Recaps

Qian Ye, a newly transmigrated civilian Genin in Konohagakure, learned he would be sent to the deadly Kikyo Pass front and discovered a cross-world chat group linking him to his friend Zhao Hai in the One Piece world. The chapter left both men facing grim odds but with a new way to exchange supplies and potentially change their worlds.

• Captain Yamada ordered Qian Ye to report at dawn for the Third Logistics Supply Brigade and transport Explosive Tags to the Kikyo Pass front.
• Qian Ye heard villagers vilify Sakumo Hatake and realized the White Fang was being driven toward suicide by the village’s condemnation.
• The Cross-Border Brothers Mutual Aid Group appeared and connected Qian Ye with Zhao Hai, who had transmigrated as a Marine recruit in East Blue.
• Qian Ye and Zhao Hai learned the group could send up to five kilograms of inanimate objects between worlds each day and could be upgraded by changing major plot developments.
• Qian Ye and Zhao Hai recognized that neither had the means to obtain powerful supplies yet, despite the group’s potential.

Qian Ye and Zhao Hai traded basic techniques between their worlds to improve their chances of survival. Qian Ye found notes that hinted at Geppo and Moon Walk, but his first attempt left him injured.

• Qian Ye persuaded Zhao Hai to seek out basic Marine training while he wrote down the Chakra Refining Technique and Three Body Techniques for Zhao Hai.
• Zhao Hai sneaked into the East Blue No. 16 Branch warehouse and stole a Marine physical training manual with handwritten notes.
• Qian Ye and Zhao Hai used the Cross-Border Mutual Aid Group to exchange the scroll and manual.
• Qian Ye recognized the manual's notes as early concepts behind Geppo and Moon Walk and tried to practice them.
• Qian Ye's legs began to hurt after three stomps, and he collapsed to the ground in pain.

After injuring himself trying to copy the Marines’ physical techniques, Qian Ye used chakra to develop a hand-seal-free burst of speed resembling Geppo. He joined the supply convoy gathering for the Kikyo Pass front, where a scar-faced ninja challenged Yamada’s choice of him as a replacement.

• Qian Ye realized his weak body could not safely master the Marines’ stepping technique through muscle power alone, so he experimented with using chakra to enhance his leg muscles.
• After repeated crashes and setbacks, Qian Ye learned to stomp ten times in rapid succession and burst three meters across the dormitory without hand seals.
• Qian Ye exchanged messages with Zhao Hai, who reported learning chakra and the Transformation Technique, while Qian Ye described his simplified version of Geppo.
• Qian Ye prepared his ninja tools and Marine handbook, then went to the Konoha entrance, where supply carts for the Kikyo Pass front and a group of shinobi had gathered.
• Yamada avoided Qian Ye’s eyes, and a scar-faced ninja criticized him for bringing a recently graduated civilian Genin as replacement manpower.

Qian Ye joined a supply convoy bound for Kikyo Pass, where deputy captain Jiro warned that he would not risk the squad to save him. As the convoy rested during the journey, Qian Ye trained in secret and overheard Yamada mention rumors surrounding Lord Hatake.

• Jiro told Qian Ye that he would not spare anyone to save him if Sunagakure attacked, and Qian Ye calmly said he would find his own way to survive.
• Qian Ye left Konohagakure with the convoy carrying Explosive Tags toward Kikyo Pass, determined to survive the war.
• Qian Ye quietly practiced controlling chakra in his legs while walking and helped push the supply wagons up a hill.
• During a fifteen-minute break, Qian Ye ate a Military Ration Pill and overheard Yamada tell Jiro that rumors about Lord Hatake were spreading and that even Hatake’s former subordinates were criticizing him.

While transporting Explosive Tags, Qian Ye listened as Jiro defended the mission-first view and condemned Sakumo Hatake for abandoning a mission to save his comrades. The exhausted group neared Konoha's Third Outpost, but Qian Ye grew uneasy when everyone relaxed at the promise of safety.

• Jiro argued that Sakumo Hatake's choice to save his comrades had endangered many more lives by causing a mission to fail.
• Jiro recounted how his own decision to delay a supply mission for an injured medical ninja had led to a stronghold falling and forty-two comrades dying.
• Yamada ended the argument and ordered the Genin to resume transporting the Explosive Tags.
• As the team traveled, Qian Ye practiced using chakra to stimulate his muscles and gradually improved his control.
• Yamada announced that Konoha's Third Outpost was only ten li away, and the group cheered at the prospect of resting there.
• Qian Ye felt uneasy as the others relaxed and fell back behind the group.

Qian Ye hid behind a supply cart as Rasa and Sunagakure elites ambushed the Hidden Leaf convoy and slaughtered its escorts. With Captain Yamada dead and the attacker closing in on him, Qian Ye faced an imminent fight for survival.

• Qian Ye sensed an ambush, but explosive-tagged Kunai struck the convoy before Jiro could warn the group.
• Sunagakure ninja attacked the Hidden Leaf escorts, and Rasa arrived on a Gold Dust Disc and killed three Genin with Gold Dust spears.
• Jiro attacked Rasa with a Great Fireball Technique, but Rasa blocked it and ordered his elites to finish the fight.
• Three Sunagakure ninja overpowered Captain Yamada and decapitated him beside Qian Ye's hiding place.
• A Sunagakure ninja spotted Qian Ye behind the last cart and approached him despite Qian Ye's attempt to stall with a joke.

Qian Ye fought a Sunagakure ninja who vastly outmatched him, using chakra and quick thinking to survive the duel. He killed the Chunin with a Kunai, then collapsed in shock at taking his first life.

• The Sunagakure ninja attacked Qian Ye, who barely dodged his sword and was driven back by the stronger fighter.
• Qian Ye steadied himself by channeling chakra, then used the Substitution Technique to evade a lethal strike and countered with Shuriken.
• Qian Ye kept retreating around the supply carts and taunted the Sunagakure ninja until the man abandoned his defense and leaped down with a chakra-enhanced slash.
• Qian Ye burst past the attack with a rapid series of steps and stabbed the Sunagakure ninja through the throat from behind.
• Qian Ye watched the Sunagakure ninja die, then collapsed, overwhelmed by the blood and the fact that he had killed someone.

Qian Ye escaped the ambush after Jiro sacrificed himself to open a path and send him toward No. 3 Outpost with the intelligence. Rasa ordered a Sunagakure elite to pursue Qian Ye, who ran low on Chakra and called Zhao Hai for help.

• Qian Ye killed a Sunagakure chunin, drawing the attention of Rasa and the surviving ninjas.
• Jiro used his remaining Chakra to unleash a Great Fireball Technique, opening a gap and ordering Qian Ye to take the intelligence to the outpost.
• Qian Ye promised to deliver the intelligence and fled through the gap while Jiro stayed behind to hold off the pursuers.
• Rasa fired Gold Dust senbon at Qian Ye, then ordered a Sunagakure elite to chase him after he dodged the attack.
• Qian Ye’s legs began to falter as he ran low on Chakra, so he contacted Zhao Hai through the Cross-Border Mutual Aid Group for help.

Qian Ye, pursued and nearly defeated by a Sunagakure elite, received a revolver and rocket launcher from Zhao Hai and used them to kill his attacker. He fled toward No. 3 Outpost, leaving the blast site behind.

• Qian Ye ran through the woods while the Sunagakure ninja chased him and attacked with Wind Release: Great Breakthrough.
• With his chakra exhausted and unable to stand, Qian Ye called Zhao Hai for help, and Zhao Hai sent him a revolver and a loaded rocket launcher.
• The Sunagakure ninja approached Qian Ye, who shot him in the thigh with the revolver.
• Qian Ye fired the rocket launcher at the wounded Sunagakure ninja, killing him in a massive explosion.
• Qian Ye recovered the revolver, discarded the empty launcher, and continued toward No. 3 Outpost.

Qian Ye reached No. 3 Outpost and warned Orochimaru that Rasa had destroyed the supply convoy, though he hid how he had killed the pursuer. After discovering the destruction caused by Qian Ye’s rocket, Rasa realized the warning had reached Konoha and ordered a full-scale assault on Kikyo Pass.

• Qian Ye escaped the pursuing Sunagakure forces and reached No. 3 Outpost, where he reported that Rasa had attacked the supply convoy and Captain Jiro’s team had died.
• Orochimaru questioned Qian Ye, who concealed his use of a rocket launcher and claimed an Explosive Tag trap had killed his pursuer.
• Orochimaru ordered No. 3 Outpost to maximum alert and warned the Kikyo Pass front line that Sunagakure’s main force might attack.
• Rasa’s search party found the crater and remains left by Qian Ye’s rocket, and Rasa concluded that Orochimaru had received the warning.
• Rasa abandoned the planned surprise attack and ordered Sunagakure’s forces to launch a full-scale assault on Kikyo Pass immediately.

Rasa convinced Chiyo and Ebizo to support his decision to launch Sunagakure’s assault on Kikyo Pass ahead of schedule. Chiyo revealed that the Third Kazekage had vanished, leaving Rasa to lead the army and prove himself as a potential successor.

• Rasa reported that a Hidden Leaf Genin had escaped after killing his elite Chunin subordinate with an unknown, devastating technique.
• Rasa argued that Sunagakure had to attack before Orochimaru could gather reinforcements, and Chiyo agreed with his assessment.
• Chiyo and Ebizo told Rasa that the Third Kazekage had been missing for half a month and that the village was concealing his disappearance.
• Chiyo explained that Sunagakure needed a victory to hide its weakness, secure supplies, and deter other great nations; she identified Rasa as a possible successor to the Kazekage.
• Rasa took command of the frontline forces and ordered the Sunagakure army to advance on Kikyo Pass.

After surviving a dangerous mission, Qian Ye learned that Zhao Hai had exposed Captain Nezumi’s collusion with Arlong and escaped execution. Garp arrested Nezumi and took Zhao Hai to Marineford to train him, leaving Qian Ye envious but alive in the wounded soldiers’ camp.

• Qian Ye received treatment for severe leg muscle strain and moved to the crowded wounded soldiers’ camp.
• Qian Ye told Zhao Hai that the rocket had helped him kill a Sunagakure elite, and Zhao Hai revealed that Nezumi had tried to frame and execute him.
• Zhao Hai knocked out two Marines, used the Transformation Technique to search Nezumi’s office, and found the secret ledger documenting Nezumi’s dealings with Arlong.
• Zhao Hai faxed the ledger to Marine Headquarters, and Garp arrived, defeated Nezumi, and arrested him and his loyal Marines.
• Garp noticed Zhao Hai’s unusual energy, tested him, and brought him aboard the Dog-Head Warship to train at Marineford.

Qian Ye received Garp’s brutal training plan from Zhao Hai and discovered he could use chakra to repair his muscles as he trained. After pushing himself through hours of exercise at No. 3 Outpost, he heard an alarm announcing Sunagakure’s attack.

• Qian Ye learned that Zhao Hai had received Garp’s physical training plan and asked him to send it over.
• Qian Ye studied the plan and realized he could use carefully controlled chakra to repair his muscles and recover from the strain.
• Qian Ye tested the method by lifting a heavy crate and doing squats, finding that the training increased his physical energy and chakra refinement.
• Qian Ye spent several hours practicing weighted exercises and striking wooden posts, feeling his strength improve before exhausting his chakra.
• An alarm sounded at No. 3 Outpost, and soldiers shouted that Sunagakure was attacking.

Sunagakure launched a surprise all-out assault on Kikyo Pass, forcing the exhausted Qian Ye into battle. Assigned to the right flank, he witnessed Pakura massacre Hidden Leaf ninja with Scorch Release and hid behind a boulder, realizing he had been sent into a slaughterhouse far beyond his strength.

• Qian Ye woke to Sunagakure's assault and joined the wounded soldiers sent to defend the walls after taking his last Military Ration Pill.
• Orochimaru ordered the Hidden Leaf forces to hold Kikyo Pass as Rasa attacked from the air with Magnet Release.
• Orochimaru sent reserve squads, including Qian Ye, to reinforce the collapsing right flank after Pakura broke through the third line of defense.
• Pakura used Scorch Release: Steam Kill to vaporize Hidden Leaf ninja and cripple the one-eyed Jonin leading Qian Ye's squad.
• Pakura killed fleeing Hidden Leaf ninja, while Qian Ye took cover behind a boulder and gasped for breath.

Qian Ye fought on the collapsing right flank, using his revolver and enhanced speed to kill Sunagakure ninja and disrupt their advance. After Pakura noticed him and attacked, Qian Ye dodged her fireball and faced her in midair.

• Qian Ye rejected the idea of fleeing and chose to target Sunagakure Genin and Chunin instead of confronting Pakura.
• Qian Ye killed eight Sunagakure ninja with his revolver, scavenged supplies, and saved a Hidden Leaf medical ninja from three attackers.
• Qian Ye continued ambushing Sunagakure ninja, killing more than twenty and drawing the enemy's attention away from its advance.
• Pakura spotted Qian Ye killing a Sunagakure Chunin and rushed toward him.
• Qian Ye dodged Pakura's fireball and saw her standing in midair on chakra.

Pakura cornered Qian Ye with her Scorch Release, while his revolver and desperate escape attempts failed to stop her. As she focused on chasing him, Sunagakure’s assault lost its momentum, giving the Hidden Leaf ninja a chance to counterattack.

• Pakura melted Qian Ye’s bullet with a fireball and used more fireballs to trap him against a boulder.
• Qian Ye insulted Pakura while dodging her attacks, provoking her to intensify her pursuit.
• Qian Ye fled along the battlefield’s edge as his chakra ran low and Pakura continued to harry him with fireballs.
• Pakura’s pursuit left the main battlefield without her Scorch Release suppression, and Hidden Leaf Chunin called for a counterattack.

Qian Ye survived Pakura’s pursuit, but her absence let the Hidden Leaf halt Sunagakure’s right-flank advance and push its forces back. After returning to the battlefield, he was celebrated for killing many enemies, and a Hidden Leaf Jonin questioned him about his hidden weapons.

• A Hidden Leaf Jonin’s fire dragon and the disorganized Sunagakure troops allowed the Hidden Leaf to stop the right-flank offensive and force a retreat.
• Chiyo learned Pakura had left the main battle to chase Qian Ye and ordered her to return immediately.
• Pakura saw the right flank failing, abandoned her pursuit, and left Qian Ye alive; he covered his burned, tattered lower body and headed for No. 3 Outpost.
• Hidden Leaf ninja praised Qian Ye for surviving Pakura and killing more than twenty Sunagakure ninja, while joking about his burned pants.
• A Hidden Leaf Jonin pushed through the crowd and asked Qian Ye if he was the Genin who had used strange hidden weapons.

Qian Ye explained his revolver to a Hidden Leaf Jonin, who accepted his account and promised to report his battlefield accomplishments. Rumors then spread that Qian Ye and Pakura were former lovers, while Chiyo confronted Pakura over abandoning the right-wing battle to pursue him.

• Qian Ye showed a Hidden Leaf Jonin his revolver, explained how it worked, and claimed he had modified it using Explosive Tag principles.
• The Jonin examined the weapon and a Sunagakure corpse, warned Qian Ye that Sunagakure would prepare for the revolver, and said he would report Qian Ye's accomplishments.
• Hidden Leaf ninja nicknamed Qian Ye the Bare-Assed War God, and the story spread across the battlefield.
• Sunagakure ninja turned Pakura's pursuit of Qian Ye into rumors that they had been former lovers who still had feelings for each other.
• Chiyo reprimanded Pakura for abandoning the right-wing battlefield to chase Qian Ye, blaming her for stalled attacks and heavy casualties.

Pakura faced suspicion from Sunagakure’s leadership over her pursuit of Qian Ye, while Orochimaru received orders to hold Kikyo Pass without reinforcements and learned of Qian Ye’s impact on the battle. The chapter ended with Orochimaru summoning Qian Ye from the wounded soldiers’ camp.

• Ebizo accused Pakura of having a secret connection with Qian Ye, but Chiyo chose to set the matter aside and ordered an investigation into the Hidden Leaf Genin.
• Orochimaru burned the Third Hokage’s order to hold the line at all costs and criticized Hidden Leaf for leaving Kikyo Pass without high-level support.
• An ANBU reported that Hidden Leaf had suffered 173 dead and 62 severely wounded, while Sunagakure had confirmed 237 dead, including at least 23 killed by Qian Ye’s special ninja tools.
• Orochimaru heard that rumors about Pakura and Qian Ye had reached Sunagakure’s leadership and ordered the ANBU to bring Qian Ye to him.
• An ANBU found Qian Ye recovering with ointment on his injured butt and told him that Orochimaru wanted to see him.

After surviving Pakura and killing more than twenty Sunagakure ninja, Qian Ye met with Orochimaru, who questioned the meaning of life and death. Qian Ye’s Will of Fire speech disappointed Orochimaru, so he asked whether Orochimaru wanted to pursue immortality, leaving the commander startled and demanding to know why.

• An ANBU escorted the limping Qian Ye through the wounded soldiers’ camp, where Hidden Leaf ninja stared and discussed his fight with Pakura.
• Orochimaru asked Qian Ye what meaning life had when war could erase thousands of lives, and Qian Ye answered with the Will of Fire.
• Orochimaru dismissed Qian Ye’s answer as ordinary and turned back to the map, prompting Qian Ye to reconsider how he could gain Orochimaru’s interest.
• Qian Ye asked Orochimaru whether he wanted to pursue immortality, shocking him into fixing Qian Ye with a tense stare.
• Orochimaru asked Qian Ye why he had raised the question, and Qian Ye said Orochimaru would never accept being constrained by death.

Qian Ye proposed that Orochimaru pursue immortality by continually renewing his original body and stabilizing his mind, rather than transferring into new vessels. Orochimaru was intrigued by the plan and Qian Ye’s blunt explanation that fear of death had driven him to think it through.

• Orochimaru asked Qian Ye about immortality, and Qian Ye argued that replacing bodies risked damaging both the vessel and the person’s identity.
• Qian Ye proposed cultivating mind and body together through bodily repair, chakra training, and mental records that could help preserve personality.
• Orochimaru pressed Qian Ye to explain why he had developed these ideas, and Qian Ye described his repeated brushes with death and lack of support.
• Orochimaru released Qian Ye and called his honesty interesting.

Qian Ye accepted Orochimaru’s offer to become his disciple and gained training resources that could help him survive the war. Orochimaru kept him away from the front lines and assigned him to study in the logistics department.

• Orochimaru praised Qian Ye and asked him to become his disciple, and Qian Ye accepted.
• Orochimaru tested Qian Ye’s chakra nature, which proved to be water and wind.
• Orochimaru gave Qian Ye scrolls for Water Release: Water Colliding Wave and Wind Release: Great Breakthrough, along with a booklet of research notes on chakra and cellular stimulation.
• Orochimaru warned Qian Ye that the booklet’s theories were dangerous for his weak body.
• Orochimaru ordered Qian Ye to stay in the logistics department and learn the two ninjutsu instead of going to the front lines.

Qian Ye discovered that Orochimaru’s Chakra Stimulation Method could complement Garp’s brutal training, but he needed better food to build his chakra reserves. Meanwhile, Orochimaru rejected Danzo’s plan to frame Sakumo Hatake, choosing to pursue his research instead of seeking the Hokage position.

• Qian Ye read Orochimaru’s notes on using refined chakra to heal and strengthen damaged muscles, and decided he needed high-quality meat to support his training.
• Qian Ye summoned the Cross-Border Brothers Mutual Aid Group interface to ask Zhao Hai for food from the pirate world.
• A Root ninja delivered Danzo’s letter ordering Orochimaru to blame Sakumo Hatake for the deaths at Kikyo Pass in exchange for Root’s support in Orochimaru’s bid to become Fourth Hokage.
• Orochimaru dismissed the value of the Hokage position and burned Danzo’s letter.
• Orochimaru told the Root ninja to inform Danzo that he had no interest in the matter for now.

Qian Ye received Sea King meat from Zhao Hai and revealed that Orochimaru had taken him as a disciple. The two compared their powerful new mentors and agreed to compete over who would make it big first.

• Zhao Hai sent Qian Ye nearly five kilograms of Sea King meat he had received after Garp's recruits hunted a Sea King.
• Qian Ye offered to send Zhao Hai supplies, but Zhao Hai said Marine Headquarters had everything he needed as Garp's personal disciple.
• Qian Ye told Zhao Hai that Orochimaru had made him his disciple and given him two C-rank ninjutsu and a research notebook.
• Zhao Hai expressed surprise at Qian Ye's sudden rise from a hunted Genin to Orochimaru's disciple.
• Qian Ye and Zhao Hai agreed to see who would make it big first, and Qian Ye asked whether Zhao Hai needed anything in return for the meat.

Qian Ye sent Zhao Hai Military Ration Pills and ate five pounds of Sea King meat, which increased his strength and sped up his chakra flow. Before he could test his new combat power, Sunagakure launched another attack, and Rasa told Pakura she would lead the assault.

• Qian Ye sent Zhao Hai five Military Ration Pills, and Zhao Hai reported that one quickly eased his pain and restored his stamina.
• Zhao Hai warned Qian Ye that Orochimaru might become dangerous, but Qian Ye said he hoped to guide Orochimaru toward a better path.
• Qian Ye ate all five pounds of raw Sea King meat and felt his strength increase, his chakra flow accelerate, and his post-training soreness lessen.
• A Sunagakure attack alarm sounded, and a Chunin ordered the available forces to return to the front line.
• Rasa told Pakura she would remain the main force in the attack and said Chiyo had asked him to remind her of something.