Chapter Summaries

After a month in hiding, Uchiha Ye Chen’s bloodlines evolved, granting him Kotoamatsukami and Void Slash, and he used his remaining evolution points to strengthen his abilities and cultivation. He left the chapter with greater combat power and a technique that automatically absorbed energy from the world.

• Uchiha Ye Chen remained hidden with the unconscious Third Raikage while the villages searched the Land of Earth for them.
• Uchiha Ye Chen’s Sharingan evolved into the Three-Tomoe Sharingan and unlocked Kotoamatsukami, while his Byakugan evolved into the three-turn space-rending eye and unlocked Void Slash.
• Uchiha Ye Chen raised Kotoamatsukami, Void Slash, and Space Compression by one level, then considered using Kotoamatsukami to control the Third Raikage.
• Uchiha Ye Chen spent his remaining evolution points to increase his strength, constitution, mental power, and combat power.
• Uchiha Ye Chen’s cultivation technique advanced to its second stage, opening an origin qi sea and allowing it to absorb primordial origin energy automatically.

Yechen used Kotoamatsukami to make the Third Raikage his subordinate after the Raikage refused to join his sect willingly. The system recognized the founding of the Gods Alliance and rewarded Yechen with a cultivation art, a token, and a blessed cultivation realm.

• Yechen revealed his true identity to the Third Raikage and asked him to join a sect devoted to world peace.
• The Third Raikage refused to join, citing his duties and loyalty to his village.
• Yechen used Kotoamatsukami to rewrite the Third Raikage’s memories and make him his subordinate, naming him Elder Lei of the Gods Alliance.
• The system rewarded Yechen with a sect gift pack after he founded the Gods Alliance.
• Yechen opened the gift pack and learned it contained the Myriad Forms Return to One Art, a Supreme God Token, and the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace.

Yechen established the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace as the Gods Alliance’s base and explored its halls, training grounds, and Myriad Forms Mall. He left the unknown vortex unexplored because the system said he was not strong enough, and resolved to build up the sect and bring order to the Shinobi World.

• Yechen used the Supreme God Token to take Elder Lei into the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace, where they found dense spiritual energy, five ranked zones, and the Myriad Forms Hall.
• Yechen showed Elder Lei the Hall of Gods and gave him the Myriad Forms Return to One Art and a Gods Alliance Token before sending him to recover in the first zone.
• Yechen entered the Myriad Forms Hall, discovered an inaccessible unknown vortex, and explored the self-contained training grounds.
• Yechen inspected the Myriad Forms Mall and found ordinary goods, special items, and cultivation arts available for purchase with different currencies.
• Yechen, unable to afford the special items, decided to strengthen the sect and bring order to the Shinobi World.

Yechen returned to Konoha’s Main Camp after secretly rescuing and treating the Third Raikage, then was summoned by Orochimaru. The chapter left Yechen heading to meet the commander-in-chief, who might suspect his role in the rescue.

• Yechen sent the recovering Third Raikage back to the Land of Lightning to resume his duties as Raikage.
• Yechen entered Konoha-controlled territory and met Shisui Uchiha, who recognized him and sensed that Yechen’s Sharingan was stronger.
• Shisui let Yechen pass, then suspected Yechen had rescued the Third Raikage.
• Yechen returned to Konoha’s Main Camp, submitted his mission report and intelligence scroll, and slept until the next day.
• A chunin told Yechen that Orochimaru wanted to see him, and Yechen went to the central tent.

Yechen met Orochimaru, who tested his Sharingan before announcing that headquarters had promoted him to Jonin. Orochimaru questioned whether Yechen had rescued the Third Raikage, but Yechen denied it and left to prepare for the promotion meeting.

• Yechen used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to repel Orochimaru's pressure and briefly trap him in an illusion.
• Orochimaru told Yechen that headquarters had approved his promotion to Jonin based on his mission report and abilities.
• Orochimaru asked Yechen whether he had rescued the Third Raikage, and Yechen denied being the Uchiha who had done it.
• Orochimaru accepted Yechen's denial without pressing further and told him to attend the Jonin promotion meeting the next morning.
• Yechen left, while Orochimaru reflected on his strength and warned himself to watch for any threat to Konoha.

Yechen attended his first meeting as a newly promoted Jonin, where Orochimaru announced his rank and asked for his view on attacking Iwagakure. Yechen argued in favor, and Orochimaru decided to launch the counterattack.

• Yechen received his Jonin uniform and attended the Command Center meeting the next morning.
• Orochimaru announced that the village had officially promoted Uchiha Ye Chen to Jonin.
• Orochimaru raised the question of whether Konoha should attack Iwagakure while it was weakened by its battle with Kumogakure.
• Yechen argued that Iwagakure was depleted and Kumogakure would fight it again, making this the right time for Konoha to attack.
• Orochimaru decided to launch the attack, and the meeting continued for more than three hours as the Jonin planned the offensive.

After three days of training, Yechen joined Konoha’s main force on its way to the frontline base for Orochimaru’s counteroffensive against Iwagakure. The force reached the base after a long journey, where Yechen expected to rest before operations began.

• After greeting the other Jonin, Yechen returned to the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace to train during his three days of preparation.
• Yechen improved several skills in the Training Grounds, using its abundant spiritual energy and instant healing to train without interruption.
• Yechen joined a force of Konoha Jonin, Chunin, and Genin carrying supplies toward the frontline base against Iwagakure.
• Yechen considered the counteroffensive unlikely to let Konoha hold captured bases, but believed it could inflict losses on Iwagakure.
• After traveling with the main force for nearly four days, Yechen approached the frontline base and anticipated two days of rest before operations began.

Konoha’s force began its counteroffensive against the Iwagakure outpost, with Yechen’s combat group serving as the spearhead. After a planned ambush became an all-out assault, Yechen charged an Iwagakure squad and killed a Chunin with a redirected shuriken.

• The Nara Clan Jonin assigned Yechen to the combat group for the coming attack on Iwagakure.
• Two days later, Konoha’s force split into four detachments and advanced toward the Iwagakure outpost under cover of darkness.
• A squad’s assassination attempt exposed the attackers, prompting it to launch a full assault and draw Iwagakure’s troops toward it.
• Yechen’s detachment and two others attacked from three directions, while the Rock Ninja mobilized to defend the outpost.
• Yechen used his Sharingan to dodge and deflect shuriken, then sent one flying into an Iwagakure Chunin and killed him.

Yechen used his Sharingan and swift teleportation techniques to dismantle the Iwagakure squad protecting Captain Kimura. After trapping the lone Jonin in genjutsu, Yechen charged in with a lightning-imbued strike to kill him.

• Yechen killed two Iwagakure Chunin after the Jonin hid behind them to avoid his Sharingan.
• Yechen ordered his Konoha squad to support the other squads while he continued pursuing Captain Kimura.
• Yechen used the Flash Teleportation Technique to kill the Iwagakure Chunin one by one, despite Captain Kimura's warnings.
• Yechen baited Captain Kimura into meeting his gaze and trapped him with Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique.
• Yechen charged at Captain Kimura with Lightning Thrust, aiming to finish him in one strike.

Yechen fought through the battle at the Iwagakure outpost and challenged the sword-wielding Jonin Kinoshita Santai. He unleashed his lightning-charged One-Sword Slash, leaving Kinoshita gravely wounded and unable to move.

• Yechen surveyed the outpost battle, where Konoha's larger force had surrounded the Iwagakure troops, and searched for more opponents.
• Yechen intervened when Kinoshita Santai attacked a Konoha Special Jōnin and took the sword-wielding Jonin as his opponent.
• Yechen used his Sharingan and swordsmanship to overwhelm Kinoshita, whose attacks repeatedly failed to land.
• Kinoshita Santai tried to trade blows with Yechen, but Yechen dodged his lethal strike and countered with a lightning-wreathed slash.
• Yechen cut deeply across Kinoshita Santai's chest with One-Sword Slash, leaving him frozen and realizing the fight was over.

Yechen’s force defeated Rock Ninja troops and captured an Iwagakure second-line camp, while enemy elites escaped to preserve their strength. A new mission tasked Yechen with intercepting those high-level fighters as a fierce battle loomed.

• Yechen killed Kinoshita Santai and helped wipe out the remaining Rock Ninja squads on the battlefield.
• Yechen ordered Medical Ninjas to treat the wounded, and the force counted 113 enemies eliminated and 18 Konoha dead after treatment.
• Yechen regrouped his force and advanced to attack an Iwagakure second-line camp as part of Orochimaru’s wider plan.
• Yechen’s force captured the heavily defended camp, while several enemy Jonin escaped with their trusted squads.
• The system assigned Yechen a mission to intercept the enemy’s high-level fighters and offered an Evolution Gift Pack as a reward.

After pushing Iwagakure's forces close to their third defensive line, Yechen's unit tried to rest before Konoha's all-out offensive. When Rock Ninja harassed their camp, Yechen went out alone and swiftly eliminated them.

• Yechen ordered his troops to collect supplies and continue their advance, and they destroyed two more Iwagakure camps before dawn.
• The Nara Clan Jonin Nara Yijiu ordered the exhausted force to rest while they prepared to occupy Iwagakure's reinforcements ahead of Konoha's scheduled offensive.
• Rock Ninja harassed the camp with sneak attacks, Explosive Tags, and long-range ninjutsu, so Yechen volunteered to drive them off.
• Nara Yijiu let Yechen take the fight and assigned six Chunin to support him; Yechen told them to hold their position and went into the woods alone.
• Yechen killed the Rock Ninja in the woods and returned, impressing the Chunin who had doubted his strength.

Nara Yijiu lured Iwagakure's force away from its camp by ordering a retreat, then led Konoha's combat unit into battle against two hundred Rock Ninja. Yechen faced three Iwagakure Jonin, and the chapter ended with one of them thrusting a Kunai at his throat.

• Nara Yijiu ordered the combat unit to retreat, prompting the Rock Ninja to leave their camp and pursue them.
• Iwagakure sent two hundred ninja after Konoha, and Nara Yijiu stopped the retreat to prepare for battle.
• The Rock Ninja attacked with a combined Rock Cannon Technique, and Konoha blocked it with an Earth Flow Wall.
• Nara Yijiu led the combat unit into a chaotic battle against Iwagakure.
• Three Iwagakure Jonin surrounded Yechen and attacked him, but he evaded their strikes with his Sharingan.
• One Jonin seized an opening and thrust a Kunai toward Yechen's throat.

Yechen broke through the coordinated attack of three Rock Ninja and unleashed a devastating Fire Release that wiped out Kuwata Taro and his wounded teammate. The other fighters were left stunned by the scale of his power.

• Yechen used Sharingan Genjutsu to freeze Kuwata Taro, then struck him and the lead Rock Ninja hard enough to break the three Rock Ninja's formation.
• Yechen used Lightning Release: Thrust and Rasengan to defeat another Rock Ninja, who survived the attack and countered with Earth Release: Earth Dragon Lance Technique.
• Yechen dodged nearly a hundred stone spikes from Kuwata Taro before launching Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique.
• Kuwata Taro raised three earth walls to protect himself and his wounded teammate, but Yechen's fireball destroyed the barriers and killed them both.
• The fighters nearby saw the enormous crater and the destruction across the battlefield, and stared in shock at Yechen's power.

Yechen killed the last Rock Ninja Jonin and used five Shadow Clones to hunt Iwagakure Chunin, aiming to turn the battle and reduce Konoha's casualties. The chapter ended with one Chunin dying without ever seeing Yechen, while the larger battle continued.

• Yechen killed the wounded Rock Ninja Jonin and destroyed the scroll he had tried to use to send a message.
• Konoha and Iwagakure resumed fighting, and the outnumbered Rock Ninja forces began to falter as their surviving Jonin considered retreating.
• Yechen chose to target the Iwagakure Chunin who threatened Konoha's forces and summoned five Shadow Clones to help.
• An Iwagakure Chunin tried to dodge and counterattack against an unseen swordsman but was repeatedly slashed.
• Yechen stabbed the Chunin through the chest, and the man died without seeing who had killed him.

Yechen and the Konoha force drove back the Iwagakure troops, then withdrew when Nara Yijiu ordered Plan B to counter the approaching reinforcements. Yechen’s group was ambushed and cut off by an Iwagakure vanguard, with more Rock Ninjas gathering behind it.

• Yechen’s Shadow Clones killed more than twenty Iwagakure Chunin as the Konoha force pressed the retreating enemy.
• Nara Yijiu ordered Plan B, and Yechen and the Jonin held off the Rock Ninjas while the Chunin and Genin withdrew.
• Yechen used the Great Fireball Technique to block the pursuit, then led the Konoha force away.
• After an hour, Yechen dodged an explosive-tag ambush and launched a signal flare when he saw Iwagakure reinforcements blocking the route.
• Yechen faced a vanguard of twenty-five Rock Ninjas and spotted more of their forces converging behind them.

Yechen unleashed his full strength against the Rock Ninja force and killed Matsui Shūji in a two-slash attack. He then charged into the ranks, using ten Shadow Clones to slaughter the surrounding ninja.

• Matsui Shūji challenged Yechen, but Yechen saw through his thread trap and killed him with Lightning Release: One-Sword Slash.
• Yechen faced the remaining Iwagakure Jonin and chose to attack the main Rock Ninja force first.
• Yechen created ten Shadow Clones, and they scattered through the ranks, killing Genin with single slashes.
• Yechen fought with a lightning-wreathed blade and cut down the Chunin and other Rock Ninja in a frenzy.

Uchiha Ye Chen destroyed most of an Iwagakure force while the main force advanced through an encirclement to reach him. After joining up, the shinobi learned their escape route lay through the enemy force Ye Chen had scattered.

• Nara Yijiu ordered Hyuga Jingci to scout with his Byakugan, and Jingci reported Rock Ninja closing in from both sides.
• Hyuga Jingci saw Yechen's Sharingan gaze and froze, then told the others that Yechen stood among many slain enemies.
• Yechen revealed that he had killed more than thirty of over fifty Iwagakure ninja before the surviving Jonin and Chunin escaped, earning 22,500 evolution points from the corpses.
• Nara Yijiu's main force reached Yechen, and he explained that he had attacked to hold off the enemy while other Iwagakure squads converged.
• Hyuga Jingci reported that enemies surrounded them in nearly every direction, but they could break through ahead, where Yechen had scattered the enemy force.

Yechen led a Konoha advance squad toward the weakest point in the Rock Ninja encirclement, but the enemy had blocked their route. Nara Yijiu ordered a direct breakthrough, and Yechen killed Iwagakure Jonin Kimura as the Konoha force attacked.

• Nara Yijiu assigned Yechen a three-man squad, including Hyuga Jingci, to scout the route ahead.
• Hyuga Jingci discovered that Rock Ninja had blocked every route and were sweeping the area.
• Nara Yijiu ordered the Konoha force to break through the enemy search party in one direction.
• Yechen used Lightning Release while a Konoha Jonin unleashed Water Release: Exploding Water Shockwave, forcing the Rock Ninja to take cover behind an Earth Flow Wall.
• Yechen caught Kimura in a Sharingan genjutsu and struck him with a lightning blade, killing him.

Yechen and Nara Yijiu led the Konoha force through the Rock Ninja encirclement and kept their pursuers occupied as they advanced. After reaching a captured village and preparing to rendezvous with another Konoha force, Yechen remained uneasy about the feeling that someone had been watching them.

• Yechen led the Konoha forces in an attack that killed most of the disorganized Rock Ninja, while Nara Yijiu ordered them to leave the few survivors alone and break through the encirclement.
• After resting for three hours, Nara Yijiu led the exhausted force onward at a measured pace to keep the Rock Ninja pursuing them without letting them catch up.
• Over the next two days, the Konoha force evaded pursuers and pushed through checkpoints, eventually reaching a captured village on the third defensive line.
• Nara Yijiu told the Jonin and Special Jōnin that the force would rendezvous the next morning with another Konoha unit that had broken through Iwagakure's second defensive line.
• Yechen recalled feeling watched during their journey and suspected that the next day would bring trouble, though he believed he could handle whatever happened.