Chapter Summaries

Qian failed several times to fuse Wind Style and Water Release into Ice Release, then received word that his shadow clone had found a new training base. He packed his supplies, erased traces of his presence, and flew northeast toward a secluded island between the Land of Fire, the Land of Water, and the Land of Lightning.

• Qian absorbed his shadow clones’ cultivation experience and nearly fused Wind Style and Water Release, but repeated attempts ended in failure and explosions.
• Qian calmed himself, took Enhanced Soldier Pills, and learned from a shadow clone that it had found a suitable new base.
• Qian sealed his belongings in a scroll, burned down the wooden house, and erased traces of his training across the island.
• Qian flew northeast toward the new island, whose dangerous waters kept ships away and whose terrain suited his Body Enhancement.

Qian arrived at a remote crescent-shaped island and made it his new stronghold, using his abilities to clear land and build a wooden house. After training his Sharingan and reviewing his shadow clones’ experiences, he ended the day by devouring a freshly roasted wild chicken.

• Qian found the island uninhabited and decided its harsh waters and reef-filled harbor would help keep others away.
• Qian used Wind Style and Wood Release to clear a clearing and grow a crude wooden house, then hardened a second clearing with Earth Release.
• Qian created two hundred and twenty shadow clones, assigning most to develop Ice Release while two prepared the camp and roasted meat.
• Qian trained his Sharingan with the Mind Reflection Technique, then released his clones and absorbed their memories, gaining new insight into fusing Wind Style and Water Release.
• Qian failed to fuse the chakra natures, then found the shadow clone roasting a wild chicken and eagerly ate it while it was still hot.

Qian finished his training on Moon Island, then began scouting the area and examined the reefs around Moon Bay. His Byakugan revealed that the island and reefs were remnants of an extinct volcano.

• Qian ate a roast chicken, rested, and spent three and a half hours nurturing his Byakugan, bringing its Evolution Progress to 4367/5000.
• Qian went to sleep in the island's wooden hut after finishing his training.
• The next morning, Qian sent out four shadow clones to patrol the surroundings while the others cultivated.
• Qian went to Moon Bay to inspect the seabed and find a place to strengthen his body.
• Using his Byakugan, Qian recognized that Moon Island and the scattered reefs formed part of an extinct volcano's broken crater.

Qian trained at greater depths beside an undersea extinct volcano, enduring higher pressure to accelerate his Body Enhancement. After returning safely to Moon Island, he estimated that his next Body Transformation might come in early or mid-June, then dispelled his Shadow Clones and absorbed their memories.

• Qian used his Byakugan and Lightning Release Chakra Mode to descend along the volcano, placing a Flying Thunder God Seal on the rock wall as he went.
• At a depth of 540 meters, Qian used Yang Release chakra to ease the pressure, carved a platform into the wall, and practiced Body Enhancement for an hour.
• Qian returned to the seal above before teleporting to Moon Island, where he checked his training progress and found that the harsher pressure had improved his cultivation efficiency.
• Qian estimated that his Body Transformation might occur in early or mid-June, roughly two months later, though the timing could change.
• Qian dispelled more than two hundred Shadow Clones and began absorbing their memories; the four clones sent to investigate had found nothing abnormal and had trained to fuse Ice Release.

After ten days of training at sea, Qian returned to Konoha, rested, and nourished his Byakugan before preparing to wait for his Chakra Refining Technique to advance from lv6 to lv7. The chapter left him in the Cultivation Room as the technique neared its next level.

• Qian finished digesting his shadow clones’ memories, continued training for two more days, and decided to return to Konoha after ten days of arduous training.
• Qian flew back to Konoha, slipped through the village barrier, and learned from his home shadow clone’s memories that the village had adjusted to Orochimaru’s defection.
• Qian ate at Gourmet Street, then spent three and a half hours nourishing his Byakugan before reviewing the process for insights into its evolution.
• Qian woke the next morning and saw that his Chakra Refining Technique was at lv6 (9998/10000), so he ate and waited in the Cultivation Room for it to advance.

Qian advanced his Chakra Refining Technique to lv7 and discovered that it greatly accelerated the excavation of his body's potential. He left the Cultivation Room to eat, planning to take it easy on his rest day while tending to his Byakugan and getting used to the new technique.

• Qian realized his Chakra Refining Technique had advanced to lv7 after its circulation stopped, then digested the insights that appeared.
• Qian found that lv7 improved passive chakra recovery and made active recovery more efficient, though these changes were not his main concern.
• Qian tested the technique and found it increased his chakra limit by 300 points per hour, more than tripling its previous rate of 64 points per hour.
• Qian calculated that lv8 required 20,000 hours of practice and saw that raising his Basic Attributes could still outpace his progress.
• Qian left the Cultivation Room to find food and decided to spend his rest day nurturing his Byakugan and letting the lv7 technique return to automatic circulation.

Qian encountered young Hyuga Neji and Hizashi Hyuga outside the Ninja School, then realized the Hyuga clan’s eye-awakening training could help him improve the Byakugan. He decided to find the clan’s training ground and study its methods.

• Qian visited the Ninja School and remembered his deceased teammates Mizutani Shizuko and Ryosuke, along with their teacher Furukawa.
• Neji approached Qian, and Qian recognized him before Neji’s mother and Hizashi Hyuga came to collect him.
• Qian and Hizashi exchanged a tense silent stare, then spoke briefly and parted on friendly terms.
• After the Hyuga family left, Qian drew inspiration from the clan’s Byakugan training and decided to seek out their secret training ground.

Qian secretly scouted a Hyuga training ground and confirmed that its children practiced chakra-focused movements to help awaken the Byakugan. He returned home, mastered the next level of his Chakra Refining Technique, continued nourishing his Byakugan, and went to sleep.

• Qian used Ame no Minaka to enter the Hyuga clan's secret training ground without being seen.
• Qian observed Hyuga youths practicing Gentle Fist and children practicing slow movements that directed chakra toward their eyes.
• Qian returned home and recalled what he had seen, planning to leave further study to his Shadow Clone.
• Qian practiced the level 7 Chakra Refining Technique until it operated passively, increasing his chakra limit by nearly two thousand points.
• Qian nourished his Byakugan until he felt its familiar swelling sensation, then washed up and went to bed.

After a week of training on Moon Island, Qian successfully fused Wind Style and Water Release to create Ice Release, then rapidly advanced it until his genes mutated and the power began spreading uncontrollably. He contained the awakening within a hundred-meter area and waited for his body to finish changing as people approached the island.

• Qian’s Chakra Limit rose close to 900,000, and his deeper underwater training moved his expected Body Transformation to early June.
• After absorbing his shadow clones’ experiences, Qian fused Wind Style and Water Release and created a cluster of ice crystals.
• Qian saw Ice Release appear on his Status Panel and spent the afternoon raising its Evolution Progress from 1/100 to 100/100.
• Qian completed the Ice Release breakthrough, triggering a genetic mutation and an icy power that he contained within a hundred meters.
• Qian sat as an ice sculpture, comprehending the power while chakra waves silenced the island’s wildlife and drew people toward Moon Island.

Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko escaped pursuit inside the Water Demon Shark and headed for Moon Island after sensing an unfamiliar Chakra. They found Qian surrounded by ice crystals and attacked him, unaware of his extraordinary strength.

• Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko treated their wounds inside the Water Demon Shark and argued about their escape from the Anbu.
• The Water Demon Shark sensed an unfamiliar Chakra coming from a nearby island, and the two decided to investigate and eliminate whoever was there.
• Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko reached Moon Island and spotted Qian amid a wide field of ice crystals, identifying his power as the Yuki Clan's Ice Release.
• Chikamura Dahui decided to kill Qian to prevent the Yuki Clan from gaining a promising young ninja, and he and Koike Raiko launched ninjutsu at him together.

Qian effortlessly stopped Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko’s attacks, trapped them in an illusion, and used a sealing technique to punish them. After they lost consciousness, he began reading Koike Raiko’s memories.

• Chikamura Dahui fired water arrows at Qian while Koike Raiko tried to bind him with Lightning Ropes, but Qian cut the ropes and blocked the arrows with an Ice Wall.
• Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko recognized Qian and tried to flee toward the Water Demon Shark, but Qian’s illusion made them return to where they started.
• Qian immobilized both men with sealing formulas and inflicted agony through the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal when they tried to escape.
• After Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko lost consciousness, Qian stopped the seal’s punishment and used the Mind Reading Technique on Koike Raiko.

After reading Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko’s memories, Qian learned they belonged to an organization of rogue ninja and decided to use them to locate its base. He ordered them to falsely report that they were safe and then lead him to the base, and Chikamura Dahui prepared to send the message.

• Qian read Chikamura Dahui’s memories and learned that he and Koike Raiko were former Kirigakure ninja who had joined an organization of rogue ninja.
• Qian discovered that their organization had sealed memories of its base and that its members would come looking if the two failed to return.
• Qian decided to keep the men alive so he could use them to find and attack the organization’s base.
• Qian ordered Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko to tell their organization not to send support and to take him to their base.
• Chikamura Dahui summoned a small shark and took out a scroll to write the message.

Qian sent a Shadow Clone with Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko toward the rogue ninja base while his true body stayed on Moon Island to test how awakening Ice Release affected his physical strengthening. He began measuring his improved aptitude deep beneath the sea.

• Qian warned Chikamura Dahui not to alter the intelligence, then let him send it by summoned shark without inspecting the scroll.
• Qian had Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko travel with him in the Water Demon Shark, healing the shark and sealing it against revealing his whereabouts.
• After the group left, Qian revealed that the traveler was his Shadow Clone and returned to Moon Island to guard his lair and avoid wasting time before nightfall.
• Qian tested Ice Release and found that awakening it had improved his aptitude for physical strengthening.
• Qian used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the deepest point he could tolerate and began strengthening his body.

Qian tested how developing Ice Release had improved his aptitude, then began training to develop Storm Release despite concerns about his genetic carrying capacity. After learning the rogue ninja base was hidden in the Mist Sea, he teleported there to deal with them.

• Qian concluded that Ice Release had advanced his next Body Transformation by about ten days and decided to pursue Storm Release using Uchiha Madara’s notes.
• Qian created more than two hundred shadow clones, assigning some to scout and the rest to train in fusing Water and Lightning Release.
• Qian received memories from the shadow clone following Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko and learned that the rogue ninja had hidden their base in the Mist Sea.
• Qian considered developing a Wood Release Clone after the mission, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport to the rogue ninja base.

Qian led a night assault on the rogue ninja base on a hidden island, using shadow clones to cut off escape routes and kill the scattered inhabitants. As the purge neared its end, a young man with unusual blood-red eyes destroyed two clones and caught Qian’s attention.

• Qian flew above the island, created more than fifty shadow clones, and sent them to block escape routes and assassinate the rogue ninja.
• The clones killed more than half the island’s rogue ninja before one triggered an Exploding Tag and alerted the survivors.
• Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko fled toward the seaside, but Qian ignored them because the contract let him track them.
• Qian watched the remaining rogue ninja flee as his clones pursued and killed them.
• A gray-haired young man with rhombus-shaped glasses used his unusual eyes and kunai to destroy two shadow clones, and Qian sent nearby clones to surround him.

Qian identified the young man as Oyashiro En, a Chinoike Clan survivor who wielded the Ketsuryūgan, and sent his Shadow Clones to attack him. After Oyashiro En revealed his corpse puppets, Qian recalled his clones and unleashed a massive fireball, leaving the island facing destruction.

• Qian recognized the young man's eyes as the Ketsuryūgan and confirmed his identity by naming him Oyashiro En.
• Qian ordered his four Shadow Clones to attack, and Oyashiro En used Genjutsu and combat skill to hold them off.
• Oyashiro En sent a controlled corpse bursting from underground to attack two Shadow Clones preparing ninjutsu.
• Qian used his Byakugan to identify the figure as a corpse puppet and spotted other bodies hidden nearby.
• Qian canceled "Ame no Minaka," recalled his Shadow Clones, and cast a fireball over fifty meters wide onto the island.

Qian defeated Oyashiro En after destroying his defenses and pursued him when he tried to flee. After capturing and reading his memories, Qian learned that Oyashiro En had created the rogue ninja organization and concealed his role by altering its members’ memories.

• Qian broke through Oyashiro En’s corpse-puppet defenses with Fire Style: Flame Gathering Strike and destroyed his remaining puppets.
• Oyashiro En unleashed a blood dragon, but Qian vanished with Ame no Minaka and avoided its attacks.
• Oyashiro En tried to escape, but Qian’s Shadow Clone blocked him and Flying Thunder God brought Qian’s main body to confront him.
• Qian trapped Oyashiro En in an illusion, used the Lock Heart Soul Contract Instant Body Seal, and read his memories.
• Qian discovered that Oyashiro En had created the organization for profit and future revenge, then erased its members’ memories of his involvement.

Qian finished nurturing his Byakugan and arranged for Kirigakure to eliminate Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko, keeping Moon Island's location secret. After their deaths settled the pursuit, he tried to create Wood Release clones but failed twice.

• Qian returned to Moon Island, nurtured his Byakugan until he reached his tolerance limit, and rested overnight.
• Qian sent a shadow clone to locate Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko and guide Kirigakure to them, then began training shadow clones in Storm Release and Wood Release.
• Qian learned that Kirigakure's pursuit force had killed Chikamura Dahui and Koike Raiko, while his hidden agents and shadow clone prevented them from exposing him.
• Qian recalled his training clones, absorbed their cultivation experience, and attempted the Wood Clone Technique.
• Qian's first attempt produced two wooden heads that withered back into his body; his second produced upper bodies that twisted into vines.

Qian repeatedly practiced the Wood Clone Technique until he successfully created two wood clones, then tested their combat strength and durability. After they collapsed from the technique’s low proficiency, he decided to train the technique himself while using stored chakra to keep his other training going.

• Qian repeatedly cast the Wood Clone Technique until two wood clones successfully emerged and the technique appeared on his Status Panel.
• Qian drew a long blade and fought both wood clones using only swordsmanship to test their close-combat abilities.
• Qian saw that the wood clones could endure and repair injuries, giving them an advantage over Shadow Clones in dangerous close combat.
• The two wood clones suddenly turned into wooden statues and dissipated, revealing that their low proficiency limited their stability and duration.
• Qian decided to practice the Wood Clone Technique himself and use stored chakra to balance it with his Storm Release and other training.

Qian advanced the Wood Clone Technique to lv2 and planned to practice it for two hours daily, balancing its progress against his Sharingan evolution and the strain on his body. He ended the day by taking Enhanced Soldier Pills and nurturing his Byakugan.

• Qian raised the Wood Clone Technique from lv0 to lv1 after more than a thousand casts, spending 750,000 Chakra points.
• Qian practiced for another hour and advanced the Wood Clone Technique to lv2, spending 50,000 Chakra points for 200 Proficiency.
• Qian decided to devote two hours each day to the Wood Clone Technique, reducing his Mind Reflection Technique practice and Sharingan evolution time to protect his body from the imbalance between his Physical Constitution and Spiritual attributes.
• Qian calculated that reaching the Wood Clone Technique's maximum level would take about 220 days and resolved to strengthen his body faster.
• Qian swallowed several Enhanced Soldier Pills and began nurturing his Byakugan for his final training session of the day.