Chapter Summaries

Qingyun and Kushina attended Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto’s engagement ceremony, where they met the young Shisui Uchiha. Recognizing Shisui’s future importance, Qingyun offered to train him in secret and warned him not to share what he learned.

• Uchiha Fugaku invited Qingyun and Kushina to his engagement ceremony with Uchiha Mikoto, and Qingyun accepted.
• Qingyun brewed a new wine with Kushina, Minato Namikaze, and Nawaki, then buried the jars to ferment.
• Three days later, Qingyun and Kushina entered the Uchiha Clan Compound, where a boy named Shisui Uchiha offered to guide them to Uchiha Fugaku’s home.
• After learning Qingyun’s identity, Shisui Uchiha excitedly asked him to teach him ninjutsu.
• Qingyun agreed to train Shisui Uchiha at the Forest of Death at night, forbidding him to tell the Uchiha Clan or teach anyone else.

Qingyun agreed to train Shisui Uchiha and brought him to Uchiha Fugaku’s engagement gathering, where he faced the Uchiha clan’s attempt to draw him back into their ranks. He left with a scroll of forbidden jutsu and Sharingan methods, while Uchiha Tennai worried that his scheme could push Qingyun away instead.

• Qingyun agreed to teach Shisui Uchiha in secret, and the system issued rewards tied to Shisui’s future ranks.
• Shisui led Qingyun and Kushina to Uchiha Fugaku’s engagement gathering, where Qingyun greeted Hiruzen Sarutobi and gave Fugaku two snake gallbladders as a gift.
• After the ceremony, Uchiha Tennai asked Qingyun to meet with the Uchiha Clan Head and argued that Uchiha blood still ran through his veins.
• Uchiha Tennai gave Qingyun a scroll containing the clan’s forbidden jutsu and Sharingan methods in an effort to sow distrust between Qingyun and Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Qingyun recognized the scheme, kept the scroll, and left with Kushina, while Uchiha Tennai feared the consequences if Qingyun defected.

Qingyun accepted a Scroll from Uchiha Tennai, then spent the evening with Kushina, the Hyuga brothers, and his new student, Shisui Uchiha. After escorting Shisui home, Qingyun met the Hyuga brothers the next morning to begin their promised spar.

• Qingyun left with Kushina after accepting a Scroll from Uchiha Tennai, while Hiruzen Sarutobi wondered whether Qingyun might align with the Uchiha.
• Qingyun and Kushina agreed to have dinner with Hizashi Hyuga and Hyuga Hiashi, and Qingyun arranged to spar with Hiashi the next day.
• Qingyun began teaching Shisui Uchiha about meridians, the dantian, and the Breathing Technique, and gave him a Wooden Sword infused with sword intent.
• Qingyun and Kushina secretly escorted Shisui back to the Uchiha Clan Compound to keep him safe.
• The next morning, Qingyun greeted the Hyuga brothers and asked which one would spar first.

Qingyun tested his Tai Chi Fist against Hizashi Hyuga, enduring the Gentle Fist before defeating him with a series of counterattacks. Hizashi admitted defeat, leaving Hyuga Hiashi troubled by the unfair difference in their fates.

• Hizashi stepped forward to spar with Qingyun while Hyuga Hiashi watched with his Byakugan.
• Hizashi struck Qingyun with the Gentle Fist and Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, but Qingyun's true energy broke through the chakra blocking his meridians.
• Qingyun used Tai Chi Fist to redirect Hizashi's attacks, then shattered his Rotation with Cloud Hands and sent him flying.
• Qingyun pursued Hizashi and dispersed the dangerous hidden force inside his body before it could kill him.
• Hizashi conceded defeat to Hyuga Hiashi, who reflected on how their birth order had changed their destinies.

Qingyun defeated Hizashi Hyuga in a spar and advised him on improving his self-created Rotation. After a meal with his companions, Qingyun planned to develop Wind Nature Transformation and Wind Release: Rasenshuriken as the next stage of his training.

• Hyuga Hiashi declined to fight, and Qingyun encouraged Hizashi Hyuga to refine Rotation and combine it with other techniques.
• The Divine Condor returned with a python, and Hizashi Hyuga and Hyuga Hiashi left after Hizashi declined Qingyun's offer to stay for a meal.
• Qingyun asked Minato Namikaze to teach the Divine Condor Wind Nature Ninjutsu, and Minato agreed to try despite doubting the condor could form Hand Seals.
• Kushina brought Tsunade to Qingyun, and Tsunade blushed while privately wondering whether she had fallen for him; Kushina had already told Tsunade she was willing to share Qingyun.
• Qingyun cooked the python and other food, then decided to develop Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and eventually train in coordinated techniques with the Divine Condor.

Qingyun was assigned to lead Kushina, Minato Namikaze, and Might Duy to Takigakure to seal the Seven-Tails. Suspecting Danzo was setting up Hatake Sakumo, Qingyun arranged for Kosuke to secretly follow Sakumo and help if the suspected scheme unfolded.

• Qingyun received a mission from Hiruzen Sarutobi to accompany Kushina to Takigakure and assist with sealing the Seven-Tails, with Minato Namikaze and Might Duy joining his squad.
• Qingyun noticed Hatake Sakumo entering the Hokage's Office with Anbu Ninja and suspected the mission was connected to Danzo's plot to frame him.
• Qingyun told Shizune and Zihan Uzumaki to stay at the Senju Ancestral Estate and warn Tsunade not to leave when she returned.
• Qingyun found Nawaki training with Kosuke at Hidden Spirit Lake and asked Kosuke to secretly follow Sakumo's squad and help him if trouble arose.
• Kosuke agreed to help and asked Qingyun to let him taste his new liquor first after the mission.

Qingyun led a Konoha team to Takigakure to help seal the Seven-Tails, hoping to obtain Hero Water. After entering the village, he asked its chief to take them to the sealing site with the prepared Jinchuriki.

• Qingyun told Nawaki to practice the Indestructible Diamond Body Divine Art and warned Kosuke how Hatake Sakumo could find him if needed.
• Qingyun gave Hatake Sakumo improved Buddha's Smile Wine and a note before Sakumo departed with his ANBU team.
• Qingyun, Kushina, and the others flew to the Land of Waterfalls and met an old man who escorted them to Takigakure.
• The team passed through Takigakure's barrier and arrived at the Village Chief's office.
• Qingyun declined the Village Chief's offer of a banquet and asked to begin the Seven-Tails sealing; the chief ordered Elder Miura to bring Ikeda Aiko to the forbidden grounds.

Qingyun and Kushina freed Chōmei and helped Takigakure seal the Seven-Tails inside Tsugita Aiko, with Kushina sacrificing part of her chakra source to protect the girl. After helping Kushina convert her chakra into true energy, Qingyun asked Takigakure's Village Chief for a bottle of Hero Water in exchange for their help.

• Qingyun shattered the failing jar and used his Sharingan to immobilize Chōmei while Kushina bound it with golden chains.
• Qingyun ordered Takigakure's Village Chief to bring the jinchūriki, and the chief and Miura Tarō brought Tsugita Aiko to the forbidden grounds.
• Kushina guided Chōmei into Tsugita Aiko, then severed part of her chakra source so the Seven-Tails would not drain the girl's vitality.
• Qingyun helped the injured Kushina convert her chakra into true energy as Minato Namikaze placed an Eight Trigrams Seal on Tsugita Aiko.
• Tsugita Aiko reported that Chōmei was quiet and caused her no discomfort, while Qingyun recovered and asked Takigakure's Village Chief for Hero Water.

Qingyun obtained Takigakure’s Hero Water by threatening to sever the Adamantine Sealing Chains inside Ikeda Aiko, then explained to Minato Namikaze that he had never intended to destroy them. After leaving the village, Qingyun prepared to drink the Hero Water and refine its dangerous energy himself.

• Miura Tarō warned the Village Chief against giving Qingyun the scarce Hero Water, but the Village Chief agreed to protect the Adamantine Sealing Chains inside Ikeda Aiko.
• The Village Chief retrieved a bottle of Hero Water from a hidden chamber, and Qingyun saw a decaying root and a basin of water inside.
• Qingyun accepted the Hero Water, got the mission report stamped, and left Takigakure with Kushina, Minato Namikaze, and Might Duy.
• Qingyun told Minato Namikaze that his threat to sever Kushina’s chains had been a bluff and explained that he would have obtained the Hero Water by trade or stealth.
• Kushina apologized for helping Ikeda Aiko despite risking her core chakra, and Qingyun warned her not to do it again.
• Qingyun asked his companions to guard him while he drank the Hero Water, explaining that his cultivation could refine its violent natural spiritual energy.

Qingyun drank the Hero Water, refined its dangerous energy, and broke through, awakening new Mangekyō Sharingan abilities. After testing his powers and absorbing the flames and ice they created, he teleported behind Kushina to surprise her, but she reacted with a punch.

• Qingyun had Kushina establish a barrier in the valley, then drank the Hero Water and used his Yin-Yang true energy and Bagua Diagram to refine its natural spiritual energy.
• Qingyun transformed his Wind Nature internal force into true energy, then absorbed more natural spiritual energy as his Sharingan changed into sun- and moon-shaped eyes.
• Qingyun awakened Sunset Divine Might, Moonset Divine Splendor, and Sun and Moon Shine Together, while the gold-and-silver mark between his brows absorbed the surrounding natural spiritual energy and vanished.
• Qingyun examined his strengthened body and mark, then drew the golden flames and solid ice into his eyes, increasing the uses of his two eye abilities to three each.
• Qingyun tested Sun and Moon Shine Together by teleporting a kilometer, then appeared behind Kushina and covered her eyes; Kushina spun around and punched at him, so he teleported away.

Qingyun returned to Konoha and set out to expose Danzo’s plot against Hatake Sakumo, while Sakumo resisted a staged hostage scheme during his mission to rescue Shodai Chio. The chapter left Kosuke confronting the rogue ninja and Qingyun heading to Root to find Danzo’s secret laboratories.

• Qingyun revealed his Mangekyo’s space-time ability, placed Sun-Moon Marks on Kushina and Minato Namikaze, and returned to Konoha with them.
• Qingyun learned Hatake Sakumo had not yet returned and went to the Hokage’s Office after telling Kushina and the others to wait in the Forest of Death.
• Hatake Sakumo led a mission to rescue Shodai Chio and, warned by Qingyun, recognized that a captured ANBU ninja was being used to manipulate him.
• Hatake Sakumo refused to fall for the staged hostage ploy, while Kosuke intercepted the rogue leader carrying Shodai Chio and attacked with Leaf Style Swordsmanship: Willow.
• After submitting his report and dining with Kushina and the others, Qingyun dressed in black and headed to Root to search for Danzo’s secret laboratories.

Qingyun raided Root, stole Danzo’s records and Hashirama cells, and learned about his secret experiments. Days later, as Danzo pressured Hatake Sakumo to take his own life, Qingyun exposed two ANBU who were actually Root Ninja in front of Hiruzen Sarutobi, leaving Danzo facing the Hokage’s fury.

• Qingyun infiltrated Root, read and altered the memories of two trusted Root Ninja, stole records and Hashirama cells, and escaped to the Forest of Death.
• Qingyun learned that Danzo had secretly continued Hashirama-cell experiments on abducted orphans and uncovered Root’s training methods and grounds.
• After Hatake Sakumo returned to Konoha, rumors and public harassment against him intensified, while Qingyun assured Sakumo that matters had been arranged.
• Danzo visited Sakumo and urged him to take his own life to protect Kakashi and Konoha, while two ninja who had accompanied Sakumo publicly denounced him.
• Qingyun and Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived outside the Hatake Ancestral Estate, where Qingyun immobilized the two accusers and exposed them as Root Ninja.
• Sakumo left Danzo to face the consequences as Danzo came outside and saw Hiruzen Sarutobi glaring at him in anger.

Kushina, Minato Namikaze, and Nawaki exposed Root’s human experimentation to Konoha’s clans and villagers, who rose up in anger. At the Hatake Ancestral Estate, Qingyun confronted Danzo with evidence of his crimes as clan leaders and Hiruzen Sarutobi challenged him, leaving Danzo trapped and increasingly desperate.

• Kushina and Minato Namikaze led clan ninja to raid Root’s hidden laboratories and training sites, where they found clan members subjected to emotion-erasing methods.
• Nawaki distributed leaflets to villagers, prompting a crowd to demand justice from Hiruzen Sarutobi at the Hokage Building.
• Kosuke revealed that he had rescued the Daimyo’s son, Shodai Chio, and that the Daimyo had increased Konoha’s supplies by thirty percent.
• Qingyun accused Danzo of abducting orphans for experiments and challenged him over the Sharingan he had hidden beneath his eye patch.
• The Uchiha Clan Head confronted Danzo, and a Root ninja tried to testify against him before the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal silenced him.
• Utatane Koharu warned that villagers had surrounded the Hokage Building, while Qingyun explained how he had uncovered Danzo’s plot against Hatake Sakumo.

Qingyun exposed Danzo’s crimes and rejected Hiruzen Sarutobi’s handling of the evidence, prompting Danzo to unleash Root in a suicide attack on Konoha. Qingyun transported Danzo and Baku to the Forest of Death to fight, while Konoha’s ninja evacuated civilians and responded to the attack.

• Qingyun accused Danzo of human experimentation, brutal Root training, and Kushina’s attack, then gave Hiruzen Sarutobi documents detailing Root’s crimes.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Danzo taken into custody for investigation, but Danzo activated Root and declared that everyone would die.
• Root Ninja detonated Explosive Tags among Konoha’s crowds, and Qingyun ordered Hiruzen Sarutobi, Minato, Kushina, and Sakumo to protect the village before attacking Danzo.
• Qingyun revealed his sun-and-moon Mangekyo, marked Danzo, and transported them and Baku to the Forest of Death, where he began fighting Danzo with Divine Condor’s aid.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the village’s ninja evacuated civilians and fought Root, while Tsunade, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and other ninja moved to respond.
• Uchiha Tennai asked the Uchiha Clan Head whether he had noticed Qingyun’s changed Sharingan as the clan debated how to respond to Root’s rebellion.

The Uchiha Clan Head sent the clan to help suppress Root and ordered them to bring Qingyun back, while Qingyun defeated Danzo in the Forest of Death. Danzo escaped with Orochimaru’s help, and Hiruzen declared him an S+-Rank missing-nin before summoning Qingyun to the Hokage’s Office.

• The Uchiha Clan Head ordered every Uchiha Chunin or higher to help suppress Root and commanded the clan to meet Qingyun’s conditions to bring him back.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s forces subdued most of Root’s ninja, then headed to the Forest of Death.
• Qingyun broke Danzo’s Phantom Mirror Flower genjutsu, cut off Danzo’s left hand, and struck off his head, but Danzo escaped using Izanagi.
• Qingyun discovered Orochimaru had helped Danzo escape and demanded two favors, warning him not to save Danzo again.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi designated Danzo a Konoha S+-Rank missing-nin, formed a pursuit unit led by Mite Shixiao, and summoned Qingyun to the Hokage’s Office.

Qingyun explained his Mangekyo to Tsunade and confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over his protection of Danzo. After leaving the Hokage Building, Qingyun reassured Kushina and invited his friends to a meal.

• Qingyun told Tsunade that he had awakened his Mangekyo while sealing the Seven-Tails and revealed that Danzo had possessed a Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered everyone else from his office and accused Qingyun of infiltrating Root and failing to report Danzo's crimes.
• Qingyun challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi for repeatedly protecting Danzo and warned that Danzo's ambitions threatened Konoha's strongest ninja.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi suggested Qingyun wanted to become Hokage and questioned his ties to the Uchiha Clan, so Qingyun left the office.
• Tsunade checked on Qingyun, and he told Minato Namikaze and Nawaki to fetch Zihan and Kosuke for a meal.
• Qingyun reassured Kushina and headed with her toward the Konoha Market.

Qingyun reunited with Shisui Uchiha after Konoha's battle and brought him to a gathering in the Forest of Death, where he introduced him as his disciple. Qingyun shared Profound Ice Jade Fire Wine with the adults, then took Shisui, Kakashi, and Might Guy aside to assess their training.

• Shisui Uchiha found Qingyun and Kushina after the battle, explaining that he had rushed out to make sure they were safe.
• Qingyun brought Shisui to the Forest of Death, where he unearthed Profound Ice Wine and Blazing Fire Wine and mixed them into Profound Ice Jade Fire Wine.
• Qingyun drank a cup and refined its medicinal power, while Kushina and Shisui watched; the Divine Condor also drank a cup before flying off to hunt.
• Tsunade and the others arrived, and Qingyun revealed that Shisui was his disciple; Kakashi felt jealous, while Might Duy stopped Might Guy from challenging the younger boy.
• Qingyun served the adults the wine to refine, told Kakashi and Might Guy they had to reach Jonin strength before drinking it, and began checking the three youngsters' training.

Qingyun trained Shisui Uchiha, discussed Danzo and Tsunade’s new jutsu with his companions, and received a promotion offer from Hiruzen Sarutobi. He rejected the Hokage’s plans and the Uchiha clan’s invitation, leaving for the Forest of Death after warning Uchiha Fugaku not to interfere with his disciple.

• Qingyun taught Shisui Uchiha Basic Swordsmanship while Kakashi and Might Guy continued practicing their taijutsu.
• Hatake Sakumo and the others awakened after absorbing the chakra-boosting wine, and Qingyun discussed Danzo’s pursuit with Jiraiya before examining Tsunade’s One's Own Life Reincarnation scroll.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi offered to promote Qingyun to elite jonin and recommended he lead a team, but Qingyun requested a Ninja Academy position and asked to teach Shisui’s class next year.
• Qingyun told Hiruzen he would not return to the Uchiha or pursue the Hokage position, then refused Uchiha Fugaku’s request to meet the clan head.
• Qingyun warned Fugaku not to interfere with his discipleship of Shisui and headed for the Forest of Death, prompting Fugaku to hurry back to the Uchiha compound.

Qingyun struggled to master Wind Release: Rasenshuriken without injuring himself, then spent time with Kushina and learned that she planned to train in senjutsu. At New Year, Tsunade and Jiraiya announced they were leaving the village, and Qingyun watched Tsunade depart after giving her a Sun-Moon Mark.

• Uchiha Fugaku reported Qingyun's decision to take Shisui as his disciple, and the Uchiha Clan Head ordered Shisui's resources increased and urged Fugaku to support him.
• Qingyun trained with Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, but its wind needles badly injured his hand, so he stopped and considered ways to make the technique safe for his body.
• Kushina visited Qingyun, learned he had left the ANBU, and told him she planned to travel to Shikkotsu Forest to train in senjutsu.
• At the New Year gathering, Jiraiya said he would travel the Shinobi World, while Tsunade said she wanted to leave and entrusted Shizune to Qingyun's care.
• Qingyun gave Tsunade a Sun-Moon Mark so he could reach her or sense her distress, then watched her leave the village the next morning.

Qingyun began teaching at the Ninja Academy while continuing to develop his own senjutsu. His first day brought him face-to-face with Kakashi, Obito, Asuma, and Kurenai, and he left his students with lessons in discipline as well as chakra.

• Qingyun started his first day as a teacher, introduced himself to his class, and taught the students the Chakra Extraction Technique.
• Qingyun returned to researching senjutsu and drew close to completing his method of combining the sun's yang power and the moon's yin power.
• Qingyun stopped Kakashi from bullying Obito and ordered Kakashi to spar with Might Guy after class.
• Asuma challenged Qingyun, who flicked his forehead; Shinnosuke apologized for his younger brother, and Asuma hid behind him when Qingyun raised his hand again.