Recaps

Yunqing’s discovery of White Zetsu led Sunagakure to prepare for and withstand coordinated attacks while the other villages suffered heavier losses. After the villages purged traitorous officials, Yunqing tracked Black Zetsu’s laboratory and seized his White Zetsu and genetic backups, leaving Black Zetsu furious but unwilling to confront him.

• Yunqing learned that White Zetsu were behind the disappearances and sent Suke and Rasa to investigate, where they found and destroyed a town full of transformed residents.
• Sunagakure’s leaders studied the White Zetsu and secretly sent experienced squads to hunt them, while Konoha’s leaders began adapting Sunagakure’s civilian and ninja systems.
• Black Zetsu abandoned his plans in the Dark World and sent White Zetsu to attack the Five Great Hidden Villages, but Sunagakure’s barriers and Yunqing’s clone helped keep its losses low.
• The villages organized their defenses and counted the damage, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze planned reconstruction and the removal of disloyal officials.
• Tsunade confronted and killed a traitorous official, and coordinated attacks on administrators across the Five Great Nations eliminated other traitors.
• Orochimaru confronted Black Zetsu and forced him to abandon a White Zetsu body, then sealed the berserk creature.
• Yunqing raided Black Zetsu’s laboratory and took most of his White Zetsu and tens of thousands of genetic backups, leaving Black Zetsu too wary of Yunqing to retaliate.

As Konoha revived its leaders with Gene Potions, Yunqing strengthened Sunagakure through education reform and a communications network. The arc ended with Yunqing defeating Itachi Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha after they attacked him during negotiations.

• Tsunade found Hashirama-like cells in White Zetsu, and Hiruzen Sarutobi concealed the discovery as the villages clashed over the evidence.
• Orochimaru developed a Gene Potion from the cells, rejuvenating Konoha’s leaders and prompting other villages to investigate after news of the treatment spread.
• Yunqing admitted leaking the potion news, then persuaded Sunagakure’s elders to extend Ninja Academy through age eighteen rather than send children to battlefields.
• Yunqing organized Sunagakure’s education reforms while Ebizo reviewed plans for grain production and a naval search for a food-producing island.
• Senra created phones, televisions, and a satellite for Yunqing, whose network expanded across the Land of Wind and cut into Konoha’s movie business.
• Mina Uchiha brought Itachi Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha to negotiate with Yunqing, warning them that he prioritized Sunagakure’s interests.
• Yunqing provoked Itachi Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha into attacking him, then defeated them and let Mina Uchiha resume discussions the next day.
• Mina Uchiha arranged painful treatment to speed the boys’ recovery, while she and Echizen Uchiha recognized how Yunqing’s response could have endangered them.

Yunqing revealed the threat posed by Kaguya Otsutsuki and helped unite the hidden villages into an Allied Village. As the alliance revived powerful predecessors and exchanged technology, Sunagakure secretly restored hundreds of its own fallen experts.

• Mina Uchiha secured compensation for the Uchiha Clan’s cinemas and arranged for its dramas and films to air on Sunagakure television, while the Uchiha Clan Head warned Itachi Uchiha to temper his arrogance and learn when to retreat.
• Ayu transformed the Land of Rain through housing, factories, heating, drying machines, and hydropower, while Yunqing explained that its reforms could not be easily replicated by the great nations.
• Yunqing revealed the possible arrival of Kaguya Otsutsuki’s clan and convened the Kage, then demonstrated his power by teleporting them into space.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi revived Madara Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, and Tobirama Senju, and the leaders agreed to unite the Five Great Hidden Villages and Five Great Nations against threats beyond their world.
• Yunqing proposed founding the Ninja World Allied Village, and the leaders established its headquarters in the former Land of Iron with the Sage of Six Paths as Secretary-General.
• The alliance built a research base, revived the First and Second Kage and Hanzo of the Salamander, and used Nagato Uzumaki’s technique and Gene Potion Version 1.5 to restore and strengthen them.
• At the first United Hidden Village conference, the leaders approved trading technology, while the Kage discussed cooperation, space exploration, and settling old grudges.
• Yunqing revived hundreds of elite Sunagakure ninjas under alternate identities, prompting the other villages to reveal their own hidden experts.

Yunqing helped unite the ninja world through shared development and opened the Three Sacred Lands’ trials to everyone, while Madara married the Miko and Konoha became the subject of widespread gossip and worship. The story then shifted to Yunqing and Fia sailing toward Marine Headquarters, where Yunqing clashed with the Supernovas at Sabaody.

• Yunqing funded Kakuzu’s parcel-delivery business, while Madara led the campaign against the ninja world’s hostile forces and helped make himself a popular hero.
• At the Second Ninja World Conference, Yunqing proposed sharing resources and technology, and the villages agreed to cooperate on ocean development, trade, and research.
• Kakuzu’s logistics company expanded as the villages built United City, launched communications networks, and developed a fast computer network powered by Chakra Energy.
• The Sage of Six Paths cultivated at Mount Myōboku, then joined Yunqing in persuading the Three Sacred Lands to open their contract trials across the ninja world.
• The Three Sacred Lands and other summoning clans opened their trials to everyone, while the Sannin and Konoha faced consequences for losing their former advantages.
• After rumors spread about the Sannin and other Konoha figures, Madara married the Miko in a wedding attended by leaders from across the ninja world.
• Yunqing toured Konoha, discussed the Kurama Clan’s future with Mizuyu Kurama, sparred with Hatake Sakumo, and later learned that people across the ninja world were raising statues of the Sage of Six Paths.
• Yunqing and Fia sailed toward Marine Headquarters for the Summit War, where Yunqing attacked Luffy, Trafalgar Law, and Killer at Sabaody before Silvers Rayleigh stopped his black flames.