Recaps

Hongshi helped Konoha pursue Sasuke, defeat Otogakure’s forces, and awaken Naruto and Gyokucha’s Adamantine Sealing Chains. The story then shifted to the Land of Rivers, where Sakura and her team dealt with Raiga Kurosuki while Kairyū’s group began organizing a ninja village and reconciling the miners with the Kurosuki Clan.

• Sakura and Tenten defeated Jirobo and Sakon and Ukon, then caught up with the pursuit team as Kakashi, Naruto, Guy, and Rock Lee continued after Sasuke.
• Guy and Rock Lee fought Kimimaro and Jūgo, and Ainz rescued Rock Lee, took Jūgo into the Nuclear Ninja Village, and left Sakura and Tenten to pursue Orochimaru with the others.
• Kakashi and Naruto confronted Orochimaru and Sasuke at the Valley of the End, where Sasuke defeated Naruto before Orochimaru took him away and Hongshi treated Naruto’s injuries.
• Konoha’s punitive force attacked Otogakure’s forces, and Hongshi trapped Naruto and Gyokucha with reincarnated Sound Ninja until they awakened their Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Naruto and Gyokucha defeated the reincarnated Sound Ninja, and Hongshi brought Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki into Naruto’s sealed space before leading Konoha’s force to Otogakure.
• Hongshi and Rock Lee accepted a mission to the Katabami Gold Mine with Sakura and Naruto, where they learned that Raiga Kurosuki and the Kurosuki Clan had taken over the mine.
• Sakura fought Raiga while Naruto, Rock Lee, and the miners carried out their escape, but Kairyū and his companions intervened and captured the guards as the miners escaped.
• Kairyū’s group proposed recruiting the Kurosuki Clan to protect the mine and help establish a ninja village, and the miners gradually grew less hostile after receiving Mining Type One equipment and seeing Raiga and Ranmaru help.

The Nuclear Ninja Village’s forces uncovered Mizuki’s Beast Seal Transformation plot while securing the Land of Rivers and developing Sage Mode. When an Armored Army attacked Sunagakure, Kyōai and his allies answered the call, but Kyōai and Rock Lee ended the stretch trading blows after mistaking each other for monsters.

• Tsunade agreed to support Kyōai’s efforts in the Land of Rivers, while three Guardian Pillars flew there to help.
• Tōhachi defeated the Golden Shovel Organization’s transformed leader, claimed Golden Shovel Beach, and reunited with Rock Lee and the arriving Guardian Pillars.
• Sōretsu, Hongshi, and their allies discovered that Mizuki had transformed the Purple Gold Clan into beastmen, then fought the rampaging creatures across Purple Gold Mountain.
• Hongshi refined Natural Energy into a Sage Mode mask, and Sōretsu, Kendon, and Ujin developed or mastered their own forms of Sage Mode.
• Takuden and Shikin Shinma joined the Nuclear Ninja Village, while Shino and Kendon began collaborating on stronger kikaichū using the captured beastmen.
• Kyōai showed Temari and Kankuro chakra-powered weapons and equipment, then led them, Choji, Shino, and Hongshi to aid Sunagakure against an Armored Army.
• Temari and Kankuro destroyed the incoming shells, Choji and Shino fought the armored soldiers, and Kyōai split their steel battleship with his secret sword technique.
• Kyōai confronted Kamira and Ranke, but Rock Lee mistook Kyōai for a monster twice and sent him flying while Ranke attacked the ship.

The Nuclear Ninja Village and Sunagakure confronted Haidō’s Gelel forces, then Temari, Shino, Hōryūsai, and Hongshi investigated Hoshigakure’s star and the bounty against the Sand Ninja. The mission exposed Akahoshi’s crimes and a Stone Ninja plot, while a clash with Ōnoki’s group revealed Orochimaru’s plan to destroy Konoha.

• Kyōai and Gaara arranged for the Nuclear Ninja Village to take the recovered warship in exchange for helping Sunagakure develop chakra vehicles.
• Captain Jack and the Titanic Pirates fought Haidō’s forces until Shirofukuji Kakuhei and the Moby Dick arrived, lifted the Gelel Fortress, and drove Haidō into the sea.
• Kyōai offered Sunagakure chakra armor and proposed a mission against Hoshigakure, so Gaara sent Temari, Shino, and Hongshi with Hōryūsai to investigate.
• Temari’s group defeated mercenaries targeting Sand Ninja and learned that Hoshigakure’s Star Training was harming its children and that Akahoshi had assassinated the Third Hoshikage.
• Natsuhiboshi explained that Akahoshi had taken control of Hoshigakure and asked to destroy the star, while Yotaka revealed that the Stone Ninja had placed the bounty on the Sand Ninja.
• Hongshi infiltrated Hoshigakure, defeated Shizo, and used Amenominaka: Mental World on Akahoshi before Natsuhiboshi arrived with the stolen star.
• Temari and Hōryūsai fought Kurotsuchi and the Seigan brothers, and Hōryūsai defeated Kurotsuchi with Zanka no Tachi before Ōnoki attacked Hongshi, who absorbed his Dust Release.
• Orochimaru revealed himself as Kitsuchi and said he planned to destroy Konoha, while Kabuto sealed Mu and agreed to search for other targets’ tombs.

Kyōai and his allies defeated Mizuki’s beastmen assault with the help of Gundams and an antidote, then founded the Blade Ninja Village. The restored rebels accepted the village’s supervision, while Chinchiku led artisans to rebuild Yamakawa Castle.

• Akahoshi declared herself Hoshigakure’s next Hoshikage and allied the village with the Nuclear Ninja Village as Hongshi and his companions returned from Sunagakure.
• Kyōai attended the meeting at Yamakawa Castle, where Mizuki revealed his plot, transformed the assembled leaders into beastmen, and forced Kyōai and his allies into battle.
• Kyōai’s team fought Mizuki’s forces until a chakra missile from the Nuclear Ninja Village destroyed a mass of beastmen, and Kendon later developed an antidote for the transformed residents.
• Kyōai gathered the factions and announced that the village would become the Blade Ninja Village after Mizuki’s defeat, and the Thirteen Nuclear Guardian Pillars chose him as its First Blade Kage.
• Haidō and Mizuki mined Gelel Stone while Hieimon’s team built twenty Gundams, which Hongshi and other allies piloted into battle.
• Mizuki surrounded the gold mine with more than twenty thousand orcs, but Choji, Rock Lee, Temari, Shino, and the others fought to break through the encirclement.
• Kyōai’s allies deployed Gundams and attacked the beastmen, while Mizuki transformed his forces into stronger berserkers and Kyōai rescued Choji and Rock Lee.
• Kendon trapped the battlefield in a Four Red Yang Formation and released antidote gas that subdued the beastmen, though the red-haired ones remained unaffected.
• Kyōai offered the restored residents a choice, then required the rebels to remain under supervision as Chinchiku agreed to lead artisans in rebuilding Yamakawa Castle and Daiyama Ichirō announced the Blade Ninja Village’s founding.