Chapter Summaries

Tsunade ordered investigations into the Sarutobi and Shimura Clans after Utatane Koharu tried to divert scrutiny from the advisers. The investigation found Danzō's accounts clean but uncovered Hiruzen's vast hidden assets and private army, and Tsunade ordered the assets confiscated and Koharu executed.

• Shikaku Nara and the clan heads urged Tsunade to investigate the Sarutobi Clan, and Tsunade agreed to investigate the Shimura Clan as well.
• The investigation found no financial crimes by Shimura Danzō, but uncovered thirty-two billion ryo, businesses, and a private army of several thousand ninja belonging to the Sarutobi Clan.
• The clan heads condemned Hiruzen for keeping his private army out of wars while their clans suffered heavy losses, and Tsunade recalled how he had rejected her medical reform proposal over supposed budget shortages.
• Tsunade ordered Konoha to confiscate the Sarutobi Clan's assets and severely punish those responsible, while the clan heads supported her.
• Utatane Koharu pleaded with Tsunade, who ordered her taken away and executed.

Tsunade and Xuandou agreed on a deal to share ordinary Konoha techniques and train medical ninja for Hidden Xuan Village after Konoha’s seized wealth helped resolve its financial crisis. Back in Hidden Xuan Village, Xuandou finally drew an SSS-rank reward: the World Origin Stone.

• Tsunade planned to use the confiscated wealth to pay overdue death benefits, train new shinobi, and fill vacant posts.
• Xuandou asked Tsunade for Konoha techniques and medical ninja to support Hidden Xuan Village’s library and hospital.
• Tsunade agreed to provide ordinary Konoha techniques and collaborate on training medical ninja, while refusing to share clan secrets and forbidden techniques.
• Xuandou and Tsunade settled the cooperation’s staffing, salary, training, scroll-transfer, and confidentiality details.
• Xuandou returned to Hidden Xuan Village and repeatedly used Tokitsumori to draw rewards until he obtained the SSS-rank World Origin Stone.

Xuandou received a World Origin Stone that could strengthen the shinobi world, but decided to save it until he had unified the world. After Yugito Nii gave birth to their daughter, he chose an S-rank tailed beast affinity for her and named her Uchiha Hiiragi, then received an SSS-rank Mission Card.

• Xuandou examined the World Origin Stone and decided to wait until he had unified the shinobi world before using it.
• After more than ten days of unsuccessful reward draws, Xuandou learned that Yugito Nii was about to give birth and hurried to the Delivery Room.
• A medical ninja handed Xuandou his newborn daughter, and the system offered five possible talent traits for her.
• Xuandou chose the S-rank tailed beast affinity trait and named his daughter Uchiha Hiiragi.
• The system awarded Xuandou an SSS-rank Mission Card for Hiiragi's birth.

Xuandou decided to collect all nine tailed beasts by letting the Akatsuki gather them before taking them, and summoned Konan to learn about the group. Konan arrived at his palace with Ajisai, whom the system identified as a suitable dual cultivation partner.

• Xuandou used an SSS-rank Mission Generation Card and received a mission to bring all nine tailed beasts under his control.
• Xuandou chose to let the Akatsuki collect the tailed beasts and planned to take them from the group later, relying on Konan and Hidan as undercover agents.
• Konan recognized the ten-ryō bounty for Uchiha Xuantou as their agreed meeting signal and left the Bounty Station with Ajisai.
• Three days later, Konan and Ajisai arrived at Xuandou's palace, where Konan embraced Xuandou and he recognized Ajisai as Loli Way Ajisai.

Xuandou arranged to join the Akatsuki undercover as the rogue ninja Uchiha Nanashi, staging his poisoning and escape to attract the organization's attention. After Nanashi defeated Shisui Uchiha and Uchiha Itachi and vanished into the Land of Fire, the Masked Man approached him with an invitation to join the Akatsuki.

• Konan reported that the Akatsuki had recruited nine members, and Xuandou proposed filling its last place by joining undercover as a rogue ninja.
• Xuandou and Konan planned Nanashi's fabricated background and defection, then Xuandou and Konan were intimate in his office.
• Xuandou spread a false story that Uchiha Nanashi had poisoned him and fled Hidden Xuan Village.
• Nanashi fought Shisui Uchiha and Uchiha Itachi on the Land of Fire border, drove them back, and disappeared into the country.
• The Masked Man appeared before Nanashi in a wheat field and invited him to join the Akatsuki.

Xuandou, posing as Uchiha Nanashi, convinced Obito that he hated Uchiha Xuantou and joined the Akatsuki as Vermilion. After Nanashi left, Obito remained suspicious of his sudden rise and ordered Zetsu to have a White Zetsu follow him.

• Obito introduced himself to Nanashi as Madara Uchiha and invited him to join the Akatsuki.
• Nanashi demonstrated Flash Release and claimed Uchiha Xuantou had stolen credit for it, broken his promise, and driven him to poison Xuantou's tea.
• Obito offered Nanashi a chance to take revenge, and Nanashi agreed to join the Akatsuki as Vermilion.
• Obito gave Nanashi a ring, an Akatsuki robe, and a scroll marking the location of a meeting in three days.
• After Nanashi memorized the location and left, Obito reappeared with Zetsu and ordered a White Zetsu to investigate him.

Xuandou passed White Zetsu’s surveillance and joined the Akatsuki gathering, where Pain assigned him to work with Orochimaru and investigate the tailed beasts. As they headed toward Konoha, Orochimaru tried to seize Nanashi’s body, but Nanashi trapped him in a genjutsu and revealed that he recognized him.

• White Zetsu watched Xuandou train, found nothing suspicious, and reported his assessment to the Masked Man.
• Xuandou put on the Akatsuki cloak and entered the gathering, where he observed the other members before Pain arrived with Konan.
• Pain announced the Akatsuki’s plan to gather intelligence on the nine tailed beasts, paired Orochimaru with Nanashi, and distributed scrolls for remote communication.
• Orochimaru and Xuandou set out toward Konoha, and Orochimaru pretended to tire as he fell behind Nanashi.
• Orochimaru bound Nanashi with a snake and tried to take his body, but Nanashi revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, immobilized Orochimaru with genjutsu, and greeted him as an old acquaintance.

Xuandou revealed himself to Orochimaru and secured his cooperation, then returned to Hidden Xuan Village and learned that Rin had given birth to a son. He received a choice of system-granted talents for the baby and focused on the Wanderer trait, which strengthened Space-Time Ninjutsu through travel.

• Xuandou revealed his identity to Orochimaru and offered him research funding in exchange for siding with Hidden Xuan Village when needed.
• Xuandou sent a shadow clone with Orochimaru to gather intelligence while he returned to the Imperial Palace.
• Mabui told Xuandou that Rin had given birth to a boy two days earlier.
• Xuandou visited Rin and held their newborn son, triggering a system reward that offered five possible talents.
• Xuandou considered the talents and favored Wanderer for its unlimited potential to strengthen Space-Time Ninjutsu through travel.

Xuandou named his newborn son Uchiha Yunyou and unlocked a cultivation module, assigning Uchiha Itachi to teach Uchiha Hanyu. Two months later, Tsunade arrived at the Imperial Palace heavily pregnant and went into labor.

• Xuandou chose the Wanderer trait for his newborn son, named him Uchiha Yunyou, and received a Mangekyō Awakening Card.
• The Offspring Cultivation Module unlocked, and Xuandou chose Uchiha Itachi to train Uchiha Hanyu.
• Hanyu told Xuandou that the Ninja Academy lessons were too easy and eagerly agreed to receive advanced instruction.
• Itachi accepted the role of Hanyu's teacher, pleased that it would also give him more time with Sasuke.
• Two months later, Tsunade arrived at the Imperial Palace and complained that Xuandou had not come to meet her in Konoha.
• Tsunade said she was about to give birth, and Xuandou had her taken to the prepared delivery room.

Xuandou selected the Born Sage trait for his newborn son with Tsunade, naming him Uchiha Xihe. After Tsunade returned to Konoha, she and Xuandou continued visiting each other, and their villages’ cooperation grew closer.

• Tsunade gave birth to a boy, and Xuandou chose the Born Sage trait for him after the Uchiha-Senju bloodline fusion unlocked it.
• Xuandou named the child Uchiha Xihe and received an S-rank Ninjutsu Creation Card from the system.
• Tsunade recovered in Hidden Xuan Village for several months, then returned to Konoha with Shizune bringing her urgent documents.
• Tsunade visited Shiwa regularly under official pretexts, while Xuandou frequently traveled to Konoha using Flying Thunder God.
• Hidden Xuan Village and Konoha expanded cooperation in missions, talent exchanges, and intelligence sharing.

In spring of Konoha Year 64, Xuandou visited Tsunade with their two-year-old son, Shiwa, and became intimate with her in the Hokage’s Office. Tsunade proposed that the Hidden Xuan Village train some of Konoha’s new genin, and Xuandou agreed on conditions that left the village in control of their training and required them to serve it for three years.

• Xuandou brought Shiwa from the Imperial Palace to visit Tsunade at the Hokage’s Office.
• Shizune took Shiwa out to play, allowing Xuandou and Tsunade to be alone together.
• Tsunade told Xuandou that Konoha lacked enough jōnin to lead its newly graduated genin and asked the Hidden Xuan Village to help train some of them.
• Xuandou agreed that the Hidden Xuan Village would train Konoha’s genin, provided they followed Uchiha commands and served the village for three years after training.
• Xuandou suggested that he and Tsunade deepen their cooperation in private.

After Asuma Sarutobi returned to Konoha, Tsunade assigned him, Kakashi, Might Guy, and Uzuki Yugao to serve as team leaders in Hidden Xuan Village. She kept Asuma behind to explain that the long-term assignment would remove him from the village while resentment toward the Sarutobi Clan remained high.

• Xuandou left Tsunade’s office with Shiwa, and an Anbu member reported that Asuma Sarutobi had returned to Konoha.
• Tsunade summoned Kakashi, Might Guy, Asuma, and Uzuki Yugao and ordered them to serve as Konoha’s Jōnin representatives and Genin instructors in Hidden Xuan Village.
• Tsunade told Asuma to remain in Hidden Xuan Village until anger over the Sarutobi Clan’s crimes had subsided, and Asuma accepted the assignment.
• Asuma visited Hiruzen Sarutobi’s grave and was left listening as two Konoha ninja condemned Hiruzen and the Sarutobi Clan.

Asuma returned to Konoha and faced anger over accusations against the Sarutobi Clan, then went looking for Kurenai Yuhi. He learned that she had left Konoha with the Uchiha for Hidden Xuan Village, leaving him stunned.

• Two men accused Asuma’s father and the Sarutobi Clan of corruption and blamed them for Konoha’s troubles, and Asuma restrained himself from attacking them.
• Asuma left the Memorial Stone and wandered through Konoha, avoiding the Sarutobi Clan Compound as he worried about his family’s past.
• Asuma remembered his feelings for Kurenai Yuhi and went to the apartment building where he thought she lived.
• An old man told Asuma that the building had been destroyed during the Nine-Tails’ Catastrophe and that Kurenai had left Konoha with the Uchiha for Hidden Xuan Village.
• Asuma was shocked that Kurenai, who belonged to the Yūhi Clan, had gone with the Uchiha.

Asuma traveled with Konoha's delegation to Hidden Xuan Village, hoping to see Kurenai, and discovered she had married Xuandou and had a son. Kurenai rejected Asuma's invitation and left with Mirai, leaving him devastated.

• Asuma spent three days grieving before setting out from Konoha with two hundred Genin and four Jōnin for Hidden Xuan Village.
• The delegation arrived at Azure Tide Port, where the bustling harbor amazed the Genin and Asuma searched the crowds for Kurenai.
• Asuma found Kurenai outside a flower shop with her young son, Uchiha Mirai, and learned that Mirai was her and Xuandou's child.
• Kurenai refused Asuma's invitation to dinner and told him not to seek her out again because she did not want Xuandou to misunderstand.
• Kurenai carried Mirai toward the Imperial Palace and said Asuma had nothing to do with them, and Asuma collapsed and cried out.

Mirai Uchiha resolved to help his father accelerate the unification of the shinobi world, while Xuandou met Konoha jōnin Uzuki Yugao and considered taking several young kunoichi as students. The chapter ended when Xuandou sensed that the shadow clone following Orochimaru had dispersed.

• Mirai Uchiha hid his mature thoughts from Kurenai and decided to find a way to speed up his father's plans without revealing that he had been reborn.
• An Anbu told Xuandou that Uzuki Yugao and three other Konoha jōnin had arrived, and Xuandou summoned Yugao to discuss cooperation.
• Uzuki Yugao delivered Konoha's list of two hundred genin, rebuffed Xuandou's offers of help, and left his office.
• Xuandou reviewed the list, recognized Hinata Hyuga, Ino Yamanaka, Sakura Haruno, and Tenten, and considered taking them as students.
• Xuandou's expression changed when he realized that his shadow clone following Orochimaru had dispersed.

Xuandou and Orochimaru ambushed and captured Roshi, the Four-Tails’ jinchūriki, for the Akatsuki. They brought him to a secret hideout, where Xuandou activated a black ring to contact Pain.

• Xuandou received his clone’s memories and met Orochimaru, who explained that the Akatsuki had chosen Roshi as its first target.
• Xuandou and Orochimaru hid along Roshi’s route and attacked him when he sensed their ambush.
• Xuandou defeated Roshi with taijutsu and the Mangekyō technique Yin Release: Heart's Divergent Gate, leaving him unconscious in a genjutsu.
• Xuandou and Orochimaru carried Roshi to an underground Akatsuki hideout, where Xuandou channeled chakra into a black ring.

Xuandou helped Orochimaru extract the Four-Tails from Roshi, then returned to the Hidden Xuan Village and learned that information about its Two-Tails, Three-Tails, and Nine-Tails had been leaked. The revelation led him to suspect that a high-ranking member of the Uchiha clan was betraying the village.

• Xuandou and Orochimaru brought Roshi before the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and the Akatsuki began extracting the Four-Tails.
• The Demonic Statue consumed the Four-Tails, Son Gokū, and Roshi died after the extraction was complete.
• Xuandou left a shadow clone to continue working with Orochimaru and returned to the Hidden Xuan Village.
• Mabui told Xuandou that information about the village's Two-Tails, Three-Tails, and Nine-Tails had been exposed.
• Xuandou concluded that a high-ranking Uchiha clan member must have leaked the secret information.

Xuandou suspected that information about the tailed beasts had leaked from within the Uchiha Anbu, so he asked Konoha and Kirigakure for help investigating. He then took Hinata Hyuga, Ino Yamanaka, and Sakura Haruno as disciples, and the system required him to build their trust through a mission together.

• Xuandou sent Mabui to ask Konoha and Kirigakure to investigate the suspected leak about the Two-Tails, Three-Tails, and Nine-Tails.
• Xuandou went to meet the Konoha genin who had arrived at Hidden Xuan Village and announced that he would take three of them as disciples.
• Xuandou selected Hinata Hyuga, Ino Yamanaka, and Sakura Haruno, and promised instructors for the remaining genin.
• Xuandou took the three girls as disciples, triggering a system quest that required him to complete a memorable mission with them to build trust.

Uchiha Xuantou brought Ino, Sakura, and Hinata to live in the Imperial Palace so he could train them and keep them safe. After he left, the girls argued over what living with their teacher meant, until a child entered and demanded to know who they were.

• Uchiha Xuantou showed the three girls the Imperial Palace and told them to choose rooms in its side halls.
• Ino, Sakura, and Hinata introduced themselves and described their abilities and ambitions.
• Uchiha Xuantou outlined how he would develop each girl's strengths and said he would take them on missions after they settled in.
• After Uchiha Xuantou left, Ino and Sakura teased each other about living with their teacher while Hinata tried to stop their argument.
• A child entered the room and asked the girls who they were and what they were doing in their house.

Xuandou selected an S-rank mission to the Land of Demons so his three genin disciples could gain experience confronting Moryo, while he planned to protect them from real danger. He summoned Ino, Sakura, and Hinata to the Imperial Palace at night, leaving them waiting to hear about the mission.

• Ino, Sakura, and Hinata met three-year-old Mirai, pinched his cheeks, and learned he was Xuandou’s son.
• Xuandou and Mabui finished assigning Konoha’s genin to Uchiha jōnin supervising teachers.
• Xuandou visited the Mission Hall and reviewed the unassigned missions with Fugaku.
• Xuandou chose the S-rank mission to help the priestess Shion seal Moryo in the Land of Demons.
• Xuandou returned to the Imperial Palace and summoned Ino, Sakura, and Hinata to the main hall.