Chapter Summaries

Qian kept Danzo occupied until Namikaze Minato arrived, then sent Minato after Orochimaru before sealing Danzo in a scroll. He left with Danzo captured, planning to use him to improve a sealing technique and possibly as a chakra source.

• Qian concealed his advantage while fighting Danzo, then intensified his attacks when he sensed Namikaze Minato approaching.
• Namikaze Minato arrived, and Qian pointed him toward Orochimaru; Minato left to pursue him before Danzo could speak.
• Qian used his Chakra Feather Cloak and Sharingan genjutsu to create an opening, but Orochimaru helped Danzo break free from the genjutsu.
• Qian released eight sealing chains from a prepared scroll and sealed Danzo inside it.
• Qian confirmed Danzo was captured and considered using him to refine the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal and possibly obtain chakra from him.

Qian returned to Konoha with Namikaze Minato after Orochimaru escaped, then arranged a shadow clone to cover for him and secretly traveled back to the island. Exhausted from the mission and recent training, he went to sleep before resuming his training.

• Qian waited for Namikaze Minato to return, then learned that Orochimaru had escaped through Reverse Summoning and that Danzo had disappeared.
• Namikaze Minato took Qian back to Konoha, heard his mission report, and told him to keep the operation confidential.
• Qian returned to the Uchiha clan's compound, made a shadow clone to handle anything that came up, and secretly left Konoha.
• Qian used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to the island, decided to rest, and fell asleep in the wooden house.

Qian studied Danzo’s soul and discovered that Impure World Reincarnation and another mysterious mark bound it, while Orochimaru still maintained a connection to Danzo. He concluded that he needed to master soul control before Orochimaru could release Danzo, but extracting Danzo’s chakra might attract the Sage of Six Paths, leaving him in a dilemma.

• Qian sealed Danzo’s ability to speak and struggle, then examined his body and soul.
• Qian found an Impure World Reincarnation mark binding Danzo’s soul and a second mark embedded deep within it.
• Qian decided that improving his Spirit Transformation Technique could help him perfect the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal.
• Qian realized Orochimaru could still influence Danzo and might release the Reanimated Body, potentially exposing Qian’s information.
• Qian considered extracting Danzo’s chakra to accelerate his training but feared the Pure Land or the Sage of Six Paths would notice.

Qian used a disguised shadow clone to extract one million points of chakra from the scroll sealing Danzo, then confirmed that nothing unusual had happened. He planned to repeat the extraction daily and invest the chakra in training his Spirit Transformation Technique while adjusting his shadow-clone groups to use it efficiently.

• Qian created a shadow clone, gave it Danzo’s sealing scroll, and sent it to a remote deserted island using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• The shadow clone erased its arrival seal, disguised its appearance, and altered its chakra fluctuations with Human Authority before extracting chakra from Danzo.
• After absorbing one million points of chakra without detecting a reaction, the shadow clone waited fifteen minutes and returned safely to Qian.
• Qian decided to extract Danzo’s chakra once each day and use it to accelerate his Spirit Transformation Technique training.
• Qian dispelled the shadow clone, stored its returned chakra in his Glabella Pocket Dimension, and considered how to group his clones to use the chakra efficiently.

Qian trained intensively with shadow clones and pushed himself to dive deeper, refining his abilities over five days. On December 1, he successfully awakened a highly vital form of Wood Release, which improved his control and shortened the time until his next bodily transformation.

• Qian created 150 shadow clones, assigned them to different training tasks, and began adjusting their groups based on each hour’s results.
• Qian increased his underwater training depth to 130 meters and trained there with the Mystical Palm Technique and Human Authority.
• For five days, Qian rotated his own training alongside his shadow clones’ practice, recalling them hourly to absorb their experience and refine their assignments.
• On December 1, Qian fused Water Release and Earth Style chakra to create an emerald-green vine and successfully awakened Wood Release.
• Qian sensed his cells had changed, found that his Wood Release control required less chakra, and realized his next bodily transformation was about a month closer.

Uchiha Qian confirmed that he had developed the Wood Release Bloodline Limit and planned to focus next on Lava Release while continuing his other training. He left to resume cultivation, intent on progressing quickly before his time ran out.

• Qian instinctively condensed Wood Release Chakra, then confirmed the Proficiency Panel had recorded Wood Release at 1/1000.
• Qian decided not to further develop Wood Release and planned to use Four-Tails to develop Lava Release next.
• Qian adjusted his daily chakra allocation, setting aside 150,000 points for Mystical Palm Technique and Human Authority and storing excess chakra in the Glabella Pocket Dimension.
• Qian reviewed Spirit Transformation Technique's progress and estimated when he could perfect the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal to control Danzo's soul.
• Qian noted that activating the Hashirama Cells through Wood Release would help his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan progress and anticipated further gains after improving Mind Reflection Technique.
• Qian created one hundred and fifty shadow clones, assigned them to cultivation groups, and went to the seaside to continue training.

Qian advanced his Spirit Transformation Technique to lv7, tested its improved abilities, and continued training. Eight days after developing Wood Release, he completed an improvement to the Mind Reflection Technique that greatly increased his Sharingan’s Evolution Progress, though he decided not to invest more Chakra for now.

• Qian advanced his Spirit Transformation Technique to lv7 and found that his soul’s perception range had grown tenfold and its Chakra capacity had increased to fifty percent.
• Qian spent nearly an hour testing the technique, then returned to training after recovering from temporary stiffness caused by separating his body and soul.
• Qian rested in the village on his rest day, then returned to the island and trained for two more days.
• Qian completed the improved Mind Reflection Technique, which gained fifty Evolution Progress per day by investing one million Chakra.
• Qian decided to keep the current Chakra investment because increasing it would take time away from his Body Transformation training.

Qian continued his intensive training, and on his fourteenth birthday his Spirit Transformation Technique reached level 9. He planned to redirect chakra toward perfecting the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal and enhancing his body while reviewing the progress of his bloodlines.

• Qian sensed that developing Wood Release and enduring the deep-sea environment had accelerated his body's evolution, and he expected another transformation within three months.
• Qian completed his daily Byakugan nurturing before returning to his wooden house to rest.
• Twenty-six days later, on January 5th, Qian turned fourteen and his Spirit Transformation Technique reached level 9.
• Qian decided to pause Spirit Transformation Technique practice and allocate chakra to perfecting the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal and to Body Enhancement.
• Qian reviewed the progress of his Sharingan, Byakugan, and Wood Release, noting that his ongoing bodily evolution had advanced all three.

Qian reviewed his training progress, including his growing chakra reserves and nearly perfected forbidden dojutsu, then continued his deep-sea pressure training using Lightning Release Chakra Mode and the Flying Thunder God Technique. He planned to keep developing Lava Release gradually while his clones trained other skills.

• Qian decided not to focus on improving Wood Release and accepted that developing Lava Release would take time, even with the Four-Tails as a reference.
• Qian noted that his chakra limit had risen to 684,084 and that his Chakra Refining Technique was approaching level seven.
• Qian saw that Izanagi and Izanami were close to perfection, but resolved to avoid using them unless absolutely necessary.
• Qian took Enhanced Soldier Pills, created one hundred and fifty shadow clones, and assigned them different training tasks.
• Qian used Lightning Release Chakra Mode and the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the seabed, then walked to his current pressure limit to train for an hour.

Qian trained on his island, improving his physique and Sharingan while his shadow clones advanced his techniques. After returning to Konoha for a day of rest, he sensed Nine-Tails chakra from Kushina Uzumaki and concluded she was pregnant, leaving him about ten months before Naruto’s birth and the coming unrest.

• Qian trained underwater with Lightning Release chakra, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to the beach and absorb the experiences of his 150 shadow clones.
• Qian found that his soul training was helping him perfect the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal, which he expected to complete within three to five days.
• Qian continued his routine of alternating body and Sharingan training, then spent two days training before returning to Konoha to rest.
• Qian sensed Nine-Tails chakra from Kushina Uzumaki and inferred that she was pregnant.
• Qian anticipated that Naruto’s birth would bring a less peaceful era, though he expected to have about ten more months to train.

Qian spent the day training on Central Island, strengthening his body under the sea and advancing his techniques and Sharingan with shadow clones. He planned to increase his Chakra investment in the Mind Reflection Technique once Izanagi and Izanami reached perfection, while continuing to nurture his Byakugan by spending large amounts of Chakra.

• Qian left the village before dawn, created 150 shadow clones on Central Island, and sent them out to train.
• Qian used Lightning Release Chakra Mode to strengthen his body on the seabed, estimating that his next physical transformation would occur by early February.
• Qian returned to the island after an hour, absorbed his clones' experiences, and noted progress in the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal, Lava Release, Izanagi, and Izanami.
• Qian trained through the day, using the Mind Reflection Technique to advance his Sharingan and estimating that future Chakra investment could yield about 64 Evolution Progress each day.
• Qian spent 2,500,000 Chakra nurturing his Byakugan, gained twelve Evolution Progress, and concluded he could not yet develop a technique to stimulate its evolution directly.

Qian perfected Izanagi and Izanami, redirected his training toward the Mind Reflection Technique and other abilities, and learned that his Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal could progress beyond its former limit. He began training it toward lv10, estimating that reaching the next level would take about twenty days.

• Qian perfected Izanagi and Izanami, learned their capabilities, and spent the Chakra he had saved on the Mind Reflection Technique to accelerate his Sharingan’s evolution.
• Qian reassigned shadow clones to Lava Release and the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal, then trained until late at night.
• The next afternoon, Qian discovered that the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal had advanced from lv9 (0/0) to lv9 (1/100000).
• Qian tested the seal’s training cost and estimated that one million Chakra per day would earn enough proficiency to reach lv10 in twenty days.
• Qian created one hundred and fifty shadow clones and directed them to practice the seal.

After three weeks of cultivation, Qian perfected the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal and had a shadow clone brand it onto Danzo’s soul. Qian then used the Spirit Transformation Technique to investigate the seal’s binding strength.

• Qian checked his status and saw that the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal had reached lv10, its perfected level.
• Qian sent a shadow clone with Danzo’s sealed body to a deserted island, where the clone disguised himself and altered his chakra fluctuations.
• Danzo briefly regained awareness and tried to escape, but Chakra Chains restrained him before the clone suppressed his consciousness again.
• The shadow clone branded the perfected seal onto Danzo’s soul, then resealed him in the scroll and returned to Qian.
• Qian confirmed the seal had been placed and used the Spirit Transformation Technique to make direct contact with Danzo’s soul.

Qian tested the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal on Danzo, forcing him to learn its limits before suppressing his consciousness again. He then sent a shadow clone away with Danzo’s sealed scroll to extract Chakra while he reviewed his recent progress.

• Qian entered the Sealing Space and placed the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal on Danzo’s soul, imposing strict conditions against revealing information about him.
• Danzo woke and repeatedly triggered the seal’s pain until he learned its limits and stopped overstepping.
• Qian suppressed Danzo’s consciousness again, then decided to extract more Chakra from him using the seal as protection.
• Qian created a shadow clone, gave it Danzo’s scroll, and watched it leave the island with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Qian reviewed his gains from the past month, including increased Chakra Limit, Sharingan, Byakugan, Wood Release, and technique proficiency.

Qian reviewed his Shadow Clone’s successful extraction of 1.5 million Chakra from Danzo, then planned to continue cautiously despite the suspicious mark in Danzo’s soul. He considered his coming physical transformation and future Kekkei Genkai research, deciding to develop Ice Release after completing Lava Release so he could study the declining Yuki Clan before its Kekkei Genkai users disappeared.

• Qian received the Shadow Clone’s memories and learned that extracting 1.5 million Chakra from Danzo had briefly disturbed a mark in Danzo’s soul.
• Qian decided to continue using Shadow Clones to extract Danzo’s Chakra, but to avoid increasing the amount or revealing himself.
• Qian absorbed the Chakra into his Glabella Pocket Dimension and planned to spend it raising his Spirit Transformation Technique.
• Qian estimated that his body would transform within a week, boosting his potential and likely advancing his Byakugan and Sharingan evolution.
• Qian predicted he would complete Lava Release in one or two weeks and chose Ice Release as his next Kekkei Genkai to study the dwindling Yuki Clan.

Qian adjusted his shadow clones’ training and continued his seabed Body Enhancement, enduring intense pressure and chakra consumption. He weighed possible ways to replenish his chakra, deciding to avoid targeting Han for now while considering placing agents in Kumogakure.

• Qian reassigned some shadow clones from practicing the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal to training in the Spirit Transformation Technique, planning to refine their grouping based on results.
• Qian used Lightning Release Chakra Mode and Flying Thunder God Technique to reach a deeper seabed seal, where he fought the crushing pressure with lightning and rapidly spent chakra.
• Qian calculated that his current chakra allocation could sustain him for at most half a month, but expected his body’s coming transformation to increase his chakra limit and recovery.
• Qian considered capturing Han and taking the Five-Tails for chakra, but decided that provoking Iwagakure, Obito Uchiha, and Black Zetsu was not worth the risk yet.
• Qian considered targeting Kumogakure’s Two-Tails Jinchuriki, Yugito, if he needed chakra, and thought about planting agents in Kumogakure.
• Qian suppressed those thoughts and headed deeper to the harsher location where he would train.

Qian continued his underwater training before traveling to Kirigakure at night to replace the shadow clone watching the village. The clone’s memories showed that Kirigakure remained focused on consolidating Fourth Mizukage Karatachi Yagura’s power and was not preparing for conflict.

• Qian used his Byakugan to find a deep trench and carved a platform into its wall for training.
• After four days, Qian rested on Central Island until nightfall, then flew toward Kirigakure.
• Qian used Ame no Minaka to bypass Kirigakure’s patrols and Perception Barrier, then reached the underground Limestone Cave with Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Qian replaced the shadow clone, which released itself and passed its memories to him.
• Qian learned that Fourth Mizukage Karatachi Yagura was consolidating his power and that Kirigakure had no plans to provoke conflict.

Qian updated the seals on Kirigakure’s hidden agents and prepared to expand his network into other villages. After leaving Kirigakure, he flew toward Iwagakure, intending to update its sleeper agents and then visit Kumogakure.

• Qian subdued hidden agents outside Kirigakure and updated their seals so they could secretly awaken and pass him information at key moments.
• After resting until near midnight, Qian infiltrated Genji’s home, used a pre-sealed Mangekyo Genjutsu to incapacitate him, and updated his seal.
• Qian erased Genji’s memories of the encounter, then updated the seals on the remaining sleeper agents inside Kirigakure despite a few minor incidents.
• Qian restored his chakra, created a Shadow Clone to manage Kirigakure for the next month, and slipped out through the village’s Perception Barrier.
• Qian flew toward Iwagakure to update its sleeper agents and replace his Shadow Clone, planning to continue on to Kumogakure if time allowed.

Qian infiltrated Iwagakure, updated the marks on its hidden agents, and erased memories before leaving the village. He then headed toward Kumogakure to continue his operation.

• Qian contacted his shadow clone in an underground space near Iwagakure, retrieved its memories, and learned that it had narrowed down the activity range of Han, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Qian subdued Rock Ninja agents outside Iwagakure and updated their marks while erasing their memories of the encounters.
• Qian entered Iwagakure and updated marks or erased memories for the hidden agents living inside the village.
• Qian rested in the underground space, left a shadow clone behind, and slipped through Iwagakure's Perception Barrier.
• Qian flew toward Kumogakure, intending to leave a shadow clone there and look for more hidden agents to control along the way.

Qian infiltrated the outskirts of Kumogakure and secretly placed a hidden agent among its guards. He left the Cloud Anbu unaware of the encounter and moved on after ensuring the sentry resumed his post.

• Qian surveyed Kumogakure with his Byakugan and identified a lone Anbu guarding a mountain path.
• Qian concealed himself with Ame no Minaka, approached the Anbu, and trapped him in Sharingan genjutsu.
• Qian used the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal to place hidden conditions on the Anbu and suggested that he watch the Two-Tails.
• Qian erased the Anbu's recent memories, returned him to his post, and left without alerting the four visible sentries.
• The Anbu recovered with a vague sense that he had forgotten something, checked the area, and resumed guarding the path.