Chapter Summaries

Ling Feng settled into his new residence and arranged a lavish housewarming banquet to raise his profile in Konoha. Minato Namikaze warned him that the Hyuga and Uchiha clans were watching him and that an unexpected guest might cause trouble at the banquet.

• Ling Feng met Delia, the woman in charge of his household, and told her to prepare invitations for a housewarming banquet.
• Ling Feng expanded his guest list after seeing how many tables the residence could hold, and news of the banquet spread through Konoha.
• Minato Namikaze visited Ling Feng in his study, and Ling Feng revealed that he had sensed his approach.
• Minato warned Ling Feng that his growing prominence had attracted the Hyuga and Uchiha clans' attention.
• Ling Feng joked about building a faction, then Minato cautioned that someone unexpected might come to cause trouble at the banquet.

Ling Feng defended his plan to host a banquet to Minato Namikaze, who left uneasy and reported back to Lord Third. At the banquet, Ling Feng welcomed his classmates and then admitted members of the Hyuga Clan and the Uchiha Clan, expecting them to stir up trouble.

• Minato Namikaze warned Ling Feng that members of the Hyuga Clan and the Uchiha Clan might act against him, but Ling Feng invited Minato and Lord Third to the banquet.
• Minato Namikaze declined the invitation, left Ling Feng's residence, and returned to report to Lord Third.
• Ling Feng waited two days without interference, then prepared to host the banquet at his residence.
• Kakashi, Kurenai Yuhi, and Rin Nohara arrived and congratulated Ling Feng on his new residence.
• Members of the Hyuga Clan and the Uchiha Clan approached with invitations, and Ling Feng ordered the servant to let them in.

Ling Feng hosted a crowded banquet and used a public challenge to expose the arrogance of the Hyuga and Uchiha Clan prodigies. He defeated Uchiha Toyoki and Hyuga Hyakutomi, won the guests’ admiration, and gained system points.

• Ling Feng welcomed the guests to his banquet while keeping watch for trouble.
• Uchiha Toyoki and Hyuga Hyakutomi insulted Ling Feng and boasted that they could defeat him in a few moves.
• Ling Feng invited the two drunken clan members to fight him in front of the guests.
• Ling Feng used the Eight Gates and a Great Fireball to overwhelm Uchiha Toyoki, then struck Hyuga Hyakutomi with Chidori: Lightning Blade.
• Ling Feng ordered his servants to throw the defeated men out, and the cheering guests helped him earn 380 system points.

The Third stopped the Uchiha and Hyuga clan heads from confronting Ling Feng and explained that he wanted Ling Feng to balance their power. He then tasked Minato Namikaze with asking Ling Feng to serve as a Ninja Academy teaching assistant.

• The Uchiha and Hyuga clan heads set out to confront Ling Feng, but Minato Namikaze delivered the Third's warning and persuaded them to turn back.
• The Third told Minato Namikaze that he planned to make Ling Feng a new force to balance the Uchiha and Hyuga clans.
• Minato Namikaze warned the Third that Ling Feng might become harder to control than either clan, but the Third said he hoped Ling Feng's loyalty would remain with Konoha.
• The Third ordered Minato Namikaze to invite Ling Feng to become a teaching assistant ahead of the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Minato Namikaze visited Ling Feng the next day and told him the Third wanted him to work at the Ninja Academy.

Minato Namikaze told Ling Feng that Lord Third had assigned him to raise Konoha’s Chunin Ninja Exams pass rate above seventy percent. Ling Feng planned to train the students and help them pass, and the chapter ended as he received the list of ninety participants.

• Minato Namikaze explained that the postponed exams would have more participants and that Lord Third expected a pass rate above seventy percent.
• Ling Feng said he could enter the exams himself and secure the needed scrolls for Konoha’s teams.
• After Minato Namikaze left, Ling Feng planned training in physical conditioning, teamwork, and reconnaissance.
• Ling Feng went to the Ninja Academy, where a teacher handed him the participant list of ninety students divided into thirty teams.

Ling Feng took charge as the new instructor for the genin group and used overwhelming force to silence those who mocked and challenged him. After the group fell quiet, he asked whether anyone still objected to his intensive training.

• Ling Feng accepted the Third Hokage’s order to replace the group’s instructor, but many genin questioned his age and refused to listen.
• More than half the group left the ranks and demanded a different teacher, while Kakashi and the others warned them not to provoke Ling Feng.
• Ling Feng attacked the protesters with a Great Tornado, then trapped them in a mud dragon and struck them with Chidori: Thunderclap.
• Ling Feng gained points from the genin’s fear and stopped once they were beaten and silenced.
• Ling Feng returned to the platform and asked whether anyone still objected to him leading their intensive training.

Ling Feng trained 90 Genin for the Chunin Ninja Exams, then entered the Forest of Death and began raiding rival teams to secure scrolls for Konoha. The observing teachers discovered his attacks and were stunned by the young Genin's strength.

• Ling Feng announced a grueling 90-day training program, and none of the Genin chose to leave.
• Minato Namikaze and Hiruzen Sarutobi reviewed Ling Feng's plan and agreed it could meet the Hokage's target for the exams.
• After 90 days of training, Ling Feng assured Hiruzen Sarutobi that Konoha would perform well in the exams.
• Eighty-one Konoha participants passed the written test and individual matches before entering the Forest of Death.
• The Konoha teams gathered as instructed while Ling Feng raided rival teams, starting with squads from Iwagakure, and handed captured scrolls to Konoha teams.
• The observing teachers spotted Ling Feng after rival teams were repeatedly defeated and marveled at the young Konoha Genin's power.

Ling Feng defeated a coalition of Genin who sought revenge, then welcomed a force of over a hundred opponents who had gathered to protect themselves from him. He planned to wipe them out so Konoha’s teams could reach the finish safely and achieve his target pass rate.

• Genin from several villages realized Ling Feng had been defeating their teams and banded together to hunt him, while Konoha’s teams stayed united under his training.
• Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Minato Namikaze watched Konoha’s teamwork give their participants an advantage, and Minato recognized Ling Feng’s training as preparation for war.
• A coalition confronted Ling Feng to reclaim its scrolls, but he used Earth Release: Fish Reflected in Earth and Water Release: Water Severing Wave to topple them and punch them into defeat.
• Ling Feng collected 120 points and left, while the remaining opponents formed a force of over a hundred Genin to resist both him and Konoha’s teams.
• Ling Feng welcomed the assembled force and declared that defeating them would let Konoha’s teams reach the finish safely and meet his ninety-percent pass-rate target.

Ling Feng used his Yin Seal and Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to defeat the other villages’ squads in the Forest of Death and take their scrolls. Konoha’s eighty-one examinees passed, while no one from the other villages did.

• Ling Feng released his Yin Seal and created over a hundred shadow clones to face the gathered enemy squads.
• The enemy squads attacked, but Ling Feng’s clones overwhelmed them with ninjutsu and knocked them unconscious without killing them.
• The observing Jonin realized Ling Feng had caused the battle and watched as his clones took the defeated squads’ scrolls.
• Ling Feng told Konoha’s force to collect the scrolls they needed and head for the finish while he rested and guarded the defeated ninjas.
• Ling Feng later reached the finish, and the results showed that all eighty-one Konoha examinees had passed, while the other villages had no survivors with the required scrolls.

After Konoha’s record-breaking Chunin Ninja Exams victory, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze learned that the other villages were wary of Ling Feng, and Ling Feng warned them that war was approaching. Konoha spent two years preparing, while Ling Feng strengthened his Sharingan, and the chapter ended with the Third Shinobi World War on the verge of breaking out.

• The Third Hokage welcomed Ling Feng and the returning Konoha candidates with a celebration, while Ling Feng gained points from the villagers’ admiration.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Minato Namikaze that the other villages’ hostility could lead to war and ordered him to warn Ling Feng to prepare.
• Ling Feng told Minato that war was inevitable and predicted it would begin within two years, then spent 5,000 points to upgrade his Sharingan.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi organized Konoha’s ninja forces, reduced contact with other villages, and ordered internal purges to guard against spies.
• Over the next two years, Konoha remained on provisional war readiness as reports described escalating clashes and growing tensions across the Shinobi World.