Chapter Summaries

As Sasuke started at the Ninja Academy, Naruto Uzumaki reunited with Zongyan and revealed how he had turned violent after taking Zongyan’s advice to heart. Zongyan and Uchiha Itachi realized that Zongyan’s casual words had helped make Naruto Konoha’s feared little tyrant.

• Zongyan and Uchiha Itachi saw Sasuke enter the Ninja Academy, then encountered Naruto Uzumaki at the gates.
• After children called Naruto a demon fox, Naruto attacked one child and beat the child’s parents when they tried to intervene.
• Naruto told Zongyan that he had learned to fight back after the Third Hokage let him off with only a lecture for beating a bully.
• Naruto explained that he had spent two years attacking people who insulted or excluded him, while the Third Hokage repeatedly failed to punish him.
• Naruto asked why the big clans never interfered, and Zongyan said only the Third Hokage might know.
• Uchiha Itachi realized that Zongyan’s earlier advice had helped turn Naruto into Konoha’s notorious little tyrant.

After promising Naruto they would meet again, Zongyan returned home and learned that Fugaku had been building a loyal faction within the Uchiha. Fugaku gave Zongyan the names and details of his selected clansmen, intending to place them under Zongyan’s command when he joined the Konoha Military Police Force, then took him to complete his enrollment.

• Zongyan promised an excited Naruto that they would meet often, then parted ways with Uchiha Itachi as Itachi headed to report to the Anbu.
• Zongyan returned to the Uchiha Clan Compound, where Fugaku showed him a list of loyal clansmen who had each used the Vein Altar for one awakening.
• Fugaku explained that he had used the Altar’s monthly opportunities to strengthen selected clansmen and build support for his faction as he shifted toward the Radical Faction.
• Zongyan realized Fugaku intended to put the listed Military Police Force members under his command and memorized their details.
• Fugaku took Zongyan to the Konoha Military Police Force headquarters to complete his enrollment paperwork.

Fugaku brought Zongyan to the Konoha Military Police Force headquarters, explained its organization, and appointed him an Action Squad captain. Zongyan met his division captain and three young officers, all selected by Fugaku, and set out to learn the district with them.

• Fugaku explained the Military Police Force's staffing, four duty divisions, and his plans for Zongyan to build influence within it.
• Fugaku registered Zongyan in the force and appointed him captain of a four-person arrest squad.
• Fugaku introduced Zongyan to Uchiha Yashiro, the southern district division captain, and instructed him to guide Zongyan through the force's procedures.
• Yashiro assigned Uchiha Takuma, Uchiha Naoki, and Uchiha Yūta to Zongyan's squad.
• Zongyan greeted the three officers and realized that Fugaku had personally selected each of them.

Zongyan began his first South District patrol with Takuma, Naoki, and Yuta, then intervened when Shimura Hongyu refused to pay for ramen and assaulted the shopkeeper. Hongyu invoked his uncle Shimura Danzō, but Zongyan arrested him under the public security regulations.

• Zongyan and his three patrol members walked through the South District and discussed the Uchiha Security Force's duties and reputation among villagers.
• The patrol heard a commotion at a ramen shop, where a young man had tried to leave without paying and shoved the owner when confronted.
• The crowd fled when they realized the Uchiha guards had arrived, while Takuma and Naoki explained that villagers feared the clan's strict enforcement.
• The offender identified himself as Shimura Hongyu and threatened the officers by claiming his uncle was Shimura Danzō.
• Zongyan cited the public security regulations, then twisted Hongyu's wrist and forced him to the floor.
• Naoki and Yuta restrained Shimura Hongyu with ropes.

Zongyan arrested Shimura Hongyu for causing trouble and abusing his uncle Danzo’s influence, then refused to release him despite pressure from Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi. After Hiruzen privately met with Uchiha Fugaku, Hongyu was released early and the Uchiha Clan acquired another shop on South Street.

• Zongyan publicly defended Shimura Hongyu’s arrest as impartial law enforcement, while villagers criticized the privileges of high-ranking officials’ relatives.
• Danzo arrived with Root and ordered Zongyan to release Hongyu, but Zongyan challenged him before the gathered villagers, forcing Danzo to leave without his nephew.
• Danzo complained to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who summoned Zongyan and asked him to release Hongyu for the sake of friendship and restraint.
• Zongyan questioned whether personal ties among officials mattered more than village laws, leaving Hiruzen unable to argue against him.
• Hiruzen privately spoke with Uchiha Fugaku, after which the Uchiha Clan appeared to acquire another South Street shop and Hongyu was released early after several days in detention.

Uchiha Zongyan used strict enforcement against Shimura relatives to exploit Danzo’s fear of damaging his reputation, steadily weakening the Shimura Clan’s standing in Konoha. Unable to retaliate openly, Danzo ordered Root to find information on Missing-nin far from the village, preparing to target Zongyan outside Konoha.

• Zongyan realized that his lawful arrest of Shimura Hongyu had earned the Uchiha a prime South Street shop as compensation from Danzo.
• Zongyan ordered his squad to enforce every regulation strictly against the Shimura Clan and Danzo’s relatives while treating other minor offenses leniently.
• The Shimura Clan’s repeated public punishments fueled village gossip, damaged Danzo’s reputation, and drove allied smaller clans away.
• Danzo considered using Root to kill Zongyan but held back because a public retaliation could ruin his bid for the Hokage position.
• Danzo ordered a Root operative to find the locations and information of Missing-nin who were far from Konoha.

Danzo persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi to send Uchiha Zongyan and his squad out of Konoha to hunt a rogue ninja, hoping to remove Zongyan and restore the leadership’s authority. Zongyan accepted the order, while Fugaku arranged covert protection and Uchiha Itachi offered to join the mission.

• Danzo presented a rogue ninja threat and argued that Uchiha Zongyan should lead a squad to capture him, claiming the mission would serve Konoha and restore the leadership’s prestige.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi issued an urgent order for Zongyan’s squad to leave the village the next morning and eliminate the rogue ninja at the Land of Fire’s border.
• Fugaku gave Zongyan the transfer order, and Zongyan recognized that Danzo intended to target him outside the village.
• Fugaku promised to send two veteran Jonin from the clan to secretly protect Zongyan and his squad.
• Uchiha Itachi hurried to the Clan Grounds and offered to take leave from Anbu to accompany Zongyan, who reassured him that Fugaku had arranged protection.

Zongyan led Takuma, Naoki, and Yuta toward the border, where rogue ninja ambushed them in a dense forest. Uchiha Kiyoshi and Uchiha Makoto intervened, but one attacker still targeted Zongyan and vowed to kill him.

• Zongyan refused Itachi's offer to accompany him and reassured Itachi and Uchiha Mikoto before leaving Konoha.
• At the gate, Zongyan warned Takuma, Naoki, and Yuta that Danzo had arranged the mission to target him.
• The squad noticed the forest's unnatural silence, and Zongyan identified an ambush before leading them inside in formation.
• Rogue ninja trapped the squad with earth walls, kunai, wind blades, and fire attacks, but Zongyan used his Great Fireball Technique to shield them.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi and Uchiha Makoto arrived, countered the attacks, and exposed the three rogue jonin hidden in the forest.
• One rogue ninja focused on Zongyan and threatened to kill him despite the Uchiha jonin's protection.

Uchiha Zongyan used Murasame to kill the rogue Jonin and Genin threatening his team, then joined Uchiha Makoto and Uchiha Kiyoshi to defeat the remaining enemy. After the battlefield fell silent, he promised the weapon-loving Kiyoshi a divine weapon if he found another of equal quality.

• Zongyan cut the rogue Jonin with Murasame, whose curse killed him before he could attack again.
• Zongyan rescued Takuma and the other two teammates by wounding the rogue Genin with Murasame, then told them to rest and keep watch.
• Zongyan joined Uchiha Makoto and killed the Jonin they were fighting with a shallow cut from Murasame.
• Zongyan and Makoto reinforced Uchiha Kiyoshi, and the three Uchiha overwhelmed and killed Kiyoshi's opponent.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi admired Murasame, and Zongyan promised to give him a weapon of equal quality if he found one before returning to his teammates.

After enduring Root’s relentless attacks, Zongyan’s squad reached a remote village and captured the rogue ninja Kawano Shinji. Zongyan began questioning him about his desertion, but rejected Root’s account of the reasons.

• Root continued harassing the squad with ambushes, poison, and explosive tags as they traveled toward their destination.
• The exhausted squad reached a remote village, rested for a day, and then resumed their mission to find the rogue ninja.
• Zongyan’s group found Kawano Shinji working in a small eatery, and he tried to flee when he recognized their Konoha headbands.
• The two Uchiha Jonin, Zongyan, and the others subdued Kawano Shinji and sealed his chakra.
• Zongyan questioned Kawano Shinji about deserting Konoha, and Kawano said Root’s records already contained the answer.
• Zongyan said he did not trust Danzo or Root’s stated explanation for the desertion.

Kawano Shinji explained how Konoha condemned him both for saving comrades at the expense of a mission and for abandoning comrades to complete one, driving him to defect. Zongyan then offered to consider letting him go in exchange for useful secrets about Konoha, despite his squad’s objections.

• Zongyan told Kawano Shinji that he distrusted Danzo and asked why he had defected.
• Kawano Shinji recounted how Konoha punished him for rescuing comrades and later condemned him for abandoning them to complete a mission.
• Kawano Shinji described how the village’s contradictory judgments destroyed his faith and led him to flee Konoha.
• Zongyan asked whether Kawano Shinji knew other hidden secrets from his years in the Anbu.
• Zongyan offered to let Kawano Shinji go if his information proved useful, and dismissed his squad’s protests about their mission.

Kawano Shinji revealed that Konoha's leadership had plundered Kushina Uzumaki's resources and that Danzo and Orochimaru had subjected villagers and Uchiha, including Uchiha Xuan, to human experiments. Seeing Shinji's memories as a chance to unite the divided Uchiha, Zongyan decided to keep him alive and fake his death before taking him to the clan compound.

• Kawano Shinji accused Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha's leadership of seizing Kushina Uzumaki's assets and revealed Danzo's human experiments with Orochimaru.
• Shinji said Uchiha clansmen had been experimented on and named Uchiha Xuan, whom the village had declared dead in the Third Shinobi World War.
• Shinji offered to let the Uchiha examine his memories as proof, and Zongyan recognized that the revelations could unite the clan's factions.
• Zongyan decided Shinji must live and asked Uchiha Makoto and Uchiha Kiyoshi how to make Konoha believe Shinji was dead.
• Makoto and Kiyoshi proposed using a mutilated, chakra-marked corpse and coordinating their mission report, and Zongyan told Shinji to cooperate.

Zongyan returned to Konoha with Kawano Shinji alive, after his team faked the target’s death to complete the mission. He told Fugaku about Shinji’s claims of Uchiha abductions and Danzo’s experiments, then brought him to Naka Shrine for the clan meeting as the Uchiha debated worsening pressure from the village.

• Uchiha Makoto and Uchiha Kiyoshi altered a similar-looking corpse, adding Kawano Shinji’s tissue and ninjutsu traces so Uchiha Takuma could report the mission complete.
• Zongyan smuggled Shinji into the clan grounds and told Fugaku that the Third had taken Kushina’s estate, Danzo was conducting human experiments with Orochimaru, and Anbu had abducted Uchiha for the laboratory.
• Fugaku told Zongyan to bring Shinji to the regular clan meeting so the clan could verify the allegations.
• Zongyan carried Shinji in a sack to Naka Shrine, where Fugaku convened about twenty Uchiha Jonin beneath the shrine’s main hall.
• Uchiha Yashiro reported that clan income and village supply allotments had fallen, while Uchiha Tekka accused the village of deliberately targeting the clan.

At the clan meeting, Fugaku revealed evidence that Root had abducted Uchiha and used them for human experimentation, then declared the clan had the strength to act against Konoha. He ordered a purge of suspected traitors and captured Shisui, leaving the clan demanding an explanation.

• Fugaku told the assembled Uchiha jonin that he had long resented Konoha but had previously urged restraint because the clan lacked strength.
• Fugaku had Zongyan bring in rogue ninja Kawano Shinji and revealed that his memories implicated Root in abducting Uchiha for human experimentation.
• Uchiha Inabi, Uchiha Tekka, and Uchiha Yashiro examined Kawano Shinji's memories with their Sharingan and confirmed they were genuine, enraging the gathered clan members.
• Shisui Uchiha resolved to consult the Hokage, while Fugaku and Zongyan watched the crowd for suspicious clansmen.
• Fugaku announced that traitors had to be dealt with, then attacked Shisui as Zongyan's group restrained several other silent members of the crowd.
• The Uchiha pinned Shisui down and sealed his chakra, prompting Tekka to question Fugaku about Shisui and his newly revealed Mangekyō.

Fugaku and Zongyan led the loyal Uchiha Jonin into the Secret Chamber beneath Naka Shrine and revealed the Bloodline Altar’s powers. The clansmen learned it could strengthen their bloodline and grant Mangekyō awakenings, leaving them ecstatic at the prospect of the Uchiha Clan’s rise.

• Fugaku ordered Zongyan and the others to knock out and bind the Uchiha who opposed them, preventing them from reporting what they had heard.
• Zongyan opened a hidden passage and led Fugaku and the loyal clansmen through the trapped chamber to the ancient Altar.
• Zongyan identified the Altar as the Bloodline Altar and said it could purify the Uchiha bloodline across generations.
• Zongyan revealed that enough minerals could activate the Altar fragment and allow one bloodline awakening each month without side effects, potentially giving even ordinary people the Mangekyō within a year.
• Zongyan showed his two-tomoe Sharingan and said he had never experienced extreme emotional upheaval, convincing the gathered clansmen of the Altar’s power.
• Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Tekka, Inabi, and the other Jonin erupted in excitement over the Uchiha Clan’s newfound opportunity.

After the Uchiha learned about the Bloodline Altar, Fugaku and the Clan Elders inventoried the clan’s assets and struggled to decide how to allocate its monthly awakening opportunity. Zongyan proposed a family contribution system, and the elders began discussing how to use it to distribute awakenings, resources, and techniques.

• Fugaku warned the Uchiha Jonin to keep the Altar secret, and the clan members swore to protect its secret and restore the clan’s glory.
• Fugaku and the three Clan Elders worked through the night to inventory the Uchiha Clan’s assets, then debated how to allocate the Altar’s monthly awakening opportunity.
• Yashiro suggested asking Zongyan for advice, and Tekka rushed to wake him and bring him to the front hall.
• Zongyan proposed awarding family contribution points for clan service and giving the monthly awakening opportunity to the member with the most points.
• Yashiro, Inabi, and Tekka suggested using contribution points to exchange for clan resources and techniques, while Fugaku said the system could strengthen trust and unity.

Fugaku introduced the Uchiha Clan Contribution System, which let clan members earn points for their efforts and exchange supplies for resources. The first day of exchanges drew a huge crowd and greatly increased the clan storehouse’s reserves, leaving Fugaku pleased by the clan’s newfound stock of forging materials.

• After three days of refining the rules, Fugaku announced the contribution system to the Uchiha Clan’s core Jonin, who approved it and vowed to work for the clan.
• Fugaku declared that the system would take effect immediately and that the exchange rules would be posted at the inner storehouse the next day.
• Zongyan and Fugaku found more than three hundred Uchiha gathered in an orderly queue to exchange scrolls, supplies, and other goods for contribution points.
• Uchiha Yashiro and the clan stewards processed exchanges throughout the day, while clan members traded their contributions for resources.
• Yashiro reported to Fugaku and Zongyan that the storehouse reserves had risen by fifty percent after exchanges, including large stocks of iron and black gold ingots.

Uchiha Zongyan used the clan altar to awaken his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, impressing the Uchiha gathered to witness it. After realizing later awakenings would require vast resources, he planned to discuss taking control of the Land of Rice Fields with his father so the clan could mine his iron deposit.

• Zongyan asked Uchiha Fugaku to let him use the clan altar, and Fugaku agreed to give him that month's opportunity.
• Yashiro, Uchiha Inabi, and Uchiha Tekka activated the altar with a hundred tons of rough iron ingots while the Uchiha jonin watched.
• The altar's light enveloped Zongyan, and he awakened three tomoe in his Sharingan.
• Zongyan told the gathered ninja that his vision was clearer and his chakra had increased, and Yashiro ordered everyone to keep the event secret.
• Zongyan estimated that awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan might require a thousand tons of iron and considered using his stored iron mine.
• Zongyan decided to propose taking control of the Land of Rice Fields to Fugaku the next morning so the Uchiha could mine the iron there.

Zongyan proposed using a secret iron mine in the Land of Rice Fields to strengthen the Uchiha, and Fugaku approved the plan and organized its implementation. During patrol, Zongyan’s team heard villagers mock the clan’s losses, and Takuma struggled to contain his anger over his father’s reported death.

• Zongyan told Fugaku that the iron mine could be placed wherever they chose and proposed secretly controlling a small country to mine and transport its resources.
• Zongyan recommended the Land of Rice Fields as a discreet foothold, and Fugaku agreed to plan the operation with Yashiro and the other clan leaders.
• Fugaku briefed the three Clan Elders, Yashiro, Tekka, and Inabi, and they agreed to secretly establish control and select reliable personnel.
• While patrolling South Street, Zongyan, Takuma, Naoki, and Yuta overheard villagers criticizing the Uchiha’s contribution system and deaths.
• Takuma nearly confronted the speakers, but Naoki and Yuta restrained him, and Zongyan continued the patrol knowing Takuma’s father had been reported killed in action.

Eight-year-old Uchiha Zongyan used his monthly system draw and won an ink-black Multiverse Portal that could establish permanent passages to other worlds. He began imagining how the Uchiha Clan could explore those worlds and bring back their resources and techniques.

• Zongyan checked his system panel and saw that he had one draw remaining.
• The system explained that draw prizes improved with the clan’s overall strength, which had grown through iron shipments and Altar awakenings.
• Zongyan used his monthly draw and won the ink-black Multiverse Portal.
• He read that the portal could open a permanent passage to another world, refresh a new world every three years, and conceal travelers’ original-world coordinates.
• Zongyan considered how the Uchiha Clan could explore worlds such as Demon Slayer, One Piece, and Bleach, and bring back their techniques and resources.
• Zongyan celebrated his extraordinary draw and wondered what an amber item could offer.