Recaps

Guy taught the children of Spirit Mountain the Eighteen Arhat Forms, assigning stances suited to their abilities and demonstrating each technique. After imparting twelve forms, he called Might Nosuke and Sora forward to learn the Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Taming Stance.

• Guy explained that the Eighteen Arhat Forms would help the children protect Spirit Mountain and began teaching them the first stance.
• Guy taught Ziro the Lion's Roar Stance, Kimimaro the Staff-Holding Stance, and Haku the Meditation Stance.
• Guy assigned the Pagoda-Bearing Stance to Sand Wukong, the Dharma-Preaching Stance to Chino, and the Wish-Granting Stance to Karin.
• Guy taught Tayuya the Bell-Shaking Stance, Kidomaru the Staff-Hanging Stance, Jirobo the Alms-Bowl-Holding Stance, and Yota the Contemplation Stance, then demonstrated more forms for the others.
• Kakuzu and Moyochi En watched Guy's demonstrations as he imparted twelve of the eighteen stances.
• Guy called Might Nosuke and Sora forward and announced that he would teach them the Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Taming Stance.

Guy taught Sora the Tiger-Subduing Stance and Might Nosuke the Dragon-Subduing Form, then guided the children as they practiced on Spirit Mountain. Their training released an unusually powerful stream of incense faith that flowed into the Incense Statue, which cracked.

• Guy demonstrated the Tiger-Subduing Stance to Sora, who watched with growing determination.
• Guy taught Might Nosuke the Dragon-Subduing Form, and Might Nosuke imagined using it to defeat Naruto.
• The children divided into groups and practiced while Guy corrected their forms and helped them remember the stances.
• Guy noticed golden incense faith appearing around the children and gathering into a stream toward the Incense Statue.
• The Incense Statue shuddered as the faith entered it, then cracked from its top downward.

Guy discovered that the Incense Statue had become a White Jade Statue, granting him the ability to teleport to Spirit Mountain by spending faith power. With this new safeguard in place, he prepared to leave and pursue missions, strengthen Hidden Spirit Village, and find the remaining members of the Eighteen Arhats.

• The stone statue shed its outer layer and revealed a jade statue resembling Guy, which informed him it could teleport him to its location without a distance limit by using faith power.
• Guy realized the statue gave him a fixed-point teleportation ability and believed it would let him return to Spirit Mountain instantly if a powerful enemy attacked.
• Guy linked the statue's advancement to the fourteen children's training and faith, and decided he could leave Spirit Mountain without worrying as much about its safety.
• Guy reviewed his Indestructible Vajra Technique proficiency and Monk Points, then considered changing gifted youths' fates or saving entire clans to earn more points.
• Guy resolved to travel the Shinobi World to find new allies and the four youths still needed to complete the Eighteen Arhats, and planned to leave once the children could train by themselves.

Guy reviewed Spirit Mountain’s growth, left Moyochi En in charge, and set out for Yugakure before continuing to the Tsuchigumo Clan. He planned to approach the clan because of two members he wanted to recruit and its forbidden object.

• Guy inspected Spirit Mountain’s thriving farms, trade, and buildings, while considering how the village could secure more income.
• Guy gave Moyochi En three completed manuscripts to deliver to the Land of Hot Water Publishing House and agreed to visit Takizawa Sakurako about publication issues.
• Guy told Moyochi En to manage Spirit Mountain and contact him through the All Beings Statue if needed, then watched the fourteen youngsters train before leaving.
• Guy departed Spirit Mountain with Kakuzu, Kagero, and Moyochi En seeing him off, and headed toward Yugakure.
• Guy decided his real destination was the Tsuchigumo Clan, whose members and inherited forbidden object interested him.

Guy visited the Land of Hot Water Publishing House, where Takizawa Sakurako asked him to sign a thousand collector’s-edition books to boost sales. He agreed, delivered the manuscript for his next novel, and struggled to keep his composure while Sakurako helped him sign.

• Guy entered Yugakure and showed a special card to a publishing-house employee, who hurried to bring Takizawa Sakurako to him.
• Takizawa Sakurako welcomed Guy and proposed that he sign a thousand special editions of the Young Guy trilogy to boost sales.
• Guy gave Takizawa Sakurako the manuscript for Kunoichi Bai Jie and agreed to sign the books.
• Takizawa Sakurako carried the thousand books into the office and helped Guy open and arrange them.
• Guy signed the books while Sakurako repeatedly leaned and brushed close to him, leaving him inwardly tormented.

Guy traveled to Fūraibō to seek the Tsuchigumo Clan’s forbidden Fury Release, hoping his powerful body and teleportation could let him use it beyond its normal limits. He met clan chief En no Gyōja and revealed his interest, leaving the old man wary.

• Guy reviewed Fury Release’s devastating power and its history as a mutually destructive technique that the Tsuchigumo Clan could only charge for about eighteen hundred seconds.
• Guy approached Fūraibō and told a guard that Tathagata, leader of Spirit Mountain, wished to meet the village chief.
• The guard brought Guy into the fortress after En no Gyōja agreed to see him.
• Guy met En no Gyōja and bluntly said he had come for Fury Release.
• En no Gyōja studied Guy and remarked that he was a straightforward man.

Guy confronted En no Gyōja about the Tsuchigumo Clan’s forbidden artifact, exposing that it was still with the clan and had been placed inside Hotaru. En no Gyōja attacked, but Guy emerged unharmed from the explosion and prepared to fight the surrounding clansmen.

• En no Gyōja claimed the forbidden artifact had been entrusted to Hiruzen Sarutobi and told Guy to seek Fury Release in Konoha.
• Guy revealed that he knew the artifact was inside Hotaru, En no Gyōja’s granddaughter, and pointed toward her hiding place.
• En no Gyōja used the Word Binding Technique to launch a slash at Guy, who shattered it with a punch.
• En no Gyōja wrote the characters for “Flame” and “Explode,” blasting apart the house as he and the clansmen retreated and surrounded the site.
• Guy walked out of the flames unharmed and told the Tsuchigumo clansmen he would have to defeat them before they could talk.

Guy defeated the Tsuchigumo Clan without killing anyone and persuaded En no Gyōja to consider moving the clan to Spirit Mountain by offering real protection and support. En no Gyōja agreed to inspect Spirit Mountain, while Guy proposed removing the Fury Release object sealed inside Hotaru.

• Guy carried Hotaru to En no Gyōja after defeating the Tsuchigumo Clan, leaving its people alive but unable to fight.
• Guy demanded that the clan join Spirit Mountain and argued that Konoha's alliance offered little protection against stronger forces.
• Guy promised the clan permanent homes, supplies, training, and medical care, and explained that Fury Release's cost had already claimed En no Gyōja's son.
• After hearing his clanspeople urge him to consider leaving, En no Gyōja agreed to visit Spirit Mountain before deciding whether to join.
• Guy asked to remove the Fury Release object inside Hotaru, and En no Gyōja worried whether he could do so safely.

Guy removed the Fury Release Device embedded in Hotaru’s back and healed the wound. Hotaru was left free of the device, while Guy kept the artifact for further investigation.

• Guy reassured Hotaru that she could protect the Tsuchigumo Clan without the device, and En no Gyōja silently gave her permission to follow him.
• Hotaru lay facedown as Guy examined the device and learned from her how the Fury Release Forbidden Technique stored and released senjutsu chakra.
• Guy used a Chakra Scalpel to remove the device, carefully sealing and reconnecting Hotaru’s blood vessels.
• Guy placed the removed device on an iron tray and used the Mystical Palm Technique to heal Hotaru’s wound.

Guy removed the Fury Release Device from Hotaru and restored her scarred back, then offered the Tsuchigumo Clan a place at Spirit Mountain. He left without earning Monk Points, suspecting rewards required sincere help and willing allegiance, and headed toward his next destination with the device.

• Guy finished repairing Hotaru's back, sealed the Fury Release Device in a scroll, and woke her.
• Hotaru saw that her back was smooth and scar-free, then tearfully thanked Guy.
• Guy asked whether Utakata or other strange outsiders had visited, and Hotaru said they had not.
• Guy told En no Gyōja and the Tsuchigumo clanspeople they could visit or join Spirit Mountain, promising protection and training.
• En no Gyōja agreed to visit Spirit Mountain, and Guy departed without receiving Monk Points.
• Guy suspected the system rewarded sincere help and willing allegiance rather than force, then hurried toward his next destination with the Fury Release Device.

Guy entered Iwagakure disguised as a merchant and learned that the young Deidara was setting off explosions on his own land. He found Deidara at a rubble field and approached him, confident that his Fury Release Device would persuade the boy to come with him.

• Guy entered Iwagakure using merchant papers and a travel permit from the Hidden Spirit Village's merchant association.
• After hearing an explosion, Guy learned from a passerby that orphaned Deidara spent his dwindling inheritance making explosions on his family's land.
• Guy headed to the rubble field at the edge of the village despite a passerby's warning about Deidara's blasts.
• Guy found the seven-year-old Deidara testing clay explosives and celebrating as a rock burst apart.
• Guy picked up his Fury Release Device and walked toward Deidara, confident he could get the boy to come with him.

Guy challenged Deidara’s clay explosions and took him outside Iwagakure to demonstrate a Fury Release Device. He used Sage Mode to charge it and unleashed a spectacular blast, leaving Deidara transfixed by what he saw as the ultimate art.

• Guy took Deidara’s Clay Spider and detonated it in his bare hand without being hurt, stunning the boy.
• Guy invited Deidara to witness a “super invincible ultimate mega-explosion,” and Deidara followed him out of Iwagakure.
• At a remote wasteland, Guy revealed the Fury Release Device and entered Sage Mode to charge it rapidly with natural energy.
• Guy controlled the device’s power and threw it into the sky as Deidara watched its light gather into a blazing sphere.
• Guy shouted that this was true art, and the Fury Release Device detonated in an enormous explosion.

Guy demonstrated the Fury Release Device to Deidara, whose fascination with its explosion persuaded him to follow Guy. After completing a hidden mission, Guy continued toward the home of a neglected clan in the Land of Earth.

• Guy detonated the Fury Release Device in an uninhabited wasteland, and its blast devastated the surrounding terrain.
• Deidara became entranced by the explosion, so Guy protected them both with the Golden Bell and stopped Deidara from rushing into the blast.
• Guy recovered the dormant device and promised to give it to Deidara if he came along and did well.
• Deidara agreed to follow Guy, and Guy received 200 Monk Points for changing Deidara's fate.
• Guy and Deidara set off toward the home of a neglected clan in the Land of Earth.

Guy brought Deidara to the remote Kamizuru Clan courtyard to recruit its remaining members for Spirit Mountain, initially claiming he had come to buy honey. He met Suzumebachi and her younger brothers, Kurobachi and Jibachi, and realized their parents were likely dead, leaving only four clan members.

• Guy identified the Kamizuru Clan as a neglected Iwagakure clan whose honeybee skills and honey he wanted for Spirit Mountain.
• Guy led Deidara to a remote courtyard near Iwagakure's outskirts, where honeybees patrolled under the Kamizuru Clan's Bee Manipulation Technique.
• Suzumebachi mistook Guy for a merchant seeking honey and let him into the courtyard.
• Kurobachi and Jibachi joined Suzumebachi and asked how much honey Guy wanted to buy.
• After hearing their grandmother coughing inside, Guy questioned Suzumebachi about the household and suspected she was lying about their parents being away.

Guy visited the Kamizuru Clan to taste their honey and examine Suzumebachi’s grandmother, then revealed that he was Tathagata, leader of Hidden Spirit Village, and invited the clan to join for their beekeeping. The grandmother refused, but Guy challenged her to consider the children’s future and the fate of the Kamizuru name.

• Suzumebachi showed Guy and Deidara the clan’s ninja bees and gave them honey, which both enjoyed and Guy recognized as unusually nourishing.
• Guy told Suzumebachi he wanted to examine her grandmother, diagnosed her with accumulated old injuries, and gave her an initial treatment with Yang Release Chakra.
• Guy revealed that he had come specifically to find the Kamizuru Clan, prompting Suzumebachi, Kurobachi, and Jibachi to grow wary of their disgraced surname.
• Guy identified himself as Tathagata, leader of Hidden Spirit Village, and invited the Kamizuru Clan to join so their beekeeping and honey could become a specialty industry.
• Suzumebachi’s grandmother declined, saying the clan wanted a peaceful, stable life, and Guy challenged her to consider the children’s future and the Kamizuru name.

Guy tried to persuade Grandma Jakuho and the remaining Kamizuru Clan to leave Iwagakure and join Spirit Mountain, promising to revive their name through honey sales and protect them from Ōnoki. After Guy left, Grandma and her grandchildren cautiously hoped that he meant what he said.

• Grandma Jakuho refused Guy’s offer, but Guy pointed out that the Kamizuru Clan had dwindled to four people and was forgotten in Iwagakure.
• Guy argued that the clan could not revive itself with its bee techniques alone and needed a powerful backer.
• Guy promised to sell Kamizuru honey across the Shinobi World and let the clan develop its techniques at Spirit Mountain.
• Guy assured Grandma Jakuho that Ōnoki could not threaten Spirit Mountain, and Grandma asked to discuss the offer with her grandchildren.
• Outside, Deidara asked whether Guy was stronger than Ōnoki, and Guy answered mysteriously before walking away.
• Suzumebachi told Grandma Jakuho she believed Guy meant his offer, and Grandma quietly agreed.

Guy planned to make Kamizuru honey a major Spirit Mountain industry and explained how he wanted ninjutsu to support ordinary people’s lives. Tsuchibachi agreed to lead the Kamizuru Clan in submitting to Spirit Mountain, and a system notification sounded.

• Guy recognized ninja bee honey’s potential as a valuable specialty product and planned to expand its production through the Kamizuru Clan.
• Guy reflected on how Spirit Mountain used ninja abilities to develop the land and improve people’s lives.
• Guy told the Kamizuru Clan he would promote their honey under their name and help them rebuild their fortunes.
• Tsuchibachi agreed to lead her clansmen in submitting to Spirit Mountain, and she and her grandchildren bowed to Guy.
• Guy helped Tsuchibachi up, and a system notification sounded.

Guy triggered two quests to restore the Kamizuru Clan's glory and devised a plan to promote the clan through his upcoming book. He also set Kakuzu and Kagero to work on another task and began considering how to recover the clan's ancient scroll.

• Guy triggered quests to make at least 100,000 people know the Kamizuru Clan and recover its ancient Insect Master Secret Technique Scroll.
• Guy used the Incense White Jade Statue to tell Moyochi En to find Editor-in-Chief Takizawa Sakurako in Yugakure and delay the release of his new book for revisions.
• Guy planned to promote Kamizuru honey in Kunoichi Bai Jie by linking it to beauty and skin care, hoping the book would quickly spread the clan's name.
• Guy gave Kagero and Kakuzu another assignment, then returned his attention to the quest panel and considered how to find the ancient scroll.

Guy offered to help the Kamizuru Clan recover its lost Ancient Insect Master Secret Techniques Scroll by seeking the Aburame Clan’s help to find a Rinkaichū. After sending a letter to Aburame Shikuroo, Guy suspected the scroll was inside Iwagakure and considered traveling there.

• Guy asked Tsuchibachi whether the Kamizuru Clan still possessed its ancient secret techniques, and she showed him the sole surviving fragment of their lost scroll.
• Guy asked Tsuchibachi and her grandchildren how they felt about the Aburame Clan, and they admitted they held no deep hatred despite their clan’s defeat.
• Guy proposed using a Rinkaichū to track down the lost scroll, and Tsuchibachi recognized the insect and agreed to try seeking the Aburame Clan’s help.
• Guy summoned Trust Turtle and sent a letter to Aburame Shikuroo asking for information about finding a Rinkaichū.
• Guy suspected the lost scroll was inside Iwagakure and considered making another trip there.

Guy learned from Shibi that Rinkaichū might be hatching at a location in the Land of Rice Fields, so he set out to find them with Suzumebachi. Ninkame had grown dramatically and escorted Tsuchibachi, Kurobachi, Jibachi, and Deidara toward Spirit Mountain with the Kamizuru Clan’s belongings.

• Guy received a letter confirming that the Aburame Clan had no Rinkaichū in reserve but had provided a likely hatching site.
• Guy chose Suzumebachi to accompany him and sent the others with Ninkame, leaving Deidara behind at first until he was told he could learn something fun if he behaved.
• Guy summoned Ninkame and discovered that the turtle had grown to three meters tall and five meters wide, which Ninkame attributed to the Heavenly Dragon Mark.
• The Kamizuru packed their belongings and loaded them onto Ninkame and a handcart for the journey toward the Land of Rice Fields.
• Suzumebachi secured the fragment of the Ancient Insect Master Secret Technique scroll, then left with Guy for the location Shibi had given him.

Guy met Shibi at Miasma Insect Valley, where they joined Suzumebachi to search for Rinkaichū. Suzumebachi’s Ninja Bees found a possible lead, and the three set off to investigate it.

• Guy arrived at Miasma Insect Valley and reunited warmly with Shibi, who had come to help him find Rinkaichū.
• Guy introduced Shibi to Suzumebachi, the young Kamizuru Clan head, and the two greeted each other despite their clans’ history.
• Shibi gave Guy a leaf to counter the valley’s poisonous miasma, while Suzumebachi used her own honey-based remedy.
• Shibi released scouting insects, and Suzumebachi summoned her Ninja Bees to help search for Rinkaichū.
• Suzumebachi’s bees found a possible target, and Shibi warned that it might be a Fake Bikōchū before the three followed her to check.

Guy, Shibi, and Suzumebachi searched Miasma Insect Valley for a Rinkaichū, growing closer as they fought dangerous insects together. Shibi finally found one entering its egg-laying period, and the group prepared to give its hatchlings Guy’s scent.

• Shibi identified a supposed Rinkaichū as a Fake Bikōchū, then shielded Suzumebachi when a huge swarm of venomous mosquitoes attacked.
• Suzumebachi summoned combat hornets and a giant honey-spraying bee, while Shibi’s insects helped defeat the mosquitoes.
• Over the next three days, Shibi and Suzumebachi fought through the valley together, including surviving an Earth Mole Cricket attack, and became more coordinated.
• Shibi found a real Rinkaichū and explained that its hatchlings had to smell Guy’s scent as soon as they emerged.
• Suzumebachi readied the Kamizuru Clan’s cloth-scroll fragment, Shibi set insects around the tree, and Guy concealed himself nearby as they waited.

Guy, Suzumebachi, and Shibi used a newly hatched Rinkaichū to trace the Ancient Insect Master Secret Techniques Scroll to Iwagakure. The insect led Guy and Suzumebachi to the Third Tsuchikage’s heavily guarded residence, where they realized the scroll’s scent was coming from inside.

• The Rinkaichū hatched, smelled the scroll fragment Shibi had cleaned, and flew off with Guy and Suzumebachi following it.
• Shibi wished Guy and Suzumebachi well before they pursued the Rinkaichū through the night toward the Land of Earth.
• After two days, Guy and Suzumebachi entered Iwagakure in disguise and let the Rinkaichū guide them through the village.
• The Rinkaichū stopped at the Third Tsuchikage’s residence, and Suzumebachi recognized the heavily guarded compound.

Guy infiltrated Ōnoki’s residence and recovered the Kamizuru Clan’s lost secret technique scroll along with valuables from a hidden vault. As he escaped, Ōnoki and his guard Akatsuchi ambushed him, leaving Guy facing the Third Tsuchikage’s deadly Dust Release.

• Guy concluded that Ōnoki had hidden the Kamizuru Clan’s lost scroll and told Suzumebachi to wait at the beekeeping grounds while he investigated alone.
• Guy watched Ōnoki’s residence for three days, then entered it at night and followed the Rinkaichū to a concealed underground chamber.
• Guy used the Stake-Walking Afterimage Step to bypass the chamber’s barrier and took the ancient scroll, armor, a large iron object, and valuables from Ōnoki’s private vault.
• As Guy emerged from the hidden passage, Ōnoki’s Dust Release destroyed the entrance, and Guy teleported clear of the attack.
• Guy saw Ōnoki hovering above him with Akatsuchi at his side, ready to fight.

Guy battled Ōnoki, Kitsuchi, and Akatsuchi after they caught him stealing, then dodged Ōnoki’s Dust Release and appeared behind the Tsuchikage with a lightning-charged strike aimed at his lower back. Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi realized the attack too late.

• Kitsuchi struck Guy with Earth Release: Rock Fist Technique, but Guy met the blow with Lightning Division: Lightning Fist, and both were driven back.
• Ōnoki accused Guy of being from the Land of Lightning and ordered Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi to capture him.
• Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi used Earth Release: Mountain Earth Technique to trap Guy while Ōnoki prepared Dust Release above him.
• Guy activated Seven Heavens Breathing and Lightning Armor, then charged at Ōnoki with One-Finger Nukite as Ōnoki fired Dust Release.
• Guy vanished just as the Dust Release struck and reappeared behind Ōnoki, aiming concentrated lightning at a point below his lower back.