Recaps

Ito Makoto defeated Sarutobi Asuma and Hatake Kakashi to take first place again, using steel needles and an unconventional sword style. Afterward, Shizune challenged Kakashi with a technique she had learned from Ito Makoto, and their fight began.

• Might Guy praised Cheng and vowed to catch up, then Sarutobi Asuma challenged Yang Hao.
• Yang Hao used a steel needle to dispel Asuma's shadow clone and disrupt his hand seals, forcing him to concede.
• Tsunade recognized that Yang Hao had adapted her Monster Strength Technique, and she demanded that Orochimaru appear in her film in return.
• Yang Hao defeated Hatake Fifty-Fifty after a prolonged fight with his flexible sword and steel needles, then was named first place again as Ito Makoto.
• Shizune challenged Kakashi, who agreed to fight, and she began gathering chakra before using Suction Palm.

Shizune defeated Kakashi in the practical assessment, and Yang Hao became class monitor, offering to guide his classmates’ training. After directing Shizune to lead tree-climbing practice, Yang Hao began treating Might Guy while Sarutobi Hiruzen watched and discussed the Nine-Tails jinchuriki with Utatane Koharu.

• Shizune used suction and impact techniques with unsharpened Shuriken to defeat Kakashi, and the other students declined to challenge her.
• Tsunade and Orochimaru discussed the techniques Shizune had used and considered trading instruction for Uzumaki Kushina.
• After the practical assessment, Yang Hao volunteered for class monitor and gained the class’s support, so Umino Kairi appointed him.
• Yang Hao listed his skills for his classmates and advised them to practice chakra control through tree climbing and water walking.
• Yang Hao sent Shizune to lead the students’ practice and began helping Might Guy treat his training injuries.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen watched Yang Hao and Might Guy with the Telescope Technique while Utatane Koharu warned him about the Nine-Tails jinchuriki’s connections, and Hiruzen urged her to trust Jiraiya.

Jiraiya informed Sarutobi Hiruzen that Tsunade was pursuing restaurant investments and a gambling movie, while defending Kushina from the elders’ disrespect. After Jiraiya left, Hiruzen decided to cultivate Yang Hao as a “Child of Darkness” to balance Minato, while Yang Hao went to Orochimaru’s laboratory.

• Jiraiya’s Shadow Clone told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Tsunade planned to invest in Akimichi Clan restaurants and make a gambling movie.
• Jiraiya confronted Utatane Koharu for referring to Kushina only as the Nine-Tails jinchuriki, then urged Hiruzen to give Minato more time with her.
• Jiraiya praised Orochimaru’s disciple as a talented child with a strong Will of Fire, and then dispelled his Shadow Clone.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen decided to cultivate Yang Hao as a Child of Darkness to balance Namikaze Minato, the Child of Light.
• Yang Hao helped Might Guy study chakra-based body activation, escorted Shizune to the Senju compound, and went to Orochimaru’s laboratory.

Yang Hao impressed Orochimaru with his assessment of the Wood Release experiments and received Hashirama's cells to use in a future sealing project. He then helped Tsunade and Jiraiya expand their movie script into a story about a gambling contest between ninja villages, leaving Tsunade to make Jiraiya keep revising it.

• Yang Hao studied the Wood Release research and told Orochimaru that Hashirama's strength, not Wood Release itself, had made the technique legendary.
• Yang Hao proposed sealing Hashirama's cells and chakra crystals to restrain tailed beasts, and Orochimaru gave him a sample of Hashirama's cells.
• Orochimaru praised Yang Hao's monthly exam performance and said he would take him to Ryuchi Cave once his chakra improved.
• Tsunade drafted Yang Hao as unpaid help for her movie, and Yang Hao suggested making its plot a gambling contest that could avert war between two ninja villages.
• Tsunade accepted Yang Hao's larger story idea and grabbed Jiraiya when he tried to leave before helping her finish the script.

Yang Hao completed his study of sealing techniques and added the Eight Trigrams Seal to his Nine Palace Seal as preparation for bearing tailed beast power. He visited the despairing Hatake Sakumo and began sparring with him, leaving Sakumo’s plans for his future unresolved.

• After a month of lessons, Yang Hao impressed Uzumaki Kushina with how quickly he learned sealing techniques and derived the Eight Trigrams Seal with her.
• Yang Hao inscribed the Eight Trigrams Seal over his Nine Palace Seal, intending to charge it gradually and prepare it to contain other tailed beast martial souls.
• Yang Hao learned that rumors were driving Hatake Sakumo toward suicide, so he brought gifts to the Hatake home and urged Sakumo to consider Kakashi’s wellbeing.
• Hatake Sakumo asked Yang Hao to demonstrate the Hatake Swordsmanship he had learned from Kakashi, then sparred with him using his sword and scabbard.
• Impressed by Yang Hao’s skill and understanding, Hatake Sakumo ended the spar and told him to come along.

Yang Hao inherited the Hatake Clan’s techniques, promised to guide Kakashi, and helped Hatake Sakumo preserve his soul as a martial soul before Sakumo took his life. Orochimaru then explained the village’s factional struggle, while Yang Hao questioned whether the Third Hokage was grooming Namikaze Minato as the next Hokage.

• Hatake Sakumo entrusted Kakashi and the Hatake Clan’s secret techniques to Yang Hao, who promised to guide the boy.
• Yang Hao proposed sealing Sakumo’s chakra and soul; Sakumo infused his chakra into the seal, gave Yang Hao White Fang, and took his own life.
• Yang Hao sealed Sakumo’s soul, transformed it into a martial soul while preserving his consciousness, and taught him the Spirit Transformation Technique.
• Yang Hao collected Sakumo’s cells and went to Orochimaru, who explained that factional conflict had contributed to Sakumo’s downfall and hinted at the Hokage faction’s role.
• Yang Hao told Orochimaru that he suspected the Third Hokage was preparing Namikaze Minato to become the Fourth Hokage, citing Minato’s missions and his relationship with Kushina.

Yang Hao learned that Orochimaru would support his bid to become Hokage and was told to claim Hatake Sakumo’s political legacy. After Sakumo’s suicide, Yang Hao became Kakashi’s guardian and steered him toward valuing strength, while Konoha braced for the fallout.

• Orochimaru told Yang Hao that he had lost interest in becoming Hokage and would help cultivate Yang Hao as a candidate, advising him to present himself as White Fang’s disciple and successor.
• Orochimaru explained that Sarutobi Hiruzen favored Namikaze Minato, discussed the village’s political divisions and Jiraiya’s reluctance to take sides, then sent Yang Hao to arrange Sakumo’s funeral.
• Yang Hao found Kakashi grieving beside Sakumo’s body, explained how he had received the White Fang Short Blade, and accepted responsibility as Kakashi’s guardian.
• When Kakashi asked whether comrades or the mission mattered more, Yang Hao argued that strength was the answer; Kakashi resolved to surpass his father and avoid weaker teammates.
• Yang Hao arranged Sakumo’s funeral as news of White Fang’s suicide spread through Konoha, and Sarutobi Hiruzen anxiously followed the aftermath.

After Hatake Sakumo’s suicide, Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo Shimura planned for the political and military fallout while Kakashi Hatake applied to graduate. Ito Makoto challenged Kakashi to keep him at the academy, but Kakashi declared he would still become a ninja.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo Shimura, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura discussed covering up their role in the rumors and preparing for possible conflict with other ninja villages.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen assigned Danzo Shimura to monitor Amegakure and Iwagakure, while they also considered threats from Sunagakure and the other villages.
• Kakashi Hatake applied for graduation, and Sarutobi Hiruzen approved the assessment.
• Uchiha Obito and Nohara Rin arrived to watch Kakashi but found Ito Makoto blocking his way, citing the First’s purpose for founding the village and Hatake Sakumo’s request to guide Kakashi.
• Ito Makoto and Kakashi Hatake clashed with Hatake-style sword techniques, and Ito broke Kakashi’s ninja blade.
• Ito told Kakashi to stay at the academy and keep training, but Kakashi insisted that he would graduate and become a ninja.

Yang Hao brutally beat Kakashi after Kakashi tried to enter the academy, then treated his severe injuries in the infirmary. Kakashi survived the operation but felt the world was full of malice toward him.

• Yang Hao knocked Kakashi down, beat him until he passed out, and dragged him to the infirmary.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen approved Umino Kairi’s request to check Kakashi and left, pleased by Yang Hao’s ruthless nature.
• Yang Hao and the medical ninja set Kakashi’s broken bones and reattached his teeth without anesthetic, while Umino Kairi watched.
• Kakashi woke during the procedure and endured the painful treatment as Yang Hao probed his gums to identify where the teeth belonged.
• After the medical ninja confirmed Kakashi had no internal injuries, Umino Kairi helped move him to a ward and told him Yang Hao had acted for his own good.
• Kakashi stared emptily ahead and began wanting to destroy the world.

Yang Hao beat Kakashi and Uchiha Obito while claiming he was helping them, first forcing Kakashi to confront his grief and then trying to awaken Obito’s Sharingan. The chapter ended with Obito realizing Yang Hao’s motive and the classmates gathering to see whether his eyes would awaken.

• Yang Hao helped insert a urinary catheter and prepare a fecal tube for the paralyzed Kakashi, while Obito eagerly watched and Kakashi silently despaired.
• After recovering, Kakashi challenged Yang Hao; Yang Hao blocked his blade with chakra condensed along his palm and offered to teach him blade intent.
• Yang Hao beat Kakashi again, then ordered him to move into the Senju clan grounds; he later told Shizune that provoking Kakashi was meant to suppress his grief with another emotion.
• When Obito mocked him, Yang Hao beat Obito and wondered why the Uchiha boy had not awakened his Sharingan.
• Obito realized Yang Hao had been trying to help him awaken his eyes, and the classmates gathered to watch.

Yang Hao helped Uchiha Obito awaken his Sharingan, then began teaching the students chakra shape transformation. Later, he discussed with Orochimaru whether powerful ocular abilities could stabilize Hashirama Cells, leaving Orochimaru to consider the idea.

• Yang Hao removed Uchiha Obito’s eyes to provoke his Sharingan awakening, then restored his sight and advised him on using the one-tomoe Sharingan.
• Uchiha Obito thanked Yang Hao and proudly explained that outsiders could not deactivate transplanted Sharingan, while Yang Hao described their abilities and chakra cost.
• After Shizune reported the students’ progress, Yang Hao began teaching chakra shape transformation and explained how it could reduce the hand seals needed for ninjutsu.
• Yang Hao visited Orochimaru’s underground laboratory to research Hashirama Cells and proposed using Sharingan to balance their power and supply the eyes’ chakra demands.
• Orochimaru judged that the Byakugan and ordinary Sharingan were insufficient, while a Mangekyo Sharingan might match Wood Release.

Yang Hao used the Douluo Plane origin to create a Byakugan Soul Bone and a Divine Tree martial soul, then successfully cultivated natural energy through it. The chapter ended with him confirming that his chakra now possessed all five basic elemental attributes, along with Yang and Yin.

• Orochimaru gave Yang Hao two scrolls containing Uchiha and Hyuga corpses and told him to keep an eye on Mitarashi Anko, whom he planned to take as a disciple.
• Yang Hao studied the corpses and transformed the Hyuga ninja's Byakugan into a pair of Byakugan Soul Bones, which fused into his eyes and granted him the Byakugan's abilities.
• Yang Hao combined the Uchiha corpse with Hashirama Cells, Uzumaki Cells, Senju Hashirama's chakra crystal, and Manda's flesh to awaken Sage Mode markings in the Hashirama Cells.
• Yang Hao used the Douluo Plane origin and the Tree of Life's origin to transform the resulting growth into a Divine Tree martial soul that could absorb natural energy and convert it into senjutsu chakra.
• Yang Hao cultivated with the Divine Tree martial soul overnight and tested his chakra the next morning, confirming that it had all five basic elemental attributes as well as Yang and Yin.

Yang Hao completed the Divine Tree martial soul’s chakra attributes and prepared to grow a third eye for a Sharingan Soul Bone. After Mikoto Uchiha thanked him for helping Obito awaken his Sharingan, Yang Hao shared a theory about guiding Uchiha through the process and hinted at his ambition to become Hokage, leaving Mikoto and Fugaku considering him a future candidate.

• Yang Hao checked the eye he was cultivating inside his body, then went with Kakashi to Tsunade’s residence and found Jiraiya despondent over the success of Yang Hao’s White Ninja Chronicles.
• Yang Hao and the others went to the Ninja Academy, where Mikoto Uchiha gave Yang Hao one hundred high-grade explosive tags as thanks for helping Obito awaken his Sharingan.
• Mikoto explained the Second’s theory that Uchiha loss and hatred could trigger the Sharingan, and Yang Hao said he had provoked Obito to test the theory and guide him safely.
• Yang Hao told Mikoto that he wanted to become Hokage and protect the village, prompting her to consider his potential as a candidate close to the Uchiha.
• Mikoto told Fugaku about Yang Hao, and they considered supporting him as a future Hokage, though they noted that his young age made Minato the more immediate prospect.

Mikoto Uchiha and Fugaku Uchiha decided to back Namikaze Minato rather than young Yang Hao as their route to improving the Uchiha clan’s position. Meanwhile, Yang Hao sought Sarutobi Hiruzen’s help in addressing Sarutobi Asuma’s rebellion, learned Hiruzen’s staff techniques, and prepared to train Asuma.

• Mikoto Uchiha argued that Yang Hao was too young to help the Uchiha, and Fugaku Uchiha decided to focus on building ties with Namikaze Minato instead.
• Yang Hao decided to discipline Sarutobi Asuma, the last of his three troublesome classmates, and went to the Hokage Building to ask Sarutobi Hiruzen about Asuma’s training.
• Yang Hao met Sarutobi Hiruzen on Hokage Rock and explained that Asuma’s resentment toward his father was behind his refusal to practice the Sarutobi Clan’s staff techniques.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen demonstrated his short-, long-, and great-staff techniques, and Yang Hao memorized their movements.
• Yang Hao urged Sarutobi Hiruzen to spend more time with Asuma, then commissioned three staffs suited to his size so he could train the boy.

Yang Hao trained Sarutobi Asuma in staff fighting through increasingly brutal lessons until Asuma agreed to learn, impressing Sarutobi Hiruzen and prompting him to arrange further instruction. Yang Hao then advised his classmates and explained genjutsu to Yuhi Kurenai before Hyuga Xia asked to speak with him.

• Yang Hao beat Sarutobi Asuma with a short staff, then switched to a long staff the next day until Asuma submitted and agreed to learn.
• Yang Hao attacked Asuma with a heavy staff enhanced by the Monster Strength Technique, forcing him to dodge and improve his speed.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen watched Asuma through the Telescope Technique and told Sarutobi Shinnosuke to arrange evening staff lessons for him.
• Yang Hao tailored training advice for his classmates and explained genjutsu to Yuhi Kurenai, who decided to bring him her clan's scrolls.
• Hyuga Xia approached Yang Hao and asked to talk, so Yuhi Kurenai left them alone.

Yang Hao refused to help Hyuga Xia and Hyuga Tie develop new techniques, fearing the Hyuga Clan’s internal conflict, while Hyuga Hiashi failed to persuade his father to reform the clan. After discovering the pair had been killed by the Caged Bird Curse Mark, Yang Hao recovered their souls and began experimenting with Hyuga Xia’s body.

• Hyuga Xia and Hyuga Tie reported Yang Hao’s concerns to Hyuga Hiashi, who argued that the branch family needed new combat methods to strengthen the clan.
• The Hyuga clan head rejected Hyuga Hiashi’s proposal, insisting that empowering the branch family could provoke rebellion and that its members existed to protect the main family.
• After his sons left, the Hyuga clan head ordered Hyuga Xia and Hyuga Tie brought to him, while Yang Hao studied White Zetsu and gained its Spore, Impersonation, and Mayfly techniques.
• Yang Hao sensed that the curse marks he had planted on Hyuga Xia and Hyuga Tie were collapsing, used the Mayfly Technique to reach the Hyuga compound, and found them dead from the Caged Bird Curse Mark.
• Yang Hao sealed Hyuga Xia and Hyuga Tie’s lingering souls, then retrieved Hyuga Xia’s body after she was buried in secret.
• Yang Hao began an experiment to assemble Hyuga Xia’s complete genes by fusing egg-cell nuclei and growing them in her body.

Yang Hao studied Hyuga Xia’s soul and began cultivating Senju Hashirama’s power by extracting a heart Soul Bone from his corpse. After learning that the Hyuga Clan had withdrawn Hyuga Xia and Hyuga Tie from school, he returned to his laboratory and fused the Soul Bone into himself.

• Yang Hao preserved Hyuga Xia’s body in an embryo and cut the Caged Bird Curse Mark from her soul, while the curse mark destroyed Hyuga Tie’s soul during his examination.
• Yang Hao infiltrated Konoha to study clan inheritances, collect samples, and inspect the sealed coffins of Senju Hashirama, the Second Hokage, and Uzumaki Mito.
• Yang Hao extracted a heart Soul Bone from Senju Hashirama’s corpse, preserved it, and took bone-cell samples from the other two coffins.
• Umino Kairi told Yang Hao that Hyuga Xia and Hyuga Tie had been withdrawn from school because they were sick, and warned him not to get involved.
• Yang Hao told Shizune and the others that the two classmates were recuperating and explained that the Hyuga Clan would not allow visitors.
• Yang Hao fused Senju Hashirama’s heart Soul Bone into his body and used his Divine Tree martial soul to absorb the extracted Wood Release chakra.

Yang Hao completed the fusion of the Hashirama Heart Soul Bone, strengthening his body with Senju vitality, and Tsunade discovered the change and offered him the Senju Clan’s Wood Release inheritance. The chapter ended as she demanded that he marry a Senju woman and pass the Senju name to his children, prompting an uneasy reaction from him.

• Yang Hao finished fusing the Hashirama Heart Soul Bone and planned to use it as the foundation for developing a heart martial soul and Senju Sage Body.
• Tsunade returned with Namikaze Minato, who reunited with Uzumaki Kushina and was startled by how much weight she had gained.
• Tsunade pulled Yang Hao aside and learned he had used her necklace’s chakra to fuse Senju Hashirama’s cells, while he concealed that he had created the Divine Tree martial soul.
• Tsunade suspected Danzo Shimura had restarted the forbidden cell experiment, then confirmed Yang Hao had gained powerful Senju vitality without obtaining Wood Release.
• Tsunade offered Yang Hao the Senju Clan’s inheritance and help awakening Wood Release in exchange for marrying a Senju woman and having their children bear the Senju surname.

Yang Hao secured the Senju Clan’s inheritance and began studying Hashirama’s Wood Release, then visited Orochimaru and explained how he had perfectly fused with Hashirama Cells by isolating their Wood Release component. Orochimaru recognized the value of Yang Hao’s approach and learned that Tailed Beast Chakra had helped him control the dangerous cells.

• Tsunade agreed to find Yang Hao a Senju bride when he came of age, summoned the clan’s stored scrolls and treasures from Shikkotsu Forest, and told him to live with her under her protection.
• Yang Hao called Tsunade “big sister,” received the Senju inheritance, and studied Hashirama’s secret scroll before finding its translated version.
• Yang Hao visited his teacher Orochimaru with scrolls prepared for a trade and revealed that he had fused with Hashirama Cells, gaining all five Chakra attributes.
• Yang Hao explained that he had sealed the cells, extracted their Wood Release component, and gradually ground down the remaining cells while using Eight-Tails Chakra to keep them in check.
• Orochimaru concluded that Yang Hao’s method of separating the Wood Release component was a promising research approach and acknowledged how Tailed Beast Chakra could restrain the cells.

Yang Hao secured Orochimaru’s support for bloodline research and a plan to clone an Uzumaki for Danzo Shimura, then transformed Kaguya and Uchiha corpses into Soul Bones. He fused Dead Bone Pulse into his skeleton and created a golden Sharingan-based Heavenly Eye Martial Soul, while continuing to pursue Ōtsutsuki power.

• Yang Hao asked Orochimaru for bloodline-limit ninja corpses, and Orochimaru agreed to send them while warning him to keep the research secret and avoid exposing his political schemes.
• Yang Hao proposed cloning an Uzumaki clansman and giving the clone to Danzo Shimura, and Orochimaru agreed to provide Uzumaki genetic material and create a body with talent comparable to Kushina’s.
• Orochimaru sent Yang Hao a batch of bloodline-limit ninja corpses, including a Kaguya Clan ninja, and Yang Hao extracted their cells before transforming the Kaguya corpse into a Dead Bone Pulse Soul Bone.
• Yang Hao fused the Dead Bone Pulse Soul Bone into his skeleton and used it to develop a Body Martial Soul, finding some resonance with his Byakugan Soul Bone and considering how to evolve his eyes toward Ōtsutsuki power.
• Yang Hao refined an Uchiha corpse into a Sharingan Soul Bone, moved his constructed eye to his forehead, and turned it into a golden Heavenly Eye Martial Soul linked to his mental space.

Yang Hao concealed his newly purified golden Sharingan, then witnessed Tsunade challenge Namikaze Minato to think independently of the Third Hokage and protect Kushina. Minato left with two scrolls to consider his path, while Sarutobi Hiruzen accepted that Kushina would remain with Tsunade for now.

• Yang Hao inspected his golden Sharingan, hid it from view with chakra, and returned to Tsunade's wooden building.
• Tsunade told Namikaze Minato that she would support him becoming Hokage only if he could act independently, then gave him scrolls on Flying Thunder God and Kushina's Rasengan.
• Tsunade advised Kushina to master the Rasengan and suggested she learn Shikkotsu Forest's Sage Mode to help refine the Nine-Tails' chakra.
• Namikaze Minato secretly sent Tsunade's scrolls to Mount Myoboku, reported his failed mission to Sarutobi Hiruzen, and accepted another Flying Thunder God scroll.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen discussed Kushina with Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, then decided to let her stay at the Senju Clan Compound for now.

Namikaze Minato studied Tsunade’s scrolls and grew uncertain about becoming Hokage, while Yang Hao secretly obtained Minato’s spatial aptitude through a White Zetsu spore. Tsunade then explained Konoha’s power struggles and warned Yang Hao to watch Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo Shimura.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen rejected Utatane Koharu’s objection to the Nine-Tails jinchuriki living with Tsunade, while Mitokado Homura urged Koharu to avoid further turmoil.
• Namikaze Minato sent a shadow clone to Mount Myoboku to study Tsunade’s scrolls, learned from them, and burned the Third’s copied Flying Thunder God scroll.
• Minato questioned whether he could fulfill the Hokage’s mission, unaware that a White Zetsu spore had collected his cells and chakra and returned them to Yang Hao.
• Yang Hao used his Divine Tree Martial Soul to absorb Minato’s spatial aptitude and manifest it in his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul, then considered seeking temporal aptitude from the priestess of the Land of Demons.
• Tsunade explained that Sarutobi Hiruzen had cultivated Minato but would prevent him from gaining powerful allies, and she warned Yang Hao about Hiruzen and Danzo Shimura.
• Yang Hao promised Tsunade that he would stay vigilant.

Yang Hao promised Tsunade he would leave Konoha if he could not achieve his goals there, and she grew closer to him while training him in medical ninjutsu. Three years later, Yuhi Kurenai confessed her feelings to Yang Hao after he walked her home to see her returning father.

• Tsunade urged Yang Hao to leave Konoha and build a new village, and Yang Hao promised to leave if his plans in Konoha failed.
• Tsunade taught Yang Hao medical ninjutsu, the Yin Seal, and the Strength of a Hundred Seal, while he continued training his younger brothers.
• Three years later, Yang Hao guided Yuhi Kurenai's training in the Mental Domain and accompanied her home after learning her father had returned.
• Yuhi Kurenai kissed Yang Hao on the cheek and confessed that she liked him before running inside.
• Yuhi Shinku welcomed Yuhi Kurenai home and told her he had made her favorite wasabi octopus.

Yuhi Shinku learned that his daughter Kurenai had confessed to Yang Hao, who already had a girlfriend, Shizune. After confronting Yang Hao, Shinku drew his blade when Yang Hao said he wanted to choose both girls.

• Yuhi Shinku reunited with Kurenai and learned that Ito Makoto, whom she had kissed goodbye, was her classmate and training partner.
• Yuhi Shinku visited Tsunade with Kurenai and was stunned by how large Yang Hao had grown; Tsunade explained that medical ninjutsu had accelerated his growth.
• After taking Kurenai home, Yuhi Shinku secretly waited for Yang Hao and confronted him about his relationship with Kurenai and Shizune.
• Yang Hao admitted that Shizune was his girlfriend and said he could choose both her and Kurenai.
• Yuhi Shinku drew his blade in anger at Yang Hao's answer.

Yuhi Shinku confronted Yang Hao over his relationship with Yuhi Kurenai, but Yang Hao resisted his swordsmanship and strongest genjutsu. Kurenai rescued Yang Hao and later explained her loyalty to him and the new illusion-domain technique she was learning, while Shinku suspected Yang Hao had given her a mysterious slash.

• Yuhi Shinku challenged Yang Hao to leave Kurenai, then attacked him with swordsmanship and genjutsu, but Yang Hao avoided his strikes and entered Red Sunset willingly without being affected.
• Yang Hao questioned whether Shinku had returned because others told him about his relationship with Kurenai, and Kurenai arrived inside the illusion to intervene.
• Kurenai cut open Red Sunset with her blade, took her father home, and made him apologize for confronting Yang Hao.
• Kurenai told Shinku she knew Yang Hao was also in a relationship with Shizune but still intended to entrust her future to him.
• Kurenai revealed that Yang Hao had inspected the Yuhi Clan scrolls and taught her an illusion-domain method she believed would surpass their inherited genjutsu.