Chapter Summaries

Ye Liangnai confronted Shennong after Shennong proposed a disputed treatment and tried to leave. Shennong threatened to unleash a plague and rebel uprisings, but Ye Liangnai revealed he had already investigated him and infiltrated the rebel forces.

• Shennong prescribed Twin Blossom Fruit, Mysterious Leaf Grass, Five Pests Root, and massage treatment, while Ruri objected to using the poisonous herbs.
• Shennong said Twin Blossom Fruit alone would take ten years to work, cause severe pain, and leave the patient unable to use Chakra.
• Ye Liangnai invited Shennong outside, accused him of collaborating with rebel forces in the Land of Water, and revealed that he knew Shennong led Sky Ninja Village.
• Shennong threatened to have his subordinate poison Suchen Town and offered to leave the country and reveal the rebels’ locations in exchange for his release.
• Ye Liangnai refused and revealed that he had prepared for Shennong’s threat and planted spies among the rebels.
• Ye Liangnai said he had begun watching Shennong after Shennong’s failed attack on Konoha, though other matters had temporarily distracted him.

Ye Liangnai exposed Shennong’s plans and rejected his attempt to bargain, then trapped him in a barrier and fought him alongside Kirigakure’s shinobi. Shennong absorbed the village’s negative emotions and unleashed Zero-Tails, leaving the battle facing a much greater threat.

• Ye Liangnai revealed that he knew Shennong had aided the rebels and conducted dangerous research, then dismissed Shennong’s bargaining chips.
• Yagura, Juzo Biwa, Zabuza, and Kisame Hoshigaki surrounded Shennong, but Shennong threatened the people of Suchen Town with a poison only he could cure.
• Ye Liangnai raised a Six Pillars Flame Formation barrier and attacked Shennong with support from Yagura, Zabuza, and Kisame.
• After the group wounded Shennong and urged him to release Zero-Tails, Shennong drew negative emotions from Kirigakure to restore the creature.
• Shennong transformed into a massive, tentacled monster as Zero-Tails emerged.

Ye Liangnai and his allies battled Shennong, who had transformed into Zero-Tails, inside the Six Pillars Flame Formation in Kirigakure. After Zero-Tails unleashed its power and nearly broke through the barriers, Ye Liangnai struck it with a massive Lightning Tiger and contained the resulting destruction.

• Ye Liangnai ordered the Anbu to keep civilians calm and away from the battle as Zero-Tails' presence stirred panic.
• Shennong fired a powerful Chakra blast, but Ye Liangnai's barriers isolated Zero-Tails and left it badly burned.
• Ye Liangnai and Kisame Hoshigaki attacked Zero-Tails, and Yagura pinned it against a barrier with his Three-Tails form.
• Shennong activated the Body Activation Technique, broke Yagura's Chakra grip, and battered a barrier until it cracked.
• Ye Liangnai summoned a huge Lightning Tiger from the storm clouds, striking Zero-Tails and shaking Kirigakure.
• Ye Liangnai expanded the barriers to contain the blast wave and prevent widespread destruction in Kirigakure.

Ye Liangnai defeated Shennong but learned that the antidote-making method might be lost, while battles against rebels erupted across the Land of Water. In Suchen Town, Juzo Biwa’s forces faced civilians defending Shennong’s orphanage as monsters emerged inside and children cried for help.

• Ye Liangnai defeated Shennong, who claimed he had destroyed the antidote method, and ordered Zabuza to take him away for interrogation.
• Mei Terumi and Ye Liangnai prepared for the Sky Ninja Village’s attack while Kirigakure’s forces fought rebels across the Land of Water.
• The Land of Water’s army and Mist Ninja overwhelmed rebel strongholds, whose leaders realized Ye Liangnai had let them grow so he could destroy them at once.
• Juzo Biwa surrounded Shennong’s orphanage in Suchen Town and warned civilians to move aside, but many refused to believe Shennong was a criminal.
• Byakugan Ao spotted monsters inside the orphanage and urged the civilians to clear a path so the children could be evacuated, just as the children’s terrified cries rang out.

Juzo Biwa and the Mist Ninja fought Shennong’s attackers as black-furred monsters slaughtered children and poisonous mist spread through the orphanage and nearby streets. The mist was contained and victims were treated, while the civilians fell silent when Juzo Biwa asked whether they still believed Shennong was a good person.

• Juzo Biwa sent one squad to rescue the children and another to surround the orphanage, while Ao condemned the civilians for blocking the rescue.
• Juzo Biwa fought a black-furred monster and a black-clad Sky Ninja, using a Water Clone and Water Prison Technique to capture the monster.
• The black-clad ninja released a brain-targeting poison mist and declared that Shennong’s army had brought the poison to Kirigakure.
• Juzo Biwa ordered civilians evacuated and a barrier raised as the mist spread, killing civilians and emerging from exploding insects inside the monsters.
• The Barrier squad sealed the mist within the Void Hall Formation, the Medical Department began treating victims, and the civilians gave Juzo Biwa no answer when he asked if they still trusted Shennong.

Juzo Biwa blamed Kirigakure shinobi for obstructing the mission and causing deaths, then learned that medical shinobi could cure the poisonous mist. After the patients recovered, he sent the antidote method to Kirigakure and kept the contaminated area sealed while investigating how the mist was made.

• Juzo Biwa berated the shinobi who had obstructed the mission, accusing them of delaying military operations and contributing to the deaths of elite shinobi and children.
• A medical shinobi told Juzo Biwa that the potent toxin could mutate into a spreading virus, but a bespectacled medical shinobi said the Poison Arts Compendium had helped them develop a treatment.
• The medical shinobi treated the patients with a red liquid and chakra technique, drawing black toxin from their bodies until their condition improved.
• The medical shinobi finished treating all the patients, and the bespectacled shinobi wrote down the countermeasure for Juzo Biwa to send to Kirigakure against the approaching Sky Ninja Village army.
• Juzo Biwa kept civilians out of the area and left the barrier in place, then asked the medical shinobi how the poisonous mist had been created.

Juzo Biwa and the medical ninja uncovered Shennong’s horrific experiments in Suchen Town, while the Land of Water’s campaign against the rebels and their court collaborators reached its conclusion. Ye Liangnai received the antidote plan in Kirigakure and went to the prison to tell Shennong some news, where Shennong assumed he needed help.

• Juzo Biwa and the bespectacled female ninja identified the black insects behind Shennong’s treatments and sealed his laboratory after discovering its mutilated bodies.
• The Land of Water’s army nearly finished suppressing the rebels, and officials who had colluded with them were arrested as Ye Liangnai’s influence over the court grew.
• The newly appointed Minister of War reflected that Ye Liangnai had planned the campaign as a trap, while the Minister of Etiquette noted that the Daimyo’s former allies had largely been removed.
• Ye Liangnai praised the antidote plan from the Special Medical Squad and recalled how he had raised the intelligence of Ruri and the squad members.
• Ye Liangnai went to Kirigakure Prison to share news with Shennong, who smugly guessed that Ye Liangnai had come to ask for his help.

Ye Liangnai learned that Kirigakure had neutralized Shennong’s epidemic toxin, then arranged for Shennong’s quiet execution and sealed away his forbidden knowledge. After honoring the victims, Ye Liangnai tightened security across the Land of Water, while Sky Ninja Village still failed to appear.

• Ye Liangnai told Shennong that Kirigakure’s Medical Department had neutralized his toxin, leaving Shennong in disbelief.
• Ye Liangnai waited for Sky Ninja Village to attempt a rescue, but the Land of Water’s army returned and Shennong was judged without the village appearing.
• Shennong died quietly in prison, and Ye Liangnai had his useful medical knowledge made into Kirigakure textbooks while sealing away the forbidden knowledge.
• Ye Liangnai visited Suchen Town’s public cemetery to honor the civilians and children killed by Shennong.
• Ye Liangnai issued notices requiring civilians to surrender prohibited weapons and establishing armed forces in every town, disrupting the rebel forces.
• Mei Terumi praised Ye Liangnai’s measures, while he wondered whether Sky Ninja Village had abandoned Shennong.

After the Sky Ninja Village’s warship crashed, Ye Liangnai continued serving Kirigakure and spent three years strengthening himself and supporting its growth. He returned to the Mizukage’s Office, where Mei Terumi assigned him a mission to the Land of Waves and told him that Ringo Ameyuri’s medicine had gone extinct; Ye Liangnai believed there might still be a way to obtain it.

• A Sky Ninja Village warship crashed in the Land of Water, killing everyone aboard, and Ye Liangnai had the site sealed off.
• Mei Terumi refused Ye Liangnai’s resignation, so he remained Anbu Minister while Kirigakure’s medical ninjas advanced their skills and Wood Release research resumed.
• Three years later, Ye Liangnai emerged from seclusion after enhancing his stamina and strength to Super Kage level and synthesizing Storm Release.
• Ye Liangnai visited Mei Terumi, who gave him a mission to meet a merchant in the Land of Waves about trading ancient artifacts.
• Mei Terumi told Ye Liangnai that the Blood Sun Flower needed to treat Ringo Ameyuri had been extinct for thirty years, but Ye Liangnai said there might still be a way.

Ye Liangnai went to the Land of Waves to search for the Blood Sun Flower, hoping to use a place that could reverse time and space to return to the past. There, President Haramura revealed that he had obtained a dried Blood Sun Flower, leaving Ye Liangnai poised to examine it.

• Ye Liangnai told Mei Terumi he planned to travel to the past in search of the Blood Sun Flower and insisted on going himself.
• Ye Liangnai left Kirigakure for the Land of Waves with Kimimaro Kaguya, whose bloodline disease had been cured and who had received Kakashi's Sharingan.
• Ye Liangnai met President Haramura as a representative of the Shimizu Trading Company to discuss business in the Land of Waves.
• President Haramura said he had obtained a dried Blood Sun Flower from a farming household and had an attendant bring out a wooden box containing it.

Ye Liangnai acquired a Blood Sun Flower and agreed to help President Haramura eliminate Gato, then traveled to the Land of Waves to see how the mission unfolded. Kakashi Hatake and Team 7 fought Gato’s hired rogue ninjas, and the chapter ended with Gato arriving with more men to finish them off.

• Ye Liangnai bought the Blood Sun Flower from President Haramura during their negotiations.
• President Haramura asked Ye Liangnai to eliminate Gato in exchange for the discount and Gato’s assets, and Ye Liangnai agreed.
• Kakashi Hatake and Team 7 confronted Shida Chiba and Ryū Tarō, who attacked after Shida provoked Sasuke Uchiha.
• Ye Liangnai and Kimimaro Kaguya reached the harbor and headed toward the battle to watch.
• Gato arrived with a group of wandering ninjas and ordered them to kill Tazuna.

Gato sent an army to kill Tazuna, but Kakashi and Team 7 fought back despite Gato's warnings about Ye Liangnai. Ye Liangnai arrived on the battlefield, terrifying Gato and making Kakashi warn Team 7 not to let their guard down.

• Gato urged Kakashi to withdraw because he feared Ye Liangnai, but Naruto refused and Kakashi chose to continue protecting Tazuna.
• Kakashi sent Naruto and Sasuke to fight Gato's wandering ninjas, told Sakura to protect Tazuna, and engaged Shida Chiba and Ryū Tarō.
• Shida Chiba and Ryū Tarō taunted Kakashi over losing his Sharingan as he struggled against them.
• Ye Liangnai arrived with another young man, and the fighters fell silent as Gato and the wandering ninjas reacted in terror.
• Kakashi rushed in front of Team 7 and warned them not to relax around Ye Liangnai, while Naruto sensed the Nine-Tails' fear of him.

Ye Liangnai revealed himself to Kakashi and Team 7 as the legendary White Cold Light and declared that he would kill Gato for his crimes in the Land of Waves. He drove off Gato’s hired ninjas and claimed the Land of Waves as his territory.

• Ye Liangnai greeted Kakashi, who shielded Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha from him.
• Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha identified Ye Liangnai as the infamous White Cold Light, while Naruto Uzumaki reacted with amazement at his achievements.
• Sasuke Uchiha hoped Ye Liangnai might train him so he could avenge Itachi Uchiha.
• Ye Liangnai told Gato to kill himself, rejected Gato’s offer to pay him, and said he would carry out his promise to kill him.
• Ye Liangnai ordered Gato’s wandering ninjas to leave and warned them not to cause trouble in the Land of Waves, prompting them to flee.

Ye Liangnai defeated Gato’s men, killed Gato, and invited Tazuna to build bridges for the Land of Water Economic Zone Plan. Before leaving, he challenged Konoha’s young ninjas to meet him at the Chunin Exams and told Sasuke Uchiha that his talent matched Naruto Uzumaki’s, leaving Sasuke shaken.

• Ye Liangnai paid Ryū Tarō and Shida Chiba to leave, and they abandoned their mission.
• Ye Liangnai ordered Kimimaro to kill Gato, then offered Tazuna work building bridges for the Land of Water Economic Zone Plan.
• Ye Liangnai told Kakashi that Konoha would host the Chunin Exams in three months and said he looked forward to seeing Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno there.
• Sasuke Uchiha asked Ye Liangnai about Itachi Uchiha and how long it would take to surpass him.
• Ye Liangnai said Sasuke Uchiha’s talent was about equal to Naruto Uzumaki’s, leaving Sasuke unwilling to accept the comparison.

Ye Liangnai began revealing Naruto’s remarkable parentage, but Jiraiya arrived before he could identify them. Naruto insisted on learning the truth, leaving Jiraiya to confront Ye Liangnai and face his responsibility to Naruto.

• Ye Liangnai told Kakashi and the others that Naruto’s parents were major figures and that Naruto had inherited their strengths.
• Naruto demanded to know who his parents were, while Kakashi and Sakura tried to make him leave with them.
• Naruto refused to back down, and Ye Liangnai warned that learning the truth might make it impossible for him to remain peacefully in Konoha.
• A huge toad separated Naruto from Ye Liangnai, and Jiraiya arrived, greeting Ye Liangnai as an old acquaintance.
• Ye Liangnai called Jiraiya one of Naruto’s remaining relatives and urged him to explain the truth before Naruto’s feelings toward Konoha turned to resistance or hatred.
• Jiraiya challenged Ye Liangnai over his attempt to throw Konoha into chaos, while Sasuke reacted with shock and defiance at Ye Liangnai’s praise of Naruto.

Ye Liangnai left Naruto and his companions with doubts and resentment toward Konoha, then used the Shimizu Trading Company to seize control of the Land of Waves. Back in Kirigakure, he considered the looming threats to the ninja world and resolved to keep strengthening himself until he reached the Six Paths level.

• Ye Liangnai provoked Naruto and Sasuke by revealing truths about Naruto’s family and Konoha, then departed with Kimimaro as Jiraiya promised to answer Naruto’s questions later.
• Jiraiya led Naruto and the others back toward Konoha, while Sasuke silently resented Naruto’s family ties and Jiraiya worried about the hostility Ye Liangnai had stirred up.
• After Gato died, Ye Liangnai’s Shimizu Trading Company took control of the Land of Waves’ politics, economy, transportation, and bridge project, while President Haramura accepted that he had been outmaneuvered.
• Ye Liangnai considered threats from Obito Uchiha, Black Zetsu, the Ōtsutsuki, and the Sage of Six Paths, and feared the next great war might arrive early.
• Ye Liangnai decided to keep training, noting that he needed two million Enhancement Points—about a hundred days—to reach the Six Paths level.

Ye Liangnai learned that the system would not let him reach the Six Paths level yet, then agreed to Mei Terumi’s appointment making him a Guiding Jonin. The Ninja Academy graduates began speculating about their instructors as they prepared to compete in Konoha’s Chunin Exams.

• Ye Liangnai discovered that the system’s Six Paths-level progression was unavailable until an unknown future time.
• Ye Liangnai gave the Blood Sun Flower from President Haramura to an Anbu to take to the Medical Department for testing as a possible treatment for Ringo Ameyuri.
• Mei Terumi appointed Ye Liangnai as a Guiding Jonin for the upcoming Ninja Academy graduates, and he reluctantly accepted.
• Students at the Ninja Academy speculated about which prominent ninja would become their Guiding Jonin, not realizing Ye Liangnai was among them.
• A stern teacher told the students that they would compete in Konoha’s Chunin Exams in a little over three months and ordered them to prepare and represent Kirigakure well.

Twenty-seven graduates passed Kirigakure’s more demanding assessment and were assigned to nine teams to meet their Guiding Jonin. Yugito hinted that Team 2 would receive guidance from an exceptional figure, leaving them convinced that Ye Liangnai might be their jonin, while Utakata arrived to take Team 3.

• Kirigakure’s graduates took tests in ninja arts, swordsmanship, and combat, and twenty-seven passed to form nine teams.
• The Guiding Jonin arrived in order, with Makoto Kimura taking Team 9 and other jonin leading teams away.
• Yugito arrived, took Team 4, and told Team 2 their Guiding Jonin was so outstanding that the entire ninja world would envy them.
• Team 2’s members grew excited as students from Teams 1 and 3 guessed that Ye Liangnai would guide them.
• Utakata arrived and took Team 3 with him.

Ye Liangnai became Team 2's Guiding Jonin and met his three new students, Saki Mirako, Natsume Yuki, and Nakamura Shota. He warned them that they would face a bell-grabbing test the next day and could be sent back to the academy if they failed three times.

• Team 2 eagerly awaited their Guiding Jonin, hoping it would be Ye Liangnai.
• Yagura arrived and revealed that he was Team 1's Guiding Jonin, while Team 2's instructor was someone else.
• Ye Liangnai entered and confirmed that he would guide Team 2, delighting the graduates from both teams.
• Ye Liangnai took Team 2 to a training ground, where Saki Mirako, Natsume Yuki, and Nakamura Shota introduced themselves.
• Ye Liangnai scheduled a bell-grabbing test for the next day and warned the students that three failures would mean returning to the ninja academy.

Ye Liangnai learned that the Blood Sun Flower could not treat Ringo Ameyuri and considered traveling back to Rōran to find another. After preparing to guide Team Two, he studied teaching methods and began writing a detailed teaching approach.

• Ruri told Ye Liangnai that the Blood Sun Flower had lost its medicinal power, and he told her not to give up on treating Ringo Ameyuri.
• News that Ye Liangnai would guide Team Two spread through Kirigakure, stirring envy among the graduates and excitement among Nakamura Shota and his teammates' parents.
• Nakamura Shota and the other two gathered to analyze Ye Liangnai's upcoming bell-grabbing test.
• Ye Liangnai studied teaching materials in Kirigakure's archives and learned from Ninja Academy teachers before developing a plan for his students.
• Mei Terumi returned home late and saw Ye Liangnai writing a document titled "Teaching Approach."