Recaps

Xia Mu helped defeat Akatsuki attacks, secured Fuu’s safety, and supported the missions to rescue Gaara and defeat Deidara and Sasori. With the jinchuriki gathered in Konoha and their training underway, Tsunade summoned Xia Mu over urgent intelligence.

• Kakashi and Xia Mu protected Fuu from Itachi and Kisame, then Xia Mu helped drive the Akatsuki pair away and later joined the fight against Deidara and Sasori.
• Tenten used Xia Mu’s tools to fight Sasori’s puppet and Deidara’s explosives, while Xia Mu rescued the poisoned Konoha ninja and Tenten resolved to grow stronger.
• Tsunade sent Konoha teams to destroy Orochimaru’s bases, where Xia Mu killed Orochimaru and Sasuke found information about the Three-Tails.
• Xia Mu and Tenten recovered the Six Paths Tools, then Xia Mu helped Sasuke seal the Three-Tails inside himself and searched with him for the Spiral Mask Man.
• Neji discovered how to remove the Caged Bird Seal, freed himself, and obtained the Tenseigan before Naruto returned to Konoha.
• Xia Mu rescued Fuu from Obito’s attack on Takigakure, while Kakashi’s team traveled to Sunagakure and helped rescue Gaara from Deidara and Sasori.
• Tenten killed Deidara, Sasuke and Kakashi defeated his borrowed-body decoy, and Neji, Might Guy, and Chiyo helped kill Sasori and recover Gaara.
• Tsunade assigned guards to Naruto, Fuu, and Gaara, while Xia Mu began guiding their training and received an urgent summons from Tsunade.

Xia Mu developed the Evil Sealing Wave, helped Konoha repel Pain’s invasion, and exposed Danzo’s crimes. The arc ended with Danzo dead, Neji reforming the Hyuga Clan, and the village preparing to coordinate against Akatsuki.

• Xia Mu perfected the Evil Sealing Wave and took Sasuke, Neji, and Kakashi to aid Kumogakure, where they sealed Mu, Gengetsu Hozuki, and the Third Raikage before Kabuto Yakushi escaped.
• Sasuke fought Itachi Uchiha, who died after sealing Orochimaru, and Xia Mu revealed the truth behind the Uchiha massacre, persuading Sasuke to seek justice against Konoha’s leaders rather than the village.
• Xia Mu shared intelligence about Akatsuki and its history with Konoha’s leaders and fighters, and the village prepared for Pain’s invasion while protecting its Jinchuriki.
• Pain’s forces attacked Konoha, and Xia Mu, Sasuke, Kakashi, Neji, Tenten, Naruto, Gaara, Fuu, and other shinobi fought the Paths and Akatsuki allies across the village.
• Xia Mu defeated Deva Path Pain with an Electromagnetic Cannon, while Jiraiya failed to persuade Nagato and Konan to abandon their plan and Obito Uchiha carried them away.
• Neji became head of the Hyuga Clan, abolished the Main and Branch Family divisions, and gave the Branch Family a way to remove their Caged Bird Seals.
• Shikamaru exposed Danzo’s crimes, Sasuke canceled Danzo’s Kotoamatsukami and killed him, and Tsunade stripped Danzo’s allies of authority and appointed new village leaders.
• Tsunade agreed to Kakashi’s proposal for a Five Kage Summit, while Kabuto Yakushi regrouped with Suigetsu, Karin, Jugo, and Guren after discovering that Deva Path Pain’s Rinnegan were missing.

Xia Mu helped unite the shinobi villages and led efforts to stop Obito, Kabuto, and Madara from using the tailed beasts and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. The war began, the allied forces engaged the White Zetsu army and reanimated shinobi, and Tenten joined Kakashi’s division to seal the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

• Xia Mu helped the Jinchuriki approach their tailed beasts, then escorted Sasuke to the Land of Lightning, where Sasuke fought Killer B and Xia Mu defeated B and Raikage Ai.
• At the Five Kage Summit, Obito announced the Fourth Shinobi World War after the leaders rejected his Moon Eye Plan, and Tsunade revealed the history of Kaguya Otsutsuki and Black Zetsu.
• The leaders formed the Allied Shinobi Forces under Raikage Ai, while Jiraiya reunited with Konan after Nagato’s death and agreed to help her seal the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Jiraiya’s team attacked Akatsuki’s stronghold, but Obito summoned six reanimated Jinchuriki and the statue was summoned away before the sealing mission could be completed.
• Neji’s squad fought Kabuto’s forces, and Xia Mu battled Madara Uchiha before damaging the Demonic Statue and escaping with Neji and the others.
• Xia Mu joined Jiraiya’s team against Obito and the reanimated Jinchuriki, while Ōnoki and Mei Terumi helped damage the statue and force Obito to retreat with it.
• Madara sent the White Zetsu army toward the Land of Lightning, and Kakashi’s division fought White Zetsu and the reanimated Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
• Tenten reinforced Kakashi and used the Six Paths Tools to draw out and seal the reanimated swordsmen.

The Allied Shinobi Forces captured Madara Uchiha and the reanimated Jinchuriki, but Obito Uchiha recovered the Tailed Beasts and summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. The statue transformed into the Ten-Tails under Obito’s control as Xia Mu continued fighting Hashirama Senju.

• Neji, Ōnoki, Shino, and Yamato confronted Obito Uchiha and the New Six Paths of Pain, while Madara Uchiha arrived to attack the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Xia Mu and Tenten coordinated an attack that cursed Madara Uchiha, and Tenten later sealed him in the Benihotaru when he spoke Hashirama Senju’s name.
• Tenten sealed Nagato and the four reanimated Jinchuriki, but Obito Uchiha later used Minato Namikaze to reach Mount Myōboku and recover the Amber Purifying Pot.
• Orochimaru revived the four Hokage and joined Kabuto Yakushi, while Obito Uchiha fed the Amber Purifying Pot to the Demonic Statue and restored the captured Tailed Beasts.
• Tenten attacked the Demonic Statue with one hundred million Explosive Tags, destroying its remaining leg, while Naruto, Sasuke, and the Allied Shinobi Forces fought to restrain it.
• The Allied Forces encased the statue in concrete and fired Tailed Beast Bombs at it, but it broke free and transformed into the Ten-Tails under Obito Uchiha’s control.
• Xia Mu told Hashirama Senju that the capture and sealing of the Tailed Beasts had fueled their resentment, then attacked him with Water Discs.