Recaps

Ye Feng secured the Hyuga Clan’s support, then helped foil Shimura Danzō’s attempt to kill the Third Hokage while seeking Tsunade to treat Hiruzen. The arc leaves Konoha under attack, with Tsunade and Jiraiya returning to help.

• Ye Feng claimed he was Yahiko, collected Gamabunta’s blood, and used it to create an intermediate Water Dragon Talisman before delivering basic Spirit Talismans to Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki.
• Ye Feng won Takeda Hyuga’s support by promising to evolve the Byakugan into the Tenseigan, and he demonstrated Tai Chi to the Hyuga Clan.
• Orochimaru and Ye Feng prepared for Shimura Danzō’s plans, but Danzō sent the Blood Moon Squad to ambush the Third Hokage, and Ye Feng, Jiraiya, and Hatake Sakumo fought the attackers, and Hiruzen and Sakumo were badly wounded.
• Ye Feng stabilized Hiruzen and Sakumo with Wood Spirit Talismans, while Jiraiya and Orochimaru confronted Danzō and the advisors ordered him to stay away from the Third Hokage.
• Ye Feng took Jiraiya to search for Tsunade, and they fought an ambush after discovering that their whereabouts had been leaked, and Ye Feng suspected Danzō had informed Sunagakure and Iwagakure.
• Ye Feng found Tsunade in the Land of Hot Water and told her Hiruzen was poisoned, so she agreed to return to Konoha with him and Jiraiya.
• Danzō’s allies launched an assault on Konoha, sending wild beasts through the gates and assassins into the hospital, where Orochimaru and Minato Namikaze set a trap to protect Hiruzen and Sakumo.
• Tsunade believed Ye Feng’s account that Jiraiya had not spied on her, and Jiraiya urged her to return to Konoha to treat the Third Hokage.

Ye Feng helped expose Shimura Danzō’s role in the attack on the Third Hokage and helped Tsunade survive Danzō’s last sealing technique. As Konoha prepared for war with Sunagakure, Ye Feng joined Minato Namikaze at the front and helped him escape the Third Kazekage.

• Ye Feng and Tsunade found the Third Hokage safe after the hospital attack, while Jiraiya discovered that the assault on the gate had been a diversion.
• As the Third Hokage remained unconscious, Danzō sought the Acting Hokage position, but Ye Feng and Orochimaru exposed Root’s role in the assassination attempt and Danzō’s part in Nawaki’s and Dan Katō’s deaths.
• Tsunade attacked Danzō, who triggered the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique, and Ye Feng rescued Tsunade from the sealing sphere before taking her to rest.
• After Tsunade agreed to become Hokage, Orochimaru gained support to lead Konoha’s forces against Sunagakure, while Ye Feng persuaded him to hold back and help reshape the balance among the villages.
• Ye Feng traveled ahead of the army, discovered a White Zetsu at a guard outpost, and reached the battlefield, where he used talismans to help surrounded Konoha Ninja escape.
• The Third Kazekage blocked Minato Namikaze and Ye Feng, and Ye Feng stayed behind with Minato while the weakened Konoha forces fled.
• Minato Namikaze fought the Third Kazekage and believed he had killed him, but the Kazekage survived behind iron sand and advanced on the exhausted Minato.
• Ye Feng revealed that he had faked his death, stabbed the Third Kazekage, and used Flying Thunder God to rescue Minato, forcing the wounded Kazekage to retreat.

Ye Feng helped Orochimaru confront Sunagakure and devised mobile tactics to wear down its forces, while Akatsuki’s attempt to stop the war drew Hanzō’s suspicion. As the fighting intensified, Ye Feng and Minato Namikaze led Konoha’s defense and unleashed Kirin against Sunagakure’s army.

• Ye Feng and Minato Namikaze returned to Konoha’s camp, where Orochimaru heard how Ye Feng had encountered the Third Kazekage and accepted Yahiko’s peace proposal only on the condition that Hanzō first agree.
• Ye Feng proposed that Hanzō support Konoha against Sunagakure, then told Minato that Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato were Jiraiya’s students and that Nagato possessed Madara Uchiha’s Rinnegan.
• Orochimaru and the Third Kazekage fought, while Ye Feng helped Tsunade and Minato ambush isolated Sand Ninja before Orochimaru and the Kazekage agreed to leave the war’s outcome to their armies.
• Ye Feng improved a young Nara Chunin’s mobile-unit plan by urging Konoha to retreat from strong forces and use ambushes, traps, and supply raids to wear down Sunagakure.
• Yahiko led Akatsuki toward acting independently to stop the war, but Hanzō decided the growing organization had to be eliminated, while the Third Raikage and Ōnoki considered the widening conflict.
• As Sunagakure advanced in four groups, Minato repeatedly teleported to aid Konoha squads, and Ye Feng rescued wounded ninja and joined battles that left Minato exhausted.
• When Sunagakure’s main force charged Konoha, Ye Feng teleported Jonin into its ranks and later forced Konoha’s commander to retreat as enemy reinforcements approached.
• Ye Feng helped Minato threaten the pursuing Sand Ninja with Kirin, but when poisoned Konoha ninja charged back into the fight, Minato hesitated and Ye Feng unleashed the lightning, forcing most fighters to the ground.

Ye Feng drove back Iwagakure, traveled to Amegakure, and encountered Akatsuki, Hanzo’s agents, and two women seeking revenge. The arc ended with bounty hunters surrounding him at the estate, where Ye Feng prepared to face the hidden attackers.

• Ye Feng recovered the Konoha ninja remains from Pakura’s camp and led Minato Namikaze and a small team against Kitsuchi’s Iwagakure unit, forcing it to withdraw.
• Orochimaru revealed a bounty on Ye Feng and ordered him to draw out infiltrators, so Ye Feng left the Land of Fire after visiting Tsunade.
• Ye Feng entered Amegakure, rejected Hanzo of the Salamander’s offer, and met Yahiko before following him to the Akatsuki base.
• Ye Feng exposed White Zetsu’s impersonation and warned Nagato and the others that their hidden enemy remained beyond their reach.
• Shinzō of the Salamander escorted Ye Feng to a manor, where Ye Feng exposed and subdued Matsumoto Tiannai and Qiuyu Yuna after they tried to assassinate him.
• Matsumoto Tiannai and Qiuyu Yuna told Ye Feng about their revenge against Hanzo, then asked him to take them to the Land of Birds, and he agreed.
• Ye Feng sensed bounty hunters surrounding the estate, disabled their Explosive Tags, cut down the first attackers, and challenged the ninjas still in hiding.