Chapter Summaries

Fang Xu defended Hatake Sakumo when Kimura returned to condemn him for saving a companion and failing the mission. After Kimura fled, Hatake Sakumo warned Fang Xu that Danzo’s campaign could put him in danger, while acknowledging that Kimura might have acted under pressure.

• Hatake Sakumo ended his friendship with Kimura and reminded him that he had saved him during the failed mission.
• Fang Xu kicked Kimura away, defended Hatake Sakumo’s record, and challenged the villagers to consider whether shinobi should abandon trapped companions.
• Fang Xu accused Kimura of stirring up conflict and suggested Danzo had directed the coordinated campaign; Kimura fled with his companions.
• The villagers dispersed with doubts about the campaign, and Hatake Sakumo and Fang Xu went inside the Hatake Residence.
• Hatake Sakumo warned Fang Xu that speaking up could make him a target, while Fang Xu said he did not regret defending his teacher.
• Hatake Sakumo said Kimura might have acted under threats or pressure, and Fang Xu accepted the explanation without regretting his actions.

Fang Xu warned Hatake Sakumo that Danzo’s rumors could ruin his reputation and isolate him, then proposed using Shadow Clones to turn public discussion toward whether missions mattered more than companions. Hatake Sakumo accepted that silence would not clear his name, leaving them ready to challenge the rumors.

• Kakashi thanked Fang Xu for defending Hatake Sakumo, and the three went inside to talk.
• Fang Xu told Hatake Sakumo that Tsunade had taken him as a disciple and would teach him Medical Ninjutsu for six months.
• Hatake Sakumo urged Fang Xu to avoid the Hatake Residence so he would not be drawn into the scandal, but Fang Xu refused.
• Fang Xu explained that Danzo’s rumors could isolate Hatake Sakumo and proposed using Shadow Clones to raise questions about the mission’s losses and Hatake Sakumo’s past service.
• Fang Xu urged them to shift the debate to whether missions mattered more than companions, arguing that ninja feared being abandoned themselves.
• Hatake Sakumo admitted that his silence had given his opponents control of the story and agreed the rumors were dangerous.

Fang Xu urged Hatake Sakumo to counter the rumors before voluntarily resigning as head of the Anbu, arguing that the Third Hokage had tacitly allowed Danzo’s campaign because Sakumo threatened the Hokage faction. Sakumo agreed, and they began planning where to spread their counter-narrative.

• Fang Xu told Hatake Sakumo that he should resign as head of the Anbu after they first challenged the public rumors.
• Fang Xu argued that the Third Hokage’s failure to clarify or investigate the rumors amounted to tacit approval, and that Sakumo’s reputation made him a threat to the Hokage faction.
• Hatake Sakumo reconsidered his faith in Konoha’s leadership and agreed to Fang Xu’s plan.
• Fang Xu said they should first make villagers question whether Danzo was framing Sakumo, then have Sakumo resign two days later.
• Hatake Sakumo and Fang Xu marked likely rumor-spreading locations across Konoha and planned how to redirect public opinion.

Fang Xu and Hatake Sakumo used transformed Shadow Clones to turn Konoha’s opinion from condemning Hatake Sakumo to questioning Danzo and Root. Two days later, clan representatives confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi about Root taking talented children, and Hiruzen faced their accusations in silence.

• Hatake Sakumo and Fang Xu sent transformed Shadow Clones throughout Konoha to defend Hatake Sakumo and raise suspicions about Danzo and Root.
• Fang Xu’s Shadow Clones spread rumors that Root took talented children from clans and left their families without news of them.
• Villagers’ opinions shifted, and public anger turned toward Shimura Danzō and Root.
• Yamanaka, Aburame, Inuzuka, and other clan representatives went to Hiruzen Sarutobi to demand answers about children Root had taken.
• The representatives accused Danzo of pressuring clans to surrender talented children, and Hiruzen Sarutobi sat in silence as his expression darkened.

Hiruzen Sarutobi promised the clan representatives that he would investigate Root’s missing children, then summoned Danzo while privately suspecting Hatake Sakumo or Fang Xu had shifted public opinion. Sakumo arrived first and, after Hiruzen pressed him to take responsibility for his failed mission, resigned as head of the Anbu.

• Representatives from the Inuzuka, Yamanaka, Aburame, and other clans demanded answers about children taken by Root, and Hiruzen promised an investigation and records within three days.
• After the representatives left, Hiruzen ordered an Anbu to summon Shimura Danzō and suspected that Hatake Sakumo or Fang Xu had turned public opinion against Root.
• Hatake Sakumo came to Hiruzen’s office before Danzo arrived, and Hiruzen apologized for failing to stop rumors about Sakumo’s mission.
• Hiruzen reminded Sakumo that the mission failure had harmed Konoha and said it could not simply be overlooked.
• Sakumo accepted responsibility for the mission’s failure and resigned as head of the Anbu.

Hatake Sakumo resigned as head of the Anbu, and Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted his decision. Hiruzen then confronted Shimura Danzō over Root’s recruitment of clan children, stripped him of his advisor position, and ordered him to return them and submit Root’s records.

• Hatake Sakumo resigned as head of the Anbu, and Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted while promising him future missions.
• Hatake Sakumo left the Hokage’s office relieved and said he would spend more time guiding Kakashi and Fang Xu.
• Shimura Danzō entered Hiruzen Sarutobi’s office as accusations about Root’s treatment of clan children spread through the village.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted Shimura Danzō over secretly recruiting and controlling children from ninja clans.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi dismissed Shimura Danzō as Hokage Advisor and ordered him to return the clan members within two days and submit Root’s records.
• Shimura Danzō angrily challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi’s orders.

Hiruzen Sarutobi forced Danzo to accept responsibility for Root’s abuses and surrender his advisor authority, while deciding to leave Hatake Sakumo alone if he stopped stirring public opinion. Danzo left resentful, and Hiruzen focused on ending the turmoil before it threatened the Hokage’s position.

• Danzo accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of abandoning him after Root’s work had served Konoha and the Hokage.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi said Hatake Sakumo had resigned as Anbu Minister and would be left alone unless he continued steering public opinion.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi blamed Danzo for threatening clan heads, taking their talented children, and expanding Root beyond its limits.
• Danzo realized Hiruzen Sarutobi would not risk the clans’ support to protect him and agreed to return the taken people, hand over the list, and surrender his advisor authority.
• Danzo warned Hiruzen Sarutobi that he would regret it, then left the office.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi decided Root had to be weakened and Sakumo had to stay quiet so the turmoil would not threaten the Hokage’s position.

Danzo withdrew into the shadows after losing ground to Hiruzen Sarutobi and the clans, but vowed to rebuild Root and pursue his rivals more cautiously. Meanwhile, Yamanaka Inoichi defended his decision to challenge Root, and the Ino–Shika–Cho leaders agreed to stand together while remaining alert.

• Danzo left the Hokage Building, blamed Hiruzen Sarutobi and Hatake Sakumo for his defeat, and resolved to preserve Root and wait for another opportunity.
• Shikaku warned Inoichi that his complaint had put the Yamanaka Clan at risk of angering both Danzo and the Hokage.
• Inoichi explained that Root had taken gifted Yamanaka children, including Yamanaka Fu, and that the clan could not afford to let its next generation be taken away.
• Inoichi said he did not regret standing up because Root had also threatened the Aburame, Inuzuka, and other clans.
• Choza argued that the clans' united opposition made it harder for Danzo and the Hokage to retaliate, and said the Ino–Shika–Cho clans had to defend one another.
• Shikaku agreed that the clans should stand together but urged caution because Danzo would not let the matter go easily.

Shikaku explained how Sakumo’s public counterattack restored his reputation and forced Danzo to pay for Root’s actions, while Sakumo gave up the Anbu Commander position and his chances of becoming Hokage. He told Choza and Inoichi that Ino–Shika–Cho would pressure Danzo and retrieve their clan members but remain aligned with the Third Hokage, leaving Sakumo at a careful distance.

• Shikaku explained that Sakumo’s counterattack shifted public debate toward loyalty to comrades, his past achievements, and Root’s abduction of talented children.
• Shikaku said Sakumo restored his reputation, forced Danzo to lose his Shadow Assistant position and return the stolen children, but resigned as Anbu Commander.
• Shikaku concluded that Sakumo had lost his chance to become Hokage but had protected himself by stepping away from the struggle for power.
• Choza asked whether the clans should move closer to Sakumo, and Shikaku said Ino–Shika–Cho would remain with the Third Hokage’s faction.
• Shikaku directed the clans to bring their people back, care for them, and maintain goodwill toward Sakumo without getting too close or attacking him.

Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru discussed the campaign that weakened Danzo and discovered that Fang Xu had orchestrated it. Tsunade revealed that Fang Xu was also a descendant of the Senju, leaving them to consider why his rapidly emerging talent had drawn the Third Hokage’s attention.

• Tsunade celebrated Danzo’s losses and voiced her suspicions that he and the Third Hokage had contributed to the Senju clan’s decline.
• Orochimaru and Jiraiya concluded that someone had strategically restored Hatake Sakumo’s reputation while exposing Root’s seizure of clan children.
• Tsunade identified Fang Xu as the hand behind the campaign and said he was Hatake Sakumo’s newest disciple and her medical ninjutsu student.
• Tsunade revealed that Fang Xu descended from a Senju branch whose members had abandoned the clan name, and that his talents had recently developed at an alarming pace.
• Jiraiya realized that Fang Xu’s Senju heritage and growing strength explained why the Third Hokage had noticed him.

Tsunade asked Jiraiya and Orochimaru to protect Fang Xu from Danzo after she left Konoha, explaining that her hemophobia and grief over Dan had made her decide to depart in six months. The story then shifted back one day to Fang Xu standing over the unconscious Boar Ninja Beast he had captured.

• Tsunade explained that the Third Hokage had encouraged her to recruit Fang Xu, but she accepted him as a student because of his Medical Ninjutsu talent and clear purpose.
• Tsunade warned that Fang Xu had angered Danzo by acting for Sakumo and asked Jiraiya and Orochimaru to protect him while she was away.
• Tsunade confirmed she would leave Konoha in six months because her hemophobia prevented her from helping on a battlefield and keeping her in the village trapped her in grief.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru promised to watch over Fang Xu, while Orochimaru privately recalled his past involvement in Danzo's experiments on Senju descendants.
• Orochimaru warned Tsunade that her status and hemophobia could make her a target if she traveled, and Tsunade acknowledged the danger.
• One day earlier, Fang Xu stood in a secret base over a massive unconscious Boar Ninja Beast that he had subdued with Lightning Release and traps.

Fang Xu used his tenth exchange on the Boar Ninja Beast and connected to Professor Oak’s laboratory in Pallet Town, where the beast appeared alongside a Pokémon Egg. Professor Oak and Nanami Oak recognized it as a dangerous ordinary animal and restrained it for study.

• Fang Xu exchanged the Boar Ninja Beast, and his consciousness connected to Professor Oak’s laboratory in Pallet Town.
• Professor Oak and Nanami Oak discussed the Pokémon Egg that Team Rocket had experimented on and its recovery.
• The incubation device and Pokémon Egg vanished, and the Boar Ninja Beast appeared on the laboratory table.
• Professor Oak identified the Boar Ninja Beast as a rare ordinary animal, while Nanami warned that it was dangerous.
• Nanami summoned Pokémon to defend them, and Professor Oak sent out Dragonite to restrain the struggling Boar Ninja Beast.
• Dragonite pinned the Boar Ninja Beast to the damaged table, and Nanami threw another Poké Ball.

Nanami and Professor Oak subdued the Boar Ninja Beast and recognized its potential as a living ordinary animal, but discovered that the Pokémon Egg and incubator had vanished. Fang Xu received the Egg in exchange and suspected that Arceus had influenced the transaction.

• Nanami used Alakazam's Hypnosis to subdue the Boar Ninja Beast while Dragonite held it down.
• Professor Oak examined the beast and realized that it could be a living ordinary wild boar whose study might revive vanished species.
• Nanami proposed that the Oak Family develop a breeding base and related industries if the beast could reproduce.
• Nanami and Professor Oak discovered that the Pokémon Egg and incubator had disappeared, possibly exchanged for the Boar Ninja Beast.
• Fang Xu returned to his secret base with the incubator and Egg, then recognized the mysterious figure he had glimpsed as Arceus.
• Fang Xu suspected Arceus had noticed or helped coordinate the exchange through the wills of different worlds.

Fang Xu received a modified Pikachu Egg from the Pokémon World and planned to nurture it with lightning before it hatched. After his tenth exchange, he upgraded his Exchange Talent, reducing its cooldown to three days, then secured the egg at home and ate a hearty breakfast to support his training.

• Fang Xu learned that the Pikachu Egg had been modified by Team Rocket, treated by Professor Oak, and was expected to hatch in eight days.
• Fang Xu speculated that he could use the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's lightning and Lightning Release Chakra to strengthen the egg and help Pikachu adapt to Chakra.
• Fang Xu carried the incubator home, checked that the house was secure, and placed the egg safely inside his bedroom.
• Fang Xu upgraded his Exchange Talent to Level 2, reducing its cooldown from seven days to three and increasing the relative chance of receiving high-value items.
• The next morning, Fang Xu moved the incubator away from the window and used the Gourmet Tablecloth to prepare a substantial breakfast for his training.

Fang Xu passed Tsunade’s medical theory assessment and began practical training at the Ninja Hospital under Chiba Miwa. Chiba Miwa prepared to take over more hospital duties and hoped Fang Xu would become Tsunade’s successor as a skilled medical ninja.

• Fang Xu sent a Shadow Clone to the Ninja Academy to attend class and keep an eye on Kakashi while he went to the hospital.
• Tsunade told Fang Xu he had passed the foundational stage of medical study and moved him on to practical training.
• Tsunade introduced Fang Xu to deputy director Chiba Miwa, who praised his notes and medical knowledge.
• Chiba Miwa taught Fang Xu wound care and bandaging, and he wrapped a wound model steadily on his first attempt.
• Chiba Miwa told Fang Xu that Tsunade might leave Konoha and said he would train with the Medical Corps and real patients as her potential successor.

Fang Xu completed his hospital internship while Konoha’s villagers turned against Danzo after Hatake Sakumo resigned as Anbu head. At the Hatake Residence, Kakashi confessed his frustration at being powerless, and Fang Xu offered to teach him the Lightning Body-Tempering Technique.

• Fang Xu practiced medical procedures under Chiba Miwa’s strict supervision, earning admiration from the hospital nurses.
• Villagers regretted condemning Hatake Sakumo and blamed Danzo, who listened in disguise and vowed to endure until he could take revenge.
• Fang Xu returned to the Hatake Residence and stopped Kakashi from injuring himself through reckless sword practice.
• Kakashi told Fang Xu he hated being powerless while his father suffered and admitted that Fang Xu’s rapid progress made his comfort hard to accept.
• Fang Xu offered to teach Kakashi his risky Lightning Body-Tempering Technique, and Kakashi eagerly asked if he meant it.

Fang Xu offered to teach Kakashi a simplified Lightning Body-Tempering Technique and explained its benefits and risks. After Hatake Sakumo approved Kakashi’s training, Fang Xu offered to teach him the complete technique, and Sakumo considered how it could strengthen his swordsmanship.

• Fang Xu explained that Kakashi could learn a simplified version of the Lightning Body-Tempering Technique, while the complete version required finer Lightning Release Chakra control.
• Fang Xu described how the technique could improve physical ability, will, Mental Strength, Chakra control, and swordsmanship, and said it could be combined with Iron Cloth Shirt training.
• Hatake Sakumo arrived, heard their discussion, and cautioned that Kakashi was too young for the complete technique because Lightning Release could cause serious harm.
• Fang Xu assured Sakumo that Kakashi’s simplified training would avoid internal organs and major Chakra pathways, and Kakashi told his father he wanted to learn.
• Fang Xu offered Sakumo the complete technique, arguing that Sakumo’s Lightning Release skill and Kage Level control made him suited to it.

Fang Xu taught Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi the Lightning Body-Tempering Technique, and Sakumo quickly began mastering the full version while Kakashi struggled with the simplified one. At the Ninja Academy, Fang Xu offered to guide Rin Nohara in Medical Ninjutsu, and Kurenai Yuhi asked to learn it too so she could help Fang Xu; he told her that her Genjutsu talent gave her a strong foundation.

• Fang Xu explained the full and simplified versions of the Lightning Body-Tempering Technique to Hatake Sakumo and Kakashi, and Sakumo agreed to learn it.
• Hatake Sakumo controlled Lightning Release Chakra along his muscles after a short practice, while Kakashi struggled to regulate the current and failed to master the basics by dinner.
• Kakashi practiced leaking Lightning Release Chakra at the Ninja Academy, repeatedly shocking Obito and prompting concern from Rin Nohara and Kurenai Yuhi.
• Fang Xu's Shadow Clone told Rin Nohara about his Medical Ninjutsu training and offered to answer her questions or consult Tsunade and Chiba Miwa for help.
• Kurenai Yuhi asked to learn Medical Ninjutsu so she could support Fang Xu, and Fang Xu said her Mental Strength and Chakra Control made her suited to the discipline.

Fang Xu advised Kurenai Yuhi to discuss studying Medical Ninjutsu with her father, and Rin Nohara asked to share Kurenai’s reading list. Two days later, Fang Xu found a large, Chakra-wielding goose in the Forest of Death and prepared to test his upgraded Exchange Talent.

• Fang Xu told Kurenai Yuhi to consult her father before beginning Medical Ninjutsu studies, and promised to prepare a basic reading list if she decided to proceed.
• Rin Nohara asked Fang Xu for a copy of the reading list, and Kurenai agreed that they could study together.
• Obito resented Fang Xu’s closeness with Rin but resolved to surpass him through Might Duy’s training and awaken his Sharingan.
• Asuma dismissed Fang Xu’s interest in Medical Ninjutsu and vowed to become stronger so Kurenai would notice him.
• Two days later, Fang Xu found a giant goose with Chakra in the Forest of Death and considered exchanging it to test his upgraded Exchange Talent.

Fang Xu exchanged a goose, a Chakra Refinement Technique scroll, and condensed chakra, connecting to a beast-taming world where reincarnated Wang Hao confronted Chen Yang over a Spirit Plant. Wang Hao dismissed Chen Yang as insignificant and reflected on the extraordinary Beast Taming Space he had awakened.

• Fang Xu exchanged a goose, a copied Chakra Refinement Technique scroll, and condensed chakra to connect to an unfamiliar world.
• Fang Xu observed Wang Hao, a reincarnator, facing off against Chen Yang in a Secret Realm.
• Chen Yang demanded Wang Hao hand over a Spirit Plant, while his companions mocked Wang Hao and urged him to comply.
• Wang Hao refused to back down and warned Chen Yang to stop pushing him.
• Wang Hao considered his tenfold Beast Taming Space, which enhanced beast-pet growth, evolution, recovery, adaptation, and spiritual development.