Recaps

Bai Yue dismantled Danzo’s Root, pursued the Akatsuki’s plans, and arranged Minato’s return to save Jiraiya. As the villages faltered and Nagato began reviving the Ten-Tails, Bai Yue moved to capture him without revealing his identity.

• Sasuke, Jiraiya, and Toneri stormed Root, and Bai Yue helped defeat Danzo before making Root the new Anbu Corps under Ryoma Aburame.
• Bai Yue tracked Nagato’s group to Kumogakure, where the Akatsuki defeated the Fourth Raikage and captured Killer B before Bai Yue secretly returned B to the village.
• Bai Yue captured the Evil God and brought it into the True Illusionary Realm, then revived Minato and sent him to rescue Jiraiya from Pain.
• Minato rescued Jiraiya and brought him to Konoha Hospital, where Tsunade began treating him as Minato learned how the village and other nations had changed.
• Bai Yue obtained Kinkaku through Orochimaru’s Impure World Reincarnation and implanted a normal Zero-Tails in Killer B, while Ōnoki prepared Iwagakure for war.
• Killer B returned to Kumogakure and, after the Fourth Raikage ordered him to surrender, chose to take the village’s surrender to Konoha instead.
• Bai Yue used Kinkaku’s Nine-Tails Chakra to awaken the Ten-Tails, then faced Nagato and the Paths while concealing his identity as Brother Tsuchi.
• Bai Yue decided to disguise the True Illusionary Realm as Kamui space so he could take Nagato alive without exposing himself.