Recaps

Fang Xu and Kakashi received a two-stage frontline mission, and Fang Xu went to the Ninja Academy to tell Kurenai he was leaving. After giving her training advice and medicine, he promised to return safely, while Kurenai went back to class determined not to burden him.

• The Third Hokage assigned Fang Xu and Kakashi to escort supplies to Kikyo Castle and then deliver a letter to Hatake Sakumo at the Hidden Mist Frontline.
• Fang Xu sent a shadow clone to prepare his equipment and went to the Ninja Academy to see Kurenai before departure.
• Fang Xu told Kurenai about the mission’s dangers and encouraged her to keep training and learning medical first aid with Rin.
• Fang Xu gave Kurenai a pouch of medicine, and she hugged him before asking him to return safely.
• Kurenai returned to class without looking back, determined not to burden Fang Xu.

Fang Xu and Kakashi escorted a supply convoy toward the front at Kikyo Castle under Hizashi Hyuga's command. After a Sand ambush killed the scouts, Hizashi split the team to protect the supplies and engage the enemy, while Fang Xu stopped Kakashi from joining the fight.

• Fang Xu arrived at the Konoha Gate with a shadow clone, where Kakashi and Hizashi Hyuga were waiting to lead the supply convoy.
• Hizashi warned Fang Xu, Kakashi, and the other ninja to follow orders, and the convoy set out toward the Land of Rivers.
• During the journey, Fang Xu's shadow clone checked the supplies while Kakashi helped scout the route, earning Hizashi's cautious approval.
• Near the war zone, Hizashi used his Byakugan and sent three chunin ahead to scout the suspiciously quiet route.
• An explosion and distress flare revealed that all three scouts had been killed and twenty Sand ninja, including two elite jonin, were ambushing the convoy.
• Hizashi ordered two squads to guard the supplies and two to engage the enemy; Kakashi volunteered to fight, but Fang Xu stopped him and told him to protect the convoy.

Fang Xu left his squad to confront a Sand Ninja ambush and destroyed most of the enemy force with a massive lightning technique. Black Sand ordered the surviving, wounded Sand Ninja to attack him, believing Fang Xu had exhausted himself.

• Fang Xu assigned his Shadow Clone to guard the supply convoy, then raced ahead toward the battlefield despite Kakashi and Hizashi Hyuga's objections.
• Hizashi Hyuga failed to catch Fang Xu and continued toward the ambush with the other Konoha Jonin.
• Black Sand learned that a lone Konoha fighter was approaching and ordered his Sand Ninja to surround and kill him.
• Fang Xu drew power from his Electricity-Storage Bracelet and unleashed Raigo, killing ten Chunin and four Jonin and badly wounding the remaining ambushers.
• Black Sand assumed Fang Xu was weakened by the attack and ordered the surviving Sand Ninja to charge.

Fang Xu killed the remaining Sand Ninja and wiped out their twenty-person ambush squad, but Hizashi Hyuga reprimanded him for disobeying orders and leaving the convoy unprotected. The chapter ended with Hizashi demanding to know what Fang Xu had been trying to do.

• The remaining Sand Ninja attacked Fang Xu, but he used six successive flashes to kill them and decapitate Black Sand.
• Hizashi Hyuga and the Konoha group arrived in time to witness Fang Xu's final attacks and found the entire Sand Ninja ambush squad dead.
• Fang Xu reflected that combining his techniques had strained his muscles, chakra pathways, and joints.
• Hizashi Hyuga confronted Fang Xu for charging out alone despite orders to protect the convoy and not act independently.
• Fang Xu denied that he had been trying to show off, and Hizashi demanded to know what he had intended to do.

After Fang Xu justified disobeying orders by wiping out twenty Sand Ninja without Konoha casualties, Hizashi Hyuga accepted the results but promised to report his actions. The discussion of Fang Xu's strength and Kakashi's limits left Hizashi reflecting on the restrictions imposed on the Hyuga Branch Family.

• Fang Xu explained that he had charged ahead to draw the Sand Ninja's attention and break their formation, calling his attack a precision strike.
• Hizashi Hyuga ordered the Konoha Ninja to seal the enemy bodies, collect weapons and intelligence, and recover the fallen scouts.
• Hizashi Hyuga struck Fang Xu's shoulder, discovered how unusually hard his body was, and questioned how the seven-year-old trained.
• Hizashi Hyuga concluded that Fang Xu had Kage-level battlefield lethality, while Fang Xu insisted he had acted with reasonable confidence.
• Hizashi Hyuga learned that Kakashi was only at elite chunin level and reflected on the Caged Bird seal and the limits placed on the Hyuga Branch Family.

After Fang Xu returned from destroying a twenty-person Sand ninja ambush, Hizashi Hyuga confirmed the details and Kakashi struggled to believe them. Fang Xu promised to design Kakashi a powerful Lightning Release technique once his fundamentals improved, while Hizashi learned Fang Xu had mastered several original S-rank techniques.

• Hizashi Hyuga confirmed that all twenty Sand ninja and the three Konoha scouts were dead, then led the group back to the supply convoy.
• Kakashi questioned Fang Xu about the battle, and Hizashi Hyuga confirmed that Fang Xu had killed all twenty Sand ninja with Raigo and Lightning Release swordsmanship.
• Kakashi grabbed Fang Xu in frustration and asked how he had become so powerful, then requested to learn Raigo.
• Fang Xu explained why Kakashi could not learn Raigo yet and promised to design him a similar S-rank Lightning Release technique when his abilities improved.
• Hizashi Hyuga learned that Fang Xu had several original S-rank Lightning Release techniques and marveled at the new generation's strength.

After Fang Xu’s Raigo defeated the Sand Ninja ambush, Hizashi Hyuga hurried the supply convoy toward Kikyo Castle while Kakashi resolved to catch up to Fang Xu’s strength. At the frontline camp, Orochimaru and Tsunade recognized the lightning strike as evidence that the supply route had been attacked, and Tsunade left with a team to investigate.

• Hizashi Hyuga ordered the convoy to move at full speed toward Kikyo Castle and expanded the scouting patrols after the Sand Ninja ambush.
• Fang Xu reassured Hizashi Hyuga that he could travel and told Kakashi that the frontline camp would learn of the attack; Kakashi vowed to catch up to him.
• Orochimaru and the ninjas at the Kikyo Castle camp saw Fang Xu’s massive lightning strike and realized the supply convoy was likely under attack.
• Tsunade insisted that she go to the supply route because Orochimaru had to remain at the frontline camp, then selected six jonin and two medical ninjas to accompany her.

Tsunade rushed to the supply convoy after a massive lightning strike and scolded Fang Xu for being sent to the front at only seven years old. When she learned he had killed the entire twenty-member Sunagakure ambush squad, including two Elite Jonin, she was stunned and demanded to know how he had done it.

• Tsunade left Orochimaru in charge of the camp and ordered him to keep watch on her direction as she headed toward the lightning strike.
• Chiyo recognized that the strike had hit the area assigned to Black Sand's ambush squad and sent Sand Ninja to investigate without engaging any powerful Lightning Release ninja.
• Hizashi Hyuga slowed the convoy when Tsunade and her team approached, and Tsunade checked Fang Xu for injuries before twisting his ear and ordering him back to Konoha.
• Hizashi Hyuga told Tsunade that three scouts had died, the convoy had suffered no casualties, and Fang Xu had killed all twenty Sand Ninja, including two Elite Jonin.
• Tsunade released Fang Xu's ear and questioned how he had defeated the ambush squad, and Fang Xu answered that he had borrowed the weather.

Fang Xu revealed that he had single-handedly annihilated a twenty-man Sunagakure ambush squad, astonishing Tsunade and the Konoha ninja. After the supply convoy reached Kikyo Castle, Orochimaru examined the bodies and recognized Fang Xu as a prodigy far beyond genius.

• Fang Xu told Tsunade that he had used Raigo to break the Sand Ninja formation, then killed the remaining attackers with swordsmanship and taijutsu.
• Tsunade checked Fang Xu for injuries and joined the convoy as it continued toward the frontline camp.
• Tsunade, Hizashi Hyuga, Fang Xu, and Kakashi escorted the supplies safely to Kikyo Castle before dusk.
• Hizashi Hyuga reported that Fang Xu had wiped out all twenty attackers, and Orochimaru ordered the sealed bodies examined.
• After examining the corpses and confirming the evidence, Orochimaru called Fang Xu a prodigy far beyond genius.

After Fang Xu’s battle at Kikyo Castle, Orochimaru ordered him and Kakashi to deliver a letter to Hatake Sakumo on the Eastern Front. Fang Xu and Kakashi left before dusk and traveled more than a hundred kilometers by nightfall.

• Orochimaru praised Fang Xu’s achievements, promised to report them, and ordered him and Kakashi to take a letter to Hatake Sakumo on the Eastern Front.
• Fang Xu insisted on leaving immediately rather than staying overnight, and Tsunade warned him to keep a low profile and obey White Fang’s orders.
• Hizashi Hyuga thanked Fang Xu for protecting the transport team and promised to record both his contributions and his disobedience.
• Fang Xu and Kakashi collected supplies and a map, then left Kikyo Castle before dusk for the Hidden Mist Battlefield.
• Fang Xu and Kakashi traveled at speed and covered more than a hundred kilometers by nightfall.

Fang Xu and Kakashi rested on the way to the frontline, where Fang Xu revealed how his Spatial Ring preserved food and helped Pikachu grow faster. After taking the second watch, Fang Xu entered the ring’s space and exchanged ninja materials, awakening in the Universal Island World.

• Fang Xu served Kakashi and Pikachu a hot meal from his Spatial Ring and explained its preservation effect.
• Fang Xu told Kakashi that the Beast Taming Space now ran fifteen times faster and that Pikachu’s next advancement required him to reach true Kage level.
• Kakashi took the first watch, and Fang Xu gave him a spare tent when he asked to borrow Fang Xu’s.
• Fang Xu left a Shadow Clone and Pikachu on watch while his real body entered the Spatial Ring.
• Fang Xu exchanged ninja scrolls and a Chakra Seed Crystal, then arrived in the Universal Island World, where eighteen-year-olds faced an Island Lord Awakening Trial.

Su Tian awakened an S-Rank Enslavement Contract talent, but it vanished when he tried to use it on an injured mermaid, who killed him. Fang Xu received the talent crystal through an Exchange and absorbed its power, gaining the ability to bind others through contracts.

• Su Tian awakened the S-Rank Enslavement Contract talent and found an unconscious Silver Rank mermaid on the shore.
• Su Tian tried to enslave the mermaid, but an unknown force extracted his talent and caused his talent core to shatter.
• Su Tian reached for the scroll and crystal that appeared, but the mermaid awoke and killed him.
• The mermaid picked up the Chakra Seed, Summoning Technique scroll, and materials, and learned about a new supernatural power system.
• Fang Xu received the Enslavement Contract Talent Crystal in his Spatial Ring and absorbed it.
• Fang Xu examined the talent and considered its uses for infiltration and turning enemies against one another.

Fang Xu’s exchange talent upgraded, letting him save attempts, target previously visited worlds, and more easily obtain rare rewards. When Root assassins attacked him and Kakashi, Fang Xu defeated all five and successfully bound the short-sword jonin with his contract rune.

• Fang Xu’s exchange talent reached level three, gaining accumulated attempts, targeted exchanges, and a higher chance of rare rewards.
• Fang Xu returned from the Spatial Ring and dodged kunai as five masked Root ninja ambushed him and Kakashi’s camp.
• Fang Xu used a shadow clone to incapacitate the three chunin before they could reach Kakashi’s tent.
• Fang Xu shattered the wind blades, burned through the Aburame jonin’s kikaichū, and knocked out both elite jonin.
• Fang Xu used his contract rune on the short-sword jonin and confirmed that the binding had succeeded.

Fang Xu turned five Root ninja sent by Danzo into contracted agents and ordered them to gather evidence against him, while Kakashi agreed to stay out of the conflict for now. Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi read a report claiming Fang Xu had wiped out twenty Sunagakure ninja, including two Elite Jonin, and could hardly believe it.

• Fang Xu placed soul-level contracts on five Root ninja, and the awakened Jonin confirmed the contracts overrode Root training and Danzo's orders.
• Fang Xu instructed the Root agents to deceive Danzo and secretly collect evidence, records, and intelligence from within Root.
• Kakashi objected to letting Danzo's assassination attempt go unanswered, but Fang Xu warned him not to endanger the Hatake Family or the frontline mission.
• Fang Xu sent the five agents back to Root and told Kakashi to rest before continuing toward the Hidden Mist Frontline.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi read a report from Orochimaru and Hizashi Hyuga stating that Fang Xu had killed twenty Sunagakure ninja, including two Elite Jonin, and reacted with disbelief.

After confirming Fang Xu had defeated a twenty-man Sunagakure squad, Hiruzen Sarutobi promoted him to Special Jonin and ordered the Flying Thunder God scroll sent to him. Danzo responded by placing a bounty on Fang Xu and leaking his abilities, drawing the attention of the other ninja villages; Ōnoki learned of Fang Xu’s strength and grimly acknowledged Konoha’s good fortune.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi verified the battle report and confirmed Fang Xu had destroyed an elite twenty-man Sunagakure squad with a large-scale Lightning Release technique.
• Hiruzen promoted Fang Xu to Special Jonin and ordered the Flying Thunder God scroll delivered to him at the Eastern Front.
• Danzo suspected Fang Xu had discovered Root’s failed assassination attempt and ordered an anonymous bounty of one hundred million ryo on him.
• Danzo ordered Root to leak details of Fang Xu’s strength and the battle to the other ninja villages and the Black Market.
• Ōnoki read the intelligence in Iwagakure and reacted grimly to Fang Xu’s Kage Level strength at seven.

After reports of Fang Xu destroying Sunagakure’s Black Sand squad spread, the four great ninja villages raised his bounty to five hundred million ryo. Fang Xu and Kakashi pressed toward the Eastern Front while Kakuzu accepted the bounty and began gathering intelligence on his target.

• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to add one hundred million ryo to Fang Xu’s bounty and investigate him before engaging.
• Chiyo confirmed Fang Xu had destroyed Black Sand’s squad and ordered Sunagakure to increase the bounty and track him.
• The Raikage and Kirigakure officials also raised Fang Xu’s bounty, driving it to five hundred million ryo and mobilizing bounty hunters.
• Fang Xu and Kakashi blamed Danzo for leaking Fang Xu’s intelligence, then chose to hurry toward the Eastern Front by avoiding towns and main roads.
• Kakuzu accepted the bounty on Fang Xu and demanded all available intelligence before attempting to kill him.

Madara learned that Fang Xu’s influence and Might Duy’s training had pushed Obito away from the vulnerable, emotionally driven path Madara had planned for him. The chapter ended with Black Zetsu revealing that Might Duy possessed the forbidden Eight Gates technique.

• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu told Madara that seven-year-old Fang Xu had gained a five-hundred-million-ryo bounty and attracted the attention of the major villages.
• Madara dismissed Fang Xu as a potential recruit and asked Black Zetsu about suitable young Uchiha candidates.
• Black Zetsu reported that Obito Uchiha had become Might Duy’s student and was devoting himself to Taijutsu and youthful training instead of developing the obsessions Madara expected.
• Black Zetsu explained that Fang Xu’s influence on Konoha’s younger generation had helped steer Obito away from jealousy and despair.
• Black Zetsu revealed that Might Duy was a Taijutsu specialist who possessed the forbidden Eight Gates technique.

Madara ordered Black Zetsu to keep observing Obito and Might Duy while considering whether Obito could awaken the Mangekyō. Meanwhile, Fang Xu and Kakashi fought their way toward Konoha’s Eastern Front camp as bounty hunters repeatedly attacked them, leaving the pair to continue their journey with the pursuit still ongoing.

• Black Zetsu told Madara that Obito’s time with Might Duy and Might Guy was making him harder to manipulate, but Madara ordered him to keep watching Obito and Might Duy.
• Fang Xu and Kakashi defeated twelve bounty hunters who ambushed them in the eastern Land of Fire, then changed their route toward Konoha’s Eastern Front camp.
• Fang Xu and Kakashi fought off successive groups of bounty hunters during their journey, including seven attackers in poisonous mist and fifteen who trapped them in a valley.
• More than thirty bounty hunters tried to surround Fang Xu and Kakashi while they rested, but Fang Xu, Pikachu, and Kakashi defeated them.
• Fang Xu complained about the scant money recovered from the bounty hunters as he and Kakashi continued toward the Eastern Front camp.

Fang Xu and Kakashi reached Konoha’s Eastern Front camp after evading bounty hunters, and Hatake Sakumo received Orochimaru’s intelligence. Sakumo ordered them to remain on the battlefield under his command.

• Kakuzu decided to keep pursuing Fang Xu and Kakashi, waiting for them to tire or enter favorable terrain rather than attacking directly.
• Fang Xu told Kakashi that Kakashi also had a Black Market bounty, and the two reached Konoha’s camp and showed the sentries their identification and mission scrolls.
• Fang Xu and Kakashi delivered Orochimaru’s sealed intelligence to Hatake Sakumo in the commander’s tent.
• Sakumo acknowledged Fang Xu’s recent strength and read the intelligence, learning that Kirigakure had a new infiltration route.
• Sakumo ordered Fang Xu and Kakashi to remain on the Eastern Front and follow his orders, warning Kakashi not to expect special treatment as his son.

Sakumo learned that Fang Xu had become a target of Danzo, the Black Market, and enemy villages, and decided to test his disciple’s abilities while protecting him. Fang Xu exchanged a Shadow Clone Technique scroll with Arceus, who sent back a crystal ball as Team Rocket trapped Nazi and tried to make her lose control.

• Sakumo warned Kakashi and Fang Xu to stay in camp, then read the confidential report about Fang Xu’s battle at Kikyo Castle and the threats against him.
• Sakumo recognized Danzo’s hand in the failed assassination attempt and leaked information, and resolved to test Fang Xu and settle the score when the time was right.
• Fang Xu entered his Spatial Ring and exchanged a copied Shadow Clone Technique scroll through his exchange talent.
• Arceus accepted the scroll, recognized how clones could help legendary Pokémon carry out their duties, and sent Fang Xu a crystal ball that could soothe a rampaging mind and aid meditation.
• Athena used suppression devices to trap Nazi in Saffron Gym and ordered her researchers to increase the frequency so Team Rocket could control the Gym Leader.

Nazi escaped Athena’s brainwashing when Fang Xu’s intervention destroyed the suppression equipment, then freed the people she had turned into dolls and reunited with her parents. Fang Xu received an invitation to the Pokémon World and a Psychic Source Crystal, which raised his Psychic to Early Elite Four Level as he remained in the Spatial Ring.

• Athena’s Mental Overwrite procedure failed when the instruments and Nazi’s chaotic Psychic vanished, and Nazi restrained and incapacitated the Team Rocket members.
• Nazi received the Crystal Meditation Method, stabilized her Psychic, restored the hostages and her mother, and reconciled with her parents.
• Fang Xu recognized that the Exchange had disrupted Athena’s plan and received a Psychic Source Crystal, an Arceus Invitation, and four Psychic suppression instruments.
• Fang Xu stored the invitation and instruments, then absorbed the Psychic Source Crystal to strengthen his mind and Chakra reserves.
• Fang Xu’s Psychic advanced from Pseudo-Elite Four Level to Early Elite Four Level, and his perception became far more precise.

Fang Xu tested his newly strengthened Psychic abilities, learning Teleport’s range and vulnerabilities before practicing several other techniques. He concluded that he needed to learn Flying Thunder God to explain his teleportation and reflected that Nazi had escaped Team Rocket’s control.

• Fang Xu tested Teleport inside the Spatial Ring, finding it reliable within ten kilometers but unstable beyond that range.
• Fang Xu used Team Rocket’s Psychic suppression devices to confirm that spatial interference could prevent his Teleport from locking onto a destination.
• Fang Xu decided not to reveal his Psychic teleportation openly and resolved to learn Flying Thunder God as an explanation for it.
• Fang Xu practiced Mind Reader, Hypnosis, and the Petrification Technique on ninja beasts and Shadow Clones, assessing their potential in combat.
• Fang Xu tested Heal Pulse and compared its battlefield support role with the Mystical Palm Technique and Viridian Force.
• Fang Xu reflected that Arceus had freed Nazi from Team Rocket’s control, leaving Giovanni without one of his Psychic weapons.

Fang Xu decided to save his exchange uses for targeted trades, then sparred with Kakashi before receiving his official promotion to Special Jonin. The Third Hokage also rewarded him with the Flying Thunder God technique, which Fang Xu intended to master as soon as possible.

• Fang Xu realized his level-three exchange talent let him accumulate uses and target familiar worlds, so he decided to save his uses for future needs.
• Fang Xu and Kakashi sparred with Lightning Release Swordsmanship at the Eastern Front camp before a messenger summoned them to Hatake Sakumo.
• Hatake Sakumo delivered the village's appointments, making Fang Xu a Special Jonin and Kakashi a Chunin.
• Sakumo gave Fang Xu a reward scroll from the Third Hokage containing the Flying Thunder God technique, and Fang Xu said he would master it quickly.
• Fang Xu and Kakashi went to logistics to collect their uniforms after Sakumo dismissed them.

After discovering that Flying Thunder God required sealing knowledge he did not have, Fang Xu asked Tsunade for manuals. Tsunade blamed Sarutobi for giving him the scroll without the prerequisites and sought help from Minato, who reacted with delight when he heard Fang Xu planned to train in the technique.

• Fang Xu found that he could not properly study Flying Thunder God without learning sealing techniques and asked Tsunade through Katsuyu to lend him manuals.
• Tsunade grew angry that Sarutobi had given Fang Xu the Flying Thunder God scroll without accompanying sealing manuals.
• Tsunade searched her belongings but had brought no manuals, and she rejected waiting for the village to send them.
• After learning Minato had returned to camp, Tsunade asked him for sealing manuals covering formulas and space-coordinate stabilization.
• Minato realized Fang Xu was training in Flying Thunder God and showed unmistakable delight.

Minato and Tsunade discussed whether Fang Xu could master the Flying Thunder God, noting that he still needed to learn Sealing Techniques and demonstrate spatial aptitude. Minato offered to bring Fang Xu his own Sealing Technique Manuals and set out for Konoha, intending to return to the Eastern Front afterward.

• Tsunade told Minato that the Third Hokage had sent Fang Xu the Flying Thunder God scroll but not the accompanying Sealing Technique Manual.
• Minato explained that mastering the Flying Thunder God required Sealing Techniques, exceptional spatial perception, fast reflexes, and strong Chakra Control.
• Tsunade insisted Fang Xu would master the jutsu, citing his many exceptional skills at a young age.
• Minato offered to bring Fang Xu the Sealing Technique Manuals he had compiled while learning the Flying Thunder God.
• Minato told Tsunade he would return to Konoha to deliver mission intelligence, retrieve the manuals, and then visit the Eastern Front to meet Fang Xu.
• Minato sensed the Flying Thunder God Coordinates he had left in Konoha and prepared to return.