Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Tianchang defeated the Second Elder’s faction and ended the clan meeting battle, though the Uchiha Clan suffered devastating losses. Konoha’s leaders chose not to act against the weakened clan for now, leaving the other major clans reassured that the village would not immediately interfere.

• Uchiha Tianchang announced Uchiha Chihuo’s beheading and offered the remaining fighters a chance to surrender; the survivors stopped fighting and were taken into custody.
• Uchiha Tianchang led the wounded survivors and recovered corpses back to the Clan Grounds after more than half of the Uchiha’s upper-level forces had been killed or injured.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi rejected Utatane Koharu’s proposal to wipe out the Uchiha Clan and declined Shimura Danzō’s plan to take Uchiha prodigies into Root.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha High Command to leave the Uchiha Clan alone unless it threatened village security, while sending a warning about maintaining security.
• The other major clans watched Konoha’s response, then felt reassured when the Hokage Office took no further action against the Uchiha.

At a Uchiha clan meeting, Uchiha Fugaku proposed recruiting outsiders to ease the Military Police Force’s workload and improve the clan’s standing in Konoha. Ye Feng warned that the plan could bring about the clan’s destruction, but the others dismissed him.

• Uchiha Tianchang called a meeting to discuss the Military Police Force’s shortage of senior fighters and increasing incidents involving suspected spies.
• Uchiha Fugaku proposed recruiting ninja from other clans and civilian backgrounds while keeping the force’s leadership positions under Uchiha control.
• The clan leaders warmed to Fugaku’s proposal, seeing it as a way to reduce their workload and improve the Uchiha’s standing in the village.
• Ye Feng interrupted Uchiha Tianchang and warned that carrying out the plan could make things worse and lead to the Uchiha Clan’s destruction.
• Several Uchiha members scolded Ye Feng and dismissed his warning because he was a child.

Ye Feng advised the Uchiha leaders to preserve their weakened clan by requesting help from the Third Hokage while secretly gathering evidence against the leaders targeting them. Uchiha Tianchang accepted the plan and ordered Ye Feng’s abilities kept secret as the clan prepared to act.

• Ye Feng explained that reforming the Military Police Force while the Uchiha were weak would provoke Konoha’s leaders, who wanted to prevent the clan from rising.
• After Uchiha Tianchang silenced the clan members’ angry suggestions, Ye Feng proposed leaving the force as it was and asking the Third Hokage to handle its staffing problems.
• Ye Feng urged the Uchiha to use the resulting time to recover, ease tensions with the village, and exploit divisions among Konoha’s leaders.
• Ye Feng rejected assassination as a last resort and recommended secretly collecting evidence to force Konoha’s leadership to step down, followed by reforms within the clan.
• Uchiha Tianchang agreed to follow Ye Feng’s plan, delay approaching the Third Hokage, and classify everything about Uchiha Yefeng as the clan’s highest secret.

Uchiha Tianchang announced that he would resign as clan head after the clan stabilized, while Shimura Danzō investigated the Uchiha Ancestral Grounds battle and sought information from the imprisoned Second Elder. His spy, Uchiha Takyū, failed to recruit the Second Elder and fled after being exposed.

• Uchiha Tianchang told the clan elders he would remain in office until the clan stabilized, then resign and continue serving the clan in other ways.
• Shimura Danzō questioned Gray Fox about the battle at the Uchiha Ancestral Grounds and ordered him to contact the imprisoned Second Elder.
• Uchiha Takyū entered the prison with a written order and offered the Second Elder his life in exchange for helping Shimura Danzō or revealing what had happened at the Clan Meeting.
• The Second Elder refused to betray the Uchiha and shouted that Uchiha Takyū was a spy.
• Uchiha Takyū ran from the prison, told a guard that the Second Elder had gone berserk, and urged him to check the cell.

Uchiha Tianchang learned that Uchiha Takyū had sided with Shimura Danzō, while the Second Elder revealed that he had kept the clan’s secrets. The Second Elder proposed serving the clan in battle and forming his followers into a hidden squad under Tianchang’s command.

• Uchiha Takyū failed to obtain information from the Second Elder and asked Gray Fox to save him, but Gray Fox stabbed him and disposed of his body.
• After hearing the guard ninja’s report, Uchiha Tianchang questioned the Second Elder, who confirmed that Uchiha Takyū had sought information about the Clan Meeting but learned nothing.
• Uchiha Tianchang told the Second Elder about the clan leadership’s recent meeting and their decision to protect Uchiha Yefeng’s identity.
• The Second Elder proposed remaining imprisoned unless the clan needed him to fight, offering battle as atonement for his past actions.
• The Second Elder suggested forming his followers into a hidden squad like the Anbu, and offered to help persuade them to serve under Uchiha Tianchang.

Uchiha Tianchang and the Second Elder persuaded the missing-nin to serve the clan in a new covert unit, and Ye Feng advised sending most of them on missions outside the village. With the Uchiha crisis settled, Ye Feng returned home and reunited with Inuzuka Clan Fengyu and Kurenai Yuhi.

• The Second Elder offered the missing-nin a chance to serve the Uchiha Clan in a hidden unit, and Uchiha Tianchang promised support for them and their families.
• The missing-nin accepted after the Second Elder explained he would remain in prison to atone, and Uchiha Tianchang helped establish their new unit.
• Uchiha Tianchang told Ye Feng about the unit, and Ye Feng suggested keeping a few covert guards in the village while sending the rest on bounty and security missions.
• Ye Feng told Uchiha Tianchang he was going home, then returned to find Inuzuka Clan Fengyu and Kurenai Yuhi attempting to cook dinner.
• Inuzuka Clan Fengyu and Kurenai Yuhi welcomed Ye Feng and kissed his cheeks, and he offered to cook and teach them.

Ye Feng celebrated Might Duy’s promotion to Jonin over dinner, and Might Duy told him that he and Might Guy would move back to their own home. After they left, Ye Feng resumed living alone, though his evenings soon filled with friends coming over to eat.

• Ye Feng cooked a large dinner and invited Might Duy and Might Guy to join him when they returned from training.
• Might Duy revealed that the village had promoted him to Jonin and that Might Guy could follow the same special promotion route.
• Might Duy thanked Ye Feng for helping him defeat Shinnō and announced that he and Might Guy planned to move back home the next day.
• Might Duy and Might Guy left for their home at first light, leaving Ye Feng alone again.
• Inuzuka Clan Fengyu and Kurenai Yuhi continued visiting Ye Feng, and Asuma Sarutobi, Obito Uchiha, and Rin Nohara joined them for meals.

Ye Feng attended his early graduation assessment, drawing a crowd because he and Kakashi Hatake were five-year-old geniuses. He finished the written exam quickly, while Kakashi mistakenly thought Ye Feng wanted to copy his answers.

• The Uchiha used the Military Police Force’s staffing problems to persuade the Third Hokage to let Anbu help safeguard the village, while he remained wary of their loyalty.
• Ye Feng’s friends and clan representatives gathered at the Ninja Academy to support him, and Orochimaru revealed that he would be chief examiner for the second round.
• Ye Feng entered the exam room and sat beside Kakashi Hatake, who greeted him with an arrogant snort.
• Sato Ichiki began the written assessment, and Ye Feng completed his paper in half an hour.
• Kakashi Hatake shifted his paper so Ye Feng could copy, but Ye Feng showed him his completed answers, leaving Kakashi embarrassed and annoyed.

Ye Feng passed the written exam in first place after observing the candidates’ cheating methods, while Kakashi Hatake mistook his curiosity for diligent study. Ye Feng and his friends celebrated, then gathered for the afternoon ninjutsu assessment, where Orochimaru arrived as chief examiner.

• Ye Feng watched a Nara Clan boy use the Shadow Secret Technique to help an Akimichi Clan boy, then gently repelled a Yamanaka Clan girl’s Mind Body Switch Technique.
• Kakashi Hatake saw Ye Feng observing the other candidates and concluded that he studied every kind of ninja, while Ye Feng wondered why Kakashi was staring at him.
• The exam results were posted, and Uchiha Yefeng ranked first, ahead of Kakashi Hatake.
• Obito Uchiha urged Ye Feng to celebrate his result, and Ye Feng invited his friends to lunch and promised barbecue that evening.
• Orochimaru arrived with two assisting teachers to oversee the afternoon ninjutsu assessment, and the students excitedly discussed his reputation and his taking Uchiha Yefeng as a disciple.

Orochimaru changed the graduation exam into a free-for-all combat test, with eight students to advance by being the sole person left in each circle. Ye Feng entered a circle and, after three students attacked him together, dodged their opening moves and watched one of them produce a surprisingly tiny fireball.

• Orochimaru ordered the students to fight in eight circles, where the last person standing in each circle would earn a C-rank Ninjutsu scroll.
• Uchiha Shinichi entered a circle first, and Ye Feng chose the neighboring one instead of challenging him.
• The students began fighting in five circles, while the circles occupied by Uchiha Shinichi, Ye Feng, and Kakashi Hatake remained quiet.
• Three students surrounded Ye Feng and attacked him with shuriken and a fire technique.
• Ye Feng flipped into the air to dodge and was puzzled when the fire technique produced only a tiny fireball.

Ye Feng’s senbon-proof defense stunned the spectators and helped deter further challenges during the graduation assessment. After the assessment ended, Orochimaru announced a seven-person free-for-all for an A-rank Ninjutsu Scroll and made Ye Feng continue by threatening to count withdrawal as failure.

• Ye Feng blocked a fireball concealing senbon, and the needles failed to pierce his skin as spectators and clan representatives marveled at his defense.
• The three students who had surrounded Ye Feng retreated, while Kakashi Hatake and Uchiha Shinichi watched and considered how they might overcome him.
• The assessment ended with seven circle winners, including Ye Feng, Kakashi Hatake, and Uchiha Shinichi; the three contestants still fighting for the final circle were eliminated.
• Orochimaru offered an A-rank Ninjutsu Scroll to the winner of a free-for-all, and the Third Hokage tacitly approved the match.
• When Ye Feng asked to withdraw, Orochimaru said he would have to retake the assessment next year if he did, so Ye Feng agreed to compete.
• Orochimaru began the free-for-all under rules allowing any method that did not endanger lives, while Tsunade remarked on his changed demeanor.

Ye Feng was forced to resume the match, where Uchiha Shinichi and Kakashi Hatake both challenged him while the other contestants tried to eliminate them. Ye Feng defeated Kakashi Hatake’s attacks with ease, leaving Kakashi injured and furious as Uchiha Shinichi watched for his chance to face Ye Feng.

• The four remaining contestants banded together and attacked Uchiha Shinichi, who revealed his Two-Tomoe Sharingan and knocked two of them away.
• Uchiha Fugaku learned that Uchiha Shinichi had awakened two tomoe and decided to invest more in his training.
• Kakashi Hatake ignored Ye Feng’s protests, attacked him with his blade, and was struck several times in the abdomen after Ye Feng caught his wrist.
• Humiliated, Kakashi Hatake launched another assault, but Ye Feng redirected his blade and struck him twice with his elbow, making him spit up blood.
• Uchiha Shinichi finished off his opponents and watched Ye Feng and Kakashi Hatake, while Kakashi Hatake remained furious at being repeatedly driven back.

Ye Feng overwhelmed Kakashi Hatake and Uchiha Shinichi, prompting them to join forces against him in the tournament. As they began their two-on-one fight, Ye Feng avoided Kakashi Hatake’s sword and considered obtaining a weapon of his own.

• Kakashi Hatake reflected on his mistakes, used a smoke bomb and Shadow Clone Technique, but Ye Feng found him in the smoke and struck him down.
• Ye Feng challenged Uchiha Shinichi to fight alongside Kakashi Hatake, then rushed Uchiha Shinichi and landed a heavy blow despite his activated Sharingan.
• Uchiha Shinichi and Kakashi Hatake agreed to team up, drawing excitement from the spectators.
• Kakashi Hatake threw shuriken and engaged Ye Feng with his sword while Uchiha Shinichi prepared ninjutsu.
• Ye Feng avoided facing Kakashi Hatake’s sharp sword directly and thought that he needed an immortal sword of his own.

Ye Feng defeated Kakashi Hatake and Uchiha Shinichi in the graduation assessment by using the Eight Gates Released Formation and overwhelming speed. After winning, he chose Wind Release: Great Breakthrough and the Mystical Palm Technique as his rewards, while Orochimaru and the Third Hokage considered what his choice revealed.

• Ye Feng evaded Kakashi Hatake and Uchiha Shinichi’s coordinated attacks, then used his sensory abilities to discover Kakashi Hatake’s substitution seal.
• Ye Feng knocked Kakashi Hatake back with a kick and stopped his follow-up punches just short of Kakashi Hatake and Uchiha Shinichi, winning the match.
• Orochimaru declared Uchiha Yefeng the winner, and spectators praised his speed and taijutsu, increasing interest in training under Might Duy.
• Ye Feng chose Wind Release: Great Breakthrough from the C-rank manuals and selected the Mystical Palm Technique from the A-rank options.
• The Third Hokage approved of Ye Feng’s medical ninjutsu choice, while Orochimaru knew he had arranged the options to steer Ye Feng toward it.

Orochimaru explained that he had changed Ye Feng’s graduation assessment to protect him from Shimura Danzō and urged him to gain the Third Hokage’s support. Ye Feng chose to form a genin team and began helping Orochimaru adapt to natural energy, carefully monitoring the first infusion.

• Orochimaru told Ye Feng that the Third Hokage could protect him from Shimura Danzō, while Orochimaru would support him from the shadows.
• Ye Feng agreed to get closer to the Third Hokage but chose to form a genin team and leave the village on missions, hoping an enemy would reveal himself.
• Ye Feng offered to condition Orochimaru’s body for natural energy, reviving Orochimaru’s hope of learning Sage Mode after his past failure at Ryūchi Cave.
• Ye Feng explained his method of gradually adapting the body to natural energy and described how it could eventually enable Orochimaru to use natural energy directly.
• Ye Feng infused Orochimaru with a measured amount of natural energy, then stopped the surrounding flow and watched for signs of danger.

Ye Feng stabilized Orochimaru’s exposure to natural energy and gave him two Spirit Talismans, then explained his Senjutsu knowledge by inventing a powerful master. Orochimaru accepted the explanation cautiously and asked Ye Feng to share more secrets as they explored ways to advance.

• Ye Feng absorbed some of the natural energy inside Orochimaru and told him to maintain the remaining amount for three days without fighting.
• Ye Feng gave Orochimaru a Fire Spirit Talisman and an Invisibility Spirit Talisman, explained their uses, and warned him not to reveal them.
• Orochimaru inferred that Ye Feng had unusual Senjutsu knowledge and considered whether he had been replaced by another soul or trained by a powerful master.
• Ye Feng claimed that a thousand-year-old expert had taken him as a disciple and left him a Senjutsu Talisman that could summon help in a crisis.
• Orochimaru asked to meet Ye Feng’s master, and Ye Feng said the master traveled across worlds and might never return.
• Orochimaru said he had stopped his experiments involving Hashirama Cells and Uchiha cells, and Ye Feng advised him to first master natural energy or pursue chakra’s ultimate form.

Ye Feng explained Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s origins to Orochimaru, strengthening their trust and asking him about the Kusanagi Sword. After receiving his Genin certificate, Ye Feng declined the Third Hokage’s offer to join the Anbu immediately and was assigned to a ninja squad.

• Ye Feng told Orochimaru that Kaguya Ōtsutsuki was the source of chakra and had been sealed by her sons to protect the world.
• Orochimaru thanked Ye Feng for showing him another path to power and pledged to remember his help.
• Ye Feng asked Orochimaru about the Kusanagi Sword, and Orochimaru said one was in Ryūchi Cave and offered to obtain it.
• Orochimaru suggested Ye Feng could explain his talisman by saying Orochimaru had made it.
• Ye Feng received his Genin certificate and forehead protector from the Third Hokage.
• Ye Feng said he wanted to train with a ninja squad before joining the Anbu, and the Third Hokage told him to return that afternoon to meet his squad leader.

Ye Feng visited Might Duy’s crowded taijutsu training session and realized his Graduation Assessment had inspired many shinobi to train harder. He then began studying the Flying Thunder God Technique, sensing its marks with his divine sense but failing to perceive spatial nodes, and considered carefully strengthening his brain and perception with true qi.

• Ye Feng found the Big Eaters Five, Kakashi Hatake, Uchiha Shinichi, and clan members training taijutsu with Might Duy.
• Might Duy told Ye Feng that the training crowd had grown suddenly, and Ye Feng realized his Graduation Assessment had sparked the interest in taijutsu.
• Ye Feng left his friends to train and went to Hokage Rock to practice the forbidden techniques he had collected.
• Ye Feng set aside the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique and Summoning Technique, and paused his Rasengan practice because he lacked chakra, a summon, or a clear approach.
• Ye Feng studied the Flying Thunder God Technique and used his divine sense to detect a mark within five kilometers, but he could not figure out how to travel to it or perceive spatial nodes.
• Ye Feng considered using small amounts of true qi to strengthen his brain and divine sense so he could sense spatial nodes.

Ye Feng expanded his divine sense and discovered he could use spatial nodes to travel to his Flying Thunder God Mark, though the technique consumed substantial true qi over longer distances. He rushed to the Ninja Academy for team assignments, where he and Kakashi Hatake were the last students left waiting.

• Ye Feng strengthened his divine sense until it reached across Konoha, causing the village's experts and clans to search for the source of the intrusive sensation.
• Ye Feng narrowed his divine sense, sensed spatial nodes, and used them to travel to his Flying Thunder God Mark, arriving upside down beside it.
• Ye Feng tested a three-kilometer teleport with true qi and found it used about a fifth of his reserves, then tried chakra and could transport small objects but not himself.
• Ye Feng noticed it was past noon and hurried to the Ninja Academy, where Kakashi Hatake also arrived after training.
• Jonin leaders called out students in groups of three and led them away until only Kakashi Hatake and Ye Feng remained in the classroom.

Minato Namikaze formed Team 7 with Ye Feng and Kakashi Hatake, with a fourth member due to join the next day. Kakashi challenged Minato to a spar and, after losing their direct exchange, hid in the woods to change his tactics.

• Minato Namikaze arrived late and told Ye Feng and Kakashi Hatake that the Hokage would assign a fourth teammate the next day.
• The three introduced themselves at Hokage Rock, where Kakashi revealed he wanted to defeat Ye Feng and Ye Feng said he hoped to reach the world's pinnacle and change the Shinobi World.
• Minato offered to spar, but Ye Feng declined, while Kakashi challenged Minato to test the gap between them.
• Kakashi attacked with Hatake Swordsmanship, and Minato defended until he disarmed Kakashi and sent him flying with a kick.
• Kakashi recovered and concealed himself in the woods, prompting Ye Feng to recognize that he had shifted to a more tactical approach.