Chapter Summaries

Luo Yu defeated most of the Anbu in a training match using Kamui and his allies in the Kamui Dimension. Jun Ruyan trapped him in Kotoamatsukami: Light, but the Nine Tailed Beasts broke the genjutsu, leaving her unconscious.

• Luo Yu hid in the Kamui Dimension and asked the Nine Tailed Beasts to disrupt his chakra if Jun Ruyan caught him in a genjutsu.
• Luo Yu used Kamui to send half the Anbu into the Kamui Dimension, where Tobi, Crunchy Shark, and the Giant Wood Wrath Buddha defeated them.
• Luo Yu returned the defeated Anbu to the Training Ground and told the remaining fighters to surrender, while Jun Ruyan resolved to attack with her full strength.
• Jun Ruyan used Kotoamatsukami: Light to trap Luo Yu in a golden genjutsu world.
• The Nine Tailed Beasts woke Luo Yu by disrupting his chakra, breaking the genjutsu and causing Jun Ruyan to suffer backlash and faint.

Luo Yu defeated the Special Supervision Department’s Shadow Guards, then assigned its members their duties and introduced them to Wisdom Sacred Spring, which temporarily boosted their comprehension. The department members eagerly sought more of the spring after experiencing its effects.

• Luo Yu overcame Jun Ruyan’s Kotoamatsukami: Light, causing her to collapse, and defeated the remaining Shadow Guards.
• After recovering, Jun Ruyan learned that a Tailed Beast had helped Luo Yu break her Genjutsu and suffered a severe backlash.
• Luo Yu ordered the department to protect Su Ying and Su Lan, left most operations to Jun Ruyan and Ye Lingbo, and offered to handle fights they could not manage.
• Luo Yu gave the department members bottles of Wisdom Sacred Spring, and they drank them despite uncertainty about how it had been brewed.
• The spring temporarily improved the members’ comprehension, helping them advance their Ninjutsu and deepen their understanding of Kotoamatsukami: Light.

Luo Yu arranged to visit the Insect Immortal Palace after telling Bubble that Little Bunny wanted to study unusual insects, and he considered using its specimens as Rinnegan puppets. The chapter ended with a rhinoceros beetle arriving to escort Luo Yu and Little Bunny to the palace.

• Luo Yu promised the Anbu elites more Wisdom Sacred Spring if they completed their assignments and reported unusual activity in the Su Family.
• Luo Yu left Ye Lingbo and Jun Ruyan to handle the assignments and went to watch Close-Up on Ninja.
• Luo Yu called Bubble and arranged a visit to the Insect Immortal Palace, claiming that the Moon God was interested in unusual insects.
• Little Bunny asked Luo Yu to find powerful corpses for her Rinnegan abilities, and Luo Yu suggested looking among the palace's insect specimens.
• A fox girl announced that a Ninshu-level rhinoceros beetle had arrived to escort Luo Yu and Little Bunny to the Insect Immortal Palace.

Luo Yu and Little Bunny visited the Insect Immortal Palace to inspect its research into the insect race and request a powerful specimen. Bubble showed them the underground museum, where Little Bunny began examining the Void Devourer and Bubble explained the World Devourer.

• Luo Yu and Little Bunny arrived at Insect Immortal Island, where Bubble welcomed them on behalf of the Insect Immortal Palace.
• Luo Yu asked Bubble for a powerful Otherworldly Plane insect specimen so Little Bunny could study it, and Bubble agreed.
• Bubble led Luo Yu and Little Bunny through the high-tech underground research institute and into its museum.
• Bubble described the Void Devourer, which had once consumed the space occupied by a city before an Immortal Palace predecessor defeated it.
• Little Bunny opened her Greater Rinnegan and examined the Void Devourer while Bubble explained that the World Devourer consisted of countless Corruption Insects that ruined and corrupted everything they touched.

Luo Yu and Little Bunny chose a World Devourer specimen for her research, and she revived it as a Rinnegan-controlled puppet. Luo Yu moved them into the Kamui Dimension so Little Bunny could summon the enormous puppet there, leaving Bubble stunned by the specimen's disappearance.

• Luo Yu learned from Bubble that the World Devourer was made of Corruption Insects and that the Void Devourer specimen was too damaged for Little Bunny's research.
• Little Bunny said she wanted to study a living Void Devourer, but Luo Yu considered how dangerous and inaccessible it was and suggested taking a Super Kage-Level specimen instead.
• Little Bunny chose the World Devourer specimen and embedded Black Rods into its Corruption Insects, reviving it under her Rinnegan's control.
• Luo Yu took Little Bunny into the Kamui Dimension and proposed that she summon the puppet there rather than move its enormous body by hand.
• Bubble stared in confusion when the World Devourer specimen vanished from the Underground Museum.

Luo Yu and Little Bunny visited the Insect Immortal Palace so she could study queen ants and develop more efficient summoning beasts. Little Bunny decided to pursue creating a Void Empress, and Luo Yu agreed to help her reach the insect race’s plane.

• Luo Yu took Little Bunny to the Underground Museum, where they discussed the World Devourer specimen and its removed corruption ability.
• Bubble mistook Little Bunny’s research into queen ants for a desire to have children, and Six-Tails Saiken warned that pregnancy could hinder her return to her peak.
• Little Bunny examined queen ant specimens and observed the Insect Immortal Palace’s specially bred queen ants reproducing.
• Little Bunny proposed creating a Void Empress capable of raising an army, and Luo Yu agreed to pursue a trip to the insect race’s plane.
• Bubble explained that previous attempts to reproduce the void insect race had failed because of its complex genome, while Six-Tails Saiken offered to support the research.

Luo Yu gave Bubble Wisdom Sacred Spring, which inspired the Insect Immortal Palace researchers and triggered a rush of interest from the other masters. He ordered Tobi to produce more, then returned to the Pure Moon Hall while his companions worked and he watched anime.

• Luo Yu gave Bubble five barrels of Wisdom Sacred Spring and a bottle to Little Bunny, who drank it while thinking about creating the Void Empress.
• Bubble replaced the research institute's dispenser water with Wisdom Sacred Spring, and the researchers and Bubble gained sudden inspiration from drinking it.
• Bubble asked Luo Yu to sell the spring in the group chat, prompting other Immortal Palace masters to request some as well.
• Luo Yu promised to increase production and teleported to Tobi, ordering him to produce Wisdom Sacred Spring at full capacity.
• Tobi agreed to work after Luo Yu said some of the spring was for Luo Qingyu, while Luo Yu returned to the Pure Moon Hall and watched anime.

Luo Yu visited the Dawnlands ahead of the Individual Tournament’s Challenge Tournament, bringing Little Bunny along. Zhuo Jun pulled him aside to explain the competition, then showed him a holographic image of the Akatsuki, leaving him alarmed about who contestants would have to face.

• Luo Yu learned that the Wisdom Sacred Spring had helped the Eight Immortal Palaces grow stronger, while the Su Family investigation continued quietly and the Individual Tournament approached its final stage.
• Little Bunny insisted on accompanying Luo Yu to the Dawnlands, saying she had finished planning the Void Empress and wanted to travel with him.
• Luo Yu and Little Bunny teleported to the Dawnlands, where staff directed them to the venue and its contestant briefing.
• Luo Yu spotted Ye Lingbo among the contestants and prepared to scold her for leaving her post, but Zhuo Jun dragged him to a temporary office upstairs.
• Zhuo Jun began explaining the competition and displayed a holographic group photo of the Akatsuki, making Luo Yu wonder if the contestants would have to challenge them.

Zhuo Jun explained the Akatsuki illusions and the rewards for Luo Yu’s upcoming Dawn Challenges, including a Mystery Egg blessed by the White Snake Sage. Luo Yu learned the Ninja Association expected no champion to emerge, but he remained confident he could win the egg.

• Zhuo Jun described the Akatsuki and explained that the competition would pit contestants against eight recreated members, with their strength capped at Shadow Guard Level.
• Zhuo Jun explained that only contestants who completed all eight Dawn Challenges could become champion and claim the top reward.
• Zhuo Jun told Luo Yu that the Ninja Research Association had been destroyed after its leader was killed by the Land of the Dragon’s Ninja Association president.
• Zhuo Jun revealed that the champion’s reward was a Mystery Egg blessed by the White Snake Sage of Ryūchi Cave, which might contain cells intended for reincarnation.
• Luo Yu realized the Ninja Association’s higher-ups expected no one to win and resolved to claim the egg himself.

Luo Yu learned the Challenge Tournament’s rules and discovered that Ye Lingbo was monitoring Su Qiming over his suspected ties to the Sea God Cult. The tournament began the next day, drawing intense attention from viewers and foreign officials.

• Zhuo Jun explained that contestants had to travel on foot to challenge eight Akatsuki illusions, could eliminate rivals along the way, and were eliminated after one failed attempt.
• Luo Yu encountered Ye Lingbo and Luo Qingyu, apologized for teasing Ye Lingbo, and had lunch with them in the Imperial Capital.
• Ye Lingbo told Luo Yu that she had come to surveil Su Qiming, a Su Family Shadow Guard whose new Water Release techniques bore traces of the Sea God Cult.
• The Challenge Tournament began in the Land of the Dragon, and viewers across the country and foreign officials watched its opening with great interest.

The National Tournament Individual Tournament finals began as Luo Yu and the other contestants prepared to face the Akatsuki under the challenge rules. The special guests were introduced, and Huadai revealed she wanted to meet Luo Yu and borrow his plant-type White Zetsu for research, leaving Tobi uneasy in the Kamui Dimension.

• Wang Ji and Yu Ming opened the finals broadcast as contestants backstage reacted nervously to the rules requiring them to challenge all eight Akatsuki members while watching out for one another.
• Su Qiming mistook Luo Yu's aura for that of someone allied with an Apostle of the Sea and decided to approach him later, while Ye Lingbo warned Luo Yu that Su Qiming was watching him.
• The hosts introduced Principal Yue, Zhuo Nan, and Huadai as special guests for the Individual Tournament.
• Huadai said she had come to meet Luo Yu and borrow his plant-type White Zetsu for research.
• In the Kamui Dimension, Tobi felt an ominous premonition despite having been told he would not need to appear much in the tournament.

The contestants entered the Dawnlands competition zone and gathered at the Frenzied Shark Arena, where most hoped to challenge the Kisame Hoshigaki phantom first. Luo Yu arrived and learned they were waiting to study another contestant’s fight before risking their own attempt.

• The contestants were teleported to random starting points around the Dawnlands competition zone, and Luo Yu checked his map before heading toward the Frenzied Shark Arena with Little Bunny.
• Luo Yu used his Sharingan to watch his surroundings and saw contestants avoid fighting one another as they hurried toward challenge venues.
• Luo Yu reached the Frenzied Shark Arena and found many contestants, including Ye Lingbo, waiting without challenging the Kisame Hoshigaki phantom.
• Luo Yu asked Ye Lingbo why no one had entered, and she explained that contestants wanted to watch a fight on the big screen and learn Kisame’s tactics before attempting their own challenges.

At the Frenzied Shark Arena, Jun Ren challenged Kisame’s illusion while the other contestants watched for clues. Kisame defeated him with Samehada, leaving everyone else to wonder how they could possibly win.

• Luo Yu learned that contestants could watch other fighters’ footage, then considered attempting the challenge.
• Jun Ren entered the arena, and Ye Lingbo identified him as a Jun Family sword prodigy with a Sasuke inheritance and mastery of Chidori Blade.
• Jun Ren attacked Kisame’s illusion with his lightning-wreathed Kusanagi Sword, but Kisame absorbed the current with Samehada.
• Samehada bit Jun Ren repeatedly, stealing his chakra and healing Kisame as their fight continued.
• Jun Ren collapsed and was eliminated, while Kisame’s illusion faded and the watching contestants worried about facing him.

After Jun Ren’s defeat by the Kisame illusion, Luo Yu entered the Frenzied Shark Dueling Arena and summoned Tobi to face Kisame. Tobi revealed powerful Wood Release and defeated the illusion, leaving the spectators astonished by his skill and Luo Yu’s strength.

• Jun Ren’s defeat by Kisame frightened the contestants and spectators, who questioned how they could challenge Deva Path Pain.
• Yu Ming and Wang Ji discussed the lack of challengers at the Sacrifice Arena before the screen returned to the Frenzied Shark Dueling Arena.
• Luo Yu entered the arena, summoned Tobi, and told him to handle the Kisame challenge as a test.
• Kisame attacked Luo Yu and Tobi with Five Feeding Sharks, but Tobi used Wood Release to create a Wood Dragon that destroyed and resisted the sharks.
• Tobi’s Wood Dragon bound Kisame and absorbed the illusion’s chakra, defeating him.
• Chairman Zhuo praised Tobi’s Wood Dragon Technique as four-star Wood Release, stunning the audience.

Luo Yu faced Kisame Hoshigaki’s Samehada-fused second phase in a flooded arena, while Tobi used Wood Release to turn the battlefield into a forest and help defeat him. Luo Yu became the first contestant to clear a challenge, leaving the spectators wondering how Tobi had mastered Wood Release so thoroughly.

• Chairman Zhuo and Huadai discussed their interest in Tobi and White Zetsu’s mastery of the Wood Dragon Technique.
• After Kisame Hoshigaki was defeated, the arena activated a second phase, revealing Kisame fused with Samehada.
• Kisame flooded the arena with the Great Water Blast Wave, trapping Luo Yu and Tobi underwater.
• Luo Yu worried that Tobi might not handle Kisame’s underwater attacks, so Tobi unleashed Deep Forest Emergence and filled the arena with trees.
• Tobi’s trees forced out the seawater and bound Kisame, and the Wood Dragon struck him down.
• Yu Ming announced Luo Yu as the first contestant to clear a challenge, while spectators wondered about Tobi’s connection to Emperor Shinra.

Luo Yu’s White Zetsu displayed return-to-origin mastery of Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence, while contestants gathered information from his battle against Kisame. At the Sacrifice Arena, Luo Yu sent Tobi to challenge Hidan and discovered that Hidan’s second-stage form came with an automatic curse ritual.

• Chairman Zhuo judged Luo Yu’s White Zetsu’s Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence to be at the return-to-origin level, and Principal Yue said Luo Yu raised his summoning beasts himself.
• Luo Yu left the Frenzied Shark Arena as Ye Lingbo entered to challenge Kisame, and he realized she had forgotten to watch Su Qiming.
• Su Qiming entered the Demolition Arena to challenge Deidara, believing he was choosing the trickiest opponent.
• At the Sacrifice Arena, Luo Yu told Tobi to challenge Hidan while he stayed behind to watch.
• Tobi watched a female Shadow Guard defeat Hidan’s first-stage form, then saw Hidan’s second-stage form automatically enter his curse state with a ritual circle beneath his feet.

Luo Yu and Tobi defeated Hidan in the Sacrifice Arena by using Tobi’s Wood Dragon to pull him out of his Cursed Ritual formation, then headed to the Demolition Arena to face Deidara. Ye Lingbo recovered after defeating Kisame and went to study Luo Yu’s cleared arena, while Luo Yu and Tobi arrived as Su Qiming began fighting Deidara.

• After seeing Hidan’s ritual inflict phantom pain on a Shadow Guard, Luo Yu decided to supervise Tobi’s fight against him.
• Tobi defeated Hidan’s first phase with Wood Dragon Technique, then used another Wood Dragon to drag Hidan out of his Cursed Ritual formation and absorb him.
• Luo Yu and Tobi cleared the Sacrifice Arena, and Luo Yu warned Tobi not to underestimate Deidara as they headed toward the Demolition Arena.
• Ye Lingbo defeated the Kisame illusion, rested to recover her chakra, and watched a replay of Luo Yu’s victory over Hidan before setting out for the Sacrifice Arena.
• Luo Yu and Tobi reached the Demolition Arena and saw Su Qiming fighting Deidara on the big screen.

Su Qiming fought Deidara in the Demolition Arena, and his use of deep-blue chakra tentacles raised suspicions that the Su Family had ties to the Sea God’s apostles. Deidara unleashed his ultimate explosion against Su Qiming, engulfing the arena as the chapter ended.

• Su Qiming countered Deidara’s C2 Dragon with deep-blue chakra tentacles, which startled the contestants and caught Luo Yu’s attention.
• Chairman Zhuo and Principal Yue suspected the Su Family had acquired an apostle’s power and agreed to let the Anbu investigate quietly.
• Su Qiming trapped Deidara’s clay dragon with his tentacles, but Deidara destroyed them with a powerful explosion.
• Deidara entered phase two, revealed the sealed mouth on his chest, and prepared his ultimate explosion.
• Deidara detonated his ultimate art, engulfing Su Qiming and the Dueling Arena in a blast the arena’s materials were designed to withstand.

Luo Yu let Tobi fight Deidara’s illusion alone in the Dueling Arena while he played on his phone. Tobi revealed his powerful Wood Human Technique and crushed Deidara, leaving Luo Yu wondering whether he could summon Akatsuki members with Impure World Reincarnation.

• Su Qiming survived Deidara’s self-destruction and cleared the Demolition Arena challenge, though he returned badly burned and exhausted.
• Luo Yu entered the Dueling Arena with Tobi and retreated to the sidelines to play on his phone as Tobi fought Deidara.
• Tobi used Deep Forest Emergence to attack Deidara, who dodged the trees and blasted them with explosive-clay birds.
• Tobi summoned the Giant Wood Wrath Buddha, impressing the contestants, Chairman Zhuo, and Huadai with his Wood Human Technique.
• Tobi’s Wood Dragons restrained Deidara and his giant bird, and the Giant Wood Wrath Buddha crushed them in an explosion.
• Luo Yu considered whether the Divine Beast from the Ninja Research Association’s Mystery Egg could use Impure World Reincarnation to summon Akatsuki members.

Tobi defeated Deidara and Sasori in successive arenas while Luo Yu watched, revealing Sage Mode when Sasori summoned a hundred puppets. The audience and Chairman Zhuo recognized Tobi as a formidable stand-in for a Hashirama inheritor as Luo Yu advanced to the next challenge.

• Tobi bound Deidara with the Tree World and defeated his second-phase illusion with the Giant Wood Wrath Buddha.
• Wang Ji and Yu Ming discussed Luo Yu's easy victory and Lu Zilu's progress as Luo Yu entered the Puppet Arena with Tobi.
• Tobi used Wood Release to force Sasori out of his puppet and destroy the Third Kazekage puppet.
• Sasori revealed his mechanical body and summoned over a hundred puppets with the Performance of a Hundred Puppets.
• Tobi entered Sage Mode and summoned an empowered Giant Wood Wrath Buddha and two Wood Dragons, overwhelming Sasori's puppets.
• Chairman Zhuo said Tobi could replace a Hashirama inheritor and threaten the standing of the Emperor Shinra Lineage.