Chapter Summaries

Ren offered Orochimaru a place with the Uchiha to continue his research, provided he did not experiment on living people without authorization or endanger the clan’s reputation. He showed Orochimaru a medicine that could transform innate talent, leaving the researcher astonished and calling it a Divine Creation.

• Orochimaru told Danzo that he believed his value would keep the Uchiha from killing him.
• Ren met Orochimaru in a secluded courtyard and offered him resources and a workspace for his research, while forbidding unauthorized experiments on living people.
• Ren explained that the Uchiha needed to protect their reputation as they sought recognition across the Shinobi World.
• Ren placed a pale golden medicine on the table, and Orochimaru examined it and realized it could transform the body and erase innate differences in talent.
• Orochimaru called the medicine a Divine Creation.

Ren explained to Orochimaru that the bloodline-tempering potion could strengthen the Uchiha and Senju by restoring power inherited from Indra and Asura, the sons of the Sage of Six Paths. Orochimaru recognized the potion’s potential to reshape the clans, and Ren warned him not to treat Uchiha clan members as experimental subjects.

• Ren told Orochimaru that the potion could purify bloodlines and enhance Kekkei Genkai, and offered him a bottle if he joined the Uchiha and followed research rules.
• Ren revealed that the Uchiha and Senju descended from Indra and Asura, explaining the origins of the Sharingan and the Senju’s vitality.
• Orochimaru realized that the potion could reverse generations of bloodline decline and potentially restore the Uchiha’s and Senju’s ancestral powers.
• Orochimaru began speculating about researching Indra’s bloodline, the Mangekyo, and combining it with the Senju’s Sage Body.
• Ren warned Orochimaru that Uchiha clan members were not experimental subjects and threatened to deal with him personally if he crossed that boundary.

Ren offered Orochimaru a place in the Uchiha by creating him a new body with Orochimaru's genes and Ren's Uchiha Bloodline, then recruited him to develop practical potions from the Basic Bloodline Tempering Potion. He left Orochimaru to confront the flaws in his pursuit of immortality through Living Corpse Reincarnation.

• Orochimaru resisted his urge to study Ren's bloodline, and Ren told him to officially join the Uchiha.
• Ren explained that he planned to transfer Tobirama Senju's soul into a genetic infant and offered to create Orochimaru a new body carrying both Orochimaru's genes and Ren's Uchiha Bloodline.
• Ren said he would not rely on a Cursed Seal to control Orochimaru, arguing that shared Uchiha interests would better protect the clan's research.
• Ren offered Orochimaru the complete potion formula and tasked him with finding common substitutes and developing practical lesser potions; Orochimaru accepted the research.
• Ren warned Orochimaru that repeatedly using Living Corpse Reincarnation damaged his soul and pointed to Fugaku's Tsukuyomi as evidence that his pursuit of immortality was failing.

Ren explained to Orochimaru that the Great River Qi Refinement Method could extend life and eventually grant a three-thousand-year lifespan, unlike Living Corpse Reincarnation. Orochimaru became eager to join the Uchiha Temple, but Ren said access to the method would depend on his trustworthiness and contributions.

• Orochimaru questioned Ren about whether the Uchiha possessed a better path to immortality after realizing Living Corpse Reincarnation had damaged his soul.
• Ren explained that Kaguya Otsutsuki had survived a thousand-year seal without aging because she had transcended ordinary life.
• Ren described how the Great River Qi Refinement Method could extend a cultivator’s lifespan by hundreds of years at the Fourth Level and up to three thousand years after entering the transcendent realm.
• Orochimaru dropped his teacup in shock and asked why the method had never become widely known.
• Ren said the Uchiha kept the method internal and offered Orochimaru a chance to earn access by researching potions and making contributions, provided he proved worthy of trust.

Orochimaru abandoned Living Corpse Reincarnation and joined Uchiha Ren’s Shrine to pursue the Great River Qi Refinement Method. After the Bounty Exchange House was destroyed across multiple countries, Ren surveyed the Shrine’s disciples and found that most had completed their first stage of cultivation, bringing them closer to Kage Level.

• Orochimaru pledged loyalty to Uchiha Ren, offered his research to the Uchiha Shrine, and agreed to stop cultivating Living Corpse Reincarnation.
• The Dark Exchange House’s strongholds were raided across several countries after Uchiha Ren’s mission mobilized shinobi villages throughout the Shinobi World.
• Nobles and underground forces realized the Uchiha could compel shinobi villages across national borders to act, and began treating the clan as untouchable.
• Uchiha Ren ordered the Shrine’s disciples to release their chakra and observed their powerful, unified True Essence Chakra.
• Fugaku reported that most Shrine disciples had completed the first stage of the Great River Qi Refinement Method, and Ren predicted they would eventually reach Kage Level.

Ren distributed Basic Bloodline Tempering Potions to the Uchiha Shrine’s twelve Squad Captains and explained that they purified the Uchiha bloodline inherited from the Sage of Six Paths. The captains learned the potions could improve their Sharingan, natural talents, and cultivation, leaving them with the prospect of progressing beyond Kage Level.

• Ren summoned the twelve Squad Captains and gave each one a Basic Bloodline Tempering Potion.
• Nanami Uchiha revealed that she had used a potion to reach Kage Level, prompting excitement among the captains and disciples.
• Ren explained that reaching Kage Level was only a side effect; the potion’s purpose was to purify the Uchiha bloodline diluted over a thousand years.
• Ren said purification could improve Sharingan aptitude, mental and physical abilities, Chakra talent, and cultivation of the Great River Qi Refinement Method.
• Haito and Naoto Uchiha realized that Nanami’s potion had helped her keep surpassing them, while Nanami confirmed it had made her stronger and allowed her to advance further.
• The Squad Captains understood that the potion could raise their potential beyond Kage Level and make Super-Kage easier to reach.

Ren distributed the first batch of Basic Bloodline Tempering Potions to the remaining Uchiha Shrine Squad Captains and promised future access through clan merit. Kakashi and Kurenai arrived in the rebuilt Uchiha District to seek Ren’s help with Kakashi’s Sharingan seal and Kurama Yakumo’s dangerous genjutsu.

• Yao Wu asked whether Ren could mass-produce the potion, and Ren explained that rare ingredients and a difficult process limited the first batch to thirteen vials.
• Ren gave the twelve remaining potions to the Shrine Squad Captains and promised Temple members priority access in the future for earning merit.
• Kakashi and Kurenai walked through the newly rebuilt Uchiha District, which had been renovated with Kumogakure’s war reparations.
• Kakashi came to ask Ren to remove the seal restricting his Sharingan, while Kurenai hoped Ren could help Kurama Yakumo escape her own genjutsu.
• Kurenai worried Ren might refuse them, but Kakashi assured her that rumors about Ren being difficult to approach were exaggerated.

Kurenai Yuhi asked Ren to save her student, Kurama Yakumo, whose powerful genjutsu was destabilizing her mind and body. Ren recognized the cause of Yakumo’s condition but had not yet decided how to help her.

• Kakashi asked Ren to remove the seal on his Sharingan, and Ren agreed to do so after hearing Kurenai Yuhi’s request.
• Kurenai Yuhi explained that she trusted Ren to act for reasons, despite his fearsome reputation, and asked him to save Kurama Yakumo.
• Kurenai Yuhi described Yakumo’s extraordinary genjutsu talent, frail body, and worsening mental instability, which Tsunade could not treat.
• Ren recognized that Yakumo’s immense mental power, lack of guidance, and emotional distress had caused an uncontrollable second personality.

Kurenai Yuhi asked Ren to help Kurama Yakumo control the backlash from her powerful genjutsu, and he agreed after clarifying that Tsunade would need to treat Yakumo’s physical condition. Meanwhile, Asuma returned to Konoha to investigate Ren for the Daimyo, but Hiruzen Sarutobi warned him not to provoke Ren and revealed that the First Hokage’s reanimated body had retained most of its strength.

• Kurenai Yuhi explained Yakumo’s genjutsu talent and asked Ren to help her, and Ren agreed because he wanted to examine the Kurama Clan’s Kekkei Genkai.
• Ren told Kurenai Yuhi that he could address Yakumo’s mental and genjutsu problems but could not treat physical illness, so she promised to seek Tsunade’s help.
• Asuma met Hiruzen Sarutobi after returning to Konoha and said the Daimyo had sent him to investigate Ren.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi warned Asuma not to provoke Ren or approach the Uchiha Shrine’s secrets, saying only the First at his peak and Madara in his prime could face Ren head-on.
• Asuma questioned whether Ren’s victory over the reanimated First proved his strength, and Hiruzen said the First’s Impure World Body had retained seventy to eighty percent of his living strength and could use Sage Mode and powerful Wood Release techniques.

Hiruzen Sarutobi explained Ren’s overwhelming power to Asuma, while Ren agreed to visit Kurama Yakumo and assess her spiritual problem. As Ren, Kakashi, and Kurenai Yuhi headed to the Kurama District, Konoha residents and Tsunade learned of his ordinary outing, and Tsunade ordered ANBU to stop reporting his routine movements.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Asuma that Ren’s Complete Body Susanoo and strength surpassed even Madara Uchiha’s, and Asuma struggled to comprehend his power.
• Ren agreed to visit Kurama Yakumo at home, then set out with Kakashi and Kurenai Yuhi, postponing Kakashi’s seal treatment until their return.
• Civilians mistook Ren for an ordinary young ninja until Konoha ninja recognized him as the Uchiha Clan Leader and spread word of his presence.
• An ANBU reported Ren’s movements to Tsunade, who ordered them not to report his ordinary activity unless something significant occurred.

Ren visited Yakumo Kurama to investigate her worsening headaches and loss of mental control, using his Sharingan to examine her condition. He discovered that her immense, mostly dormant mental power was already overwhelming her frail body, and that further awakening could prove dangerous.

• Kurenai Yuhi brought Ren and Kakashi to the Kurama Clan compound to see Yakumo.
• Kurama Murakumo recognized Ren and nervously welcomed him, while Yakumo grew curious about the young Uchiha Clan Leader.
• Kurenai and Murakumo explained Yakumo's fragile health, powerful genjutsu talent, and recurring mental episodes.
• Ren activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and examined Yakumo's body and mind.
• Ren saw that Yakumo's vast dormant mental power was pressing down on her weak body and could overwhelm it as it awakened.

Ren explained that Yakumo’s extraordinary spiritual power was overwhelming her frail body, and that she would need to strengthen her body to survive and use her Kekkei Genkai. He rejected sealing her spiritual power and warned that the power trapped in a seal could accumulate and undergo a dangerous change.

• Ren told the Kurama family that Yakumo’s spiritual power surpassed his as a child and that her dormant Kekkei Genkai could let her genjutsu affect reality.
• Ren warned that Yakumo’s weak body could not withstand her growing spiritual power, and that training would accelerate its collapse.
• Ren said Yakumo would need to temper her body until it could bear her spiritual power, turning her dangerous talent into an advantage.
• Kurenai Yuhi explained that Yakumo could not endure even basic Ninja Academy training, despite treatment from Lady Tsunade.
• Kurenai Yuhi proposed sealing Yakumo’s excess spiritual power, but Ren rejected the idea and warned that the power compressed within a seal could accumulate until it underwent a qualitative change.

Ren explained that sealing Yakumo’s mental energy could cause a fatal outburst and that ordinary training would damage her frail body. He offered to take her as his disciple and teach her the first three stages of the Uchiha’s Tiger Leopard Thunderclap Body Tempering Art, leaving her family to accept a debt of clan merit and future service.

• Ren warned that sealing Yakumo’s mental energy could destroy her body and consciousness, while her past mental breakdown made the danger worse.
• Ren proposed the Uchiha’s Tiger Leopard Thunderclap Body Tempering Art as a way to strengthen Yakumo from within without straining her fragile body.
• Ren explained that the secret technique could help Yakumo bear her mental energy and strengthen her Kurama Kekkei Genkai, but it was a valuable Uchiha inheritance.
• Kurenai Yuhi and Kurama Murakumo offered payment and service in exchange for the technique, but Ren instead asked Yakumo if she truly wanted to become a ninja.
• Yakumo agreed, and Ren offered to take her as his disciple, teach her the first three stages for three thousand clan merit points, and let her repay the debt through future service.
• Kurama Murakumo and Yakumo’s mother accepted Ren’s terms, delighted that Yakumo could become his disciple.

Ren told Uchiha's leaders that the clan's rapid expansion had outgrown its population and proposed incentives for families to have children, along with a childcare center to educate and train the next generation. The leaders agreed that Uchiha could afford the plan and would fund it from its treasury and future business income.

• Yakumo accepted Ren as a second teacher and agreed to serve Uchiha in return for his guidance.
• Ren summoned Fugaku and the elders and explained that Uchiha lacked enough trusted people to staff its expanding businesses, institutions, and operations abroad.
• Ren proposed marriage and childbirth incentives, including financial support, housing, medical care, and help raising children.
• Ren proposed a district childcare center and systematic training to develop children's talents for a range of future roles.
• Fugaku and the elders agreed that Uchiha's wealth could fund the programs, with future revenue from Myriad City, the railway, and international trade supporting continued growth.

Ren proposed recruiting outsiders to ease the Uchiha’s immediate staffing shortage and dividing the clan into Inner and Outer Courts to balance bloodline preservation with expansion. The elders resisted allowing marriage with outsiders, but Ren laid out a system that reserved core duties for the Inner Court while letting the Outer Court marry freely and build ties across the Shinobi World.

• Ren proposed hiring capable outsiders for ordinary industrial and administrative roles while keeping core authority and secrets in Uchiha hands.
• Fugaku and the elders approved open recruitment after Ren explained how tiered management and inspections would limit the risks.
• Ren raised the ban on marrying outsiders, prompting the elders to warn that intermarriage could weaken the Sharingan and repeat the Senju clan’s decline.
• Ren proposed placing exceptional graduates of Hidden Dragon Hall in an Inner Court focused on cultivation, combat, and core inheritance, while assigning other members to an Outer Court.
• Ren said Outer Court members could marry outsiders and build lasting connections with clans, merchants, and local forces across the Shinobi World.

Ren secured approval for the Uchiha’s new marriage, recruitment, and child-rearing policies by proposing an Inner and Outer Court system supported by bloodline-tempering potions. As the clan began growing rapidly, Obito and Black Zetsu learned that the Uchiha Shrine’s disciples were advancing at an alarming rate.

• Ren argued that allowing Outer Court members to marry outsiders would reduce inbreeding, and presented the Basic Bloodline Tempering Potion as a safeguard for Uchiha bloodlines.
• Fugaku and the elders approved Ren’s policies, including the Internal-External Division, marriage with outsiders, childbirth rewards, and centralized child-rearing.
• The Uchiha announced the new rules, prompting more marriages, pregnancies, and the expansion of clan nursery classes.
• White Zetsu reported that the Shrine’s disciples had grown stronger after the Battle of Kumogakure, with Nanami Uchiha reaching Kage-Level Peak.
• Obito heard Black Zetsu warn that the Shrine’s members were breaking the Shinobi World’s usual limits, and that their pace of growth was accelerating.

Obito abandoned the Akatsuki Organization’s slow recruitment plan after learning how quickly Ren was strengthening the Uchiha Shrine. He decided to build an army of reanimated fighters instead, leaving the Akatsuki Organization to seek Impure World Reincarnation’s Jutsu Formula and improve its control.

• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu concluded that Ren’s secret training technique had rapidly raised the strength of the Uchiha Shrine.
• Obito scrapped the Akatsuki Organization’s original plan and ordered the immediate collection of the Tailed Beasts, but recognized that the organization lacked enough fighters.
• Obito proposed replacing living recruits with reanimated fighters brought back through Impure World Reincarnation.
• White Zetsu pointed out that Orochimaru was in Ren’s hands, so Black Zetsu explained that they could search Konoha’s records and Orochimaru’s scattered laboratories for the Jutsu Formula and his research.
• Obito and Black Zetsu decided they could use Yin–Yang Release to redesign the control talismans, preserving the reanimated fighters’ combat awareness while preventing disobedience.

Obito planned to build an undead army with an improved Impure World Reincarnation, while Orochimaru and Ren completed Tobirama Senju's resurrection in a body combining Senju, Uchiha, Hashirama, and Ren's cells. Tobirama learned his new bloodline could potentially lead to the Rinnegan and vowed to defeat Madara Uchiha if he returned.

• Obito ordered White Zetsu to search for Orochimaru's laboratories and Konoha's Forbidden Technique scrolls, while Black Zetsu redesigned the Impure World Reincarnation formula for a five-year plan to build an undead army.
• Orochimaru examined his successfully reborn body and revealed that Tobirama had been resurrected in a newly cultivated, living body.
• Tobirama explained that Hashirama's Cells had destroyed earlier bodies until Ren's cells suppressed their uncontrolled growth.
• Ren told Tobirama that his combined Senju and Uchiha bloodlines could grant him Eternal Mangekyō-level ocular power and might eventually awaken the Rinnegan.
• Tobirama recognized that Madara Uchiha might have survived the Valley of the End, and Ren said Madara could still be resurrected through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Tobirama vowed to master his new body's power and defeat Madara himself if Madara returned.

Ren appointed Uchiha Jian and Orochimaru to lead the Forbidden Techniques and Secret Medicine departments, then transmitted the first three levels of the Great River Qi Refinement Method directly into their minds. After testing the method, they recognized how True Essence Chakra fundamentally surpassed ordinary chakra and understood how the Uchiha Shrine had rapidly produced so many Kage Level experts.

• Ren gave Tobirama the new name Uchiha Jian and appointed him chief elder of the Secret Arts Hall's Forbidden Techniques Department.
• Ren appointed Orochimaru chief elder of the Secret Medicine Department and tasked him with developing affordable Bloodline Tempering Potions.
• Ren transmitted the first three levels of the Great River Qi Refinement Method and his cultivation insights to Uchiha Jian and Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Jian tested the method and produced a strand of True Essence Chakra that changed chakra natures more smoothly than ordinary chakra.
• Orochimaru and Uchiha Jian concluded that True Essence Chakra strengthened both its user's power and body, explaining the Uchiha Shrine's many Kage Level experts.

Ren explained how the Great River Qi Refinement Method could lead shinobi from Kage Level to Super-Kage and beyond, with its later stages turning spiritual energy into the cultivator’s own power. He established that access to higher cultivation methods and resources would depend on merit earned through contributions to the clan.

• Ren said the method’s first three levels could help most Jonin break through to Kage Level and explained that Genin and Chunin could cultivate it to build stronger foundations.
• Ren explained that the Fourth Level refined the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into True Essence, distinguishing the method from Sage Mode’s temporary use of natural energy.
• Uchiha Jian recognized that the method provided a path for shinobi to advance beyond Kage Level, while Orochimaru concluded that its ongoing transformation could lead to immortality.
• Ren told Uchiha Jian and Orochimaru that the Fourth Level and later methods would require clan merit earned through research, technique development, training, or other contributions.
• Uchiha Jian praised the merit system, and Ren clarified that clan members, outside shinobi, and merchants could all earn rewards by creating value for the clan.