Chapter Summaries

Senju Chen returned from the Land of Rain and faced the Council of Elders’ objections over his actions there. He countered that the other great nations had responded by canceling operations against Konoha, leaving Elder Homura confronted with evidence that Chen’s approach had reduced the threat.

• Senju Chen returned to Konoha and reunited with Tsunade, who questioned him about his trip and teased him about a friend who had given him an umbrella.
• Tsunade demanded Jiraiya’s overdue mission report, and Senju Chen defended Jiraiya’s help in the Land of Rain.
• Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and Shikaku Nara entered the Hokage’s office, where Homura accused Senju Chen of exceeding his authority and making Konoha appear to control the Land of Rain.
• Senju Chen laid out intelligence showing that Sunagakure, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure had canceled or suspended operations and expanded trade with Konoha.
• Senju Chen told Homura that the four great nations had canceled seven operations targeting Konoha and its surrounding areas over the past ten days.

Senju Chen revealed that a fragment from the attempted sabotage at Eagle Claw Gorge came from Konoha’s Joint Factory, proving someone inside the village had helped arrange a war with Iwagakure. Tsunade authorized Chen to investigate, and the suspicious requisition led to Root.

• Senju Chen explained that Konoha’s apparent strategic mastery came from others misunderstanding its real capabilities, then revealed a metal fragment recovered at Eagle Claw Gorge.
• Senju Chen identified the fragment as a component from the Joint Factory and said the saboteur had known confidential demolition details held by the Public Security Department and the Anbu verification office.
• Senju Chen argued that someone inside Konoha had tried to provoke war with Iwagakure, and Shikaku Nara advised against leaving the investigation to the Anbu.
• Tsunade authorized the Public Security Department to investigate and gave Senju Chen access to relevant personnel files and requisition records.
• Senju Chen reported that one of 1,200 component requisitions bore a canceled seal number, and revealed that the canceled numbers belonged to Root.

Senju Chen uncovered seven hidden identities tied to Root, prompting Tsunade to order an investigation into who was behind them. Later, he told Tsunade that he had secretly supported Nagato and his companions in the Land of Rain since the Third Shinobi World War, leaving her to wonder what else he had kept from her.

• Senju Chen explained that seven identity numbers had been canceled years after Shimura Danzō died, and their files had been hidden by altering a storage-box number.
• Senju Chen said the seven people had never appeared on Root or Anbu rosters, and that the Anbu officer who approved the cancellations had since died.
• Jiraiya recalled a similar pattern of dead witnesses from Orochimaru's secret laboratories, and Senju Chen said the seven had used Root as cover rather than being remnants of Danzō's faction.
• Tsunade ordered an investigation to discover what the seven people wanted and who was behind them.
• At home, Senju Chen told Tsunade he had supported Nagato and his companions with supplies and intelligence since the Third Shinobi World War, using his own money and disguising the shipments as Iwagakure goods.
• Tsunade realized Konoha had not funded the Land of Rain's ties to the village and asked Senju Chen how many other things he had kept from her.

Senju Chen led an investigation into forged records tied to stolen equipment and discovered evidence of a long-hidden infiltrator in Konoha. After Uchiha Itachi found a strange moving substance in the seal paste, Senju Chen recognized it as a mark left by Black Zetsu and ordered it sealed away.

• Senju Chen launched Operation Snow Sweeping and assigned Shisui to check duty records while Uchiha Itachi examined the receipt ledger and seal.
• Shisui found eleven duty rosters signed by Manami on days when Manami was away from Konoha or attending a meeting.
• Uchiha Itachi found that page ninety-one had been inserted later and bore a genuine seal belonging to a number canceled five years earlier.
• Yamato found foreign soil in the archive box, and Senju Chen, Shisui, and Uchiha Itachi concluded that a long-term sleeper agent with Earth Release had manipulated Konoha's paperwork.
• Uchiha Itachi revealed that the seal paste contained a black substance that moved on its own, and Senju Chen recognized it as a mark left by Black Zetsu and ordered it sealed away.

Senju Chen received the system’s rewards for changing the Uchiha Clan’s fate and fused hundreds of Uchiha bloodlines. He awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and began testing its greatly enhanced vision.

• The system credited Senju Chen with saving 615 Uchiha Clan members and awarded him an extra skill slot, Uchiha bloodlines, and fire-release techniques.
• The system unlocked bloodline fusion and revealed that combining the 427 Uchiha bloodlines could give Senju Chen the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan without blindness.
• Senju Chen chose to fuse the bloodlines and endured intense pain as the transformation took effect.
• Senju Chen examined his reflection and saw that his eyes had become the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Senju Chen tested his new eyes and found that he could perceive minute details in living things and analyze chakra far more precisely.

Senju Chen discovered that his left-eye ocular technique created a gray space where time moved faster and changes to objects could affect reality. After testing its time ratio and chakra cost, he began an experiment to see whether the ability worked on living creatures.

• Senju Chen activated his left eye and entered a gray space where he could create objects and taste imagined wine.
• He spent about a minute breaking a stone lantern in the space, then found the same damage in the courtyard after only a second had passed outside.
• Senju Chen replicated the courtyard in the space and concluded that the technique accelerated time and could synchronize changes with reality.
• He estimated that the technique consumed chakra according to time spent and the scale of its effects on reality.
• Senju Chen placed an ant on his finger and activated his left eye to test the technique on a living creature.

Senju Chen tested his left eye’s time-altering genjutsu space and discovered that actions and deaths inside it affected reality, though its range was only fifteen meters. After Tsunade and Shizune returned, he revealed his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and explained his left eye’s ability, while his right eye remained a mystery.

• Senju Chen tested the genjutsu space on an ant and confirmed that its movements inside carried over into reality.
• Senju Chen considered using the space as a time prison, recognized its fifteen-meter range as a limitation, and planned to combine it with other techniques to prevent escape.
• Senju Chen activated his right eye but saw no effect before Tsunade and Shizune returned and questioned him about a broken stone lantern.
• Tsunade noticed dried blood at the corner of Senju Chen’s eye, treated it, and warned him about the risks of overusing his Sharingan.
• Senju Chen showed Tsunade and Shizune his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and said his left eye created a space where one minute passed for every second outside.
• Tsunade identified the ability as a space-time dōjutsu and told Senju Chen to test his right eye while she watched.

Senju Chen explored his left eye’s space with Tsunade and Shizune, discovering that it could alter reality and manipulate people’s perceptions and movements. Tsunade outlined its uses for combat, assassination, and training, while Shizune raised the possibility of separating enemies from allies inside the space.

• Senju Chen showed Tsunade and Shizune that his ocular space could change its surroundings, then pranked Shizune by dropping her into a hot spring.
• Tsunade realized Senju Chen could manipulate movements and perception within the space, and Shizune confirmed he could disrupt her hand seals without her noticing.
• Tsunade explained how the ability could hinder enemies, trap or kill them, and help Senju Chen approach targets unseen.
• Tsunade suggested Senju Chen could train and simulate battles inside the space, where an hour passed for every minute outside.
• Shizune asked whether Senju Chen could bring enemies into the space while leaving allies outside, and Senju Chen decided to test it.

Senju Chen tested his Mangekyō’s ability to pull selected targets into a space-time dimension, then examined his system’s newly unlocked fusion function. He successfully fused his reaction nerves with Lightning Body Tempering, gaining enhanced physical reactions and the ability to absorb some lightning attacks.

• Senju Chen selectively pulled Tsunade into his ocular jutsu space while leaving Shizune outside, and Tsunade explained its tactical uses.
• Senju Chen asked whether genjutsu users could see through the space and whether his right eye had another ability, but Tsunade said he would need to experiment and wait for it to awaken.
• After returning to his room, Senju Chen reviewed the system’s fusion rules and considered how fusion could combine abilities and free skill slots.
• Senju Chen fused top-level reaction nerves with Lightning Body Tempering after the system showed 75% compatibility.
• The fusion succeeded, giving Senju Chen faster neural reactions, enhanced physical abilities, faint lightning chakra in his meridians, and the ability to absorb some lightning attacks.

Senju Chen fused the First Wood Release Bloodline with the Uzumaki Clan Bloodline, greatly increasing his chakra and gaining enhanced recovery and vitality. He left the risky fusion of soul mutation and the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan for later and considered using his tailed beasts to create the Ten-Tails.

• Senju Chen named his fused lightning ability the thunder god bloodline.
• Senju Chen fused the First Wood Release Bloodline with the Uzumaki Clan Bloodline and named the resulting ability the wood god bloodline.
• Senju Chen checked fusion compatibility and decided not to combine soul mutation with the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan yet.
• Senju Chen confirmed that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path could not participate in standard fusion and chose to keep Earth Grudge Fear separate.
• Senju Chen reorganized his abilities, gaining three empty slots as the thunder god bloodline became a passive ability.
• Senju Chen considered collecting all nine tailed beasts and fusing them to create the Ten-Tails, with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as a backup method.

Senju Chen visited Uchiha Fugaku’s home and gave Naruto and Sasuke experimental Bouncing Flight Shoes, which they tested in the courtyard. He and Fugaku discussed the Medical Department’s mechanical prostheses and Scientific Ninja Tools before Chen asked how the Konoha Military Police Force was doing.

• Senju Chen arrived at Uchiha Fugaku’s residence carrying gifts and found Naruto and Sasuke arguing over their experiment reports.
• Senju Chen gave Naruto and Sasuke Bouncing Flight Shoes developed by the Research and Development Department.
• Naruto’s first attempt sent him flying into the bushes, while Sasuke hovered and landed safely; Naruto then tried again with less chakra.
• Senju Chen and Uchiha Fugaku moved to the reception room and discussed the popularity and uses of mechanical prostheses.
• Uchiha Fugaku praised Scientific Ninja Tools, and Senju Chen offered to send him a set.
• Senju Chen asked Uchiha Fugaku how things had been going with the Konoha Military Police Force.

Senju Chen reassured Fugaku about the Military Police Force’s expansion and addressed the Uchiha Clan’s fear that their growing power would lead to persecution. He revealed that he carried both Senju and Uchiha blood, leaving Fugaku stunned as Chen began explaining his parents’ past.

• Fugaku told Senju Chen that the Military Police Force had reached its manpower limit and would need recruits to expand beyond the Land of Fire.
• Fugaku admitted that Uchiha elders feared Chen would eventually suppress the clan if it became too powerful, and described their lingering fear of another massacre.
• Senju Chen thanked Fugaku for speaking honestly and said he trusted the Uchiha because he considered them his own.
• Senju Chen revealed his Sharingan and told Fugaku that Uchiha blood ran through his veins alongside his Senju heritage.
• Senju Chen explained that his father was Senju and his mother was an Uchiha who had lived away from the clan, and that they had fled the village after falling in love during the war.

Senju Chen revealed to Uchiha Fugaku that he possessed Uchiha blood and asked him to keep it secret, reassuring Fugaku that the clan would not be marginalized. Chen outlined an expansion plan for the Konoha Military Police Force, and Fugaku later urged the elders to support it while withholding the reason for his confidence in Chen.

• Senju Chen told Uchiha Fugaku that he had hidden his Sharingan while resolving the conflict between his bloodlines, and asked him to keep the secret confidential.
• Fugaku swore to protect Chen’s secret and expressed complete trust in him after learning that Chen was an Uchiha.
• Chen set out a three-step plan to establish permanent posts across the Land of Fire, extend the force into neighboring small nations through cooperation, and eventually reach toward the Five Great Nations.
• Chen instructed Fugaku to recruit and train newcomers carefully, delegate authority as the force grew, and ensure the Uchiha would not be marginalized while Chen was there.
• After Chen left, Fugaku told the Uchiha elders about the force’s development plan and asked for their full support, while assuring them Chen would not turn against the clan without revealing the secret behind his certainty.

Senju Chen discussed Naruto’s upbringing and his plans for expanding the Konoha Military Police Force with Tsunade, who worried about resistance from other villages and Konoha’s elders. The chapter ended with Senju Chen asking Tsunade about Shikkotsu Forest.

• Senju Chen returned home and found Tsunade drinking sake after a frustrating meeting with the village’s advisers and clan heads.
• Senju Chen told Tsunade that Naruto was thriving at Fugaku’s residence, prompting Tsunade to remember Minato and Kushina and wonder whether their deaths could have been prevented.
• Tsunade praised Senju Chen’s decision to raise Naruto with the Uchiha and acknowledged his growing influence and the support he had secured from the Uchiha Clan.
• Senju Chen proposed expanding the Konoha Military Police Force into neighboring small nations through voluntary joint-defense agreements, and Tsunade warned that other villages and the elders could resist.
• Senju Chen reassured Tsunade that the plan was feasible, then asked her about Shikkotsu Forest.

Senju Chen asked Tsunade about training in Shikkotsu Forest, and she explained its deadly cost and revealed that its Senjutsu had contributed to Hashirama Senju’s early death. Though Tsunade begged him not to risk himself, Senju Chen remained interested in the Katsuyu Sage’s perfect-clone ability and promised only to think it over.

• Senju Chen told Tsunade he wanted to practice Senjutsu in Shikkotsu Forest, but she immediately refused.
• Tsunade explained that Shikkotsu Forest’s Senjutsu consumed life force and cellular vitality, and that failure could turn a practitioner into a puddle of flesh.
• Tsunade revealed that Hashirama Senju had practiced there and that the drain from Senjutsu had contributed to his early death.
• Tsunade described the Katsuyu Sage as a single being whose clones shared information, and said Tobirama Senju had imitated her ability when developing the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
• Senju Chen hid his intention to steal the Katsuyu Sage’s ability and told Tsunade he would think carefully about her warning.
• Tsunade held Senju Chen by the shoulders and pleaded with him not to risk his life, saying she could not lose him too.

Senju Chen visited Orochimaru’s laboratory, where Kurama Yakumo was studying mental energy while helping the God Mask Project Team. He asked Orochimaru about Ryūchi Cave and learned how its Sage Mode trials worked, then heard that the White Snake Sage injected snake blood containing senjutsu chakra into prospective trainees.

• Senju Chen observed Kabuto Yakushi teaching Kurama Yakumo about controlling her mental energy as Orochimaru used her data to study a God Mask fragment.
• Senju Chen allowed Yakumo to join the God Mask Project Team for data analysis and theory, but barred her from participating in summoning experiments.
• Senju Chen asked Orochimaru about Earth Dragon Cave’s Sage Mode, and Orochimaru explained that a trainee must contract with a snake and use Reverse Summoning to reach Ryūchi Cave.
• Orochimaru told Senju Chen that the White Snake Sage welcomed trial-takers because failed trainees were devoured, including their bodies, chakra, and souls.
• Orochimaru described meeting the White Snake Sage and receiving a drop of snake blood containing senjutsu chakra from her fangs.

Senju Chen learned the lethal Sage Mode training methods of the Three Great Sage Lands and weighed which path to pursue. He decided he might send one of his permanent clones to each land to obtain their abilities, despite the risk of angering the sages.

• Orochimaru explained that Ryūchi Cave training used the White Snake Sage’s blood to transform the body, and warned that failure meant being eaten.
• Orochimaru gave Senju Chen a special cursed seal that might save his life if the snake blood overwhelmed him.
• Senju Chen considered how Shikkotsu Forest tested vitality, Ryūchi Cave tested mental strength, and Mount Myōboku tested control.
• Senju Chen weighed the risks and benefits of each Sage Land and concluded that their distinct abilities could be valuable to steal through the system.
• Senju Chen planned to send one of his three permanent clones to each Sage Land, accepting that the sages might discover his scheme.

Senju Chen asked Jiraiya to take him to Mount Myōboku, hoping to explore the Sage Lands and meet the Great Toad Sage. Jiraiya wondered whether Chen might be tied to the Toad Sage’s prophecy after hearing how much Chen had changed Konoha, and the chapter left him stunned by the price of a Scientific Ninja Tool.

• Senju Chen assigned Yamato, Shisui, and Itachi new Public Security Department duties before heading to the hot spring street to find Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya was caught peeping into the women's bath, dragged Senju Chen into his escape, and then brushed off Chen’s criticism of his research methods.
• Senju Chen asked Jiraiya to take him to Mount Myōboku so he could look around and meet the Great Toad Sage.
• Jiraiya recalled hearing villagers praise Chen for the Medical Department's ability to restore lost limbs and for developing Scientific Ninja Tools that had frightened Iwagakure's allied forces.
• Jiraiya visited a weapons shop, examined a chakra-amplifying wrist guard, and was left speechless when the shopkeeper said it cost ten thousand ryo.

Jiraiya saw how Senju Chen’s work had transformed Konoha and wondered whether he was the Child of Prophecy. He took Senju Chen to Mount Myōboku, where Gamabunta greeted them.

• Jiraiya visited the Medical Department and heard people praise Senju Chen for restoring injured ninjas to health.
• At a tavern, Jiraiya heard villagers credit Senju Chen with Konoha’s reforms and its strength against Iwagakure.
• Jiraiya connected Senju Chen’s achievements to the Toad Sage’s prophecy and decided to take him to Mount Myōboku.
• Jiraiya used the Reverse Summoning Technique to bring Senju Chen to Mount Myōboku, where Senju Chen noticed his hidden clone had not come with him.
• Gamabunta appeared, greeted Jiraiya, and asked who Senju Chen was.

Senju Chen visited Mount Myōboku with Jiraiya and met the Great Toad Sage, who foresaw many possible futures for him but could not say whether he was the person in the prophecy. Chen left determined to protect those he cared about and began considering how to acquire Mount Myōboku’s senjutsu knowledge.

• Jiraiya introduced Senju Chen to Gamabunta, who directed them to Fukasaku and Shima for an audience with the Great Toad Sage.
• Fukasaku noticed that Chen’s chakra was unusual and guided Chen and Jiraiya to the temple.
• The Great Toad Sage foresaw futures in which Chen ended war, destroyed the Shinobi World, or followed paths obscured from view, and said Chen might or might not be the person in the prophecy.
• Chen told Jiraiya that the future was in their own hands and that he would protect those he cared about.
• Jiraiya took Chen to see more of Mount Myōboku, while Chen considered trying to steal the toads’ senjutsu techniques and natural-energy sensing methods.