Recaps

The new players formed groups or set out alone after receiving the quest, while Ye Chen watched their activities through the system. He rewarded Taro Boba for cooking a meal that moved an elderly villager, then received a flood of alerts that several players had been critically injured.

• Dai Xiaomei recruited female players, One Sword Opens Heaven declined to team up, and Emperor of Sinking gathered several male players.
• Master Sanfeng agreed to let a player help him before deciding whether to accept him as a formal disciple.
• Ye Chen watched the new players and noticed Taro Boba cooking with borrowed supplies and sharing her food with an elderly villager.
• Ye Chen issued Taro Boba a hidden achievement and rewarded her with 100 contribution points.
• Ye Chen received alerts that Emperor of Sinking, Dai Xiaomei, Whimpering Monster, and Junyi Ximeng were critically injured and being teleported to the Respawn Point.

Ye Chen watched a replay of Emperor of Sinking and Dai Xiaomei leading new players into a battle with an elite Kusagakure squad. The players were repeatedly wiped out, while the Grass Ninja leader kept Emperor of Sinking and Dai Xiaomei alive long enough for them to kill themselves and respawn.

• Emperor of Sinking and Dai Xiaomei teamed up again, then led their groups into a squad of Kusagakure ninjas while planning to earn contribution points.
• The Grass Ninja surrounded the players, and their leader ordered his squad to capture Dai Xiaomei and Emperor of Sinking alive after recognizing them.
• Dai Xiaomei attacked the leader, but his Grass Release vines trapped and killed many of the new players as Emperor of Sinking and Dai Xiaomei assessed the squad.
• The Grass Ninja leader used Ground Spikes to kill the remaining players, while Emperor of Sinking and Dai Xiaomei killed themselves to escape their restraints and respawn.
• Ye Chen saw that the players had challenged the squad three times and been instantly killed each time, prompting Junyi Ximeng to acknowledge how powerful Ninjutsu was.

The Grass Ninja squad reached Hidden Jun Village, and Ye Chen issued a quest for players to hold them off until Jun arrived, granting them a blessing that restored them after death. As the countdown expired and the Grass Ninja continued slaughtering the players, Ye Chen rose to make his entrance.

• The Grass Ninja squad reached the outskirts of Hidden Jun Village and found no guards, while its Jonin grew suspicious of the village and resolved to seize it.
• Dai Xiaomei and Emperor of Sinking asked One Sword Opens Heaven to assess the Grass Ninja, and he concluded their leader was likely a Jonin with Chunins under his command.
• Ye Chen issued a main quest to protect Hidden Jun Village until Jun arrived, rewarding participants with 1,500 Contribution Points and the Horn of Bloody Battle status.
• Raijin reported the Grass Ninja squad's location, and One Sword Opens Heaven led the players to attack them together.
• The Grass Ninja repeatedly killed the players with their techniques as the countdown ran down, and Ye Chen rose when it reached its final seconds.

Ye Chen arrived after the players completed the main quest and defended Hidden Jun Village, then faced Yoshino Ichiro, a Jonin from Kusagakure demanding the village submit or die. Ye Chen rejected Yoshino Ichiro’s ultimatum and declared that he could choose to wage war on Kusagakure.

• The players held back the Grass Ninja long enough to complete the main quest and earn 1,500 Contribution Points each.
• Ye Chen appeared, thanked the players, and told them to leave the rest to him.
• Yoshino Ichiro introduced himself as a Jonin from Kusagakure and demanded that Ye Chen join Kusagakure or face death.
• Ye Chen laughed at Yoshino Ichiro’s ultimatum and said he could choose to declare war on Kusagakure.

Ye Chen used unlimited natural energy to unleash Planetary Devastation against Yoshino Ichiro and the invading Grass Ninja from Kusagakure. The blast annihilated the attackers and left a deep crater, while the players watched in awe.

• Ye Chen declared war on Yoshino Ichiro and Kusagakure, rallying the players of Hidden Jun Village.
• Yoshino Ichiro attacked Ye Chen with Grass Release: Leaf Blade Whirlwind, but Ye Chen rose into the air with Levitation Technique: Wind Riding.
• Ye Chen used natural energy to reproduce Planetary Devastation and formed a massive sphere of rock above the battlefield.
• Ye Chen triggered the sphere's explosion, overwhelming Yoshino Ichiro and the Grass Ninja despite their defensive techniques.
• The dust cleared to reveal a crater more than ten meters deep, with the invading Grass Ninja annihilated.

After Ye Chen annihilated the invading Grass Ninja with Planetary Devastation, he rallied the players to defend Hidden Jun Village and issued a lucrative quest against Kusagakure. The players spent their contribution points on chakra to grow stronger as the invasion loomed.

• Ye Chen destroyed the invading Grass Ninja with Planetary Devastation, stunning the players and drawing a surge of viewers to Dai Xiaomei's livestream.
• Ye Chen urged the players to unite against Kusagakure, and they answered with cheers for defending Hidden Jun Village.
• Lu Yuan used the system control panel to publish a main quest rewarding players for eliminating Kusagakure ninja and granting them a combat buff.
• Players eagerly accepted the quest and exchanged their contribution points for chakra, with system notifications showing them rapidly increasing their strength.

Ye Chen gained a huge amount of chakra from the players’ contribution points and anticipated becoming a Jonin. In Kusagakure, Bibiye reported that Yoshino Ichiro’s mission had failed and revealed intelligence about a resurrection technique in the Hidden Jun Village, prompting the Anbu to consider how to obtain it.

• The players spent their contribution points on chakra, and Ye Chen received a massive surge of chakra feedback.
• A bird ninja beast delivered its gathered intelligence to Kusagakure’s Anbu headquarters.
• Bibiye told the Anbu that Yoshino Ichiro and his men had been wiped out by Junying, the Hidden Jun Village chief.
• Bibiye revealed that the village reportedly possessed a technique that revived ninja without weakening them, and the Anbu members urged Kusagakure to secure it.
• Bibiye warned that Junying might be an Elite Jonin or even Kage Level, since he had defeated Yoshino with ease.

Kusagakure prepared an all-out assault on Hidden Jun Village to seize its Resurrection Technique, while the players spent their mission rewards to strengthen themselves for the coming war. As the players experimented with their new abilities, Ye Chen’s strength rose to elite Jonin level, and Heaven-Piercing Sword created a C-Rank ninjutsu.

• Bibiye rallied Kusagakure’s Anbu to wage a full-clan war against Hidden Jun Village and take its Resurrection Technique before other villages learned about it.
• Kusagakure canceled routine missions and began preparing to overwhelm Hidden Jun Village with a swift attack.
• After the Defend the Village mission paid out 1,500 contribution points each, the players exchanged points for chakra and advanced to Genin or Chunin.
• Heaven-Piercing Sword and the other players sparred with ninjutsu, then realized that higher-ranked techniques gave them a major advantage.
• Ye Chen absorbed the players’ feedback chakra and grew from Jonin to a level beyond an ordinary elite Jonin.
• Heaven-Piercing Sword created the C-Rank Ninjutsu Make a Stunning Debut.

Players in Hidden Jun Village created and contributed new ninjutsu, taijutsu, and a powerful talisman, earning contribution points and strengthening the village. Meanwhile, the other major shinobi villages learned of the coming conflict between Kusagakure and Hidden Jun Village but chose to ignore it.

• Heaven-Piercing Sword created and contributed the C-Rank Lightning Release, Raikage Flash, earning 800 contribution points and adding the ninjutsu to the store.
• Xiao Huo Huo contributed the C-Rank Gum-Gum Pistol, while Ye Chen learned the B-Rank Fire Release, Flame Storm, through his village chief system.
• Fighting Master created Wing Chun, a taijutsu whose rank and power depended on the caster's strength.
• Daoist Arts Master tested his Mountain-Crushing Talisman, which the system ranked B-Rank, and contributed it to the village for a large reward.
• Players in Hidden Jun Village spent contribution points to improve their abilities, while the other Four Great Shinobi Villages learned of the village and its coming war with Kusagakure, then ignored the matter.

Konoha and the other Great Shinobi Villages chose to stay out of the war between Kusagakure and Hidden Jun Village, while Junying Village’s map expanded through player exploration. Dai Xiaomei’s squad approached a clash between Junying Village and Kusagakure shinobi, preparing to ambush them.

• Shimura Danzō dismissed Hidden Jun Village’s chances against Kusagakure and ordered Konoha’s Anbu to keep watching without intervening.
• The other Three Great Shinobi Villages also decided to remain neutral to avoid provoking a wider war.
• Players explored new areas, expanding Junying Village’s map until its growing territory neared Kusagakure’s border.
• Dai Xiaomei streamed as she explored the forest with three teammates, and viewers reacted to her squadmates and the game.
• Dai Xiaomei’s squad heard a battle between Junying Village and Kusagakure shinobi, then crept toward the fighting to attempt an ambush.

Junying Village players ambushed the Grass Ninja squad, only to face the Jonin He Mu and his powerful fire technique. They destroyed his attack with a barrage of Talismans and turned toward the remaining Grass Ninja.

• Junying Village players and Dai Xiaomei ambushed the Grass Ninja squad with a barrage of ninjutsu.
• He Mu revealed himself as a Jonin and blocked the players' attacks with a fire barrier.
• He Mu launched Fire Release, Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, expecting to defeat the players in one strike.
• The players hurled stacks of Talismans at the fire dragon and blasted it apart.
• The players turned their attention to the remaining Grass Ninja squad.

Players wiped out He Mu’s Kusagakure squad through repeated attacks, while Daoist Arts Master profited from the talisman frenzy. At Kusagakure’s Anbu headquarters, Bibiye learned the squad had been lost and recognized Junying Village’s strength, but the war could not simply be halted.

• Players bombarded the Grass Ninja squad with talismans, and Dai Xiaomei stole a kill by finishing off a wounded Chunin.
• Players overwhelmed He Mu with repeated attacks until Heaven-Piercing Sword killed the exhausted Jonin for 2,000 contribution points.
• The remaining Grass Ninja fled, but the players pursued them and wiped out the squad despite dying repeatedly.
• Players rushed to buy and redeem talismans, bringing Daoist Arts Master a flood of contribution points.
• A flying ninja beast delivered word to Bibiye that He Mu and his squad had been wiped out, leaving Kusagakure’s Anbu in disbelief.
• Bibiye admitted Kusagakure had underestimated Junying Village’s strength but said the war could not be stopped without damaging Kusagakure’s reputation.

Bibiye learned from Kusagakure’s defeat and sent multiple squads to overwhelm Junying Village, while Ye Chen watched the battles and absorbed Chakra Energy from the players’ progress. The fighting continued with Junying Village’s players repeatedly resurrecting, and Ye Chen’s Chakra approached Kage Level.

• Bibiye concluded that Junying Village relied on powerful talismans and ordered Kusagakure to attack with multiple squads at once.
• Ye Chen absorbed Chakra Energy from players exchanging Chakra, bringing his reserves close to Kage Level.
• Ye Chen flew outside the village and watched Kusagakure squads fight Junying Village players.
• Junying Village players used talismans and reckless tactics, but most lost to Kusagakure’s superior ranks and numbers.
• The players resurrected after dying and returned to battle, earning contribution points for defeating Kusagakure ninjas.
• Ye Chen’s Chakra Energy rapidly approached Kage Level as the war continued.

Ye Chen used the Rasengan to devastate a Kusagakure squad and reveal his power, but the attack was a trap meant to draw him out. After sensing a greater threat in the woods, he disappeared, leaving the Hidden Jun Village players with a system prompt.

• Ye Chen watched Kusagakure's Jonin overwhelm the Hidden Jun Village players and decided to turn the battle with a powerful ninjutsu.
• Ye Chen gathered natural energy and created a Rasengan, drawing the attention of everyone on the battlefield.
• Ghost Ogre ordered his squad to retreat, but Ye Chen launched the Rasengan and destroyed most of the squad, severely injuring Ghost Ogre.
• Ghost Ogre crawled away and called for someone to report that the Hidden Jun Village Village Chief had appeared.
• Ye Chen sensed a threatening presence in the woods, laughed, and vanished as a prompt reached the Hidden Jun Village players.

Ye Chen introduced the Rasengan to the shop, prompting players to rush for the A-rank ninjutsu and return to battle. As players mastered it, Ye Chen reached initial Kage Level, gained new rewards and wondered whether improving his self-created Rasengan would bring further benefits.

• The announcement that the Rasengan was available for 100 contribution points energized the Hidden Jun Village players, who planned to return to the village in batches to buy it.
• One Sword Opens the Heavens proposed that players take turns getting killed and returning to the battlefield, while Emperor of Sinking volunteered to go first and Dai Xiaomei celebrated on her livestream.
• Ye Chen suspected a concealed Kage Level enemy had been nearby, but trusted that he was invincible inside Hidden Jun Village.
• Players including Emperor of Sinking, One Sword Opens the Heavens and Dai Xiaomei mastered the Rasengan, raising Ye Chen's proficiency until he mastered it completely.
• Ye Chen earned the Consummate Mastery achievement, reached initial Kage Level and opened a gift pack that granted five B-rank techniques, unlocked village facilities and awarded him the Hundred Ninja title.
• Ye Chen suspected that self-created skills earned special rewards and considered improving his Rasengan.

Ye Chen experimented with improving the Rasengan and began developing a fusion technique to prevent different chakra attributes from weakening one another. On the battlefield, the players’ Rasengan bombardment and Daoist Master Sanfeng’s talismans forced the Kusagakure squads to retreat, and the players charged after them.

• Ye Chen used the system’s evaluation mechanism as motivation to experiment with Rasengan improvements and began devising a stable way to fuse chakra of different attributes.
• The players returned from town with A-rank ninjutsu and bombarded the Kusagakure forces with Rasengan, increasing their proficiency as they fought.
• The players’ attacks broke the encirclement, forcing the Kusagakure squads to withdraw.
• Emperor of Sinking urged the players to chase the retreating ninja for contribution points, and Dai Xiaomei led the charge among the female players.
• Daoist Master Sanfeng’s talismans proved effective on the battlefield, while he stayed in the village drawing more and earned a fortune.

Ye Chen paused his Rasengan research and reviewed the battle, discovering how quickly the players had grown and how much chakra feedback he had received. Suspecting Kusagakure’s retreat was a trap, he flew out to investigate.

• Ye Chen stopped his fusion experiments after nearly a thousand failed attempts and checked the system notifications he had muted.
• Ye Chen saw that San Feng had reached elite jonin and used the playback function to learn that his talismans had earned him a fortune during the battle.
• Ye Chen checked his status and found that he still needed 500,000 chakra to advance from early Kage level.
• Ye Chen surveyed the players, who had gained rewards and strength from the battle, while they explored and hunted beyond the village.
• Ye Chen recalled sensing an elite jonin among the Kusagakure forces, suspected their retreat was a trap, and flew out to search the village.

Ye Chen discovered that the Hidden Jun Village had been left without defenders and sensed Grass Ninja squads preparing to attack. He unleashed Lightning Blade to annihilate the advancing force, while one cautious squad leader remained hidden.

• Ye Chen noticed that most players had left the village to farm mobs and decided to assign them official duties.
• Ye Chen sensed a Grass Ninja squad observing the village and secretly moved into the forest.
• A Grass Ninja squad leader warned his men that Elder White Ape was using them as cannon fodder, then chose to wait as other squads charged.
• Ye Chen saw the Grass Ninja squads advancing toward the village and used Lightning Blade to strike them with a massive bolt of lightning.
• Ye Chen swept through the survivors at lightning speed, killing or incapacitating the charging Grass Ninja.

Ye Chen used Lightning Blade to break through White Ape’s Wood Release attacks and severely wounded the Kusagakure Elite Jonin. White Ape escaped, realizing the Hidden Jun Village chief was far stronger than the intelligence had claimed.

• White Ape revealed himself and attacked Ye Chen with Wood Release: Ghost Tree Forest, intending to hold him until reinforcements arrived.
• Ye Chen let the branches ensnare him, then shattered the cage with lightning and charged at White Ape.
• White Ape used Wood Release: Puppet Art to evade Ye Chen’s strike, but Ye Chen pursued his real body through the forest.
• Ye Chen caught White Ape and struck him with a lightning blade, leaving him badly wounded.
• White Ape fled the forest and concluded that the Village Chief of the Hidden Jun Village was far stronger than a peak Jonin.

Players gathered to investigate a massacre in the woods east of Hidden Jun Village, where they suspected the Village Chief had defeated a Kusagakure attack with Lightning-Style Ninjutsu. They wondered why the developers had not announced an event that seemed to offer a rare chance to interact with an NPC.

• White Ape decided to risk his life to deliver the intelligence he had gathered to Kusagakure.
• Dai Xiaomei and Emperor of Sinking led their groups toward a dark cloud and thunder at the eastern end of Hidden Jun Village.
• One Sword Opens the Heavens arrived first and found a gruesome, charred scene deep in the woods.
• Dai Xiaomei warned her viewers about the graphic scene, and the platform blurred her stream as viewers argued in chat.
• One Sword Opens the Heavens and Emperor of Sinking concluded that Kusagakure had launched a sneak attack and that the Village Chief had wiped out the attackers with Lightning-Style Ninjutsu.
• Emperor of Sinking questioned why the developers had not notified players about the apparent event.

After defeating the attackers, Ye Chen warned the players about leaving Hidden Jun Village undefended and introduced new systems for tracking merit and assigning village positions. He then announced a counterattack against Kusagakure, while preparing new shop merchandise and considering how to advance the Rasengan.

• Ye Chen appeared before the gathered players, confirmed he had defeated the enemies, and warned them that leaving the village unguarded had put its villagers at risk.
• The players apologized, and Ye Chen introduced the merit and penalty system and a position function with jobs and daily quests.
• Ye Chen offered Pig Keeper as a well-paid village job, prompting the players to joke about Emperor of Sinking's interest in easy money.
• Ye Chen announced that Hidden Jun Village would counterattack Kusagakure, and the excited players returned to prepare for battle.
• Ye Chen added his B-rank Five Elements Ninjutsu to the shop and considered how his fight against a Kage Level opponent might help him advance the Rasengan.

Ye Chen completed an advanced fused Rasengan and upgraded Hidden Jun Village to level three. The upgrade unlocked room for more villagers and two facilities as war with Kusagakure approached.

• The players registered their professions and used their missions to repair the village, patrol its outskirts, and prepare medical supplies.
• Ye Chen refined his approach and successfully fused different chakra attributes into an advanced Rasengan after more than a hundred experiments.
• Ye Chen uploaded the advanced Rasengan for system evaluation and accepted the system's offer to upgrade the village.
• Hidden Jun Village reached level three, increasing its capacity to thirty-six villagers and unlocking the Training Grounds and Stable.

Ye Chen unlocked level-three village rewards, listed new ninjutsu and the Cowhide War Drum in the shop, and released the S-rank Big Ball Rasengan. Dai Xiaomei bought it to demonstrate on stream, but her first attempt failed.

• Ye Chen opened the village level-up gift pack, learned five C-rank Five Elements Ninjutsu, and listed the techniques in the shop.
• Ye Chen received the Cowhide War Drum and added it to his inventory, then gained 100,000 chakra for developing the S-rank Big Ball Rasengan.
• Ye Chen listed Big Ball Rasengan for 1,000 contribution points and posted an announcement that it was available.
• Dai Xiaomei bought Big Ball Rasengan during her stream and tried to use it, but the chakra in her palm flickered out.
• Dai Xiaomei's viewers mocked her failed attempt while she stood confused.

Dai Xiaomei and other players discovered that they could not use the S-rank Ninjutsu, and they debated whether it required more practice or strength. Meanwhile, Hidden Jun Ninja opened its third closed beta with only thirty-six slots, which filled in less than ten minutes, leaving disappointed players protesting on the forum.

• Dai Xiaomei asked the in-game chat whether anyone had managed to use the S-rank Ninjutsu, and several players said they had failed despite repeated attempts.
• Raijin and San Feng argued that players needed greater strength or more practice to master the technique, while Emperor of Sinking suspected it was a scam.
• Dai Xiaomei defended the players who believed in the technique and reassured her livestream viewers that nobody had managed to use it.
• A popular video of Hidden Jun Ninja's ninja village battles drew praise on the official website, while users complained that only twenty-seven beta slots had been offered so far.
• Hidden Jun Ninja announced a third closed beta with thirty-six slots, and users filled them in less than ten minutes.
• Players who missed out protested on the official forum, but the developers disappeared without responding.

Bibiye brought Kusagakure news that Elder White Ape’s forces had been nearly wiped out by the Hidden Jun Village. The report revealed that the village chief might have reached Early Kage Level, leaving Kusagakure shocked and wondering what the powerful leader intended.

• Bibiye received a report that Elder White Ape’s forces had been nearly wiped out and went to inform Kusagakure.
• Kusagakure ordered Bibiye to bring Elder White Ape to him for punishment when the elder returned.
• Bibiye explained that the Hidden Jun Village’s ninja could revive the dead and fought without concern for their lives.
• Bibiye reported that the Hidden Jun Village’s chief had gravely wounded Peak Jonin Elder White Ape with a single blow and might be at Early Kage Level.
• Kusagakure reacted with disbelief and wondered why such a powerful figure was hiding in the small village.