Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang met Shinnō while helping Amaru in the underground tunnels and agreed to find the final component for controlling the Zero-Tails in exchange for help leaving. He spent the night sharing a bed with Amaru and wondered if he was a born scumbag.

• Ye Liang asked Amaru if she had ever considered leaving the tunnels, then used the Merman Transformation Technique to smash open a blocked doorway.
• Amaru warned Ye Liang not to touch Shinnō’s unfinished mask because it could let the Zero-Tails control him.
• Shinnō questioned Ye Liang and offered to take him out if he found the final component needed to control the Zero-Tails.
• Ye Liang accepted the task after the system revealed it was a hidden quest with an S-rank mission reward and a chance to obtain a Kekkei Genkai.
• That evening, Amaru persuaded Ye Liang to share her bed, and he wondered why sleeping beside her felt so familiar.

Ye Liang and Amaru searched the underground passages for Sticky, the final component he needed for his mission, but the creature attacked them. As Sticky recovered from Amaru’s fire, Ye Liang copied her hand seals and unleashed a barrage of fireballs.

• Ye Liang followed Amaru into the dangerous underground maze, where he smashed a falling iron ball and fought a Zero-Tails-controlled wolf.
• After Ye Liang killed the wolf, Sticky emerged from its corpse and wrapped its tentacles around him.
• Amaru burned Sticky with Flowing Fire and pulled Ye Liang free, then explained that fire was the creature’s weakness.
• Ye Liang tried to retreat, but Amaru prepared to attack Sticky again, so he asked her how to use Flowing Fire.
• While Amaru explained the technique, Ye Liang copied her hand seals and shot more than a dozen fireballs at Sticky.

Ye Liang and Amaru gathered materials for a component while Sticky became attached to Ye Liang, who refused to make a contract with it. After two months of exploring, they reached the final beast, but Ye Liang’s Great Fireball made it grow into a massive Stone Golem that attacked them.

• Ye Liang’s Flowing Fire nearly burned Sticky dry, but it dispersed when he pounced on the creature, which then chose him as its master.
• Ye Liang drew fluid from Sticky and refused to contract with it, though Sticky followed him and Amaru explained that it would remain attached to him.
• Amaru’s father, Shinnō, placed a component on a mask, and black mist entered his nostrils, turning his eyes dark; Amaru sensed danger in the cave.
• After two months of gathering materials, Ye Liang and Amaru entered a lava-filled cave and found the final beast.
• Ye Liang struck the flame-covered creature with a Great Fireball, which it swallowed before growing into a three-meter Stone Golem.
• The Stone Golem charged Amaru, and Ye Liang grabbed her and kicked the creature back as he retreated.

Ye Liang discovered he could use Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet and began to suspect that his lost memories were connected to the Kaguya Clan. After Shinnō’s experiment succeeded, Amaru transformed into a masked creature and attacked, leaving Ye Liang to protect Shinnō.

• Ye Liang used Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet against the Stone Golem, then suspected he had lost memories of his past as an expert.
• Ye Liang delivered the materials to Shinnō and received the S-rank Ninjutsu Lightning Release: Kirin as his mission reward.
• Ye Liang saw an image of Princess Kaguya and discussed with the system whether the Kaguya Clan could be responsible for his condition.
• A roar came from the laboratory, and Shinnō was thrown out after his experiment succeeded.
• Ye Liang saw Amaru transformed into a masked creature and realized Shinnō was being controlled, then dodged her attack while protecting him.

Ye Liang removed Amaru’s mask and used the Mystical Palm Technique to heal her, but Shinnō, possessed by the Zero-Tails, struck her and left her dead. Ye Liang vowed to revive her, but a year of searching brought him no way to perform Rinne Rebirth or Impure World Reincarnation.

• Ye Liang and Shinnō tore off Amaru’s mask, releasing the black mist and leaving Shinnō motionless.
• Ye Liang used the Mystical Palm Technique to heal Amaru’s heart wound, but the Zero-Tails possessed Shinnō and made him strike her from behind.
• Ye Liang broke the mask, freeing Shinnō from the Zero-Tails’ control, but the black mist invaded Ye Liang’s mind.
• Ye Liang found that Amaru had died and told the remorseful Shinnō he could bring her back, then asked him to lead the way out.
• A year later, Ye Liang had failed to learn Rinne Rebirth or Impure World Reincarnation and continued searching alone in the desert.

Ye Liang searched for a way to save Amaru while discovering that a powerful impostor who looked exactly like him was interfering in events around Sunagakure. After Orochimaru fled in the form of a White Scale Serpent, Ye Liang caught up with him and tried to explain that he was not the one who had injured him.

• Ye Liang realized he could not use Impure World Reincarnation to save Amaru and headed for Sunagakure, hoping Granny Chiyo might use the Chakra Transfer Technique.
• Ye Liang saw a squad led by a man with his face, alongside Rin Nohara, Kakashi, and Obito Uchiha, and collapsed the earthen mountains to attack them.
• The impostor escaped the collapse with an enormous Earth Dragon Bullet, and Ye Liang later watched the squad clash with Sunagakure's ninja.
• Ye Liang spotted Granny Chiyo and Ebizo fighting Orochimaru, but the impostor emerged from Orochimaru's exploding stomach and took the others away.
• Ye Liang pursued Orochimaru in his White Scale Serpent form and caught him by the tail in the desert, insisting that he was not the one who had injured him.

Ye Liang learned Orochimaru could not revive Amaru because he had defected before learning Impure World Reincarnation, then recruited him and turned to searching for Black Zetsu. He entered Kirigakure by helping Yagura's faction defeat veteran ninja, hoping to gain access to Yagura and Madara.

• Ye Liang discovered Orochimaru did not know Impure World Reincarnation because a Fake Ye Liang had exposed his Cursed Seal research and forced him to defect early.
• Ye Liang intimidated Orochimaru into serving him and returned with him to the Land of the Sky, but Orochimaru's attempt to obtain Impure World Reincarnation was blocked by another impostor in Konoha.
• Ye Liang decided to seek Black Zetsu and use his knowledge to create White Zetsu, then traveled toward Kirigakure to find Madara's hiding place.
• Ye Liang encountered a fight between Yagura's faction and older Kirigakure ninja, subdued the veterans with Genjutsu, and claimed he wanted to meet Yagura.
• Ye Liang learned that Bounty Ninja had recently been targeting Kirigakure and entered the village with Yagura's faction.

Ye Liang learned that Kirigakure was troubled by a Bounty Ninja who killed wanted Rogue Ninja to claim rewards, then followed the hunter into the village prison. The next morning, Kirigakure ninja tried to capture Ye Liang at his inn, but he escaped with the Substitution Technique.

• Yagura questioned Ye Liang after Chōjūrō credited him with helping capture Rogue Ninja, then left after learning Ye Liang was from Sky Ninja Village.
• Chōjūrō explained that the Bounty Ninja killed Rogue Ninja in Kirigakure custody and claimed rewards through the Assassination Tavern.
• Ye Liang sensed killing intent at night and followed a masked figure into Kirigakure's Secret Dungeon, where the figure emerged carrying a severed head.
• Ye Liang decided not to confront the Bounty Ninja so he would not draw attention and risk alerting Black Zetsu.
• Chōjūrō and Kirigakure ninja surrounded Ye Liang's inn, but Ye Liang let them bind a wooden log created by his Substitution Technique.

Ye Liang discovered that Karatachi Yagura was secretly killing Kirigakure elders while disguising himself as a bounty hunter, then followed Yagura to a cave and found Black Zetsu. Black Zetsu realized the cave was exposed and tried to retreat as Ye Liang attacked him.

• Ye Liang hid near Kirigakure's Secret Dungeon and followed a bounty hunter inside, hoping to catch him and regain Yagura's trust.
• Ye Liang watched the bounty hunter fight an elderly man and discovered that the hunter was Karatachi Yagura.
• Yagura killed the Great Elder and told Chōjūrō to frame Ye Liang for the murder and place a bounty on him.
• Ye Liang followed Yagura as he buried the Great Elder's head beneath a willow tree and entered a cave.
• Black Zetsu emerged behind Ye Liang, recognized him as an intruder, and began to retreat before Ye Liang struck at him.

Ye Liang captured Black Zetsu and negotiated for the White Zetsu creation method, agreeing to help revive Kaguya and lend her the White Zetsu. After Orochimaru began researching the technique, Ye Liang infiltrated Konoha to steal the Impure World Reincarnation secret and encountered Fake Ye Liang teaching Might Guy.

• Ye Liang caught Black Zetsu near Madara’s cave and took him to an underground laboratory, where Orochimaru restrained him.
• Ye Liang told Black Zetsu he knew about his plan to revive Kaguya, and Black Zetsu eventually explained that White Zetsu could control people by taking over their brains.
• Black Zetsu agreed to teach Orochimaru the White Zetsu technique if Ye Liang promised to continue the plan to revive Kaguya and let her use the White Zetsu.
• Orochimaru began researching White Zetsu, while Ye Liang infiltrated Konoha to steal the Impure World Reincarnation secret and found Fake Ye Liang teaching Might Guy taijutsu.

Ye Liang put on the Zero-Tails Mask to strengthen White Zetsu for a fight against Fake Ye Liang, but the mask’s will took over his consciousness. He left the laboratory demanding that Orochimaru turn every human into White Zetsu, while Black Zetsu eagerly offered its help.

• Ye Liang learned that Fake Ye Liang had killed Madara and feared that his White Zetsu army would not be enough to stop him.
• Ye Liang wore the Zero-Tails Mask in Orochimaru’s laboratory despite the system’s warning, and Zero-Tails overwhelmed his Mental Space.
• A humanoid mist that claimed to be Ye Liang merged with his spiritual consciousness, and Ye Liang woke up in the laboratory with the mask gone.
• Ye Liang told Orochimaru to use living people in the experiments and ordered him to turn every human he saw into White Zetsu.
• Black Zetsu knelt and offered to help Ye Liang carry out the mass transformation.

Ye Liang invaded Iwagakure while Ōnoki was away, using his enhanced abilities and Black Zetsu’s spores to overwhelm the village. Black Zetsu revealed that the spores planted by infiltrators were turning Iwagakure’s villagers into White Zetsu.

• Ye Liang and Black Zetsu arrived in Iwagakure as the first batch of White Zetsu infiltrators began spreading through the village.
• When Iwagakure’s enforcement squad challenged him, Ye Liang attacked and defeated the square-faced leader with a Great Fireball.
• Kitsuchi and his subordinates confronted Ye Liang, but he dispersed their water, trapped them with Spore Technique, and set them ablaze.
• Spores spread across Iwagakure’s villagers, restraining and consuming them as they fled their homes.
• Black Zetsu emerged and told Ye Liang the spores would transform the villagers into White Zetsu.

Ye Liang conquered Iwagakure, sent Black Zetsu to place a control mask on Ōnoki, and followed a map to the Land of Craftsmen’s underground ruins. The story left Ye Liang confronting awakened mechanical puppets after discovering he could use Shinra Tensei.

• Ye Liang placed a Zero-Tails Mask on Kitsuchi, who became devoted to him, then looted Iwagakure’s storehouses with Black Zetsu.
• Ye Liang explained the mask’s control powers, sent Black Zetsu to Konoha with a mask for Ōnoki, and set off alone with a map to the Land of Craftsmen’s secret treasure.
• Black Zetsu and Karatachi Yagura drugged Ōnoki with mist and put the mask on him; Black Zetsu also gave Yagura iron rods and ordered him to watch for and kill Ye Liang.
• Ye Liang found a hidden staircase beneath the desert and entered the Land of Craftsmen’s ruins, where mechanical puppets awakened and attacked him.
• Ye Liang’s attacks failed against the puppets, but he repelled them with an unexpected burst of Shinra Tensei before they charged him again.

Ye Liang fell into the buried Land of Craftsmen, where deadly strands of hair and an inner demon born from Zero-Tails threatened him. After the system located a possible exit, Ye Liang climbed toward it while the system moved to hold off his pursuer.

• Ye Liang fell to the bottom of the ruins and discovered a hidden ancient kingdom that he identified as the Land of Craftsmen.
• Ye Liang touched hair among a pile of skeletons, was nearly strangled by it, and burned it away with Fire Element Chakra.
• The hair from the ruined houses gathered around Ye Liang, while his inner demon emerged and absorbed the residents’ resentment.
• Ye Liang remembered his actions in Iwagakure, and the system explained that Zero-Tails had controlled him and spawned the inner demon.
• Ye Liang ran to the palace, and the system scanned the ruins and found a cave that might lead outside.
• The inner demon confronted Ye Liang at the cave entrance, and the system tried to stop it as Ye Liang climbed into the twisting passage.

Trapped underground for more than half a month, Ye Liang found a cavern with a river of liquid Chakra that restored his strength. There, he discovered a message from Otsutsuki Hakuto urging a descendant to travel to the moon and stop a clan rebellion, though Ye Liang knew the message was not meant for him.

• Ye Liang survived in the sealed control chamber by using supplies from the System Space and wrote in his diary about hating the person who looked like him.
• Ye Liang noticed water dripping from the ceiling and dug upward until he broke into a cavern with a river.
• Ye Liang fell into the river and felt its powerful Chakra flow into his body.
• Ye Liang found an ancient, lifelike corpse, buried it by the river, and triggered a phantom recording from Otsutsuki Hakuto.
• Otsutsuki Hakuto explained the Otsutsuki clan's history and asked a descendant to go to the moon to quell a rebellion and correct the clan's understanding of Otsutsuki Hamura.
• Ye Liang realized that Hakuto had mistaken him for a descendant and doubted anyone would ever find the message.

After burying Otsutsuki Hakuto, Ye Liang replenished his Chakra and was transported to the moon when he picked up a Tenseigan. There, he found a white-haired youth holding a similar object, while on Earth his inner demon captured and controlled the system.

• Ye Liang buried Otsutsuki Hakuto and replenished his Chakra from the river without absorbing its energy source.
• Ye Liang picked up a golden-trimmed sphere, triggered a teleportation array, and fell through a space channel onto the moon.
• Ye Liang recognized Earth in the sky, sent an SOS with Fire Release, and waited for help.
• On Earth, the inner demon captured the system, used his Mangekyo Sharingan to control her, and declared that he was Ye Liang.
• Ye Liang followed a distant light to a white-haired youth holding an object like the Tenseigan and introduced himself as someone transported from Earth.

Ye Liang learned that Otsutsuki Toneri was the last surviving member of Hamura's branch after discovering that the glowing beads in Toneri's cave were the preserved eyes of his dead clansmen. Toneri abandoned his plan to use their remains to create the Tenseigan and chose to keep protecting Earth, while refusing to help Ye Liang return there.

• Ye Liang told Otsutsuki Toneri that Otsutsuki Hakuto had sent him to find a junior, but Toneri dismissed the story and introduced himself.
• Ye Liang entered Toneri's cave and discovered that the glowing beads revealed fragments of the dead Otsutsuki clansmen's memories.
• Toneri explained that the beads were his clansmen's preserved eyeballs and showed Ye Liang a pit containing their remains.
• Toneri revealed that his clan had died in internal strife and that he was the last bloodline of Hamura's branch.
• Toneri said he had planned to use his clansmen's remains to complete the Tenseigan, but chose instead to inherit Hamura's duty and protect Earth.
• Ye Liang asked Toneri to give him the Tenseigan and send him back to Earth, but Toneri refused and told him to find another way.

Ye Liang spent five years on the moon developing a Tenseigan from stolen eyeballs, then followed Otsutsuki Toneri to Earth using its power. He arrived in Iwagakure as Black Zetsu revived Princess Kaguya, only to be betrayed and attacked by her.

• Ye Liang secretly took eyeballs and experimented with channeling Chakra into their cells, but his first attempt burst an eyeball.
• After five years of careful work, Ye Liang created a Tenseigan, while Otsutsuki Toneri completed a teleportation technique to reach Earth.
• Ye Liang learned that Toneri's method for creating a Tenseigan required living eyes and could not work for him.
• Toneri teleported away, and Ye Liang used the Tenseigan's Eye Power to follow him to Earth.
• In the mountains of Iwagakure, Ye Liang demanded that Black Zetsu help him travel through time and space, but Black Zetsu betrayed him after reviving Princess Kaguya.
• Princess Kaguya attacked Ye Liang with a repulsive force and All-Killing Ash Bones.

The Heart Demon defeated Princess Kaguya with the system girl's Blaze Cannons, then absorbed Kaguya's energy to recover from his injuries. Days later, Ye Liang found the damaged system, while the Heart Demon entered Kirigakure and began secretly growing stronger.

• The Heart Demon used a decoy to escape Kaguya's bone attack, but Kaguya dispersed his Zero-Tails aura and tried to pull him in with Banshō Ten'in.
• The system girl activated her backup energy and froze time, letting her Blaze Cannons incinerate Kaguya and Black Zetsu before she collapsed into a sphere.
• Several days later, Ye Liang and Toneri found the damaged system buried in mud, and Ye Liang said he would do everything he could to save her.
• The injured Heart Demon arrived in Kirigakure disguised as Ye Liang, and Mei Terumi took him in to rest.
• The Heart Demon absorbed Kaguya's energy to heal, then received a visit from a pale figure carrying the latest generation of White Zetsu masks.

Heart Demon killed Orochimaru after foiling his attempt to assassinate him, then devastated Kirigakure. Ye Liang, Toneri, and the system arrived to find Mei Terumi alive, and Ye Liang concluded that Heart Demon was not responsible for their lost memories before setting out to confront him.

• Heart Demon explained that his masks, made using Jinchuriki, could repeatedly fire Tailed Beast Bombs and be mass-produced.
• Orochimaru tried to assassinate Heart Demon, but Heart Demon sensed his killing intent and struck him with a blade infused with Zero-Tails' aura, killing him.
• Half a month later, Ye Liang, Toneri, and the system entered blood-soaked Kirigakure and found Mei Terumi alive among the dead.
• Mei Terumi blamed herself for failing to oppose the impostor, while Ye Liang healed her and learned that she mistook him for the man she loved.
• Ye Liang reasoned that neither Heart Demon nor the impostor had been powerful enough to cause their memory loss, then decided to find Heart Demon and stop the rampaging White Zetsu.