Chapter Summaries

Qian crossed from the Land of Waterfalls into the Land of Earth and captured an Iwagakure sentry to learn about the village’s jinchuriki. He stopped Chiyan from sending a warning and prepared to read the memories of both him and his chameleon summoning beast.

• Qian placed hidden Flying Thunder God Seals on nearby trees and a rock before heading toward the Boundary River.
• Qian used his Byakugan and Sharingan to pass through the patrol area and enter the Land of Earth.
• Qian spotted the hidden Iwagakure Special Jonin Chiyan and used Ame no Minaka to approach him.
• Qian bound Chiyan with the Self-Exerting Curse Binding Seal as Chiyan tried to send his chameleon summoning beast to alert a patrol squad.
• Qian caught the chameleon, cast Genjutsu: Sharingan on Chiyan, and then put the chameleon under genjutsu as well.

Qian used Chiyan to establish a hidden link for tracking the movements of Iwagakure’s Jinchuriki, planning to target both the Four-Tails and Five-Tails. After confirming Chiyan showed no signs of noticing the memory manipulation, Qian left the patrol area and flew toward a nearby city.

• Qian read Chiyan’s memories but found no recent information on Roshi’s whereabouts or whether he had left Iwagakure.
• Qian placed a Flying Thunder God Seal and a Transcription Seal on Chiyan, directing him to notify Qian if either Jinchuriki showed signs of leaving the village.
• Qian erased Chiyan’s memories of the encounter and fabricated a hazy recollection of zoning out before hiding in another dimension.
• Chiyan woke, checked himself and his surroundings for abnormalities, and dismissed Huahua’s restlessness as a reaction to his aura.
• After watching Chiyan for a while, Qian left the patrol area, planted backup Flying Thunder God Seals, and flew toward the nearest city.

Qian reached a quiet city near the Land of Waterfalls and began building an informant network to find Roshi. After discovering ordinary civilians could not activate his Flying Thunder God Seals, he used a brainwashed wandering ninja as a messenger and prepared to repeat the plan across the Land of Earth.

• Qian entered the city in disguise and used the Byakugan to assess the ninja and other Chakra users there.
• Qian decided to recruit the city's noble lord and other faction leaders as informants to watch for Roshi.
• Qian read the noble lord's memories, found no news of Roshi, and placed a Flying Thunder God Seal on him.
• Qian realized civilians could not activate the seals, so he brainwashed a wandering ninja to relay their reports.
• Qian left the Rock Ninja guards untouched to avoid attracting Iwagakure's attention.

Qian searched every city in the Land of Earth for Roshi, planting hidden pieces among people he encountered before returning to Konoha to rest. After waking from nightmares, he used Byakugan training to clear the mental strain of reading so many memories.

• Qian erased the last society leader’s recent memories, then left the city and continued searching the Land of Earth for Roshi.
• Over a day and a half, Qian visited every city in the Land of Earth and turned some Rock Ninja he encountered into hidden pieces, learning that Roshi’s conflict with Ōnoki made his eventual departure from Iwagakure likely.
• Qian returned to Konoha using the Flying Thunder God Technique, avoided the main gate, and went home after checking his Shadow Clone’s memories.
• Qian slept for more than two hours, woke from chaotic nightmares feeling exhausted, and went out to eat.
• Qian trained to nurture the Byakugan and gradually cleared his mind of the strain caused by reading many people’s memories.

Qian returned to his island training after recovering from the strain of evolving his Byakugan, and resumed his routine patrol and cultivation. Two days later, his Chakra Scalpel reached level 9, letting him save more chakra for nurturing the Byakugan as the Seven-Tails continued to recover.

• Qian calculated that his remaining chakra would limit how much he could invest in nurturing the Byakugan, then rested peacefully through the night.
• Qian decided he was well enough to resume training, left a shadow clone in the village, and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to his island.
• Qian checked the island with his Byakugan, found no unusual activity, and restarted his training with over a hundred shadow clones.
• Two days later, Qian raised his Chakra Scalpel from level 8 to level 9 and tested its stronger, more concealed attack.
• Qian planned to put the chakra saved by the perfected technique toward the Byakugan, while the Seven-Tails recovered to seventy or eighty percent.

Qian assessed how he would redirect chakra to accelerate his Byakugan’s evolution and develop the remaining chakra-nature skills needed for Kekkei Mōra. He planned to pursue Dust Release in Iwagakure as a route to improving Earth Release and as a first step toward fusing advanced chakra natures.

• Qian calculated that perfecting Lightning Release: Thunder Sword would free 120,000 chakra points, and he planned to move those points and his Sharingan’s 36,000 points to nurture the Byakugan.
• Qian kept investing in Fire Style: Flame Gathering Strike despite its steep proficiency costs because he needed it to raise his Fire Release control for Kekkei Mōra.
• Qian concluded that mastering several Earth Release techniques might raise his Earth Release control enough, since the Uchiha clan had no suitable Rank S Earth Release ninjutsu.
• Qian considered developing Lightning Release: Lightning Blade and Lightning Release: Kirin using his memories and Kakashi’s and Sasuke’s experiences.
• Qian decided Dust Release could provide a backup method for improving his Earth Release and a potential first fusion target, so he would likely go to Iwagakure, where he had already planted hidden pieces.

Qian continued his training, perfecting several ninjutsu and improving his understanding of Lightning and Fire chakra techniques. After saving chakra during a new training cycle, he ended with 630,000 points available to allocate each day.

• Qian advanced Lightning Release: Thunder Sword to lv7 and invested its saved chakra in nurturing his Byakugan.
• Qian advanced Fire Style: Flame Gathering Strike to lv8 and tested its fire pillar, which burned a hole fifteen meters deep into a mountain.
• After another ten days of training, Qian returned to Konoha, rested, and saved 1.4 million chakra points as an emergency reserve.
• Qian advanced Earth Release: Black Earth Rain, Earth Release: Earth Vein Dragon, and Lightning Release: Lightning Beast Tracking Fang to their lv7 proficiency caps.
• Qian advanced Fire Style: Crimson Lotus Hellfire to lv9, deepening his understanding of Fire Release Shape Transformation and raising his freely allocable daily chakra to 630,000 points.

Qian allocated his daily chakra to advancing Fire Style: Flame Gathering Strike, developing Lightning Release: Lightning Blade, and pursuing both Earth Release training and research. He formed shadow clones to begin the work and planned to refine their assignments over the next four days.

• Qian set aside 500,000 chakra each day for Fire Style: Flame Gathering Strike and expected to approach its level 8 peak in about half a month.
• Qian allocated 136,000 chakra to developing Lightning Release: Lightning Blade, hoping to improve his Lightning Release control and Nature Transformation.
• Qian used Tobirama Senju’s research notebook on Weighted Boulder and Lightened Boulder techniques to plan a qualitative advance in Earth Release alongside learning new techniques.
• Qian chose Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet Technique to build his Earth Release foundation and split the remaining 300,000 chakra evenly between it and two development efforts.
• Qian created over a hundred shadow clones, assigned them to their existing training and three new Earth and Lightning Release tasks, and planned to adjust their work hourly.

Qian advanced his Earth Release training while worrying that Iwagakure might uncover his search network before it found Roshi. He chose to train two difficult Earth Release techniques together as he waited for news about the Four-Tails.

• Qian inscribed and raised Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet Technique to entry level, measuring its chakra cost and estimating it would reach its limit in about half a month.
• Qian inscribed Earth Release: Weighted Boulder Technique and Earth Release: Light-Weight Rock Technique using Tobirama Senju's notes, and estimated their unusually high training costs.
• Qian considered whether to focus his chakra on one technique at a time, but concluded that training both together could improve his understanding of Earth Release chakra transformation.
• Qian complained that he still had no news about Roshi and checked his Flying Thunder God Seals in the Land of Earth, finding none triggered or destroyed.
• Qian worried that Iwagakure might uncover his efforts to control people searching for Roshi, expose his methods, and turn Konoha against him.
• Qian decided to divide his 150,000 daily chakra investment between the two Earth Release techniques so they could improve together and verify each other's effects.

On the final day of training, Uchiha Qingming successfully imprinted Lightning Release: Lightning Blade onto his panel and tested the technique. Its chakra suddenly surged out of control, leaving him facing an unexpected explosion of lightning.

• Qingming divided his shadow clones among different training groups while focusing one group on Lightning Release: Lightning Blade.
• Qingming strengthened his body and trained throughout the day, periodically absorbing his clones’ memories and proficiency gains.
• Qingming dispelled his clones and saw Lightning Release: Lightning Blade appear on his panel at level 0.
• Qingming formed the hand seals and produced a lightning sphere that crackled with the sound of a thousand birds.
• Qingming approached a large tree to test the technique, but the lightning flared and exploded into bolts in every direction.

Qian tested and began training Lightning Release: Lightning Blade, but found that improving it would consume more chakra than he could spare. After reviewing his progress, he resumed his daily training, hoping to capture the Four-Tails to accelerate his growth.

• Qian accidentally injured himself when Lightning Release: Lightning Blade went out of control, then protected himself with Chakra Feather Cloak before testing it again.
• Qian struck a tree with Lightning Release: Lightning Blade and saw that its current power was weak because the technique had barely been inscribed on the Proficiency Panel.
• Qian practiced Lightning Release: Lightning Blade more than ten times and estimated the chakra and time needed to raise it to higher levels.
• Qian concluded that he could not spare enough chakra to develop the technique quickly until he captured the Four-Tails, while noting his other training progress and growing chakra limit.
• Qian returned to the boulder, created over a hundred shadow clones, and continued his training.

After ten days of training, Qian returned to Konoha, rested, and indulged in a meal before completing his Byakugan training at home. He ended the night preparing to recover for his next training session.

• Qian flew back to Konoha, merged with the memories of his Shadow Clone, and took a long hot bath.
• Qian ate his fill on Gourmet Street after surviving ten days on Enhanced Soldier Pills.
• Qian watched Uchiha Military Police shinobi drag away drunken civilians and reflected on how the force trapped the Uchiha clan in a cycle of resentment and lost influence.
• Qian returned home and spent about two hours channeling compressed Chakra into his Byakugan, increasing its Evolution Progress by ten points.
• Qian stopped training when his Byakugan felt swollen and went to bed to recover for the next training session.

Qian stocked up on Enhanced Soldier Pills, secretly placed Flying Thunder God Seals around the village, and continued training until a seal was triggered in the Land of Earth. Believing it could lead him to the Four-Tails and Roshi, he used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave for the location.

• Qian bought a thousand Enhanced Soldier Pills from the Nara clan shop and sealed them in a Storage Scroll.
• Qian placed Flying Thunder God Seals at inconspicuous spots around the village while he rested.
• Qian used his stored Chakra to prepare for advancing Fire Style: Flame Gathering Strike to lv9, then returned to training on the island.
• Qian advanced Fire Release: Thousand Swallow Dance to lv7 and devoted its saved Chakra to Lightning Release: Lightning Blade.
• Qian sensed a Flying Thunder God Seal activate in the Land of Earth, recalled his Shadow Clones, checked his Chakra and equipment, and teleported to the seal.

Qian teleported to the Land of Earth after an informant reported finding the Wandering Monk he suspected was Roshi. He discovered the man was an ordinary person and began reading the informant’s memories to check whether his network had betrayed him.

• Qian used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the Land of Earth, nearly draining his chakra, then replenished it from the Glabella Pocket Dimension.
• A brainwashed wandering ninja told Qian that a Wandering Monk had appeared on Black Horn Street and led him there.
• Qian used the Byakugan and found no chakra in the monk, then erased the man’s brief memory with the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Qian returned to the inn and used the Mind Reading Technique on the informant to investigate whether he or the other informants had betrayed him.

After a false alarm, Qian followed a disrupted Flying Thunder God signal and found an Iwagakure Anbu guarding his contact in a dark alley. He suspected Roshi was nearby and attacked the Anbu to capture him and learn Roshi’s location.

• Qian confirmed that the earlier incident had been a misunderstanding, then sensed a new Flying Thunder God Seal activate.
• When the contact cut off the signal, Qian suspected they had been forced to do so and teleported to a nearby seal in a noble lord’s reception hall.
• Qian used genjutsu to conceal his arrival from the noble lord and others, erased their memories of the encounter, and left using Ame no Minaka.
• Qian followed the contact’s unmoving seal to a dark alley and spotted an Iwagakure Anbu beside them, leading him to suspect Roshi was nearby.
• Qian approached under Ame no Minaka, revealed himself behind the Anbu, and struck at the back of his neck with a Chakra Scalpel, but the elite ninja reacted quickly.

Qian ambushed and captured Black Snake, an Iwagakure Anbu, then read his memories and learned Roshi was returning to Iwagakure under escort. Qian left a shadow clone to erase evidence and pursued Roshi.

• Qian used Lightning Release: Lightning Blade to pierce Black Snake’s Earth Release defense, then severed his spinal nerves with Chakra Scalpel and trapped him in a Sharingan genjutsu.
• Qian read Black Snake’s memories and learned Roshi had been discovered by the Anbu and was heading back to Iwagakure with three escorts.
• Qian killed Black Snake and the unconscious wandering ninja to prevent Iwagakure from tracing the intelligence network.
• Qian created a shadow clone to destroy the bodies and erase evidence while he left the city to pursue Roshi.

Qian ambushed Roshi and three Iwagakure Anbu with Lightning Style: Lightning Prison while they traveled outside the city. He killed the three Anbu, but Roshi survived, leaving Qian to face the Four-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Qian tracked Roshi and his three Anbu escorts to an isolated stretch of wilderness and prepared an ambush.
• Qian used Chakra Feather Cloak and cast Lightning Style: Lightning Prison as Roshi's group approached.
• Roshi protected himself with Lava Armor, while the three Anbu tried different defenses against the spreading lightning.
• Qian controlled the lightning to strike down all three Anbu, leaving Roshi unharmed.

Qian pursued Roshi and used a vast lake and repeated Water Release attacks to restrict his Lava Release and wear down his chakra. As Roshi continued fighting back, Qian’s plan to expose him to the Four-Tails’ chakra and create an opening for sealing remained underway.

• After the other three Rock Ninja died, Roshi escaped the Lightning Prison in Lava Tank form, but Qian chased him with the Body Flicker Technique.
• Qian created a huge lake with Water Style: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave, forcing Roshi to stop and face him.
• Roshi smashed Qian’s first Water Dragon Bullet with his lava-wrapped fist, while the lava evaporated the lake and consumed chakra on both sides.
• Qian created two shadow clones and attacked Roshi with Water Severing Wave and another Water Dragon Bullet.
• Roshi dodged the water column and smashed the shadow clone’s water dragon with another lava-wrapped punch.

Qian used his Shadow Clones and powerful Water and Wind Release techniques to suppress Roshi, forcing him to draw on the Four-Tails' Chakra. Qian welcomed the surge, intending to use his Sharingan to control the tailed beast's Chakra and end the fight.

• Qian launched Roshi into the air with Water Release: Water Formation Pillar, then threw a Wind Style: Rasenshuriken at him.
• Roshi recognized Qian and defended himself with Lava Release: Granite, barely avoiding the Rasenshuriken before landing in the lake.
• Qian and his Shadow Clones used their Byakugan to locate Roshi and attacked him with Water Dragon Bullet Technique, steadily draining his Chakra.
• Realizing he could not hold out for rescue, Roshi partially released the seal on the Four-Tails and drew its Chakra into his body.
• Qian told his Shadow Clones to reduce their attacks so Roshi could release enough Four-Tails' Chakra for Qian to affect it with his Sharingan.

Qian used Susanoo to overwhelm Roshi and force him to draw out the Four-Tails' chakra, then caught both Roshi and the Four-Tails in a Sharingan illusion. Roshi and the tailed beast lost consciousness, leaving Qian poised to take control of the fight.

• Qian and his two Shadow Clones pressured Roshi until he transformed with two tails, but Roshi stopped drawing out more chakra before a third tail formed.
• As Roshi's lava attacks grew stronger, Qian summoned his silver-white Susanoo and slashed through Roshi's lava shield.
• Qian kept attacking with Susanoo's longsword, forcing Roshi to dodge and draw out the Four-Tails' chakra until he formed a fourth tail.
• Qian met Roshi's gaze through Susanoo and used his Sharingan to cast an illusion that rendered Roshi and the Four-Tails unconscious.