Chapter Summaries

Obito showed Xuandou the Mountain Graveyard and handed over the thousands of White Zetsu stored there. A few days later, Orochimaru joined Hidden Xuan Village and agreed to lead research and development, while Xuandou kept Tayuya behind to ask about her abilities.

• Obito took Xuandou to the Mountain Graveyard and revealed the White Zetsu army created with tailed beast chakra and Hashirama cells.
• Itachi returned to Hidden Xuan Village with Orochimaru and his subordinates, including Kabuto Yakushi, Kimimaro, Jūgo, Guren, Tayuya, Jirobo, and Sakon and Ukon.
• Itachi explained that Orochimaru had attacked him and agreed to come after Itachi subdued him with genjutsu.
• Xuandou offered Orochimaru unlimited research funding, priority access to materials, and freedom to conduct research as long as he served Hidden Xuan Village's interests.
• Orochimaru agreed to improve Impure World Reincarnation and lead research into ninja tools, communications, and medical technology.
• After the others left, Xuandou asked Tayuya to explain her sound-based ninjutsu, then made a suggestive remark about her flute skills.

Xuandou secured Tayuya as a resident of the Imperial Palace and received intelligence that the Land of Earth and Land of Wind were organizing a Five Kage Summit to combat the Akatsuki. He accepted the invitation and planned to attend with Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, intending to use the summit for his own scheme.

• Tayuya flirted with Xuandou, demonstrated her talent, and earned a B-rank Family Chest containing ten advanced Explosive Tags.
• Xuandou ordered Tayuya to stay in the Imperial Palace, and she left with a maid after teasing him about what tune she would play next time.
• Mabui reported that Rasa and Ōnoki had invited the Five Kage to a summit in the Land of Iron to coordinate against the Akatsuki.
• Xuandou accepted the invitation and ordered Mabui to tell Tsunade and Mei Terumi to attend and follow his arrangements.
• Xuandou told Mabui he would bring Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju as his bodyguards.

Xuandou oversaw war preparations and Orochimaru’s new laboratory before Hashirama brought him news that the Great Toad Sage wanted to meet him. Xuandou traveled to Mount Myōboku and stood before the ancient sage, who greeted him with, “You’ve come...”

• Xuandou ordered Mabui to send his message, then considered how the Five Kage Summit could let him eliminate Ōnoki and Rasa.
• Xuandou supervised the transfer of Orochimaru’s equipment and research materials to a new laboratory near the Imperial Palace.
• Xuandou spent time with Tayuya and considered summoning Guren before Hashirama arrived with Shiwa.
• Hashirama told Xuandou that Shiwa was rapidly learning Sage Mode and that the Great Toad Sage had requested a meeting.
• Hashirama used the Reverse Summoning Technique to take Xuandou to Mount Myōboku, where Xuandou entered the Great Toad Sage’s cavern alone.
• The Great Toad Sage opened his eyes, studied Xuandou, and told him, “You’ve come...”

The Great Toad Sage told Xuandou that his vision showed the Shinobi World destroyed by powerful Ōtsutsuki, but said Xuandou’s unpredictable fate could create a path to survival. Xuandou left resolved to explore senjutsu as a way to fight the Ōtsutsuki and planned to have Orochimaru develop a human-compatible training method.

• The Great Toad Sage described a bleak future in which white figures slaughtered the Shinobi World, Xuandou fought them, and the world was ultimately destroyed.
• He explained that the future held countless branches and that Xuandou was a variable whose obscured fate might reveal a way to avert destruction.
• Xuandou considered why the new prophecy differed from earlier visions and concluded that the Ōtsutsuki might be too powerful for the Shinobi World to face easily.
• As he prepared to leave Mount Myōboku, Xuandou realized senjutsu could harm the Ōtsutsuki and decided to pursue its development.
• Xuandou recalled that Orochimaru had already begun studying natural energy through the Cursed Seal and left further research to him.

Xuandou stayed at Mount Myōboku to learn Senjutsu under Sage Fukasaku, but struggled to sense and control natural energy. After a month of training, he still could not maintain balance long enough to enter Sage Mode, and Fukasaku suspected the Toad Clan's methods did not suit his constitution.

• Xuandou asked the Great Toad Sage to let him train in Senjutsu, and the Great Toad Sage assigned Sage Fukasaku to teach him.
• Sage Fukasaku explained natural energy and began Xuandou's training by having him sit and sense his surroundings.
• After ten days of trying, Xuandou finally sensed natural energy for the first time.
• Xuandou tried absorbing natural energy but lost his balance and began turning into a toad, so Sage Fukasaku stopped him.
• Xuandou repeatedly failed to balance natural energy over the next month and could not reliably enter Sage Mode.
• Sage Fukasaku said Xuandou's constitution seemed unsuited to the Toad Clan's training methods.

Xuandou left Mount Myōboku without mastering Sage Mode and returned just in time to travel to the Five Kage Summit. At the summit, Ōnoki and Rasa called for the other villages to pressure Hidden Xuan Village, but Xuandou arrived and challenged them.

• Xuandou thanked Fukasaku for his guidance, then left Mount Myōboku using Flying Thunder God to attend the summit.
• Xuandou returned to his office in Hidden Xuan Village, reassuring the worried Mabui, and they set off for the Land of Iron.
• Mifune prepared to oversee the summit and keep Hidden Xuan Village's expansion in check, while the Kage and their guards gathered in the hall.
• Ōnoki and Rasa criticized Xuandou's annexations and proposed that the villages unite to pressure Hidden Xuan Village.
• Mei Terumi considered Ōnoki's warning about the Land of Water as Xuandou arrived and asked who wanted to put pressure on him.

Xuandou arrived at the Five Kage Summit with Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, whose attack on Rasa and the meeting hall escalated into a threat against everyone present. Ōnoki and Rasa stopped Madara’s first meteorite, but a second one began falling.

• Xuandou entered the summit with Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, and Ōnoki recognized Madara from his youth.
• Rasa challenged Xuandou for arriving late, and Madara summoned Susanoo and blasted Rasa, Baki, and another Jōnin through a wall.
• Mifune confronted Madara and surrounded the ruined meeting hall with samurai, but Madara declared he would fight them and used Tengai Shinsei.
• Ōnoki flew up and slowed the falling meteorite with the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique, while Rasa supported it with an iron sand hand.
• Madara pointed out that a second meteorite was falling.

Madara Uchiha crushed the defenders of the Land of Iron and captured Ōnoki, Rasa, and Mifune for Xuandou. With the Land of Iron’s leader and two influential Kage in his hands, Xuandou was poised to advance his plans to unify the shinobi world.

• Ōnoki failed to stop the second meteorite, and its impact left him and Rasa gravely injured while Mifune survived with superficial wounds.
• Mifune ordered the fleeing samurai to attack Madara, who defeated the first wave using only taijutsu.
• Thousands of samurai surrounded Madara, but he burned hundreds with Majestic Destroyer Flame and defeated the rest in close combat.
• Madara dragged Ōnoki, Rasa, and Mifune back to Xuandou and presented them as captives.

Xuandou took control of the Land of Iron by deploying shinobi and officials to secure its cities, then prepared Konoha and Kirigakure for his coming campaign against the Land of Earth and the Land of Wind. Back in Hidden Xuan Village, he visited Orochimaru’s laboratory to check on his research.

• Xuandou brought Uchiha shinobi, former Kumogakure shinobi, and trained officials to the Land of Iron’s ruins and ordered Itachi to send the fallen samurai’s bodies to Hozuki Island.
• Xuandou ordered Shisui to use Kotoamatsukami on Mifune so Mifune would command the Land of Iron’s garrisons to surrender, while Mabui organized city governments and shinobi patrols.
• Xuandou praised Madara for defeating Mifune, Ōnoki, and Rasa; Madara then left with Hashirama.
• Xuandou asked Tsunade and Mei Terumi to keep Konoha and Kirigakure aligned with him as he prepared to attack the Land of Earth and the Land of Wind, and both agreed to support him.
• Xuandou returned to Hidden Xuan Village and went to Orochimaru’s laboratory, where the guards said Orochimaru had been working continuously since it opened.

Xuandou tasked Orochimaru with preparing a first batch of Impure World Reincarnations to support the war for shinobi-world unification. After news of the Five Kage Summit attack reached Sunagakure, Ebizo proposed Gaara as acting Kazekage while Rasa remained missing.

• Xuandou gave Orochimaru a list of renowned deceased shinobi and ordered him to prepare them for Impure World Reincarnation within seven days.
• Xuandou promised Orochimaru the best research conditions after the shinobi world was unified, and Orochimaru agreed to begin immediately.
• Sunagakure's leaders learned that Madara Uchiha had defeated and captured Rasa, Baki, and another jōnin at the Five Kage Summit.
• Ebizo called for an acting Kazekage and, after the leaders argued over candidates, recommended Gaara.
• Ebizo defended Gaara's character and ability, saying he could earn the village's respect while Rasa's fate remained uncertain.

Sunagakure accepted Ebizo’s plan to prepare Gaara as acting Kazekage and contact Hidden Xuan Village, while Iwagakure descended into a furious dispute over its leaders’ capture. Kurotsuchi learned that her grandfather, father, and Senior Brother Akatsuchi were prisoners and set out to rescue them.

• Ebizo ordered Sunagakure to notify Gaara and send an envoy to Hidden Xuan Village to learn Uchiha Xuantou’s demands.
• Iwagakure’s Jōnin and elders argued over whether to attempt an immediate rescue or first gather information.
• Kurotsuchi burst into the meeting and demanded to know what had happened to her grandfather, father, and Senior Brother Akatsuchi.
• An older Jōnin told Kurotsuchi that Madara Uchiha had captured Mifune, the Third Tsuchikage, and the Kazekage, while Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi were likely held with them.
• Kurotsuchi declared that she would go to the Land of Iron to rescue them and headed for the door.

Xuandou learned that Konan was two months pregnant and promised to support her through the pregnancy. After the Land of Iron was conquered, the system gave Xuandou a new quest to unify the Shinobi World.

• A maid told Xuandou that Konan was pregnant, and he left his disciples' training to visit her at the hospital.
• Konan confirmed that she was two months pregnant and agreed to rest at the Imperial Palace while Ajisai helped care for her.
• Xuandou spent the next few days with Konan as reports confirmed that Shisui and Mabui had taken control of the Land of Iron.
• The system announced that the Land of Iron had been conquered and gave Xuandou the quest to conquer the Land of Earth and the Land of Wind to unify the Shinobi World.

Xuandou tested Orochimaru’s first batch of Impure World Reincarnation shinobi and sent them with the White Zetsu army to advance west into the Land of Earth. As his forces moved out, he headed to confront Kurotsuchi at the border.

• Mabui reported that the Land of Iron had been taken over and that Kurotsuchi’s Iwagakure unit was demanding the return of Ōnoki, Kitsuchi, and Akatsuchi.
• Orochimaru revealed the first batch of reincarnated legends, including the Third Raikage, the Third Kazekage, and Mu, and demonstrated that his Control Talismans compelled them to obey Xuandou.
• Xuandou ordered Orochimaru to continue reincarnating the remaining shinobi on his list, then traveled to the Land of Iron’s western border.
• Xuandou deployed the reincarnated shinobi and the Hundred Thousand White Zetsu Army to attack westward, ordering them to kill armed resistance but spare civilians.
• Xuandou sent Itachi and Shisui with the Uchiha ninja to follow the army and secure captured cities, then left to meet Kurotsuchi himself.

Kurotsuchi confronted Uchiha Xuantou and agreed to a ten-minute fight for the release of her imprisoned grandfather and father. She failed to injure him, leaving her bound by the deal to become his woman and work for him.

• Kurotsuchi decided to infiltrate the Land of Iron with thirty Iwagakure ninja to rescue Ōnoki, Kitsuchi, and Akatsuchi.
• Uchiha Xuantou appeared and told Kurotsuchi that her grandfather and father were imprisoned because they had joined forces with Rasa against him.
• Xuantou offered to release them if Kurotsuchi could injure him within ten minutes, but said she would become his woman and work for him if she lost.
• Kurotsuchi accepted the challenge and attacked Xuantou with kunai while he dodged using only taijutsu.
• Xuantou avoided every attack and touched Kurotsuchi as the ten minutes passed, then declared that she had lost and was now his woman.

Xuandou brought Kurotsuchi to an office after persuading her to go with him to see her grandfather and father, who were being held captive. He insisted on placing a seal on her first, and the chapter ended as he pressed his hand to her exposed lower abdomen and invoked the Yin Seal: Slave Mark.

• Xuandou persuaded Kurotsuchi to take his hand by promising to let her see her grandfather and father.
• Xuandou warned the Iwagakure ninja to tell their village that Hidden Xuan Village would soon make an alliance with its leaders, then vanished with Kurotsuchi.
• Xuandou took Kurotsuchi to an office and told her he needed to seal her before she could visit her family.
• Kurotsuchi reluctantly lay on the desk and lifted her training top to expose her lower abdomen.
• Xuandou placed his hand on Kurotsuchi's lower abdomen and invoked the Yin Seal: Slave Mark.

Xuandou brought Kurotsuchi to visit Ōnoki, Kitsuchi, and Akatsuchi in an underground prison, where Ōnoki refused to cooperate with the Uchiha despite Iwagakure’s precarious position. Back in the office, Xuandou offered to spare the prisoners if Kurotsuchi agreed to cooperate, leaving her frightened by his implied threat.

• Xuandou took Kurotsuchi to the underground prison, where she tearfully reunited with Ōnoki, Kitsuchi, and Akatsuchi.
• Kurotsuchi told Ōnoki that Iwagakure was leaderless and divided over whether to resist, negotiate, or surrender.
• Xuandou urged Ōnoki to cooperate with the Uchiha, but Ōnoki insisted he would uphold the Will of Stone.
• Xuandou ended the visit and pulled Kurotsuchi back to his office when she tried to stay.
• Xuandou offered to spare Ōnoki and the others if Kurotsuchi cooperated, and she recoiled in alarm at his threat.

Xuandou coerced Kurotsuchi into becoming his woman in exchange for supporting her rise to Tsuchikage, freeing her family, and preserving Iwagakure’s autonomy under Hidden Xuan Village. After she agreed, he took her to the Uchiha clan’s private hot spring, where she served him, and the system awarded him an S-Rank Clan Treasure Chest for completing his objective.

• Xuandou demanded that Kurotsuchi become his woman and persuade Iwagakure’s Jōnin to accept reorganization under Hidden Xuan Village, promising to free her relatives and preserve the village’s autonomy.
• Kurotsuchi reluctantly agreed, and Xuandou used Flying Thunder God to take her to the Uchiha clan’s private hot spring.
• Kurotsuchi changed into a swimsuit and massaged Xuandou in the bath before their encounter turned intimate.
• The system assessed Kurotsuchi as an S-rank target and awarded Xuandou an S-Rank Clan Treasure Chest.

Xuandou’s forces conquered the Land of Waterfalls in less than two months, capturing Takigakure and its Daimyō. The White Zetsu army assembled at the Land of Earth’s border as Xuandou received reports that Iwagakure was mobilizing reinforcements.

• Xuandou gained a large increase in chakra and the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique, then told Kurotsuchi he would spare her grandfather and others after she became Tsuchikage and helped him take over the Land of Earth.
• The Third Raikage, Mu, and the Fourth Kazekage led three columns that overwhelmed the Land of Waterfalls’ defenses while the White Zetsu army followed.
• The Third Raikage broke through Takigakure’s waterfall defenses, and its acting leader surrendered; the village’s ninja and resources were seized.
• The Fourth Kazekage captured the Land of Waterfalls’ Daimyō, after which towns across the country surrendered and Hidden Xuan Village suppressed remaining resistance.
• Xuandou learned that the Land of Waterfalls had been pacified and that the White Zetsu army had gathered at the Land of Earth’s border while Iwagakure deployed reinforcements.

Xuandou brought Kurotsuchi to Iwagakure to negotiate its surrender and reorganization rather than launch an invasion. The chapter ended with Kurotsuchi introducing Xuandou to the village leaders as her husband, provoking an uproar.

• Kurotsuchi worried that Iwagakure and the Uchiha would suffer needless casualties, and Xuandou offered the village a chance to join Hidden Xuan Village.
• Xuandou took Kurotsuchi to the front, where Mabui reported that the White Zetsu army was holding at the Land of Earth's border and the forces were ready to advance.
• Xuandou and Kurotsuchi crossed the border after Kurotsuchi persuaded the Iwagakure guards to escort them to the village.
• Kurotsuchi explained that Iwagakure had fewer than ten thousand battle-ready ninja and summoned its leaders for an immediate meeting.
• Xuandou took the Tsuchikage's seat, and Kurotsuchi introduced him as her husband, shocking the assembled leaders.

Xuandou forced Iwagakure to accept incorporation into Hidden Xuan Village, promising autonomy under Kurotsuchi as acting Tsuchikage and arguing that ninja deserved better than serving the Daimyō. He then led Kurotsuchi and Iwagakure elites to the Land of Earth's Daimyo's Residence, where he found the Daimyō indulging in drink and entertainment.

• Xuandou threatened Iwagakure with destruction unless it accepted annexation, and Kurotsuchi endorsed the terms, citing Ōnoki's safety and the village's future.
• Xuandou condemned the Daimyō and nobles for exploiting ninja, persuading Iwagakure's Jōnin and elders to raise their hands in favor of incorporation.
• Xuandou appointed Kurotsuchi acting Tsuchikage and ordered her to oversee Iwagakure's reorganization while preparing to replace the Land of Earth's rulers peacefully.
• Xuandou and twenty Iwagakure elite ninja reached the Daimyo's Residence, where the guards insulted them and allowed only Xuandou and one Jōnin inside.
• Xuandou entered the main hall and found the Land of Earth's Daimyō drinking, surrounded by women and dancers.