Chapter Summaries

Qian escaped into the Land of Fire’s forest with half of the Nine-Tails sealed in a Metal Sphere, having returned the other half to Konoha to protect his plans and divert attention from himself. He absorbed six million points of chakra from his half and planned to use Wood Clones to store his growing reserves.

• Qian confirmed with his Byakugan that no one had followed him into the forest.
• Qian revealed that he had split the Nine-Tails, keeping its yang half in the Metal Sphere and returning its yin half to Konoha.
• Qian reasoned that returning half the Nine-Tails would preserve Namikaze Minato and Kushina Uzumaki, stabilize Konoha, and keep attention away from him.
• Qian used the Chakra Absorption Technique for about an hour and a half and gained six million points of chakra from the Nine-Tails.
• Qian calculated that he would need to store his accumulating chakra in Wood Clones about once a month.

Qian returned to Konoha after hiding the three Tailed Beasts, then tracked the Nine-Tails to the hospital. There, he found Namikaze Minato preparing to make Kushina Uzumaki a Jinchuriki again before her remaining vitality ran out.

• Qian created a wood clone to hide the three Tailed Beasts, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to Konoha.
• Qian entered the village unseen and surveyed the aftermath of the battle before hiding underground to use the Spirit Transformation Technique.
• Qian sensed that the Nine-Tails was at Konoha Hospital and headed there.
• Qian found Kushina Uzumaki being kept alive by the Healing Resuscitation Regeneration Technique as Namikaze Minato and the village elders arrived.
• Namikaze Minato rejected Sarutobi Hiruzen's warning and resolved to make Kushina a Jinchuriki again, since she could not wait for Tsunade to arrive.

Namikaze Minato tried to save Kushina Uzumaki by sealing the released half of the Nine-Tails back into her, while Qian watched from hiding. Uchiha Shisui helped Kushina resist the beast’s malice, and the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style stabilized her condition before Qian quietly left.

• Namikaze Minato reassured Kushina Uzumaki that Naruto was safe and told her he had a plan to save her by sealing the Nine-Tails back into her body.
• Namikaze Minato released the Nine-Tails from a scroll and began sealing it into Kushina as Sarutobi Hiruzen and the others raised barriers to contain its influence.
• Kushina Uzumaki struggled against the Nine-Tails’ malice as its chakra invaded her body, and Namikaze Minato urged her to hold on for Naruto.
• Uchiha Shisui used Genjutsu: Sharingan to subdue the Nine-Tails’ consciousness, allowing Kushina to regain control while Namikaze Minato completed the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style.
• Namikaze Minato confirmed that Kushina’s condition had stabilized, and Qian quietly left the underground space.

Qian waited in Konoha while the village dealt with the aftermath of the Nine-Tails Incident, then resumed training after deciding Obito Uchiha was likely waiting to learn more about the Nine-Tails. He left a Shadow Clone in the village and traveled to Moon Island to begin training again.

• Qian spent three days helping repel intruders from other villages and killed ten Jonin, while Konoha’s large-scale incursions eventually stopped.
• Qian wondered why Obito Uchiha had not confronted him and concluded that Obito might not know he had returned only half of the Nine-Tails.
• Qian visited the damaged Gourmet Street, ate at the reopened stalls, and left a Shadow Clone behind in Konoha.
• Qian recalled his Wood Clone from the Primeval Forest, collected two Metal Spheres, and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach Moon Island.
• Qian created five hundred Shadow Clones and began training.

Qian tested his newly evolved Storm Release and continued training with Pinnacle of Body, which advanced to lv9 and greatly increased his body-enhancement efficiency. The improvement meant he expected his body to reach its transformation threshold around mid-November, though the extra chakra cost strained his supply of Natural Energy.

• Qian discovered that Storm Release had evolved and tested its flexible control and destructive power on trees and a boulder.
• Qian returned to training inside the volcano and adapted to the First Cavity without using his Lightning Release Light Membrane.
• After three more days, Pinnacle of Body advanced, and Qian absorbed the new insights before practicing it again.
• Qian's revised practice increased his body-enhancement efficiency by thirty percent, moving his expected transformation forward to around mid-November.
• Qian's daily chakra cost for training rose from five million to seven million, leaving his Natural Energy supply insufficient.

Qian decided to wait for his Natural Energy Perception and Natural Energy Control to reach lv8 rather than change his training routine. After checking on Konoha and taking a rest day, he delegated an upcoming mission to a Wood Clone and returned to Moon Island to train.

• Qian ruled out seeking denser natural energy or making more Shadow Clones, and chose to wait about a week for his natural energy skills to advance while substituting ordinary chakra in the meantime.
• Qian returned to Konoha after ten days of training and learned from his Shadow Clone that the village had seen no major events since the Nine-Tails Incident.
• Qian considered how recent changes might affect Obito Uchiha's plans in Kirigakure, including whether he could control Karatachi Yagura and restart the Bloody Mist Policy.
• Qian ate at his restored favorite barbecue restaurant, then trained his Sharingan with the Mind Reflection Technique before going to sleep.
• Qian spent the next day resting, assigned a mission to a Wood Clone, and returned to Moon Island to resume training.

After six days of training, Qian advanced his Natural Energy Perception and Natural Energy Control to lv8, then continued cultivating until his body reached its critical point. He broke through the limit that night, freeing his body to grow stronger again.

• Qian raised Natural Energy Perception and Natural Energy Control to lv8, allowing his shadow clones to absorb more natural energy and safely channel greater amounts through his body.
• Qian considered developing Sage Mode and searching for places connected to the Three Great Sage Locations, but set those plans aside to keep training.
• Twenty days later, Qian confirmed that his body had reached its critical point and gathered the cultivation experience and natural energy from his dispersed Shadow Clones.
• Qian replenished his strength and used Human Authority and Yang Release Chakra to break through his body's limit.
• Qian felt the shackles on his body vanish and tested his newly lightened body with a few punches.

Qingming tested the effects of his latest Body Transformation, finding that his body had recovered faster and was better able to withstand his powerful Spiritual Power. His Physical Constitution rose to 29, boosting both his theoretical Chakra Limit and natural chakra recovery, and he turned his attention to reviewing his other improvements.

• Qingming tested his strength and balance, then cut his arm with a kunai and watched the deep wound heal in less than a minute.
• Qingming checked the Proficiency Panel and saw his Physical Constitution increase from 28 to 29.
• Qingming circulated the Chakra Refining Technique for half an hour and estimated that his theoretical Chakra Limit had increased by about 1.8 million points.
• Qingming measured his natural chakra recovery and found it had risen from 9.1 million to 10.8 million points per day.
• Qingming considered using a more aggressive method to cultivate the Pinnacle of Body, then looked over the rest of his Status Panel.

Qian reviewed the gains from a month and a half of cultivation and weighed the risks of pushing his Sharingan and Byakugan toward breakthroughs that would raise his Spirit attribute. The next morning, he began testing how his latest Body Transformation had changed his training.

• Qian noted that his chakra limit had risen to 2,385,690 points and that his Sharingan and Byakugan were nearing their next evolution thresholds.
• Qian found that his Wood Clone Technique, Tri-Element Sealing Technique, and Pinnacle of Body had reached perfection, while several other skills had improved.
• Qian went to sleep early after reviewing his progress and the possible strain of raising his Spirit further.
• Qian woke early, ate Enhanced Soldier Pills, and summoned five hundred shadow clones to train.
• Qian sent one hundred clones to absorb Natural Energy and assigned the rest to develop Dust Release, then teleported into a volcano to train.
• Qian used five hundred thousand points of chakra with Sage Art Chakra to strengthen his body with Pinnacle of Body while advancing his Byakugan.

Qian trained Pinnacle of Body in the Second Cavity’s harsher environment and increased his Body Enhancement and Byakugan evolution rates. After several days of testing, he calculated that his Byakugan could advance in about twenty more days and estimated his body might transform within three months.

• Qian moved from the First Cavity to the Second Cavity and practiced Pinnacle of Body without protecting himself from the harsh environment.
• Qian returned to Moon Island, dismissed his five hundred shadow clones, and calmly sorted through their memories and training experience.
• Qian continued high-intensity training for several days, occasionally returning to the village to rest.
• Qian found that his Body Enhancement efficiency had risen by about thirty percent and his Byakugan evolution speed by about twenty percent.
• Qian calculated that his Byakugan needed at most twenty more days to advance, while his increased chakra use left him short of natural energy.
• Qian estimated that his body could undergo another transformation within three months if his current evolution rate continued.

Qian chose to pause his Sharingan and Byakugan evolution so he could strengthen his body without risking an imbalance. Before reaching the point of Body Transformation, he successfully developed Dust Release and planned to keep practicing until he awakened the complete Kekkei Tōta.

• Qian decided to focus on raising his Physical Constitution to 30 points instead of continuing to increase his Spirit through the Sharingan and Byakugan.
• Qian redirected his cultivation toward Body Enhancement, hoping to shorten the time needed for his Body Transformation.
• After another half month, Qian successfully imprinted Dust Release onto his Status Panel using Mu's notes as a reference.
• Qian combined Fire Release, Wind Style, and Earth Style chakra and threw the unstable Dust Release at a boulder.
• Qian saw Dust Release leave the boulder riddled with holes where its matter had vanished, but he knew he could not yet use the technique reliably against enemies.
• Qian resolved to keep practicing Dust Release personally to spur his genes to develop the complete Kekkei Tōta.

Qian repeatedly practiced combining wind, fire, and earth Chakra until he awakened Dust Release, then used his improved ability to control it as its evolution triggered a bodily transformation. He gained a major improvement to his aptitude and began planning to learn established Dust Release techniques.

• Qian failed more than twenty times before finally fusing the three Chakra natures and producing Dust Release Chakra.
• When the unstable Dust Release Chakra threatened to explode, Qian escaped with the Flying Thunder God Technique before it detonated.
• Over the next two days, Qian repeatedly fused the Chakra and raised Dust Release's Evolution Progress to one hundred points.
• Qian's body underwent an hour-long cellular renewal, guided by Human Authority, and his aptitude improved.
• Qian found that he could now instinctively create and control Dust Release Chakra, and planned to learn Atomic Dismantling Jutsu and Detachment of the Primitive World Jutsu.

Qian reorganized his shadow clones to research new Dust Release techniques and gather natural energy, then discovered that his Natural Energy Perception and Natural Energy Control had advanced to lv9. Their improved range and control expanded his training options, and he planned to increase his natural-energy storage while continuing to develop his body naturally.

• Qian assigned two hundred shadow clones to develop his own Atomic Dismantling Jutsu and Detachment of the Primitive World Jutsu, while sending the others to absorb natural energy.
• Qian's Natural Energy Perception and Natural Energy Control advanced from lv8 to lv9 after he absorbed his clones' training insights the next morning.
• Qian tested his new abilities on his former training island and found he could perceive and manipulate natural energy across a much wider area.
• Qian realized his Tri-Element Sealing Technique's five-million-point storage capacity would soon be insufficient, so he planned to assign one hundred clones to research breaking its level limit.
• Qian found he could control about three million points of natural energy in his body, but chose to keep increasing his body's potential rather than begin Sage Mode early.

Qian returned to Moon Island to resume his body training after assigning shadow clones to research Dust Release and the Tri-Element Sealing Technique. When the sealing technique’s limit-breaking issue was resolved, he shifted more clones to improve it and anticipated a body transformation that would help his attributes and chakra recovery grow.

• Qian flew to the Primeval Forest in the northeast of the Land of Fire and created five hundred shadow clones to work on Dust Release, absorb natural energy, and break the Tri-Element Sealing Technique’s limit.
• Qian teleported to Moon Island and resumed cultivating the Pinnacle of Body inside the volcanic cavity.
• After a week, Qian’s shadow-clone insights raised the Tri-Element Sealing Technique’s proficiency from lv7 (0/0) to lv7 (1/20000).
• Qian reassigned one hundred clones from Dust Release research to the Tri-Element Sealing Technique so it could advance in about a week.
• Qian continued body training, expecting his physical transformation to reach its critical point in roughly another week and improve his attributes and chakra recovery.

On his birthday, Qian toured the Land of Fire before resuming his training, and his Tri-Element Sealing Technique advanced to lv8. With his body at its limit, he prepared to break through the thirty-point threshold the following day.

• Qian spent his birthday traveling across the Land of Fire, then returned to Moon Island and reflected on his progress and ambitions.
• After three days of training, Qian advanced his Tri-Element Sealing Technique to lv8, doubling its Natural Energy storage capacity to ten million points.
• Qian reassigned his Shadow Clones to absorb Natural Energy, train the Tri-Element Sealing Technique, and develop his Dust Release jutsu.
• Qian trained in the Volcano beneath Moon Island and sensed that his body had reached its limit, but postponed breaking through until the next day.
• Qian dispelled his Shadow Clones, stored the returned Natural Energy in his seal, absorbed their training memories, and went to rest.

Qian broke through his physical bottleneck, raising his Physical Constitution to 30 and bringing it into balance with his Spirit. After measuring the results, he found his theoretical chakra limit had increased by three million points and began testing his Chakra Recovery Speed.

• Qian used Human Authority and Yang Release Chakra to push his body past its bottleneck after more than ten hours of effort.
• Qian completed his body transformation and felt his spirit and body reach a state of balance.
• Qian checked his Status Panel and confirmed that his Physical Constitution had risen from 29 to 30, matching his Spirit.
• Qian tested his potential and found that his theoretical chakra limit had increased by three million points.
• Qian began testing his Chakra Recovery Speed.

After his Body Transformation, Qian assessed his improved chakra recovery, bloodline evolution, skills, and chakra limit. He entered the volcano to test his Sage Art Chakra tolerance and continue training in the Pinnacle of Body.

• Qian paused the Chakra Refining Technique and found that his natural chakra recovery had increased to 13.3 million points per day, allowing him to save 5.92 million points daily.
• Qian observed that his Sharingan and Byakugan were close to advancing, while Dust Release had reached 590/1000 Evolution Progress.
• Qian reviewed his improved skills and noted that his chakra limit had risen from 2.38 million to 2.8 million points.
• Qian entered the volcano to test his post-transformation tolerance for Sage Art Chakra and train in the Pinnacle of Body.

Qian increased his body's tolerance through training in the volcano, then spent the day advancing his Byakugan. After consuming nearly five million points of Natural Energy, his Byakugan reached a level equivalent to the Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Qian finished training in the volcano and estimated that his body could now withstand eighteen million points of Chakra, though his daily schedule would still limit his body training to about thirteen million.
• Qian returned to his cabin, rested overnight, and woke with increased energy after his Physical Constitution surpassed 30 points.
• Qian created five hundred shadow clones, assigned them their usual tasks, and went to the volcano to train while allowing Sage Art Chakra to strengthen his Byakugan.
• When his Byakugan's Evolution Progress reached its limit, Qian recalled his shadow clones, absorbed their memories, and poured Sage Art Chakra and Natural Energy into the eye.
• Qian used nearly five million points of Natural Energy to complete his Byakugan's advancement, bringing it to the level of a Mangekyō Sharingan.

Qian tested his newly evolved Byakugan, discovering greater vision and new abilities to absorb chakra and manipulate attractive and repulsive forces. He decided to postpone flying beyond the planet until he was strong enough to avoid drawing the Sage of Six Paths's attention.

• Qian activated his Byakugan and found that its detection range had expanded to a two-kilometer radius.
• Qian discovered that the Byakugan could absorb chakra from a distance, though its limited speed and range made the ability of little use for now.
• Qian used attractive force to pull a stone weighing up to one hundred tons and realized the ability could also propel his own body into flight.
• Qian considered combining his force manipulation with other techniques to fly beyond the planet, but refrained to avoid attracting the attention of Ōtsutsuki Hamura's line and the Sage of Six Paths.
• Qian resolved to explore the harsh environment beyond the planet once he had grown powerful enough to face the Sage of Six Paths.

After his Byakugan evolved, Uchiha Qian measured the gains to his attributes and chakra potential, then trained until his Mangekyō Sharingan advanced. He ended the night with Spirit at 32 and planned to reorganize his shadow-clone training after resting.

• Qian confirmed that his Spirit had risen from 30 to 31 and tested the resulting increases to his Theoretical Chakra Limit and Chakra Recovery Speed.
• Qian resumed cultivation, trained the Pinnacle of Body, and later traveled to the Primeval Forest to use the Mind Reflection Technique on his Sharingan.
• After six hours of practice, Qian's Mangekyō Sharingan activated, unleashing spiritual pressure that stilled the forest before he managed to rein it in.
• Qian checked his panel and saw Spirit rise to 32 and Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan progress reach 30000/100000, then tested his improved chakra potential and recovery speed.
• Qian recalled his shadow clones, returned to Moon Island, and went to sleep, leaving plans to revise his training arrangements for the next day.