Chapter Summaries

Ye Feng followed Zarik to meet the Raen Clan Leader, while Ricard’s memories revealed the cruelty that had shaped his behavior. After secretly questioning Ricard’s guards and ordering an investigation into his Black Market movements, the Raen Clan Leader received Zarik and Ye Feng, whose attention he seemed to watch closely.

• Zarik revealed that he had arranged the attack that killed the captive woman’s family, and she tore off her own hand trying to hurt him before he nailed her severed arm to the table.
• Ricard’s memory showed Ye Feng why he had deliberately made himself shallow and cruel to avoid Zarik’s attention, and Ye Feng nearly exposed his hostility toward Zarik before distracting him by groping a maid.
• Zarik and Ye Feng went to the Raen Clan Leader’s building, while Ye Feng’s two clones were summoned to meet the leader in secret.
• The Raen Clan Leader questioned the clones about Ricard’s recent movements and an investigation they knew nothing about, then dismissed them and ordered someone in the shadows to investigate Ricard’s Black Market activities.
• Zarik and Ye Feng entered the Raen Clan Leader’s office, where Ye Feng sensed that the leader’s gaze was lingering on him.

Ye Feng was exposed while investigating the Raen Family’s secrets, but escaped Zarik’s ambush with help from a clone and his space ability. He broke into the family’s Herb Garden and moved it into his Divine Realm, only to be struck by an enormous phantom palm.

• Ye Feng followed Zarik into a guarded laboratory, where the Bear Beastman and armed guards revealed that they had uncovered his identity.
• Zarik demanded to know why Ye Feng had infiltrated the Raen Family, but Ye Feng escaped when a clone’s self-destruction blasted open the isolation Magic Formation.
• Ye Feng used another clone to breach a different isolation Magic Formation and entered the Raen Family’s Herb Garden.
• Ye Feng moved the entire Herb Garden into his Divine Realm as an angry voice confronted him from outside.
• An enormous phantom palm descended, and Ye Feng had no time to dodge the strike.

Ye Feng escaped the Raen Clan Leader with six unconscious Ōtsutsuki Clan members and brought them to Kalu, where they could be used to save Rhode. A day later, Ye Feng learned that Taker Star had been locked down, but the search portrait showed his disguised Ōtsutsuki appearance rather than his current face.

• Ye Feng used the chaos to escape the Herb Garden, then returned to the Isolation Magic Formation and seized six Ōtsutsuki Clan members.
• The Raen Clan Leader blocked Ye Feng’s escape and revealed his hidden strength, but Ye Feng broke through the formation and fled with the captives.
• Ye Feng arrived at Kalu’s Manor, where Kalu took the group through the Sealing Magic Formation and learned that the Raen Family had seen Ye Feng’s disguise.
• Kalu confirmed that all six Ōtsutsuki Clan members were unconscious, and Ye Feng recovered his strength while they waited.
• A day later, Kalu told Ye Feng that Taker Star’s routes had been closed and soldiers were searching for a culprit whose portrait showed Ye Feng in his Ōtsutsuki disguise.

After the Raen Clan Leader used the hunt for the man with the Rinnegan to frame the Ōtsutsuki Clan, he sent the First Elder and Third Elder to confront them and claim their resources. The Third Elder faced an Ōtsutsuki who transformed after consuming a blood-red sphere.

• The Raen Clan Leader told Zarik that the Raen Family would use the portrait of the Rinnegan as evidence that the Ōtsutsuki had attacked them first.
• The Raen Clan Leader explained that their search and arrests had made the Raen Family look like victims, giving them an excuse to seize the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s planetary sources and Chakra Fruits.
• Two days later, the Raen Family’s leader confronted an Ōtsutsuki on a dying planet and demanded to know who was behind the attack.
• The Third Elder stepped forward to fight the Ōtsutsuki, who was revealed to be far stronger than the Raen Family’s subordinates had expected.
• The Ōtsutsuki’s punch and Shinra Tensei failed to harm the Third Elder, so he swallowed a blood-red sphere and transformed into a huge, white-furred monster.

The Third Elder revealed his Deity Transformation Realm strength and battled the Ōtsutsuki Clan member, overpowering him despite his enhanced abilities. Ōtsutsuki began a blood-fueled ultimate move that created a vast spatial rift, prompting the First Elder to order everyone out of its range.

• The First Elder ordered his frightened subordinates to stay and watch as the Third Elder confronted Ōtsutsuki.
• Ōtsutsuki increased his strength and sent the Third Elder flying, but the Third Elder remained unharmed and counterattacked.
• The Third Elder revealed his Deity Transformation Realm cultivation, kicked Ōtsutsuki away, and fought him through hundreds of attacks.
• Ōtsutsuki rejected the Third Elder’s offer to spare him and, fearing he would lose a battle of attrition, cut into his own body to unleash an ultimate move.
• Ōtsutsuki’s blood gathered into a black mass that opened into a huge spatial rift, and the First Elder warned everyone to flee its range.

The First Elder killed an Ōtsutsuki who had opened a spatial rift, but the enemy secretly marked him before dying. Hiding the mark from the Raen Family, the First Elder claimed their mission was incomplete and urged them to keep hunting the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

• An Ōtsutsuki expanded a spatial rift, dragging Raen Family fighters into it until the First Elder stabbed him from behind.
• The First Elder killed the Ōtsutsuki, causing the spatial rift to vanish and allowing surviving Raen Family subordinates to fall to safety.
• The supposedly dead Ōtsutsuki grabbed the First Elder and placed a black mark on his leg before the First Elder severed his arm; the First Elder concealed the mark from the others.
• The Raen Family returned with a God Tree, a ripe Chakra Fruit, and four Ōtsutsuki prisoners, making up for their losses.
• When the Third Elder said the mission was complete, the First Elder ordered the Raen Family to keep searching for the Ōtsutsuki, stirring the survivors to anger.

Ye Feng and his companions obtained Kāma marks from captured Ōtsutsuki Clan members, then joined Orochimaru in cleansing the toxin from Rhode’s soul. Ye Feng removed most of the remaining toxin, but about a tenth remained when he reached his limit.

• The First Elder continued seeking higher-ranking Ōtsutsuki Clan members in hopes of learning how to remove his Kāma.
• Ye Feng, Orochimaru, the Senju Brothers, Madara Uchiha, and Shion interrogated captives and obtained Kāma marks, with Ye Feng using genjutsu to help Hashirama Senju succeed.
• Ye Feng asked Kalu to guard the sealing magic formation while Orochimaru began cleansing the toxin from Rhode’s soul.
• Orochimaru’s cleansing reached its limit with a third of the toxin still remaining, so Ye Feng used his Kāma energy and law force to continue.
• After half an hour, Ye Feng had reduced the remaining toxin to about a tenth but could not remove any more.

Ye Feng treated Rhode, removing most of the toxin from his soul but leaving a small portion that would slow his cultivation until Ye Feng reached the deity transformation realm. He helped Deidara and Hidan begin cultivating, then discovered that Kakuzu could not absorb natural energy because his body was no longer truly alive, prompting Kakuzu to reveal that his consciousness had been fading.

• Ye Feng stopped treating Rhode when the toxin proved too difficult to remove completely, then reassured Kalu that Rhode would wake and could be fully cured after Ye Feng advanced to the deity transformation realm.
• Ye Feng gave the remaining Kāma origin force to Orochimaru and distributed energy orbs to the others so they could cultivate.
• Deidara and Hidan told Ye Feng they could sense natural energy, and he transmitted the first level of the cultivation method to them.
• Ye Feng checked on Kakuzu and told him his modified, long-dead body could not draw natural energy into itself.
• Kakuzu admitted that his body sometimes lagged, his mind had grown hazy, and he feared becoming a walking corpse, so he kept pursuing money to slow the loss of his consciousness.

Ye Feng arranged a path for Kakuzu to grow stronger and sent Sasori to Temira Star to pursue advanced technology. He then planned an outing on Taker Star with Miroku and the other women.

• Ye Feng offered Kakuzu two ways to overcome his limits, and Kakuzu chose to refine his body into an implement while retaining his secret technique.
• Kakuzu pledged his life to Ye Feng, who told him to grow stronger because his opponent was the God of Ōtsutsuki.
• Ye Feng told Sasori about the Machine Race and proposed sending him to Temira Star to develop his mechanical body and eventually reach the Central Star Domain.
• Sasori eagerly agreed, and the next day he boarded a spaceship for Temira Star, becoming the first being from the Shinobi World to leave Ye Feng and strike out alone.
• With the others occupied, Ye Feng invited Miroku and the other women to explore Taker Star, where Kalu had advised him to avoid first-rate and top-tier factions.

Ye Feng explored Taker Star's shopping district with the women, then visited a Paper Talisman shop and decided to buy materials to make talismans for profit. The clerk doubted his abilities, but Ye Feng paid a million and insisted on inspecting superior-grade materials.

• Ye Feng treated the women to a shopping spree, and they happily explored the mall.
• Ye Feng considered buying a mech but gave up after seeing the high prices.
• Ye Feng realized he could make and sell Spirit Talismans using materials from Taker Star.
• The clerk explained the Paper Talisman grades and warned Ye Feng that making them was difficult and dangerous.
• Ye Feng offered a million for a hundred sets of superior-grade materials, and the clerk agreed to fetch them despite doubting him.

Ye Feng bought 120 sets of expensive Paper Talisman materials after learning why upper-grade talismans were so valuable, leaving himself nearly broke. He took the women shopping and tried Taker Star’s local food, but the sight of giant live larvae sent them back to the Manor, where he cooked for them.

• Ye Feng learned that upper-grade Paper Talismans could sell for thirty million because making them had an extremely low success rate, then bought 120 sets of materials for twenty-one million six hundred thousand.
• Ye Feng left the Paper Talisman shop with less than a million in cash and worried about paying for the women’s purchases.
• The women returned with inexpensive curiosities, and Ye Feng resolved to make them rich someday before taking them to try local specialties.
• Ye Feng and the women were disgusted by a dish of live, finger-sized larvae, so he paid the bill and hurried them out of the restaurant.
• Ye Feng and the women returned to the Manor, where he cooked a meal that helped them recover.

Ye Feng tried making wood spirit talismans to earn money, but a failed inscription destroyed part of his building and injured several servants. After healing them, he admitted to Kalu that he was a talisman maker.

• Ye Feng began making wood spirit talismans, and his first attempt failed with a minor explosion.
• Ye Feng's second talisman exploded violently, destroying about a third of the building and seriously injuring several servants.
• Kalu arrived, mistook the destruction for an attack, and ordered his subordinates to search the area before Ye Feng explained the accident.
• Ye Feng healed the injured servants and told Kalu they needed time to recover.
• Kalu ordered the incident kept secret, then asked what Ye Feng had been making, and Ye Feng admitted he was a talisman maker.

Ye Feng visited Kalu's family's Talisman-Making Space, where Kalu offered him a lucrative deal to produce paper talismans. Ye Feng asked to observe the family's highest-level talisman maker, and an eccentric, unkempt humanoid emerged from the sealed room.

• Kalu brought Ye Feng into a vast, sealed space filled with talisman makers and explained that his family wanted Ye Feng to help make paper talismans.
• Kalu explained the value of high-grade paper talismans and offered Ye Feng payment for advanced-grade and upper-grade talismans.
• Ye Feng realized he could not yet make upper-grade spirit talismans because he had not solved the cause of their explosions.
• Ye Feng asked to watch the family's highest-level talisman maker work, and Kalu led him to a sealed room.
• After Kalu warned Ye Feng about the maker's eccentric temper, the door opened and an unkempt humanoid emerged.

Ye Feng provoked Ward into a Paper Talisman contest by offering a hundred sets of valuable materials as the prize. As Ward began crafting a higher-grade talisman, Ye Feng watched closely, puzzled by how smoothly Ward worked.

• Kalu brought Ye Feng to meet Ward, who angrily demanded they state their business.
• Ye Feng insulted Ward's appearance and challenged his talisman-making skill, but Ward initially refused to compete.
• Ye Feng offered a hundred sets of superior-grade Paper Talisman materials, and Kalu agreed to guarantee the wager.
• Ward accepted a contest in which each man would make three Paper Talismans, with the highest-grade one winning.
• Kalu arranged a private venue, and Ward began making a high-grade, middle-tier Paper Talisman while Ye Feng observed with his Divine Sense.
• Ward finished without a mishap and took out higher-grade materials to attempt a high-grade, high-tier Paper Talisman.

Ye Feng discovered that consciousness in Nascent Soul-level blood hindered talisman crafting, erased it, and successfully inscribed an upper-grade Spirit Talisman. Ward recognized Ye Feng’s skill and begged to become his disciple, leaving Ye Feng baffled during their contest.

• Ye Feng learned from Kalu that Ward added a drug to suppress consciousness in the blood used for high-grade talismans.
• Ye Feng sensed the consciousness in his blood, erased it, and began crafting an upper-grade Paper Talisman.
• Ward’s second attempt failed, and he watched Ye Feng’s unfamiliar green-energy inscription progress.
• Ye Feng completed the Spirit Talisman, which Kalu and Ward recognized as upper grade and possibly middle tier.
• Ward knelt before Ye Feng and begged him to accept him as a disciple, while Ye Feng questioned the request.

Ye Feng refused Ward’s demand to become his disciple, while Ward vowed to prove himself and Kalu arranged clothes for him. Ye Feng and Kalu then discussed testing Ye Feng’s high-grade restorative spirit talisman on Kalu’s recovering son, Rhode, whose soul toxin remained uncleared.

• Ye Feng tried to refuse Ward as a disciple, but Kalu persuaded Ward to stand and earn Ye Feng’s approval by proving his worth.
• Ward apologized to Ye Feng, promised to work hard, and asked Kalu to prepare him proper clothes.
• Ye Feng slipped away with the high-grade spirit talisman, and Kalu later learned that it was a rare restorative talisman whose full effects Ye Feng did not know.
• Ye Feng proposed testing the talisman on Rhode, and Kalu agreed despite his concern about its value and hope that it might help his son.
• Ye Feng and Kalu visited Rhode, who had awakened and was physically recovering but remained listless because the toxin in his soul had not been cleared.

Ye Feng and Kalu tested a Wood Spirit Talisman on Rhode after learning that Descartes's subordinates had poisoned him. The talisman completely restored Rhode's body and cleared his soul toxins, leaving Ye Feng curious about its unexpected effect.

• Rhode confessed that Descartes's subordinates had poisoned him, and he had hidden the truth to spare Descartes further blame.
• Kalu embraced Rhode and promised to protect him, then suspected the Raen Family of arranging the poisoning with Ye Feng's agreement.
• Kalu smashed the headboard in anger and vowed not to coexist with the Raen Family, while Ye Feng urged him to build his strength before seeking revenge.
• Ye Feng activated the Wood Spirit Talisman, and green energy enveloped Rhode for about a minute.
• Ye Feng examined Rhode and found that the talisman had cleared all toxins, including the soul toxins, and restored his muscles to their best condition.

Ye Feng confirmed that Rhode had recovered, then got drunk at Kalu’s banquet and woke up surrounded by evidence of a wild night. The next morning, Ye Feng sparred with Kalu and repeatedly outmaneuvered him, prompting Kalu to attack with his full strength.

• Ye Feng told Kalu that Rhode’s body and soul had recovered and that the Wood Spirit Talisman had purified him.
• Kalu celebrated by arranging a banquet and insisted Ye Feng stay for drinks.
• Ye Feng woke with a severe headache, found several women asleep around him, and realized how much had happened while he was drunk.
• Kalu teased Ye Feng about the previous night, and Ye Feng challenged him to spar over flaws in his fist technique.
• Ye Feng blocked and dodged Kalu’s attacks, swept him into a split, and threw him through the air.
• Kalu charged again with full strength, sending two tiger-shaped blasts of wind toward Ye Feng.

Ye Feng defeated Kalu in a spar and agreed to make another Upper-Level Paper Talisman while asking Kalu to investigate nearby Ōtsutsuki extracting planetary source. At Kalu’s factory, Ward persistently tried to become Ye Feng’s disciple, and Ye Feng decided to discuss keeping the talisman’s origins secret with Kalu.

• Ye Feng redirected Kalu’s punch and knocked him down with a combination of strikes, then explained that he had developed his own boxing style.
• Kalu asked Ye Feng to make another Upper-Level Paper Talisman and offered him sixty million, but Ye Feng refused the payment and asked him to investigate nearby Ōtsutsuki instead.
• Ye Feng agreed to craft the talisman using materials provided by Kalu and returned to Kalu’s factory.
• Ward greeted Ye Feng as his master and insisted he would start over to learn from him, while the other Talisman Makers speculated about Ye Feng’s skill.
• Ye Feng worried that news of the Upper-Level Paper Talismans would expose his group and decided to speak with Kalu about it after crafting the talisman.

Ye Feng crafted another mid-grade upper-tier Wood Spirit Talisman in Ward’s room, astonishing Ward with his success and prompting Ward to help conceal his abilities. After resting, Ye Feng went to Kalu’s office, where Maine told him Kalu had not yet returned.

• Ward brought Ye Feng to his cleaned crafting room, where fifty sets of materials had been prepared for him.
• Ye Feng cleared the blood’s consciousness with his Spiritual Power and crafted a mid-grade upper-tier Wood Spirit Talisman in a quarter of an hour.
• Ward was shocked by Ye Feng’s success, and Ye Feng warned him to keep the crafting method secret.
• Ward offered to draw attention to himself so Ye Feng could stay hidden, but Ye Feng refused and told him to keep a low profile.
• Ye Feng rested, then went to Kalu’s office and learned from Maine that Kalu was still away gathering materials.