Chapter Summaries

Tsubasa met Biwako Senju beneath his statue and argued with her about his ruthless rule and the harm he had caused. He asked her to become Hokage so he could focus on Immortal Cultivation, but Biwako rejected the idea, and Tsunade called out from afar.

• Tsubasa apologized to Biwako for driving Hiruzen Sarutobi from power and forcing the Sarutobi Clan to leave Konoha.
• Biwako criticized Tsubasa for his harsh actions, including killing Hiruzen's father, while Tsubasa defended them as necessary to protect the village.
• Tsubasa asked Biwako to take over as Hokage so he could pursue Immortal Cultivation.
• Biwako refused, pointing out that she lacked the knowledge to manage Konoha's many responsibilities.
• Little Tsunade called out to Tsubasa and Biwako from afar.

Tsubasa reflected on Biwako’s kindness before telling Konoha’s senior officials he intended to step down and enter seclusion in Shikkotsu Forest. He agreed to remain Hokage while a new Hokage Cabinet managed routine affairs, setting strict rules for its secretaries.

• Biwako gave Tsubasa a jade hairpin and told him she would look after little Tsunade.
• Tsubasa announced to fourteen senior officials that he wanted to step down and cultivate in Shikkotsu Forest.
• The officials protested and proposed that secretaries manage government affairs while Tsubasa remained Hokage.
• Tsubasa approved a Hokage Cabinet of five secretaries and required archived records, collective review of major decisions, and accountability for abuses of power.
• Tsubasa ordered the officials to submit recommended candidates for the secretariat within three days.

Tsubasa appointed five people to serve as Hokage secretaries, forming a cabinet to help govern Konoha. The new secretaries accepted their roles as dawn broke, while Biwako Senju agreed to serve on a three-month trial.

• Tsubasa appointed Kagami Uchiha, Torifu Akimichi, and Shikamei Nara as Hokage secretaries, citing their battlefield service, reliability, and skill with intelligence and finances.
• Tsubasa appointed Hirohito Kurama, praising his genjutsu ability, strength, and border-defense strategies; Hirohito pledged the Kurama Clan’s service.
• Tsubasa persuaded Biwako Senju to join the cabinet, and she accepted on a three-month trial.
• At dawn, Tsubasa told the five secretaries their duty was to serve Konoha’s villagers and help the village run smoothly.
• The five gathered with their seals, and Kagami Uchiha welcomed the chance to spar with Tsubasa as the group joked together.

Tsubasa visited his family after stepping back from front-line Hokage duties, advised his relatives on military spending and training, and prepared to leave again. He departed with his family seeing him off, while Tian Uguisu’s letter hinted at a future meeting with Madara Uchiha and the Ten-Tails statue.

• Tsubasa used a Shadow Clone to handle secretarial work and went to the Ten Family’s villa to see his mother, brother, and future daughters-in-law.
• Nanshin Senju described the family’s expenses, and Tsubasa said the Azure Dragon Army should not rely on family funds for military costs.
• Senju Tenpuku challenged Tsubasa’s decision to cut military funding, and Tsubasa urged him to prioritize soldiers’ strength, training, and teamwork over equipment.
• Tsubasa thanked Yueqing for her work and told her to take time off, then received Tian Uguisu’s letter about learning Ninjutsu and visiting the Ten-Tails statue with him.
• Tsubasa paid respects at the clan shrine and left as Senju Ga, Tenmei, and Tian Mai said goodbye.

Tsubasa cultivated in Shikkotsu Forest and promised to help the Katsuyu Sage transform into a human once he reached Great Accomplishment of Foundation Establishment. He settled into a routine of cultivation and experimentation, turning the forest into a secret base for his Immortal Cultivation studies.

• Tsubasa began cultivating in the Katsuyu Sage’s birthplace cave, where he used spirit-gathering runes to increase the Spiritual Qi concentration.
• The Katsuyu Sage told Tsubasa how deeply she wanted to become human, and he promised to seek transformation techniques at Ryūchi Cave and Mount Myōboku after reaching Great Accomplishment of Foundation Establishment.
• Tsubasa resumed daily cultivation and forged a Flying Thunder God Kunai designed to track enemies.
• Tsubasa refined Qi Replenishing Pills and carved runes to create a stable passage to an independent space in another time.
• Tsubasa and the Katsuyu Sage planted and tended a field of medicinal herbs, making Shikkotsu Forest his cultivation retreat and research base.

Tsubasa returned to Konoha every three months to inspect the village and direct reforms focused on welfare, employment, agriculture, education, infrastructure, and defense. On his latest visit, he saw the village transformed by new technologies and celebrated the creation of a giant computer that could match ninjas with missions.

• Tsubasa used Shadow Clones to inspect Konoha’s departments, schools, public safety, and villagers’ needs, then assigned reforms to the department heads and cabinet secretariat.
• Tsubasa ordered the village to support elderly residents and orphaned children through community service centers, while promoting mutual aid and employment through a talent center.
• Tsubasa’s plans accelerated village development as police improved their service, schools added new subjects, and researchers expanded their work.
• Asuka Nobumoto and Uzumaki Ashina’s teams developed electrical generation systems, steam-powered tools, household appliances, and fuel refining, while Asuka tested a rune-powered car.
• Nara Shikadai led the creation of the God First-Generation Machine, a giant computer that could match ninja registration details to suitable missions and estimate success rates.
• Tsubasa returned to Konoha, examined the computer, and reacted with excitement at seeing the technology from his former life recreated.

Six years after Konoha began its Chakra-powered industrial transformation, the village had become a futuristic city, while Tsubasa continued planning its expansion and advanced his cultivation. After returning to Konoha, he sent Shadow Clones throughout the village to hear residents’ concerns as his secretaries prepared reports.

• Konoha’s infrastructure and technology transformed the village, with floating farms, advanced vehicles, mechs, and plans for a City in the Sky.
• Tsubasa reviewed Konoha’s development plans in Shikkotsu Forest, where a clone of Katsuyu Sage urged him to rest.
• After three months of secluded cultivation, Tsubasa reached late Foundation Establishment and asked Katsuyu Sage to gather spirit-gathering camellias for pills.
• Tsubasa teleported to Konoha, created three thousand Shadow Clones to check on villagers, and met with his family and five chief secretaries.
• Tsubasa’s Shadow Clones spoke with residents across Konoha, including vendors, elders, farmers, and female ninjas.

Tsubasa addressed gambling-related debt exploitation in Konoha and defended the population boom caused by generous childbirth subsidies. He left his officials with a policy of encouraging clan growth, arguing that Konoha could expand to accommodate more people.

• Tsubasa ordered the Anbu and Konoha Military Police Force to shut down illegal casinos, arrest predatory lenders, cancel debts, and assist victims.
• Tsubasa directed Shikaboshi Nara to extend living-condition surveys to the outer village and recruit local auxiliaries to help the police.
• Tian Flying Swallow reported that inner-village newborns had increased by 213,123 after Shiranui Takeshi fathered 63 children with women from the outer village to qualify for housing subsidies.
• Uchiha Tomioki and Hyuga Tensei objected to Shiranui Takeshi's approach, while Akira Senju supported the childbirth policy.
• Tsubasa ruled that Shiranui Takeshi had broken no laws and argued that population growth would help Konoha's clans advance in rank and produce powerful descendants.

Tsubasa urged the great clans to increase their populations and revealed hidden truths about the Uchiha and Hyuga clans, then heard reports of scientific breakthroughs. The chapter ended with Tsubasa questioning the Divine Guard Type-2 mecha’s vulnerability to lightning.

• Tsubasa criticized the Uchiha and Hyuga clans’ restrictive bloodline customs and argued that their rules hindered population growth and strength.
• Tsubasa told the meeting that Madara Uchiha had survived, was training Tian Uguisu, and had likely caused Lord Tobirama’s death; he also claimed he could defeat Madara.
• Tomioki thanked Tsubasa for his guidance, and Tsubasa ordered policies to support willing parents while requiring parentage testing and birth registration.
• Asuka Nobumoto reported that a moon exploration rocket had encountered a Byakugan-wielding Ōtsutsuki Clan, and Tsubasa explained their connection to Hamura Otsutsuki and Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Asuka presented the Gale Type-1 fighter and the mass-production-ready Divine Guard Type-2 mecha, and Tsubasa asked what would happen if the mecha were struck by lightning.

Tsubasa reviewed Asuka’s mecha research and Akira Senju’s agricultural and pharmaceutical reports, setting new technical targets and redirecting medicine production. He left Akira with plans to market a youth-preserving beauty liquid to fund the Agriculture Department.

• Tsubasa ordered Asuka to develop a mecha that could withstand lightning, convert multiple energy types, allow modular repairs, and use an automated Hokage Series Computer system within three years.
• Asuka reported advances in civilian computers, automobiles, and motorcycles before Tsubasa redirected him toward urgent research and shared further research conjectures.
• Akira Senju reported on the village’s medicinal herb cultivation, the slow growth of the suspended herb garden’s snow ginseng, and the need to recruit more agricultural workers.
• Akira explained that Spirit Gathering Pills and Origin Solidifying Pills were causing dangerous misuse, and Tsubasa gave him Toxin Cleansing Powder to investigate while keeping it secret.
• Tsubasa ordered Spirit Gathering Pill production cut by seventy percent and directed Akira to produce and sell Youth-Preserving Liquid to fund the Agriculture Department.

Tsubasa and the other leaders inspected Tora Inuzuka’s Beast Taming Department, where Tora showed off its enhanced summoning beasts and proposed starter animals for newborns. Tsubasa approved a special subsidy on the condition that he review combat-beast modifications, while Tora ended the day recording the beasts’ progress and caring for a Silver Moon Wolf cub.

• Tsubasa asked Tora to demonstrate the Beast Taming Department’s new beasts, and Tora showcased an Iron-Fanged Leopard with venomous, electrified, explosive-tag claws.
• Tora explained that Chozan Akimichi’s Three-Tails Red Fox was a cold-producing Snow-Sleeping Fox cub, then presented an Iron-Beaked Battle Chicken and a Thunder Eagle fitted with upgraded electric-shock equipment.
• Tora described starter beasts for newborns, including Blood-Seeking Hounds, Illusory Sound Sparrows, and diaper-changing Ninja Apes, while Chozan questioned the hound puppy’s price.
• Tsubasa promised a special subsidy and required personal review of combat-beast modification plans; he also gave Tora Insect-Chirping Grass to improve resonance between beasts and masters.
• Tora recorded the beasts’ test results at dusk and cared for a Silver Moon Wolf cub that tugged at his shoelace.

Tsubasa announced that Kage Academy would open in ten days and ordered Konoha’s departments to build it, then reflected on how the village had transformed during his six years as Hokage. That night, his Shadow Clones spent time with villagers and children as he looked ahead to Konoha’s future.

• Tian Flying Swallow reminded Tsubasa that more than three hundred graduates had qualified for Kage Level ninja school, whose site was still empty.
• Tsubasa announced Kage Academy’s opening date, set three admission tests, and promised students a chance to learn powerful jutsu and become his disciples.
• Uzumaki Ashina and Asuka Nobumoto accepted Tsubasa’s order to work with him on building Kage Academy, and the officials later left with assignments after a full day of meetings.
• Tsubasa reflected on Konoha’s advances in medicine, research, and technology, and imagined the village exploring space in the future.
• A Shadow Clone healed a little girl and took children to the top of the Third's statue on Kage Rock, while Kagami Uchiha called Tsubasa back to the pile of paperwork in his office.
• Other Shadow Clones mingled with villagers, and one told them that Tsubasa had seven fiancées and that the wedding was coming soon.

Tsubasa's seven mothers and six fiancées organized his wedding for the third day of next month, and he agreed to marry them with Konoha's blessings. The story left him surrounded by his fiancées, who pressed him to reveal the wedding gifts he had promised to keep secret.

• Senju Ga and the other mothers told Tsubasa the wedding date had been set and discussed invitations, security, and the village banquet.
• Kusu Senju urged Tsubasa to comfort his fiancées, while the mothers planned the wedding procession and feast.
• Tian Flying Swallow proposed holding the open banquet in three village squares and warned she would clear anyone who obstructed the carriages.
• Tsubasa accepted the wedding plans and promised to marry his fiancées with the blessings of Konoha.
• Tian Zhiyun and the other fiancées surrounded Tsubasa and demanded to see the wedding gifts he had saved for the wedding day.

Tsubasa gave in to his six wives’ pleas and began revealing their wedding gifts. Ten Seigetsu received a versatile sealing scroll, Tian Yueqing learned it would let her cultivate Senjutsu with him, and Tian Flying Swallow received a powerful jade seal.

• Tian Yukihime, Tian Mai, Tian Muyan, Tian Flying Swallow, Tian Zhiyun, and Tian Yueqing surrounded Tsubasa and pressured him to reveal their gifts early.
• Tsubasa gave Ten Seigetsu the Ten Thousand Talisman Demon-Sealing Scroll, explaining its defenses, sealing attacks, storage space, and ability to support water-attribute Senjutsu cultivation.
• Tian Yueqing rejoiced that the scroll would let her stay with Tsubasa and cultivate with him in Shikkotsu Forest, and Tsubasa told her to bind it with her blood.
• Tian Flying Swallow asked for her gift, and Tsubasa presented her with the Nine Dragons Jade Seal, which could create the Sage domain Dragon's Pressure and summon nine divine dragons.
• Tian Flying Swallow accepted the jade seal excitedly and said it would make her the strongest among the sisters.

Tsubasa gave Tian Muyan the Frost Cloth, a powerful armor set that bound to her after she offered it enough blood. After trying it on and discovering its abilities, Tian Muyan declared herself the Frost Archer and flew out of the villa.

• Tsubasa presented Tian Muyan with the Frost Cloth and explained its forms, equipment, and sealing skills.
• Tian Muyan dripped blood onto the water spirit pearl, and after giving several bowls' worth, the Frost Cloth entered her sea of consciousness.
• Tian Muyan summoned the Frost Cloth, which equipped itself as silvery armor, a helmet, weapons, and enormous ice-crystal wings.
• Tian Muyan discovered that the armor let her sense everything within a hundred li and lock targets for her arrows, while its cold forced the others to retreat.
• Tian Muyan declared herself the Frost Archer and flew out of the villa as Tsubasa shielded the others from the cold.

Tsubasa gave the women powerful enchanted armor, immortal pills, and wedding rings that doubled as spatial rings. Tian Mai prepared to cultivate into a Sage, while Tsubasa and the women shared an affectionate celebration.

• Tsubasa gave Tian Zhiyun and Tian Yukihime Mystic Crystal Ice Silk armor with teleportation, healing, and other abilities.
• Tian Zhiyun tested the armor’s Spatial Leap Formation, and Tian Yukihime tried its Dust Release runes.
• Tsubasa gave Tian Mai three Dragon Vein Spiritual Dew pills that could let her reach the Sage Realm, and promised to guard her while teaching her to cultivate.
• Tian Muyan returned from flying around Konoha, and Tian Seigetsu thanked Tsubasa for his precious gifts.
• Tsubasa gave the women engraved wedding rings with storage spaces, then kissed each of the six women and promised to cherish them.

Tsubasa completed the Kage Academy and built a vast, stable spacetime realm beneath it, where time passed far faster than outside. He and Uzumaki Ashina entered the realm, leaving Konoha with a secret training ground intended to transform its future.

• Tsubasa used his jutsu to construct the Kage Academy, and specialists began equipping its buildings.
• Tsubasa and Uzumaki Ashina descended into a secret chamber beneath the technology building.
• Tsubasa activated a spacetime gate powered by a crystal and showed Uzumaki Ashina the enormous realm beyond it.
• Tsubasa explained that a year inside passed in a day outside and said the realm could train Kage Academy students.
• Tsubasa named Uzumaki Ashina principal and Tian Yueqing vice principal, then entered the spacetime realm with Uzumaki Ashina.

Tsubasa completed the alternate space’s ecosystem and prepared it as a training world for Kage Academy. On the academy’s opening day, students underwent security screening and began a written exam about a ninja’s mission and the relationship between village and clan.

• Tsubasa and Uzumaki Ashina developed the lifeless alternate space into a thriving world of plants, waterways, and animals, where time passed much faster than outside.
• Kage Academy opened, and three hundred students arrived for enrollment under covert security.
• Hyuga Reon passed the screening, while Kyogoku Rikiō was initially disqualified for refusing the confidentiality agreement but was allowed to sign it and return.
• The students began a written examination on ninja morality, village and clan, and their plans for the future.
• Kurama Satsuki, Uchiha Sumire, and Kyogoku Rikiō wrote answers emphasizing peace, responsibility, perseverance, and service to both village and clan.

The students completed a weighted endurance exam that tested how long they could keep running, and the examiners rewarded perseverance over speed. Afterward, Tian Zhiyun, Tian Yukihime, and Kyogoku Rikiō resolved to keep working hard together.

• After discussing the village's future, the students began a marathon carrying heavy sandbags, and the fastest runners surged ahead.
• Asuka Iwata stopped after seventy laps, while Tian Zhiyun, Tian Yukihime, and Kyogoku Rikiō continued despite exhaustion, encouraged by their fathers' words.
• More students gave up or collapsed as the Anbu proctors recorded their condition and distance; the final student fainted while still inching forward.
• The examiners gave higher evaluations to students who endured to the end, deciding that grit mattered more than Taijutsu strength or early speed.
• Tian Zhiyun and Tian Yukihime promised to persevere together, and Kyogoku Rikiō made the same promise to the student beside him.

Tsubasa put the students through a Genjutsu exam that tested their choices in dangerous moral dilemmas, then eliminated students he judged hypocritical or dark-hearted, leaving 113 at Kage Academy. When eliminated students challenged his decisions, he explained that protecting the village did not justify slaughtering innocents and that students had to take responsibility; the chapter ended with one student asking how they were supposed to choose.

• Tsubasa began the third exam by placing each student in a different Genjutsu scenario that tested their hearts and choices.
• Asuka Iwata and Tian Zhiyun sided with the village in a clash against their clans, while other students hid or chose the opposite side.
• Tian Yukihime and Kyogoku Rikiō risked their lives to protect endangered companions, while another student fled; students also faced choices involving betrayal by a loved one.
• Tsubasa ended the Genjutsu, evaluated the students' written answers and actions, and announced that only 113 students would remain at Kage Academy.
• An eliminated student challenged Tsubasa over helping the village kill his clan, and Tsubasa said that slaughtering even infants made him a danger to the village.
• Tsubasa told another eliminated student that refusing to take responsibility was unacceptable, and the student asked how anyone could choose when every option seemed wrong.