Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang and his allies destroyed Kitsuchi and Iwagakure with a barrage of Tailed Beast Bombs, then headed for the Land of Snow to investigate its White Zetsu. They found the border increasingly overrun and continued toward the capital, where Kazahana Koyuki’s family was defending against the threat.

• Ye Liang ordered Deidara to bomb the White Zetsu grunts, then had Uchiha Itachi burn many more with Amaterasu.
• Ye Liang used Flying Thunder God and more than eighty Tailed Beast Bombs to kill Kitsuchi, accidentally reducing Iwagakure to ruins.
• Deidara asked to follow Ye Liang, but Ye Liang refused, and Ye Liang comforted the crying Kurotsuchi by explaining that Kitsuchi had been a White Zetsu copy.
• Ye Liang’s group set out for the Land of Snow, where they hoped to find the White Zetsu mastermind and protect Kazahana Koyuki’s family.
• At the Land of Snow’s border, Ye Liang exposed a disguised White Zetsu posing as an old man, and Uchiha Itachi said his father and the others were defending the capital.

Ye Liang and Kazahana Koyuki reached the Land of Snow, where guards tried to inspect their carriage but were intimidated by Ye Liang, Deidara, and Uchiha Itachi. The guards welcomed Ye Liang as a God of Warriors, while rumors spread that Koyuki planned to compete for the throne at the Martial Arts Festival.

• Ye Liang learned that the Land of Snow’s Martial Arts Festival was approaching and suspected samurai had gathered there.
• At the capital gates, a general ordered Kazahana Koyuki and her party to submit to an inspection despite her protests.
• Ye Liang agreed to the inspection, but Deidara and Uchiha Itachi’s killing intent frightened the soldiers and general.
• The general recognized that Ye Liang concealed his aura and welcomed him as a revered God of Warriors.
• Rumors spread through the Snow Capital that Koyuki intended to compete for the throne at the Martial Arts Festival with a God of Warriors at her side.

Kazahana Koyuki told Ye Liang she wanted to win the Martial Arts Festival to escape a forced marriage, while Ye Liang became known as the God of Warriors after defeating samurai who attacked him. When the Uchiha found a White Zetsu wearing a living black mask, Ye Liang removed the mask and discovered it was still intact.

• Kazahana Koyuki explained that she planned to win the Martial Arts Festival so she would not have to marry an older man from the Land of Iron, but she and Ye Liang did not agree on a price for his help.
• Samurai attacked Ye Liang in an alley, and he defeated and tied them up without being injured.
• Obito Uchiha told Ye Liang that the Uchiha had found White Zetsu near the border of the Land of Snow, and Ye Liang rushed to the battlefield.
• Uchiha Fugaku explained that a clan member had put on a black mask and turned into a huge White Zetsu that used Fire Release.
• Ye Liang pulled the living mask off White Zetsu and found that it seemed ordinary until it was brought near his face.

Ye Liang recognized the mask he had taken from White Zetsu as a replica of Zero-Tails and suspected that the enemy targeting him wanted his system. At the Land of Snow daimyo’s estate, he challenged the princes’ attempt to disqualify Kazahana Koyuki from the Martial Arts Festival, and they angrily confronted him.

• Ye Liang identified the mask as a Zero-Tails replica and concluded that White Zetsu’s leader was likely an outsider seeking his system.
• Ye Liang went with Haruhi to meet the Land of Snow daimyo, intending to support Kazahana Koyuki.
• The princes mocked Kazahana Koyuki and demanded that her Martial Arts Festival qualification be revoked, and the daimyo agreed when she could not answer.
• Ye Liang asked whether women or singers were barred from the festival and whether women could inherit the daimyo’s position; the daimyo answered no to each question.
• Ye Liang declared that he had no problem with Kazahana Koyuki participating, and the princes challenged him angrily.

Ye Liang let Kazahana Koyuki defend her bid to become daimyo, but the princes mocked her proposals to modernize the Land of Snow and end discriminatory customs. The Martial Arts Festival was set for three days later, and the princes began plotting to remove Ye Liang before its martial examination.

• The old daimyo silenced his sons and allowed Kazahana Koyuki to speak, while Ye Liang handed the discussion over to her.
• Kazahana Koyuki proposed changing the Land of Snow, abolishing political marriages and gender discrimination, and modernizing the country.
• The princes ridiculed Kazahana Koyuki's speech, and the old daimyo ended the meeting disappointed.
• Ye Liang concluded that Kazahana Koyuki's appeal had failed to persuade the court, and he and Kazahana Koyuki went their separate ways.
• Ye Liang learned that the Martial Arts Festival would take place in three days and include literary and martial examinations.
• The princes sent people to assassinate Ye Liang because his strength threatened their chances in the martial examination.

Ye Liang entered the Land of Snow’s Sword Mound to search for the best sword in a contest that barred ninjutsu. After fighting off samurai who ambushed him, he reached the scorching fifth level, where a Mechanical Puppet charged at him.

• Kazahana Koyuki guided Ye Liang into the Sword Mound and explained that better swords lay deeper in its seven levels.
• On the third level, several samurai attacked Ye Liang while Mifune and other competitors pushed farther ahead.
• Ye Liang used a reckless shoulder charge to knock one attacker unconscious, frightening the others into backing off.
• Ye Liang hurried to the fifth level, where the heat had grown intense and no other samurai were nearby.
• A red, three-meter-tall Mechanical Puppet crawled from beneath a rock and charged at Ye Liang.

Ye Liang escaped a Mechanical Puppet and saved Mifune on the Sword Mound’s sixth floor, where they faced the Golden Mountain Man. Mifune revealed that the Land of Iron had repeatedly failed to reclaim its treasured Demonic Blade Onikiri, leaving Ye Liang to confront the guardian without a known strategy.

• Ye Liang fled from the Mechanical Puppet through the Sword Mound’s sixth floor, while Mifune discovered traces of an intruder and was attacked by the Stone Golem.
• Ye Liang caught Mifune before he struck the scorching rocks, then learned how to stop the pursuing Mechanical Puppet by inserting an iron sword into its neck slot.
• Ye Liang disabled the Mechanical Puppet and saw the Golden Mountain Man, the trial’s final guardian, emerge and attack.
• Mifune explained that the Golden Mountain Man had long blocked the Land of Iron from reclaiming its national treasure, Demonic Blade Onikiri, which had been given to the Land of Snow.
• Ye Liang asked Mifune for a way to defeat the guardian, but Mifune admitted the Land of Iron had never found one.

Ye Liang used gas from melting rock to corrode the Golden Mountain Man and obtain the crystal that revealed the entrance to the Sword Mound’s seventh level. He descended into a vast underground chamber and discovered tens of thousands of dead White Zetsu, just as a black figure approached.

• Ye Liang concluded that gases released by melting rock could corrode the Golden Mountain Man, then ordered Hanzo to help him dig and melt rocks beneath it.
• Ye Liang and Mifune used the vapor to corrode the Golden Mountain Man until it melted away, leaving a transparent crystal, but Mifune ran out of strength and withdrew.
• Mifune emerged from the Sword Mound and told Kazahana Koyuki not to ask about Ye Liang, while the others learned Ye Liang had endured longer than anyone else.
• Ye Liang discovered that the seventh-level entrance lay beneath the cooled lava, found a large hole, and jumped into it.
• Ye Liang reached a vast underground chamber, found tens of thousands of dead White Zetsu, and saw a black figure approach.

Ye Liang discovered a double who claimed to be the real Ye Liang and was trying to use the Demonic Blade Onikiri to turn its consciousness into data and reopen Kaguya’s portal. Their fight left Ye Liang at a disadvantage as they used matching abilities, and the double proved more skilled.

• Ye Liang followed the sword-wielding double through the pit and overheard him describe his plan to take the sword’s consciousness and reopen Kaguya’s portal to the Land of Craftsmen.
• Ye Liang ambushed the double with Earth Release techniques, but the double escaped by using Shinra Tensei and recognized him.
• The two argued over who was the real Ye Liang before fighting with matching Sage Arts and other techniques.
• The double revealed that he also had a system and attacked Ye Liang with the Demonic Blade Onikiri.
• Ye Liang and the double clashed with Shinra Tensei, and the double’s greater skill sent Ye Liang flying again.

Ye Liang defeated a White Zetsu impostor who wielded Isobu’s power after the demon blade chose him as its master. He escaped the Sword Mound with the blade he had been seeking and returned to Kazahana Koyuki and the others.

• Ye Liang realized his opponent was tiring in their battle of identical techniques, but Fake Ye Liang cloaked himself in Isobu’s Chakra.
• As Fake Ye Liang charged, the demon blade fled his grasp and acknowledged Ye Liang as its master.
• Ye Liang’s strike with the demon blade ignored Shinra Tensei and split Fake Ye Liang, who turned out to be a White Zetsu.
• Ye Liang searched the cave and found a square lock and an ancient map on Fake Ye Liang’s body.
• After six hours, Kazahana Koyuki, Mifune, and the old daimyo waited outside the Sword Mound and feared Ye Liang would not return.
• Ye Liang emerged from the Sword Mound with the demon blade, drank water, and told Kazahana Koyuki that he had found the sword she wanted.

Ye Liang and Uchiha Itachi explored the ruins of the Land of Craftsmen after learning White Zetsu's master had been there. They found thousands of powerful Mechanical Puppets, awakened them, and fled toward the entrance to avoid collapsing the desert around them.

• Ye Liang told Uchiha Itachi that White Zetsu's master was overwhelmingly strong, then warned him to run if they encountered him.
• Ye Liang used a square lock to open a hidden entrance in the hill, and he and Uchiha Itachi descended into the ruins.
• Ye Liang found countless footprints and suspected White Zetsu had visited the ruins, perhaps because Zero-Tails originated from the Land of Craftsmen.
• Ye Liang and Uchiha Itachi found a Mechanical Puppet in a narrow passage; it struck Itachi and attacked Ye Liang.
• Ye Liang destroyed the puppet with a Fire Dragon Bullet, awakening thousands more Mechanical Puppets nearby.
• Ye Liang dragged the recovering Uchiha Itachi back toward the entrance to escape the puppets without causing the desert to collapse.

Ye Liang and Uchiha Itachi escaped the puppet ambush, found Fake Ye Liang’s diary and secret White Zetsu base, and destroyed the army. Orochimaru then appeared and revealed that he had known about Ye Liang’s arrival in the Naruto World from the beginning.

• Ye Liang blasted open a hidden passage and led Uchiha Itachi into the underground city’s control room.
• Ye Liang found Fake Ye Liang’s diary and learned that he planned to turn people into White Zetsu to resist the Kaguya Clan.
• Ye Liang opened a pit beneath the control room and took Uchiha Itachi to Fake Ye Liang’s White Zetsu base.
• Ye Liang and Uchiha Itachi burned the tens of thousands of White Zetsu, destroying the army.
• Orochimaru appeared and told Ye Liang that he had known about his arrival in the Naruto World from the beginning.

Ye Liang convinced Orochimaru that he was the Creator God and learned that Fake Ye Liang had gone overseas to find the Time-Space Turtle. As Ye Liang prepared to pursue him, Black Zetsu appeared and tens of thousands of White Zetsu merged into a giant, forcing Ye Liang to teleport away with Orochimaru and Itachi.

• Orochimaru showed Ye Liang a Naruto manga and revealed that he had helped Fake Ye Liang with the White Zetsu experiments.
• Orochimaru mistook Ye Liang for the Creator God, and Ye Liang claimed that Fake Ye Liang was his mortal enemy, the Demon God.
• Orochimaru told Ye Liang that Fake Ye Liang had gone overseas to find the final key, and Ye Liang realized he was seeking the Time-Space Turtle.
• Black Zetsu appeared, warned Orochimaru about Fake Ye Liang's plan, and burrowed underground as White Zetsu gathered around a replica of the Zero-Tails mask.
• Tens of thousands of White Zetsu formed a giant, and Ye Liang teleported himself, Orochimaru, and Itachi out of the ruins.

Ye Liang, Itachi, and Orochimaru battled the giant White Zetsu in the ruins. After Itachi and Orochimaru were overwhelmed, Ye Liang used Flying Thunder God to send multiple Tailed Beast Bombs crashing into it, leaving Itachi and Orochimaru stunned by his power.

• The giant White Zetsu burst from underground and charged Ye Liang, who attacked it with the Five-Element Dragon Bullet Jutsu.
• Itachi joined the fight with Susanoo and stabbed White Zetsu with the Sword of Totsuka, while Orochimaru transformed into the eight-headed White Scale Serpent and attacked.
• The Sword of Totsuka drained White Zetsu, but the creature broke free and knocked back both Itachi and Orochimaru.
• Ye Liang created multiple Tailed Beast Bombs with Shadow Clones and used Flying Thunder God to send them directly into White Zetsu.
• The Tailed Beast Bombs engulfed White Zetsu in a massive explosion, and Itachi and Orochimaru stared at Ye Liang in shock.

Ye Liang secretly followed Fake Ye Liang beneath the sea as they searched for the Time-Space Turtle, and watched Fake Ye Liang battle a swarm of Giant Squids in a trench. The turtle emerged from a squid, and both men rushed after it.

• Ye Liang watched Fake Ye Liang search the sea for the Time-Space Turtle and followed him down with Ruǎnruǎn protecting him from the water.
• Fake Ye Liang spotted an undersea trench and drove his blue whale into it while Ye Liang followed at a distance.
• A Giant Squid and its swarm attacked the blue whale, and Fake Ye Liang killed the whale before fighting the squids himself.
• Fake Ye Liang transformed into a shark with the Shark Dance Jutsu and battled the Giant Squids in the trench.
• The Time-Space Turtle emerged from a squid and swam toward a deep ravine as Ye Liang and Fake Ye Liang raced after it.

Ye Liang pursued Fake Ye Liang through a pitch-black trench, found the escaped Golden Turtle, and was driven into a coral crevice by blood-sucking seaweed-infected sea monsters. The seaweed then surrounded the reef, leaving Ye Liang trapped.

• Ye Liang and Fake Ye Liang lost their way in the dark trench, and blood-sucking seaweed caught Ye Liang before he cut himself free with a Chakra Scalpel.
• Ye Liang followed the sounds of Fake Ye Liang's battle and found the corpses of numerous mutated sea beasts scattered through the trench.
• Ye Liang discovered the Golden Turtle hiding in a coral crevice and stored it away, but a group of sea monsters attacked him.
• Ye Liang fled into a narrow coral fissure as the sea monsters rammed the reef and died outside it.
• Ye Liang realized the Blood-Sucking Seaweed had infected the sea monsters and watched it swarm around the coral reef, trapping him inside.

Ye Liang escaped the Blood-Sucking Seaweed and fought the seaweed-controlled Fake Ye Liang, but a lightning Kirin forced him to use the golden turtle to travel through time and space. The Kirin struck as Fake Ye Liang regained consciousness beneath the sea.

• Ye Liang discovered that Mantis Shrimp ate the Blood-Sucking Seaweed and followed one out of the coral reef.
• Ye Liang escaped to the sea surface, where Fake Ye Liang attacked him in a shark-man form, controlled by Blood-Sucking Seaweed.
• Ye Liang used Shinra Tensei and Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms to incapacitate Fake Ye Liang while avoiding the seaweed on his back.
• A lightning Kirin appeared and pursued Ye Liang, who called on the golden turtle to take him through time and space.
• The Kirin struck the sea as Fake Ye Liang woke after the electric current drove the Blood-Sucking Seaweed from his back.

Ye Liang returned from the past to Konoha Year 50, but realized he had arrived in a parallel version of the Naruto world where no one knew him. His time-traveling turtle fell asleep, leaving him stranded, and he ended the chapter by proposing to Hinata, who fainted.

• Ye Liang woke in Konoha Year 50 and learned from a sweeping old man that he had traveled five years into the future.
• Ye Liang encountered familiar people who did not recognize him and concluded that he was in the original Naruto world, a parallel dimension.
• Ye Liang tried to use his turtle to return to his own world, but it beeped and fell asleep, apparently out of energy.
• Hinata arrived to register Ye Liang as a traveler, and he proposed to her on the spot.
• Hinata blushed and fainted, and Ye Liang caught her.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo investigated Ye Liang after his unexplained arrival in Konoha, and Danzo’s Anbu captured him while he was drunk. In the dungeon, Ye Liang revealed his power and confronted Danzo, who attacked him with hidden Explosive Tag traps.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo agreed that Ye Liang was suspicious and dangerous, then sent Anbu to watch him.
• After leaving the Hyuga Main Family, Ye Liang noticed the Anbu but bluffed that he had detected them with his brain before passing out.
• The Anbu brought Ye Liang to Konoha’s dungeon, where Danzo questioned him about infiltrating the village.
• When Danzo’s men poured water on Ye Liang, he redirected it at Danzo, broke his ropes, and said he had come to see an old acquaintance.
• Ye Liang identified Danzo as the acquaintance, and Danzo triggered Explosive Tag traps beneath him.

Ye Liang overwhelmed Shimura Danzō in battle and killed him twice, anticipating that Danzō would use Izanagi to revive himself. Hiruzen Sarutobi intervened and persuaded Ye Liang to spare Danzō, who was taken away by the Anbu.

• Ye Liang shrugged off Danzō's traps and stopped his powerful Wind Release with a wave of his hand.
• Ye Liang struck Danzō and kicked him into a wall, killing him, then waited for him to revive through Izanagi.
• Danzō revived and attacked Ye Liang with a Shuriken, but Ye Liang knocked it away and killed him a second time.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived and asked Ye Liang to spare Danzō, explaining that Danzō had acted to protect Konoha.
• Ye Liang agreed to Hiruzen's request, and Hiruzen had the Anbu take Danzō away.