Recaps

Yechen advanced from founding the Gods Alliance and becoming a Konoha Jonin to leading brutal battles against Iwagakure. After Han and his elite squad tracked down Yechen’s unit, Yechen stayed behind to face the Five-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Yechen evolved his eyes and cultivation, then used Kotoamatsukami to make the Third Raikage his subordinate, Elder Lei of the Gods Alliance.
• Yechen received the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace and the Myriad Forms Return to One Art, sent Elder Lei back to the Land of Lightning, and returned to Konoha.
• Orochimaru approved Yechen’s promotion to Jonin, and Yechen argued that Konoha should attack the weakened Iwagakure before its forces recovered.
• Yechen trained in the palace, joined Konoha’s counteroffensive, and helped capture Iwagakure camps while killing Rock Ninja across multiple battles.
• After Konoha’s force became surrounded, Yechen and Nara Yijiu led the troops through repeated fights and breakouts, with Yechen killing many pursuers and earning evolution points.
• Matsui Shūichi secretly tracked Yechen inside Bruno and sent Han information about Yechen’s unit, while Yechen sensed a watcher but could not find him.
• Hyuga Jingci spotted Han’s squad, and Yechen received a mission to capture the Five-Tails-Kokuō and unlock the Summoning Hall.
• When Han charged toward the Konoha unit, Yechen sent Hyuga Jingci and the others back to the main force and stayed to face Han, who recognized him as the Flame Demon.

Yechen captured Han and the Five-Tails, then helped Konoha escape Iwagakure’s encirclement and reach Willow Town. As the outpost prepared for another attack, Yechen encountered a Ghost Clan group that had come to claim a bounty on him.

• Yechen lured Han and the Rock Ninja away from Konoha’s main force, fought through their pursuit, and defeated Han after Kokuō emerged, and he captured the Five-Tails and named it Little Five.
• Yechen returned to the battlefield and helped Konoha withdraw, while Ōnoki suspended Iwagakure’s operation after learning Sunagakure might soon fall.
• Yechen trained and improved his abilities as Konoha discussed the war, then learned that Iwagakure had renewed its attacks and that Konoha’s outposts were ordered to retreat toward Willow Town.
• Yechen scouted ahead of Konoha’s retreat, encountered Hunt’s Explosion Corps squad, and later led the spearhead through Iwagakure’s blockade as the surrounded force fought its way toward Willow Town.
• Yechen’s team fought Hunt and the Rock Ninja during the retreat, then reached Willow Town, and Nara Yijiu’s battered force returned with fewer than a hundred survivors, and Tanaka Erito prepared the outpost for another attack.
• Yechen trained Lightning Release: One-Sword Slash until it evolved into Lightning Run: Instant Break, then asked Tanaka Erito to assign him to defend the high ground west and north of Willow Town.
• Yechen detected the Ghost Clan in the woods, resisted its leader’s sound-based genjutsu, and learned that the group had come to collect a black-market bounty on him.

Yechen helped lead a covert strike against the Rock Ninja and later turned the tide of their advance before confronting Roshi. As Minato and Gamabunta fought the transformed Four-Tails, Yechen attacked the Rock Ninja rear and ordered Konoha’s forces to withdraw.

• Yechen led a covert squad into the Rock Ninja underground command center, where he and Minato’s reinforcements defeated the defenders and killed commander Kuroki Masayasu.
• Yechen revealed that he could use Flying Thunder God, then began secluded training while Minato went to support the fight against Roshi.
• When the Rock Ninja advanced with Roshi, Yechen devastated their formation, then fought Roshi with fire techniques, Hyōrinmaru, and teleportation.
• Minato summoned Gamabunta, who extinguished Roshi’s lava-covered battlefield and fought him while Minato searched for an opening.
• As Rock Ninja troops gathered nearby, Yechen left a clone to watch the battle and slipped away to attack their forces, prompting Nagashima Kuna to cancel an operation after identifying him.
• Roshi lost control as his seal broke and the Four-Tails emerged, forcing Minato back while Yechen headed toward the central battlefield.
• Yechen sent a Shadow Clone to tell Yamanaka Shunfeng to withdraw Konoha’s forces as the Four-Tails fought Gamabunta and drew magma from underground.

Yechen captured the Four-Tails, strengthened his abilities, and was transferred with Shisui to the Kirigakure battlefield. After defeating the Mist attackers and uncovering Danzo’s Root surveillance, he killed Aburame Ryoma and routed the retreating enemies, leaving Shisui suspecting he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Yechen broke through the Rock Ninja’s defenses, defeated the Four-Tails, and captured it before Konoha drove the Rock forces away.
• Yechen trained at the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace, evolved his Sharingan and Byakugan, and received orders to transfer to the Kirigakure front with Shisui Uchiha.
• Yechen and Shisui led a battalion toward the Kirigakure battlefield while Danzo’s Root agents secretly tracked them and Danzo chose to use Kirigakure against them.
• Kirigakure forces, including Raiga Kurosuki, Munashi Jinpachi, and Juzo Biwa, attacked the Konoha camp, and Yechen fought off their strongest fighters.
• Yechen killed Kaguya Jintianwu, defeated Juzo Biwa and Raiga Kurosuki, and discovered that Aburame Ryoma had been monitoring him for Danzo.
• Yechen killed Aburame Ryoma and destroyed the bodies of Juzo Biwa and Raiga Kurosuki, then returned to the battlefield as the Kirigakure forces retreated.
• Yechen pursued and killed the fleeing Kirigakure ninja, and Shisui suspected that Yechen had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.