Recaps

Xia Yu waited for the Yingying Beast to finish evolving after exhausting himself with chakra, while Honoka went to find him food and showed growing affection toward him. The Yingying Beast emerged as a giant, graceful butterfly-bodied creature with human legs that could speak, leaving Xia Yu stunned by its appearance.

• Xia Yu stopped supplying chakra after the Yingying Beast entered a giant cocoon and admitted that repeated evolutions were exhausting him.
• Honoka offered to find Xia Yu food, blushed as she praised him for saving her, and ran off.
• Xia Yu waited for the Yingying Beast to emerge and reflected that he preferred Honoka to fall for him naturally rather than use the Heart-to-Heart Technique.
• The cocoon trembled, and the Yingying Beast revealed vivid butterfly wings and enormous human legs before flying out.
• The Yingying Beast knelt before Xia Yu, greeted him as her master, and startled him by speaking.
• Xia Yu called the Yingying Beast badass and told her to stop kneeling because he could not handle the sight.

Xia Yu helped Ying evolve into a winged giantess with a human-like body, while Honoka returned with food and witnessed her emerge from the cocoon. The chapter ended with Xia Yu admiring his new summoning beast and imagining how to accommodate her.

• Xia Yu named the Yingying Beast Ying and told her to cover herself with a tarp after she stood upright.
• Ying explained that she had chosen her human-like form by sensing Xia Yu’s memories, and he decided to help her evolve further.
• Xia Yu fed Ying chakra and told her to keep her wings while picturing her other features as human.
• Honoka returned with food and found Xia Yu waiting beside Ying’s cocoon.
• Ying emerged as a winged giantess, leaving Honoka astonished and Xia Yu delighted with her new form.

Xia Yu watched the Ying Beast complete its evolution into a humanlike woman, then learned that its assembled features gave it an unnatural face. After the Ying Beast fell asleep from eating too much chakra, Honoka suggested using the ten-day wait to claim the Land of Sea’s bounty and make it proper clothes.

• The Ying Beast revealed that it could speak and insisted that only Xia Yu could give it orders, while Honoka urged it to cover itself with a waterproof sheet.
• The Ying Beast explained that it had combined features from women it had eaten to create its face, and Xia Yu told it not to eat people or summoning beasts anymore.
• The Ying Beast fell asleep immediately after Xia Yu fed it chakra, and Honoka estimated that it would sleep for ten days.
• Honoka proposed that they collect the Land of Sea’s bounty and use the money to buy fabric for the Ying Beast’s outfit, but Xia Yu chose to wait nearby until it woke.

Xia Yu and Uzumaki Honoka sailed toward Dalang Island, where they grew closer after he told her he had thousands of wives. The chapter ended with a passing family mistaking the rocking of their boat for a typhoon and realizing what Xia Yu and Honoka were doing.

• Xia Yu left four shadow clones to guard the sleeping Yingying Beast before sailing with Uzumaki Honoka toward the Land of Sea's daimyo residence on Dalang Island.
• As night fell, Honoka stayed beside Xia Yu on deck and rested her head on his shoulder.
• Xia Yu asked whether Honoka liked him, then revealed that he was married and had over three thousand wives.
• Honoka decided she still wanted to marry Xia Yu, and he pulled her into his arms.
• A boy on a nearby merchant ship mistook Xia Yu's rocking boat for a typhoon, while his parents looked through a telescope and hurried him inside.

Xia Yu and Honoka reached Taro Island and went to the daimyo’s residence to claim the reward for defeating the monster on Mother Island. The daimyo agreed to verify their claim before paying, while Hai Shen appeared to have other plans, and the pair went to an inn to wait.

• Xia Yu and Honoka arrived at Taro Island and found the daimyo’s residence with help from locals.
• The guards mocked Xia Yu’s claim until Hai Xing arrived, confirmed he could no longer sense the monster, and escorted the pair inside.
• Hai Xing vouched for Xia Yu, but Hai Shen accused them of trying to swindle the reward, and Hai Dan reminded the daimyo that Kirigakure’s tribute was due.
• The daimyo agreed to send Hai Shen to investigate Mother Island and told Xia Yu and Honoka to wait before collecting their reward.
• Honoka warned Xia Yu that the daimyo and Hai Shen seemed suspicious, but Xia Yu said he would claim the reward regardless.
• Hai Xing took them to an inn, where Honoka chose to share one room with Xia Yu.

Hai Xing asked Xia Yu to investigate the disappearances on Demon Island, known as Spirited Away, and Xia Yu recognized Orochimaru as the culprit. Xia Yu agreed to help if Hai Xing provided tailors and fine fabrics for Honoka, while insisting the Mother Island bounty still be paid.

• Hai Xing booked one room, then stayed inside as Xia Yu and Honoka prepared to rest.
• Hai Xing explained that villagers on Demon Island had been disappearing and pleaded with Xia Yu to uncover the cause.
• Xia Yu recalled that Orochimaru was capturing the missing villagers for human-animal fusion experiments.
• Hai Xing said the Land of Sea could not ask Kirigakure for help because its payments were protection money to deter the Land of Water.
• Xia Yu suspected the daimyo was delaying his Mother Island bounty and told Hai Xing he would investigate Spirited Away if he arranged fine fabrics and tailors for Honoka.
• Hai Xing eagerly agreed to arrange everything, while Xia Yu said the Mother Island bounty still had to be paid in full.

After arranging fabric and tailors for Honoka to make Yingying Beast’s clothes, Xia Yu left for Demon Island to investigate the [Spiriting Away]. On the voyage aboard Hai Xing’s Imperial Gold Transport Ship, Hai Xing asked him to deal with pirates, and Xia Yu demanded more payment.

• After Hai Xing left, Honoka praised Xia Yu for securing fabric and tailors, and the two spent the afternoon together.
• Hai Xing returned with tailors and fabric, and Xia Yu said he would investigate the [Spiriting Away] while Honoka made clothes for Yingying Beast.
• Honoka wanted to accompany Xia Yu, but he persuaded her to stay behind and promised to return safely.
• Xia Yu boarded Hai Xing’s ship for Demon Island and wondered whether he would see Orochimaru at her base.
• Hai Xing explained that pirates had robbed the Gold Transport Team before and hinted that he wanted Xia Yu to stop them.
• Xia Yu agreed to consider helping Hai Xing, but demanded more payment.

Xia Yu agreed to deal with pirates for Hai Xing, but the gold transport ship encountered the powerful Funato Clan, whose forces cornered it at sea. As the Funato demanded the crew’s lives, money, and ship, Xia Yu prepared to act.

• Hai Xing lured pirates toward the gold transport ship, and Xia Yu agreed to fight them for extra payment if they appeared.
• The crew recognized the approaching ship as belonging to the Funato Clan, so Hai Xing ordered the ship to flee.
• Hai Xing explained that the Funato Clan dominated the seas, used powerful Water Release techniques, and was strong enough to challenge Kirigakure.
• Several Funato chakra signatures appeared beneath the ship, and water pillars rose around it with bald, masked clan members standing on top.
• A blond Funato man leapt onto the deck, threatened the crew, and demanded their lives, money, and ship.

Xia Yu defeated the Funato Clan attackers with genjutsu, but their reinforcements arrived with Orochimaru. The chapter ended with Orochimaru recognizing Xia Yu aboard the ship.

• Three Funato Clan men charged Xia Yu, but he put them under genjutsu and knocked them unconscious.
• The blond Funato leader ordered his men to bind Xia Yu, but Xia Yu trapped the leader in genjutsu and revealed his Sharingan.
• Hai Xing realized Xia Yu was from Konoha and hoped the village could protect the Land of Sea.
• Xia Yu told the ship's crew to kill the immobilized Funato men, but they refused out of fear of retaliation.
• Hai Xing sensed more chakra signatures as Funato reinforcements arrived, including Orochimaru, who recognized Xia Yu.

Xia Yu reunited with the pregnant Orochimaru in the Land of Sea and proposed turning the Funato Clan’s retaliation into a source of test subjects while protecting local residents. Orochimaru agreed but warned him about the clan’s new leader, Funato Arumi, leaving Xia Yu more interested in whether the clan had powerful, pretty women.

• Orochimaru emerged from a snake’s mouth and confronted Xia Yu, who introduced her as his wife and revealed her pregnancy to Hai Xing and her subordinates.
• Orochimaru complained that each meeting with Xia Yu exposed her secret to more people, and Xia Yu offered the defeated Funato Clan members to her for experiments.
• Xia Yu took Orochimaru into a private genjutsu space and asked her to stop abducting ordinary people in the Land of Sea.
• Xia Yu offered to capture Funato Clan members seeking revenge and give them to Orochimaru as test subjects, and she agreed.
• Orochimaru warned Xia Yu that Funato Arumi had become the clan leader, awakened the Power of the Sea Dragon, controlled the sea, and could turn enemies into dried corpses.
• Xia Yu asked whether the Funato Clan had any powerful pretty girls, exasperating Orochimaru.

Xia Yu and Orochimaru escaped the encounter with the Funato patrol, and the Gold Transport Team resumed its journey. After learning that his patrol squad had vanished in the Land of Sea, Funato Arumi ordered the clan to mobilize and planned to seize the country.

• Xia Yu teased Orochimaru in a genjutsu, and Orochimaru threatened him before returning to reality with him.
• Orochimaru ordered her subordinates to carry off the defeated Funato clansmen and left with them.
• Hai Xing thanked Xia Yu, who claimed Orochimaru was visiting the Land of Sea on vacation, and the Gold Transport Team continued its route.
• A bald Funato clansman reported to Funato Arumi that the patrol squad in the Land of Sea had disappeared.
• Funato Arumi ordered the Funato Clan's forces to gather near the Land of Sea and decided to lead an invasion to claim its territory.

Xia Yu arrived on Demon Island, left the captured pirates for Orochimaru, and revealed his plan to make the Land of Sea the first step in expanding the Uchiha’s influence across the world. Orochimaru was stunned by Xia Yu’s ambition to preserve the Uchiha bloodline through generations of descendants.

• Xia Yu handed the captured pirates to Hai Xing and sent the Gold Transport Team on its way to the Land of Water.
• Xia Yu called Orochimaru out of hiding and gave her the pirates as fresh test subjects.
• Orochimaru questioned why Xia Yu had stayed in the Land of Sea, and Xia Yu explained that he planned to build a vast ocean-view home for his future children.
• Xia Yu told Orochimaru he intended to turn the world into the Uchiha Clan Compound, beginning by winning over the people of the Land of Sea.
• Xia Yu said his descendants would marry into other clans for generations so that every child would inherit the Sharingan, leaving Orochimaru speechless.

After resolving the threats around Demon Island and Mother Island, Xia Yu returned to Dalang Island and found Hai Shen eager to reward him. As Xia Yu reunited with Uzumaki Honoka, a ship announced that the Funato Clan had invaded the Land of Sea.

• Orochimaru summoned a giant python to dispose of the pirates and told Xia Yu she would stay in the Land of Sea to support him.
• Xia Yu returned to Dalang Island, where Hai Shen praised him after confirming that the Mother Island monster was gone and invited him to meet the daimyo.
• Xia Yu brought Hai Shen to see Uzumaki Honoka, who showed them the huge leggings she and the tailors had made for Yingying Beast.
• Xia Yu told Honoka that Hai Shen was useful to him for now, and she warned Xia Yu not to trust the two-faced official.
• A tailor spotted the Imperial Gold Transport Team's ship, and its alarm announced that the Funato Clan had invaded.

As the Funato Clan attacked Taro Island, Xia Yu refused to defend the Land of Sea for money and waited until its leaders had nowhere else to turn. He revealed that he wanted Hai Xing and Hai Shen to help make him the Land of Sea’s new daimyo.

• Funato Kuromu ordered his fleet to invade the Land of Sea and rushed ahead aboard a giant crab to attack Taro Island.
• Hai Shen asked Xia Yu to protect the island, but Xia Yu refused his offers of cloth and money.
• Funato Kuromu’s crab began killing people on the shore as the guards fled.
• Hai Xing and Hai Shen learned that the daimyo and Kirigakure Ninja had abandoned Taro Island, then begged Xia Yu for help.
• Xia Yu told Hai Xing and Hai Shen to help him become the Land of Sea’s new daimyo and win the villagers’ support.

Xia Yu secured Hai Xing and Hai Shen’s obedience by promising to protect the Land of Sea, then faced the Funato Clan’s invading pirates. After destroying their ships and unleashing enormous fire techniques, he left the pirates in despair as another barrage surged through their water defense.

• As the Red-Shell Crab and Funato pirates slaughtered people at the harbor, Hai Shen and Hai Xing agreed to obey Xia Yu if he protected the Land of Sea.
• Xia Yu warned Hai Xing and Hai Shen against betraying him, then stepped forward to shield them and Uzumaki Honoka from the pirates.
• Xia Yu used a Water Release technique to drag every pirate ship into the sea, leaving the Funato Clan stranded.
• Xia Yu’s enormous Great Fireball burned the pirates at the front, but the Funato Clan members combined their Water Release to extinguish it.
• Xia Yu fired a Great Fireball Barrage through the steam, and the pirates faced the incoming flames in despair.

Xia Yu overwhelmed the pirates and confronted their leader, Funato Kuromu, while Hai Shen and Hai Xing realized they had relied on the wrong village. Xia Yu used his strange Sharingan to incapacitate every pirate, leaving the Land of Sea’s crisis over.

• Xia Yu blasted the pirates with successive Great Fireballs, and a giant red crab shielded them but was roasted in the process.
• Xia Yu asked Hai Shen and Hai Xing to treat him to seafood, while Hai Xing recognized him as an Uchiha and Hai Shen regretted paying tribute to Kirigakure.
• Xia Yu charged into the battlefield to target Funato Kuromu, who equipped a crab claw through a Summoning Technique and revealed his awakened Funato gills.
• Funato Kuromu attacked Xia Yu, but he stopped when he saw Xia Yu’s unusual red eyes with black heart-shaped markings.
• Xia Yu’s gaze caused Funato Kuromu and every pirate nearby to collapse with severe stomach pain, and he told Hai Xing to bring out the villagers.

Xia Yu defeated the Funato pirates and pressed them for the location of their clan’s base, while Hai Xing and Hai Shen told the villagers how the daimyo had abandoned them. After praising Xia Yu as the Land of Sea’s hero, the two pillars proposed that he become the nation’s new daimyo.

• Xia Yu incapacitated Funato Kuromu after Kuromu refused to reveal the Funato Clan’s base, then turned to question the other pirates.
• Hai Xing and Hai Shen notified the villagers that the pirate invasion had been stopped, and a crowd gathered at the harbor.
• Hai Xing told the villagers that the daimyo had taken the Kirigakure Ninja away to protect himself, leaving the Land of Sea undefended.
• Hai Xing and Hai Shen credited Xia Yu with defeating the pirates and handling several earlier crises in the Land of Sea.
• Hai Xing announced that he and Hai Shen would vouch for Xia Yu to become the Land of Sea’s new daimyo.

Hai Xing and Hai Shen persuaded the people of Taro Island to accept Xia Yu as the Land of Sea’s new daimyo, and Xia Yu accepted their petition. After learning how few people lived on the islands, he declared that the country needed to grow quickly and urged everyone to have many children.

• Hai Xing reassured villagers who doubted Xia Yu by revealing he was an Uchiha from Konoha and arguing that the Land of Sea needed his protection from the Funato Clan.
• Hai Shen told the villagers that Xia Yu was their only hope of surviving future attacks, and the elderly objectors withdrew their concerns.
• Hai Xing and the villagers knelt before Xia Yu and jointly petitioned him to become the Land of Sea’s daimyo.
• Xia Yu accepted the petition and asked why so few villagers were present.
• Hai Xing explained that Taro Island held nearly the entire population, though the newly safe Mother Island and Demon Island could be resettled.
• Xia Yu said gradual growth was insufficient and urged the people to have as many children as possible.

Xia Yu urged the people of the Land of Sea to stand their ground as Funato Arumi arrived with a fleet to avenge his brother Funato Kuromu. After Arumi threatened the villagers and targeted Honoka, Xia Yu destroyed the pirate fleet with a massive Water Shockwave and prepared to face Arumi.

• Xia Yu convinced Hai Xing, Hai Shen, and the villagers that building the Land of Sea's population would help it grow strong, then ordered the villagers not to flee from Funato Arumi's approaching fleet.
• Funato Arumi mistook the defeated Funato Clan pirates for Kirigakure ninja and vowed to avenge his brother and destroy the Land of Sea.
• Xia Yu had the villagers bind Funato Kuromu and the other surviving pirates, explaining that he wanted to keep them alive for Orochimaru.
• Funato Arumi reached shore, scolded Funato Kuromu, and threatened to kill everyone except Honoka after recognizing her as a possible Uzumaki Clan survivor.
• Xia Yu unleashed a massive Water Shockwave that smashed the pirate fleet, then confronted Funato Arumi after he threatened Honoka.

Xia Yu discovered that Funato Arumi had used a Shadow Clone and was controlling the sea from underwater. As Arumi raised a colossal water dragon to flood Taro Island, the villagers despaired while Uzumaki Honoka remained confident that Xia Yu would fight.

• Xia Yu recognized that Funato Arumi had used a Shadow Clone, and Arumi revealed he always tested opponents that way.
• Funato Arumi pushed the drowning pirates safely ashore by controlling the seawater, confirming Xia Yu’s suspicion that he commanded the surrounding sea.
• Funato Arumi announced he would flood Taro Island, and the pirates cheered him on.
• Funato Arumi split the sea and summoned an enormous water dragon, leaving the Land of Sea villagers in despair.
• Hai Shen and Hai Xing urged Uzumaki Honoka to flee with Xia Yu, but Honoka refused to leave him.
• The water dragon beat its wings and descended toward the island as Xia Yu remained calm.

Xia Yu unleashed a Water Dragon Bullet so enormous that it dwarfed Funato Arumi’s sea dragon, then stopped before it drained the Land of Sea’s freshwater. After Funato Arumi died in the collapsing water dragon, Hai Xing interpreted Xia Yu’s earlier talk of strengthening the country through population as a plan to produce descendants for the future.

• As Funato Arumi’s sea dragon charged toward Taro Island, Hai Xing rallied the frightened villagers to believe in Xia Yu.
• Xia Yu used Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique and gathered an immense amount of seawater into a towering dragon.
• Hai Xing warned Xia Yu that continuing would drain the Land of Sea’s inland freshwater, and Xia Yu stopped after realizing he had used only thirty percent of his chakra.
• Funato Arumi tried to attack Xia Yu, but his sea dragon had already been absorbed; Xia Yu’s water dragon crashed down on him and killed him.
• The villagers praised Xia Yu, and Hai Xing claimed that strengthening the country meant giving Xia Yu descendants whose bloodline could empower future generations.

Hai Xing persuaded the Land of Sea’s young women and men to support Xia Yu taking local wives so he could strengthen the nation and the Uchiha bloodline. Meanwhile, Xia Yu failed to question Funato Kuromu about the Funato Clan’s hideout and decided to find someone else to investigate.

• Hai Xing urged the young women to pursue Xia Yu, claiming he already had multiple wives and wanted to help the Uchiha Clan flourish.
• Hai Xing asked the young men to accept Xia Yu taking more wives for the Land of Sea’s future, and they agreed.
• Xia Yu asked Funato Kuromu to reveal the location of the Funato Clan’s hideout after his eldest brother’s death.
• Funato Kuromu was too terrified to respond coherently, while the bald pirates crawled away from Xia Yu.
• Xia Yu gave up questioning the pirates and decided to find someone else to investigate the hideout.

After defeating the pirates in the Land of Sea, Xia Yu settled into the Daimyo Mansion while Hai Xing promised to help him build up the Uchiha population. Meanwhile, Funato Daika learned that Kirigakure was advancing on his base, and the chapter ended with Mei Terumi warning Ao to stop disrupting the operation meeting.

• Xia Yu sent the captured pirates to prison, then accepted Hai Xing's offer to prioritize finding women to bear children and strengthen the Uchiha bloodline.
• At the Funato Clan's base, Funato Daika grew anxious over the silence from Funato Arumi and the forces sent to the Land of Sea, but Funato Aopon persuaded him not to leave the base.
• Scouts reported that Kirigakure was bringing warships toward Wave Island, while they had found no trace of Funato Arumi or the other forces in the Land of Sea.
• Funato Daika ordered his clan to confront Kirigakure and leave no survivors.
• Aboard Kirigakure's fleet, Ao challenged the Land of Sea's daimyo over abandoning the villagers, and Mei Terumi threatened him for disrupting the meeting.

Mei Terumi led Kirigakure’s fleet toward Wave Island to attack the Funato Clan’s base and establish herself as the Fifth Mizukage. Ao sensed powerful defenders waiting on shore, and Chōjūrō vowed to fight for Mei despite his fear.

• Mei Terumi comforted the nervous Chōjūrō, while Ao complained that she spoiled him.
• Mei rebuked Ao for bringing up Kirigakure’s Bloody Mist past and shifted the meeting to the attack plan.
• Mei explained that Wave Island was the Funato Clan’s main base and said she needed to win the war to earn support for her leadership.
• Ao sensed that the Funato defenders were gathering along the shore and identified five powerful chakra signatures, including one equal to Mei’s.
• Mei said she would face the Funato leader and left the other enemies to her allies.
• Chōjūrō, despite trembling with fear, promised to kill the defenders and then help Mei.

Mei Terumi led Kirigakure’s assault on Wave Island and made her way to the Funato Clan leader’s palace while Chojuro fought the ambushers and Ao faced Funato Aopon. After trading barbs with Aopon, Mei entered the palace to confront her father.

• The Land of Sea's Daimyo lusted after Mei Terumi, and Hai Dan proposed arranging their marriage after the war; Ao rebuked the pair for whispering during the battle briefing.
• As Kirigakure's fleet neared Wave Island, Funato currents attacked the ships, and Mei Terumi ordered the ninja to abandon them and charge across the water.
• Funato clanspeople ambushed the advancing force, and Chojuro used Hiramekarei to clear a path while Mei Terumi continued toward the island.
• Ao sensed the strongest chakra at the island's peak, and Mei Terumi reached the palace, where Funato Aopon challenged her and claimed Ao as her opponent.
• Mei Terumi revealed that Ao was not actually blind in one eye, then entered the palace as Ao stayed outside to face Funato Aopon.