Chapter Summaries

Kakashi’s team investigated a strange shipwreck and discovered evidence that it came from another world, while Lin Chen absorbed its energies and gained new abilities. After Lin Chen effortlessly killed a mutated sea beast, the group settled near the construction site as Zabuza and Haku watched from the forest and the spatial rift continued to grow.

• Kakashi investigated the shipwreck and found charts and a log describing a voyage from the Grand Line and Reverse Mountain.
• Lin Chen secretly absorbed the wreck’s Pirate Plane imprint and nearby Cursed Energy, gaining Armament Haki insight, Spirit Vision, and Cursed Energy Affinity.
• A mutated sea beast attacked Sakura, but Kakashi’s Water Dragon Bullet and Sasuke’s shuriken failed to stop it, while Naruto’s Chakra was suppressed.
• Lin Chen devoured the sea beast and its attached Low-Level Cursed Spirit, killing the creature and stunning Kakashi and Team 7.
• Kakashi questioned Lin Chen about his power, but Lin Chen dismissed it as a method for dealing with spirits.
• Zabuza and Haku watched the group from the forest, while Lin Chen learned that the Myriad Worlds Fusion was deepening and anticipated plundering more powers.

Zabuza and Haku attacked Tazuna’s house, but Lin Chen neutralized the cursed power on Zabuza’s sword and forced them to retreat. The group planned to investigate Gato’s dangerous shipment at the Dock Warehouse the next day.

• Tazuna told Kakashi that Gato had locked away strange black iron fragments and carved plaques at the docks, which caused fever and nightmares among those who touched them.
• Lin Chen recognized the cargo as seastone residue and cursed objects, while the system detected energy from other planes at the Dock Warehouse.
• Zabuza burst into the house with a cursed Kubikiribōchō as Haku attacked Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura, and Tazuna with Ice Release.
• Lin Chen caught Zabuza’s sword between two fingers and plundered its seastone resistance, cursed energy, and assassination techniques, then disrupted Haku’s Ice Release.
• Zabuza used the Hidden Mist Technique to escape with Haku after Lin Chen revealed his name.
• Kakashi questioned Lin Chen about the sword, and Lin Chen urged the group to investigate the Dock Warehouse the next day.

Lin Chen led Kakashi’s team through Gato’s warehouse, defeating its Haki-wielding guards and devouring a Cursed Spirit while plundering the foreign treasures inside. Zabuza and Haku then appeared in the mist to claim the treasures, and Lin Chen prepared to take Haku’s Ice Release.

• Tazuna guided the group to Gato’s warehouse, where Kakashi sensed unusually powerful guards and Lin Chen detected Seastone fragments, Cursed Objects, and two warriors with Armament Haki.
• Lin Chen charged through the entrance and knocked out two guards with his bare hands, forcing Kakashi and the others to follow him inside.
• Sasuke and Naruto failed to harm the two Haki-wielding warriors, but Lin Chen drained their power and defeated them.
• A Low-Level Cursed Spirit attacked Sakura, and Lin Chen devoured it before the group searched the warehouse’s hidden contents.
• Lin Chen plundered knowledge and abilities from a Voyage Log and Cursed Objects, gaining navigation, Haki, and Cursed Energy insights.
• Zabuza and Haku appeared in a Hidden Mist Technique, revealing that they had come for the foreign treasures, while Lin Chen focused on taking Haku’s Ice Release.

Lin Chen turned Zabuza and Haku’s warehouse ambush around by resisting the mist and Seastone dust, then plundered much of their abilities. After clearing the cursed goods and Seastone, he and the others witnessed a spatial rift opening over the sea, revealing the next threat and opportunity.

• Zabuza and Haku used chakra-suppressing mist, Ice Release, and surprise attacks to trap Kakashi and his team in the warehouse.
• Lin Chen ignored the mist and Seastone dust, stripped the Kubikiribōchō of its Seastone and cursed aura, and plundered much of Haku’s Ice Release.
• Lin Chen plundered Zabuza’s assassination techniques and swordsmanship, forcing him to flee with the weakened Haku.
• Lin Chen absorbed the remaining cursed energy and Seastone in the warehouse, while Kakashi and the others reacted with shock to his power.
• A spatial rift opened over the distant sea, and Lin Chen recognized it as a gateway to more planes and greater dangers.

A spatial rift opened off the coast of the Land of Waves, releasing mutated sea beasts and pirates from other worlds. Lin Chen defeated the creatures and absorbed their abilities, while Kakashi prepared to report the anomaly to Konoha and an Akatsuki observer secretly withdrew to alert the organization.

• A level-one spatial rift opened over the sea, and the system revealed that creatures and items from the Pirate Plane and Jujutsu Plane would spill through.
• Four Mutated Sea Beasts and two pirates emerged from the rift, and Kakashi and Sasuke struggled to damage the beasts as they attacked the villagers.
• Lin Chen used his devouring force to kill the four beasts and then drained the two pirates, plundering their abilities and knowledge.
• The rift closed, and Kakashi identified the creatures and pirates as outsiders before deciding to report the event to Lord Hokage.
• Lin Chen received his first-rift rewards and grew stronger, while an Akatsuki observer secretly left to report the anomaly to the leader.

Team 7 concluded its mission in the Land of Waves after Lin Chen defeated the creatures from a spatial rift, while Konoha and other factions reacted to the growing threat of world fusion. As Team 7 headed back to Konoha, Lin Chen prepared to exploit the coming chaos and confront whatever stood in his way.

• Kakashi sent Konoha a report about the spatial rift and otherworldly threats, and Lin Chen learned that the Shinobi World's Heavenly Dao had marked him for intensified suppression.
• Kakashi arranged for the beasts and unconscious pirates to be sealed and taken to Konoha, while Gato's forces collapsed and Tazuna thanked Team 7 for saving the Land of Waves.
• Lin Chen tested his newly integrated powers on a reef as the wounded Zabuza and Haku fled the coast, weakened by the essence he had taken from them.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha to conceal information about other planes, prepare for the Chunin Ninja Exams, and monitor coastlines and spatial weak points.
• Pain chose to watch Lin Chen rather than eliminate him, while Orochimaru resolved to study Lin Chen and the otherworldly powers.
• At dawn, Team 7 set off for Konoha, with Naruto talking excitedly, Sasuke silently training, Sakura checking their supplies, and Lin Chen leading the group.

After Team 7 returned to Konoha, Kakashi reported the Land of Waves crisis to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who established village-wide defenses and granted Lin Chen special-grade cooperation authority. An urgent report of a level-two rift on the western border arrived just as the meeting ended.

• Kakashi brought Team 7 back to Konoha, where heightened security and strict secrecy rules showed the village was on alert.
• A Root ninja brought Lin Chen into the Hokage’s office while Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke waited outside.
• Kakashi described the Land of Waves rift, its threats, and Lin Chen’s abilities to Hiruzen Sarutobi and the elders.
• Lin Chen warned that rifts would keep multiplying, and Hiruzen announced patrols, a Disaster Response Squad, research efforts, and revised Ninja Academy training.
• Hiruzen granted Lin Chen special-grade cooperation authority, and Lin Chen agreed to help with high-risk rift crises.
• An urgent report announced that a level-two rift had opened on Konoha’s western border, where beasts and three otherworldly martial artists had pinned down an Anbu squad.

Kakashi and Lin Chen rushed to a Level Two Rift on the Land of Fire’s western border, where a badly wounded Anbu squad faced powerful beasts and pirates. Lin Chen plundered the pirates’ origins and rescued the battlefield, but four high-level Sea King Beasts then surrounded him.

• Kakashi and Lin Chen hurried to the western border after a Level Two Rift appeared, finding a valley shrouded in cursed energy and chakra-suppressing seastone dust.
• Kakashi assessed the three enemy forces: four High-Level Mutated Sea King Beasts, two Cursed Spirit Mutant Beasts, and three East Blue Elite One Piece who had trapped the surviving Anbu.
• Lin Chen intercepted the pirate leader’s Armament Haki punch and used his plundering power to drain the leader’s Haki and physique, then incapacitated the other two pirates with Spirit Vision.
• Kakashi tried to restrain the Sea King Beasts with Water Release and Sealing Jutsu, but they smashed through his barrier.
• The four Sea King Beasts charged Lin Chen, while his devouring domain neutralized the rift’s seastone suppression and cursed energy corrosion.

Lin Chen absorbed the forces of the Level Two Rift and reached initial Kage level, then effortlessly devoured a disaster-class Sea King and Special Grade Cursed Spirit that forced their way into the valley. Kakashi reported the threat and Lin Chen’s power to Konoha as the Anbu secured the site.

• Lin Chen absorbed the valley’s otherworldly enemies and gained perfected armament haki, a Sea Kings physique, a cursed technique domain, and immunity to seastone suppression, stabilizing at initial Kage level.
• Kakashi warned that stronger beings remained inside the expanding Level Two Rift, and Lin Chen sensed mature Sea Kings and a Special Grade Cursed Spirit trapped beyond its barrier.
• A mature mutated Sea King and a Special Grade Cursed Spirit core forced their way through the rift and attacked the valley.
• Lin Chen trapped the attackers in his Omnidirectional Devouring Domain and drained their essence, killing the Sea King and erasing the cursed spirit core.
• Kakashi sent an encrypted report to Konoha and called for the valley to be sealed, while the Anbu secured the remains and restrained the pirate prisoners.

After Lin Chen reached Kage Level by defeating the enemies from a Level Two Rift, Konoha, Orochimaru, the Akatsuki, and Zabuza and Haku reacted to his rise. Lin Chen left the sealed rift with Kakashi, ready to confront the coming upheavals on his own terms.

• Hiruzen revoked Konoha’s covert surveillance and risk plans for Lin Chen, granting him the highest operational freedom and access to the village’s resources.
• Orochimaru studied evidence from the rift and grew eager to see how Lin Chen would affect the coming Chunin Ninja Exams and Konoha Crush.
• Pain rejected Konan’s suggestion to probe Lin Chen, choosing instead to watch the rifts expand and wait for the Shinobi World’s order to collapse.
• Zabuza and Haku sensed Lin Chen’s Kage Level presence and abandoned hope of ever taking revenge on him.
• Kakashi told Lin Chen that the rift had been sealed off and security deployed, and Lin Chen agreed to return to the village before declaring he would enter the next conflict on his own initiative.

After returning to Konoha from defeating the Level Two Rift calamity, Lin Chen received extraordinary authority from Hiruzen Sarutobi as the village prepared for an escalating invasion from other planes. The chapter ended with the system warning that a Level Three Rift would open at Sunagakure’s border in three days.

• Lin Chen returned to Konoha, where the village’s forces treated him with deep respect after learning he had reached Kage level and quelled the Level Two Rift.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi granted Lin Chen the village’s highest special grade access and final authority over matters involving Myriad Realms Rifts, then warned that a Level Three Rift was imminent.
• Lin Chen assured Hiruzen Sarutobi that Konoha would not be destroyed while he was there.
• Orochimaru studied Lin Chen’s combat data and planned to test his limits, while Pain and Konan discussed the upheaval in the Shinobi World and continued monitoring the rifts.
• At the Training Ground, Naruto celebrated Lin Chen’s return, Sakura admired him, and Sasuke struggled with the gulf between their strength.
• The system detected a Level Three Spatial Rift set to manifest on Sunagakure’s border in three days, with high-ranking outsiders, Sea Kings, and special-grade Cursed Spirits expected to emerge.

Lin Chen waited out the three-day warning as the five great hidden villages prepared for a Level Three Rift, while Akatsuki and Orochimaru watched for their own advantage. When the rift opened over Sunagakure’s border and unleashed a massive force of Sea Kings, cursed spirits, and pirate Commodores, Lin Chen arrived alone to face them.

• Lin Chen visited Konoha’s restricted archives, dismissed its techniques as useless to him, and spent the next three days lying low.
• Sasuke pushed himself through relentless training as Lin Chen’s Kage Level strength weighed on him, while the five great hidden villages mobilized for the coming Level Three Rift.
• Rasa and the other village leaders placed their hopes in Lin Chen, while Pain watched to judge his strength and Orochimaru planned to collect specimens from the rift.
• A thousand-foot Level Three Rift opened at Sunagakure’s border and unleashed three mature Sea Kings, eight special-grade cursed spirits, and ten elite Commodores.
• Lin Chen arrived alone above the battlefield, received the system’s tenfold critical plunder notification, and declared that he would empty the rift.

Lin Chen used his Omnidirectional Devouring Domain to defeat the Level Three Rift’s vanguard and absorb their powers. With stronger enemies and treasures still inside, he approached the rift and decided to enter it himself.

• Three Sea Kings, eight Special Grade Cursed Spirits, and ten pirate commodores attacked Lin Chen while Sunagakure’s shinobi watched in despair.
• Lin Chen spread his domain, freezing the attacks and stripping away the enemies’ powers and origins.
• The eight Cursed Spirits vanished, the three Sea Kings died, and all ten commodores lost their abilities and fell to their knees.
• Lin Chen absorbed the harvested origins, strengthening his Kage Level foundations and nearing the intermediate stage.
• The system revealed that stronger enemies and rarer treasures remained inside the rift, so Lin Chen stepped toward its gate to enter.

Lin Chen entered the Level Three Rift alone and devoured its strongest fighters, breaking through to the Kage Level intermediate stage. He returned to Sunagakure as the rift collapsed, while the other factions reconsidered the balance of power and their plans.

• Lin Chen entered the Level Three Rift while Rasa, Orochimaru, Pain, and Konan watched from outside.
• The rift’s lord-class Sea King Beast, two Calamity Sea King Beasts, Grudge Aggregation, and three vice-admiral-class pirates attacked Lin Chen together.
• Lin Chen’s Devouring Domain drained and annihilated every high-ranking enemy in the rift, then harvested the remaining source power.
• Lin Chen broke through to the Kage Level intermediate stage and unlocked localized cursed-energy armament and embryonic Conqueror’s Haki pressure.
• Lin Chen left the rift without touching its spatial core, and the rift collapsed after he returned to the desert above Sunagakure.
• Rasa abandoned the idea of keeping Lin Chen in check, Orochimaru reconsidered the Konoha Crush plan, and Pain recognized that the Shinobi World’s old order had become obsolete.

After Lin Chen destroyed the Level Three Rift’s invading forces in Sunagakure, Rasa and the other villages accepted his supremacy. As Lin Chen returned to Konoha, the great villages and major factions changed their plans in response to his overwhelming strength.

• Rasa thanked Lin Chen for saving the Land of Wind and pledged Sunagakure’s cooperation, while Lin Chen told him to guard the borders and flew back to Konoha.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi gave Lin Chen unrestricted access to Konoha’s resources, ended surveillance and control measures, and ordered the other villages to follow Lin Chen’s decisions on rift-related matters.
• The leaders of Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure watched the battlefield recordings and abandoned hopes of challenging Konoha’s new dominance.
• Pain ordered the Akatsuki to suspend its plan and forbid operations against Konoha or Lin Chen.
• Orochimaru recognized that Lin Chen’s strength could not be replicated and decided to rewrite the Konoha Crush plan and wait for higher-ranking rifts.

Sasuke lost hope of ever matching Lin Chen and resolved to seek forbidden power, while Lin Chen returned to Konoha as the Chunin Ninja Exams approached. Lin Chen prepared to make the exams a display of his supremacy.

• Sasuke trained obsessively, but reports of Lin Chen's overwhelming achievements convinced him that his efforts could never close the gap.
• Kakashi told Sasuke he had no chance of catching up to Lin Chen, crushing Sasuke's remaining hope.
• Sasuke rejected Konoha's orthodox path and decided to pursue Orochimaru's forbidden techniques and other dark powers.
• Lin Chen returned to the training ground, drawing the awe of the gathered ninja and the attention of Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, and Kakashi.
• Lin Chen looked toward the Chunin Ninja Exams venue and declared that the final contest would show what it meant to reign supreme alone.

Lin Chen’s presence overshadowed the Chunin Ninja Exams as the Five Great Shinobi Villages’ young fighters gathered in Konoha. When he entered the venue, the assembled geniuses fell silent and submitted to his overwhelming presence.

• Kakashi announced that the Chunin Ninja Exams would begin the next morning, and Naruto and Sakura resolved to do their best while Sasuke sank deeper into darkness.
• Lin Chen dismissed the exams as an inconsequential farce and left the training ground.
• The young ninja of the Five Great Shinobi Villages gathered in Konoha under orders not to provoke or challenge Lin Chen.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi watched the unusually calm venue, while Zetsu observed from hiding and Orochimaru postponed his plans to study Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen entered the examination venue, silencing the crowd and making Gaara and the other village geniuses bow their heads in fear.

Sasuke became consumed by his desire to gain power equal to Lin Chen, abandoning his faith in Konoha, his squad, and the orthodox ninja path. After accepting Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal and briefly being restrained by Sakura, he chose darkness again as Lin Chen opened the Chunin Ninja Exams.

• At the exam venue, Sasuke watched Lin Chen command the talents’ reverence and became obsessed with obtaining power that could rival him.
• During the written examination, Sasuke copied the answers with his Sharingan and dismissed the efforts of Naruto and Sakura as meaningless.
• In the Forest of Death, Sasuke broke away from his squad to seek Orochimaru, then willingly accepted the Cursed Seal despite Naruto’s resistance.
• After the Otogakure squad attacked, Sasuke’s cursed chakra drove him to fight viciously until Sakura’s embrace briefly restored his clarity; he then pushed her away and chose power over his bonds.
• Lin Chen calmly told the gathered candidates to begin, and the Third officially announced that Konoha’s Chunin Ninja Exams had started.

The Chunin exam’s battle royale began under Lin Chen’s overwhelming influence, while Sasuke watched him instead of joining the fight. When a Kumogakure contestant attacked, Sasuke’s Cursed Seal erupted and he crushed the opponent with dark power, leaving the arena stunned.

• The villages’ contestants assembled cautiously as Lin Chen’s presence kept even Orochimaru’s Otogakure pawns from acting.
• The examiner announced an individual battle royale, and the gathered geniuses began fighting for advancement.
• Naruto and Sakura entered the melee, while Sasuke stayed still and fixed his attention on Lin Chen.
• A Kumogakure genius attacked Sasuke, triggering his Cursed Seal and spreading its dark markings across his body.
• Sasuke seized the attacker’s fist, broke his bones, and forced him to his knees, stopping the nearby fighters in shock.

Sasuke embraced the Cursed Seal’s darkness, but Lin Chen ended the Preliminary Exam battle by immobilizing every contender and draining their chakra with his Devouring Domain. He withdrew the domain after declaring the fight over, leaving the younger generation terrified of his power.

• Sasuke’s dark power erupted, and Orochimaru watched with excitement as he called Sasuke the perfect dark pawn.
• Lin Chen spread his Devouring Domain across the battlefield, freezing every contender and draining their chakra.
• Gaara, Naruto, Sakura, and the other contenders found themselves powerless, while Orochimaru recognized Lin Chen’s ability as Plane Authority.
• The domain suppressed Sasuke’s Cursed Seal and deepened his despair and obsession with Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen withdrew the domain and declared the farce over, leaving the field’s contenders in awe and fear.