Recaps

Ye Feng joined Minato Namikaze’s team on missions that exposed threats from bandits and Sunagakure, while he continued training and helped Orochimaru study natural energy. The arc ended with Minato preparing to travel to Kumogakure and Ye Feng proposing a new design for the Flying Thunder God mark.

• Minato Namikaze trained Ye Feng, Kakashi Hatake, and Uchiha Shinichi, taught them the Rasengan’s principles, and led their first C-rank mission against Black Wind Stockade.
• Ye Feng and his teammates defeated the bandits, rescued captives, and helped Minato Namikaze settle the refugees near Konoha before the Third Hokage upgraded their mission to A-rank.
• Ye Feng sparred with Might Duy and joined Minato Namikaze’s team on a sweep toward Takigakure, where Kakuzu attacked and then left the Land of Fire after Ye Feng exposed his survival.
• Ye Feng and the Konoha teams uncovered Sunagakure ninja near the border and fought them, killing the attackers who did not escape or take their own lives.
• The Third Hokage upgraded the mission to S-rank and assigned Minato Namikaze to travel with Orochimaru to Kumogakure, with Ye Feng and the other two squad members joining them.
• Ye Feng explained true qi to Orochimaru and promised to teach him to condense it, then suggested that Minato Namikaze redesign the Flying Thunder God mark to hold spiritual power.

Ye Feng helped secure Konoha’s alliance with Kumogakure, rescued Sarutobi Muze, and used a lightning Kirin to break an ambush on the return journey. After months of training, Minato Namikaze assessed Kakashi Hatake and Uchiha Shinichi before Kumogakure’s delegation arrived in Konoha for the coming Chunin Exams.

• Ye Feng joined Orochimaru’s mission to Kumogakure, trained Kakashi Hatake and Uchiha Shinichi, and helped Uchiha Shinichi awaken the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Konoha and Kumogakure settled an alliance through matches, where Minato Namikaze defeated Yura and Toroi, Sasori poisoned Sarutobi Muze, and Ye Feng defeated Yugito Nii.
• Ye Feng used true qi to purge Sarutobi Muze’s poison, then helped Orochimaru’s team escape an ambush by summoning a lightning Kirin.
• Orochimaru reported the mission’s success, while Ye Feng advised Uchiha Tianchang to conceal the clan’s strength and encouraged Uchiha Shinichi to help change Konoha.
• Ye Feng cultivated true qi and advanced genjutsu, grew powerful enough to cut a trench near Hokage Rock, and learned Flying Thunder God sealing from Minato Namikaze.
• After six months apart, Kakashi Hatake and Uchiha Shinichi fought Minato Namikaze in a training match, using teamwork and new techniques before Minato defeated them.
• Kumogakure’s delegation arrived in Konoha, where Killer B reunited with Ye Feng and Ye Feng brought Yugito Nii to join the group for barbecue and a tour of the village.

Ye Feng exposed Root’s attempts to kill him, raised Garurumon, and entered the tournament as Minato resolved to become Hokage. The matches advanced to Ye Feng’s fight with Yugito Nii, where he opened the Third Gate after her attacks wounded him.

• Might Duy sparred with Killer B, and Ye Feng stopped Killer B from unleashing his orange chakra in Konoha before leading the group away.
• Ye Feng hosted a barbecue for his friends, then avoided his visitors and hid until the exam began, and he noticed extra candidates planted to help others during the written test.
• Ye Feng used invisible threads to answer questions for Kakashi Hatake and Uchiha Shinichi, then fled the exam and bargained with Minato Namikaze for meals in exchange for keeping his Flying Thunder God Technique secret.
• Ye Feng exposed Kojima Nobukawa and Kamii Ran’s attack in the Forest of Death, delivered them to Orochimaru, and faked his death while heading to the Central Tower.
• Ye Feng reappeared at the Tower and helped expose a Root operation that had trained orphans as suicide attackers, while the Third Hokage ordered Shimura Danzō to surrender Root records.
• Ye Feng and Minato Namikaze defeated Root ninja sent by Shimura Danzō, then Ye Feng rescued a wolf cub and named her Garurumon, and the Third Hokage confined Danzō for a year.
• Minato Namikaze resolved to become the next Hokage, while Ye Feng cared for Garurumon and the tournament began, and Uchiha Shinichi, Hyuga Junin, Kakashi Hatake, and Kuru won their matches.
• Ye Feng fought Yugito Nii after Kuru defeated Nara Shikahira, and Yugito’s partial Tailed Beast transformation wounded Ye Feng, who drove her back and opened the Third Gate.

Ye Feng won the Chunin Ninja Exams, became a Jonin, and deepened his ties with Orochimaru while pursuing cultivation and a spirit beast contract with Garurumon. As he pushed the Uchiha Clan toward fairer conduct and villagers brought complaints to the Military Police Force, he and Minato Namikaze prepared to obtain Gamabunta’s blood.

• Ye Feng defeated Yugito Nii after Matatabi emerged, then overwhelmed Kuru and was promoted to Jonin after the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Ye Feng gave Orochimaru Two-Tails chakra to study, received the Kusanagi Sword, and warned him against using Ryūchi Cave’s unusual natural energy.
• Ye Feng rejected Hyuga Takeda’s offer to teach the Gentle Fist, told him that Hizashi Hyuga seemed destined to die young, and declared that he wanted the entire Hyuga Clan.
• Ye Feng completed a spirit beast contract with Garurumon, who grew rapidly and gained telepathic communication with him.
• Ye Feng led a Uchiha search squad, punished a subordinate for mistreating villagers, and urged the clan to change its conduct.
• Ye Feng introduced Garurumon to Orochimaru, who learned that Two-Tails chakra could become a small Tailed Beast if infused with its consciousness.
• Villagers brought complaints to the Military Police Force, and Uchiha Tianchang handed over implicated Uchiha Chunin and Jonin as the force investigated impartially.
• Ye Feng and Minato Namikaze staged a fight in the woods to obtain Gamabunta’s blood, and Minato summoned Gamabunta.