Recaps

Tang Ping led Konoha’s forces against the Cloud Ninja invasion while the Byakugan Wolf disrupted the village’s command. After using a flood to turn the battle, he brought the survivors back to Konoha, where a new problem awaited them.

• Hyuga Hiashi and the Main Family Elders faced village rumors and pressure over the Cloud Ninja envoy crisis, while Tang Ping watched Naruto at Ichiraku Ramen and called him the coming New Era’s protagonist.
• Tang Ping confronted the Cloud Ninja at the embassy, but Madara Uchiha later ambushed their delegation and stole Hyuga Hiashi’s corpse, bringing Konoha and Kumogakure closer to war.
• Konoha appointed Sarutobi Shinnosuke commander and Tang Ping deputy, while Tang Ping began the Demigod Project with an Uchiha volunteer and Itachi reported the experiment to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• The Cloud Ninja army invaded the Land of Fire, and its tailed beasts attacked Konoha’s forces before Tang Ping and Yamaa Koji fought A and Killer B as Nara Shikaku led the troops’ breakout.
• Tang Ping and Danzo escaped the Cloud Ninja’s barrier after Taiyi’s Amaterasu forced the enemy to retreat, then rejoined the survivors and learned Shinnosuke had been killed by the Byakugan Wolf.
• After the Byakugan Wolf’s attack and the discovery of Shinnosuke’s blood-written message, Tang Ping urged Konoha’s outnumbered force to face the Cloud Ninja and set a trap at Moon Gorge Lake.
• Tang Ping’s flood scattered the Cloud Ninja, while Taiyi injured Killer B and Tang Ping fought A, prompting the Raikage to withdraw his forces.
• Tang Ping overruled Danzo’s criticism and led about five hundred survivors back to Konoha, where they learned the Cloud Ninja had withdrawn and found a troublesome issue awaiting them.

Tang Ping hunted down Otsutsuki Naoto, helping Hinata Cang Yue awaken her Tenseigan, then exposed the Fourth Mizukage as Obito’s puppet and exploited Kirigakure’s ensuing chaos. Tenshukaku launched its counterattack, where its Flying Corps devastated Kirigakure’s forces and drove their fleet into retreat.

• Tang Ping, Uchiha Mei, and Hinata Cang Yue tracked down Otsutsuki Naoto, and Tang Ping killed him with a Sage Art attack that also destroyed the Hamura statue.
• Tang Ping extracted Naoto’s bloodline and made a potion that awakened Hinata Cang Yue’s Tenseigan, then traveled with her to the Land of Water.
• Tang Ping warned Elder Genshi that Karatachi Yagura was controlled by foreign chakra, and Ao confirmed the control as Kirigakure’s factions began fighting.
• Obito used Yagura to transform into Isobu and rampage through Kirigakure, while Genji and Terumi Mei struggled to stop the Three-Tails.
• Tang Ping returned to Tenshukaku as Kirigakure’s forces attacked Crab Island, where Uchiha Sho and the defenders held the supply fortress against the larger army.
• Tang Ping brought the Blazing Sun Fleet and five thousand Flying Machines to the battlefield, and the aircraft bombed Kirigakure’s forces and ships.
• Nagai Takaomi ordered a retreat and stayed behind to cover his troops, but the Flying Corps sank the retreating fleet as Uchiha Sho watched from beyond the bombardment zone.

Tang Ping conquered Kirigakure and began bringing it under Tenshukaku’s control, while tensions with Konoha sharpened over aircraft, secret techniques, and Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami. The arc left Tang Ping anticipating a struggle over Shisui and Konoha’s leadership.

• Tang Ping defeated Nagai Takaomi’s Kirigakure fleet and secured Nagai’s surrender, then sailed with his forces to attack Kirigakure.
• Tang Ping’s Flying Corps bombed Kirigakure, and the Blazing Sun smashed through its eastern defenses as Tenshukaku’s forces defeated the village’s ninja.
• Nagai Takaomi and Genji helped end Kirigakure’s resistance, and Tang Ping incorporated the village into Tenshukaku while negotiating terms with Genji.
• Terumi Mei led Kirigakure’s assault on the rebellious Kaguya Clan, while Hinata Cang Yue encountered Orochimaru, who escaped with Kimimaro.
• Tang Ping offered Kirigakure compensation and supplies, began taking over its administration, and planned a new coastal village focused on maritime trade.
• Tang Ping returned to Tenshukaku and rejected Danzo’s demand for aircraft, challenging him to make other clans surrender their secret techniques and pills first.
• Tang Ping gave Kakashi evidence against Konoha’s higher-ups and promised him a chance for revenge, and Kakashi agreed to wait in Konoha.
• Tang Ping explained that Shisui possessed Kotoamatsukami, prompting Uchiha Mei and Uchiha Shizuka to judge him dangerous while Tang Ping predicted Konoha’s leaders might kill him themselves.

Tang Ping stole Shisui’s Mangekyo, manipulated Orochimaru into becoming an ally, and used their research to develop airships for Tenshukaku. As the villages negotiated for airships and Black Oil, Tang Ping moved to claim the Star, where Hinata Cang Yue faced Itachi.

• Tang Ping and his companions witnessed Danzo steal Shisui’s right eye, then retrieved his remaining eye after Shisui entrusted it to a crow and died at the waterfall.
• Tang Ping took Shisui’s right Mangekyo from Danzo and used Uchiha Mei’s Kotoamatsukami and his Heavenly Cursed Seal to make Orochimaru believe they were close allies.
• Orochimaru developed a power station and an airship prototype, and Tang Ping brought the airship to Tenshukaku as rival factions began investigating it.
• Tang Ping negotiated airship sales with representatives of the Five Great Ninja Villages while directing the villages to compete over Black Oil.
• Tang Ping flew with Hinata Cang Yue to the Land of Bears after stopping briefly at the Land of Demons, intending to take the Star from Star Ninja Village.
• Tang Ping attacked the black-clad force assaulting Star Ninja Village, but Red Star refused to surrender the Star and the battle escalated.
• Hinata Cang Yue broke Red Star’s Mysterious Peacock Method and blasted Itachi away, but Itachi escaped with a Crow Clone and trapped her in Phoenix Sage Fire Nail Crimson.