Recaps

Orochimaru agreed to help Guy train his secret technique, but tried to pass off a weak summon as a worthy opponent. Guy killed the Three-Headed Snake in one strike and forced Orochimaru to summon a more suitable white snake.

• Orochimaru emerged from the little white snake and agreed to Guy's demand.
• Orochimaru summoned the Three-Headed Snake, hoping its imposing appearance would satisfy Guy.
• Guy severed all three of the Three-Headed Snake's heads with one lightning-fast strike.
• Guy accused Orochimaru of trying to fool him and demanded a summon at least as good as Manda.
• Orochimaru summoned a slender white snake, and Guy approved of the choice.

Might Guy defeated the Jade-Scaled Serpent by using Lion's Roar to bypass its powerful scales, then absorbed it into his Heavenly Dragon Mark. He turned back to Orochimaru and invited him to continue their fight.

• Might Guy struck the Jade-Scaled Serpent, but its scales dispersed the force and remained unbroken.
• Orochimaru claimed Guy could not defeat Jade Scale, while secretly trying to reassure the serpent and preserve his chance to escape.
• Might Guy used Partial Multi-Size Technique to hold the serpent's jaws open and unleashed Lion's Roar, severely damaging its internal organs.
• Might Guy swung the helpless serpent into the air, and his golden dragon swallowed it whole.
• The Heavenly Dragon Mark advanced to 2/8, and Guy turned to Orochimaru and said, "Lord Orochimaru, let's continue."

Might Guy bargained with Orochimaru for more summoned snakes to consume and strengthen his [Heavenly Dragon Mark]. After agreeing on six, Guy insisted that Orochimaru summon Manda and hinted at a palm technique descending from the heavens.

• Guy demanded more summoned snakes, and he and Orochimaru bargained until they agreed on six.
• Orochimaru warned Guy that Manda was powerful and could escape to Ryūchi Cave if Guy failed to kill or control it immediately.
• Guy decided to summon Manda before Ryūchi Cave became more alert and Orochimaru agreed to call it.
• Guy interrupted Orochimaru before the summoning and said he needed to prepare to deal with Manda.
• Guy asked Orochimaru whether he had heard of a palm technique that descended from the heavens.

Might Guy used the Sixth Gate to unleash a gigantic golden palm strike from the sky and crushed Manda’s head, killing him instantly. Orochimaru abandoned his attempt to flee, and the chapter ended with him returning to the crater to find Manda dead.

• Guy warned Orochimaru to summon Manda and not run away when the strike came.
• Guy opened the Sixth Gate, summoned Ninkame in midair, and used his shell to launch himself higher.
• Orochimaru realized Guy’s golden palm was descending and summoned Manda rather than flee.
• Guy’s palm struck Manda’s head and buried his upper body in a massive crater.
• Orochimaru returned to the crater and saw that Manda’s head had been crushed and he was dead.

Guy consumed Manda after killing him, but Orochimaru could no longer summon Ryūchi Cave’s usual snakes. Guy urged Orochimaru to summon one of the outcasts instead, and a colossal crimson-scaled snake appeared as Guy prepared his golden palm attack.

• Guy’s golden dragon devoured Manda’s corpse, filling his Heavenly Dragon Mark further.
• Orochimaru told Guy that Ryūchi Cave had temporarily severed his connection to its main snakes after three summons died.
• Guy decided to summon the strongest disobedient or exiled snake, despite Orochimaru warning that the White Snake Sage could threaten them.
• Guy called Ninkame over and used him to launch himself skyward and form his enormous golden palm.
• Orochimaru summoned a hundred-meter crimson-scaled snake larger than Manda.

Guy fought Garaga, using his knowledge of the snake’s petrifying ability to land a devastating blow. As Guy kept Garaga occupied, Orochimaru escaped with Guren, Gozu, and Nurari, leaving Guy focused on defeating the giant snake.

• Guy recognized Garaga, and Garaga petrified the outer layer of Guy’s golden palm before shattering it with his tail.
• Guy’s concealed second palm struck Garaga’s rear body, nearly severing it and leaving the snake badly injured.
• Garaga refused to retreat and charged Guy in a rage, and the two resumed their fight.
• Orochimaru seized Guren and fled from the battlefield, followed by Gozu and Nurari.
• Guy glanced toward the fleeing group, then focused on taking down Garaga and strengthening the [Heavenly Dragon Mark].

Guy fought the wounded Garaga and avoided opening the Seventh Gate by testing a new Lightning Division technique. He summoned a mighty Thunder God, whose arrival terrified Garaga, though Guy’s summon was not yet complete.

• Garaga attacked Guy in a frenzy, and Guy struck his crimson scales with Vajra Palm, finding them too durable to break through.
• Guy rejected using Lion's Roar or opening the Seventh Gate and decided to test his newly developed Lightning Division ability.
• Guy summoned a Lightning Dragon, which attacked Garaga and drew the snake's attention.
• Guy gathered chakra and summoned the Thunder God from a spatial rift.
• The Thunder God roared, the Lightning Dragon returned to its side, and Garaga stared at the new arrival in terror.

Guy used his Thunder God form to overpower Garaga, then had the golden dragon devour the giant serpent. The Heavenly Dragon Mark advanced to 4/8 and activated its second form, the Dragon-Pattern Golden Seal.

• Guy's Thunder God seized Garaga and battered him with lightning and fire, breaking his scales and wounding him.
• Guy summoned lightning from the clouds, which the Thunder God absorbed and shaped into a Thunder Spike and Thunder Hammer.
• The Thunder God pinned Garaga with the spike and hammered it into his forehead, paralyzing him with lightning.
• Guy sent the golden dragon to devour Garaga's body, senjutsu chakra, and life force until nothing remained.
• The golden dragon returned to Guy, and the Heavenly Dragon Mark reached 4/8 and activated the Dragon-Pattern Golden Seal.

Guy discovered that his Dragon-Pattern Golden Seal could greatly enhance the Kubikiribōchō, then searched Orochimaru’s underground base for children with unusual potential. He found a two-headed toddler and recognized Sakon and Ukon.

• Guy used the Dragon-Pattern Golden Seal to strengthen the Kubikiribōchō and split a massive boulder with a casual swing.
• Guy remembered his search for children captured by Orochimaru and returned to the hidden entrance of the underground base.
• Guy freed the prisoners in the base, but none of them seemed to have the special talents he sought.
• Guy searched the deepest laboratory and found a bound toddler on an experimental table.
• The toddler grew a second head, and Guy recognized the twins as Sakon and Ukon.

Guy rescued Sakon and Ukon from Orochimaru's laboratory and sent them toward Konoha with Ninkame, hoping their unusual bodies could help Kabuto develop a Sage Body. After earning Monk Points for changing their fate, Guy searched for another way to gain the nine points he needed to advance the Marrow Cleansing Classic.

• Guy found Sakon and Ukon in Orochimaru's laboratory, freed the conjoined brothers, and carried them outside.
• Ninkame reported that Orochimaru's people had left, and Guy asked him to take Sakon and Ukon to Konoha Orphanage while Guy escorted them toward the Land of Fire border.
• After two days without an attack, Guy placed a Dragon-Pattern Golden Seal on Ninkame's shell to protect him and the brothers on their journey to Konoha.
• Guy received 150 Monk Points for changing Sakon and Ukon's fate, bringing his total to 991—nine short of advancing the Marrow Cleansing Classic.
• Guy considered searching for Jirobo but decided it would be too difficult, then thought of another possible target and exclaimed that he had an idea.

Guy traveled to Hell Valley in the Land of Hot Water, where the Blood Pool Clan was imprisoned under Uchiha surveillance. He entered the valley intending to take Chino away and change the tragic path awaiting her.

• Guy reached a cliff overlooking Hell Valley, a valley filled with naturally formed corrosive red mist.
• Guy recalled that the Blood Pool Clan had been exiled from the Land of Lightning and guarded by the Uchiha Clan because of their powerful Ketsuryūgan.
• Guy learned that Moyochi En would eventually massacre the Blood Pool Clan after its leader imprisoned and mistreated his wife, then raise Chino to hate the Uchiha.
• Guy resolved to take Chino away from the cycle of hatred so he could earn monk points and break through in the Marrow Cleansing Classic.
• Guy entered Hell Valley through the dark red mist.

Guy entered Hell Valley and found the starving Blood Pool Clan searching for poisonous mushrooms while still fearing the Uchiha clan’s abandoned guard camp. He located Chino’s isolated house at the edge of the village and saw a woman hanging inside.

• Guy found poisonous red mushrooms near the abandoned Uchiha camp and learned they caused numbness.
• Guy watched Blood Pool Clan members fight over the mushrooms and realized they avoided the former guard camp out of fear.
• Guy reached the Blood Pool Clan village and estimated that only a few hundred people remained.
• Guy found Chino’s shabby, isolated stone house and saw a woman hanging from a beam inside.

Guy saved Chino’s mother from a suicide attempt, and Chino awakened the Blood Pool Clan’s Ketsuryūgan from the shock. After Chino’s mother begged him to take them away from Hell Valley, Guy accepted a hidden quest to change the Blood Pool Clan’s fate.

• Guy found Chino’s mother hanging and discovered that she still had a faint spark of life.
• Guy performed CPR and used yang release chakra to revive Chino’s mother while Chino watched in terror.
• Chino’s mother regained consciousness and found her daughter awakening the Ketsuryūgan.
• Chino’s mother begged Guy to take them away from Hell Valley.
• Guy accepted the hidden quest to change the Blood Pool Clan’s predetermined fate.

Guy saved Xingyi and Chino in Hell Valley and planned to change the Blood Pool Clan’s fate by recruiting Moyochi En. When Moyochi En appeared near the village, Guy returned to Xingyi with an unusual request.

• Guy gave Xingyi and Chino rice balls, treated Xingyi’s injuries, and promised to return soon.
• Guy decided to seek out Moyochi En, hoping the man could help improve the Blood Pool Clan’s future.
• Guy spotted a furtive figure approaching the village and suspected it was Moyochi En, so he turned back to stage a scene.
• Guy asked the bewildered Xingyi to hang herself once more.

Guy staged Xingyi’s apparent death so she could hear how Moyochi En reacted, hoping to expose the misunderstanding between them. En arrived, believed Xingyi was dead, and vowed revenge on the Blood Pool Clan before Guy revealed himself and asked whether she could still be saved.

• Guy told Xingyi that Moyochi En had come looking for her and persuaded her to pretend to be dead so she could hear his true feelings.
• Xingyi agreed to Guy’s plan, and Chino pretended to sleep in exchange for the promise of another rice ball.
• Guy placed Xingyi in suspended animation, tied her to the ceiling beam, and hid as En entered the room.
• En found Xingyi hanging, awakened his Ketsuryūgan in despair, and vowed to destroy the Blood Pool Clan and eventually join her.
• En noticed Chino and promised to give their daughter a good life, while Xingyi silently shed a tear.
• Guy emerged from hiding, identified himself as a doctor, and asked En whether Xingyi could still be saved.

Guy saved Xingyi after Moyochi En found her, and she and Moyochi En reunited and learned the Blood Pool Clan's head had kept them apart. Guy urged them not to flee without helping the clan's innocent members, and proposed that Moyochi En become the new clan head.

• Guy used medical ninjutsu to save Xingyi, and Moyochi En embraced her when she woke.
• Xingyi blamed Moyochi En for coming too late, and he explained that the clan head had stopped him from seeing her and their daughter, Chino.
• Xingyi revealed that she and Chino had lived in poverty despite Moyochi En believing they were cared for, and the couple decided to leave the Blood Pool Clan.
• Guy challenged them to consider the ordinary clansmen still suffering in the clan and urged them to confront those responsible rather than flee.
• Guy offered to help Moyochi En purge the clan's leaders and lead its innocent members to safety by becoming the new clan head.
• Moyochi En considered Guy's proposal and began to see how he might lead the Blood Pool Clan after the Uchiha Clan's rebellion.

Guy helped Moyochi En see that the Blood Pool Clan chief maintained control by withholding supplies and keeping the clansmen desperate. Guy proposed exposing the chief’s lies to shatter his authority and said he already had an idea for how to begin.

• Guy told Moyochi En that killing the clan chief would not fix the Blood Pool Clan’s deeper problems, then asked him to explain the clan’s history.
• Moyochi En recounted his harsh childhood, his flight from the clan, and his return with Xingyi, only to be rejected, imprisoned, and extorted.
• Moyochi En said he brought supplies to the clan each year, but his family and the other clansmen still went hungry.
• Guy reasoned that the clan chief had withheld the supplies to keep the clansmen dependent and preserve his authority over them.
• Guy told Moyochi En that they needed to expose the chief’s lies and destroy the divine authority he held in the clansmen’s minds.
• Guy looked toward the clan chief’s central stone house and said he already had an idea.

Guy and Moyochi En uncovered how Moyochi Chinosuke and Moyochi Jiro hoarded the supplies En had brought back while the Blood Pool Clan starved. After Xingyi was publicly humiliated and given two poisonous mushrooms, En confronted the clan chief about the supplies.

• Moyochi En gave Xingyi the food he had brought, but Guy took it to avoid attracting suspicion before they left.
• Guy and Moyochi En found Moyochi Chinosuke and Moyochi Jiro emerging from a hidden underground chamber, where En’s supplies had been stored.
• Moyochi En saw that the clan chief and his son had hoarded food, clean water, and other goods while the clan went hungry.
• Guy told Xingyi to beg the clan chief for food as a way to expose his treatment of her, and she went to his house with Chino.
• Moyochi Chinosuke tossed Xingyi two poisonous red mushrooms and ordered her to leave, prompting Moyochi En to step out and confront him about the supplies.

Moyochi En exposed Moyochi Chinosuke for hoarding the clan’s supplies, and Guy helped him confront the chief. The clan discovered Chinosuke’s secret stash of clean water and found Moyochi Jiro bathing in it, leaving the chief’s family exposed and the furious clan ready to react.

• Moyochi En dumped food in front of the Blood Pool Clan and accused Moyochi Chinosuke of keeping the far larger supplies he had delivered over the years.
• Moyochi Chinosuke attacked Moyochi En with the Blood Dragon Technique, but Guy destroyed the technique, injured Chinosuke, and disabled him.
• Guy led the clan into Chinosuke’s house and revealed a hidden basement beneath a stone slab.
• The clan found Moyochi Jiro bathing in a barrel of clear water, and its members reacted with shock and fury.
• Moyochi Jiro saw Guy dragging his disabled father into the basement and asked in terror why everyone was there, while Moyochi Chinosuke despaired.

Moyochi En exposed how Moyochi Chinosuke and Moyochi Jiro had withheld the supplies he sent to the Blood Pool Clan, then distributed the stores to the clansmen. After beheading both men, he declared that he would lead anyone willing to follow him out of Hell Valley.

• Moyochi En told the clansmen that Moyochi Chinosuke and Moyochi Jiro had embezzled the supplies he sent, including clean water used by Moyochi Jiro for bathing.
• Moyochi En and Xingyi distributed food and water to the clansmen, who apologized for their past resentment and mistreatment of Xingyi.
• Moyochi En condemned Moyochi Chinosuke for abusing his authority and threatening his family, then beheaded him and Moyochi Jiro.
• Moyochi En promised to lead every willing member of the Blood Pool Clan out of Hell Valley.

Guy persuaded the Blood Pool clansmen that he and Moyochi En could defeat the Uchiha Clan and lead them out of Hell Valley. The clansmen accepted Moyochi En as their new clan head, and he and Guy set off to confront the Uchiha.

• Moyochi En announced that he would lead the Blood Pool Clan out of Hell Valley, but the clansmen feared the Uchiha and doubted they could escape.
• Moyochi En pointed to Guy as a powerful ally, and Guy promised to face the Uchiha with him.
• Guy proposed Moyochi En as the new clan head, and the clansmen quickly voiced their support.
• Moyochi En accepted the role and vowed to drive back the Uchiha and lead the clan into the sunlight.
• Guy and Moyochi En headed toward the exit of Hell Valley while the clansmen watched with hope and worry.

Moyochi En asked Guy to take in the Blood Pool Clan and help establish a force of their own. After learning that Orochimaru had ordered En to gather information about him, Guy accepted the clan’s pledge and decided to build a new force.

• Guy used flames and dragon techniques to stage a distant battle, keeping the Blood Pool Clan from investigating while he spoke with Moyochi En.
• Xingyi stopped the clansmen from going to help, explaining that En wanted to face the situation alone and would lead them out if he succeeded.
• Moyochi En knelt before Guy and asked him to take in the Blood Pool Clan, but Guy initially said he had no home or base to offer.
• En recognized Guy as Konoha’s rogue ninja and revealed that Orochimaru had asked him to watch Guy and gather information.
• En proposed that Guy establish his own force, with the Blood Pool Clan pledging to follow him.
• Guy decided that building a new force could help the clan and others without a place to belong, and accepted En’s request.

Guy staged a battle with Moyochi En to convince the Blood Pool Clan that the Uchiha had been driven away, then led the clan out of Hell Valley. After reaching safety, Guy decided to take them somewhere to establish a village of their own.

• Moyochi En pledged allegiance to Guy, who promised to protect the Blood Pool Clan and staged a destructive clash with him to make their escape look convincing.
• Guy and Moyochi En emerged from the smoke, claimed they had driven off the Uchiha Clan, and urged the Blood Pool Clan to leave Hell Valley immediately.
• Moyochi En stopped the clansmen from picking poisonous mushrooms and promised them rice and clean water once they were out.
• Moyochi En led all 338 Blood Pool Clan members through a safe route and out of Hell Valley's dark red mist.
• The Blood Pool Clan celebrated their escape and asked Moyochi En where they would go; he deferred to Guy, who led them away to establish a village.

Moyochi En secured the Land of Rice Fields’ approval and funding to establish a shinobi village, and Guy led the Blood Pool Clan to a mountain he chose as their new home. Guy named the mountain Spirit Mountain, the village Hidden Spirit Village, and renamed the clan the Yaksha Clan.

• Moyochi En received the Land of Rice Fields’ official approval and ten million ryo to establish a shinobi village.
• Guy and Moyochi En told the Blood Pool Clan they could settle in the Land of Rice Fields, and the clan prepared to move.
• Guy led the clan to a scenic mountain with abundant water and resources and chose it as the village site.
• Guy decided the village would be built in layers along the mountain’s slopes, making the mountain its centerpiece.
• Guy named the mountain Spirit Mountain and the village Hidden Spirit Village, then renamed the Blood Pool Clan the Yaksha Clan.

Guy renamed the Blood Pool Clan’s future home Spirit Mountain and demonstrated his overwhelming strength by severing its summit with one slash. The clansmen were left in awe and fearful reverence as the mountain peak crashed into the clearing.

• Moyochi En urged the Blood Pool clansmen to accept Guy’s arrangements and abandon their old clan name, and they submitted without openly objecting.
• Guy summoned Ninkame, released the Executioner’s Blade, and used the golden dragon mark to empower it.
• Guy opened the Sixth Gate and leapt to the mountain summit with the enhanced blade.
• Guy unleashed the Precept-Breaking One Strike Slash, cutting cleanly through the mountain beneath its peak.
• The severed summit slid into the clearing, leaving the Blood Pool clansmen, Moyochi En, and Ninkame stunned by Guy’s power.