Recaps

Yechen exposed Danzo’s role in an attack, strengthened his abilities, and led Konoha forces against Kirigakure while trying to recruit powerful enemies. The arc left Yechen facing Kisame and asking him to join the Gods Alliance.

• Yechen and Shisui reached Konoha’s command center, where Nara Yue Bai suspected Danzo and Root had arranged the ambush that targeted them.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi confronted Danzo over the breach and showed him evidence that Root members had died in the attack, while Yechen used his leave to improve his abilities.
• Yechen arrived at Konoha’s Forward Base in the Land of Waves, developed the Taiji Yin-Yang Seal, and recruited Kakuzu to manage the Gods Alliance’s halls.
• When Kirigakure attacked Outpost Five, Yechen fought Mei Terumi and forced her to retreat after she realized he had been holding back.
• Yechen joined the battle at the Forward Base, killed Kaguya Torarō, and raced to the eastern line, where he fought Kirigakure’s high-level ninja until Konoha regained ground.
• After Kirigakure withdrew, Yechen trained for a month, then led fifty Konoha ninja toward the Northern Defense Line and helped repel an ambush at sea.
• Yechen found Kirigakure’s hidden warship, defeated Xueyu, and fought a masked Anbu who revealed himself as Kisame Hoshigaki.
• Yechen wounded Kisame but let him escape, then asked him to serve under him and help create a better era.

Yechen held Sea-Viewing Cliff, helped turn back Kirigakure’s attacks, and captured the Six-Tails before driving the Mist forces from Konoha’s lost strongholds. When peace talks stalled over the Land of Waves, he confronted the Mizukage directly and gave Kirigakure ten days to make peace.

• Yechen defeated Kisame Hoshigaki’s attack, but Kisame and Xueyu stalled him long enough for Kirigakure to destroy the Forward Base.
• Yechen trained through the lull in fighting, learned the Uchiha clan might support him as its next Clan Leader, and took command at Sea-Viewing Cliff.
• Yechen repelled Kirigakure’s assaults with his Susanoo and helped defend Konoha’s other strongholds, while Might Duy killed four of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• Yechen joined the rescue mission at Red Leaf Stronghold, helped Minato Namikaze defeat Kirigakure’s Jonin, and subdued the unsealed Six-Tails before taking it to the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace.
• Yechen drove Kirigakure from Red Crab Town and other captured strongholds as Konoha resumed its offensive, while Konoha and Iwagakure signed a peace armistice.
• Yechen rejected Kirigakure’s demand for influence over the Land of Waves and flew to confront Mizukage Karatachi Yagura, leaving Konoha’s command stunned.
• Yechen threatened Yagura into negotiations, rejected his proposed terms, set a ten-day deadline for peace with Konoha, and gave Child God Tokens to Mei Terumi and Kisame Hoshigaki.

Yechen killed Danzo after defeating Root’s forces, then erased the battlefield evidence and uncovered Root’s hidden records. As Hiruzen and the Uchiha weighed the consequences, Yechen returned to Konoha and faced scrutiny from both the Anbu and Uchiha Fugaku.

• Mei Terumi and Kisame Hoshigaki joined the Gods Alliance, while Yechen assigned them roles and continued developing his abilities.
• Yechen returned to Konoha, detected Danzo’s Root watchers, and used a Shadow Clone to lure them toward a remote forest.
• Yechen defeated Root’s squads and Danzo, using Son Goku to exhaust Danzo’s Izanagi before killing him with Hyōrinmaru.
• Yechen buried the battlefield, raided Root’s headquarters for its scrolls, and escaped after encountering Yamato.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi uncovered Danzo and Orochimaru’s secret experiments and reports of Danzo’s operations against Yechen, then chose to protect the village’s stability and conceal the evidence.
• Yechen returned to Konoha and resisted two Anbu who tried to take him to the Hokage without a written order, prompting the Uchiha Military Police to escort him to Fugaku.
• Uchiha Fugaku questioned Yechen about Danzo’s death and tested him with his Sharingan, then suspected Yechen had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Yechen stole Chōmei from Takigakure, brought her to the Summoning Hall, and returned to Konoha, where he uncovered Obito’s infiltration and learned of Orochimaru’s experiments. The arc ended with Yechen watching Orochimaru develop Impure World Reincarnation while preparing to steal the Scroll of Seals.

• Yechen awakened Fugaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan with an illusion, earned the Great Elder’s support, and witnessed Minato Namikaze’s election as Fourth Hokage.
• Yechen evolved his abilities through training, infiltrated Takigakure, and stole the Seven-Tails, Chōmei, before bringing her to the Summoning Hall.
• Yechen studied the Uchiha secret archives, then learned that people were disappearing and that Obito was infiltrating Konoha through space-time ninjutsu.
• Yechen confronted Obito at Rin Nohara’s grave, overpowered him, and secretly marked him with Flying Thunder God.
• Shisui awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after his squad was killed, and Yechen told him that the masked attacker was an Uchiha pursuing the tailed beasts.
• Yechen trained on a deserted island and suspected Orochimaru was abducting people to research Impure World Reincarnation.
• Yechen watched Konoha forces battle Orochimaru’s modified subordinates, recognized Orochimaru’s jutsu formula, and left a Shadow Clone to monitor him while he waited for a chance to take the Scroll of Seals.