Recaps

Hatake Sakumo took Fang Xu as his student and brought him and Kakashi out for barbecue, while Hiruzen Sarutobi discovered Fang Xu’s Senju ancestry and tried to recruit Tsunade to take him as a disciple. Tsunade initially refused, but the revelation that Fang Xu was a Senju descendant caught her attention.

• Hatake Sakumo ended Fang Xu and Kakashi’s sparring and took them to celebrate Fang Xu becoming his student.
• Hatake Sakumo sensed Hiruzen Sarutobi watching them with the Telescope Technique but continued toward the barbecue restaurant.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi reviewed Fang Xu’s file and learned that Fang Xu descended from a Senju branch family.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi asked Tsunade to take Fang Xu as a disciple, but she refused and objected to the village’s attempts to win him over.
• Tsunade’s attention shifted to the file when Hiruzen Sarutobi told her that Fang Xu was a Senju descendant.

Tsunade agreed to meet Fang Xu but warned Hiruzen Sarutobi not to involve the six-year-old in political struggles. Fang Xu went with Kakashi to train under Hatake Sakumo, who began teaching them the fundamentals of Kendo.

• Tsunade read Fang Xu's file, agreed to meet him and possibly test him, but refused to take him as a student immediately.
• Tsunade warned Hiruzen Sarutobi not to drag Fang Xu into power struggles, and Hiruzen decided that Fang Xu would eventually join his faction.
• At the Ninja Academy, Kurenai Yuhi noticed Fang Xu's rapid progress, while Rin Nohara, Obito, and Asuma reacted to his new closeness with Kakashi.
• Fang Xu told his classmates he was going to the Hatake Residence to learn swordsmanship from Hatake Sakumo, then left with Kakashi.
• Hatake Sakumo gave Fang Xu and Kakashi bamboo swords and began their training with Kendo fundamentals, including grip, stance, footwork, force, breathing, and distance.

Fang Xu trained his swordsmanship with Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi, then shared a welcoming dinner at the Hatake Residence. When he returned home, he found Tsunade waiting inside, and she revealed that the Third Hokage wanted her to take him as her student.

• Hatake Sakumo corrected Fang Xu and Kakashi’s swordsmanship during an extended training session.
• Hatake Sakumo invited Fang Xu to stay for dinner, and Fang Xu accepted his offer to eat with them after future practice.
• Fang Xu decided he would try to prevent Hatake Sakumo from meeting the tragic fate he remembered from the original story.
• Fang Xu found Tsunade eating his snacks in his home and questioned her about why she had come.
• Tsunade told Fang Xu that the Third Hokage wanted her to take him as her student.

Fang Xu deduced that he was descended from the Senju and saw through Tsunade’s lack of interest in taking a student. Tsunade gave him two useful scrolls and offered help if he ran into trouble, leaving Fang Xu excited to use shadow clones to accelerate his training.

• Fang Xu told Tsunade he suspected his family descended from a Senju branch and explained why he believed she had no intention of taking him as a student.
• Tsunade confirmed she would not take a student but gave Fang Xu the Shadow Clone Technique and Water Release: Water Wave Technique scrolls as a meeting gift.
• Tsunade warned Fang Xu not to overuse shadow clones and urged him to become stronger and stay alive.
• Tsunade told Fang Xu he could find her at the Senju Residence or Ninja Hospital, and he began calling her Big Sis Tsunade.
• Tsunade noticed Fang Xu’s resemblance to Tobirama Senju before leaving, and Fang Xu returned inside eager to use shadow clones to improve his training.

Fang Xu learned the Shadow Clone Technique, but his first clone dispelled itself with a slap that left him in pain. At school, he revealed that Hatake Sakumo had taken him as a kendo student, surprising his classmates and intensifying Asuma’s resolve to challenge him.

• Fang Xu studied the Shadow Clone scroll and created a clone after several attempts.
• Fang Xu’s clone objected to being made to study, then dispelled itself by slapping its forehead, sending the pain and memories back to Fang Xu.
• Despite his lingering forehead pain, Fang Xu completed his morning training and went to class.
• Fang Xu told Kurenai Yuhi, Rin Nohara, Obito, and Asuma that Hatake Sakumo had taken him as a student.
• Kakashi said Sakumo considered Fang Xu a kendo genius, leaving the class astonished.
• Asuma grew uneasy about Kurenai’s attention to Fang Xu and resolved to get stronger and test Fang Xu’s ability.

Suzuki Nakamura held an outdoor sparring test, where Kakashi defeated Might Guy and other students competed. Asuma Sarutobi then faced Fang Xu, eager to impress Kurenai Yuhi, and the match began with both entering the arena.

• Suzuki Nakamura announced an outdoor sparring test and led the students to the grounds.
• Kakashi Hatake defeated Might Guy by outmaneuvering him and holding his sword at Guy’s shoulder and neck.
• Kurenai Yuhi defeated Rin Nohara with genjutsu, while Ebisu defeated Obito Uchiha using shuriken, the Clone Technique, and a trip.
• Suzuki Nakamura called Asuma Sarutobi and Fang Xu for the next match, and Asuma entered the arena hoping to impress Kurenai Yuhi.
• Fang Xu entered the arena holding a Kunai as the match with Asuma began.

Fang Xu defeated Asuma in a brief sparring match by using lightning to break his balance and pin him with a kunai. Afterward, he helped Asuma up, and the two made peace while Asuma vowed to win next time.

• Asuma began the match by throwing shuriken and attacking Fang Xu with a kunai, but Fang Xu steadily deflected every strike.
• Fang Xu used lightning to boost his movements, seized Asuma, threw him to the ground, and held a kunai at his throat.
• Suzuki Nakamura declared Fang Xu the winner as the students reacted with shock to his speed and strength.
• Fang Xu helped Asuma stand, and Asuma admitted defeat while promising to win next time.
• Fang Xu encouraged Asuma, and the two formed the seal of reconciliation as Suzuki Nakamura approved of their conduct.

After Fang Xu defeated Asuma with Lightning Release, both Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi decided to train harder so they would not fall behind him. The chapter ended with Kurenai telling her father, Shinku Yuhi, how quickly Fang Xu had grown stronger.

• Kurenai Yuhi, Rin Nohara, and Obito praised Fang Xu and asked about his lightning-powered speed after he defeated Asuma.
• Asuma accepted his loss and vowed to catch up to Fang Xu, while Hiruzen Sarutobi watched and approved of the rivalry.
• Asuma asked Hiruzen Sarutobi to train him, and Hiruzen agreed to begin teaching him that evening.
• Kurenai Yuhi asked Shinku Yuhi to help her get stronger, then admitted that Fang Xu was the classmate she did not want to fall behind.
• Kurenai Yuhi told Shinku Yuhi about Fang Xu's rapid improvement, Lightning Nintaijutsu, Kendo training with Lord White Fang, and victory over Asuma.

Kurenai Yuhi began morning training with Fang Xu to grow stronger and keep up with him, while Rin Nohara, Asuma, and Obito were inspired to train harder as well. The chapter ended with several of Fang Xu’s classmates resolving to join or intensify their training.

• Shinku Yuhi agreed to train Kurenai Yuhi after she said she wanted to stand beside Fang Xu, and warned her not to give up when training became difficult.
• Kurenai Yuhi joined Fang Xu for morning training and told him she wanted to keep up with him and become a great kunoichi like Lady Tsunade.
• Fang Xu encouraged Kurenai Yuhi to train to protect herself, and they agreed to continue running together each morning.
• Rin Nohara heard that Kurenai Yuhi had trained with Fang Xu and decided to join their morning training the next day.
• Asuma resolved to work harder and catch up to Fang Xu after hearing about Kurenai Yuhi’s training.
• Obito decided to join the morning training after learning Rin Nohara would attend.

Fang Xu’s morning training inspired a competitive training boom across the Ninja Academy, and a week later he used his exchange talent on a Lightning Release: Lightning Ball Technique scroll. The exchange brought him to the moment Kaigaku received Kokushibo’s demon blood, where the scroll appeared and Kaigaku’s strength began to drain away.

• Rin Nohara, Asuma, Obito Uchiha, and later Might Guy and other students joined Fang Xu’s morning runs, spurring students throughout the Ninja Academy to train harder.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi read the academy’s report and praised the training boom, especially noting Asuma’s growing effort and strength.
• After his exchange cooldown ended, Fang Xu exchanged his Lightning Release: Lightning Ball Technique scroll.
• Fang Xu witnessed Kokushibo offer Kaigaku demon blood, and the scroll appeared as Kaigaku swallowed it.
• Kaigaku screamed that his power and strength were being drained from his body.

Kokushibo watched Kaigaku die after the exchange stripped away his Thunder Breathing cultivation and physique, then took the mysterious Lightning Release scroll. Fang Xu learned what had happened, absorbed Kaigaku’s Thunder Breathing experience and abilities, and gained a seasoned swordsman’s instincts.

• Kaigaku’s body failed to withstand Muzan’s blood and burst apart after the exchange removed his cultivation and physical foundation.
• Kokushibo examined the Lightning Release scroll, found that he could not use its chakra techniques, and carried it away to show Lord Muzan.
• Fang Xu watched the recording, recognized Kokushibo and Kaigaku, and felt no guilt over Kaigaku’s death.
• Fang Xu received a Thunder Breathing Crystal containing Kaigaku’s training, swordsmanship experience, and physical development.
• Fang Xu swallowed the crystal and absorbed Thunder Breathing techniques, combat instincts, and improved physical abilities.

After his physique and Thunder Breathing improved, Fang Xu tested the sword forms in a secluded woodland and successfully performed Thunderclap and Flash, which Kaigaku had never mastered. He began experimenting with combining Thunder Breathing with his lightning powers, Lightning Mode, and chakra.

• Fang Xu’s Attribute Panel showed improved physique, proficient swordsmanship, and proficient Thunder Breathing.
• Fang Xu went to a secluded woodland and used Thunder Breathing’s Second through Sixth Forms to destroy trees with his long sword and real lightning.
• Fang Xu drew on Kaigaku’s training experience and decided to attempt the First Form, Thunderclap and Flash.
• Fang Xu combined Thunder Breathing with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s lightning and pierced a tree with a lightning-wrapped sword strike.
• Fang Xu resolved to keep developing Thunder Breathing by combining it with Lightning Mode and lightning-nature chakra.

Fang Xu tested how Thunder Breathing, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Lightning Mode, and Lightning Release Chakra worked together, greatly increasing his combat power and endurance. Meanwhile, Danzo learned of Fang Xu’s talent and ties to Hatake Sakumo, and began considering how to curb Sakumo’s growing influence.

• Fang Xu combined Thunder Breathing, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Lightning Mode, and Lightning Release Chakra to unleash powerful lightning-charged sword strikes.
• Fang Xu checked his Attribute Panel, which rated him as an elite chunin capable of briefly fighting an ordinary jonin, and resolved to keep training rather than grow overconfident.
• Takuma reported to Danzo that Hatake Sakumo had taken Fang Xu as his disciple and described Fang Xu’s background, abilities, and connections to the Third Hokage and Tsunade.
• Danzo worried that Fang Xu could become another source of support for Sakumo and considered how to rein in White Fang of the Leaf.

Danzo tried to recruit Fang Xu into Root, but Hiruzen Sarutobi refused and resolved to curb Danzo's power. Danzo then revealed Fang Xu's Senju ancestry to cast suspicion on Sakumo, leaving Hiruzen's response unresolved.

• Takuma reported Fang Xu's talents and growing influence to Danzo, who ordered him monitored and said he could not be allowed to serve anyone else if he refused Root.
• Danzo demanded that Hiruzen Sarutobi hand Fang Xu over to Root, but Hiruzen rejected him and insisted Fang Xu was not a tool.
• After Danzo left, Hiruzen decided to use the dispute to restrain Root and Danzo's growing influence.
• Danzo reviewed Fang Xu's file and learned that he was a descendant of a Senju branch family, then considered sowing distrust between Hiruzen and Sakumo.
• Danzo returned to Hiruzen's office and revealed Fang Xu's Senju ancestry, asking whether Hiruzen was comfortable leaving him in Hatake Sakumo's hands.

Hiruzen Sarutobi rejected Danzo’s demand to take Fang Xu into Root, while Fang Xu demonstrated a striking advance in his lightning-infused swordsmanship at the Hatake Residence. Hatake Sakumo recognized Fang Xu’s talent, and Kakashi realized Fang Xu had quickly caught up to him.

• Danzo urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to hand Fang Xu over to Root, but Hiruzen refused and barred Root from interfering with the Ninja Academy.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi worried that Danzo’s influence was expanding and resolved to defend the Ninja Academy from him.
• Fang Xu practiced with a real blade at the Hatake Residence, and Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi noticed that his swordsmanship had improved dramatically since the previous day.
• Fang Xu combined Lightning Release Chakra with his breathing, footwork, and sword swings, cutting through a wooden post with a lightning-coated blade.
• Hatake Sakumo praised Fang Xu’s ability to understand lightning and integrate it into swordsmanship, while Kakashi was stunned by how much Fang Xu had advanced.
• Fang Xu told Hatake Sakumo that his new Lightning-Attribute Ninja Swordsmanship drew on swordsmanship insights, Sakumo’s instruction, and Lightning Body Tempering ideas.

Fang Xu warned Hatake Sakumo that his growing prestige could threaten the Hokage and urged him to stop passively ignoring village politics. The chapter left Kakashi confused about why his father's strength and supporters could become a liability.

• Fang Xu explained how his Senju training, the Third Hokage's Lightning Body-Tempering Technique, and Hatake Sakumo's guidance had shaped his Lightning-Attribute Ninja Swordsmanship.
• Hatake Sakumo praised Fang Xu's skill and offered to help him refine his swordsmanship, while Kakashi proudly praised his father.
• When Kakashi said Hatake Sakumo was better than the Hokage, Hatake Sakumo reprimanded him and warned both boys against careless comparisons.
• Fang Xu cautioned Hatake Sakumo that a ninja whose prestige rose too high could be seen as a threat, then asked why he neither contended for influence nor guarded against it.
• Fang Xu noted that some villagers supported Hatake Sakumo for Fourth Hokage and said the role went to someone who could put most people at ease, leaving Kakashi asking what would make his father unsettling.

Fang Xu explained to Hatake Sakumo why the Third Hokage and Danzo might see his growing support as a threat, then revealed that Tsunade had told him of his Senju ancestry. Hatake Sakumo accepted that Tsunade had taken Fang Xu under her wing and encouraged him to stay close to her.

• Fang Xu warned Hatake Sakumo that his strength and support for becoming Fourth Hokage could make the Third Hokage and Danzo feel threatened.
• Hatake Sakumo questioned Fang Xu about his unusual political knowledge, and Fang Xu said Tsunade had spoken with him.
• Fang Xu explained that Tsunade discovered his grandfather was Senju and that his family had given up the Senju surname during the Second Hokage's time.
• Fang Xu told Hatake Sakumo that Tsunade had given him the Shadow Clone Technique and Water Release: Water Wave Technique, and offered help if he ran into trouble.
• Hatake Sakumo told Fang Xu that Tsunade trusted him and advised him to spend more time with her.

Hatake Sakumo warned Fang Xu and Kakashi about Shimura Danzō and Root, then learned that Fang Xu had sensed someone watching him. Sakumo caught three Root ninja surveilling the homes and confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi, leaving the matter in the Hokage’s hands.

• Hatake Sakumo warned Fang Xu and Kakashi never to meet Shimura Danzō or Root alone and told Fang Xu that his talents and connection to Tsunade could attract dangerous attention.
• Fang Xu told Hatake Sakumo that he had sensed a malicious gaze, and Sakumo’s Shadow Clone confirmed that it had also noticed someone watching.
• Hatake Sakumo ordered Fang Xu and Kakashi to stay in the courtyard, then tracked down and captured three Root ninja near their homes.
• The Root leader claimed the surveillance was a mission ordered by Danzo, but Hatake Sakumo beat him and warned Danzo to stop watching Fang Xu.
• Hatake Sakumo went to the Hokage Building and told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Root ninja had been spying on Fang Xu and that their leader had named Danzo.

Hatake Sakumo warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that Root had been spying on Fang Xu, and Hiruzen summoned Shimura Danzō to confront him. Hiruzen ordered Danzō to stop targeting Fang Xu and other Academy children, while Danzō left angry and unwilling to accept the boundary.

• Hatake Sakumo told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Root had monitored Fang Xu and urged him to protect the six-year-old from interference.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent an Anbu to summon Shimura Danzō to the Hokage Office.
• Danzo reprimanded Takuma and two injured Root ninja for being caught by Hatake Sakumo while watching Fang Xu.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted Danzo over Root's surveillance and rejected his argument that Fang Xu should be turned into a weapon.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi warned Danzo that further action against Fang Xu, Kakashi, or Academy children would cost him authority over Root.

Danzo left the Hokage Building determined to eliminate those standing between him and the Hokage Position, while Fang Xu and the Hatakes discussed Root’s threat and agreed to stay alert. A week passed without further trouble on the surface, and Fang Xu continued his packed routine of training, classes, sword practice, and Lightning Body Tempering.

• Danzo blamed Hatake Sakumo for obstructing his plans to recruit Fang Xu and resolved to eliminate everyone in his way to the Hokage Position.
• Hatake Sakumo returned to the Hatake Residence and confirmed that the attackers were Root ninja sent by Danzo, whom he had reported to Hiruzen.
• Hatake Sakumo reassured Fang Xu that Danzo would not attack him openly, then remarked that Fang Xu resembled the Second Hokage and praised his talent for developing techniques.
• Fang Xu warned Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi that Danzo might use missions or false intelligence to endanger them, and both agreed to take precautions.
• A week passed without Root approaching Fang Xu openly, while Fang Xu maintained his training, academy classes, sword practice, and Lightning Body Tempering experiments.

Fang Xu perfected the Thunder Body Tempering Technique, but its heavy food and medicine costs threatened to drain his savings. With his exchange talent’s cooldown over, he traded a Chakra Refinement Technique scroll and chakra, arriving on an island where Nobita and Gian demanded food from Doraemon.

• Fang Xu combined Thunder Breathing, lightning release chakra, and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s lightning into the Thunder Body Tempering Technique.
• Fang Xu tempered his body gradually and found that the technique improved his endurance and strength, but consumed expensive food and medicine.
• Fang Xu saw that his savings would last only about three months and waited for his exchange talent’s cooldown to finish.
• Fang Xu exchanged a Chakra Refinement Technique scroll and condensed chakra, asking for money, food, or a device that could produce unlimited food.
• Fang Xu arrived on an island where Nobita complained that he was starving, and Gian urged Doraemon to produce something to eat.

Doraemon and his friends lost the Gourmet Tablecloth when it was replaced by a scroll and a Chakra Seed, so they abandoned their camping trip. Fang Xu received the tablecloth through an exchange, used it to conjure an unlimited feast, and wondered whether it could make medicinal meals.

• A wave swept away the campers' food, tools, and tent, so Doraemon brought out the Gourmet Tablecloth.
• The tablecloth vanished and was replaced by a scroll describing the Chakra Refinement Technique and a Chakra Seed, which Doraemon took for inspection.
• Doraemon used the Anywhere Door to take Nobita, Gian, Suneo, and Shizuka home, ending their camping trip.
• Fang Xu received Blue Fatty's Gourmet Tablecloth, whose exchange notice said it could generate unlimited finished food and had no hidden dangers.
• Fang Xu conjured roast lamb and orange juice, ate until his post-training depletion eased, and considered testing the tablecloth with medicinal meals.

Fang Xu used the Gourmet Tablecloth to fuel intense training, rapidly improving his body tempering and swordsmanship under Hatake Sakumo’s guidance. After several exchanges yielded useful supplies but no major treasure, his seventh exchange connected to the apocalyptic world again.

• Fang Xu discovered that the Gourmet Tablecloth could produce medicinal cuisine and ordinary food, but not pure medicines, and began using it to supply his training.
• Fang Xu trained at his limits with abundant food, and Kakashi noticed his growing speed and steadier swordsmanship while Hatake Sakumo added practical combat lessons.
• Fang Xu combined Thunder Breathing, Lightning Release Chakra, and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to strengthen his forms, especially Thunderclap and Flash.
• Over the next month, Fang Xu’s fifth exchange produced Sea King meat that accelerated his progress, while his sixth produced a Desert Eagle and one hundred bullets.
• Fang Xu used another tuft of Obito’s hair for his seventh exchange, which connected to the apocalyptic world again.

Fang Xu used exchanges to obtain a zombie crystal core, a body-conditioning manual, and Pokémon berry seeds, while realizing that Obito’s hair repeatedly connected him to Zhou Yang’s apocalypse world. He left with plans to exploit that connection and consider how to improve his Thunder Body Tempering Technique.

• Fang Xu absorbed the zombie crystal core he received through Obito’s hair and concluded that items from the same source were likely to connect to the same world.
• Fang Xu decided to collect more of Obito’s hair, while Obito felt an ominous chill in the Uchiha Clan Compound.
• Fang Xu exchanged his Lightning Body-Tempering Technique with Yan Zhendong and received an Iron Cloth Shirt manual and medicinal bath prescription in return.
• Fang Xu considered using the medicinal bath prescription and external-conditioning principles to improve his Thunder Body Tempering Technique.
• Fang Xu exchanged a live wild boar into a Pokémon world, where a boy’s bag of berry seeds was traded back to him.

Fang Xu planted Berry Seeds from the Pokémon World and continued training his chakra control before visiting Tsunade at Konoha Ninja Hospital to ask her to teach him Medical Ninjutsu. He found her drinking in her office and questioned whether it was appropriate during working hours.

• Fang Xu decided the Pokémon World might value live animals, planted the Berry Seeds in his backyard, and noted that one more use would raise his Exchange Talent to LV2.
• Fang Xu practiced Water Release and Earth Release techniques and concluded that Medical Ninjutsu could improve his chakra control.
• Fang Xu went to Konoha Ninja Hospital and asked a nurse to tell Tsunade he had arrived.
• The nurse led Fang Xu to Tsunade's office, where he found her drinking beside piles of medical records and empty liquor bottles.
• Fang Xu asked Tsunade whether drinking during working hours was appropriate, and she challenged him for trying to police her.