Recaps

After advising Hidden Leaf’s young clan heirs and parting from Pakura, Qian Ye used the Cross-Border Brothers Mutual Aid Group to send Zhao Hai military supplies. Zhao Hai revealed a treasure map that might lead to a Devil Fruit hidden on an unnamed Grand Line island.

• Qian Ye explained to Pakura that he had advised the young clan heirs to prevent civil war and secure favor with Hidden Leaf’s future leaders.
• Qian Ye returned to his dormitory, used the group’s transfer function, and sent Zhao Hai three hundred Explosive Tags and ten Military Ration Pills.
• Zhao Hai reported that Garp had defeated Buck the Swiftblade, a pirate with a sixty-eight-million-Beli bounty, and was making him practice the Six Powers.
• Zhao Hai told Qian Ye that he had found a treasure map aboard Buck’s ship, which showed a Devil Fruit reportedly hidden on an unnamed island in the Grand Line.

Qian Ye joined Minato Namikaze and two ANBU to escort Pakura toward a prisoner exchange at the Land of Rivers border. The journey began uneventfully, with Minato surprised by Qian Ye’s stamina as they traveled.

• Qian Ye prepared for the escort mission by checking his supplies and drawing on the energy stored in his Yin Seal.
• Qian Ye met Pakura at Konoha’s gates, where Minato Namikaze arrived using the Flying Thunder God Technique to lead the mission.
• Minato treated Pakura respectfully and explained that Orochimaru would meet them at the Land of Rivers border.
• The five-person group set out through the forest, with Pakura keeping pace despite her Chakra Suppression Shackles.
• After three hours of travel, Minato praised Qian Ye’s stamina, and Qian Ye attributed his training to Orochimaru while privately recalling his own unusual training.

Qian Ye traveled with Minato and Pakura to Handover Canyon, using Sea King jerky to restore stamina and build up Chakra. At the Hidden Leaf camp, Orochimaru discovered that Qian Ye had already formed the initial stage of a Yin Seal.

• Qian Ye teased Minato about Jiraiya's research manuscripts, and Pakura misunderstood them as dangerous forbidden books.
• During the journey, Minato and Pakura tried Qian Ye's Sea King jerky and felt their stamina recover.
• Minato, Qian Ye, Pakura, and two ANBU reached Handover Canyon and met Orochimaru at the Hidden Leaf camp.
• Orochimaru examined Qian Ye's forehead and recognized the faint mark as an early Yin Seal formed in only two days.

Qian Ye provoked Minato into promising to teach him the principles behind a new seal-free ninjutsu, while Orochimaru recognized the scheme. The group then turned to the suspicious negotiations with Sunagakure and the tense border situation.

• Orochimaru confirmed that Qian Ye had mastered the Yin Seal and praised his talent.
• Qian Ye twisted Jiraiya's remarks to provoke Minato, who promised to teach him the principles behind his developing seal-free ninjutsu after the mission.
• Orochimaru pointed out that Qian Ye had deliberately baited Minato to obtain access to the new technique.
• Pakura watched Qian Ye joke with Orochimaru and Minato and grew more impressed by his ability and cunning.
• Orochimaru opened a map of the Land of Rivers border, and Minato noted that Ōnoki was active near Kannabi Bridge and that Rasa's quick agreement to negotiations and offer of two gold mines seemed suspicious.

Qian Ye exposed Rasa’s peace offer as a trap designed to lure Hidden Leaf’s delegation into Handover Canyon and kill Pakura, using her death to rally Sunagakure against them. Minato and the others realized the danger, while Pakura concluded that Rasa intended to turn her into a martyr.

• Orochimaru and Minato reviewed Rasa’s unusually generous peace terms, while ANBU reported that Sunagakure’s forces had withdrawn and Fū remained at the main camp.
• Qian Ye warned Minato that Sunagakure’s lack of movement and apparent willingness to surrender its safeguards made the exchange suspicious.
• Qian Ye argued that Rasa expected Hidden Leaf might betray the deal, so Sunagakure would not leave its delegation exposed unless the offer concealed a trap.
• Orochimaru and Minato concluded that Rasa planned to ambush the delegation in Handover Canyon and blame Hidden Leaf for Pakura’s death.
• Pakura realized Rasa meant to use her death to enrage Sunagakure and drive its ninja to fight Hidden Leaf to the death.

Qian Ye prepared for a possible Sunagakure ambush at Handover Canyon and argued that Hidden Leaf could exploit Sunagakure's weakness if its defenses were truly withdrawn. His ruthless proposal horrified Pakura, who attacked him in tears.

• Pakura rejected Qian Ye's suspicion that Rasa and Chiyo planned to sacrifice her, while Qian Ye warned her against trusting either side with her life.
• Qian Ye told Minato to prepare Flying Thunder God evacuation marks and ordered Orochimaru to move forces closer and position an elite squad near the canyon exit.
• Qian Ye proposed that Hidden Leaf invade Sunagakure if the village had abandoned its defenses, but Minato objected that doing so would violate the peace talks and ruin Hidden Leaf's reputation.
• Orochimaru praised Qian Ye's willingness to consider the worst-case scenario, while Pakura lost faith in him.
• Pakura lunged at Qian Ye, grabbed his collar, and tearfully accused him of trying to force Sunagakure into a dead end.

Qian Ye challenged Pakura to separate Sunagakure’s hardships from Rasa and Chiyo’s decision to start the war, then helped Hidden Leaf prepare for the prisoner handover. At Sunagakure’s command tent, Rasa and Chiyo met with Yugito Nii and other Kumogakure ninja.

• Qian Ye told Pakura that Sunagakure had started the war and had to accept the consequences, leaving her shaken and uncertain about defending the village’s leaders.
• Minato questioned Qian Ye’s harshness, and Qian Ye explained that he wanted Pakura prepared in case Rasa tried to kill her during the handover.
• Orochimaru assigned Minato to lead the handover team and ordered Flying Thunder God marks, sensory surveillance, and a hidden force to guard against a trap.
• Rasa, Chiyo, and Ebizo met with ninja from Kumogakure, led by the Two-Tails jinchuriki Yugito Nii.

Rasa and Chiyo prepared a canyon ambush to kill Minato Namikaze and the Hidden Leaf delegation, while Qian Ye strengthened his Yin Seal ahead of the exchange. In the Land of Rivers, Zhao Hai explored Gal Island alone and headed deeper toward the treasure map’s marked location.

• Rasa told Yugito that Sunagakure and Hidden Cloud planned to attack the Land of Fire from opposite fronts, then explained how a joint barrier would block Minato Namikaze’s Flying Thunder God Technique in Handover Canyon.
• Chiyo revealed her plan to poison the Hidden Leaf delegation with neurotoxin released from detonated Gold Dust Bombs, accepting Pakura’s death as a means to rally Sunagakure.
• Qian Ye ate Sea King jerky and compressed chakra into his Yin Seal while preparing for Sunagakure’s trap.
• Zhao Hai sent Qian Ye photos of Gal Island’s strange wildlife and described killing an elephant-crocodile after arriving alone.
• Zhao Hai looked toward the purple miasma and the red X on his treasure map, which lay deeper in the forest.

Zhao Hai discovered the Rocks Pirates’ hidden treasure vault and found a fortune, a log describing Rocks’s contingency plan before the God Valley Incident, and two seemingly top-tier Devil Fruits. He shared the discovery with Qian Ye, then weighed the fruits’ power against his commitment to fighting without relying on them.

• Zhao Hai passed through the poisonous miasma and forced open a stone gate bearing the Rocks Pirates’ emblem.
• Zhao Hai found Bloodhand Baro’s remains, wanted poster, and log, which revealed Rocks had hidden treasure and Devil Fruits on Gal Island before the God Valley Incident.
• Zhao Hai discovered mountains of gold and jewels and opened a chest containing two unusual Devil Fruits.
• Zhao Hai sent a photograph of the fruits to Qian Ye and told him about the vault and Rocks’s backup plan.
• Zhao Hai told Qian Ye he was tempted but hesitated to eat a Devil Fruit because he was committed to training in the Six Powers, chakra, and the Eight Gates.

Qian Ye used the Lv2 Mutual Aid Group’s item-identification feature to learn that Rocks’s treasure held a Kinetic Energy Fruit and a Mythical Zoan Storm Dragon Fruit. Zhao Hai refused to eat either one, leaving Qian Ye to choose which fruit he would take.

• Qian Ye decided the risk of a Devil Fruit’s water weakness was acceptable in the mostly land-based Naruto World.
• Qian Ye asked Zhao Hai to place each fruit in the transfer slot without sending it so the system could identify them.
• The system identified the dark-red fruit as the Kinetic Energy Fruit, which could absorb, store, and release physical kinetic energy.
• The system identified the green fruit as the Mythical Zoan Storm Dragon Fruit, which granted storm-dragon transformation, wind and lightning control, regeneration, and physical strength.
• Zhao Hai declined both fruits, saying he would follow his path of combining the Six Powers and Eight Gates, and offered to sell the other fruit after Qian Ye chose one.

Qian Ye chose the Kinetic Energy Fruit over the Storm Dragon fruit, ate it, and tested his new ability to absorb and release physical impacts. He left the chapter with a powerful new tool for the coming battle at Handover Canyon.

• Qian Ye rejected the Storm Dragon fruit and asked Zhao Hai to send him the Kinetic Energy Fruit, with the Storm Dragon fruit reserved for a later trade.
• Qian Ye received the dark red fruit, ate it despite its horrible taste, and sensed a new ability to contain kinetic energy.
• Qian Ye absorbed much of the impact from a punch to his shoulder and a kick into a wooden stake, discovering that stored energy burdened his body.
• Qian Ye released the stored energy with a punch into the air, blasting a crater in the sand.
• Qian Ye recognized the fruit could help him turn part of an enemy's strength against them and messaged Zhao Hai about its effect.

Qian Ye accompanied Minato Namikaze and Pakura to the canyon for a prisoner exchange, while Minato prepared a Flying Thunder God escape route. Sunagakure handed over documents granting Hidden Leaf two gold mines and three years of military payments, and Minato signed the agreement before Pakura crossed over.

• Qian Ye confirmed that the Kinetic Energy Fruit’s weakness did not affect him in the Ninja World, then met Minato and Pakura at camp.
• Minato led the handover team toward the canyon and secretly marked Pakura with a Flying Thunder God formula.
• Minato, Qian Ye, and Pakura met Rasa, Elder Chiyo, and three Sunagakure ANBU in the canyon.
• Rasa presented documents transferring two gold mines and twenty percent of Sunagakure’s military budget for three years.
• Minato checked the documents, stamped Hidden Leaf’s seal, and told Pakura she could cross over.

Chiyo trapped Pakura, Minato, and Qian Ye in a canyon with a Four-Sided Sealing Formation and detonated a disguised Kazekage puppet packed with bombs and poison. Qian Ye absorbed much of the blast to protect Pakura and Minato, while Chiyo remained behind her gold dust shield as the explosion left a huge crater.

• Chiyo activated the Four-Sided Sealing Formation, cutting off Minato's Flying Thunder God escape route and trapping the delegation in the canyon.
• The supposed Rasa revealed itself as a puppet, and Pakura realized that Rasa had arranged the ambush to kill her and the Hidden Leaf delegation.
• The puppet detonated its Gold Dust Bombs and poison devices, and Minato pulled Pakura away from the blast while Qian Ye stood in front of them.
• Qian Ye absorbed much of the explosion's kinetic force, allowing Minato to create a small safe zone with Wind Release: Great Breakthrough.
• The blast tore through Handover Canyon, while Chiyo protected herself with a gold dust shield and the explosion carved out a massive crater.

Qian Ye survived the Fake Kazekage Puppet’s explosion and released its stored force in a devastating palm strike against the Sunagakure ANBU and Chiyo. The toxic mist cleared, but Qian Ye collapsed from exhaustion as Minato stared in disbelief at his power.

• Qian Ye endured the puppet’s explosion, while Minato kept the toxic mist away and Pakura watched him in shock.
• Chiyo ordered three Sunagakure ANBU to attack, while Orochimaru sent Hidden Leaf forces toward the canyon to break the barrier.
• Qian Ye stopped Minato from engaging the ANBU and unleashed the stored kinetic energy from both palms.
• Qian Ye’s shockwave killed the three ANBU, shattered Chiyo’s shield, wounded her, and blew away the toxic mist.
• Qian Ye collapsed from exhaustion, and Minato questioned the destructive power of his strike.

Qian Ye survived his attack but was left exhausted as Minato confronted Chiyo over her attempt to kill Pakura. Hidden Cloud forces, including Dodai and Yugito Nii, arrived to trap the group, and Minato prepared to fight them alone.

• Qian Ye collapsed after releasing his stored kinetic energy, and Minato caught him while Pakura helped him rest.
• Minato confronted Chiyo for using peace talks to lure Pakura and attempting to kill her, but Chiyo declared she would do anything to save Sunagakure.
• Dodai and twelve Hidden Cloud elites emerged, joined by Yugito Nii, and revealed that they intended to kill Minato and Qian Ye.
• Pakura accused Chiyo of planning to blame Hidden Leaf for her death and use the lie to rally Sunagakure against them.
• Minato told Pakura to take Qian Ye and the wounded behind him, then declared he would crush their attackers as Yugito transformed and the Hidden Cloud ninja took positions.

Minato Namikaze fought off Dodai, Yugito Nii, Chiyo, and the Hidden Cloud forces while protecting Qian Ye and the other wounded. After Minato kept the attackers at bay, Chiyo ordered them to focus their assault on Qian Ye, forcing Minato to defend him.

• Minato used Flying Thunder God to evade the Hidden Cloud attacks, defeat several elites, and partially suppress Yugito Nii with the Evil Sealing Method.
• Minato struck through Dodai’s rubber defenses and disabled one of Chiyo’s puppets with a sealing technique.
• Qian Ye watched Minato’s fighting style and muttered that he wanted to learn the Rasengan when they returned to Hidden Leaf.
• Chiyo recognized that Minato would not abandon his wounded companions and ordered the remaining attackers to target Qian Ye.
• The Hidden Cloud forces aimed poison senbon, Lightning Release, and kunai into the pit as Yugito Nii restored her blue Chakra tail.

Qian Ye and the others were trapped in a canyon as Chiyo coordinated the Hidden Cloud forces to wear down Minato and target Qian Ye. With Minato’s strength being consumed by protecting the group, Qian Ye realized he had become their weak point and kept Garp’s mercenary summon ready as a last resort.

• Chiyo ordered the Hidden Cloud forces to focus their attacks on Qian Ye, forcing Minato to use the Flying Thunder God to protect him and Pakura.
• Chiyo, Dodai, and Yugito Nii coordinated their attacks to restrict Minato’s teleportation routes and keep him on the defensive.
• Minato was burned while blocking Yugito Nii’s attack, and Chiyo ordered her forces to keep targeting Qian Ye while sealing Minato’s Kunai.
• Qian Ye contacted Zhao Hai and learned Garp could be summoned within three minutes, but he told Zhao Hai to wait unless the situation worsened.
• Minato moved Qian Ye and the injured ANBU behind a rock and prepared to hold off the attackers, while Qian Ye realized the enemy had made him their weak point.

Orochimaru’s forces fought Rasa outside Handover Canyon while covert teams targeted the backup nodes sustaining the barrier. With the nodes failing, Orochimaru prepared to reach his trapped disciple.

• Rasa used Gold Dust and Sunagakure forces to block Orochimaru’s advance and protect the canyon’s backup barrier nodes.
• Chōza Akimichi attacked Rasa with Expansion Jutsu, but Rasa’s Gold Dust shield stopped him and threatened to encase his arm.
• Orochimaru summoned Manda, who broke through Rasa’s Gold Dust restraints and struck him through a barrier shield.
• Orochimaru revealed that Nara and Aburame teams had flanked Rasa, binding the Sunagakure ninja and draining Chakra from their metal disks.
• Two backup disks failed, causing the barrier above the canyon to flicker as Orochimaru announced he would bring his disciple home.

Cornered by Hidden Cloud and Chiyo, Minato faced Yugito Nii’s Tailed Beast Ball while Pakura offered to help if her chakra restraints were removed. Qian Ye vouched for Pakura, and Minato freed her; she summoned her Scorch Release and declared she would no longer die for Sunagakure.

• Yugito Nii formed a Tailed Beast Ball as Dodai and Chiyo sealed Minato’s remaining escape routes with lightning and poison.
• Minato prepared to protect his team, but Pakura asked him to remove her Chakra Suppression Shackles so she could stop Yugito Nii.
• Chiyo sent Poison Senbon and puppets at Pakura, making Minato hesitate to trust her.
• Qian Ye used an Akimichi Special Military Ration Pill to stand and assured Minato he would take responsibility if Pakura betrayed them.
• Minato accepted Qian Ye’s assurance and broke the sealing core on Pakura’s shackles with a Trident Kunai.
• Pakura’s chakra returned, and she summoned four Scorch Release fireballs as she told Chiyo she would not die for Sunagakure again.

Pakura regained her chakra and killed three Hidden Cloud elites, then defended Qian Ye while confronting Chiyo and Dodai over their plan to sacrifice her. Minato redirected Yugito Nii’s Tailed Beast Ball into the Four-Sided Sealing Formation, weakening the barrier and leaving Chiyo’s forces with few options.

• Pakura unleashed Scorch Release: Oversteam Kill and killed three Hidden Cloud elites with her fireballs.
• Pakura defended Qian Ye and told Chiyo that she would fight back to survive, while Dodai sheltered inside a rubber sphere.
• Minato redirected Yugito Nii’s Tailed Beast Ball into the Four-Sided Sealing Formation, cracking the barrier and causing its defenders to suffer backlash.
• The Lightning Net collapsed, freeing Minato to resume fighting without having to protect the injured people in the pit.
• Dodai told Chiyo that the plan had failed and pointed out that her remaining forces were too depleted to kill Minato.

Pakura rejected Chiyo’s plea to return to Sunagakure, condemned the village for deceiving her and treating her as expendable, and declared that she had severed her ties to it. She attacked Chiyo with Scorch Release, leaving her badly wounded as Qian Ye welcomed Pakura to Hidden Leaf.

• Chiyo appealed to Pakura by describing Sunagakure’s hardship and asking her to help kill Minato Namikaze and Qian Ye.
• Pakura revealed that Rasa and Chiyo had concealed the lethal trap meant to kill her and said she had never been given a choice.
• Pakura accused Sunagakure’s leaders of starting the war and sacrificing her, then severed all ties with the village.
• Pakura used Scorch Release: Steam Kill to destroy Chiyo’s puppets and badly burn her, leaving one fireball poised above her.
• Qian Ye thanked Chiyo for raising a Scorch Release powerhouse for Hidden Leaf, and Chiyo spat blood onto the sand.

Dodai ordered Yugito to fully release the Two-Tails so Hidden Cloud could escape, and Matatabi overwhelmed the canyon’s fighters. With Minato and Pakura unable to stop the beast from crushing Qian Ye, he called on Zhao Hai to open a commission for reinforcements.

• Dodai ordered Yugito to unleash the Two-Tails and destroy the canyon while Hidden Cloud retreated through its prepared underground passage.
• Yugito released Matatabi, whose full transformation repelled Pakura’s Scorch Release and began destroying Minato’s Flying Thunder God markers.
• Qian Ye absorbed a tailed-beast shockwave to save two ANBU, pushing his kinetic energy storage to its limit.
• Matatabi targeted Qian Ye, and Minato and Pakura failed to stop its descending paw as Qian Ye called to Zhao Hai to open a commission.

Qian Ye summoned Monkey D. Garp through a cross-border commission, and Garp repeatedly struck the Two-Tails back with his fists. The chapter left Matatabi preparing a Tailed Beast Ball against Garp as his three-minute commission continued to count down.

• Qian Ye asked Zhao Hai to start the commission, and Zhao Hai hired Monkey D. Garp to protect him for three minutes.
• Garp appeared in Handover Canyon and knocked the Two-Tails backward with a single punch, stunning Minato, Pakura, and the surrounding fighters.
• Garp told Qian Ye he expected to learn water walking in return for the commission, and Qian Ye offered to teach him water walking, tree climbing, and Chakra control.
• Dodai decided the Hidden Cloud forces should search for Garp's weakness, while Chiyo ordered the remaining Sunagakure ninjas to target him.
• Garp charged through Matatabi's blue fireballs and struck beneath her jaw, sending the Two-Tails crashing into the canyon wall.
• Matatabi rose from the rubble and formed a Tailed Beast Ball as the commission timer showed 01:47 remaining.

Garp knocked Matatabi’s Tailed Beast Ball into the Four-Sided Sealing Formation, weakening the barrier, then battered the Two-Tails until Yugito’s transformation began to collapse. With Chiyo’s attack also damaging the barrier, Dodai abandoned the plan to kill Minato and opened Hidden Cloud’s escape tunnel, leaving Minato facing the retreating force.

• Matatabi fired a Tailed Beast Ball, but Garp dodged it and struck her jaw, sending the blast into the Four-Sided Sealing Formation.
• The Tailed Beast Ball damaged the barrier and injured its Sunagakure maintainers, while Orochimaru ordered the Hidden Leaf forces to intensify their assault.
• Garp grabbed Matatabi by the tail and smashed her repeatedly into the canyon walls, disrupting Yugito’s Chakra synchronization and ending the Complete Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Chiyo sent her damaged puppets and poison mist against Garp, but his punch destroyed the puppets and drove the poison into Sunagakure’s remaining barrier nodes.
• Dodai canceled the plan to kill Minato and ordered Ranto to open Hidden Cloud’s underground escape passage.
• Dodai sent two Hidden Cloud ninja to support Yugito and three to guard the tunnel entrance as Minato prepared to stop them.

Garp dispersed Matatabi’s transformation and saved Qian Ye, Minato, Pakura, and two ANBU from Chiyo’s collapsing-canyon trap before vanishing through a black gate. With Hidden Cloud’s Yugito safely withdrawn and the battle turning against Sunagakure, Qian Ye spotted Pakura pursuing the wounded Chiyo through the ruins.

• Garp punched Matatabi out of her Tailed Beast Transformation, and Dodai tricked Minato with a false Flying Thunder God mark before Ranto escaped underground with Yugito.
• Chiyo detonated the Venomous Gold Dust beneath Handover Canyon, bringing down the cliff and burying the battlefield in rocks and poison.
• Garp smashed the falling boulders and held up the collapsing cliff while Minato transported Qian Ye, Pakura, and the two injured ANBU to safety.
• After Qian Ye assured Garp that Zhao Hai would provide the promised water-walking method, Garp released the cliff and disappeared through a black gate.
• Orochimaru’s forces broke through the northern barrier, Rasa retreated, and Qian Ye saw Pakura chasing the wounded Chiyo through the western ruins.