Recaps

Chiyo struggled against the Demon Beasts while Tobirama Senju broke through and demonstrated his overwhelming new strength. Chiyo eventually achieved a breakthrough of her own, gaining the ability to control living creatures with her chakra threads and turning a thousand Demon Beasts against each other.

• The Kazekage sent Chiyo to fight, but her ten puppets were quickly destroyed, and the other Kage regretted having held back their fighters.
• Tobirama Senju, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Shimura Danzō continued battling Demon Beast Kings until Tobirama's aura surged and he broke through.
• Tobirama demonstrated his strength with a Ki Blast that devastated the area, then quenched the lava with the Great Waterfall Technique before sending his students to fight.
• Chiyo kept returning to battle despite being badly beaten, while the Kazekage tried to comfort her and repeatedly laughed at her swollen face.
• Chiyo broke through, used her chakra threads to control more than a thousand Demon Beasts, and made them attack one another before exploding their heads.

Chiyo, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Shimura Danzō awakened stronger abilities while training against Demon Beast Kings, and the group eventually reached the Endless Sea of Blood. Their first encounter with the blood sea’s enormous insect swarms left Tobirama Senju gravely injured.

• Chiyo used her Chakra Thread to make the Kazekage slap himself for more than twenty minutes, then ignored his questions and consolidated her strength.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi broke through, killed a Demon Beast King with a powerful beam, and Shimura Danzō soon broke through after charging into the Demon Beasts.
• Tobirama Senju persuaded the Kage and their companions to train until they reached bottlenecks, after which the group traveled deeper into the Forest of Despair.
• The group reached the Endless Sea of Blood, realized the ocean was made of blood, and faced a swarm of roughly a hundred million insects.
• Tobirama Senju teleported outside to fight the insects, but they overwhelmed him, forcing him to teleport back with much of his flesh eaten away.

The village leaders returned from the Forest of Despair after Tobirama Senju recovered with a Senzu Bean, and they agreed to continue sending selected experts for training despite the risks. After learning that Hanzō had tried to intercept and kill him, the Tsuchikage and Ōnoki caught up with Hanzō and maimed him with a single attack.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō carried the dying Tobirama Senju out of the Forest of Despair, and Itō Yuying healed him with a Senzu Bean.
• The village leaders discussed the dangers and benefits of the training grounds and agreed to return every three years with selected experts.
• Tobirama Senju, Itō Yuying, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Shimura Danzō discussed the stronger creatures and increased casualties, then discovered fifteen little cockroaches secretly listening.
• The village leaders returned to the guest hotel and agreed that the benefits of training outweighed their concerns about Konoha's motives.
• After a Rock Ninja reported Hanzō's attempt to intercept and kill him, the Tsuchikage and Ōnoki pursued Hanzō and destroyed his right arm and right leg with a gray ray of light.

Uchiha Hanyue rescued Hanzō from the Tsuchikage and secured Konoha’s protection for the Land of Rain. Itō Yuying became a jonin team leader and learned he would lead three low-ranked Academy students, whose assignment shocked the class.

• Uchiha Hanyue shielded the Land of Rain ninja from the Tsuchikage, healed Hanzō with a Senzu Bean, and declared Hanzō under Konoha’s protection.
• Uchiha Hanyue gave Hanzō a scroll of materials to gather, then returned to Konoha and reported to Itō Yuying.
• Tobirama Senju asked Itō Yuying which students he wanted to lead, then assigned him Yumengliang, Hana, and Qingliu.
• A month later, Itō Yuying watched the three students’ graduation exam and judged Yumengliang’s skills poor.
• The Academy teacher announced Team 15 with Yumengliang, Hana, and Qingliu under Itō Yuying, stunning the classroom.

Itō Yuying became the team leader for Yumengliang, Hana, and Qingliu, then tested their survival skills in the Forest of Death. The three survived a wolf attack, but wolves were still pursuing them as Qingliu stayed behind to cover the others.

• Itō Yuying addressed jealous students and explained why he had chosen the struggling students as his team.
• Yumengliang, Hana, and Qingliu introduced themselves, and Itō Yuying took them to the Forest of Death for a test.
• The three found a cave, prepared a shelter and traps, and began searching for grizzly bears.
• Their trap caught a wild boar, but a pack of wolves surrounded them and wounded the team.
• Yumengliang and Qingliu killed the wolf king, and Qingliu stayed behind to cover Hana and Yumengliang as other wolves followed them.

Qingliu, Yumengliang, and Hana survived a wolf attack in the Forest of Death, and Itō Yuying accepted them as his students. He took them to Yakiniku Q to celebrate, where he left them eating while he went to the restroom.

• Qingliu stayed behind to hold off the wolves while Yumengliang carried Hana toward safety, but the wolves overwhelmed Qingliu.
• Yumengliang returned to rescue Qingliu, and Hana accidentally hit Yumengliang with her Kunai and Shuriken while attacking the wolves.
• Itō Yuying emerged from hiding, healed the three with Senzu Beans, and praised their teamwork before announcing they were officially his students.
• Itō Yuying took the three to Yakiniku Q and treated them to a feast.
• Itō Yuying told his students to keep eating while he went to the restroom.

Itō Yuying arranged to take Hana, Yumengliang, and Qingliu outside the village for training after Tobirama Senju approved a long-term mission. The students paid off the meal bill by working at Yakiniku Q, said farewell to their families, and prepared to leave with their teacher.

• Itō Yuying left Hana, Yumengliang, and Qingliu at Yakiniku Q to work off the bill while he asked Tobirama Senju for permission to train them outside the village.
• Tobirama Senju approved Itō Yuying’s request and assigned him a long-term mission, and Itō Yuying told his students their training trip would begin once they paid the bill.
• Hana, Yumengliang, and Qingliu worked eagerly at Yakiniku Q after learning they would travel with Itō Yuying.
• Eight days later, the three students finished paying the bill, and Itō Yuying told them to rest and say goodbye to their families before leaving in two days.
• Yumengliang’s family celebrated his selection as Itō Yuying’s student, while Hana’s family surprised her with a welcome-home party.
• Itō Yuying reassured Qingliu that he would no longer be alone and encouraged him to train hard.

Itō Yuying took Yumengliang, Hana, and Qingliu out of the village for training and began teaching them chakra control while they traveled to the Land of Wind. The chapter ended with the three students eagerly competing to master Water Walking after Itō Yuying promised to teach them his own powerful Ninjutsu.

• Itō Yuying set out with Yumengliang, Hana, and Qingliu for the Land of Wind, and the students handled camp duties along the way.
• At a lakeside camp, Itō Yuying taught the students tree climbing and Water Walking, then left them to practice while he studied techniques from the Landscape and Rivers State Guardian Diagram.
• Yumengliang mastered tree climbing first, learned Water Walking from Itō Yuying, and helped Hana and Qingliu train.
• Hana and Qingliu practiced late into the night, and Yumengliang helped Qingliu master tree climbing before teaching him Water Walking.
• Yumengliang stayed up practicing Water Walking alone, while Itō Yuying noticed his effort from his tent.
• The next morning, Itō Yuying praised the students and promised to teach them a powerful Ninjutsu he had created if they mastered Water Walking that day, prompting all three to train eagerly.

Itō Yuying trained Qingliu, Yumengliang, and Hana in water walking, then taught them his evasive Konoha Shadow-Stepping Technique. As the students practiced, a Land of Rivers ninja squad continued secretly observing them, suspecting they had a hidden purpose.

• Itō Yuying sent Qingliu, Yumengliang, and Hana to fight a bandit gang, then killed the rogue Sand shinobi who nearly struck Yumengliang and had his students chase down the fleeing bandits.
• Itō Yuying continued water-walking training until all three students could move across the lake, though they had too little chakra to stay on the surface for long.
• Hana, Qingliu, and Yumengliang secretly trained against one another during the night and repeatedly fell into the lake.
• Itō Yuying demonstrated his Konoha Shadow-Stepping Technique, dodging the students' attacks, then taught them the technique and let them practice.
• A Land of Rivers ninja squad watched Itō Yuying and his students and decided to keep observing them because they suspected Konoha had a secret plan.

Hana mastered the Shadow-Treading Step, and Yumengliang and Qingliu soon demonstrated it as well. The Land of Rivers ninja captain and his subordinates secretly copied the technique and hurt themselves trying to learn it, while Itō Yuying prepared to teach Hana an offensive Taijutsu technique.

• Qingliu, Yumengliang, and Hana repeatedly twisted and injured their ankles while training in the Shadow-Treading Step, but kept practicing.
• Hana demonstrated that she had mastered the Shadow-Treading Step, and Itō Yuying praised her and promised to teach her an offensive Taijutsu technique.
• The Land of Rivers ninja captain had a subordinate sketch the students’ movements, then practiced the copied technique with his squad and injured his ankle.
• Yumengliang and Qingliu demonstrated the Shadow-Treading Step for Itō Yuying, who praised their progress and gave them Senzu Bean Soup.
• Itō Yuying called the three students to eat grilled meat, and they reluctantly ate despite asking for something else.

Itō Yuying taught his three students the Konoha Heaven-Damaging Fist before leading them into the Land of Wind. After a tense encounter with a Sand squad, the Kazekage heard of their arrival and considered why Itō Yuying had come.

• Itō Yuying taught Yumengliang, Qingliu, and their companion how to punch and channel chakra, then set off with them for the Land of Wind the next morning.
• Itō Yuying secretly erased the Land of Rivers shinobi who had recorded his lesson, and the group reached the Land of Wind’s border by evening.
• A Sand squad approached their camp, and the three students tried to defend it before the captain subdued them and called for Itō Yuying to come out.
• The Sand captain recognized Itō Yuying, apologized, and ordered his squad to keep their distance while he went to report to the Kazekage.
• The Kazekage summoned Chiyo and Ebizo, and they guessed that Itō Yuying was sightseeing with his students or searching for materials.

The Kazekage decided that Sunagakure’s senior shinobi should take on students after hearing about Itō Yuying’s disciples. Itō Yuying and his students crossed the desert, reached Sunagakure ahead of Chiyo, and left her furious when she returned to find them already there.

• The Kazekage ordered Jonin, Chiyo, and Ebizo to take students and told his shinobi not to obstruct Itō Yuying.
• Chiyo met Itō Yuying in the desert and invited him to visit Sunagakure, but he said he wanted to tour the desert first.
• Itō Yuying and his students grew tired of walking, and he transported them directly to the Kazekage Building.
• The Kazekage arranged for Anbu to escort Itō Yuying and his students to the guest hotel.
• Chiyo returned to Sunagakure and trembled with anger when she learned Itō Yuying had arrived before her.

The Tsuchikage and Raikage ordered their Jonin-level ninja to take students after learning about Itō Yuying’s example. The chapter ended with the Kazekage asking whether he could bring disciples to the Secret Realm, and Itō Yuying warning him that it had grown more dangerous.

• The Tsuchikage ordered Ōnoki to tell Iwagakure’s Jonin-level ninja to take students and warned him not to let anyone provoke Itō Yuying.
• The Raikage ordered Kumogakure’s Jonin-level ninja to take students, then slapped Yotsuki A for wanting to challenge Itō Yuying and explained Itō’s deadly reputation to him and Killer B.
• The Raikage sent Anbu to watch Yotsuki A and report if he encountered Itō Yuying.
• Itō Yuying and his students had breakfast before the Kazekage welcomed them to the Kazekage Building.
• The Kazekage asked if he could take disciples below Jonin level into the Secret Realm, and Itō Yuying warned that they could enter but might die in its increased dangers.

Itō Yuying left the Sand Village with his three students and put them through a demanding journey across the desert and over a mountain. Their battles with giant beasts showed rapid improvement, and they reached the summit overlooking the Land of Rain.

• Itō Yuying discussed the difficulties of training Kage-level ninja with the Kazekage and agreed that safe zones and experienced protectors were necessary.
• After three days in the Sand Village, Itō Yuying and the Three Little Ones departed for the Land of Earth, but he left them to cross the desert on foot.
• Itō Yuying made the students fight a giant insect, and Hana, Qingliu, and Yumengliang defeated it with coordinated attacks.
• The students battled more Desert Giant Beasts over the following days, improving as Itō Yuying pushed them onward.
• After crossing the desert, the three climbed a steep mountain while carefully managing their chakra and reached its summit overlooking the rainy Land of Rain.

Itō Yuying taught the three children Water Release techniques and investigated their unusual talent. Tobirama Senju revealed their distant ties to the Senju, Uchiha, and Hyuga clans, and Itō Yuying returned to inspect the children with fresh suspicion.

• Itō Yuying took Qingliu, Hana, and Yumengliang around the Land of Rain and taught them Water Release techniques, where Qingliu excelled.
• Itō Yuying taught the three the Water Mirror Technique, and Qingliu mastered it first.
• Itō Yuying tested the children with Chakra Paper and found that each had several chakra natures.
• Itō Yuying asked Tobirama Senju about the children, and Tobirama revealed Qingliu was one-quarter Senju, Hana had an Uchiha ancestor, and Yumengliang descended from a Hyuga branch-family member.
• Itō Yuying returned to the children and stared them over, making them uneasy.

After leaving the Land of Rain, Itō Yuying and his three students entered the Land of Earth, where he demonstrated a deadly chakra technique and clashed with local ninja. The chapter ended as Roshi confronted Itō Yuying and both prepared to fight.

• Itō Yuying promised Hanzō that the Land of Rain could send two Quasi-Kage-level people to train in the Secret Realm in three years, then departed with his students for the Land of Earth.
• After fifteen days of travel, Qingliu and Yumengliang helped fend off an ambush, and Itō Yuying taught them to form lethal chakra threads from moisture in the air, killing twenty ninja.
• Ōnoki arrived, accepted Itō Yuying's explanation that the attackers had acted on their own, and erased the corpses before departing with his students.
• Itō Yuying and his students continued sightseeing until Roshi demanded compensation for the dead ninja, then raised his aura as Roshi cloaked himself in chakra.
• Ōnoki and the Tsuchikage sensed the powerful auras as Itō Yuying and Roshi prepared to fight.

Itō Yuying fought Roshi, then battled the Four-Tails, Ōnoki, and the Tsuchikage after they joined forces against him. Though they badly wounded and restrained him, Itō Yuying turned the fight around and left the Four-Tails and Ōnoki gravely injured while the Tsuchikage fell silent.

• Itō Yuying fought Roshi until Roshi transformed into the Four-Tails, Son Goku, and Ōnoki arrived nearby.
• Itō Yuying moved the Three Little Ones to safety, then returned to battle the Four-Tails as Ōnoki watched and eventually joined the attack with Dust Release.
• The Four-Tails and Ōnoki attacked Itō Yuying together, severing his arm and wounding him, but he survived their barrage with an energy barrier.
• The Tsuchikage pinned Itō Yuying with the Added-Weight Rock Technique, and Ōnoki struck him before the Four-Tails launched an enormous Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Itō Yuying escaped the restraint, kicked away the Tailed Beast Bomb, and was pierced by the Tsuchikage’s Rock Spear Technique.
• Itō Yuying pierced the Four-Tails’ belly and severed his four tails, then blasted through Ōnoki’s chest and challenged the silent Tsuchikage to repeat his accusation.

Itō Yuying struck the Tsuchikage, Ōnoki, and Roshi with energy beams, then destroyed much of Iwagakure with a huge blast. After leaving with Hana and the others, he redirected their journey toward Kumogakure, while the other villages learned of the attack and Tobirama Senju heard Itō Yuying’s account.

• The Tsuchikage offered his life to spare Ōnoki and Roshi, but Itō Yuying fired energy beams through all three and left their survival uncertain.
• Itō Yuying spared the three children and departed with Hana and the others as a mushroom cloud rose over Iwagakure and the blast wave swept through the area.
• The surviving Rock Ninja found a vast crater and rushed the injured leaders to medical care while much of the village lay in ruins.
• The other villages received news of the attack, and the Raikage warned Yotsuki A not to provoke Itō Yuying when he came to Kumogakure.
• Itō Yuying reported to Tobirama Senju that Roshi, the Tsuchikage, and Ōnoki had been formidable, and Tobirama told him to look for Killer B in Kumogakure.

Itō Yuying toured Kumogakure and the Valley of Clouds and Lightning with his three students, where he met the Third Raikage and agreed to a student sparring match. The Raikage arranged for the match to begin the next day, and Itō Yuying allowed Killer B to participate so he could see the new Eight-Tails Jinchuriki’s strength.

• Yugito Nii welcomed Itō Yuying and his companions to Kumogakure and questioned him about the destruction in Rock Shadow Village.
• Itō Yuying toured the Valley of Clouds and Lightning with Yumengliang, Qingliu, and Hana, where Yotsuki A warned them that outsiders could not enter the forbidden ground.
• Itō Yuying introduced himself to Yotsuki A, and the Third Raikage arrived and escorted the group deeper into the valley.
• The Third Raikage proposed a student sparring match with a wager: the losing side would receive guidance from the winning side, and Itō Yuying agreed.
• Yotsuki A pulled Killer B from the cliff, and the Third Raikage identified him as his student and the new Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Itō Yuying invited Killer B to join the next day’s sparring match, saying he wanted to see how strong he was.

Itō Yuying visited Kumogakure, where the Raikage postponed their match and secretly tried to secure his descendants by sending women to seduce him. The women failed, but a mysterious figure entered Itō Yuying’s room overnight, leaving him puzzled when he woke to find his bedsheet missing.

• The Raikage spanked Killer B, then postponed the match with Itō Yuying for three days so Kumogakure could train.
• Yotsuki A lost an eating contest with Itō Yuying, then heard the Raikage’s plan to arrange for Itō Yuying to father a child with a Kumogakure woman.
• Yotsuki A selected five women to visit Itō Yuying, but they failed to seduce him despite using Dragon's Roar Incense.
• A mysterious figure entered Itō Yuying’s room late at night, and he woke the next morning unable to remember the night and wondering where his bedsheet had gone.

Itō Yuying trained his students before the Konoha and Kumogakure sparring matches, while a mysterious visitor secretly slipped into his room at night. At the arena, Hana recovered from an early defeat and won her match against Ruroi with a combined jutsu.

• Itō Yuying told Hana, Qingliu, and Yumengliang to treat the sparring matches as a chance to learn, while the Raikage urged his three Lightning Ninja to win instruction from Itō Yuying.
• Killer B revealed that Eight-Tails had told him to beat the Konoha students half to death, but the Raikage ordered him to fight fairly.
• A mysterious figure entered Itō Yuying's room at night, and he later noticed that his bedsheets had disappeared again without realizing who had taken them.
• Hana's careless shuriken nearly hit Itō Yuying, the Raikage, and Yotsuki A before Ruroi struck Hana with lightning and appeared to win.
• Hana used a clone, a swamp, and combined fire and wind ninjutsu to trap Ruroi; Yotsuki A stopped the fireball, and Hana was declared the winner.

Yumengliang defeated Killer B in a brutal spar using Shadow-Treading Step and Konoha Heaven-Damaging Fist, though Killer B's Eight-Tails chakra healed his injuries. After the rivals made peace, the final match was postponed until tomorrow, and Qingliu went off to train alone when Itō Yuying fell asleep instead of coaching him.

• Yotsuki A rebuked Ruroi for mocking her opponent after losing, then called Yumengliang and Killer B to begin their match.
• Killer B gained the upper hand with his taijutsu and swords, but Yumengliang evaded his attacks with Shadow-Treading Step and struck back with Konoha Heaven-Damaging Fist.
• Killer B used the Eight-Tails' chakra to heal and attack with chakra arms, but Yumengliang exhausted himself with one final barrage and won the spar.
• Hana and Qingliu helped Yumengliang recover, and he and Killer B exchanged a friendly fist bump after the match.
• Itō Yuying and the Raikage postponed the final match until tomorrow, and Itō Yuying went to rest.
• Qingliu found Itō Yuying asleep instead of receiving private coaching, so he left to train by himself.

Lei Luo used the Raikage’s advice and a lightning net to trap and badly injure Qingliu, but Qingliu recovered and prepared to counterattack. The match remained undecided as Lei Luo, nearly out of chakra, searched for a way to win.

• The Raikage advised Lei Luo to pressure the final opponent in close combat and warned him about Qingliu’s strange footwork.
• Lei Luo opened the match with a relentless close-range assault, but Qingliu escaped and activated Shadow-Treading Step.
• Lei Luo used Lightning-Attracting Formation to turn his shuriken into a lightning net, impressing Itō Yuying, who promised to teach an S-plus rank ninjutsu if Lei Luo won.
• After the Raikage announced the promise to spur him on, Lei Luo blocked Qingliu’s escape and struck him with Lightning Flash, trapping him beneath the lightning net.
• Lei Luo followed with two more lightning techniques, but Qingliu slowly stood back up and announced that it was his turn.

Qingliu used a nearly invisible cutting technique and phasing to overwhelm Lei Luo, but his chakra ran out and Lei Luo knocked him unconscious with one final punch. The Raikage celebrated Lei Luo’s victory while Itō Yuying watched the match end.

• Qingliu formed a water ball, turned its droplets into an invisible cutting thread, and sliced a boulder in half before cutting off Lei Luo’s arm.
• Qingliu struck Lei Luo with five kunai and urged him to surrender, but Lei Luo refused because he had promised the Raikage he would win.
• Lei Luo sprang up and punched through Qingliu as Qingliu phased out of reach, surprising the spectators and the Raikage.
• Lei Luo repeatedly attacked Qingliu’s phasing body until Qingliu ran out of chakra and reappeared.
• Lei Luo used Lightning Body Flicker to land a final punch that knocked Qingliu unconscious, and the Raikage loudly celebrated the win.

Itō Yuying healed Lei Luo, confronted the Raikage about the incense, and began training six Genin in Kumogakure. On a lightning-filled mountaintop, he demonstrated his upgraded Ten Thousand Thunder Heavenly Prison Attraction technique.

• The Raikage gave Lei Luo Senzu Bean Soup from Itō Yuying, and Lei Luo’s arm regrew as he recovered.
• Itō Yuying agreed to train Kumogakure’s Genin for three days before leaving for the Land of Water, and revealed that he had recognized the aphrodisiac in the Raikage’s incense.
• Qingliu awoke, apologized to Itō Yuying, and was told not to let his guard down before a fight was over.
• The Raikage took Itō Yuying and the Genin to a lightning-struck peak in the Valley of Clouds and Lightning, where the training began.
• Itō Yuying demonstrated his S-plus Rank Ten Thousand Thunder Heavenly Prison Attraction, using cloned shuriken and lightning to bombard a hill while explaining how dust or water could contain its light.