Recaps

Huiyan investigated Guy’s blood-red punch and heard how Guy had instantly comprehended the Sage Clan Talent and released his accumulated battlefield killing intent. Although Hefeng urged the Abbot to expel Guy, Huiyan believed him, leaving Guy disappointed that he would not be sent back to Konoha.

• Huiyan arrived at Listening Wind Cliff and questioned Guy about the blood-red fist force he had unleashed.
• Hefeng accused Guy of practicing an evil art and demanded that he demonstrate the killing punch again, but Guy said his killing intent had already dissipated.
• Huiyan sensed Guy’s peaceful aura, and Chiriku explained how Guy had comprehended the Sage Clan Talent and formed a unique Dharma image.
• Huiyan privately recognized Guy’s extraordinary Buddhist nature, while Hefeng warned that his earlier killing intent threatened Fire Temple.
• Guy welcomed the prospect of being expelled so he could return to Konoha, but Huiyan declared that he believed Fahai.

Guy failed to persuade Huiyan to let him leave Fire Temple, but Huiyan instead resolved to train him after interpreting his killing intent as dispelled. Guy accepted staying for now and continued studying Sage Clan Talent with Chiriku, while Huiyan sent a letter about him to Minato Namikaze.

• Huiyan defended Guy's unusual cultivation and declared that his killing intent had returned to peace.
• Guy asked to leave Fire Temple, but Huiyan assigned Chiriku to guide his Sage Clan Talent training and told him to let matters take their course.
• Guy realized Huiyan had become even more determined to nurture him, but decided to stay temporarily and focus on cultivating the Yin Seal and Sage Clan Talent.
• Huiyan recalled Guy's chanting over the past two months and concluded that he had a deep affinity with Buddhism.
• Huiyan wrote a letter to Minato Namikaze and ordered a novice monk to deliver it directly to the Fourth Hokage.

Minato Namikaze and Konoha’s leaders debated whether Might Guy should become the Fire Temple’s next abbot, with Tsunade and Danzo both wanting to claim him for their own interests. They agreed to send Guy’s former teammates to ask what he wanted, while Minato and Kushina left the Hokage Building to try for a child.

• Minato Namikaze read Abbot Huiyan’s letter proposing Might Guy as the Fire Temple’s next abbot, prompting Tsunade and Danzo to demand that Guy return to Konoha.
• Kushina proposed asking Guy’s opinion first, and Minato chose Shiranui Genma and Ebisu to visit him at the Fire Temple.
• Tsunade suggested Kurenai Yuhi join the visit, but Minato explained that it would not be appropriate for her to go to the temple.
• Minato declined Kushina’s suggestion that Kakashi accompany the others, reasoning that Guy’s Sage Clan Talent would lead Kakashi to challenge and lose to him.
• Kushina told Minato it was her ovulation period, and Minato used Flying Thunder God to take them from the Hokage Building to their bedroom.

At the Fire Temple, Guy slipped away from the monks waiting for the Fire Daimyo and spotted his former teammates Ebisu and Shiranui Genma in the daimyo’s procession. When a two-stage attack struck the procession and engulfed the pair, Guy opened the Sixth Gate and rushed toward them.

• Guy left the monks’ welcoming line to cultivate the Yin Seal in a nearby grove.
• Guy saw Ebisu and Shiranui Genma at the rear of the Fire Daimyo’s procession and decided to approach them.
• Explosions struck the mountain path, and guards raised an Earth Wall to protect the daimyo.
• A second, stronger blast engulfed Ebisu and Genma while the guards were occupied protecting the daimyo.
• Guy saw his teammates caught in the explosion, opened the Sixth Gate of View, and charged toward them.

Guy treated Genma, Ebisu, and Iron-Arm Panda after the explosion, then charged after a masked attacker and stopped Hefeng from killing him. Guy crippled the fleeing man, but discovered he was already dead, leaving the attack’s purpose unknown.

• Guy summoned Katsuyu and used the Mystical Palm Technique to treat Genma while Katsuyu healed him, Ebisu, and Iron-Arm Panda.
• Guy spotted a spiral-masked man in a black robe and rushed after him, but the attacker fled into the forest.
• Hefeng attacked the masked man with Welcome Approach: Thousand-Armed Murder, and Guy’s Lion’s Roar shattered Hefeng’s Wrathful Vajra.
• Guy awakened Lion’s Fearless Roar and kicked the masked man’s legs, intending to capture him alive.
• Guy grabbed the fallen masked man and found that he had stopped breathing.

Guy treated Genma’s abdominal wound and performed emergency surgery on Iron Arm after the explosion, stabilizing the panda’s life-threatening injuries. As Guy finished, Hefeng confronted him over the death of the masked attacker.

• Guy found that the masked enemy had died and discovered his severely corroded face before leaving the corpse behind.
• Guy returned to the daimyo’s party and stitched Genma’s wound while treating it with the Mystical Palm Technique and Katsuyu.
• Guy anesthetized Iron Arm and began removing embedded debris and damaged tissue with help from Katsuyu.
• Guy spent half an hour operating on Iron Arm, then bandaged its wounds after stabilizing its vital signs.
• Hefeng approached Guy and demanded to know why he had killed the villain.

Guy faced Hefeng’s accusations that he had helped a black-robed attacker escape and then killed him, while the monks and guards began to doubt him. Huiyan publicly declared that he believed Guy, and the daimyo stepped forward to say the same.

• Hefeng accused Guy of stopping him from apprehending the black-robed man and destroying the man’s brain with a kick.
• Guy questioned why Hefeng had been on the attacker’s escape route and challenged his claim that he had only meant to capture the man.
• Hefeng said Huiyan had sent him to welcome the daimyo and mocked Guy’s explanation that he had spent half an hour using the toilet.
• Guy considered whether Hefeng was connected to the attack but held back from confronting him because Ebisu and Genma were injured and he was at Fire Temple.
• Huiyan stepped forward and said he believed Fahai.
• The daimyo emerged from his sedan chair and said he believed Guy too.

The Daimyo defended Guy after the attack and continued to the Fire Temple, while Guy carried the wounded Genma, Ebisu, and Iron Arm up the mountain for treatment. As Guy carefully treated Genma at the monk’s quarters, Ebisu revealed that they had come on a mission.

• The Daimyo declared that Guy was not responsible for the attack and said the criminal had likely taken his own life.
• The Daimyo’s party continued up the mountain, and Guy carried Genma, Ebisu, and Iron Arm ahead to the Fire Temple.
• The Daimyo praised Fahai’s strength, prompting speculation among the monks that he might want to recruit him.
• Guy settled Iron Arm in the courtyard and used medical techniques to clean and suture Genma’s wound.
• Ebisu told Guy that they had come to the Fire Temple on a mission.

Guy caught up with Ebisu and Genma on their former classmates, then wrote letters to his friends and superiors before Chiriku summoned him to the main hall. The daimyo’s party was leaving, and Chiriku hinted that Guy would understand the situation when he arrived.

• Guy refused the Fire Temple abbot’s proposal to groom him as the next abbot and asked Ebisu and Genma about their friends.
• Ebisu told Guy that he was teaching at the Ninja Academy, Genma had joined the Fourth Hokage’s Flying Thunder God Guard Team, and their classmates had taken posts in Anbu, intelligence, interrogation, sealing, and Orochimaru’s laboratory.
• Ebisu told Guy that Might Duy was doing well at the orphanage and that Shibi’s current situation had slipped their minds.
• Guy wrote letters to Minato Namikaze, Tsunade, Might Duy, Kurenai, and Shibi, and asked Ebisu and Genma to deliver Shibi’s letter personally.
• Chiriku summoned Guy to the main hall as the daimyo’s party was leaving and said Guy would understand when he got there.

After the daimyo hired Hefeng as commander of his residence guards, the monks wondered who would replace him as Head of the Martial Monk Hall. Abbot Huiyan then called Guy, who was living at the temple as Fahai, to come forward, leaving Guy suspecting he was about to be named.

• Guy and Chiriku joined the monks gathered to see the daimyo off, while others whispered about Guy's strength and background.
• The daimyo and Huiyan emerged from the main hall after privately discussing Guy and Hefeng's departure.
• Chiriku told Guy that Hefeng had accepted a position as the daimyo's personal guard and would return to the capital with him.
• After the farewell procession left, Huiyan announced that Hefeng would become commander of the guards at the daimyo's residence.
• As the monks wondered who would replace Hefeng, Huiyan called Fahai forward, and Guy suspected he might be chosen.

Guy accepted the post of chief of the Martial Monk Hall after Abbot Huiyan revealed that the Daimyo wanted him and threatened to take him as a guard if he refused. Huiyan then told Guy to move into his room so he could teach him the chief’s rules.

• Huiyan announced that Fahai would replace Hefeng as chief of the Martial Monk Hall, citing his talent, strength, and the Daimyo’s approval.
• When Guy tried to refuse, Huiyan privately warned that refusing would mean leaving the temple to serve the Daimyo as a personal guard.
• Guy reluctantly accepted the post, despite wanting to cultivate quietly and avoid responsibility.
• Guy told Huiyan about the suspicious timing of Hefeng’s appearance during the attack, and Huiyan said Hefeng had become too consumed by fame and profit to remain in the temple.
• Huiyan reassured Guy that he need not hold the post forever, then told him to stop sharing a courtyard with Chiriku and come sleep in his room for instruction.

Guy prepared for his promotion to head of the Martial Monk Hall, sent Ebisu and Genma back to Konoha with a letter, and gained the Great Compassion Thousand-Armed Form secret technique. After seeing his friends off, he returned to the Fire Temple.

• Chiriku congratulated Guy on his coming promotion and left him to speak with Ebisu and Genma.
• Guy updated his letter to Minato Namikaze and Tsunade, and told Ebisu to carry it back to Konoha once Genma had recovered.
• Guy decided to keep the injured Iron-Arm Panda with him and teach it the Golden Bell Shield if it could learn the technique.
• Guy opened his Secret Technique Gift Pack and obtained the Great Compassion Thousand-Armed Form, which he considered compatible with his Sage Clan Talent.
• Two days later, Ebisu and Genma left for Konoha with a letter from Guy, who watched them depart.

Guy escorted Ebisu and Genma back to Konoha after suspecting the attack at Fire Temple had targeted them, then returned to the temple for the preparations and ceremony. He officially became Head of the Martial Monk Hall and began considering how to fulfill his new responsibilities.

• Ebisu and Genma read Guy’s secret letter, realized the attack might have targeted them, and burned the letter before returning to Konoha.
• Guy revealed that he had secretly followed Ebisu and Genma to protect them, then returned to Fire Temple after their journey passed without incident.
• Huiyan explained the succession ceremony to Guy, and the two rested before attending it the next morning.
• Huiyan presided as Guy received the Martial Monk Hall command token and was formally named its new head.
• Guy resolved to take the position seriously and considered drawing on his reserves to teach the martial monks.

After taking over as head of the Martial Monk Hall, Guy received a system mission to pass down Shaolin techniques and chose to formally teach Shaolin Lion's Roar at Fire Temple. The monks and Abbot Huiyan followed him to the rear mountain for the lesson.

• The Monk System gave Guy the Shaolin Legacy mission, requiring him to publicly teach one to four ultimate techniques and leave them at the temple.
• Guy used Lion's Roar to silence the monks, then explained that he would not teach Sage Clan Talent because his experience with it was limited.
• Guy said he had learned Shaolin Lion's Roar from an ancient book about Shaolin Temple and offered to teach it to the monks.
• Guy asked the monks to remember Shaolin Temple as the art's source whenever they used or passed it down, and they agreed.
• Guy invited the temple's disciples to the rear mountain for a formal lesson, and Abbot Huiyan approved as the monks followed.

Guy taught the monks of Fire Temple the four stages of Shaolin Lion's Roar, then revealed his plan to teach a broader system of martial arts. He summoned the Executioner's Blade and began introducing a practical technique called the Precept-Breaking Blade.

• Guy gathered the monks at Listening Wind Cliff and explained the origins and four stages of Shaolin Lion's Roar.
• He demonstrated seated meditation, standing breath cultivation, and advanced mountain training for the monks.
• Guy unleashed a full-power Lion's Roar that scattered the sea of clouds and formed the image of a giant lion.
• After the monks were awed by his display, Guy rejected the system's minimum mission reward and resolved to earn all 200 Monk Points by teaching more techniques.
• Guy summoned the Executioner's Blade from a sealing scroll and announced that he would teach the monks the Precept-Breaking Blade.

Guy demonstrated Shaolin’s Precept-Breaking Blade Technique, then revealed the Mercy Blade as its compassionate counterpart. The monks understood the two arts’ complementary purposes and begged him to teach them.

• Guy demonstrated the forty-nine forms of the Precept-Breaking Blade Technique and split the sea of clouds with a powerful strike.
• When a young monk questioned the art’s killing intent, Guy swung at him, but a golden Buddha appeared and protected him.
• Guy announced that the Mercy Blade was Shaolin’s third supreme art and demonstrated its forms to the monks.
• Guy struck at the young monk again with the Mercy Blade, and the golden Buddha shielded him once more.
• The monks realized that the Precept-Breaking Blade struck at outer demons while the Mercy Blade protected life, and they begged Guy to teach them.

Guy explained that a blade’s morality depended on its wielder, then revealed the Golden Bell Shield, a new defensive Shaolin art. After Chiriku’s powerful attack failed to break it, the monks eagerly begged Guy to teach them.

• Guy identified the Executioner's Blade as one of Kirigakure’s Seven Ninja Swords and explained that a weapon’s use depended on the wielder’s heart.
• Guy announced that he would teach the Golden Bell Shield, which formed an indestructible golden bell around the body.
• Guy demonstrated the Golden Bell Shield as golden light and Sanskrit script appeared across its surface.
• Chiriku attacked Guy with Welcome Approach: Thousand-Armed Murder, but the golden bell remained unmoved.
• The monks begged Guy to teach them the Golden Bell Shield, and Guy wondered if he had gone too far.

After completing the Shaolin Legacy mission, Guy used his Monk Points to deepen his mastery of the Marrow Cleansing Classic and taught the monks about the four ultimate arts. The monks embraced him as Hall Head Fahai, and he began answering their questions at Listening Wind Cliff.

• Guy received 200 Monk Points and added them to the Marrow Cleansing Classic, gaining new insights into the art.
• Abbot Huiyan observed Guy's enlightenment and admired him as the monks' doubts gave way to reverence.
• Guy explained the four ultimate arts and promised to teach additional methods to monks who mastered them or reached cultivation bottlenecks.
• Huiyan told the monks that Fahai's deep Buddha-nature explained his appointment as Hall Head, and Guy advised them to cultivate no more than two arts at a time.
• Guy scheduled daily classes at Listening Wind Cliff beginning the next day and invited the monks to ask questions about the four arts.
• The monks eagerly asked Guy for guidance, while Huiyan watched the lively lesson and quietly departed.

Guy continued teaching and cultivating as head of the Fire Temple's Martial Monk Hall, while his increasingly monk-like appearance surprised Fugaku Uchiha when he arrived from Konoha. The chapter ended as a pregnant woman and a young black-haired boy approached the hall.

• Guy recited the [Golden Bell Shield] formulas to his disciples while wearing the Fire Cloud Kasaya and White Jade Demon-Subduing Prayer Beads.
• A young monk told Guy that an honored guest from Konoha had arrived and that Abbot Huiyan wanted him in the main hall.
• Guy recognized Fugaku Uchiha, who was astonished by Guy's monk attire and learned that he headed the Martial Monk Hall.
• A pregnant woman and a quiet young black-haired boy approached from deeper within the hall.

Guy met Uchiha Fugaku, Mikoto, and Itachi at Fire Temple and worried that, without Shisui’s guidance, Itachi could be led astray. He invited Itachi to see the Iron-Arm Panda in the back mountain, leaving Fugaku, Mikoto, and Abbot Huiyan in the main hall.

• Uchiha Fugaku introduced Mikoto to Guy, and Guy greeted Itachi as an old friend.
• Seeing Itachi’s serious expression, Guy recalled that Shisui had guided him through his postwar confusion but was now believed dead.
• Guy worried that Madara or Black Zetsu might manipulate Itachi and decided to find a way to guide him.
• After learning that Ebisu taught Itachi, Guy asked whether he had heard about the summon beasts of Giant Beast Forest.
• Guy invited Itachi to see the recovering Iron-Arm Panda, and Fugaku and Mikoto gave their permission.
• Guy led Itachi toward Listening Wind Cliff while Fugaku, Mikoto, and Abbot Huiyan stayed in the main hall.

Guy brought Itachi to the back mountain, where Iron Arm cultivated the Fire Temple’s Golden Bell Shield. Seeing the panda’s scars made Itachi wonder about sacrifice, while Guy considered how to guide him and settled on a drastic approach.

• Guy and Itachi walked to Listening Wind Cliff, where monks greeted Guy as Chief Fahai.
• Guy showed Itachi Iron Arm meditating and explained that the panda was cultivating the Golden Bell Shield.
• Itachi noticed Iron Arm’s scars and questioned whether its sacrifices had been worth it.
• Guy reflected that he could not sincerely teach Itachi the Will of Fire or reform him with Buddhist teachings.
• Guy watched Itachi and decided that he might as well slash him once.

Itachi watched Guy and Chiriku demonstrate the Fire Temple’s blade techniques, while his observation helped Chiriku understand why he struggled with the Precept-Breaking Blade. Guy then displayed the power of both techniques and began using the Mercy Blade on an eager monk.

• Itachi noticed the warrior monks practicing with precept knives and learned that the Fire Temple had ordered them from the Uchiha Clan.
• Guy asked Chiriku to demonstrate the Mercy Blade and Precept-Breaking Blade for Itachi.
• Guy’s Precept-Breaking Blade struck Itachi with its power, and Itachi suggested that breaking the precepts might help someone grasp the technique.
• Chiriku realized that his adherence to the temple’s rules could be keeping him from understanding the Precept-Breaking Blade, but he hesitated to take a life.
• Guy unleashed a golden blade aura that split the distant clouds, then turned his attention to the gathered monks.
• The monks eagerly begged Guy to strike them with the Mercy Blade, and he chose an excited young monk and began the attack.

Guy unveiled a golden manifestation that fused compassion and wrath, then struck Itachi Uchiha with its blade without harming him. The manifestation shattered into golden light that covered Fire Temple and the surrounding mountain in a sacred glow.

• A young warrior monk experienced enlightenment after Guy used the Mercy Blade, and the other monks eagerly hoped to be struck next.
• Guy turned toward Itachi Uchiha and raised his blade while Chiriku watched, sensing an unfamiliar mix of compassion and killing intent.
• Guy summoned a towering golden manifestation, and the monks realized it surpassed the known True Self Compassion Aspect and Wrathful Killing Aspect.
• The golden manifestation formed a huge blade and swung it through Itachi, who remained unharmed as the blade shattered into golden motes.
• The manifestation crumbled, and its golden light spread across the clouds and Fire Temple, making the mountain resemble a golden sanctuary.

Guy struck Itachi with the Du'e Blade, a slash that stirred the heart without imposing a path on its target, hoping to keep the boy from falling into darkness. Itachi emerged unharmed and thoughtful, while Fugaku arrived and wondered whether Guy’s golden manifestation resembled an Uchiha ability.

• Guy explained that his conflicting killing intent and compassion had awakened the Du'e Blade, which could leave its target peaceful without dictating what they should believe.
• Itachi recovered from the slash and contemplated his open hands and the fading golden clouds.
• Fugaku Uchiha, Abbot Huiyan, and Fire Temple elders arrived, and Chiriku described Guy’s demonstration while omitting Itachi’s remark and the unusual blade intent.
• Fugaku checked that Itachi was unharmed and questioned whether Guy’s golden giant resembled an Uchiha ability.
• Fugaku scrutinized Guy but saw nothing unusual and wondered if he had been mistaken.

Guy escorted the Uchiha family from the Fire Temple after his display of Buddhist power drew worshippers, who began calling the temple the Golden Mountain Temple. As Huiyan rebuked Guy for his attachment to appearances, Guy worried about the Uchiha clan’s future, the coming Nine-Tails Attack, and whether he could prepare in time.

• Guy apologized to Fugaku Uchiha for the disturbance, and Fugaku responded with guarded politeness.
• Guy speculated that the man in black would approach the Uchiha only after the Nine-Tails Attack and the clan’s marginalization.
• Worshippers gathered at the main hall, mistook the golden light for Buddha’s manifestation, and began calling the Fire Temple the Golden Mountain Temple.
• Huiyan credited Guy’s Buddhist teachings for the light, while Guy privately joked about snake demons and thought of Orochimaru.
• Fugaku Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha departed, and Guy considered the clan’s likely rebellion, Danzo, the Nine-Tails Attack, and a Root target Shisui and Itachi might otherwise have saved.
• Huiyan appeared beside Guy and told him that he was attached to appearances.