caught him in an illusion.
• Takakura Shota regained consciousness with Qian’s kunai at his neck and admitted defeat.

Uchiha Qian won his second match with ease, then watched Uchiha Shisui defeat Nara Naruhira. After assessing Shisui’s skills, Qian met his gaze and looked forward to facing him.

• Uchiha Qian defeated Takakura Shota in seconds, drawing admiration from the candidates and surprise from Uchiha Zhi Ren.
• Aoki Beniko narrowly won the third match through her taijutsu advantage.
• Uchiha Shisui fought Nara Naruhira with swordsmanship while testing his abilities, then overwhelmed him with Genjutsu and ninjutsu and forced him to concede.
• Uchiha Qian judged Shisui’s swordsmanship and other strengths, and the two exchanged determined looks as they anticipated a future match.