Recaps

Tianyi chose the Flying Thunder God Technique despite Tsunade and Hiruzen Sarutobi warning him that it was exceptionally difficult to master. After studying Tobirama Senju’s explanation of its principles, he shared the scroll with Commander Tian, whose team believed its space-time techniques could help Tianyi return home.

• Tianyi firmly chose the Flying Thunder God Technique, explaining that its tactical flexibility suited his fighting style and that he trusted his methods.
• Tsunade stopped objecting, and Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted Tianyi’s decision while reminding him of its responsibilities.
• Tianyi moved into a residence in the former Senju Clan compound and studied Tobirama Senju’s notes on spatial nodes, technique anchors, and teleportation.
• Tianyi reasoned that sensing spatial nodes was the technique’s main threshold and considered using his nation’s research resources to solve it.
• Tianyi contacted Commander Tian, whose team said the Flying Thunder God’s space-time principles could provide a foundation for locating or opening a passage between worlds and asked him to send the materials.

Scientists in the Upper Capital planned a Magnet Release-based method to help Tianyi sense Flying Thunder God coordinates, while Tianyi joined the Leaf Village ANBU as Fox. The chapter ended with his new squad leader, Blue Bird, preparing to test his abilities.

• At a conference, researchers designed a training system for Tianyi to detect the spatial ripples of Flying Thunder God formulas through Magnet Release.
• Commander ordered the first spatial-coordinate training manual completed within a week.
• ANBU operative Falcon brought Tianyi to the underground base, where Tianyi chose the fox mask and codename Fox.
• Elephant assigned Tianyi to Blue Bird’s Fourth Squad and introduced him to the ANBU’s structure, missions, and rules.
• Blue Bird led Tianyi to the training ground and asked him to demonstrate his strength.

Hyuga Tianyi, operating as Fox, proved his Magnet Release could overwhelm Blue Bird and joined the Elephant Brigade Fourth Squad. After a month of missions that showcased his sensing and medical skills, Fox entered the Land of Fields with his squad to search for missing-nin.

• Tianyi stopped Blue Bird's attack by silently guiding a shuriken to his neck, revealing his Magnet Release and earning Blue Bird's welcome into the Fourth Squad.
• The ANBU members recognized Fox as the Leaf Village Ghost, and Blue Bird began showing him the base and its procedures.
• Over the next month, Fox helped the squad complete missions by detecting hidden threats and treating injuries.
• Crow and Cat praised Fox for finding concealed dangers during earlier missions, while Blue Bird briefed the squad on their next target.
• Blue Bird led the squad toward the northern mountains of the Land of Fields and ordered Fox to prioritize sensing hidden sentries and chakra gatherings.

Tianyi joined an ANBU mission to capture the defecting former Leaf Village Jonin Hiruko and recover his forbidden research. As the team headed toward the Land of Waterfalls, Hiruzen confronted Danzo about Root’s possible involvement, while Tsunade asked that Hiruko be brought back alive.

• Tianyi practiced sensing the spatial-coordinate ripples of a Flying Thunder God Formula before an ANBU member summoned him to an emergency mission.
• Blue Bird briefed the Fourth Squad on Hiruko’s defection, suspected Kekkei Genkai research, and last known location in the Land of Waterfalls, assigning Tianyi to reconnaissance and support.
• Tianyi and the other ANBU members left Konoha for the Land of Waterfalls, where he hoped Hiruko’s abilities would provide attribute points.
• Hiruzen questioned Danzo about Root’s suspected role in Hiruko’s escape, but Danzo denied the accusations and demanded evidence.
• Tsunade asked Hiruzen to capture Hiruko alive so she could learn why her former friend had defected; Hiruzen said he would consider her request.

Danzo secretly sent Root to the Land of Waterfalls to silence Hiruko, destroy his test subjects, and seize research on Hashirama Cells. Meanwhile, ANBU Fourth Squad reached Hiruko’s mine, where an alarm drew several monstrous test subjects to the entrance.

• Danzo ordered twelve Root shinobi to infiltrate Hiruko’s laboratory, kill him and his test subjects, steal his research, and capture Tianyi if possible.
• Tianyi used his Byakugan and Magnet Release to locate the underground laboratory and map its defenses for ANBU Fourth Squad.
• Blue Bird led the squad through a narrow safe route as Tianyi masked the underground sensing traps with an electromagnetic field.
• Near the mine entrance, Tianyi detected activated metal structures and a possible secondary alarm as creatures moved toward them.
• Blue Bird ordered the squad to prepare for combat as several red-eyed test subjects emerged from the darkness.

Tianyi destroyed Hiruko’s explosive test subjects and guided Blue Bird through the mine in pursuit. They found Root had already captured Hiruko, but when Blue Bird challenged Root’s order to take over, the Root ninjas launched a lethal attack.

• Tianyi recognized the charging test subjects as expendable pawns preparing to self-destruct.
• Tianyi used Magnet Release to impale the test subjects with iron spears and stop their explosions.
• Tianyi and Blue Bird pursued Hiruko through the mine while Tianyi identified traps and decoys.
• Tianyi sensed Hiruko fighting twelve Jonin-level opponents and found Root had subdued him.
• A Root captain ordered Tianyi and Blue Bird to leave, then Root attacked them with shuriken when Blue Bird objected.

Tianyi and Blue Bird were ambushed by a prepared Root squad, and Tianyi killed one attacker while evading their coordinated countermeasures. Surrounded by Root ninja and seeing Blue Bird pinned down, he realized they had built an encirclement specifically to counter his abilities.

• Tianyi protected himself and Blue Bird from Root’s opening barrage with Magnet Release: Metal Storm.
• The Root leader ordered his squad to kill them, and Root ninja attacked with Fire Release, weapons, and coordinated Wind Release that dispersed Tianyi’s mist.
• Tianyi used a Shadow Clone to bait an Earth Release ambush, then killed the attacker with a Waterline Slash.
• Root ninja used sensory abilities, Explosive Tags, and Earth Release to locate and flush out Tianyi’s hiding places.
• Tianyi used his Byakugan to detect more than thirty chakra signatures and saw that three Root ninja had pinned Blue Bird down.
• Tianyi counted eight Root ninja still targeting him and recognized their formation as a planned encirclement tailored to his abilities.

Tianyi used Magnet Release Sensory to find and kill a Root ninja hiding among Shadow Clones, then watched Blue Bird become critically wounded in the ensuing fight. He blinded the Root attackers with flash bombs, killed four more with Waterline Slash, and covered the battlefield in mist, leaving the remaining Root ninjas unable to see.

• Tianyi detected a Root ninja by the iron in his blood and killed him, causing his Shadow Clones to vanish.
• The Root leader ordered his team to abandon their Shadow Clones and attack Blue Bird while their sensory ninja tracked Tianyi underground.
• Five Root ninjas overwhelmed Blue Bird, breaking his arm and stabbing him in the side.
• Tianyi detonated three flash bombs and used Waterline Slash to kill the Wind Release ninja and two other blinded Root ninjas.
• Tianyi injured the last attacker surrounding Blue Bird, then spread Hidden Mist over the battlefield as the remaining Root ninjas shut their eyes against the glare.

Tianyi used his Magnet Release to destroy the Root ambush and led his team back to Konohagakure with Blue Bird, Hiruko’s body, and the research materials. Danzo learned that his squad had been wiped out and was summoned by the Hokage.

• Tianyi fired an electromagnetic projectile through the Root formation, killing or wounding its members and forcing the survivors into defeat.
• Crow and Wildcat reached the battlefield, where Tianyi treated Blue Bird and ordered the team to secure Hiruko’s body and research materials before returning to the village.
• Tianyi severed the Root ninjas’ heads and sealed them in a scroll before the team departed for Konohagakure.
• Several days later, a Root messenger informed Danzo that Team B-2 had been wiped out and identified Tianyi as responsible.
• An ANBU operative summoned Danzo to the Hokage Office, and Danzo left the Root chamber.

Danzo defended Root after ANBU’s Fourth Squad was attacked in the Land of Fields, claiming the attackers were traitors he had planned to eliminate. Hiruzen ordered a joint investigation and suspended Root operations outside the village while the facts were reviewed.

• Hiruzen confronted Danzo with evidence linking the attack on ANBU’s Fourth Squad to Root.
• Danzo presented records accusing Team B-2 of betraying Leaf Village and claimed the mission had been a trap to purge them.
• Tsunade challenged Danzo’s evidence and accused him of fabricating an excuse for attacking ANBU.
• Danzo said an independent squad and a secret plan had been involved, and accepted responsibility for Captain Blue Bird’s injuries.
• Hiruzen ordered ANBU and the advisory council to investigate and suspended Root operations outside the village until the inquiry was complete.

After the higher-ups gave Danzo only a mild punishment, Tianyi explained how Tsunade could build support to challenge him and warned that she might have to become Hokage. Tsunade rejected the idea for now and left to drink, while Tianyi resolved to push her when the time came.

• Tianyi spent his skill point to raise his Ninjutsu attribute from 8 to 9.
• Tsunade returned from the meeting furious that Danzo's Root had escaped serious punishment.
• Tianyi explained that the village's need for stability had shielded Danzo and proposed building public support and uniting powerful factions against him.
• Tianyi warned Tsunade that leading the effort to bring down Danzo could force her to become Hokage.
• Tsunade avoided the decision and left to have a few drinks, while Tianyi decided he might have to push her toward the position later.

Hyuga Tianyi visited Orochimaru’s reopened laboratory and impressed him with precise advice on preserving experimental subjects. They agreed to exchange Tianyi’s technical support for a broad collection of ninjutsu and discuss further cooperation.

• Hyuga Tianyi’s ANBU squad maintained a perfect mission record, aided by his Byakugan and Magnet Release surveillance and combat techniques.
• Hyuga Tianyi entered Orochimaru’s underground laboratory and assessed its specimens and preserved corpses without showing discomfort.
• Hyuga Tianyi demonstrated a medical technique that could prolong the useful research period of a corpse, drawing Orochimaru’s keen interest.
• Hyuga Tianyi discussed the mysteries of life and time without confirming Orochimaru’s suspicions about his ambitions.
• Hyuga Tianyi asked for a collection of B-rank and higher Lightning, Earth, and Water ninjutsu in exchange for technical support and help improving Orochimaru’s experiments.
• Orochimaru agreed to the trade and suggested that their future cooperation could extend to forbidden techniques and deeper research.

After Tianyi passed Tsunade’s chakra-control test, she taught him Chakra Enhanced Strength and the Summoning Technique, and he signed a contract with Shikkotsu Forest. He refined his fighting style while continuing to train in the Flying Thunder God, where his progress stalled at a bottleneck.

• Tianyi asked Tsunade to test his chakra control, and he maintained and reshaped a chakra sphere through her interference and commands.
• Tsunade passed Tianyi and taught him the principles of Chakra Enhanced Strength, then had him practice precise bursts of force on a feather.
• Tsunade showed Tianyi the Shikkotsu Forest contract scroll and taught him the Summoning Technique; Tianyi formed a blood contract and sensed the connection.
• Tsunade told Tianyi that Jiraiya had met three children at the Land of Rain border and would remain there to observe them.
• Tianyi continued his ANBU missions and trained in Chakra Enhanced Strength and summoning, while his Flying Thunder God practice reached a bottleneck.

Tianyi used Katsuyu’s Reverse Summoning Technique to study space and, after months of training, mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique at a beginner level. He believed the technique could eventually help him return to Blue Star and immediately focused on improving it.

• Tianyi asked Katsuyu to reverse-summon him to Shikkotsu Forest so he could experience spatial travel firsthand.
• Tianyi made daily trips between the Leaf Village and Shikkotsu Forest, studying the details of each journey.
• Over several months, Tianyi trained with techniques from Orochimaru and Tsunade and applied them on ANBU missions.
• Tianyi’s status interface showed that he had learned the Flying Thunder God Technique at beginner level.
• Tianyi recognized that mastering the technique could provide a path back to Blue Star and began focusing on improving it.

Hyuga Tianyi used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the receiving platform on Blue Star, but a spatial rejection force sent him back to the Naruto World. Further tests confirmed that he could cross over only briefly and suffered backlash each time.

• Tianyi sent a Flying Thunder God kunai to the research base and sensed its unstable coordinates across worlds.
• Following Academician Chen's instructions, Tianyi teleported to the receiving platform and reunited with Commander Tian and the research team.
• The base's spatial stabilizers overloaded, and a powerful rejection force sent Tianyi back to the Naruto World.
• Academician Chen ordered Tianyi to stop attempting crossings and test whether he could still sense the kunai's coordinates after the connection ended.
• Over the following days, Tianyi's teleportation tests let him stay on Blue Star for less than five seconds at a time and caused spatial-rejection backlash.

Academician Chen confirmed that Tianyi could return to the Naruto World, but the spatial rejection limited him to a few seconds unless he improved his Flying Thunder God proficiency. After months of ANBU missions, Tianyi received an emergency assembly order with the entire Fourth Division and prepared to depart on a serious mission.

• Academician Chen explained that the Book of Ten Thousand Worlds and Flying Thunder God enabled travel, but spatial rejection made prolonged stays dangerous and could leave Tianyi trapped between worlds.
• Academician Chen proposed training Tianyi to extend his safe stay to ten minutes, while a spatial stabilization field remained impractical.
• Tianyi embraced the ten-minute goal, determined to use his attribute panel to improve his Flying Thunder God proficiency.
• Several months later, Tianyi received the Fourth Division's highest-level emergency signal while reviewing a reconnaissance mission.
• Tianyi arrived at the assembly point and found nearly thirty elite ANBU gathered as Captain Elephant ordered all squads to prepare for departure through the southeastern passage.

Tianyi and the Fourth Division deployed to the Land of Whirlpools to investigate the gathering of foreign ninja, while Konoha’s leaders debated how to respond to the threat to the Uzumaki Clan. The chapter left the ANBU beginning their infiltration as Konoha prepared to preserve the clan’s key members and seize valuable sealing scrolls if the country fell.

• Tianyi and the Fourth Division left their cavern base and raced through concealed routes toward the Land of Whirlpools.
• Blue Bird briefed his squad that they were to infiltrate the country, identify the gathered ninja and their objectives, and prioritize secrecy and intelligence.
• Utatane Koharu asked Hiruzen Sarutobi about Mito Uzumaki’s stance, and Hiruzen said she considered herself a Konoha ninja and left the village’s decisions to its leaders.
• Shimura Danzō urged Konoha to absorb the Land of Whirlpools, while Mitokado Homura noted that the Uzumaki Clan had responded coolly to Konoha’s offer of closer ties and protection.
• Hiruzen ordered the ANBU to assess the situation and said that, if the Land of Whirlpools neared destruction, they should save Uzumaki Clan members and recover their sealing scrolls.

Hyuga Tianyi and the Leaf Village ANBU entered the devastated Uzushiogakure, where the Uzumaki clan leader entrusted the clan’s sealing scroll and its children to Commander Elephant in exchange for their protection. Tianyi realized the ANBU had come to claim the clan’s knowledge, while the Uzumaki faced an uncertain future.

• Blue Bird squad and the other infiltrating squads discovered that forces from the four great nations had occupied the Land of Whirlpools and driven most Uzumaki into their hidden village.
• Commander Elephant led the Fourth Battalion’s elite ANBU into Uzushiogakure after presenting a secret message at the village barrier.
• Commander Elephant ordered the ANBU medics, including Hyuga Tianyi, to treat the wounded Uzumaki.
• The Uzumaki clan leader brought out a group of children and entrusted them to Commander Elephant.
• The clan leader gave Commander Elephant a scroll of the Uzumaki’s essential sealing teachings to deliver to Lady Mito, asking that the clanspeople be cared for.
• Tianyi realized the ANBU had come to obtain the Uzumaki legacy and continued treating the wounded as the clan’s survival remained uncertain.

Captain Elephant organized the escape of the Uzumaki children and ANBU squads as the Uzumaki Clan launched a desperate counterattack. Hyuga Tianyi’s squad fled with an Uzumaki girl, but Kirigakure ninja ambushed them in a Hidden Mist Technique.

• Captain Elephant assigned the Uzumaki children to ANBU squads and ordered them to break through enemy lines toward a rendezvous point.
• The Uzumaki clan leader led the surviving elite in a suicidal charge, using sealing techniques to open a path for the children and ANBU.
• Captain Elephant ordered the squads to split up, and Tianyi guided Blue Bird Squad through the battlefield with his Byakugan.
• Hours later, four Kirigakure ninja spotted the Uzumaki girl and engulfed the forest valley in a Hidden Mist Technique.
• Tianyi activated his Byakugan and told his squad to keep moving along their original route.

Hyuga Tianyi killed four Kirigakure Ninja who ambushed him, then caught up with Blue Bird Squad and warned them to move after sensing a large chakra fluctuation. A fifty-strong Kirigakure force found the bodies and began tracking the Leaf Village team, leaving the pursuit underway.

• Hyuga Tianyi used Magnet Release, Flying Thunder God, and Water Release to kill the three Kirigakure Chunin and their Jonin in the mist.
• Hyuga Tianyi retrieved his marked Kunai, erased his traces, and caught up with Blue Bird Squad.
• Captain Blue Bird ordered the team to hurry after Tianyi reported the ambush was over and sensed a large chakra fluctuation.
• A fifty-strong Kirigakure force found Lie's squad dead, and its sensory ninja identified the Leaf team's fresh trail.
• The scar-faced Kirigakure captain split his force into five tracking squads and ordered them to follow without engaging until the main force could surround the enemy.

Hyuga Tianyi warned the Blue Bird Squad that five Hidden Mist tracking squads were converging on them after one found their trail and fired a flare. With the enemy closing off every escape route, the Blue Bird captain chose to ambush the nearest squad in a rugged valley and then break through the encirclement.

• Hyuga Tianyi detected two Hidden Mist squads approaching the creek valley, so the Blue Bird captain ordered the squad to resume its retreat with the Uzumaki girl.
• The Blue Bird Squad fled through the forest for several hours, but a Hidden Mist squad found their trail and fired a flare to summon the other tracking squads.
• Hyuga Tianyi sensed all five squads converging and warned that one would catch them within about twenty minutes.
• Hyuga Tianyi proposed turning back to eliminate the nearest tracking squad and disrupt the encirclement.
• The Blue Bird captain studied the map and chose a rugged valley as an ambush site before the enemy closed in.

Blue Bird Squad set an ambush in a narrow valley and killed all ten members of a Hidden Mist Village tracking squad. The squad leader launched a signal flare before dying, so Blue Bird ordered the team to erase their tracks and flee before the other enemy squads arrived.

• Blue Bird ordered Cat to hide the Uzumaki girl while he, Cat, and Hyuga Tianyi prepared traps and concealed themselves in the valley.
• A Hidden Mist Village squad entered the valley, and a trapped canister blinded several of its members with a flash.
• Blue Bird and Cat attacked the blinded ninjas while Tianyi used Flying Thunder God to strike from behind, killing the squad leader after he launched a signal flare.
• Blue Bird Squad confirmed that all ten trackers were dead, recovered supplies and Flying Thunder God Kunai, and prepared to move out before the other squads arrived.

Hyuga Tianyi and the Blue Bird Squad ambushed a weaker Hidden Mist squad to break through the encirclement. After wiping out the second tracking squad, they fled toward the Leaf Village through the gap they had opened.

• Hyuga Tianyi sensed that the northeast Hidden Mist squad was the weakest, and Captain Blue Bird ordered a rapid frontal assault.
• The Blue Bird Squad charged the ten Hidden Mist ninja, who fired a signal flare as the attackers approached.
• Tianyi used Magnet Release to turn the Hidden Mist ninja’s own weapons against them, then killed all ten with a barrage of kunai.
• Captain Blue Bird ordered the squad to recover useful supplies and maps before the other enemy forces arrived.
• The Blue Bird Squad escaped toward the Leaf Village, leaving two of the five Hidden Mist squads destroyed and a gap in the encirclement.

Hyuga Tianyi and the Blue Bird Squad escaped the Kirigakure pursuit and reached their coastal rendezvous, where Tsunade welcomed the rescued Uzumaki girl. The girl introduced herself as Kushina Uzumaki, surprising Tianyi.

• The scar-faced Kirigakure captain found two tracking squads dead and feared that an ANBU force had outmaneuvered him.
• Hyuga Tianyi withdrew with the Blue Bird Squad and shook off the hesitant pursuit after a day of travel and detours.
• At the coastal rendezvous, Tsunade took the frightened red-haired girl from Cat and comforted her.
• The girl told Tsunade that her name was Kushina Uzumaki, and Tianyi reacted with surprise.

Hyuga Tianyi learned that the frightened girl he had rescued was Kushina Uzumaki, and Tsunade reported that the other teams had brought back more Uzumaki survivors than expected. Aboard the ship bound for the Leaf Village, Tianyi used two skill points to improve his Flying Thunder God Technique.

• Hyuga Tianyi recognized the girl in Tsunade's care as Kushina Uzumaki, the future wife of Minato Namikaze and mother of Naruto Uzumaki.
• Tsunade told Tianyi that the other teams had rescued many Uzumaki Clan members after the pursuing forces abruptly became cautious, and credited the operation with preserving more children and young adults than expected.
• Tsunade thanked Tianyi and Captain Blue Bird, then the ship departed for the Leaf Village with Kushina and the other survivors.
• Hyuga Tianyi checked his status panel in his cabin and saw that saving Kushina and influencing the Uzumaki Clan's fate had earned him two skill points.
• Hyuga Tianyi spent both skill points on the Flying Thunder God Technique.