Recaps

Guy fought Kirigakure after Black Zetsu framed him for Ao’s death, then became a rogue ninja and sought Orochimaru. After learning Lightning Division and draining the Eight-Headed Serpent with his Heavenly Dragon Mark, Guy captured Orochimaru and asked him to help complete his training.

• Guy revived Ao twice, but Kisame killed him as Black Zetsu’s role in the frame-up was exposed.
• Guy opened the Gate of Pain and defeated Yagura, taking the Six-Tails from him and sealing it inside Kimimaro.
• Minato told Guy that Konoha could not protect him from the nations demanding his capture, so Guy chose to become a rogue ninja and sent Kimimaro and Haku with Minato.
• Guy found Orochimaru’s hidden base, fought Guren and Gozu, and confronted Orochimaru over his human experiments.
• Guy asked Hashirama to teach him Senjutsu, and Hashirama instead guided him to awaken Lightning Division by combining Yang, lightning, and fire chakra.
• Guy and the resurrected Hokage restrained Orochimaru’s Eight-Headed Serpent, and Guy’s golden dragon drained it and advanced his Heavenly Dragon Mark to 1/8.
• Guy caught Orochimaru as he tried to escape and asked him to summon Ryūchi Cave snakes so Guy could devour them and complete his mark.

Guy defeated Orochimaru’s summoned snakes, rescued Sakon and Ukon, and changed the Blood Pool Clan’s fate by exposing its leader and leading the clan out of Hell Valley. He helped Moyochi En establish Hidden Spirit Village and renamed the Blood Pool Clan the Yaksha Clan, then stunned the new settlers by cutting off a mountain summit.

• Guy defeated the summoned snakes, including Manda and Garaga, and advanced the Heavenly Dragon Mark to 4/8.
• Guy freed Sakon and Ukon from Orochimaru’s laboratory and arranged for Ninkame to take them toward Konoha.
• Guy entered Hell Valley, revived Xingyi, and learned that Moyochi En’s family and the Blood Pool Clan were trapped in hardship.
• Guy helped Moyochi En discover that Moyochi Chinosuke and Moyochi Jiro had stolen the clan’s supplies, and En killed the two men after their crimes were exposed.
• Guy supported Moyochi En as the new clan head and agreed to form a force with the Blood Pool Clan under his protection.
• Moyochi En led all 338 clan members out of Hell Valley, and Guy guided them to the Land of Rice Fields to establish a village.
• Guy named the settlement Hidden Spirit Village, renamed the Blood Pool Clan the Yaksha Clan, and cut through the mountain beneath its summit with the Executioner’s Blade.

Guy established the Yaksha Clan at Spirit Mountain, built Hidden Spirit Village, and clashed with Shisui over his plan to impose peace through Kotoamatsukami. After Shisui escaped, Guy strengthened his village and made contact with Obito, setting up cooperation with the Uchiha Clan.

• Guy named the Yaksha Clan’s home Great Leiyin Temple and declared that they would call him Tathagata.
• Guy broke free of Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami, gained the Glazed Immaculate Body and Senjutsu Chakra, and began developing the All Beings Statue as a spiritual anchor for Hidden Spirit Village.
• Guy defeated Kakuzu’s attack in Yugakure, revealed his identity, and secured Kakuzu’s allegiance and a large sum of ryo.
• Guy returned to Spirit Mountain with supplies, named Kakuzu and Moyochi En its first guardians, and ordered them to develop the village and recruit refugees.
• Shisui revealed his plan to use Kotoamatsukami to give everyone the Will of Fire, but Guy refused and battled Shisui’s Complete Body Susanoo until Shisui threatened to use Izanagi and escaped.
• Guy ordered Moyochi En to expand Hidden Spirit Village and Kakuzu to recruit or eliminate specified targets, then completed his Strength of a Hundred Seal during secluded training.
• Obito came to investigate Guy’s village, learned that Shisui was alive and had taken his other eye, and told Guy that Kushina was pregnant again.
• Guy agreed to help protect Kushina during childbirth and proposed that the Uchiha Clan ally with Spirit Mountain through trade in forged weapons, while Obito left to speak with the Fourth.

Guy expanded Hidden Spirit Village by recruiting the Fūma Clan, then traveled through the Land of Wind and took Gaara and Yota under his care. He left the Wind Daimyo with a way to extend his life and new revelations about Sunagakure.

• Guy funded Spirit Mountain’s growth, recruited the Fūma Clan, restored Kagero’s body, and appointed her a guardian.
• Guy trained Ziro in Lion’s Roar and Seven Heavens Breathing, then sent him toward Spirit Mountain to prove himself.
• Guy took Gaara from Sunagakure, escaped Rasa and Chiyo, freed him from the Bunpuku Teakettle, and renamed him Sha Wujing.
• Guy recruited Yota from the Fūu Clan for ten million ryō and promised him a chance to make friends.
• Guy met the Wind Daimyo, treated his illness, and revealed that Sasori had killed the Third Kazekage and made him a Human Puppet.
• Guy told the Wind Daimyo that Chiyo’s Reanimation technique could give him another twenty years in good health.