Chapter Summaries

Qian used the chaos of the battle between an Iwagakure Anbu and Mist Anbu to secretly modify more Mist Anbu into his eyes and ears. After modifying seven of the twelve members across three squads, he decided to change targets rather than risk exposing his scheme to Karatachi Yagura.

• Qian followed the fighting and used his Byakugan to watch the Iwagakure Anbu struggle against six Mist Anbu.
• Qian thickened the mist and attacked the Mist Anbu with Wind Release techniques, giving the Iwagakure Anbu a chance to escape.
• Qian used Ame no Minaka, shadow clones, and Sharingan genjutsu to modify one injured Mist Anbu, then repeated the method on two others.
• Qian left the battlefield after pretending to cover the Iwagakure Anbu's retreat, while the Mist Anbu pursued the Iwagakure ninja.
• Qian tracked the pursuing Mist Anbu and managed to modify three more of them, bringing his total to seven of the twelve squad members.
• Qian decided to stop targeting those squads and look for new targets before Karatachi Yagura discovered his scheme.

Qian planted hidden agents among the Mist Ninja to learn when the Three-Tails revived, but decided the network was not reliable enough. He headed into Kirigakure to control Genji as a final safeguard.

• Qian used shadow clones disguised as Mist Anbu and Iwagakure Anbu to split the arriving Mist Ninja into smaller groups.
• Qian modified weaker Mist Ninja into unwitting spies, killed those who threatened to expose him, and destroyed the bodies to conceal evidence.
• Qian escaped the Mist Ninja search with Ame no Minaka after planting more than a dozen hidden agents among them.
• Qian decided to control someone who would reliably receive news about the Three-Tails, without manipulating Karatachi Yagura or causing chaos in Kirigakure.
• Qian identified Genji as his final safeguard and headed to Genji's home to make him one of his own.

Qian infiltrated Genji's mansion and secretly placed a Flying Thunder God Seal and a Transcription Seal on him while concealing the intrusion with genjutsu. He left without being detected, and Genji remained uneasy as he waited for news.

• Qian used Ame no Minaka to enter Genji's mansion, but Genji and the Mist Ninja guards sensed an unusual presence.
• Qian created a shadow clone that attacked with a Great Fireball, drawing the guards away as Genji was escorted toward a secret chamber.
• Qian slipped into the chamber ahead of Genji and five guards, trapped them in an illusion, and placed seals on Genji.
• Qian erased their memories of the intrusion and escaped, leaving genjutsu to make them resume their imagined arrangements.
• Genji later sensed that someone might be watching him, but found nothing unusual and waited for news from outside.

Qian escaped Kirigakure after his mission and intercepted the fleeing Iwagakure Anbu, killing him to prevent him from revealing what he knew. He returned to the Training Island exhausted and decided to rest before submitting the mission at a more believable time.

• Qian slipped past Kirigakure’s patrols and Perception Barrier, then sensed a Flying Thunder God Seal moving away from the village.
• Qian teleported to the fleeing Iwagakure Anbu, stabbed him, and killed him with a Rasengan when he tried to escape.
• Qian burned the Iwagakure Anbu’s body and scattered the ashes before Kirigakure’s pursuers arrived.
• Qian used a long-distance Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the Training Island in the Land of Fire.
• Qian returned to his wooden cabin to rest and planned to submit the mission after waiting until daybreak.

Qian returned to Konoha, filed a report on his mission in Kirigakure, and received money and village merit. Back home, he began studying difficult ninjutsu to improve his mastery of several Chakra attributes.

• Qian flew back to Konoha and wrote a mission report that included his dealings with an Iwagakure spy and an Iwagakure Anbu while concealing his secrets.
• Qian reported to Namikaze Minato, who did not press him about the report’s suspicious details, and received five hundred thousand ryō and village merit.
• Qian decided to save his merit toward asking Namikaze Minato to let him learn the Spirit Transformation Technique from the Book of Seals.
• Qian returned home to rest and began allocating his saved Chakra by studying difficult Fire Release, Earth Release, and Lightning Release ninjutsu.

Qian reviewed seven ninjutsu scrolls from the Uchiha clan collection, most of which were considered impractical because of their costs or limitations. He chose three Fire Release techniques to improve his chakra transformation skills, especially an unfinished technique that he hoped to develop into an S-rank attack.

• Qian examined Fire Style: Crimson Lotus Hellfire and decided its huge chakra cost and dangerous explosions were acceptable for his abilities.
• Qian reviewed Fire Release: Thousand Swallow Dance and found it less useful than the Uchiha clan’s Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique.
• Qian selected an unnamed, unfinished Fire Release technique whose creator had died in an explosion, seeing potential for an S-rank offensive ninjutsu.
• Qian assessed Earth Release: Black Earth Rain and Earth Release: Earth Vein Dragon and judged both too difficult or impractical to use reliably.
• Qian reviewed Lightning Release: Lightning Beast Tracking Fang and Lightning Release: Thunder Sword, finding their control demands or chakra costs made them impractical.

Qian trained Lightning Release: Thunder Sword in the Forest of Death, using its beasts as targets and reaching entry level with the jutsu. He then began practicing Earth Release: Black Earth Rain against an Armor Bear, but the unstable technique soon faded and the bear charged at him again.

• Qian left the crowded Uchiha Training Ground and entered the Forest of Death to train alone.
• Qian used Lightning Release: Thunder Sword against a Unicorn Tiger, accidentally shocking himself and the beast when the jutsu collapsed.
• Qian chased the fleeing Unicorn Tiger and eventually killed it with a successful lightning sword strike, raising the jutsu to entry level.
• Qian chose an Armor Bear as a target and practiced Earth Release: Black Earth Rain, briefly slowing it with the sticky black liquid.
• The black rain and liquid vanished before Qian could stabilize the jutsu, and the angry Armor Bear charged at him again.

Qian finished testing his seven ninjutsu in the Forest of Death, then planned how to spend the chakra he had saved by perfecting the Flying Thunder God Technique. He ended the night by using his remaining chakra to nurture the Byakugan at the center of his brow.

• Qian tested Fire Style: Crimson Lotus Hellfire on a giant snake until it died, then left the Forest of Death and returned home.
• After washing and eating, Qian allocated his saved chakra among his ninjutsu, including the unfinished Fire Release technique he named Fire Style: Flame Gathering Strike.
• Qian reserved his remaining seventy thousand chakra points for the Heart-Locking Seal and planned to combine it with other Sealing Techniques after perfecting it.
• Qian activated the All Things of the Universe Sealing linked to his Byakugan and used his saved chakra to nurture the Byakugan at the center of his brow.

After reaching the limit of his Byakugan’s Chakra nurturing, Qian went to sleep and woke to news of more disappearances in Konoha. Suspecting Orochimaru was behind them, he left the village and carefully searched his island training grounds, finding nothing unusual.

• Qian finished nurturing his Byakugan when it could absorb no more Chakra, then went to sleep.
• The next morning, Qian encountered Uchiha Shisui, who warned him that several more people had disappeared from the village.
• Qian recalled earlier disappearances and suspected Orochimaru was taking people for experiments, while Konoha’s forces searched for evidence.
• Qian left Konoha, used Flying Thunder God to reach his island, and searched the surrounding area with his Byakugan.
• Qian found nothing unusual on or around the island and continued his cautious training routine.

Qian continued intensive training while considering ways to supplement his energy with solar or Natural Energy and possibly learn Sage Mode. After five days, All Things of the Universe Sealing reached its S-Rank limit, giving him a deeper understanding of Sealing Techniques and promising faster progress in others.

• Qian summoned over a hundred shadow clones, assigned them to different training skills, and repeatedly adjusted their training groups while practicing himself.
• Qian considered absorbing solar or Natural Energy to support his training and thought he might use Jiraiya’s Sage Mode during the coming pursuit of Orochimaru as a reference.
• Qian put aside those future plans and continued training for five days.
• Qian’s All Things of the Universe Sealing advanced from lv9 to lv10, reaching the Perfected Realm.
• Qian recognized that mastering his self-developed sealing technique had greatly improved his understanding of Sealing Techniques and would help him gain proficiency more efficiently.

Qingming confirmed that All Things of the Universe Sealing had reached perfection and tested how it improved his sealing techniques. He redistributed his newly available chakra among several skills to speed their growth.

• Qingming checked his status panel and confirmed All Things of the Universe Sealing had advanced to its perfected level, freeing 700,000 chakra points for daily use.
• Qingming tested Transcription Seal and Heart-Locking Seal and found that their training efficiency had increased by about twenty percent.
• Qingming allocated 130,000 chakra points to Heart-Locking Seal and 280,000 to Fire Style: Crimson Lotus Hellfire.
• Qingming invested 150,000 chakra points in Fire Style: Flame Gathering Strike and 60,000 in Lightning Release: Thunder Sword.
• Qingming distributed his remaining 80,000 chakra points among Lightning Release: Lightning Beast Tracking Fang, Earth Release: Black Earth Rain, and Earth Release: Earth Vein Dragon.

Qian upgraded All Things of the Universe Sealing, using it to imprison the Seven-Tails more securely and then seal the technique and his Byakugan within his own body. He ended by putting on his Leaf Village Headband and extracting the chakra stored in the Metal Sphere.

• Qian released the Seven-Tails from the Metal Sphere, but it hovered quietly instead of trying to escape or attack him.
• Qian used the perfected All Things of the Universe Sealing to bind the Seven-Tails with eight Chakra Chains and pull it back into the Metal Sphere.
• Qian examined the strengthened Different Space and concluded that it could now hold all nine Tailed Beasts.
• Qian transferred the chakra stored in the seal on his brow into the Metal Sphere, then cast the upgraded sealing technique on himself.
• Qian concealed the seal and Byakugan beneath his skin, tied on his Leaf Village Headband, and began extracting the chakra from the Metal Sphere.

Qian perfected All Things of the Universe Sealing, expanding its chakra storage and more than doubling the efficiency of nurturing his Byakugan. After revising his cultivation plan and shadow-clone assignments, he completed training for the night and returned to his hut to rest.

• Qian absorbed over six million chakra points into his Glabella Pocket Dimension and found that its capacity had grown to fifty million points.
• Qian used the perfected seal to nurture his Byakugan, consuming one million chakra points in an hour and fifteen minutes and raising its Evolution Progress to (914/1000).
• Qian calculated how future Byakugan evolution might strain his training time and planned to redirect chakra from other skills after they reached the Perfected Realm.
• Qian summoned over a hundred shadow clones and adjusted their cultivation assignments to account for the perfected seal and his improved Byakugan-training efficiency.
• Qian recalled his shadow clones at night, converted their cultivation experience into Proficiency, and returned to the wooden hut to rest.

Qian perfected Lightning Release Chakra Mode, improving his body-strengthening efficiency and shortening the time until his next physical transformation, though the technique consumed more chakra. A few days later, Heart-Locking Seal and Demonic Illusion: Mirror Heaven and Earth Change also reached perfection, and Qian adjusted his chakra allocation before starting another round of training.

• Qian perfected Lightning Release Chakra Mode and discovered that it strengthened his body from both the outside in and the inside out.
• Qian estimated that his body would reach its next transformation in at most four months, and he chose to spend fifty thousand more chakra points each day to improve his training efficiency.
• Qian nurtured his Byakugan until it reached saturation, then rested for the night.
• Three days later, Heart-Locking Seal and Demonic Illusion: Mirror Heaven and Earth Change reached perfection, improving his memory-sealing precision and allowing him to reflect one person's Genjutsu onto multiple people.
• Qian assigned fifty thousand saved chakra points to Lightning Release Chakra Mode and directed the remaining chakra toward Transcription Seal, then created over a hundred shadow clones to train.

Qian perfected the Transcription Seal and continued cultivating his Byakugan until it reached the brink of evolution. As the Byakugan began to change, it demanded more Chakra, and Qian fed it from the Glabella Pocket Dimension.

• Qian raised the Transcription Seal to the Perfected Realm, allowing him to set ambiguous or delayed triggers.
• Qian saw that his Byakugan had reached 991/1000 Evolution Progress and decided to wait until evening to nurture it.
• Qian trained with over a hundred shadow clones, then absorbed their memories and cultivation experience.
• After fourteen days of continuous cultivation, Qian began nurturing his Byakugan with Chakra from the Glabella Pocket Dimension.
• When an obstruction hindered the evolution, Qian activated Human Authority to help it advance.
• Qian felt the Byakugan hunger for Chakra and poured more into it as it and his genes began to change.

Uchiha Qian used the Seven-Tails’ chakra to complete his Byakugan’s evolution and tested its improved vision. He reflected on the chakra shortage that nearly interrupted the process, then began measuring what the evolved eye could tolerate.

• Qian drew more chakra from the Seven-Tails and replenished the chakra in his Glabella Pocket Dimension.
• After absorbing more than six million points of chakra, Qian’s Byakugan completed its evolution.
• Qian tested the evolved Byakugan and found that it had better observational precision and faster target tracking within a one-kilometer range.
• Qian concluded that he should prepare enough chakra before the Byakugan’s next evolution, then began testing its growth requirements and tolerance limit.

Qian stopped training after exhausting his available chakra, discovered that excessive extraction had weakened the Seven-Tails, and returned to Konoha to rest. The next morning, he received his Shadow Clone’s memories and learned that the village’s disappearances had resumed without a breakthrough in the investigation.

• Qian checked the Seven-Tails and found him severely weakened, though likely to recover after several days of rest.
• Qian calculated that his evolved Byakugan gained about 2.5 Evolution Progress from half an hour of nurturing and roughly five hundred thousand chakra.
• Qian flew back to Konoha, returned home, and slept through the night.
• Qian woke the next morning and received the memories of the Shadow Clone he had left in the village.
• Qian learned that the Population Disappearance Incident had resumed and that neither the Military Police Force nor the Anbu had found useful clues.

Qian suspected Orochimaru was urgently gathering Experiment Subjects to develop Impure World Reincarnation, then went to Training Ground 78 to test his evolved Byakugan’s Chakra capacity. The test showed it absorbed two million Chakra in two hours, leaving Qian to consider the difficulty of sustaining that rate each day.

• Qian concluded Orochimaru might be seeking Experiment Subjects to develop Impure World Reincarnation and decided not to dwell on the threat.
• Qian ate at a restaurant on Gourmet Street, then headed to Training Ground 78 to continue testing his Byakugan.
• Qian used his body energy and Enhanced Soldier Pills to refine enough Chakra to store more than two million points in the Glabella Pocket Dimension.
• Qian fed compressed Chakra into his Byakugan until it stopped absorbing, then calculated that it had consumed exactly two million points in two hours.
• Qian estimated the test yielded ten Evolution Progress points and realized that gathering that much Chakra every day could be difficult.

Qian sensed a hidden presence watching him while he napped and identified Sarutobi Hiruzen’s Telescope Technique as the likely source. Hiruzen admitted to spying on Qian over suspicions about Danzo’s death, and continued to ponder him after Qian caught the surveillance.

• Qian woke when a bird startled him and sensed an almost imperceptible gaze watching him.
• Qian used his Byakugan to search the area, then detected unusual Chakra and Spiritual Power fluctuations in the air.
• Qian looked toward the sky, causing the gaze to vanish, and resolved to act more cautiously in the village.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen stopped watching through his crystal ball and confirmed that Qian had detected his Telescope Technique.
• Hiruzen continued to suspect Qian in Danzo’s death and considered what to do next.

Qian assessed his chakra needs and decided to capture the Four-Tails to speed up the evolution of his Byakugan and Sharingan. He left Konoha for the Land of Earth to search for Roshi.

• Qian calculated that nurturing his Byakugan left him short of the chakra needed to evolve it quickly and later improve his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Qian inspected the recovering Seven-Tails and decided to capture another Tailed Beast rather than wait for the Three-Tails to revive.
• Qian chose the Four-Tails and reasoned that Roshi was likely wandering within the Land of Earth after leaving Iwagakure.
• Qian created a Shadow Clone to remain in Konoha, then used Flying Thunder God to travel to the woods outside Takigakure.
• Qian changed his Flying Thunder God Seal into the shape of the Black Sun and flew toward the Land of Earth.