Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Gen investigated rumors of the Jashinism Cult in the Land of Hot Water and traced a suspicious man to the cult’s underground ritual chamber. He witnessed a failed attempt to make a captive immortal and spotted a faint shadow inside the cult’s statue.

• Uchiha Gen told his companions to stay nearby while he investigated, then disguised himself as a burly bald man and waited at a cheap inn.
• After cultists decided to watch him, Uchiha Gen followed one of them to a village and saw him enter a well.
• Uchiha Gen used the passage beneath the well to reach an underground chamber, where cultists danced around a massive statue.
• The cultists brought a bound man to the altar and attempted an immortality ritual, but the captive died before the blood array was complete.
• Uchiha Gen used his Mangekyō Sharingan to look into the statue and saw a faint, illusory shadow within it.

Uchiha Gen devoured Jashin’s soul, then resumed his journey with his companions toward the Land of Iron. As Konoha’s new institutions spread and years passed, Uchiha Gen’s eyes stirred just before he returned to Rōran.

• Uchiha Gen used the Nirvana Temple Technique to put the cultists to sleep, separated his soul from his body, and devoured Jashin until its presence faded.
• Uchiha Gen returned to the hot spring inn, woke his companions, and persuaded Uzumaki Shibaki to pack by promising him a chance to win at cards later.
• Uchiha Gen led the group toward the Land of Iron and explained its samurai factions to the curious Uzumaki Shibaki.
• In Year 3 of Konoha, Konoha opened its Ninja Academy with Uchiha Gen’s Shadow Clone as its first principal, prompting other nations to plan hidden villages.
• By the end of Year 4 of Konoha, Uchiha Gen had traveled through more than ten countries and a hundred towns when his eyes stirred near Rōran.

After awakening his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, Uchiha Gen headed for Rōran and grew increasingly irritable as he approached the Dragon Vein. Bunpuku tried to free him from the evil thoughts consuming him, but Uchiha Gen lost control and charged toward Rōran in his complete Susanoo.

• Uchiha Gen awakened his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan under the moon and believed no one would be able to stop him once Hashirama died and Madara retired.
• Uchiha Gen left his five companions behind in the desert and hurried alone toward the Dragon Vein near Rōran.
• The companions suspected Uchiha Gen had fallen under a natural genjutsu, while Uchiha Gen encountered the monk Bunpuku ten li from Rōran.
• Uchiha Gen and Bunpuku fought, with Bunpuku identifying ghostly evil faces around Uchiha Gen and trying to purge them with prayer beads and sutras.
• Uchiha Gen struck Bunpuku, transformed into his complete Susanoo, and charged toward Rōran as Bunpuku pursued him.

Uchiha Gen wandered through a mysterious darkness while his Susanoo attacked Rōran and absorbed energy from the Dragon Vein. As the gathered defenders feared the world-ending consequences, Yuki Kiyoshi connected Gen’s recent changes to the yin energy he absorbed in the Land of Demons.

• Uchiha Gen woke in a pitch-black place without his powers and began to lose his sense of self.
• Uchiha Gen’s Susanoo destroyed Rōran’s wall and dug toward the Dragon Vein, while Queen of Roran and the arriving defenders failed to stop it.
• Uchiha Gen’s Susanoo absorbed Dragon Vein Energy as Monk Bunpuku, Uzumaki Shibaki, and the Sunagakure ninja attacked it without effect.
• Yuki Kiyoshi asked how to awaken a sleeping personality, then said Uchiha Gen had started acting strangely after absorbing yin-attribute energy from the Pure Land rift in the Land of Demons.

Uchiha Gen regained control of his body after battling its original consciousness, then learned that more than three years had passed while he and the other soul took turns living. He repaired the Dragon Vein seal, promised to help Rōran before taking the Dragon Vein, and set off for Konoha with his followers.

• Monk Bunpuku prepared to use his ancestral Buddhist beads to wake Uchiha Gen, but the Susanoo giant began tearing at its own head as Gen fought the body's original consciousness.
• After the original consciousness shattered, Uchiha Gen restored the Susanoo, woke up, and realized he was in Rōran beside the Dragon Vein seal.
• Queen of Roran objected to Uchiha Gen taking the Dragon Vein, and he promised to solve Rōran's land problems before removing it.
• Uchiha Gen used the Four Symbols Seal to repair the damaged Dragon Vein seal, then learned from Uzumaki Shibaki and the others that more than three years had passed.
• Uchiha Gen told his followers they would continue training on the way back to Konoha, then left Rōran after casually admitting he had damaged its city gate.

Uchiha Gen discovered that Uzumaki Shibaki had developed the powerful but physically taxing Seven Days Breathing Technique, and warned him to keep training along that path. Meanwhile, Gen’s Shadow Clone had consolidated power in Konoha and learned that ninja clans were beginning to form factions.

• Uchiha Gen asked his followers about their training and had Uzumaki Shibaki demonstrate his Breathing Technique.
• Uchiha Gen identified Shibaki’s method as the Seven Days Breathing Technique, explaining that it boosted Chakra extraction and physical strength but strained the body and could not nourish it.
• Uchiha Gen told Shibaki he would have to continue with the technique and work harder to nourish his body.
• Uchiha Gen reflected that his Shadow Clone had become the Ninja Academy principal and wondered which personality it had inherited.
• In Konoha’s Root base, the Shadow Clone received a report that three transferred agents had become Anbu squad captains and ordered them to remain in place.
• Little Kuro told the Shadow Clone that ninja clans were forming factions, and he decided not to act while Hashirama was alive.

Uchiha Gen returned to Konoha and discovered that Senju Tobirama’s human experiments might be behind a wave of disappearances. After arranging Root’s leadership and creating a hundred unruly clones, Gen left the village with his followers for a leisure trip.

• Uchiha Gen learned that three Uchiha children had vanished and suspected Senju Tobirama was behind human experimentation.
• Uchiha Gen returned to Konoha with five followers, but the gate guards stopped them until a masked messenger presented Hokage authorization.
• Uchiha Gen reviewed Root’s reports and learned that more than a hundred people from several clans had disappeared, many during missions.
• Uchiha Gen used the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to create a hundred clones, then dismissed the ones who ran off before assigning duties.
• Uchiha Gen left Konoha with his followers to travel and train, planning to supervise Little Kuro’s Summoning Technique practice.

Uchiha Gen’s shadow clones searched for the missing villagers and recruited Konoha jōnin while Senju Tobirama continued his experiments. They found Tobirama’s base, where Uchiha clan members discovered that the kidnapped children were alive but three had lost their eyes.

• Shadow Clone No. 1 confronted Hashirama Senju about the Uchiha clan’s search for the missing villagers, and Hashirama asked him to leave any discovered culprit to the village.
• Shadow Clone No. 3 began recruiting Konoha’s jōnin with Uchiha Gen’s money while Shadow Clone No. 2 learned that a sixth-grade student had been missing for a week.
• Shadow Clone No. 2 joined No. 1 and No. 3 in searching for Tobirama’s experimental base after another student disappeared.
• By the end of August, the clones found Tobirama, and Shadow Clone No. 1 revealed that he had placed Flying Thunder God markers on the kidnapped children.
• Tobirama defended his human experiments as a sacrifice for the greater good, while Shadow Clone No. 1 noted that Hashirama was on his way.
• Uchiha clan members reported that the captured children were alive, but three had lost their eyes.

Uchiha Gen’s Shadow Clone uncovered a hidden laboratory where kidnapped villagers and children had been imprisoned, and Black Zetsu’s possession of Tobirama had nearly provoked the Uchiha into killing him. The victims returned home, but the Uchiha’s stolen Sharingan remained missing, and Uchiha Gen demanded that Hashirama address Tobirama’s role in the experiments.

• Uchiha Gen’s Shadow Clone exposed the impostor controlling Tobirama as Black Zetsu, stopped the Uchiha clansmen from attacking the unconscious Tobirama, and helped free more than a hundred prisoners from the underground laboratory.
• Hashirama arrived at the laboratory and found Tobirama unconscious, while the Uchiha clansmen made clear that they blamed him for the incident.
• Three days later, Shadow Clone No. 1 comforted the orphaned Uchiha children Uchiha Yanta, Uchiha Miyue, and Uchiha Itono, whose Sharingan were still missing, and considered asking the original Uchiha Gen to care for them.
• Hashirama publicly apologized to the villagers and credited Uchiha Gen with solving the disappearances, while Uchiha Gen’s Shadow Clones suspected he was trying to minimize the scandal.
• In the Hokage’s office, Tobirama denied conducting human experiments but admitted participating in research, and Uchiha Gen challenged him about Impure World Reincarnation and demanded accountability for the three pairs of stolen Sharingan.

Uchiha Gen settled the dispute over Tobirama’s experiments with Hashirama, then returned from his peaceful life outside Konoha to collect three blind Uchiha children. He brought them with him and considered ways to help them regain their sight and find other paths to strength.

• Hashirama agreed to compensate Uchiha Gen’s juniors and pay him for trees grown with Wood Release, ending the dispute over Tobirama’s experiments.
• A month passed, and Uchiha Gen enjoyed a quiet life fishing and training his companions outside Konoha.
• Little Kuro told Uchiha Gen that three blind Uchiha children needed him at the Clan Land.
• Uchiha Gen returned to Konoha, learned what had happened from his shadow clone, and comforted the three children.
• Uchiha Gen brought the children with him and invited them to call him Lord Yuan or Brother Yuan.

Uchiha Gen brought three blind Uchiha children to the Forest Cabin and began teaching them to navigate the world through sound and smell, train, and value their own happiness. He told them a story about a street loafer choosing a big shot, but left them wondering which of three men the loafer had picked.

• Uchiha Gen brought the three children to the Forest Cabin, where Kuroto-Heiyan and Shibaki speculated that they might be his children.
• Uchiha Gen bought clothes for the three newcomers and for Kiyoshi and Kuroto, then returned to the cabin.
• Uchiha Gen taught the children to locate objects by sound and began training them in the Breathing Technique.
• Uchiha Gen gave the children a rest day and told them that their happiness mattered more than keeping up with others.
• Uchiha Gen told the children a story about a street loafer choosing among three big shots, and each child offered a different answer.

Uchiha Gen’s tale ended with a street loafer resolving to become a big brother, while Kumogakure’s search for a valley monster led its forces to the Nine-Tails. The Nine-Tails began fighting the First Raikage A and his troops, ending the chapter as it unleashed a Tailed Beast Bomb.

• Uchiha Gen told Yanta and the other two children that the street loafer ultimately chose to become a big brother, though he forgot the idea the next day.
• In Year 7 of Konoha, the First Raikage A led more than three hundred elite Kumogakure shinobi into Leilu Valley to investigate the disappearance of mission teams.
• Kinkaku and Ginkaku searched the valley together, and a week later the force found the Nine-Tails swallowing a Kumogakure shinobi.
• Kumogakure’s attacks failed to harm the Nine-Tails, which killed several shinobi with a single claw swipe.
• The First Raikage A punched the Nine-Tails and traded blows with it, but the fox began forming a Tailed Beast Bomb, forcing him to order the troops to scatter.

Madara subdued the Nine-Tails and rode it toward Konoha, intending to use its power against Hashirama or destroy the village. Meanwhile, Kinkaku and Ginkaku escaped the Nine-Tails with its chakra burning across their bodies.

• The Raikage’s forces attacked the Nine-Tails, but Kinkaku and Ginkaku were swallowed along with the fox’s Kotodama, and the Raikage ordered a retreat.
• Madara arrived after the battle and challenged the Nine-Tails to become his pet.
• Madara pinned the Nine-Tails with Susanoo and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to control it.
• Madara ordered the Nine-Tails to fire a Tailed Beast Bomb, then rode it toward Konoha.
• Kinkaku and Ginkaku crawled out of the crater and discovered they could use the Nine-Tails’ chakra.

Uchiha Gen attended Konoha’s first Ninja Academy graduation exam, then left to secretly fuse Hashirama’s cellular genes. After enduring the painful process, he saw a huge energy mass smash through Konoha’s barrier, seemingly a Tailed Beast Bomb.

• Uchiha Gen watched the tedious Three-Body Technique examinations before leaving the venue and sending his companions to explore Konoha.
• Uchiha Gen went to Hokage Rock and reflected on how long it had been since Konoha’s founding and how distant its people felt to him.
• Uchiha Gen injected Hashirama’s cellular genes and endured intense pain as his body began to change.
• Uchiha Gen noticed a fast-moving mass of energy grow larger in the sky and watched it break through Konoha’s barrier with a thunderous boom.

Uchiha Gen watched Hashirama and Madara fight at the Valley of the End, where Hashirama defeated Madara after a night-long battle. Back in Konoha, Gen waited for Madara’s body to be brought to him, then hurried off when a clansman delivered news.

• Uchiha Gen saw the black energy sphere shatter Konoha’s barrier and chose to return to the Clan Land rather than join Hashirama’s pursuit of Madara.
• Hashirama fought Madara and the Nine-Tails, using the Thousand-Hand Buddha to overpower Susanoo and seal the fox into sleep.
• After fighting through the night, Hashirama stabbed Madara, who realized his opponent was a Wood Clone and bit Hashirama’s shoulder before dying.
• Uchiha Gen waited in his room through the night for Madara’s body to arrive, while Konoha’s residents stayed awake worrying about the battle.
• A clansman knocked on Uchiha Gen’s door with news about Madara, and Gen hurried to go with him.

After Madara’s apparent death, Uchiha Gen discovered that he had faked it and found that Black Zetsu had altered the Uchiha stone tablet. Meanwhile, Hashirama and Uzumaki Mito considered sealing the Nine-Tails inside Mito.

• Uchiha Gen carried Madara’s body to the shrine, where Madara later revealed that he had faked his death and secretly left.
• Uchiha Gen examined the Uchiha stone tablet and found that its latter half had been altered, suspecting Black Zetsu’s involvement.
• Uchiha Gen held Madara’s funeral, and Hashirama asked him not to blame Konoha for Madara’s death; Gen said he would hold a grudge.
• Hashirama convened the Jōnin to discuss the Nine-Tails and rejected killing it after considering that the Tailed Beasts might not die.
• Hashirama and Uzumaki Mito observed the Nine-Tails, and Mito proposed sealing it inside herself to suppress it with her will.

Uchiha Gen oversaw the eye replacements for his three young disciples and continued developing Rōran as years passed. By Konoha’s twelfth year, the children had completed their training, while his longtime followers Kuroto and Heiyan died of old age, leaving Gen to honor Heiyan’s final request.

• Hashirama and Mito decided that Mito would become the Nine-Tails’ Jinchūriki, and Uchiha Gen learned of it a week later.
• Uchiha Gen’s Shadow Clone discovered that the cultivated bodies for the children’s eye replacements had no souls, and Gen concluded that the Sage of Six Paths might be responsible.
• Uchiha Gen replaced the three children’s eyes, explained that their clones had no souls, and assured them he would not harm them.
• Uchiha Gen’s visits to Konoha became rare as Rōran’s construction advanced and the three disciples grew stronger than his five followers.
• In Konoha’s twelfth year, Uchiha Gen decided he had nothing more to teach the three children, and Kuroto and Heiyan died of old age.
• Heiyan asked Uchiha Gen to take his ashes back to his clansmen, and Gen agreed.

Uchiha Gen sent his three disciples back to Konoha after grieving the deaths of his longtime companions. While visiting Hashirama, he met the young Tsunade and gave her a strange glass bead as a meeting gift.

• Uchiha Gen let Yuki Kiyoshi, Uzumaki Shibaki, and Meigetsu leave after they mourned their dead companions.
• Uchiha Gen told Itono, Yanta, and Miyue that their apprenticeship was over and took them back to Konoha despite Itono's tearful protests.
• Uchiha Gen warned his three disciples that they were not yet strong enough to travel the Shinobi World alone, then decided to look around Konoha.
• Uchiha Gen spotted covered cages containing Tailed Beasts at the Senju Clan Grounds but decided against taking any tails.
• Uchiha Gen visited Hashirama, met his granddaughter Senju Tsunade, and offered her a patterned glass bead that frightened her into tears.

Uchiha Gen gave Little Tsunade a protective bead that frightened her, then left Konoha for the Land of Water to deliver ashes to the Hoshigaki Clan. Black Zetsu watched him and began to suspect he was connected to its mother, while Kirigakure shinobi followed Gen after he entered the village.

• Uchiha Gen gave Little Tsunade an eyeball-shaped bead, and Hashirama carried her away when she began to cry.
• Uzumaki Mito recognized the bead’s powerful sealing as protective and accepted it as a valuable gift for Little Tsunade.
• Black Zetsu considered how to advance its plans, noticed Uchiha Gen, and wondered why his scent resembled its mother’s.
• Uchiha Gen traveled to Kirigakure to deliver ashes to the Hoshigaki Clan and said he needed to post a commission.
• A Kirigakure shinobi let Uchiha Gen enter, then called a companion and followed him toward the mission hall.

Uchiha Gen posted a commission in Kirigakure to find the Hoshigaki clan and Hoshigaki Kuroto, then tried to settle into the damp village while waiting for news. After narrowly avoiding poisonous pufferfish sashimi, he rented a bath suite in a pleasure district and prepared to spend the night.

• Uchiha Gen posted a D-rank commission asking Kirigakure to locate the Hoshigaki clan and Hoshigaki Kuroto, and was told to return in a week.
• Uchiha Gen ordered pufferfish sashimi at a deserted restaurant, discovered the owner had left the poisonous innards in it, and warned him about the danger.
• Uchiha Gen found a pleasure district and recognized aphrodisiac powder in the graffiti inside an establishment.
• Uchiha Gen rented a superior room with a bath, rejected the proprietress's advances, and went inside to change and bathe.