Chapter Summaries

Danzo was caught digging beneath the Uchiha compound, but the Uchiha’s own human experiments gave Hiruzen leverage to broker a settlement. Orochimaru accepted Bieshu Feifan’s offer to buy Hashirama cells, and Bieshu paid a hundred million for the first delivery, leaving him waiting to see whether Orochimaru would fulfill the deal.

• An Uchiha jōnin confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi after the Uchiha brought Danzo and his Root operatives to the Hokage’s Office for digging beneath the clan compound.
• Danzo accused the Uchiha of human experimentation, and Hiruzen used both sides’ compromising secrets to help negotiate compensation from Danzo and a warning for the Uchiha.
• Orochimaru received an anonymous request to buy Hashirama cells, tested the buyer with a sample, and agreed to sell them for two hundred thousand per gram.
• Bieshu Feifan confirmed that the sample’s chakra activated his ability, then robbed a noble’s home to raise a hundred million.
• Orochimaru received Bieshu Feifan’s payment and prepared to supply five hundred grams of Hashirama cells, while Bieshu waited anxiously for the delivery.

Bieshu Feifan bought Hashirama cells from Orochimaru, gained Wood Release chakra, and continued robbing nobles as Konoha struggled to catch him. After Hiruzen Sarutobi’s investigation linked stolen money to Orochimaru, Orochimaru ended their dealings and set out to rob the Land of Fire’s Capital himself.

• Might Guy passed the Ninja Academy Entrance Test, while he and Might Duy mourned Bieshu Feifan and resolved to avoid the Uchiha.
• Bieshu Feifan received Hashirama cells from Orochimaru, absorbed them, and later developed Wood Release chakra without gaining a Senju sage body.
• Bieshu Feifan found the Land of Fire’s Capital crowded with Konoha shinobi and learned from his makeshift older brother about wealthy Sarutobi Clan properties elsewhere.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi learned that stolen money had appeared in Orochimaru’s spending and that the robber killed Sarutobi clansmen more often than other victims.
• Orochimaru delivered another batch of Hashirama cells, then ended his dealings with Bieshu Feifan after learning how he earned his money.
• Orochimaru burned the evidence and headed to the Land of Fire’s Capital to rob nobles himself.

After Konoha shinobi began searching near his home, Bieshu Feifan returned to the village and witnessed Orochimaru’s failed robbery and escape, then joined the pursuit of Danzo. The chapter ended with Hiruzen Sarutobi confronting Orochimaru and Danzo in the Hokage’s Office over their robberies.

• Bieshu Feifan followed Konoha shinobi near the capital, realized they were searching for Orochimaru, and put on his Konoha forehead protector to blend in.
• Bieshu Feifan spotted the injured Orochimaru fleeing and watched Hiruzen Sarutobi and several Anbu defeat him before he escaped.
• Bieshu Feifan fled after a Byakugan user spotted him, then joined the Konoha shinobi pursuing the disguised Danzo for robbing the daimyo’s estate.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Orochimaru and Danzo in his office, while Danzo defended his robbery as a way to fund Root and Orochimaru agreed with him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi silenced Orochimaru and warned Danzo that he would have to answer to the daimyo.

Hiruzen Sarutobi questioned Bieshu Feifan about his missing mission and the noble robberies while Konoha’s clans and leaders deflected the Daimyō’s demands. Feifan’s account of two Uchiha being lured away revealed the name Biwako, and Hiruzen then asked what Feifan had been doing.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Orochimaru detained and challenged Danzo over the stolen money, while both denied responsibility.
• Hyūga and Uchiha leaders concluded the robber was likely one of their own, but agreed to conceal that possibility and blame enemy nations.
• The Daimyō demanded answers, but Konoha’s leaders united in denying that the thieves were from Konoha.
• Bieshu Feifan spent several days with Might Duy and Might Guy before an Anbu summoned him to meet Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Hiruzen questioned Feifan about the mission he had returned from alone, and Feifan said two Uchiha had followed a woman who called herself Biwako.
• The Uchiha left after Feifan identified the woman in their portrait, and Hiruzen asked Feifan what he had been doing since returning.

Bieshu Feifan traded his own smut novels to Hiruzen Sarutobi for ninjutsu and a promise that he would not be sent from the village, then focused on developing his Wind Release. After months of training, the Anbu conscripted him and assigned him a mission.

• Bieshu Feifan told Hiruzen Sarutobi that he had spent his mission surviving in the wilderness, then traded his smut novel for a range of Wind Release ninjutsu.
• Bieshu Feifan returned home and trained while Uchiha watched his house, and news spread that Hatake Sakumo had failed a mission and then died by suicide.
• Border clashes escalated as the Land of Lightning joined in and the Land of Wind broke its treaty with Konoha.
• Bieshu Feifan gave Hiruzen Sarutobi another smut novel and secured a verbal promise that he would not be sent from the village.
• Bieshu Feifan trained in Wind Release for several months, until the Anbu arrived to conscript him and assigned him a mission.

Bieshu Feifan joined Hyūga Guijiao, Ishihara Ping, and Kakashi on a mission to protect a noble in the Land of Hot Water. After reaching the Kobayashi estate, Bieshu Feifan took advantage of his night watch to tamper with the sleeping noble.

• Bieshu Feifan met his teammates, joked that Hiruzen Sarutobi was his big brother, and introduced himself as an Academy graduate who specialized in explaining the Will of Fire.
• Hyūga Guijiao explained that the squad would protect a Konoha-friendly noble in the Land of Hot Water for three months and tested Ishihara Ping, Bieshu Feifan, and Kakashi in combat.
• Bieshu Feifan asked Hyūga Guijiao why the Hyūga used Gentle Fist instead of kunai, but Guijiao dismissed his question.
• The squad reached the Kobayashi estate, where Steward Yamagami warned them not to disturb the noble and threatened not to pay if a thief got inside.
• Bieshu Feifan and Kakashi took the night watch, split up to patrol, and Bieshu Feifan entered Kobayashi's room to tell the sleeping noble to treat the squad like nobles the next day.

Bieshu Feifan investigated the nobles' estate, killed Butler Yamagami, and arranged to buy Hashirama cells from Danzo. After Danzo's Root Shinobi tried to pass off worthless material as genuine cells, Bieshu Feifan beat him and demanded honesty, but Danzo decided to keep trading with lab waste instead.

• Butler Yamagami insulted Bieshu Feifan and Ishihara Ping, and later Bieshu Feifan used a Shadow Clone to patrol while killing Yamagami in the Kobayashi Nobles' Main Residence.
• Bieshu Feifan learned that many nobles had hired Konoha and Kumogakure Shinobi, and that several estates had been ransacked before he left a Shadow Clone guarding Kobayashi and headed to Konoha.
• Danzo received two million ryō and a request from Uchiha Yellow Weasel to buy Hashirama cells, then agreed to test the buyer by sending a sample vial.
• Bieshu Feifan negotiated a price of one hundred million per jin with a Root Shinobi, but discovered the delivered batch contained no chakra and fought him.
• Bieshu Feifan broke the Root Shinobi's hands and told him to warn Shimura Danzō to be honest, while Danzo ordered Root to continue trading using waste from the lab instead of Hashirama cells.

Bieshu Feifan’s failed deals with Shimura Danzō escalated into a fight, and he tricked Root into carrying a scroll full of compressed shit back to Konoha. Danzō marched toward the Land of Hot Water, prompting Konoha and Kumogakure to send forces there, while Bieshu Feifan learned that Danzō was fighting Kumogakure.

• Bieshu Feifan rejected the poor-quality Hashirama cell samples Shimura Danzō offered and later attacked the two Root shinobi who returned to trade.
• Bieshu Feifan’s fire-and-wind combination attack engulfed Root’s Brother Long, while the surviving skinny shinobi returned to Root carrying a scroll.
• Shimura Danzō opened the scroll and was splattered with compressed shit, then set out with Root forces to find and kill Uchiha Yellow Weasel.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent Jiraiya and Konoha forces to reinforce the Land of Hot Water after learning Danzō had gone there, and the Third Raikage sent Kumogakure’s main force in response.
• Bieshu Feifan returned to the Kobayashi noble’s residence, where Hyūga Guijiao woke him and Kakashi with news that Danzō was fighting Kumogakure.

Kakashi and Bieshu Feifan refused Hyūga Guijiao’s order to help Danzo, while Danzo’s clashes with Kumogakure escalated into a wider conflict in the Land of Hot Water. After Danzo captured the Third Raikage’s son A, Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha’s troops to mobilize as the Third Raikage advanced.

• Kakashi refused to leave his assigned mission without reassignment orders, and Bieshu Feifan declined to help Danzo, so Hyūga Guijiao left with Ishihara Ping.
• Danzo’s Root Shinobi killed Cloud Ninja who were watching them, escalating tensions until Danzo and Kumogakure’s forces began fighting in the Land of Hot Water.
• Bieshu Feifan hypnotized the Kobayashi noble, moved into his estate, and secretly left a Shadow Clone there while taking most of the noble’s money.
• Kakashi repeatedly fought attackers who came for the Kobayashi noble while Bieshu Feifan avoided getting involved.
• Danzo defeated and captured A, the Third Raikage’s son, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha to muster troops after learning the Third Raikage was heading toward the Land of Hot Water.

Danzo tortured the captured A for information while Bieshu Feifan raided the Land of Hot Water and fought Uchiha Ji’s squad. After escaping Uchiha Ji and encountering Hiruzen Sarutobi’s forces, Bieshu Feifan returned to find Kakashi alive and furious that he had claimed to protect the Kobayashi noble.

• Danzo took the captured A to the Land of Fire’s border and tortured him, but A did not understand what Danzo was asking.
• Bieshu Feifan used a Shadow Clone at the Kobayashi residence while his real body looted supplies across the Land of Hot Water.
• Bieshu Feifan ambushed Uchiha Ji’s all-Uchiha squad, but Uchiha Ji’s Three-Tomoe Sharingan and tactics forced him to flee into the sky.
• Bieshu Feifan encountered Hiruzen Sarutobi leading Konoha’s main force and turned back toward the Kobayashi residence.
• Bieshu Feifan returned to find Kakashi sitting among corpses, and Kakashi angrily said he had been the one protecting the Kobayashi noble.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Third Raikage ended the clash in the Land of Hot Water without fighting, while Bieshu Feifan’s mission squad regrouped and he later crossed paths with Danzo and the Raikage during a series of nighttime thefts. After the thefts triggered lawsuits against the Raikage and forced Kumogakure to deal with the Daimyō, Bieshu Feifan stayed behind and set his sights on four Uchiha.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Third Raikage negotiated an end to the clash, releasing A and the captured Jōnin without compensation.
• Bieshu Feifan reunited with Hyūga Guijiao, Kakashi, and Ishihara Ping, then resumed patrolling while secretly stealing from noble households in the Land of Hot Water's Capital.
• Bieshu Feifan encountered Danzo fleeing Yugakure Shinobi and the Third Raikage carrying stolen money, and their disguises exposed them to pursuit.
• The Land of Hot Water's Daimyō barred Konoha and Kumogakure Shinobi from taking missions and demanded investigations, while the Third Raikage and Danzo fled with the money.
• The Third Raikage faced lawsuits from several Daimyō, keeping Kumogakure occupied, and Bieshu Feifan's teammates returned to Konoha without him.
• After his teammates left, Bieshu Feifan planned to go after four Uchiha.

Bieshu Feifan used a shadow clone to fight Uchiha Ji while his real body attacked the other Uchiha and absorbed Uchiha Beidai’s ocular power. After returning near Konoha, he discovered Orochimaru had reappeared and prepared to contact him about obtaining Hashirama cells.

• Bieshu Feifan’s shadow clone fought Uchiha Ji in the woods, but Uchiha Ji destroyed it and realized Bieshu Feifan’s real body might be hunting his teammates.
• Bieshu Feifan disguised himself as Shimura Danzō, killed Uchiha Beidai, and absorbed his ocular power.
• Bieshu Feifan avoided returning directly to Konoha and followed Jiraiya’s forces back to the village.
• Bieshu Feifan spotted Orochimaru at his residence and realized he could seek Hashirama cells again.
• Bieshu Feifan sent a shadow clone disguised as a merchant out of the village to contact Orochimaru.

After Orochimaru refused to sell Hashirama Cells, Bieshu Feifan recruited Jiraiya to train him by disguising himself and offering an erotic manga. The chapter ended with Hiruzen Sarutobi learning that the Uchiha had surrounded Root after Shimura Danzō killed a young Uchiha.

• Bieshu Feifan received Orochimaru’s reply, which ended their business arrangement for the time being, and turned back to writing.
• Bieshu Feifan approached Jiraiya in disguise as Hatake Kakanan and offered him the first volume of Oniichichi in exchange for training.
• Jiraiya agreed to teach Bieshu Feifan after he demonstrated Eight Trigrams: Sixteen Palms and claimed to be a mixed-blood Hyūga.
• Jiraiya began training Bieshu Feifan, while rumors spread that Shimura Danzō had defeated the Land of Lightning and captured the Raikage’s son.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi returned to Konoha and learned that the Uchiha had surrounded Root because Shimura Danzō had killed a young Uchiha on his way back.

After Danzo was punished over Uchiha Beidai’s murder, Jiraiya left Konoha and Bieshu Feifan began training with Minato Namikaze, whose talent repeatedly outmatched him. Bieshu Feifan decided to build up his physical abilities and investigate Orochimaru, while Root began questioning Wind Release shinobi and inexplicably dismissed him.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi stripped Shimura Danzō of his Hokage Advisor position, ordered him to compensate the Uchiha, and suspended him pending an investigation into suspected collusion with Rasa.
• Jiraiya told Bieshu Feifan to train with Minato Namikaze before leaving to search for the Child of Prophecy and hone his ninjutsu.
• Bieshu Feifan sparred repeatedly with Minato Namikaze, but Minato’s speed and skill overcame his strength and chakra reserves.
• Bieshu Feifan accepted that he lacked Minato’s talent and decided to build up his stats by contacting Orochimaru while continuing to train with Minato.
• Bieshu Feifan overheard a Root member question Minato Namikaze about Wind Release, then was questioned himself and dismissed after giving his name.

Bieshu Feifan’s attempt to work with Orochimaru collapsed when Orochimaru unmasked his disguised Shadow Clone and found Danzo’s face. As Konoha prepared wartime Chunin Ninja Exams, Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy persuaded Kakashi to join their team, leaving Kakashi mortified as they headed into the exam.

• Danzo suspected Orochimaru of impersonating him and targeting an Uchiha, while Bieshu Feifan tried to negotiate with Orochimaru for Hashirama Cells without revealing his identity.
• Orochimaru ambushed Bieshu Feifan’s disguised Shadow Clone and removed its mask, finding Danzo’s face; Bieshu Feifan learned of the attack and gave up on working with Orochimaru.
• As border clashes continued, Hiruzen Sarutobi announced wartime Chunin Ninja Exams, and Might Duy asked Bieshu Feifan to help him take part.
• Bieshu Feifan and Might Duy persuaded a reluctant Kakashi to join their three-person team, teasing him until he agreed.
• Bieshu Feifan, Might Duy, and Kakashi registered for the exams while Guy and villagers watched their humiliating procession through Konoha.

Bieshu Feifan passed the Chunin exam’s written test by filling his answers with praise for his Hokage brother, then discovered his ordinary combat abilities were weaker than he expected. After Kakashi qualified and Might Duy was eliminated, Bieshu Feifan decided to focus on raising his stats and wrote to Orochimaru.

• Bieshu Feifan wrote irrelevant answers praising his Hokage brother, and the examiner passed him while Kakashi also passed the written test and Might Duy was eliminated.
• Bieshu Feifan and Kakashi formed a two-person team for the next round, where Bieshu Feifan was bound and struck by the Ino-Shika-Cho team before defeating the Akimichi boy with a Great Fireball Technique.
• Kakashi defeated the Nara and Yamanaka boys, qualified for the finals, and became a chunin at six.
• Bieshu Feifan treated Might Duy, Might Guy, and Kakashi to barbecue, and Kakashi thanked him before leaving.
• Bieshu Feifan went home and wrote another letter to Orochimaru, resolving to raise his stats because his combat intelligence was only average.

Bieshu Feifan investigated Kushina Uzumaki’s home, suspecting she was about to become the next jinchūriki, but his disguised shadow clones were discovered and pursued. After confirming the Nine-Tails was not yet inside Kushina, he learned Hiruzen Sarutobi had ordered her taken to Mito Uzumaki, and sent new clones to keep watch.

• Bieshu Feifan read Orochimaru’s letter, which showed an Iwagakure emblem, while Orochimaru secretly celebrated robbing the Land of Earth’s capital.
• After sparring with Minato Namikaze, Bieshu Feifan realized Kushina Uzumaki had been absent and suspected she was about to become a jinchūriki.
• Bieshu Feifan sneaked toward Kushina’s home, but Anbu agents surrounded and attacked him as he tried to escape.
• Bieshu Feifan used shadow clones disguised as Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, and Danzo to create distractions, then confirmed the Nine-Tails was not yet inside Kushina.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Anbu to take Kushina to Mito Uzumaki, and Bieshu Feifan sent two more shadow clones to monitor Kushina’s home and the Hokage Building.

Bieshu Feifan tried to obtain chakra from Mito Uzumaki’s remains but could not find her coffin among the sealed graves in the Senju Cemetery. While Hiruzen Sarutobi quietly assembled forces around the cemetery, Orochimaru arrived to dig up the same coffin after receiving Bieshu’s offer of information about the Rinnegan.

• Bieshu Feifan sent Shadow Clones to search for the Nine-Tails transfer site, but Hiruzen Sarutobi’s forces drove them off before they located the hidden mansion.
• After Kushina Uzumaki left the Senju residence and a coffin was taken toward the mountain behind Hokage Rock, Bieshu Feifan followed the burial party to the cemetery.
• Bieshu Feifan and his Shadow Clones dug through hundreds of sealed graves but failed to find Mito Uzumaki’s remains.
• An Anbu reported the grave-digging intruder to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who ordered the forces to gather before confronting him.
• Orochimaru received Bieshu Feifan’s letter offering information about the Rinnegan in exchange for Mito Uzumaki’s intact corpse, then went to the cemetery to retrieve it.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi surrounded the Senju Cemetery at daybreak and found Orochimaru prying open a sealed coffin with a shovel.

Bieshu Feifan stole Mito Uzumaki’s coffin during a fight between Hiruzen Sarutobi and Orochimaru, then escaped Konoha and used Wood Release to open it. He absorbed Mito Uzumaki’s vast chakra and believed it could raise his strength to the top tier of the Shinobi World.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi caught Orochimaru digging up a grave, and the two fought as Shinobi gathered at the battlefield.
• Bieshu Feifan disguised a Shadow Clone as Danzo, took Mito Uzumaki’s coffin during the distraction, and fled with it.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi stopped fighting Orochimaru, recognized that the thief was not Danzo, and had Orochimaru imprisoned after learning he had been searching for Nawaki’s body.
• Bieshu Feifan hid the coffin, received Orochimaru’s advice on bypassing Konoha’s barrier and opening the seal, then escaped the village.
• Bieshu Feifan used Wood Release to open Mito Uzumaki’s coffin and absorbed her immense chakra.

After returning Mito Uzumaki’s remains to Konoha, Bieshu Feifan absorbed her chakra and emerged from seclusion with greatly increased reserves. He later visited Hiruzen Sarutobi to claim forbidden techniques, while Orochimaru received a cryptic clue about the Rinnegan.

• Utatane Koharu, Biwako Sarutobi, and the Hyūga clan head’s wife examined Mito Uzumaki’s remains and found them undamaged, while Hiruzen Sarutobi dismissed Danzo’s call for a bounty after reading the thief’s letter.
• Bieshu Feifan spent nearly a month assimilating Mito Uzumaki’s chakra, then emerged from seclusion and joked with Might Duy, Might Guy, and Kakashi.
• Orochimaru received Bieshu Feifan’s reply, “Land of Rain, red hair,” and inferred that the Rinnegan was connected to a red-haired person there.
• Bieshu Feifan went to the Hokage’s Office, teased Hiruzen Sarutobi about his paperwork, claimed he had mastered Wind Release, and demanded the forbidden techniques Hiruzen owed him.