Recaps

Jingyi watched Orochimaru beat Jiraiya after the three men were blasted from the resting room, while Hatake Sakumo helped clean them up. In Konoha, Tsunade ordered Anbu to seize the Sarutobi Clan’s caravan supplies, and Sarutobi Huijiang rushed into the village after the confiscation.

• Jingyi blasted Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Hatake Sakumo out of the resting room, and Orochimaru pinned Jiraiya down and beat him.
• Hatake Sakumo washed the mucus off himself and later helped Jiraiya clean up after Orochimaru finished beating him.
• Orochimaru went to the morgue to continue preparing puppets from enemy corpses.
• Tsunade ordered an Anbu squad to seize the ninja tool supplies carried by the Sarutobi Clan’s caravan.
• The Anbu took the supplies despite Sarutobi Huijiang’s protest, and Huijiang hurried into the village to respond.

Tsunade retaliated against the Third Hokage by having the Anbu confiscate the Sarutobi Clan’s ninja tool supplies, using his own argument that everyone had to sacrifice for the village. After she rejected his apology and offer to cooperate with Jingyi, the Third Hokage arranged for the village to pay the Sarutobi Clan for the supplies and resolved to stop targeting Jingyi.

• Sarutobi Huijiang reported that the Anbu had seized the Sarutobi Clan’s trading caravan supplies for the village.
• The Third Hokage summoned Tsunade and demanded to know why she had ordered the seizure.
• Tsunade threw the Third Hokage’s earlier justification back at him and warned Utatane Koharu that her clan’s trading businesses could be targeted too.
• The Third Hokage apologized and offered to cooperate with Jingyi over the puppets, but Tsunade said he had wasted his chance and left.
• The Third Hokage decided to send the supplies to the frontline and have the Finance Department pay the Sarutobi Clan, then told his advisers to stop targeting Jingyi.

Tsunade decided that Minato Namikaze and Nawaki should gain experience at the frontline camp under Jingyi’s guidance. She ordered both boys to pack for an early departure the next morning, while Jiraiya remained there recovering from his injuries.

• Tsunade watched Minato Namikaze and Nawaki spar and reflected on Minato Namikaze’s rapid, steady progress.
• Nawaki and Minato Namikaze fought to a draw, then rested as Kushina brought them water.
• Nawaki asked whether Jingyi planned to make Minato Namikaze a taijutsu ninja, and Tsunade told him Jingyi had already planned Minato Namikaze’s training.
• Tsunade told Minato Namikaze to pack after dinner and ordered both boys to be ready at the village entrance at seven the next morning.
• Tsunade said she would send Nawaki and Minato Namikaze to the frontline camp to study under Jingyi while Jiraiya recovered.

Tsunade sent Nawaki and Minato Namikaze to the Land of Rain with Anbu, making them endure a grueling march to teach Nawaki about the hardships of the battlefield. They reached Jingyi’s camp alongside ninja tool supplies Tsunade had seized from the Sarutobi Clan, and Jingyi kept the supplies while greeting the exhausted boys.

• Tsunade refused to let Kushina join Nawaki and Minato Namikaze, then treated them to barbecue despite worrying about the cost.
• Nawaki and Minato Namikaze waited at the village gate, where Anbu arrived and escorted them toward the Land of Rain.
• Tsunade ordered the Anbu to make the boys march without easing their journey so Nawaki would experience hardship before reaching the battlefield.
• The Anbu delivered Tsunade’s seized ninja tool supplies to Jingyi and reported that the camp was normal.
• Jingyi stored the supplies for later and offered water to the rain-soaked, trembling Nawaki and Minato Namikaze.

Jingyi agreed to let Nawaki and Minato Namikaze earn a place on the battlefield by putting them through difficult tasks first. He sent them to the Morgue to handle the dead, leaving them unaware of what awaited them.

• Jingyi told Nawaki and Minato Namikaze to rest and promised to assign them tasks before considering them for the battlefield.
• Jiraiya visited, learned that Jingyi would train Nawaki, and left with his squad for the battlefield.
• The next morning, Jingyi sent Nawaki and Minato Namikaze with Shiro to the storage room, which was actually the Morgue.
• Shiro introduced the boys to Old Ghost, who looked puzzled at being given two children to help in the Morgue.

Jingyi sent Nawaki and Minato Namikaze to handle and transport dead shinobi so they would experience the brutality of war without fighting on the battlefield. Afterward, he explained that the war had turned the Land of Rain into a living hell and began teaching them why it had started.

• Shiro told Old Ghost that Nawaki and Minato Namikaze were Jingyi's pupils and needed special care, then left them in Old Ghost's charge.
• Old Ghost had Nawaki and Minato Namikaze inspect corpses, stitch their wounds, and carry them to another room; both boys vomited at the sight.
• At the end of the day, Jingyi asked whether they still envied those who could go to the battlefield, and Nawaki and Minato Namikaze struggled to eat their meal.
• Minato Namikaze asked whether many people had died in the war, and Jingyi said that many would die as long as war continued and that the Land of Rain had become a living hell.
• Jingyi explained that Sunagakure's repeated provocations had led the village to send people into the Land of Rain, and Nawaki asked why they had entered that country.

Jingyi explained why Konoha would draw Amegakure into the conflict and warned Nawaki and Minato Namikaze against letting sympathy for enemies cloud their duties as shinobi. After half a month of Morgue work, the two adapted and were reassigned to the medical room.

• Jingyi told Nawaki and Minato Namikaze that Amegakure's growth threatened the Five Great Shinobi Villages, so Konoha would try to involve it in the war.
• Jingyi explained how resource shortages drove Sunagakure and other villages toward conflict, then urged the two not to pity their enemies at the expense of their comrades.
• Nawaki and Minato Namikaze slept peacefully after Jingyi's talk and gradually endured the Morgue work over the following days.
• After half a month, Jingyi stopped their Morgue training and sent them to change clothes and help in the medical room.
• Jingyi explained that Old Ghost behaved strangely because of severe psychological trauma, and Nawaki apologized for nearly calling him insane.

Jingyi showed Nawaki and Minato Namikaze the horrors of the medical ward, explaining that returning from the battlefield alive was already a matter of luck. He promised to begin training them the next day, then started Nawaki’s instruction with compressed Water Release techniques.

• Jingyi operated on a wounded soldier, reattaching his nearly severed arm and healing the injury with Medical Ninjutsu.
• Jingyi told Nawaki and Minato Namikaze that many wounded soldiers could not be saved because severed limbs were lost or their injuries were too severe.
• Jingyi promised to train the boys starting the next day, and Nawaki and Minato Namikaze eagerly helped around the medical ward.
• The next morning, Jingyi woke the boys early and began their training after breakfast.
• Jingyi asked Nawaki about his Water Release skills and instructed him to repeatedly use one technique while trying to compress it.

Jingyi trained Nawaki and Minato Namikaze in the rain, demonstrating how precise chakra control made Water Release far more powerful. Shikaku Nara brought Jingyi an iron rod, and the chapter left Nawaki training under threat of another beating.

• Nawaki complained about Water Release, so Jingyi slapped him and told him to use Water Trumpet on a tree.
• Jingyi demonstrated a compressed Water Trumpet that pierced the tree trunk, impressing Nawaki and Minato Namikaze.
• Jingyi told Nawaki to master water-attribute chakra nature transformation and instructed Minato Namikaze to focus on building his foundation.
• Jingyi berated Nawaki for his poor rhythm and struck him with an iron rod while Shikaku Nara watched.
• Shikaku Nara handed Jingyi the iron rod and asked whether it was too much for a child, then Jingyi asked if his senior needed something.

Jingyi refused Shikaku Nara’s request for supplies that had been purchased from the Sarutobi Clan, leaving Tsunade and the Third Hokage to settle the dispute. Meanwhile, Kitsuchi showed Chiyo a puppet made from a Sunagakure ninja’s corpse and claimed Konoha had made it, then began explaining Iwagakure’s plan against Konoha.

• Jingyi told Shikaku Nara to obtain the village-funded supplies from the Sarutobi Clan, since Tsunade had supplied the goods he held.
• Shikaku Nara agreed to urge the village to send supplies to the camp, while Jingyi said Tsunade and the Third Hokage would handle their dispute.
• Jingyi considered how the war might develop and wondered whether the shifted timeline would change the fate of Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko.
• Nawaki resumed training after being shouted at to keep going.
• Chiyo met Kitsuchi in the Land of Rain, where he offered cooperation and showed her a puppet made from a Sunagakure ninja’s corpse.
• Kitsuchi told Chiyo the puppet had been made by Konoha and began describing Iwagakure’s plan to strike Konoha.

Kitsuchi told Chiyo that Jingyi Hyuga’s autonomous, self-destructing puppets had devastated Iwagakure’s forces, and Chiyo eventually believed him. Chiyo proposed that Sunagakure and Iwagakure attack Konoha Camp together, but Kitsuchi refused and left.

• Kitsuchi described how Jingyi Hyuga’s puppets fought without chakra threads and exploded with power greater than Explosive Tags.
• Chiyo initially dismissed Kitsuchi’s account, but believed him after he confirmed the puppets had caused the battlefield’s huge craters.
• Chiyo recognized Jingyi’s name from reports and grew angry because his work on poisons and antidotes had weakened Sunagakure’s puppet forces.
• Chiyo proposed that Sunagakure and Iwagakure join forces to attack Konoha Camp.
• Kitsuchi rejected Chiyo’s proposal, withdrew with his people, and ignored her furious insults.

Jingyi treated Jiraiya after Chiyo’s poison needles left him badly injured, teasing him throughout the procedure. Jiraiya escaped the operating room in embarrassment, while Chiyo remained angry after Kitsuchi rejected her alliance proposal.

• Chiyo grew furious after Kitsuchi refused to join forces against the Konoha camp.
• Nawaki rushed to fetch Jingyi after Jiraiya returned to camp covered in poison needles.
• Jiraiya told Jingyi that Chiyo’s forces had chased him after he stayed behind to cover his squad’s retreat.
• Jingyi injected Jiraiya with antidote and pulled out the needles, including ones near his crotch.
• Jiraiya mistook Jingyi’s instruction to remove his pants and fled the operating room after the medical staff laughed at him.

Jingyi put Minato Namikaze through grueling reflex and endurance training, then used medicinal treatments to prevent lasting harm. Jiraiya agreed to pay for the same costly care for Nawaki, despite balking at the expense.

• Jingyi made Minato Namikaze train his reflexes and fight in a muddy pit under pouring rain.
• Jiraiya worried that Jingyi was pushing Minato too hard, but Jingyi assured him he had planned ways to prevent injuries and exhaustion.
• Jingyi prepared medicinal broth and medicine to help Minato recover from training.
• Jiraiya asked Jingyi to prepare the same treatment for Nawaki, and Jingyi quoted him a weekly cost of three hundred thousand ryo, excluding massage fees.
• Jiraiya reluctantly agreed to pay for Nawaki's treatment at Minato's standards.

Jingyi and Jiraiya discussed the looming full-scale war as Sunagakure shifted forces toward the Land of Rivers. In Konoha, Tsunade argued that the village should withdraw from the Land of Rain, but the Third Hokage and the elders insisted on staying to defend Konoha’s honor.

• Jiraiya asked Jingyi why he had stopped attending command meetings, and Jingyi said he was occupied with the medical ward.
• Jiraiya told Jingyi that Sunagakure had moved forces into the Land of Rivers and infiltrated the Land of Fire, making a full-scale war likely.
• Jiraiya said Shikaku Nara expected Sunagakure to withdraw from the Land of Rain, while Jingyi predicted the Third Hokage and the Elder Council would keep Konoha fighting there.
• Tsunade confronted the Third Hokage and urged Konoha to withdraw from the Land of Rain, negotiate with Hanzō, and redirect its forces to the Land of Rivers.
• The Third Hokage defended staying for Konoha’s honor, while Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura supported him and doubted Hanzō could be trusted.

Tsunade secretly visited Jingyi at the frontline to discuss the village’s decision to keep fighting Amegakure, but Jingyi urged her to stop opposing the pursuit of glory and focus on her own responsibilities. After they parted, Iwagakure withdrew from the Land of Rain, and Sunagakure followed.

• Tsunade left the village secretly and met Jingyi in a concealed cave near the border.
• Tsunade told Jingyi that the Third Hokage and the Elder Council had rejected her objections to continuing the war in the Land of Rain.
• Jingyi advised Tsunade to let the village pursue victory while she strengthened her control over the Anbu, and she agreed.
• Tsunade returned to the village, while Jingyi went back to camp as Iwagakure withdrew its forces from the Land of Rain.
• Sunagakure retreated after Iwagakure’s withdrawal left it without support against the pressure of the conflict.

As Sunagakure withdrew to the Land of Rivers, Konoha faced growing casualties, supply shortages, and attacks inside the Land of Fire while fighting Amegakure. The Third Hokage struggled to manage the crisis and learned that neither Jingyi nor Tsunade could provide an antidote to Salamander Venom.

• Sunagakure withdrew from the Land of Rain, leaving Konoha and Amegakure to continue fighting as Konoha pursued Sunagakure toward the Land of Rivers.
• Jingyi told Shikaku Nara that no targeted antidote for Salamander Venom could be developed quickly, and urged him to report the casualties and request more supplies.
• Sunagakure's elite squads cut Konoha's supply routes and wreaked havoc in the Land of Fire, prompting the daimyo to demand answers from the Third Hokage.
• The Third Hokage received reports of rising casualties and supply shortages at the front, then angrily questioned Shikaku Nara's handling of the war.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu reminded the Third Hokage that Salamander Venom was driving the losses, and the Third Hokage revealed that Tsunade had thrown out his messenger.

The Third Hokage struggled to secure supplies for the front lines as Tsunade and Jingyi refused to help, while Jingyi suspended Nawaki and Minato Namikaze’s training. After losing more of his forces, Hanzō considered whether to keep fighting Konoha or accept defeat, and received intelligence from Sunagakure about the widening conflicts.

• The Third Hokage ordered rations and Soldier Pills sent to the front lines and said he would discuss ninja tool supplies with Tsunade.
• Jingyi told Nawaki and Minato Namikaze that their training was suspended because the camp lacked supplies, then assigned them textbooks to study.
• Nawaki struggled with his studies and asked Minato Namikaze for help after Jingyi teased him about his poor academic knowledge.
• Hanzō killed the remaining Konoha ninja and realized that more than half of his own subordinates had died.
• Hanzō received detailed intelligence from Chiyo about the war in the Land of Rivers, unrest in the Land of Fire, and Konoha’s severed supply routes, then weighed continuing the fight against accepting defeat.

Hanzō and Konoha prepared for a final decisive battle as both sides weakened, while Jingyi argued that Konoha should wait for Amegakure to give in. Later, Jingyi watched Nawaki and Minato Namikaze struggle with study questions and admitted he had never learned that material in school.

• Hanzō resented Konoha’s refusal to end the stalemate, while the Daimyo's Court pressured Hiruzen Sarutobi to quell the war in the Land of Fire.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha’s forces to assemble for a final decisive battle.
• Shikaku Nara told Jingyi that Amegakure had few fighters left, but Hanzō remained a major threat; Jingyi recommended waiting for Amegakure to weaken further.
• Nawaki and Minato Namikaze struggled with difficult study questions while Jingyi secretly laughed at them.
• Minato Namikaze asked whether Jingyi had studied the same material in school, and Jingyi said he had not.

Jingyi sensed an approaching threat while teaching Nawaki and Minato Namikaze, secured them in the break room, and raised the alarm as Hanzō led an attack on the undermanned Konoha Camp. The chapter ended with Hanzō’s Venomous Salamander charging into the camp’s barricade.

• Jingyi explained why his harsh lessons were kinder than the treatment he had received, then prepared books and notes from Orochimaru for Nawaki and Minato Namikaze.
• Jingyi sensed danger outside, ordered the boys to stay in the break room, and told them their demigod enemy had arrived.
• Hanzō led Amegakure’s ninjas on a detour to attack Konoha Camp while Orochimaru and Jiraiya were away and the camp was undermanned.
• Jingyi sent up an attack signal flare, alerting the camp and revealing the attackers to Hanzō’s forces.
• Hanzō summoned his Venomous Salamander and sent it crashing into the camp’s barricade.

Hanzō broke into Konoha’s camp and overwhelmed its defenders, forcing Shikaku Nara to draw his attention to Jingyi Hyuga. Jingyi unleashed his autonomous explosive puppets, leaving the Venomous Salamander critically wounded and Hanzō stunned.

• Hanzō smashed through Konoha’s camp defenses with the Venomous Salamander and attacked the ninja inside.
• Jingyi ordered the medical ward’s guards and Anbu to protect the wounded instead of joining the battle.
• Shikaku Nara failed to stop Hanzō and lured him toward Jingyi by calling him a godslayer.
• Jingyi revealed hundreds of autonomous puppets and sent them to attack Hanzō and the Venomous Salamander.
• The Venomous Salamander swallowed several puppets, which exploded inside it and left it barely alive.
• Jingyi ordered his forces to kill the wounded Venomous Salamander.

Jingyi defeated and killed Hanzō after destroying the Venomous Salamander with his puppets, then took both corpses and Hanzō’s scythe as materials. With the attack repelled and his mission complete, Jingyi left the remaining cleanup to his senior.

• Jingyi’s self-destructing puppets killed the Venomous Salamander, and he stored its corpse as puppet material.
• Hanzō attacked Jingyi, but Jingyi deflected his scythe, shattered it with a green sphere, and pierced Hanzō with a golden beam.
• Jingyi seized Hanzō by the throat and killed him after saying he had held back because he was a medical ninja.
• Jingyi stored Hanzō’s corpse and scythe, then left the remaining Amegakure ninja to his senior.
• The medical-room and Anbu ninja watched Jingyi with admiration as he turned away.

Konoha’s forces defeated Amegakure after Jingyi killed Hanzō, and the survivors began preparing to return to the village. Jingyi learned that Jiraiya had rescued Konan, Nagato, and Yahiko, leaving the trio with him despite the changed course of the war.

• Konoha’s shinobi routed Amegakure after Hanzō’s death, and Shikaku Nara began organizing the wounded, troops, and return preparations.
• Shikaku Nara confirmed that news of victory had been sent to the village, while Konoha’s teams returned from the battlefield.
• Orochimaru called off the pursuit and returned to camp, where he told Jingyi that Jiraiya had rescued three children.
• Orochimaru described one boy as having Uzumaki blood and hair like Kushina’s, and Jingyi recognized the children as Konan, Nagato, and Yahiko.
• Jingyi went to the command center with Orochimaru and learned that Jiraiya had stayed behind to look after the three children.

After the war, Jingyi prepared to return to Konoha while Jiraiya stayed in the Land of Rain to care for Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato, leaving Nawaki furious. Back in Konoha, the Third Hokage brooded over how Jingyi’s killing of Hanzō had won him the glory for the victory.

• Jingyi assigned Orochimaru to take charge of the enemy corpses and told Nawaki that Jiraiya planned to remain in the Land of Rain for two or three years.
• Nawaki cursed Jiraiya for abandoning his student, while Little Blondie sympathized with him.
• Jiraiya stayed with Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato in a cave, deciding to see his choice through despite worrying that Nawaki might no longer acknowledge him as a teacher.
• The Third Hokage regretted that Hanzō’s attack and death had turned Jingyi into the celebrated hero of the Land of Rain war while leaving the Hokage with blame for Konoha’s losses.
• Konoha villagers celebrated Jingyi, whose reputation soared after he killed Hanzō.

Jingyi returned from the Land of Rain with Orochimaru while his growing fame alarmed the Third Hokage and F4. On the journey, Jingyi teased Orochimaru over the embarrassing title Konoha's Great White Snake, and Orochimaru left the carriage rather than discuss it.

• Tsunade and the daimyo backed Jingyi, preventing F4 from suppressing news of his achievements, and the daimyo promised to reward him after the war.
• Jingyi escorted wounded shinobi and supplies back toward the village while Shikaku Nara stayed behind to cover the retreat.
• Orochimaru said he would rest and make puppets instead of immediately heading to the Land of Rivers battlefield, while the Third Hokage wanted Jingyi kept away from the front.
• Jingyi and Orochimaru discussed Hatake Sakumo's growing reputation as Konoha's White Fang and Jingyi's own title, God Slayer.
• Jingyi mocked Orochimaru's title, Konoha's Great White Snake, and Orochimaru left the carriage, refusing to acknowledge it afterward.

After returning to Konoha, Jingyi learned that the village’s leaders wanted to retaliate against Sunagakure but could not find worthwhile targets in the poor, sprawling Land of Wind. He pointed out that the oases were Sunagakure’s lifeline and began proposing an attack on them.

• Jingyi and Orochimaru returned to Konoha with their team after a five-day journey through war-damaged villages, as Sunagakure’s remaining squads fled the Land of Fire.
• The Third Hokage and the other leaders agreed that Konoha should retaliate against Sunagakure, but Torifu Akimichi noted the risks of navigating the vast desert and the limited value of its settlements.
• Tsunade and Torifu went to welcome the returning heroes, while Jingyi quickly slipped away from the cheering crowd.
• Jingyi found Tsunade waiting at his home and learned that the village was struggling to choose a target for retaliation.
• Jingyi asked what was most valuable in the Land of Wind, then identified its oases as the source of Sunagakure’s food, medicine, and other resources, and suggested sending ninja skilled in Fire Release and Earth Release.