Chapter Summaries

Qian realized Obito Uchiha was investigating him for capturing the Seven-Tails and Four-Tails, but feared Black Zetsu might be involved too. He sent a shadow clone to the ambush site, where Zetsu attacked it from inside a tree.

• Qian reasoned that capturing the Four-Tails had drawn Obito Uchiha’s attention, especially after he had also taken the Seven-Tails.
• Qian decided his real body would not risk facing Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu together, so he created a shadow clone to investigate.
• Qian’s shadow clone used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the ambush site, then flew there at high speed.
• Qian used his Byakugan to see that Obito Uchiha had killed the Leaf shinobi and that Zetsu was concealed inside a tree.
• Qian landed in front of the tree, and Zetsu reached out from the trunk to attack him from behind.

Qian used a Shadow Clone to ambush Zetsu, forcing him to retreat before Obito Uchiha appeared. Obito realized that the Qian he had waited to capture was another Shadow Clone, leaving his carefully planned ambush unsuccessful.

• Qian dodged Zetsu's sneak attack and struck him with a Rasengan, then activated his Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Black Zetsu resisted Qian's Genjutsu with Yin Yang Release and escaped through the forest's underground root network.
• Qian pursued Zetsu, but dodged Obito Uchiha's attempt to pull him into the Kamui Dimension.
• Obito Uchiha studied Qian during their standoff, suspecting he was a Shadow Clone.
• Qian admitted he was a Shadow Clone, frustrating Obito Uchiha after he and Zetsu had planned the ambush for days.

Qian admitted to Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu that he had captured the Four-Tails and Seven-Tails, then claimed he wanted to become the Ten-Tails’ jinchuriki. After a brief clash, his Shadow Clone escaped by dispersing, leaving Obito and Zetsu uncertain but willing to avoid a fight for now.

• Qian admitted that he had captured both the Four-Tails and Seven-Tails when Obito Uchiha questioned him.
• Qian told Obito and Black Zetsu that he intended to gather the Tailed Beasts and become the Ten-Tails’ jinchuriki.
• Black Zetsu attacked Qian with tree vines, and Obito Uchiha followed with an attempt to grab him.
• White Zetsu’s spores parasitized Qian’s Shadow Clone and drained its chakra, so Qian warned Obito and Zetsu that they would have to find him themselves before dispersing the clone.
• Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu questioned whether Qian truly knew their plans, but neither wanted to risk a fight to the death over the Tailed Beasts.

Qian returned to Konoha after Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu left the battlefield, then told Namikaze Minato that an enemy attack had killed the two squads accompanying him. He began giving the Fourth Hokage an embellished account of the battle.

• Obito Uchiha sent the Leaf shinobi's bodies into the Kamui Dimension and left with Black Zetsu.
• Qian reviewed his Shadow Clone's memories and concluded that his Ten-Tails Jinchuriki pretext had kept Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu from exposing his capture of the Four-Tails and Seven-Tails.
• Qian returned to the battlefield, found Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu gone, and decided to claim that the fight had occurred inside the Kamui Dimension.
• Qian flew back to Konoha and went straight to the Hokage Building.
• Qian told Namikaze Minato that he had been attacked and that the Fourteenth Squad and Seventeenth Squad had not survived.
• Namikaze Minato demanded the full story, and Qian began recounting his embellished version of the battle.

Qian recounted his attackers to Namikaze Minato, steering suspicion toward a powerful Uchiha and an inhuman user of Wood Release. Namikaze Minato was left weighing the new leads, while Qian expected Konoha's attention to shift away from him.

• Namikaze Minato questioned Qian about the space-time ability of one attacker, and Qian said the man was likely an Uchiha clan senior with the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Qian told Namikaze Minato he had fought the Uchiha near the village cemetery and believed he was the mysterious man who had invaded the village.
• Namikaze Minato asked about the second attacker, and Qian described him as an experimental product with powerful Spiritual Power and Wood Release.
• Qian described the second attacker's inhuman physical traits, leaving Namikaze Minato to consider links to past experiments and the village's disappearances.

Qian gave Namikaze Minato a list of possible Uchiha suspects and raised the possibility that Uchiha Fugaku had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan. When Minato pressed him about why the attackers had targeted him, Qian revealed his own Mangekyō Sharingan and claimed they wanted his eyes, then explained that the Eternal Mangekyō could overcome its blindness.

• Qian named several missing Uchiha shinobi as possible identities for the attacker and added Uchiha Fugaku as a suspect because he might have awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Namikaze Minato noted Qian's information and let him leave, but stopped him to ask why the attackers had targeted him.
• Qian revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan to Minato and said the attackers likely wanted his eyes.
• Qian explained that excessive use of the Mangekyō Sharingan caused blindness but that evolving into the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan could overcome it.

Qian explained the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to Namikaze Minato, then returned home and postponed his training to wait for developments in the village. After answering Uchiha Fugaku’s questions about his last mission, Qian set aside his thoughts about the Uchiha clan and went to rest.

• Qian told Namikaze Minato that fusing a sibling’s Mangekyo Sharingan could awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and Minato connected the information to Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna.
• Qian returned home, decided to stay in the village rather than resume training, and cleaned his house before going out for food.
• Uchiha Fugaku sent for Qian, who went to the Uchiha Fugaku's Residence and answered questions about his mission against Iwagakure's infiltration unit.
• Uchiha Fugaku explained that pressure from Sarutobi Hiruzen and other former Konoha leaders had led him to accept Qian’s transfer from the front line.
• Qian criticized Fugaku’s indecision in his thoughts, then dismissed the matter and went to bed.

After Konoha’s investigation cleared Qian of serious suspicion, he left the village and returned to his training island. There, he completed his first attempt at the Earth Release: Super Weighted Boulder Technique and began working on the Earth Release: Super Lightened Boulder Technique.

• Qian learned that Konoha did not seriously suspect him and resumed his training plans.
• Qian evaded the Anbu watching his residence, slipped through Konoha’s Perception Barrier, and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach his island.
• Qian inspected the island and spent three days training with a reorganized group of shadow clones.
• Qian successfully cast the Earth Release: Super Weighted Boulder Technique, increasing his body’s density and defense.
• Qian tried the Earth Release: Super Lightened Boulder Technique and felt confident he could develop it.

Qian trained his newly developed Earth Release techniques with shadow clones and reviewed his growing skills, chakra, and bloodline progress. He decided to postpone replacing the hidden agents’ control measures and ended the day by cultivating his Byakugan.

• Qian successfully used Earth Release: Super Lightened Boulder Technique, but could not maintain it long enough to combine it with his flight techniques.
• Qian summoned over a hundred shadow clones to train while he practiced Lightning Release Chakra Mode, then absorbed their experience and repeated the training rounds until nightfall.
• Qian’s Earth Release: Super Weighted Boulder Technique and Earth Release: Super Lightened Boulder Technique reached lv2, and he planned how to allocate chakra to advance them.
• Qian decided not to replace the measures on the hidden agents until Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal reached lv7.
• Qian checked his Sharingan, Byakugan, and chakra progress, then used All Things of the Universe Sealing to begin nourishing his Byakugan.

Qian returned to Konoha and learned that Namikaze Minato had ordered an investigation into Orochimaru, then spent his rest day relaxing and nurturing his Byakugan. He left the village’s political conflict aside and ended the night with another ten points of Byakugan Evolution Progress.

• Qian woke after nurturing his Byakugan on the island and saw that it had gained ten Evolution Progress points.
• After returning to Konoha, Qian reviewed his shadow clone’s memories and learned that Namikaze Minato had ordered the Anbu to investigate Orochimaru over possible human experiments.
• Qian decided not to get involved in the investigation and went to Leaf Hot Spring, where he fell asleep in the bath until an employee woke him because the bathhouse was closing.
• Qian ate at Gourmet Street, then used the All Things of the Universe Sealing to nurture his Byakugan in the Cultivation Room.
• Qian stopped when his Byakugan reached its limit, saw another ten Evolution Progress points on the Proficiency Panel, and went to sleep.

Qian spent a day studying Uchiha Library books before training for twelve days on a remote island, where several techniques advanced and his Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal gained a more concealed Genjutsu-based method. After finishing his training, he replenished his chakra and flew toward Kirigakure to update the methods used on his hidden pieces.

• Qian cooked breakfast, then spent the day studying books about combining Chakra Nature Transformations in the Uchiha clan's Library.
• Qian nurtured his Byakugan that night, then left Konoha at dawn and traveled to a remote island to train with over a hundred Shadow Clones.
• Qian's Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal reached lv7, allowing him to apply it to a target through Sharingan Genjutsu.
• Qian's Earth Release: Super Weighted Boulder Technique and Earth Release: Super Lightened Boulder Technique reached lv7, while Fire Style: Flame Gathering Strike hit a difficult training bottleneck.
• Qian replenished his chakra, used Wind Release: Wind Wings and Chakra Feather Cloak, and flew toward Kirigakure.

Qian flew to the Land of Water and infiltrated Kirigakure under cover of night. He reached a familiar lake inside the village without being detected.

• Qian flew toward Kirigakure at high speed, slowing down when dizziness made it difficult to track the changing scenery.
• Qian crossed the ocean and entered the Land of Water through a lightly guarded stretch of cliffs, avoiding surveillance with his Byakugan.
• Qian waited outside Kirigakure until nightfall and used the time to finish nurturing his Byakugan.
• Qian activated his Byakugan and used his Mangekyō Sharingan ability, Ame no Minaka, to pass through Kirigakure’s Perception Barrier.
• Qian evaded several Mist Ninja patrols, reached a familiar lake, and dispelled Ame no Minaka.

Qian waited until deep night, then began secretly placing the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal on Kirigakure ninja. After sealing the first jonin, he teleported away to continue the operation.

• Qian sensed that the Flying Thunder God Seals were scattered around Kirigakure and delayed his operation until night.
• Qian moved to a familiar cave, checked it for danger, and slept while a shadow clone kept watch.
• At two in the morning, Qian teleported to a sleeping Kirigakure jonin and subdued him with his Sharingan.
• Qian removed the jonin’s existing seals and placed the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal, which would make him remember the encounter when the Three-Tails’ revival was confirmed.
• Qian erased the mark on the jonin’s forehead and teleported away toward another target.

Qian was discovered while replacing the seals on Kirigakure’s hidden operatives, and Genji’s traps drew in two guards before he could clean up the scene. Qian used a Shadow Clone and sustained genjutsu to control Genji long-term, then turned to deal with the guards.

• Qian teleported into Genji’s study, where Genji activated mechanical traps and escaped his first attempt at control.
• Qian avoided the Kunai and used Genjutsu: Sharingan on Genji and the two guards who entered the study.
• Qian used his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to place Genji under powerful genjutsu, though Genji continued to show occasional resistance.
• Qian left a Shadow Clone to renew the genjutsu periodically and maintain control of Genji.
• Qian considered Genji’s situation resolved and began addressing the two guards.

Qian killed Genji’s two trusted aides, destroyed their bodies, and left Kirigakure. He began placing control seals on Mist shinobi stationed outside the village, teleporting away to reach the next targets.

• Qian drained the Chakra, Spirit Energy, and Body Energy from Genji’s two aides, then snapped their necks.
• Qian burned the aides’ bodies in the Underwater Cave and scattered their ashes.
• Qian escaped Kirigakure’s surveillance and sensed three Flying Thunder God Seals belonging to Mist shinobi on missions in the Land of Water.
• Qian teleported to a mission team, subdued the Chunin carrying a seal, erased his memories, and engraved the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal on him.
• Qian teleported away to reach the other two marked Mist shinobi.

Qian attacked a four-person Mist Ninja team at an inn, quickly subduing all of them after their alertness ruined his plan to recruit them as hidden pieces. He drained their chakra and energies, replenishing nearly one hundred thousand points as he prepared to leave.

• Qian teleported into a Mist jonin’s room and trapped him in an illusion, but two nearby Mist Ninja sensed his arrival and began to investigate.
• Qian used Ame no Minaka to reach the weakest of the four Mist Ninja and caught him in a Sharingan illusion before he could warn the others.
• Two Mist Ninja attacked Qian with kunai and shuriken, but he dodged their attacks, knocked one aside with Leaf Strong Whirlwind, and blinded both with the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique.
• Qian immobilized one former Mist Anbu with the Self-Exerting Curse Binding Seal and paralyzed another with a Rasengan and Chakra Scalpel.
• Qian used the Chakra Absorption Technique to drain all four Mist Ninja, gaining nearly one hundred thousand points of chakra along with their Spirit Energy and Body Energy.

Qian erased witnesses’ memories, disposed of four corpses, and traveled to Iwagakure to expand his network of hidden pieces. He left a shadow clone in an abandoned underground space to monitor the village and search for the Five-Tails Jinchuriki Han, then flew back toward Konoha to rest.

• Qian put nearby townspeople back to sleep with Genjutsu, then burned four corpses to ash and scattered them.
• Qian flew through the night to the Land of Earth and entered Iwagakure using Ame no Minaka to bypass its defenses.
• Qian replaced a marked Rock Ninja’s seals, read his memories, and used the information to recruit more hidden pieces throughout Iwagakure.
• Qian avoided ninja suspected of working in confidential departments because his Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal could leave detectable traces.
• Qian left a shadow clone and a Flying Thunder God Seal in an abandoned underground space, then slipped past Iwagakure’s Perception Barrier and flew toward Konoha.

After returning to Konoha exhausted, Qian learned that the investigation of Orochimaru had sparked a fierce village-wide dispute and suspected that foreign spies were stoking it. He checked that the seals on sleeper agents remained undetected, then resumed studying Chakra Nature Transformation research while ignoring the debate.

• Qian flew from Iwagakure to Konoha, slipped past the Perception Barrier, and slept until hunger woke him at noon.
• Qian reviewed his Shadow Clone’s memories and learned that Namikaze Minato’s investigation of Orochimaru had divided Konoha into opposing camps.
• Qian suspected spies from other villages were inflaming the dispute and wondered whether Namikaze Minato intended to use it to purge the village.
• After eating and resting, Qian confirmed that none of the seals on the sleeper agents had activated and that most agents were moving.
• Qian borrowed research books from the Library about combining Chakra Nature Transformations and settled in the courtyard to study, disregarding the village debate.

Qian balanced life in the village with secret training on an island, where he perfected Lightning Release: Lightning Blade after five days of intensive practice. He tested its power, then decided to focus his future development on wide-area ninjutsu and swordsmanship instead of pursuing Lightning Blade derivatives.

• Qian bought Enhanced Soldier Pills in the village, aware that the Nara clan shopkeeper and two Anbu ninja suspected his main body was away.
• Qian nurtured his sealed Byakugan overnight and saw its Evolution Progress reach 846/5000.
• Qian evaded surveillance and the Perception Barrier, teleported to an island in the Southern Sea Region of the Land of Fire, and trained with shadow clones for five days.
• Qian perfected Lightning Release: Lightning Blade at lv10 and tested it by piercing and scorching a large tree.
• Qian decided not to develop Lightning Release derivatives or use Lightning Release: Lightning Blade regularly, choosing powerful wide-area ninjutsu and swordsmanship as his future focus.

After perfecting Lightning Release: Lightning Blade, Qian discovered that his Chakra Control had reached lv8 and reduced the chakra cost of training his skills. He reorganized his shadow-clone training and ended the day after nourishing his Byakugan, planning to allocate additional chakra once Fire Style: Flame Gathering Strike advanced.

• Qian found that Lightning Release: Lightning Blade no longer required hand seals and that his Lightning Release nature transformation had reached the threshold for developing Kekkei Mōra.
• Qian advanced Chakra Control to lv8, tested its effect through shadow-clone training, and estimated that skill practice now cost roughly fifteen percent less chakra.
• Qian decided to save the freely allocatable chakra from Lightning Release: Lightning Blade until Fire Style: Flame Gathering Strike advanced, which he expected to happen by the next day.
• Qian regrouped his shadow clones to redistribute practice among his skills, then continued Body Enhancement with the Mystical Palm Technique and Human Authority.
• Qian adjusted the clone groups over several training rounds, nourished his Byakugan for nearly two hours, and returned to his cabin to rest.