Recaps

Ye Feng battered Ōtsutsuki Isshiki with Sumeru and the Kusanagi Sword, then concealed the sword when Isshiki tried to claim it. Their battle continued as Ye Feng disrupted Isshiki’s chakra through his Tenketsu and struck him with spirit fire, which Isshiki mistakenly treated as ordinary flames.

• Ye Feng used Sumeru to drive Isshiki into a huge crater and stab him with the Kusanagi Sword, but Isshiki grabbed the blade and admired it while his wound healed.
• Ye Feng recalled the Kusanagi Sword and concealed it inside his body, refusing to surrender it despite Isshiki’s threats.
• Isshiki attacked with Chakra Rods, but Ye Feng used Sumeru to evade them and jabbed Isshiki’s Tenketsu with True Qi, briefly disrupting his control of his body.
• Isshiki retreated and questioned Ye Feng about what he had done, but Ye Feng attacked again, vanished behind him, and struck him with spirit fire.
• Isshiki dismissed Ye Feng’s blow as weak and reached back to pat out the flames, unaware that the True Qi-fueled spirit fire would not go out until his True Qi was dispersed.

Ye Feng and Kaguya tried to feed Isshiki to the Ten-Tails God Tree after Ye Feng trapped him with Sumeru. Isshiki broke free, wounded Ye Feng, and prepared to kill Kaguya as she charged him with Chakra Rods.

• Ye Feng's Spirit Fire forced Isshiki to reveal his second form, but Kaguya ambushed him with three Chakra Rods and declared that she wanted to live.
• Isshiki used Sukunahikona to shrink himself, but Ye Feng detected him and slowed his flow of time with Sumeru.
• Ye Feng urged Kaguya to take him to the God Tree, and she transformed its trunk into a huge mouth for Isshiki.
• Isshiki returned to his normal size near the God Tree, exhausted Ye Feng's ocular power, and struck him hard enough to send him crashing to the ground.
• Kaguya charged Isshiki with two Chakra Rods, and Isshiki turned toward her and raised his hand to kill her.

Ye Feng and Kaguya wounded Isshiki and drove him to flee, though he escaped before they could finish him off. After Ye Feng woke, Kaguya thanked him by offering him Isshiki’s juvenile Ten-Tails.

• Ye Feng held Isshiki in place and used Sumeru to slow him, letting Kaguya pierce him with a Chakra Rod.
• Ye Feng kicked Isshiki toward the God Tree, which devoured his lower body, but Isshiki escaped by using Shinjutsu and crawling away with his hands.
• Ye Feng tried to pursue Isshiki, then collapsed from his injuries and passed out.
• Ye Feng woke beside Kaguya, who said she had spared him because she sensed a familiar aura from him.
• Kaguya pulled a juvenile Ten-Tails from a spatial rift and offered it to Ye Feng as thanks for saving her.

Ye Feng absorbed the Ten-Tails’ advanced energy to transform his true qi and begin advancing to the Golden Core Realm. A heavenly tribulation appeared overhead, and the chapter ended as lightning struck him.

• Kaguya explained that the Ten-Tails was no longer useful to her and gave it to Ye Feng, who sensed its energy was more advanced than his true qi.
• Kaguya encouraged Ye Feng to keep cultivating, and he regained his confidence and prepared to absorb the Ten-Tails.
• Ye Feng absorbed the Ten-Tails’ energy, compressed and transformed his true qi, and began forming a golden core.
• Dark clouds gathered as Ye Feng’s breakthrough triggered a lightning tribulation, and a giant lightning dragon appeared in the sky.
• Kaguya moved to help Ye Feng, but he warned her to stay back so the tribulation would not grow stronger; lightning then struck him.

Ye Feng struggled to survive successive tribulation lightning strikes with Kaguya’s energy beads, but his defenses could not withstand the third. The Kusanagi Sword defied his order to retreat and shielded him, giving Ye Feng the resolve to strike back and cleave through the thunderclouds.

• Ye Feng asked Kaguya for energy, and she gave him five emerald-green beads that he arranged into a healing formation.
• Ye Feng used his remaining energy to raise a shield against the second bolt, but the lightning broke through and left him badly injured.
• As a third, stronger bolt descended, the Kusanagi Sword appeared on its own and blocked part of the strike despite Ye Feng ordering it back.
• The Kusanagi Sword cracked under the lightning, and Ye Feng summoned Susanoo and infused the sword with energy.
• Ye Feng swung the enlarged Kusanagi Sword and sent Sword Energy through the thunderclouds, opening a path to the clear sky.

Ye Feng survived the tribulation and awakened in the Golden Core Realm with lightning-controlling powers and the ability to perceive origin force. Kaguya left with the talismans he gave her, while Ye Feng resolved to continue pursuing ascension.

• Ye Feng was overwhelmed by the Lightning Dragon's tribulation lightning, but a golden bead emerged from his body and absorbed the strikes before a rumble frightened the dragon away.
• Kaguya found Ye Feng alive, placed him in his Magic Formation, and watched as his charred body healed.
• Ye Feng awoke, discovered a golden core in place of his dantian, and learned to control the lightning coiled around it.
• Kaguya announced she was leaving, and Ye Feng gave her his Wood Spirit Talismans and Invisibility Spirit Talismans before she departed.
• Ye Feng perceived origin force flowing through the world and around the God Tree, then reaffirmed his goal of ascension.

Ye Feng refused Ryūmyaku's request to destroy the God Tree, promising instead to build a force capable of protecting the Shinobi World. After returning to Looking Mountain Village to cultivate, he used his divine sense to find Xiao Ling in danger and appeared at her doorway.

• Ye Feng forced Ryūmyaku's power of origin out of himself and learned that Ryūmyaku had brought him there to destroy the God Tree.
• Ye Feng rejected the request, explaining that he needed to build his own force and that the Ōtsutsuki Clan's cultivation method was safer for his followers.
• Ryūmyaku agreed to send Ye Feng back, and Ye Feng asked to stay longer to cultivate the five elements origin before choosing a mountain forest near Xiao Ling's home.
• Ye Feng returned to Looking Mountain Village and discovered with his fifty-kilometer divine sense that Xiao Ling's parents had been knocked unconscious and two men were attacking her.
• Ye Feng stopped the two men with his power, and Xiao Ling saw him standing in the doorway after they collapsed.

Ye Feng rescued Xiao Ling's family and learned that General Pinggong's subordinates had abused their authority and attempted to assault Xiao Ling. He brought the men to General Pinggong in Gucheng and demanded that they answer for their crime.

• Xiao Ling embraced Ye Feng while naked, then hid under the covers in embarrassment after realizing he had seen her.
• Ye Feng woke the two men who had attacked Xiao Ling's family and learned they were waiting for him on General Pinggong's orders.
• Ye Feng found General Pinggong in Gucheng and reported that the men had attempted to violate Xiao Ling.
• General Pinggong confirmed the accusation when the men begged him to save their lives, then kicked them away and demanded an explanation.

Ye Feng tested General Pinggong’s character by making a civilian judge him, then spared Pinggong and his soldiers after hearing that he treated the people well. He restored the chosen old man’s youth, but killed the two men who had harmed Xiao Ling with lightning.

• General Pinggong beat the two offending soldiers and offered his life in exchange for theirs, but Ye Feng demanded a civilian’s judgment of him.
• Ye Feng selected a white-haired old man and used his Sharingan to ask how General Pinggong treated the civilians.
• The old man said Pinggong treated them well, maintained order, and cleared out nearby bandits.
• Ye Feng restored the old man’s youth, astonishing the crowd, who knelt and hailed him as divine.
• Ye Feng spared Pinggong and his soldiers but refused to spare the two men who had harmed Xiao Ling.
• Two bolts of lightning struck the men, reducing them to ash.

Ye Feng secured Pinggong’s promise to protect Xiao Ling’s family and left after rejecting Xiao Ling’s offer of marriage, telling her he had to return to his own world. He settled in the mountains to cultivate and discovered that his Sharingan had evolved into a Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan.

• Ye Feng warned Pinggong to protect Xiao Ling’s family and avoid hunting the white-haired woman, offering help if needed.
• Ye Feng returned to Xiao Ling’s home, where her parents thanked him for saving them.
• Xiao Ling asked Ye Feng to marry her, but he pulled away and said he had to leave for his own world.
• Xiao Ling’s parents held her back as Ye Feng disappeared, and she fainted after he left.
• Ye Feng made an illusion Magic Formation in the mountains and discovered his eyes had evolved into the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan.
• Ye Feng began sensing the Origin Force of the five elements.

After ten years of cultivating the Five Elements Origins, Ye Feng returned to Looking Mountain Village and reunited with Xiao Ling, who had waited for him. He asked her to leave with him for his own era, and her mother urged her to go despite Xiao Ling’s distress at leaving her parents.

• Ye Feng reached the introductory stage in Metal Origin after five years of effort, and Ryūmyaku pressed him to leave the past era.
• Ye Feng visited Xiao Ling and discovered that she had remained unmarried and mourned him for ten years.
• Ye Feng revealed himself to Xiao Ling, who recognized him and joyfully embraced him.
• Ye Feng told Xiao Ling that he had come from a thousand years in the future and could not return to her era again.
• Xiao Ling struggled to choose between Ye Feng and her parents, and her mother told Ye Feng to take her with him.

Xiao Ling chose to stay with her parents rather than leave with Ye Feng, and he gave her a way to keep his memories and promised he could resurrect her in the future. After Ye Feng vanished, she discovered his voice remained inside the protective necklace he had given her.

• Xiao Ling decided to remain with her parents, refused to let Ye Feng seal her memories, and agreed to wait for the day he could resurrect her.
• Ye Feng rejuvenated Xiao Ling and her parents, then made a necklace from an Energy Orb and bound it to Xiao Ling as protection.
• Ryūmyaku warned that the place was rejecting him, and Ye Feng said goodbye to Xiao Ling before disappearing.
• Xiao Ling heard Ye Feng's voice from the necklace, and he told her he was inside it and could watch over her.
• Xiao Ling's parents worried that she was speaking to herself, but she insisted that she was fine.

Ye Feng returned from the past to a point four or five years later, finding Rōran ruined and the Third Shinobi World War apparently over. He reached Konoha to learn what had happened to Might Duy, but Minato Namikaze mistook him for an impostor and had the Anbu surround him.

• Ye Feng learned that the Ryūmyaku could not send him back to his original time for at least a hundred years, so he set out to check the Shinobi World.
• The Ryūmyaku confirmed that Ye Feng remained in his original world, then vanished to recover before answering his questions about who could punish it.
• Ye Feng saw that Rōran had fallen into ruin, confirmed his Flying Thunder God Marks still worked, and sensed signs that the Third Shinobi World War had ended.
• Ye Feng returned to Konoha, found Tian Nai's and Yuna's belongings at home, and saw memorial portraits honoring ninja killed in the war.
• Ye Feng found no sign of Might Duy and teleported to the Hokage Office, where Minato Namikaze accused him of impersonating Uchiha Yefeng and the Anbu drew their weapons.

Ye Feng reunited with Minato Namikaze after returning to Konoha and learned that Might Duy, Obito Uchiha, Rin Nohara, and Inuzuka Clan Fengyu had died in the Third Shinobi World War. After hearing that Feng Yu’s body was missing, Ye Feng left to search for it.

• Ye Feng proved his identity to Minato Namikaze with private memories, and explained that the Ryūmyaku had taken him away for several years.
• Minato Namikaze told Ye Feng that Might Duy had opened the Eighth Gate to protect his comrades, killed the invading ninja including members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, and died in the battle.
• Minato Namikaze revealed that Obito Uchiha, Rin Nohara, and Inuzuka Clan Fengyu had also died during the Third Shinobi World War, causing Ye Feng’s aura to erupt and scatter documents through the Hokage Office.
• Ye Feng asked how Feng Yu had died, and Minato Namikaze explained that she fell on the Iwagakure front and her body was never returned.
• Ye Feng said he would search for Feng Yu’s body and left the Hokage Office.

Ye Feng returned after five years and visited Feng Yu’s mother, asking for tissue that could help him revive Feng Yu. He then reunited with Matsumoto Tiannai and Qiuyu Yuna, who had feared he was dead, and the chapter ended with them crying in his arms.

• Minato Namikaze invited Ye Feng for a drink, but Ye Feng declined and left, prompting Minato to worry about what he might do to Iwagakure.
• Ye Feng visited Feng Yu’s mother and asked whether she had any of Feng Yu’s tissue, explaining that he knew a resurrection technique that needed a medium.
• Feng Yu’s mother said she would ask Feng Yu’s father and search for a way to find the tissue.
• Ye Feng returned home and waited for Matsumoto Tiannai and Qiuyu Yuna to arrive.
• Matsumoto Tiannai and Qiuyu Yuna saw Ye Feng, rushed into his arms, and cried with relief after realizing he had really returned.

Ye Feng reunited with his companions and learned how the Third Shinobi World War had unfolded, ending in Konoha’s victory and Minato Namikaze becoming Fourth Hokage. As Uchiha Tianchang and Takeda Hyuga arrived to see him, Ye Feng sensed Kushina Uzumaki’s unborn child and realized his divine sense had grown stronger.

• Ye Feng carried the sleeping women to bed, then welcomed Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, and their companion when they came to visit.
• Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze told Ye Feng how the Third Shinobi World War had progressed, including Orochimaru’s defense, Minato’s victories, Might Duy’s Eight Gates battle, and the losses of Kakashi’s team.
• The villages withdrew from the war, and Tsunade stepped down as Fourth Hokage so Minato Namikaze could take the position.
• Jiraiya explained that he stayed in Konoha to help Minato Namikaze and guard Kushina Uzumaki, who was pregnant.
• Ye Feng sensed the life growing inside Kushina Uzumaki and noticed that his divine sense had improved.
• Uchiha Tianchang and his son, along with Takeda Hyuga and his son, arrived to visit Ye Feng.

Ye Feng confirmed that a resurrection Ninjutsu existed but required the dead person's body or soul, then used Feng Yu's hair to search for her remains. The flame led him to the battlefield near Iwagakure, where he found no body and suspected it had been destroyed or taken with a spatial ability.

• Uchiha Tianchang and Takeda Hyuga visited Ye Feng, and Feng Yu's parents arrived asking whether he could bring her back to life.
• Ye Feng told everyone that resurrection required the person's body or soul, while Orochimaru said he could not help without flesh tissue.
• Feng Yu's father gave Ye Feng the hair he had collected, and Ye Feng used it to create a flame that pointed toward Feng Yu's remains.
• Ye Feng used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the battlefield near Iwagakure and followed the flame through the forest.
• Ye Feng found that the flame pointed back to where he had come from, confirming that Feng Yu's body had disappeared from the area.

Ye Feng went to Iwagakure to question the Third Tsuchikage about Feng Yu’s body, but the Iwa ninja attacked him instead. He overwhelmed their fighters with his strength and sensed their Earth Release attacks, though the chapter ended as a swamp formed beneath him.

• Ye Feng flew to Iwagakure, believing the Third Tsuchikage might have hidden Feng Yu’s body.
• Ye Feng identified himself to the guards and asked to speak with the Third Tsuchikage, but an Iwa ninja ordered the others to seize him.
• Ye Feng knocked a charging Jonin into Iwagakure’s defensive wall with a single punch.
• The lead Jonin rallied the Iwa ninja, then realized Ye Feng was not using ninjutsu and ordered them to attack from a distance.
• Ye Feng dodged rocks erupting from the ground, but an Iwa ninja cast Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld beneath his feet.

Ye Feng overwhelmed Iwagakure’s ninja at the village entrance, using his earth powers to nullify their techniques and beat them down. Ōnoki arrived to confront him, but Ye Feng stopped his attack and then caught Akatsuchi’s punch, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Ye Feng stood unharmed on the swamp, evaded Iwagakure’s rock cannonballs, and trapped and beat the ninja who tried to seize him with the Headhunter Jutsu.
• Ye Feng blocked an Earth Dragon Bullet with a thin slab of earth, then beat the remaining Iwagakure ninja until they sounded the enemy attack warning.
• Ōnoki flew to the entrance with Akatsuchi and Kitsuchi, found dozens of ninja down, and attacked Ye Feng with Earth Release: Rock Arm.
• Ye Feng stopped Ōnoki’s stone hand and accused him of attacking before learning what had happened.
• Akatsuchi charged Ye Feng, but Ye Feng caught his stone-covered fist and held him fast even as he tried to retreat.

Ye Feng confronted Ōnoki and the Iwagakure ninja after they attacked him, overwhelming the gathered shinobi with his aura and revealing evidence that they had provoked him first. After learning Ye Feng was Konoha's Uchiha Yefeng, Ōnoki apologized and agreed to answer his questions, and Ye Feng asked where Inuzuka Clan Fengyu’s body was.

• Ye Feng beat Akatsuchi until Ōnoki attacked with Dust Release, allowing Kitsuchi to rescue Akatsuchi.
• Ye Feng argued with Ōnoki and the Iwagakure ninja, then unleashed his aura and forced nearly everyone present to the ground.
• Ōnoki asked Ye Feng who he was and why he had come, and Ye Feng withdrew his aura before showing a pane with the Iwagakure ninja discussing how to teach him a lesson.
• Ōnoki recognized Ye Feng as Konoha’s Uchiha Yefeng and apologized, while the Iwagakure ninja accepted their Tsuchikage’s submissive response.
• Ye Feng asked Ōnoki where the body of Inuzuka Clan Fengyu, a Konoha ninja who died during the Third Shinobi World War, was.

Ye Feng searched for Feng Yu's missing body, ruled out Ōnoki, and discovered traces that pointed to Black Zetsu. After returning to Konoha with a lead, he faced Tsunade's questions about the resurrection technique and its price.

• Ye Feng used Genjutsu on Ōnoki, who confirmed that Iwagakure had not taken Feng Yu's body, then ordered the gate guards punished and the incident kept secret.
• Ye Feng found unusual traces beneath the soil and suspected Black Zetsu had sealed Feng Yu's body and escaped underground.
• Ye Feng returned to Konoha and told Feng Yu's parents he had a lead and would keep searching for her.
• Tsunade returned to Ye Feng's home and asked whether his resurrection technique could truly revive Nawaki and Dan Katō.
• Tsunade accused Ye Feng and Orochimaru of lying about the technique's cost, then snatched Ye Feng's teacup in anger.

Ye Feng told Tsunade that resurrection could cost his life, then reassured her and her companions that he had a possible way to replenish life force. He later examined Orochimaru and discovered that a corrupted soul was preventing him from advancing beyond the Body Tempering Realm.

• Ye Feng explained that resurrection required special eyes and a life-force cost, prompting Matsumoto Tiannai and Yuna to object to risking his life.
• Ye Feng reassured the women that he had an untested way to replenish life force, while Tsunade left after he urged her to consider whether she truly wanted to revive Dan Katō.
• Ye Feng visited Orochimaru's laboratory, revealed that he had reached the Golden Core Realm, and described his journey a thousand years into the past.
• Ye Feng suggested using Moryo to help Orochimaru advance, but Orochimaru revealed that he remained stuck in the Body Tempering Realm.
• Ye Feng examined Orochimaru and found that corruption in his soul had weakened his Spiritual Power and prevented his breakthrough.

Ye Feng purified long-standing impurities in Orochimaru’s soul, leaving him exhausted but feeling better than ever. After returning home to Tian Nai and Yuna, Ye Feng wondered who could have secretly afflicted Orochimaru for so many years.

• Orochimaru asked Ye Feng to identify the cause of the impurities in his soul, and Ye Feng said they had been corroding him for a long time.
• Orochimaru agreed to undergo purification despite the severe pain, and Ye Feng used spiritual power and origin force to cleanse him.
• Orochimaru said he felt lighter before falling asleep, and Ye Feng carried him to a recliner and left the laboratory.
• Ye Feng returned home and surprised Tian Nai and Yuna, who had waited with dinner; he reheated the dishes with his power and teased them.
• Ye Feng considered Orochimaru’s unexplained condition and wondered whether Black Zetsu was responsible.

Ye Feng reunited with Shisui Uchiha and brought the slow-witted Might Guy back to his home, where Guy finally recognized him. The three shared breakfast, and Guy asked how Ye Feng had returned after supposedly dying.

• Ye Feng found Shisui Uchiha waiting at his door and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to bring Might Guy from the training ground.
• Shisui recognized Ye Feng at once, while Might Guy repeatedly failed to identify him and mistook him for someone else.
• Ye Feng served breakfast, and Might Guy praised the cooking without realizing whose house he was in.
• Ye Feng told Might Guy that he was Uchiha Yefeng, and Guy finally recognized him.
• Might Guy asked Ye Feng how he had returned after being thought dead, and Ye Feng explained that he had been trapped somewhere and had only just escaped.

Ye Feng told Might Guy that his father, Might Duy, had faked his death and promised to heal Guy's injuries. He then teleported Shisui to a training ground to test his strength, where Shisui attacked with kunai and fire dragons.

• Ye Feng told Might Guy that Might Duy was alive and warned him to keep the secret.
• Ye Feng healed Might Guy's injuries and invited him to return for treatment whenever he needed it.
• Might Guy left to train, and Shisui questioned Ye Feng about whether his claim was true.
• Ye Feng teleported Shisui to a training ground and challenged him to a test of strength.
• Shisui opened the fight by throwing kunai and following up with two fire dragons.