Recaps

Bai Ye prepared Konoha for war while arranging new teams and training for its students, as rival villages weighed whether to oppose him. Kusagakure readied the Box of Ultimate Bliss, Kumogakure sent Yugito to observe Bai Ye, and Rasa planned to send Pakura to negotiate with Konoha while secretly resolving to kill her afterward.

• Rasa ordered Pakura and the Sealing Squad to investigate the dragon vein, while A’s plans to unite the villages against Bai Ye faltered and Kumogakure debated whether to confront Konoha.
• Obito urged the Akatsuki to act sooner against Bai Ye, but Nagato and Konan refused to begin capturing tailed beasts before they were ready, then left Amegakure for Konoha with Kakuzu.
• The Grass elders considered using the Box of Ultimate Bliss to resist Konoha, while the Grass Flower faction debated whether to support Kusagakure or turn to Konoha.
• Bai Ye tested Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji against Suigetsu, Kimimaro, and Haku, then announced new graduation plans and assigned students to mentors and squads.
• Bai Ye planned a quiet campaign against smaller countries before confronting Kumogakure, and Shikamaru realized the students’ early graduation might send them to the battlefield.
• Tsunade agreed to train medical ninjas for Bai Ye, while she, Kurenai, Anko, and Shizune shared an awkward barbecue that brought their suspicions and feelings about Bai Ye to the surface.
• The Kusagakure elders prepared for war as the Grass Flower elder ordered Ryūsha to contact Konoha, while A sent Yugito to observe Bai Ye and the Box’s monster and attack Bai Ye only if he was weakened.
• Rasa agreed to send Pakura to Konoha as an envoy after Ebizo proposed cooperation, but secretly resolved to kill her after the negotiations.

Bai Ye defeated the monster from the Box of Ultimate Bliss and brought Kusagakure under Konoha’s control, while the major villages moved toward war. After learning Sunagakure planned to unseal the Dragon Vein, Bai Ye set out to act and agreed to meet Konan first.

• Mei Terumi convinced Kirigakure to consider joining Konoha, while Ōnoki and A hesitated over war and Rasa committed Sunagakure to fighting Konoha.
• The Grass Fruit elders sacrificed Grass Ninja to the Box of Ultimate Bliss, which produced Gozu, as Bai Ye revealed their fabricated history of the box.
• Bai Ye forced Gozu back into the Box, and Grass Flower agreed to merge Kusagakure into Konoha.
• Bai Ye captured Yugito and the Kumogakure squad, along with Kurotsuchi and Stone Shinobi, then brought Karin Uzumaki and her mother to Konoha.
• Bai Ye refused to return the captives and argued with Shikaku that Konoha should expand despite the risk of an alliance against it.
• Shikaku showed Bai Ye a letter revealing Sunagakure planned to unseal the Dragon Vein and attack Konoha.
• Bai Ye decided to go to Sunagakure, but agreed to meet Konan first and found her at her inn room.

Bai Ye returned from the past and advanced his plan to unite the villages, persuading Nagato to abandon the Akatsuki’s path and bringing the remaining nations into Konoha. After defeating Madara and exposing Obito and Zetsu’s plans, he helped establish a peaceful Shinobi Alliance.

• Konan visited Konoha’s conquered lands to judge Bai Ye’s vision, while Mei Terumi confirmed Kirigakure would join forces with Konoha and discussed its terms with him.
• Bai Ye and Pakura vanished while absorbing the Dragon Vein’s energy, then traveled to Kaguya’s era and returned to their own time through a space-time distortion.
• Bai Ye helped Pakura expose Rasa’s betrayal, and she killed him before Sunagakure named her Kazekage and agreed to merge with Konoha.
• Konan brought Nagato to meet Bai Ye, who explained that Madara had given Nagato the Rinnegan and offered to treat him and pursue peace through unification.
• Nagato agreed to go to Konoha and handle matters in the Land of Rain, while Bai Ye continued toward Iwagakure and Kumogakure.
• A, Ōnoki, and Killer B challenged Bai Ye, but he defeated them and brought Iwagakure and Kumogakure into Konoha.
• Bai Ye exposed Obito and Zetsu’s plans, defeated the resurrected Madara, and helped unite the shinobi world, and decades later, he stood on Shinobi Rock before his children called him home for dinner.