Recaps

Yichen expanded Iwagakure’s influence while training in Light Release, then helped provoke the Uchiha Clan’s conflict with Konoha as multiple villages went to war. Iwagakure emerged with new territory and political leverage, while Fugaku revealed that Izumi and Sokai might alter the Uchiha Clan’s future.

• Yichen established Iwagakure’s branch in the Land of Demons, captured Yomi, and developed his Light Release techniques.
• Yichen helped Sokai awaken his Sharingan further after they encountered a grave containing an Uchiha, then trained with Ōnoki and traded techniques and research with Orochimaru.
• Yichen and Iwagakure’s leaders exploited conflict between Konoha and the Uchiha, while the Cloud, Mist, Iwa, and Sand forces fought across several fronts.
• Yichen’s forged warning and Izanagi scrolls inflamed the Uchiha, and Shisui, Sokai, and Izumi awakened Mangekyō Sharingan during the turmoil.
• Kakashi defeated Obito on Hokage Rock, while battles devastated Konoha and the other armies before the Cloud and Sand forces retreated.
• Iwagakure defeated its opponents, gained territory and reparations, and established a branch in the Land of the Falls.
• Fugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan to Izumi and said she and Sokai might change the clan’s fate, while Izumi explained her ocular abilities.

Yichen tracked Obito Uchiha and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path while the Great Ninja Villages formed an alliance and clashed with Iwagakure. After the fighting, Yichen strengthened Iwagakure’s position, pursued new alliances, and followed White Zetsu toward Obito’s suspected base.

• Fugaku Uchiha taught Izumi Uchiha about the Mangekyō Sharingan’s danger, while Yichen offered to take Sakura Haruno as his disciple and helped Neji seek a way to break his Caged Bird seal.
• Yichen and his disciples fought Obito Uchiha and the White Zetsu army at a buried temple, then tracked Obito to his base and destroyed it with Iwagakure’s forces.
• Tsunade, Rasa, and the Fourth Raikage discovered the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and confronted Obito, who captured Yugito before escaping with the statue.
• Yichen infiltrated Kumogakure to steal research materials, fought the Fourth Raikage, Killer B, and Darui, and escaped after damaging the village and its communications.
• Obito’s actions led the allied villages to lose control of the Ten-Tails’ body, while Yichen ambushed the returning Fourth Raikage and killed Yugito, leaving the Raikage without an arm before Tsunade’s group withdrew.
• Yichen expanded Iwagakure’s influence, arranged plans for joint Chunin Exams with the Akatsuki Organization and River Ninja Village, and assigned his disciples new training and investigation tasks.
• Yichen’s forces attacked Cloud and Sand ninja in occupied lands, while Yichen followed White Zetsu scouts and marked likely locations for Obito Uchiha’s new base.

Yichen led Iwagakure through a war against Sunagakure, the Cloud, and Konoha, securing victories and favorable treaties that expanded the village’s power. As he strengthened alliances and developed new talent, Obito’s actions in Kirigakure and a battlefield report concerning Orochimaru, Sasori, and Kakuzu left the next conflicts unresolved.

• Yichen identified the Demonic Statue beneath the Land of Earth, contained a fragment of Black Zetsu, and studied the dangerous Ghost Fire sealed in a jar.
• Yichen prepared River Ninja Village for the Joint Chunin Exams, trained with Nagato, and helped form an alliance between the Land of Rivers, the Land of Rain, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure.
• Yichen sent Iwagakure’s forces into the war and flew ahead to attack Sunagakure’s army, while Iwa forces defeated the Cloud army and other fronts ended in withdrawals.
• Yichen and Ōnoki broke Sunagakure’s defenses, and Kawakita killed Pakura as the surviving Sunagakure forces retreated.
• Yichen imposed territorial and financial terms on Sunagakure, then helped secure reparations and territorial concessions from Konoha and recognition of River Ninja Village as the Sixth Great Ninja Village.
• Yichen expanded Iwagakure’s branches and Academy, set out a diplomatic strategy, and encouraged Matsutani Shinya, Han, Atsumi Akino, Saka, Riori, and Deidara in their development.
• Obito destroyed Kirigakure’s Bloodline Ninja Clans, and Genji sent Yuki Koru and thirty Academy students to Iwagakure to seek help finding the abducted children.
• Konoha Anbu found a vast battlefield in the Land of Whirlpools and suspected Orochimaru, Sasori of the Red Sands, and Kakuzu had fought there.

Yichen expanded Iwagakure’s influence while pursuing research into bloodlines, space-time techniques, and souls. After intervening in the Uchiha brothers’ crisis, he returned with Shisui’s eye and a mysterious sphere that could advance his research.

• Yichen began a relationship with Konan, then left River Ninja Village with her and his students while Yahiko became the first Akatsuki Kage.
• Yichen recruited Haku, Fujii Kusaka, and Kamizuru Tsuruhime as Team Seven, revealed Haku’s origins, and arranged for him to help recover children taken from Kirigakure.
• Yichen and Kirigakure’s forces fought Obito Uchiha in the Land of Iron, rescued the captive children, and brought White Zetsu clones back to Iwagakure for research and medical transplants.
• Yichen’s White Zetsu limb-transplant program restored Iwagakure’s disabled ninja, while he continued experiments on Neji and pursued research into Light Release and teleportation.
• Yichen and Chiga studied the Jashin Cult’s Bloodcurtse, severed the cultists’ connection to Jashin, and cleared Yugakure before Danzo’s forces arrived to claim the operation.
• Yichen brought Yakumo Kurama to Iwagakure and arranged for her to live with Purple Lightning’s family while Katsuya and Yichen contained the monster within her.
• Yichen reached Shisui Uchiha as Shisui lost his eye and fell from a cliff, then negotiated with Itachi Uchiha and returned with Shisui’s left eye and a mysterious white sphere.
• Yichen secured Iwagakure’s funding for village-wide research into Bloodline Perfection and explained the powers and risks of Shisui’s and Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan.