Recaps

Yui escaped Ōnoki with Dan Katō and obtained the Spirit Transformation Technique before returning to Shikkotsu Forest. After a mysterious encounter transformed her chakra, she mastered Sage Mode and spent a year learning senjutsu, leaving her ready to awaken Nai Hyuga when Tsunade arrived.

• Yui escaped Ōnoki by using Ibuse’s poison mist and captured Dan Katō to demand the Spirit Transformation Technique.
• Yui threatened Dan Katō’s sister and convinced him to teach her, then returned to Shikkotsu Forest with the technique.
• Yui told Tsunade how Hyuga Feng had imprisoned her and harmed Nai Hyuga, and Tsunade believed her after seeing Nai on the Ice Bed.
• Yui’s attempt to use the Spirit Transformation Technique led her into a dream, where a white Spirit Body called her its child and pressed multicolored light into her forehead.
• Yui discovered that her chakra had changed and gained all five chakra natures, then found Yomotsu Hirasaka beneath a rift in the forbidden area.
• Yui mastered Sage Mode by drawing natural energy into her soul, but the transformation left two horns on her forehead.
• Yui trained for a year and mastered Shikkotsu Forest’s white slug and blue slug senjutsu before preparing to awaken Nai Hyuga.
• Tsunade arrived as Yui put on her copper-colored mask, sensing the power she had gained.

Yui rescued Nai Hyuga from her sealed mind and helped her recover, then traveled with her to the Land of Iron to collect a sword and seek sealing jutsu. There, Yui registered as a Swordmaster and faced Taiichirō’s attempt to capture her, while Mifune revealed that Master Iinaka had been taken by the General.

• Yui entered Nai Hyuga’s mental world, reached her through their shared memories, and persuaded her to return with her.
• Yui restored Nai’s damaged eye, and Nai chose Ikuko Hyuga’s Byakugan before Yui grew her a second, ordinary eye.
• Yui and Nai left Shikkotsu Forest for the Land of Iron, where Yui registered as a Swordmaster and received a token.
• Yui discovered the Rinne Revival Technique in Shobue’s scroll, while Nai awakened Ice Release and began learning the Strength of a Hundred Technique.
• Yui met Mifune and He Liu, accepted payment to arrange a meeting with the masked woman they sought, and revealed her Swordmaster Token.
• Yui created another original body named Xiao You, and Xiao You met Mifune, who revealed that Master Iinaka had been taken by the General and gave her his letter.
• Taiichirō ambushed Xiao You, Yui, Nai, Mifune, and He Liu, but Xiao You fought him with Wave Breaker and her Byakugan.
• Xiao You wounded Taiichirō and cut his blade with Water Release: Fang-Coating Slash, as Mifune warned her that Taiichirō was about to use his famous secret art.

Yui retrieved Hakutaku, learned that Iinaka had been taken by the General, and escaped the Land of Iron with Nai Hyuga. After the Evil God’s Cursed Seal appeared on Yui, they traveled to the Land of Whirlpools, where Yui agreed to help the Uzumaki Clan evacuate children in exchange for Sealing Jutsu lessons.

• Yui defeated Rengo, retrieved Hakutaku from beneath Master Iinaka’s forge, and learned through Rengo’s memories that the General had taken Iinaka.
• Yui spared Rengo on the condition that he rescue Iinaka, then left the Land of Iron with Nai Hyuga after Iinaka unveiled Blackwater at the Famous Blade Ceremony.
• In the Land of Hot Water, Yui and Nai encountered Jiraiya and fled into the forest, where they found a Jashin cult and freed its abducted children.
• The Evil God’s Cursed Seal engulfed Yui, and Xiao You identified it as Nami’s mark, which could change Yui’s body and eventually allow Nami to possess her.
• Yui and Nai met Uesugi Yuri, who revealed her ties to Uzushiogakure and Kushina Uzumaki, and brought her with them to the Land of Whirlpools.
• Mito Uzumaki and Tsunade recognized Yui and Nai, and Yui asked to learn the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Jutsu to contain dangerous things.
• Mito agreed to teach Yui if she helped evacuate children from the crisis, and Yui accepted and gave her a scroll of Wind Release: Wind-Riding Technique.

Yui helped defend the Land of Whirlpools and underwent a sealing ritual that failed to suppress the Evil God’s cursed seal. As Mito prepared to transfer the Nine-Tails to Kushina, Yui uncovered Root operatives, while Nai set out to reveal the Jinchuriki’s location.

• Danzo persuaded Hiruzen Sarutobi to send Root to the Land of Whirlpools, with Orochimaru and Hatake Sakumo leading the team, while Yui learned the Uzumaki sealing techniques from Mito.
• Kirigakure ninja attacked the Land of Whirlpools, and Yui and Nai Hyuga fought them until Mito arrived with reinforcements and warned that more invasions could follow.
• Xiao You performed an enhanced Evil Sealing Method on Yui with Mito’s Nine-Tails chakra, but the Nine-Tails emerged and tried to attack Yui before Mito pulled it back into her body.
• Yui learned from Shobue that the cursed seal was transforming her body, then woke from a bloody nightmare and found that she could again gather senjutsu chakra.
• Orochimaru, Hatake Sakumo, and Danzo arrived with Konoha ninja, and Mito told them she had chosen Kushina as the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki because her seal would fail in two months.
• Nai Hyuga decided to hasten the weakening of Mito’s seal so the Nine-Tails transfer would happen in the Land of Whirlpools, while Yui worked on a new Flying Ninjutsu.
• Yui discovered and killed Root operatives searching a hidden basement, then returned to find Nai waiting and heard that Xiao You was asleep in her room.
• Yui warned Nai that outsiders might attack when supplies ran low or out of fear of the Uzumaki sealing techniques, and Nai took Xiao You to tell the gathered ninja that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was in the Land of Whirlpools.