Chapter Summaries

Matsui Shūichi followed Yechen’s team in secret and reported their position to Han, planning to avenge his brother once the elite team arrived. Yechen sensed a disturbance but found nothing, then led the team onward the next morning while warning them to stay alert.

• Matsui Shūichi emerged from Bruno, the summoned worm that had concealed him while tracking Yechen, and revealed that he was seeking revenge for Matsui Shūji.
• After learning that Han and his elite team would arrive the next day, Matsui Shūichi sent them information about Yechen’s team and returned inside Bruno.
• Yechen sensed something nearby, activated his Sky-Splitting Eye, and searched the area but found no sign of the concealed enemy.
• Yechen dismissed the patrol ninja’s concern and returned to rest without realizing Matsui Shūichi was hiding inside a worm.
• The Konoha team departed at dawn, and Yechen warned Hyuga Jingci and the others not to lower their guard despite finding no threat.

The Iwagakure squad led by Han learned that Konoha forces had left their base and planned to intercept them on the road while calling in reinforcements. Meanwhile, Yechen told Nara Yijiu about the suspicious gaze he had sensed, leaving the Konoha leaders concerned that Iwagakure might know their route.

• An Iwagakure messenger eagle delivered word that Konoha had left its base and might be heading toward Aoyama Camp.
• Han rejected going to Aoyama Camp, and his squad decided to intercept Konoha on the road and summon other search squads.
• Hyuga Jingci reported Yechen's concerns to Nara Yijiu, who called Yechen back from scouting to discuss them.
• Yechen described sensing a watcher over the past two days, and the gathered Konoha captains considered the possibility that Iwagakure knew their route.

Nara Yijiu took Yechen’s warning seriously, organized precautions, and kept the unit moving toward Aoyama Camp. After a brief rest, Hyuga Jingci spotted a Rock Ninja squad nearby, confirming that an ambush was waiting for them.

• Nara Yijiu reasoned that Iwagakure might be preparing an attack and shared his concerns with the other Jonin.
• Yechen confirmed that he had sensed someone watching the unit but had been unable to find them.
• Nara Yijiu ordered the unit to hurry toward Aoyama Camp, send out more scouts, alert the camp, and have Hyuga Pingcang search for the hidden enemy.
• Yechen resumed leading the way while Hyuga Jingci periodically used his Byakugan to scan the area.
• After the unit set off from its midday rest, Hyuga Jingci spotted a Rock Ninja squad about five hundred meters to their right.

Yechen’s squad spotted an Iwagakure force led by the Five-Tails Jinchuriki-Han, forcing them to retreat before Yechen learned who they faced. A system mission then tasked Yechen with capturing the Five-Tails-Kokuō, and he began considering how to turn its energy into evolution points.

• Hyuga Jingci sensed ten Iwagakure fighters, including one Elite Jonin, two Jonin, and six Special Jōnin.
• Hyuga Jingci was overwhelmed by the last fighter’s chakra and urged Yechen’s squad to retreat.
• After they fell back, Hyuga Jingci identified the fighter as the Five-Tails Jinchuriki-Han, the Steam Ninja.
• Yechen received a system mission to capture the Five-Tails-Kokuō and unlock the Summoning Hall.
• Yechen considered capturing the Five-Tails and repeatedly converting its energy into evolution points.

Yechen decided to capture Han, the Five-Tails Jinchūriki, but chose to first test his strength as Han charged toward him. The chapter ended with Yechen facing Han alone after sending his allies to report to the Nara Commander.

• Yechen weighed the risks of capturing Han and decided the potential reward was worth it.
• Hyuga Jingci warned Yechen that Han was approaching after sensing that the Five-Tails had noticed his Byakugan.
• Han sensed someone spying on him, activated Boil Release Propulsion, and charged toward Yechen with nine Iwagakure Ninja following.
• Yechen ordered Hyuga Jingci and the Konoha Ninja to return to the main force while he stayed behind to hold Han off.
• Han stopped thirty meters from Yechen, recognized his Sharingan, and addressed him as the Flame Demon.

Yechen fought Han, the Five-Tails jinchūriki, and wounded him with a powerful kunai throw before dodging his charge and counterattacking. Han forced Yechen back with Boil Release, then waited for his nine teammates to arrive so they could face Yechen together.

• Yechen used weak shuriken throws to make Han underestimate him, then struck him with a full-strength kunai that cut his arm and sent him crashing through a tree.
• Yechen launched a Great Fireball at Han, but Han vanished from its path and charged at him.
• Yechen used the Void Flash Evasion Technique to avoid Han's charge, then drew his blade and aimed for a gap in Han's armor.
• Han released a surge of scalding steam that forced Yechen to retreat and left blisters on his arm, which quickly healed.
• Han recognized Yechen's strength and waited for his nine teammates to arrive before continuing the fight.

Yechen fled Han and the nine Rock Ninja, using Lightning Balls and his Sharingan to keep Han at a distance while leading the squad toward the main force. He planned to draw reinforcements and expose a hidden Iwagakure watcher, but Hyuga Jingci returned to find the main force stopped and waiting for news.

• Yechen summoned three Shadow Clones and escaped Han, then struck at him with four Lightning Balls that devastated the forest.
• Han identified Yechen’s real body with help from his Jinchūriki’s sensitivity to energy and pursued him while avoiding his Sharingan.
• The other nine Rock Ninja followed without joining the fight, and Yechen realized they wanted him to lead them to the main force.
• Yechen decided to use the pursuit to draw reinforcements, split the Rock Ninja, and expose the suspected hidden Iwagakure watcher.
• Hyuga Jingci reached the main force and found it stopped; he hurried to deliver his intelligence to Commander Nara.

Hyuga Jingci reported that Yechen was holding off Han and nine Rock Ninja while their own force faced an encirclement. Nara Yijiu sent two combat squads to reinforce Yechen and ordered the rest to hurry toward Aoyama Camp; Yechen lured Han’s squad into a forest, where Han activated a Tailed Beast Cloak in response to an ambush.

• Hyuga Jingci told Nara Yijiu that Yechen was holding off Han and nine Rock Ninja alone.
• Hyuga Pingcang revealed that Rock Ninja had nearly surrounded their force and that he had spotted the scout who had exposed their movements, but the scout escaped.
• Nara Yijiu ordered Combat Squads One and Two to reinforce Yechen while the rest of the force made for Aoyama Camp.
• Yamanaka Shunfeng relayed Nara Yijiu’s orders, and the reinforcements departed for Yechen’s location.
• Yechen drew Han and the nine Rock Ninja away from the main force and into a dense forest.
• When attacks struck from the forest, Han released part of his seal and covered himself with a Tailed Beast Cloak.

Yechen used Han’s rampage as a distraction while he and the combat groups fought the other Rock Ninja. He killed two Rock Ninja in quick succession, while Han continued pursuing Combat Group One.

• Yechen’s ambush failed to stop Han, who activated his Tailed Beast Cloak and charged at the Konoha ninja.
• Combat Group One led Han away, giving Yechen a chance to fight the other nine Rock Ninja.
• Combat Group Two joined the battle and tied down three Rock Ninja while Yechen faced six special jōnin.
• Yechen overwhelmed the six special jōnin with his swordsmanship and Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Yechen used First Slash and Twin Slash to kill two Rock Ninja, prompting the remaining four to group together.

Matsui Shūichi revealed the Konoha team’s retreat to Han, then stayed behind to confront Yechen over his brother’s death. Their fight began with Matsui Shūichi attacking while Yechen calmly dodged.

• Bruno emerged from underground and attacked Yechen, who blasted it with a Lightning Ball and watched it regenerate.
• Matsui Shūichi emerged from Bruno and told the Rock Ninja that Konoha’s main force was escaping and that the others were stalling them.
• Han charged toward the retreating force, smashed through a Konoha Jonin’s Earth Flow Wall, and drew the remaining Rock Ninja Jonin after him.
• Matsui Shūichi confronted Yechen and vowed to avenge his younger brother, Matsui Shūji, whom Yechen remembered killing.
• Matsui Shūichi attacked Yechen with kunai and repeated slashes, while Yechen used his Sharingan to evade each strike without counterattacking.

Yechen defeated Matsui Shūichi and killed his worm Summoned Beast, then set off toward Konoha’s withdrawing main force. Han had already broken through its defenses and inflicted heavy casualties, leaving Konoha’s Jonin unable to fight freely.

• Yechen overwhelmed Matsui Shūichi in their sword fight, revealing that he had feigned weakness to lure his hidden enemies out.
• Yechen evaded Bruno’s attack from underground, pierced the worm with his lightning-charged blade, and destroyed it with Thunderstorm.
• Matsui Shūichi mourned Bruno and tried to form hand seals, but Yechen killed him before he could use ninjutsu.
• Yechen headed after Konoha’s main force, expecting Han to have caught up and the Rock Ninja to be closing in.
• Han charged through the main force’s defensive line, killing more than twenty ninja while Konoha’s Jonin were hindered by their allies.

Yechen entered the battle and cut down Rock Ninja until Han abandoned the Konoha fighters to confront him. Yechen revealed his overwhelming aura and declared that he had come for the Five-Tails, leaving both armies stunned by his apparent Kage Level strength.

• Nara Yijiu and his unit restrained Han briefly while Konoha's main force tried to withdraw, but Han broke free and the Rock Ninja caught up.
• Nara Yijiu ordered Konoha to engage the enemy and buy time for some troops to break through or for Aoyama Camp's reinforcements to arrive.
• Yechen entered the battlefield, killed more than twenty Rock Ninja Chunin and Genin, and defeated the stronger opponents sent to stop him.
• Han left the Konoha Jonin he had been fighting and charged Yechen, ordering three injured Rock Jonin to withdraw.
• Yechen told Han that he wanted the Five-Tails inside him, then unleashed an aura that made the nearby ninja recognize his Kage Level strength.

Yechen battled Han, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, while Konoha's forces regrouped and attempted to retreat. After Yechen struck Han with a Rasengan, Han's cloak grew to four tails and Kokuō took control, leaving Yechen facing a rampaging opponent in a burning forest.

• Nakayama Junpu announced that reinforcements had arrived and ordered Konoha's ninjas to regroup and break out to the southwest.
• Yechen sent the approaching Chunin and Genin away, then fought Han alone as the Rock Ninja moved to block Konoha's retreat.
• Han filled the area with hot vapor, but Yechen located him with the Byakugan and charged through his Boil Release attack with a Rasengan.
• Yechen struck Han in the chest, but Han's wounds healed and his cloak swelled to four tails as Kokuō seized control of his body.
• Yechen dodged Han's rampage and attacked with Fire Release, but Han pressed forward as the surrounding mountain forest burned.

Yechen fought Han, the Five-Tails Jinchūriki, and used Level 2 Space Compression to match him in a brutal battle. Han unleashed more of Kokuō’s power, and Yechen waited for the Five-Tails to emerge so he could capture them.

• Konoha’s reinforcements renewed the fighting while explosions from Yechen and Han’s battle shook the distant battlefield.
• Yechen countered Han’s Tailed Beast Bomb with Violent Wind: Thousand-Blade Rasengan, and their attacks created a massive crater.
• Yechen used Level 2 Space Compression to overpower Han with a series of blows, intending to capture him rather than kill him or extract the Five-Tails.
• Han released his steam-powered strength, but Yechen broke through his cloak and armor and badly wounded him.
• Han stopped suppressing Kokuō’s power, filling the battlefield with steam as the Five-Tails began to emerge.

Yechen fought Five-Tails Kokuō, defeating it with a Space Compression-enhanced Thousand-Blade Rasengan and capturing Han before he could die. The mission reward unlocked the Summoning Hall in the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace.

• Yechen dodged Kokuō’s charge and kicked back against its attack with level 3 Space Compression, injuring both himself and Five-Tails.
• Yechen burned Five-Tails with Wildfire as it formed a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Yechen enhanced his Thousand-Blade Rasengan with level 2 Space Compression and shattered the Tailed Beast Bomb before striking Kokuō.
• Yechen found Han near death in the crater and carried him through a gateway into the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace.
• The system announced that Yechen had captured Five-Tails and awarded him the Spirit Taming Divine Token, unlocking the Summoning Hall.

Yechen opened the Summoning Hall, bound the Five-Tails to himself, and housed it there as a Summoned Beast. He learned the hall could provide evolution points, but upgrading it required another Tailed Beast-caliber creature.

• Yechen entered the Summoning Hall and learned that contracted Summoned Beasts' energy flowed into the Binding Spirit Orb.
• Yechen used the Spirit Taming Divine Token to establish a master-servant contract with Han's Five-Tails and summoned it into the hall.
• Yechen named the Five-Tails Little Five and rode it around the Summoning Hall.
• Yechen learned that the level-one hall could convert 100 evolution points per day, collectable once every ten days.
• Yechen learned that upgrading the hall required a second Tailed Beast-caliber Summoned Beast and complained that the system might be skimming energy.

Yechen returned to the battlefield after defeating Han and forced Iwagakure to abandon its attempt to encircle Konoha. Konoha withdrew to a temporary stronghold, while Ōnoki learned of Han’s death and Sunagakure’s worsening position.

• Yechen arrived between the Konoha and Iwagakure forces and unleashed a massive Fire Release attack, prompting the Rock Ninja to falter.
• Yamanaka Shunfeng relayed Nara Yijiu’s order for Konoha to withdraw without pursuing, and Yechen chose not to chase the retreating Rock Ninja.
• Konoha’s exhausted forces reached a Temporary Stronghold, where the Medical Unit treated the wounded and Yechen rested inside the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace.
• Ōnoki learned that Yechen had killed Han and thwarted Iwagakure’s encirclement plan, then suspended the operation after hearing that Sunagakure might soon fall.

After recovering from his mission, Yechen opened a level 5 Evolution Gift Pack and learned Flying Thunder God and Wood Release techniques. He spent the following days training, and Fire Release evolved into Mystic Ice and Blazing Fire, leaving him with a powerful new finishing move.

• The system rewarded Yechen with a level 5 Evolution Gift Pack for completing his mission in the Land of Earth.
• Yechen received 3,500 evolution points, 30 Spirit-Transforming Fruits, Flying Thunder God Technique, and Wood Release-All-Encompassing Universe.
• Yechen studied the first stages of Flying Thunder God and Wood Release and found that both techniques could advance through evolution.
• Yechen devoted himself to training for three days while the ninja at the outpost rested and recuperated.
• Fire Release surpassed level 20 and evolved into Mystic Ice and Blazing Fire • Twin Poles in Harmony, which could freeze targets before detonating in an ice-and-fire domain.

Uchiha Ye Chen spent another month cultivating at the Temporary Stronghold, then collected 3,700 evolution points from the Binding Spirit Orb. In Konoha, Danzo read reports about Ye Chen and Shisui Uchiha and realized they had grown too powerful for his forces to eliminate easily.

• The Rock Ninja continued harassing the Temporary Stronghold, while Konoha's advances and Kumogakure's attacks kept Iwagakure from sending reinforcements.
• Yechen exhausted his evolution points after a month of cultivation, doubling his combat power without evolving the Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique.
• Yechen left the Five-Tails sleeping, activated the Binding Spirit Orb, and gained 3,700 evolution points after thirty-seven days of accumulated energy.
• Danzo angrily confronted a Root Ninja over the delayed reports on Uchiha Ye Chen and Shisui Uchiha.
• Danzo read that Yechen and Shisui had killed Jonin and regretted not eliminating them earlier, concluding that even Jonin squads would likely fail against them.

Danzo ordered Root to monitor Yechen and Shisui and arrange for them to be sent to the Kirigakure front, where he planned to expose them to danger. At the outpost, Yechen attended a Jonin meeting where Nara Yijiu reviewed the heavy casualties from their last battle.

• Danzo ordered half the squads recalled from the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning, then told Root to secretly monitor Yechen and Shisui.
• Danzo instructed a Root ninja to notify Orochimaru and find a way to send Yechen and Shisui to the Kirigakure front.
• Yechen spent several peaceful days patrolling and cultivating before a Chunin told him that Nara Yijiu had called a Jonin meeting.
• Yechen joined the Jonin meeting, where Nara Yijiu reviewed their last battle and reported that their force had suffered over two hundred casualties.