Chapter Summaries

After defeating Sunagakure and Iwagakure, Ye Liangnai negotiated postwar terms that secured Kirigakure compensation, cooperation with Iwagakure, and continued support from the Wave Ninja Village. The Sand and Stone forces departed, while Ye Liangnai prepared to face the approaching Konoha army.

• Ye Liangnai agreed to return Ōnoki to Kitsuchi and invited Rasa and Kitsuchi to negotiate postwar arrangements with Mei Terumi.
• Mei Terumi announced Kirigakure's victory, and the Mist Ninja celebrated before the leaders began dividing the spoils.
• Ye Liangnai secured compensation from Sunagakure, distributed it among Kirigakure, the Wave Ninja Village, and Iwagakure, and reached cooperation agreements with Kitsuchi.
• Kitsuchi departed carrying the unconscious Ōnoki and Deidara, while Rasa's party left with Gaara and Chiyo.
• Hama Goro withdrew the Wave Ninja Village's forces, and Ye Liangnai allowed them to leave rather than risk another conflict.
• Ye Liangnai said he was looking forward to confronting Konoha, whose army was already on the road.

Ye Liangnai split Kirigakure’s forces and led two thousand fighters toward the Land of Whirlpools to confront Konoha, while Mei Terumi stayed to defend the village. Konoha’s Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, learned that Kirigakure had defeated both Iwagakure and Sunagakure and demanded details.

• Ye Liangnai chose to ambush Konoha in the Land of Whirlpools and planned to take two thousand troops, including Yugito and most of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
• Yagura warned Mei Terumi and Ye Liangnai that Konoha had powerful leaders, clans, and younger fighters, and that Hiruzen Sarutobi or Shimura Danzō might join the war.
• Ye Liangnai reassured Mei Terumi that Konoha would be manageable unless Jiraiya returned, then departed with Yugito, Zabuza, and the other fighters.
• Mei Terumi remained at the main base with Yagura, Utakata, Kimimaro Kaguya, Yuki Haku, and the forces left behind to defend Kirigakure.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi was stunned when Konoha’s scouts reported that Kirigakure had defeated Iwagakure and Sunagakure, and Shikaku Nara asked for the details.

After hearing how Ye Liangnai defeated Iwagakure and Sunagakure, Konoha’s leaders planned to keep him occupied while launching a surprise attack on Kirigakure. Ye Liangnai overheard their strategy and prepared to wear down Konoha’s army with ambushes and retreats.

• Konoha’s reconnaissance squad reported that Ye Liangnai had forced Iwagakure and Sunagakure to surrender, capturing the Third Tsuchikage, Chiyo, and Gaara.
• Shikaku Nara and the Third Hokage learned that Ye Liangnai was approaching the Land of Whirlpools with two thousand troops, Yugito, and six of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
• Hyuga Hiashi proposed sending a force to distract Ye Liangnai while a surprise unit attacked Kirigakure, then trapping Ye Liangnai when he rushed back.
• Ye Liangnai listened to Konoha’s discussion from fifty li away and decided to counter with a strategy of retreating, harassing, striking when Konoha tired, and pursuing when it withdrew.
• Ye Liangnai told his Mist Ninja to launch attacks, retreat under cover of the Mist Concealment Technique, and wear down Konoha’s army.

Ye Liangnai launched a surprise assault on Konoha’s camp with Kirigakure forces, using his Mist Concealment Technique to turn the battlefield into a killing ground. He confronted the Third Hokage directly and blocked his attacks, leaving their fight underway.

• Ye Liangnai infiltrated the area near Konoha’s camp and prepared Water Clone-led squads to attack from every direction.
• Ye Liangnai released the Mist Concealment Technique, and Kirigakure forces launched a surprise attack after a flare alerted Konoha.
• Konoha ninja tried to disperse the mist with Wind Release and Fire Release, but the techniques failed and Mist Ninja attacked them from within it.
• The Third Hokage sank underground to escape the mist’s effects, but Ye Liangnai attacked him with Lightning Release as the Third Hokage countered with Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld.
• The Third Hokage attacked Ye Liangnai with Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, and Ye Liangnai blocked the flames with Sword Qi before breaking free and facing a barrage of shuriken.

Ye Liangnai fought off the Third Hokage and the Konoha ninja who came to his aid, using the Mist Concealment Technique and his Water Transformation Technique to evade their attacks. The Third Hokage sealed the area in earth and turned it into a swamp, but Ye Liangnai blasted an opening as the chapter ended.

• The Third Hokage attacked Ye Liangnai, who used Water Transformation to evade the shuriken and wounded him with Water Severing Wave.
• Kakashi Hatake, Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, Choza Akimichi, and Tenzo arrived and tried to corner Ye Liangnai with lightning, earth, and sensing attacks.
• Ye Liangnai vanished into the mist and evaded attacks from Kakashi, Tenzo, and the Third Hokage with his speed.
• Ye Liangnai struck Tenzo, causing the Third Hokage to lose the sensing guidance from the forest roots.
• The Third Hokage trapped everyone in an Earth Corridor and turned the ground into a swamp, but Ye Liangnai blasted a hole through the barrier with Water Severing Wave.

Ye Liangnai used the mist to outmaneuver the Third Hokage’s group and abducted Kakashi and Tenzo, while Kirigakure’s fighters overwhelmed Konoha across the camp. The battle continued with Might Guy facing Yugito and Genma Shiranui confronting Hozuki Suigetsu.

• Ye Liangnai tricked the Third Hokage into attacking the hole, escaped, and left Kakashi and Tenzo missing when the Hokage’s group reached their position.
• The Third Hokage suspected the mist covered the entire Konoha camp, where Konoha ninja struggled to locate their attackers as their morale collapsed.
• Might Guy opened the Sixth Gate of View and drove Yugito into a desperate fight, prompting her to decide she would capture him.
• Ringo Ameyuri and Jurota cut down Konoha ninja with the Lightning Blade and Hiramekarei, while Ameyuri resolved to make the most of her remaining years.
• Hozuki Suigetsu used Exploding Blade Shibuki and his Water Transformation Technique to injure more than a hundred Konoha ninja before Genma Shiranui challenged him.

Kisame Hoshigaki, Zabuza, and Juzo Biwa fought Konoha’s Hiashi, Ibiki, and Kurenai while Ye Liangnai’s mist let Kirigakure’s forces slaughter their enemies. The Third Hokage escaped Ye Liangnai’s grasp, and Ye Liangnai ended the mist and ordered a retreat.

• Kisame Hoshigaki pressured Hyuga Hiashi, while Zabuza overpowered Ibiki Morino until Asuma Sarutobi arrived and challenged him.
• Juzo Biwa countered Kurenai Yuhi’s genjutsu and kept her from forming hand seals as he pressed his attack.
• Ye Liangnai’s Water Clones and the Mist Ninja inflicted heavy casualties on the Konoha and Stone Ninja inside the mist.
• The Third Hokage summoned Enma, used the Golden Staff to escape the mist with Choza Akimichi, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Shikaku Nara, and evaded Ye Liangnai.
• Ye Liangnai judged that Kirigakure’s depleted forces could not win after the Third Hokage escaped, dispelled the mist, and signaled a retreat.

Ye Liangnai covered the Mist Ninja's retreat, then planned a series of harassment attacks to keep Konoha from resting. The chapter left Konoha's sensory unit and vanguard devastated by an explosive trap after the Mist Ninja had moved on.

• Ye Liangnai used Gratitude Wave to draw Konoha's fire, then blocked their pursuit with Six Pillars Flame Formation Wall before escaping.
• The Third Hokage ended the chase and ordered Konoha to rebuild its defenses and prioritize rescuing Kakashi and Tenzo.
• Ye Liangnai took blood, hair, and flesh samples from Tenzo and removed Kakashi's Sharingan, then planned to harass Konoha until dawn.
• Ye Liangnai warned his team not to get drawn into battle, ordered Kakashi Hatake and Tenzo sealed, and led everyone away as Konoha's sensory unit and vanguard approached.
• Konoha's sensory unit arrived shortly after the Mist Ninja left and triggered an Explosive Tags trap that killed many of them and dozens of vanguard ninja.

Ye Liangnai attacked the Konoha camp with a Void Dog Cannon, a massive flood, and a devastating Lightning Tiger. The camp was left destroyed and submerged, while Shikaku Nara ordered the search for the Third Hokage.

• Shikaku Nara spotted Ye Liangnai approaching, and Hyuga Clan ninja tracked the enemy and warned the camp.
• The Third Hokage and Anbu stopped the Void Dog Cannon with the Four Violet Flames Formation and Adamantine Sealing Wall.
• Ye Liangnai sent a huge flood at the Konoha army, and the Third Hokage, Kakashi, and Anbu raised the ground to blunt it.
• Ye Liangnai unleashed Lightning Release: Raging Thunder Tiger, destroying the camp and leaving a vast crater filled with muddy water and casualties.
• Choza Akimichi emerged from the ruins with Shikaku Nara and Inoichi Yamanaka, and Shikaku ordered the Anbu to find the Third Hokage.

After Ye Liangnai’s attack devastated the Konoha army, the Third Hokage and Shikaku Nara regrouped and moved their camp to open ground, unaware that their defensive measures were helping Ye Liangnai’s plan. The chapter ended with Yugito recognizing that Konoha’s extended defenses would drain its strength and bring Ye Liangnai closer to his goal.

• The Third Hokage found hundreds of Konoha casualties and ordered his forces to search for the vanished Mist Ninja army.
• Shikaku Nara assessed Ye Liangnai as a powerful, strategic opponent and advised moving the camp out of the forest to open ground.
• The Third Hokage ordered the army to relocate and expand its defenses, despite having lost more than three thousand of its twelve thousand soldiers.
• Ye Liangnai anticipated Shikaku Nara’s response and noted that marching in darkness was dangerous, while the Konoha army reached a plain and established a heavily guarded camp.
• Yugito told Ye Liangnai that Konoha’s deeper defenses would consume its soldiers’ mental energy and help him achieve his goal.

Ye Liangnai ordered the Mist Ninja to rest before launching another attack, using Konoha’s forced vigilance to exhaust them. After a false alarm kept Konoha’s army on edge for hours, Hiruzen Sarutobi realized Ye Liangnai was using a “wolf is coming” tactic to confuse and wear them down.

• Yugito and the Mist Ninja praised Ye Liangnai’s battlefield skill, and he ordered his troops to rest before their next attack.
• Ye Liangnai explained that Konoha’s army would stay alert, lose strength, and be delayed by the traps along the route while his own troops recovered.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi kept Konoha’s camp on maximum alert for two and a half hours as disturbances from ahead deepened his unease.
• A signal warned of an enemy attack, so Hiruzen ordered Konoha to prepare for battle, but no Mist Ninja appeared even after half an hour.
• The scouting team returned, confirmed that they had encountered the enemy, and Hiruzen realized Ye Liangnai was using repeated false alarms to confuse and exhaust Konoha.

The Konoha army adopted rotating shifts to get some rest, but Ye Liangnai and Yugito repeatedly attacked their camp with lightning and vanished before anyone could locate them. By dawn, the constant alarms had left the troops more exhausted, demoralized, and resentful than before.

• Shikaku Nara proposed rotating the troops through rest shifts, and the Third Hokage approved the plan with Hyuga Hiashi in charge of the watch.
• Hyuga Hiashi suspected Ao's Byakugan allowed the Mist Ninja to scout from beyond Konoha's sensing range.
• After two groups of Konoha troops fell asleep, Ye Liangnai and Yugito attacked with Lightning Release: Thunder Array.
• Konoha's sensing unit and ambush teams failed to find the attackers, despite repeated alarms throughout the latter half of the night.
• The repeated disturbances worsened the army's exhaustion and morale, and some Konoha troops began questioning orders and slacking off on watch.

Ye Liangnai launched a coordinated assault on Konoha’s relocated camp, using Yugito’s Tailed Beast Bomb and Kisame Hoshigaki’s flood to break through its defenses. As the Mist Ninja charged toward the camp, Hyuga Hiashi spotted the oncoming flood and warned the perimeter troops.

• Ye Liangnai rallied the Mist Ninja for a final battle and revealed that he had sensed Konoha’s secret camp relocation.
• Yugito fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at Konoha’s main camp, and the Third Hokage and Earth Release ninjas sank the camp underground to survive the blast.
• Kisame Hoshigaki unleashed a massive flood, and Ye Liangnai led the Mist Ninja forward along its current.
• Hyuga Hiashi used his Byakugan to spot the mountain flood approaching the perimeter and ordered his troops to scatter while warning the main camp.

Ye Liangnai used a flash flood and lightning attacks to devastate the Konoha forces, capturing Hyuga Hiashi before joining the Mist Ninja assault on the Konoha camp. The Third Hokage confronted him in battle as the attack continued.

• Ye Liangnai overwhelmed the Konoha ninja with a flash flood, lightning, and Water Severing Wave, then defeated Hyuga Hiashi with genjutsu and captured him.
• The Third Hokage raised the Konoha camp above the flood and ordered the ninja to build an earth barrier.
• Ringo Ameyuri and Ye Liangnai attacked the camp with lightning, while Ye Liangnai created Water Clones and charged alongside the Mist Ninja.
• Yugito entered Tailed Beast Chakra Mode as Ye Liangnai cut through the retreating Konoha ninja.
• The Third Hokage summoned Enma as the Golden Staff and attacked Ye Liangnai, who clashed with him and fired a Water Bullet.

Ye Liangnai battled the Third Hokage and the Konoha shinobi, overcoming their coordinated techniques and turning the fight back in his favor. He critically wounded Shikaku Nara, and Choza Akimichi enlarged himself and attacked in fury.

• Shikaku Nara and Inoichi Yamanaka immobilized Ye Liangnai while Choza Akimichi struck him and the Third Hokage unleashed Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.
• Ye Liangnai broke free, defended himself with Water Release, then sent lightning through the mist and destroyed the Third Hokage's mud clone.
• The Third Hokage attacked Ye Liangnai with a fireball and the Golden Staff, but Ye Liangnai liquefied to evade the staff, then blocked it with Lightning Release: Lightning Pillar Wall.
• Ye Liangnai used his speed to slash Shikaku Nara across the chest, leaving him critically wounded.
• Choza Akimichi enlarged himself and brought his iron staff down at Ye Liangnai.

Ye Liangnai killed Choza Akimichi and fought the Third Hokage in a prolonged, evenly matched battle. As the aging Hokage began to tire, Ye Liangnai nearly struck him down, but Enma sacrificed himself to save him, and the Hokage retaliated with a five-body elemental attack.

• Ye Liangnai pierced Choza Akimichi through the chest with Water Release: Water Wave, leaving him gravely wounded.
• The Third Hokage clashed with Ye Liangnai in a fierce staff-and-sword battle as Konoha and Mist Ninja cheered for their respective fighters.
• After hundreds of exchanges, Ye Liangnai taunted the Third Hokage about his age and waited for his stamina to falter.
• Ye Liangnai knocked the Third Hokage back and used Flash Erasure, but Enma transformed from the Golden Staff and shoved the Hokage clear, taking a near-fatal slash himself.
• The enraged Third Hokage created four Shadow Clones, surrounded Ye Liangnai, and launched Great Five Elemental Combination Barrage.

Ye Liangnai overwhelmed the Third Hokage and Konoha’s reinforcements with powerful barriers, lightning, and sword techniques. The Third Hokage kept his allies alive, but Ye Liangnai launched another combined attack as the battle continued.

• The Third Hokage’s Five Elemental Attack struck Ye Liangnai’s Six Pillars Flame Formation, but the barrier remained intact.
• Ye Liangnai attacked the Third Hokage with lightning, and the Third Hokage dodged while Inoichi Yamanaka and nine Anbu arrived to help.
• Ye Liangnai called down Wild Thunder, forcing the Third Hokage to shield the group with an Earth Corridor before countering with an Earth Dragon Bullet and Mud River.
• Ye Liangnai escaped the mud with Water Transformation, then used Flash Erasure to cut through the Anbu’s fire attack and wound two of them.
• The Third Hokage pulled the Anbu clear as Ye Liangnai sliced through his Earth Flow City Wall, then Ye Liangnai launched Water Bullet and Lightning Bullet Technique at the group.

Ye Liangnai defeated the Third Hokage in battle, sealed his chakra and movement, and prepared to take him away while Konoha’s forces were being overwhelmed by the Mist Ninja. A massive toad and a white phantom then intervened, threatening to take the sealed Hokage from him.

• Ye Liangnai countered Inoichi Yamanaka’s techniques, restrained him with an illusion, and used the Third Hokage’s efforts to protect him as an opening.
• Ye Liangnai pierced the Third Hokage’s chest and knees with Water Severing Wave, then sealed his chakra and movement with Binding Karma Curse.
• Ye Liangnai’s Water Clone and the Mist Ninja routed Konoha’s fighters, while the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and Yugito fought their opponents across the battlefield.
• A gigantic blue-green toad crashed down near Ye Liangnai, but he emerged unharmed while still holding the Third Hokage.
• A white phantom charged at Ye Liangnai with the Rampaging Lion Technique, aiming to seize the Third Hokage as Ye Liangnai called for the Sealing Squad.

Jiraiya arrived and negotiated a ceasefire with Ye Liangnai, ending the battle and securing compensation and aid for Kirigakure. Ye Liangnai then led the victorious Mist Ninja back toward the Land of Water to reinforce Kirigakure.

• Jiraiya arrived on a giant toad and confronted Ye Liangnai, who was holding the Third Hokage.
• Jiraiya refused to lead Konoha into continued fighting and proposed peace, explaining that his exhausted forces could not win without unacceptable losses.
• Ye Liangnai agreed to a ceasefire and negotiated terms requiring Konoha to pay Kirigakure thirty thousand taels, send medical ninja, and provide techniques, books, and instructors.
• Jiraiya led the weary Konoha army away while Ye Liangnai and the Mist Ninja headed to the port to sail back to the Land of Water.

News of Konoha and Kirigakure’s peace spread across the ninja world, while the revelation of Ye Liangnai’s strength alarmed rulers and stirred ambitions. The Akatsuki Organization withdrew after attacking Kumogakure, leaving the Fourth Raikage furious and determined to take revenge.

• People across the ninja world heard that Konoha and Kirigakure had made peace and praised Ye Liangnai for defeating powerful opponents, including the Third Hokage.
• The Feudal Lords of the Land of Fire, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Wind feared that the established political order would collapse, while ambitious people in smaller countries saw an opportunity to rise.
• Pain rebuked Zetsu for suggesting that the Akatsuki Organization destroy Kumogakure and said that doing so would upset the balance of the ninja world.
• Sasori of the Red Sands celebrated obtaining puppet materials, Kakuzu warned Pain about Ye Liangnai’s growing power, and Pain dismissed the concern while asking Tobi about recruiting Itachi Uchiha.
• Orochimaru reacted with interest to Itachi Uchiha, and Zetsu teased him about meeting another Konoha ninja.
• The Fourth Raikage, wounded amid Kumogakure’s devastation, vowed to destroy the Akatsuki Organization and kill Ye Liangnai after the attack cost the village thousands of casualties and nearly killed Killer B.