Chapter Summaries

Tsunade fought Orochimaru while Ye Chen watched, but Orochimaru used the chaos to attack Ye Chen with the Kusanagi Sword. Ye Chen dodged and prepared a Big Ball Rasengan as Orochimaru vanished and launched a mental attack.

• Tsunade attacked Orochimaru relentlessly, forcing him to retreat while he watched Ye Chen for signs of interference.
• Orochimaru unleashed Explosive Tags and multiplied the Kusanagi Sword, but Tsunade’s regeneration and powerful punches let her withstand the assault.
• When Orochimaru disappeared into the smoke, Ye Chen used the system’s Target Lock to locate his real body.
• Orochimaru sent the Kusanagi Sword up through the ground beneath Ye Chen, but Ye Chen sensed danger and jumped clear.
• Ye Chen gathered chakra to form a Big Ball Rasengan, and Orochimaru vanished again while sending a mental attack toward him.

Ye Chen broke Orochimaru’s genjutsu and struck him with a devastating Big Ball Rasengan, leaving Tsunade and the gathered shinobi stunned by his power. Orochimaru escaped underground while Ye Chen pretended to pursue him, intending to let Konoha’s coming unrest unfold.

• Ye Chen broke Orochimaru’s illusion by disrupting his chakra and used the system’s target lock to aim a Big Ball Rasengan at him.
• The blast devastated the woodland and injured Orochimaru, while Tsunade and the other shinobi were astonished by Ye Chen’s strength.
• Tsunade resumed her attack and knocked Orochimaru out of hiding, but he fought back with Kusanagi Sword shadows.
• Orochimaru announced he was leaving, and Tsunade asked Ye Chen to stop him; Ye Chen agreed but deliberately held back.
• Orochimaru vanished in a cloud of smoke and escaped underground, a fact Ye Chen learned through the system’s target lock.

After Orochimaru escaped, Ye Chen warned the shinobi leaders that the disruption at the Chunin Tournament had been a diversion to weaken Konoha’s defenses. The leaders began planning to return and reinforce Konoha, while Ye Chen was annoyed that Raijin was more concerned about Konoha than Hidden Jun Village.

• Orochimaru and Manda withdrew, the other giant beasts vanished, and the players turned their attention to Orochimaru’s remaining companions.
• Tsunade suspended the Chunin Tournament and warned the shinobi leaders that Orochimaru might return.
• Ye Chen argued that Orochimaru had caused unrest to stall for Konoha’s adviser team to leave, leaving the village vulnerable to an attack.
• Raijin agreed with Ye Chen and urged the leaders to notify Konoha and return to reinforce it.
• Ye Chen felt a headache coming on and grew displeased that Raijin prioritized Konoha over Hidden Jun Village.

Tsunade and Ye Chen debated how to respond to Orochimaru’s planned attack on Konoha, and Tsunade revealed her own precautions for the crisis. She prepared to leave alone while keeping the other villages’ elite forces with Ye Chen, and demanded that he disclose his secrets afterward.

• Ye Chen proposed sending Tsunade to track Orochimaru while the other villages’ elite forces rushed to support Konoha, but Tsunade accused him of scheming to stay out of the conflict.
• Ye Chen said he needed to remain behind to protect Hidden Jun Village and the Chunin Tournament participants, and Tsunade agreed to trust him with conditions.
• Tsunade announced that she would return to Konoha alone while the other villages’ elites stayed behind to watch Ye Chen and preserve a contingency force.
• Tsunade demanded that Ye Chen openly share his secrets after the crisis, explaining that his many unknowns made her uneasy.
• Tsunade said Konoha already had Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Might Guy, and others to defend it, then began to add another condition.

Ye Chen refused Tsunade’s request to shelter the Chunin Tournament contestants in Hidden Jun Village, but accepted keeping them elsewhere in the Land of Grass. After Tsunade left, the tournament ended and Hidden Jun Village players received their rewards.

• Tsunade asked Ye Chen to protect the Chunin Tournament contestants after she left, and San Feng offered to examine the cursed seals on Sasuke Uchiha and another contestant.
• Ye Chen rejected Tsunade’s request to let the contestants and other villages’ elite fighters enter Hidden Jun Village.
• Tsunade accepted Ye Chen’s refusal as long as the contestants and elite fighters stayed in the Land of Grass, then signaled Konoha’s fighters and hurried away.
• Ye Chen chased Tsunade and shouted that he had not agreed to her condition, but ultimately accepted her compromise because the contestants would remain outside Hidden Jun Village.
• A system notification announced that the Chunin Tournament had ended and sent rewards to the Hidden Jun Village players’ mailboxes.

After the Chunin Tournament ended without an official announcement, Hidden Jun Ninja's forum erupted in a flame war between haters and die-hard fans while Ye Chen stayed silent. As he secretly monitored the Land of Grass, he brought the badly injured Kakashi Hatake, Sasuke Uchiha, and Naruto Uzumaki into Hidden Jun Village for treatment.

• Players complained when the game team gave no word after the Chunin Tournament ended, and haters soon flooded the official forum with attacks on the game.
• Hidden Jun Ninja's die-hard fans posted rebuttals, but the arguments spread across other online platforms as the haters resorted to crude and unreasonable attacks.
• Ye Chen spent two days using the Feedback System's reconnaissance function to watch the Land of Grass borders and the ninja from the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
• Ye Chen approved bringing the injured Kakashi Hatake, Sasuke Uchiha, and Naruto Uzumaki into Hidden Jun Village for treatment.
• Ye Chen also kept an eye on familiar player representatives as their strength improved.

Daoist Master Sanfeng and other players developed new techniques and grew stronger after the battles, while Emperor of Sinking hatched a peculiar battle pet. Ye Chen then heard Dai Xiaomei reassure female players about the abruptly ended event and recognized that the wave of negative reviews was being deliberately stirred up.

• Daoist Master Sanfeng replicated more than twenty Daoist seals and adapted Orochimaru's attacks into Daoist arts, while Qian Feng advanced from Chunin to Jonin.
• The Corpse Bearer duo unlocked new applications of their palm techniques and worked out Neji Hyuga's Rotation.
• Emperor of Sinking sought more battle merit points after seeing Tenten's fighting style, and his battle pet egg hatched into a powerful little frog.
• Raijin told Emperor of Sinking to stop boasting when Ye Chen looked displeased, and Ye Chen left without asking Raijin about his improvements.
• Dai Xiaomei encouraged female players to trust the developers and expect another event, while Ye Chen concluded that netizens were deliberately orchestrating negative reviews.

Ye Chen decided to answer the online controversy by continuing to expand Hidden Jun Ninja’s events rather than engaging with its critics. He chose to bring the other villages’ teams back to the Hidden Jun Village, accepting the danger of being drawn into major conflicts in exchange for a chance to strengthen the village and profit.

• Ye Chen concluded that the controversy was being driven by rival companies and paid trolls, and decided that ignoring them was the strongest response.
• Ye Chen resolved to continue the game’s events by inviting the teams he had driven away back to the Hidden Jun Village.
• Ye Chen anticipated that Orochimaru would target Sasuke Uchiha, who was staying in the village while Daoist Master Sanfeng tried to remove his Cursed Seal.
• Ye Chen expected later conflicts, including the Tailed Beast Capture Battle and the Akatsuki Destruction Battle, to bring players a succession of events.
• Ye Chen accepted that involving the Hidden Jun Village in these dangers could lead to its destruction, but believed his growing confidence made the risk worthwhile.

Ye Chen hatched an S-rank Seven-Star Snail whose nature-power abilities greatly expanded his options and confidence. He fed it chakra while monitoring Hidden Jun Village through the Feedback System, as the turmoil in the other world remained unresolved.

• Ye Chen rediscovered the S-rank battle pet egg he had received after the Ninja Village War and hatched a Seven-Star Snail.
• Ye Chen learned that the snail could absorb chakra of every attribute, store nature power without limit, and survive fatal attacks by retreating into its shell.
• Ye Chen realized that the Seven-Star Snail could supply the nature power he needed to simulate powerful ninjutsu and other arts.
• Ye Chen fed his chakra to the Seven-Star Snail, causing it to grow rapidly.
• Ye Chen checked village activity and listened to system notifications reporting chakra earnings and villagers' Eight Trigrams Palm progress.

Ye Chen learned he was close to reaching Peak Kage Level, but his surveillance feed revealed that a wounded Orochimaru and his elite followers were approaching Hidden Jun Village. Ye Chen launched a village defense event, and the players prepared to face the invasion.

• Ye Chen asked the system how much chakra he needed to advance and learned he was 500,000 short of Peak Kage Level.
• Ye Chen spotted the badly wounded Orochimaru leading his trusted elites toward Hidden Jun Village and wondered how Konoha's battle had changed the timeline.
• Ye Chen ordered the Powerful Enemy Invasion event to begin and urged Hidden Jun Village to prepare for battle.
• Hidden Jun Village players debated whether to charge out or wait, while the Glory Legion called on them to take up arms.

Master of Open Stratagems rallied players in Hidden Jun Village for the new team event, while Ye Chen posted an official blacklist announcement on the forums to punish users stirring up trouble. The announcement sparked widespread celebration and protest as paid trolls continued their smear campaign.

• Master of Open Stratagems treated the new event as an opportunity and gathered supporters to recruit players into the Glory Legion.
• Ye Chen posted an announcement on the official forums introducing a blacklist, penalties for verified offenders, rewards for reports, and an appeals process.
• Forum moderators quickly promoted Ye Chen’s post, and it attracted tens of thousands of replies and spread across other platforms.
• Game supporters celebrated the blacklist and its penalties, while paid trolls attacked the policy and urged users to report the game officials.
• Rational netizens also responded to the announcement, receiving likes and positive replies.

Ye Chen used the system’s scan to uncover Orochimaru’s hidden support for an assault on the Land of Grass and considered whether the Akatsuki was involved. He decided to stay in Hidden Jun Village while he investigated the threat further.

• Ye Chen reasoned that Orochimaru must have prepared backup plans and chose not to leave Hidden Jun Village unless Orochimaru attacked it directly.
• Ye Chen expanded the system’s scan across the Land of Grass and detected over a hundred Amegakure ninja waiting in ambush at the border with the Land of Rain.
• Ye Chen recognized that the battle-hardened Amegakure ninja could threaten the larger but mostly Genin group in the Land of Grass.
• Ye Chen suspected Orochimaru might also have arranged for Akatsuki members to join the ambush, so he kept Hidden Jun Village under his protection and pushed the scan to its limit.

Orochimaru lured Kakashi Hatake and the elite team into a battle, then summoned Manda and Aoda before using Impure World Reincarnation. The resurrected fighter was revealed to be Hanzo of the Salamander, explaining Orochimaru’s confidence.

• Kakashi Hatake spotted Orochimaru and led the elite team in a charge, driven by his hatred and desire to avenge fallen comrades.
• Orochimaru summoned Manda and Aoda with his blood, and the giant snakes attacked Kakashi Hatake’s team while eyeing Orochimaru’s weakened body.
• Orochimaru used blood as a medium to perform Impure World Reincarnation and raised a corpse from a coffin.
• Ye Chen recognized the resurrected corpse as Hanzo of the Salamander.

Ye Chen recognized that Orochimaru was using Hanzo of the Salamander and other threats to unsettle the allied ninja while aiming to take Sasuke Uchiha from the Hidden Jun Village. In the village, Master of Open Stratagems rallied the players and began deciding how to handle a request for reinforcements.

• Ye Chen assessed the reanimated Hanzo of the Salamander as a dangerous opponent and realized Orochimaru was bluffing to undermine the defenders and create an opening to seize Sasuke Uchiha.
• Master of Open Stratagems rallied the players for the Ninja Village Guard Battle and read them a frontline report requesting reinforcements.
• The players argued over whether to send troops to the front or keep their forces in the Hidden Jun Village.
• Master of Open Stratagems stopped the argument and said they needed both to reinforce the front and to defend the village.
• Master of Open Stratagems proposed shortening the distance between the two locations, drawing criticism and support from the players.

Master of Open Stratagems proposed bringing the front and rear battle lines closer, but an elderly player exposed the risks of the plan. After addressing the concerns and explaining his personnel assignments, Master of Open Stratagems included Ye Chen, who wondered whether Old Yu Next Door would fight as well.

• Master of Open Stratagems proposed sending elite fighters to reinforce the front and retreat toward Hidden Jun Village while the main force advanced to meet them.
• An elderly player challenged the plan, asking where the enemy would be during the retreat and warning that the enemy could attack from both sides or form an encirclement.
• Master of Open Stratagems admitted the risks and explained that his countermeasures depended on personnel assignments and the village's strongest fighter.
• The elderly player quieted the crowd and encouraged them to hear Master of Open Stratagems out.
• Ye Chen approved of Master of Open Stratagems' arrangements and wondered whether Old Yu Next Door would join the fighting.

Ye Chen watched the fierce battle at the Land of Grass border and saw young Genin struggle against Orochimaru’s forces. Choji fought Jirobo, who taunted him as he toyed with the weaker Genin.

• Ye Chen noticed Old Mr. Yu’s enthusiasm for helping defend Hidden Jun Village and resolved to protect it.
• At the Land of Grass border, Manda, another giant snake, the Otogakure Five, and Amegakure ninjas overwhelmed the gathered forces.
• Yamato sent requests for help to Hidden Jun Village and reports to Konoha, which was too far away and in disarray to send substantial reinforcements.
• Several gifted young Genin confronted the Otogakure Five to buy time for their companions to escape.
• Choji used his clan’s Multi-Size Technique and Human Bullet Tank against Jirobo, who taunted him and made him angry.

Choji swallowed his clan’s pills to fight Jirobo, then took the dangerous red pill when Jirobo trapped him inside an Earth Release barrier. The red pill awakened a blood-red aura and blue chakra wings, leaving Jirobo startled by Choji’s transformation.

• Choji endured Jirobo’s taunts and swallowed the yellow and blue pills to boost his defenses and chakra.
• Choji charged Jirobo, but Jirobo dodged and trapped him inside an Earth Release: Barrier: Earth Prison Dome.
• Choji repeatedly crashed into the regenerating walls as Jirobo maintained the barrier with his chakra.
• When the walls closed in and his body reached its limit, Choji swallowed the red pill.
• Choji erupted with a blood-red aura and formed blue chakra wings, then flew upward as Jirobo wondered about his abilities.

Choji’s butterfly transformation let him badly injure Jirobo, but the pills’ toll left Choji unconscious and falling until Yamato caught him. Ye Chen noted that Jirobo’s survival was a minor change to the story, then turned his attention to Neji Hyuga’s fight with Kidomaru.

• Choji transformed into a butterfly, blitzed Jirobo, and struck him with his hundredfold-expanded arm.
• Choji exhausted his chakra and collapsed, and Yamato caught him before he hit the ground.
• Jirobo survived with severe injuries after someone dragged him out of danger.
• Ye Chen considered Jirobo’s survival a minor plot change compared with the Hidden Jun Village player team’s presence.
• Ye Chen watched Neji Hyuga and Kidomaru battle, with Kidomaru restraining Neji using chakra webs and Neji searching for openings with his Byakugan.

Kidomaru trapped Neji Hyuga in chakra-draining spider silk, but Neji escaped by concentrating chakra in two fingers. Kidomaru summoned a giant spider and sent its hatchlings raining down on Neji, who defended himself with Heavenly Spin, while Kidomaru prepared another attack.

• Kidomaru trapped Neji Hyuga in a huge chakra-draining web and warned that struggling would tighten it.
• Neji Hyuga broke free by concentrating chakra in two fingers and demonstrated that he could slice through spider silk.
• Kidomaru summoned a giant spider, whose abdomen he struck with a kunai to unleash a swarm of little spiders.
• Neji Hyuga used Eight Trigrams Palms: Heavenly Spin to deflect the little spiders.
• Kidomaru fired a strand of spider silk from his mouth at Neji Hyuga.

Kidomaru used his spider silk and bow to keep Neji Hyuga at range, gradually wearing down Neji’s chakra. Neji fled into an isolated clearing, where Kidomaru fired another arrow at him.

• Kidomaru demonstrated that his Secret Technique: Spider Sticky Gold could withstand Neji Hyuga’s attacks, then launched a powerful arrow with Secret Technique: Spider War Bow: Terrible Split.
• Neji Hyuga blocked the arrow with Eight Trigrams Palms: Heavenly Spin, but the impact left him badly strained.
• Kidomaru revealed that he had used his antics and ranged attacks to deplete Neji Hyuga’s chakra, then declared that he intended to kill him.
• Kidomaru repeatedly fired arrows as Neji Hyuga retreated, eventually chasing him into a secluded clearing.
• Neji Hyuga’s chakra was nearly gone while Kidomaru still had strength to spare, and Kidomaru fired another arrow at him.