Chapter Summaries

Qian Ye traded Sea King flesh to Orochimaru for improved Hashirama cell vitality serum, then used it to strengthen the Seventh Legion’s Uchiha and Hyuga members. He presented Danzo with photographs of an island base and exaggerated the Sea King swimming nearby into a giant summoned beast guarding the island.

• Qian Ye gave Orochimaru fresh Sea King flesh and received two cases of improved Hashirama cell vitality serum.
• Qian Ye distributed the serum to the Uchiha and Hyuga members training at the Seventh Legion’s underground base.
• The serum strengthened the ninja, and more than a dozen Uchiha advanced their Sharingan while Uchiha Yan reached three tomoe.
• Qian Ye learned Danzo had arrived and returned to the command post to meet him.
• Qian Ye showed Danzo photographs of an island on the Grand Line and claimed it was Root’s overseas forward base.
• When Danzo asked about a dark shape in the harbor, Qian Ye claimed it was one of over a hundred giant summoned beasts guarding the island.

Hiruzen Sarutobi secretly sent ANBU to investigate Qian Ye’s South District camp, but Qian Ye’s men captured and publicly humiliated them. Hiruzen’s authority was undermined, Danzo mocked him, and a hidden watcher took an interest in Qian Ye’s growing power.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered eight ANBU to infiltrate the South District Camp and search for evidence of Qian Ye’s hidden funds and weapons.
• Uchiha Yan and the South District youths detected the intruders, defeated all eight ANBU, and captured them.
• Qian Ye ordered the ANBU stripped to their underwear, hung upside down outside the Hokage Building, and labeled as infiltrating thieves.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi crushed his pipe in fury but could not publicly admit the ANBU had been sent without a written order.
• Shimura Danzō mocked Hiruzen Sarutobi and warned him against targeting Qian Ye and the Seventh Legion again.
• A hidden figure beneath the Hokage Building watched the South District and remarked that Qian Ye’s power was becoming stranger.

Black Zetsu used a Chinoike rogue ninja to attack Qian Ye, but Bullet’s Conqueror’s Haki shattered the attack and broke Black Zetsu’s control. Qian Ye and Bullet pursued Black Zetsu beyond Konoha, where they cornered him in the forest.

• Black Zetsu possessed a Chinoike rogue ninja in Konoha High-Security Prison and ordered him to kill the guards and Qian Ye.
• The rogue ninja attacked Qian Ye’s late-night meal, but Bullet’s Conqueror’s Haki destroyed the blood blades and shattered Black Zetsu’s mental imprint.
• Qian Ye released an air cannon that killed the rogue ninja and demolished part of the abandoned shopping street.
• Qian Ye sensed Black Zetsu underground and left Konoha with Bullet to pursue him.
• Qian Ye and Bullet intercepted Black Zetsu outside the village, but Black Zetsu fled deeper into the forest.

Qian Ye and Bullet cornered Black Zetsu near the Valley of the End, where Qian Ye resisted his soul attack and pinned him with a seastone Black Blade. Qian Ye took a piece of Black Zetsu for the Cross-World Chat Group Storage Space, then let the wounded mastermind escape because he still had use for him.

• Black Zetsu summoned over a hundred White Zetsu clones and tried to flee while they attacked Qian Ye and Bullet.
• Bullet slaughtered the White Zetsu as Black Zetsu attempted to invade Qian Ye’s mind, but Qian Ye’s soul repelled him and left him badly injured.
• Qian Ye used his seastone Black Blade to pin Black Zetsu to a boulder and suppress his chakra.
• Qian Ye cut a large piece of Black Zetsu’s body off and stored it in the Cross-World Chat Group Storage Space.
• Qian Ye kicked Black Zetsu into the river and allowed him to escape, telling Bullet that Black Zetsu was still useful alive.