Arc 19The Lost City

Fanxin raided a Navy seastone mine, rescued silver snakes from their captors, and then joined an old villager to reach the Lost City. After freeing its abused residents and capturing the city lord, Fanxin gave the old man a golden sphere to shelter the survivors.

  • Fanxin gathered seastone from Heavenly Heart Island, escaped the Navy’s pursuit, and later found his crew immobilized by silver-gray light on Silver Snake Island.
  • Fanxin and his companions rescued the silver snakes from the towering man who had captured them, then drove off his repeated attacks on their ship.
  • On Lost Island, Fanxin met an old villager who asked for help reaching the Lost City and rescuing its people, so Fanxin sent most of his crew away and led a smaller group into the forest.
  • Fanxin and his companions fought their way past monstrous beasts and broke the shield concealing the Lost City, but its defenders threatened to kill the enslaved residents when Fanxin attacked.
  • Fanxin brought the buried city to the surface and entered it with his companions, who fought the iron-armored guards while Fanxin rescued injured civilians.
  • Fanxin and the old man searched for the city lord, then destroyed the city when he remained hidden in a golden sphere beneath the lava.
  • After waiting five days, Fanxin captured the city lord when he emerged, took the golden sphere, and gave it to the old man to house the homeless survivors.
Chapters 451–475 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 451Kaido's Overwhelming Strength (2)

Fanxin and his companions tried to exploit the marines’ battle with Kaido, setting a magma trap that failed to harm him. Fujitora Issho then used gravity to pin Kaido in the pit as the marines gathered to attack.

  • Sun Zhijian reported that his group had looted treasures, and Fanxin told them to keep watching Kaido rather than attack without a plan.
  • Fanxin sent Wang Yan and Langyue to test whether magma could hurt Kaido, with Langyue tasked with luring him into Wang Yan’s prepared trap.
  • Langyue provoked Kaido and drew him into Wang Yan’s darkness-covered magma field, where Wang Yan protected Langyue as Kaido fell underground.
  • Kaido said the magma only made him feel hot, and Wang Yan fled after realizing she could not defeat him.
  • As Kaido climbed out, Fujitora Issho used gravity to force him back into the pit, and Kizaru and the other marines gathered to attack him.

Ch. 452The Formidable Kaido (3)

Kaido forced his way out of the Marines’ assault, while Fanxin’s group withdrew after failing to find a weakness. Fanxin hurried back to his ship after learning that Doflamingo had trapped it in Birdcage and was threatening everyone aboard.

  • Kaido unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, escaped the collapsing pit, and drove back Fujitora Issho’s gravity attack as Kizaru supported him.
  • Wang Yan, Langyue, Fanxin, and Sun Zhijian regrouped, discussed using Little Fox to deal with Kaido, and received word that Doflamingo was attacking their ship.
  • Fanxin raced back with the others after the robot reported that Doflamingo’s Birdcage was cutting the ship apart.
  • Doflamingo demanded that Little Fox reveal Fanxin’s whereabouts, then tightened Birdcage while Little Fox and Little Black Cat watched over the crew and ship.
  • After waiting ten minutes without Fanxin appearing, Doflamingo threatened to kill everyone aboard.

Ch. 453Battle Against Doflamingo (1)

Little Fox broke Doflamingo’s Birdcage and nearly crushed him, but collapsed after Fanxin returned and took over the fight. Fanxin sent his allies away before confronting Doflamingo, who had escaped with Jack’s help, and their battle began.

  • Little Fox used its blood-enhanced defense and massive size to burst Doflamingo’s Birdcage, then trapped him between its nine Seastone-lined tails.
  • Fanxin returned before Little Fox could crush Doflamingo, and Little Fox withdrew its power and fainted from exhaustion.
  • Fanxin told Little Black Cat to take care of Little Fox and ordered Wang Yan, Bingfeng, and the others to leave the area.
  • Fanxin learned from Doflamingo that Jack had rescued him, then agreed to fight him to end their conflict.
  • Doflamingo attacked Fanxin, who answered with blade slashes; Doflamingo blocked them with Spider Wall and countered with Super Long Whip.

Ch. 454Fighting Doflamingo (2)

Fanxin countered Doflamingo’s attacks and resisted his attempt to control him, forcing Doflamingo to retreat. Fanxin left to follow his friends, while Doflamingo returned to the devastated Zou, where both Kaido’s forces and the navy were recovering from heavy losses.

  • Fanxin and Doflamingo fought through a stalemate, with Fanxin unharmed after resisting Doflamingo’s Haki-coated string spears.
  • Doflamingo used Parasite to try to control Fanxin, but Fanxin resisted because he had acquired part of Doflamingo’s soul and learned his abilities.
  • Doflamingo fled after realizing Fanxin knew how to counter his powers, and Fanxin departed in his Flight Armor to follow his friends using a Vivre Card.
  • Doflamingo secretly watched Fanxin leave and vowed to take revenge on Fanxin, Straw Hat Boy, and Law.
  • Doflamingo returned to Zou, where the navy and Kaido’s forces were recuperating after both sides suffered heavy losses.

Ch. 455Fighting Doflamingo (3)

After Kaido and Doflamingo discussed their losses and plans for war, Fanxin regrouped with his crew and arranged to protect their ship. He learned Little Fox needed Seastone to strengthen its body, set course for a guarded Seastone mine, and then visited his newborn daughters.

  • Doflamingo told Kaido that Fanxin had escaped after their fight, and Kaido began preparing to recruit more fighters for an unprecedented war.
  • Fanxin and Little Black Cat agreed to transform the ship into a fortified iron platform when danger threatened.
  • Qiangwei told Fanxin that Little Fox had strained its body by using its full strength, and Little Fox said it needed a Seastone body.
  • Fanxin ordered Little Black Cat to locate Seastone mines and set the ship on course for a heavily guarded mine.
  • Fanxin entered Diamond Space and played with one of his newborn daughters while Ren Fang nursed the other.

Ch. 456Heavenly Heart Island (1)

Fanxin attacked the Navy’s seastone mine on Heavenly Heart Island to gather seastone for Little Fox, whose weak body could not withstand her powerful soul. He trapped several Vice Admirals with his Birdcage while he collected the ore, and Bingfeng, Wang Yan, and the others arrived to fight the marines.

  • Fanxin learned that Little Fox needed seastone to strengthen her body and planned to raid the Navy’s mine on Heavenly Heart Island.
  • After spending ten days with Ren Fang and the children, Fanxin briefed his crew and flew ahead to scout the island.
  • Fanxin landed at the mine and began collecting seastone, knocking down marines who tried to stop him with a Haki attack.
  • Fanxin ate a piece of seastone to prove his claim to the Vice Admirals, but they refused to honor their promise to leave him alone and attacked.
  • Fanxin fought the Vice Admirals, drove them to the edge of the island, and sealed them outside his Birdcage so he could keep collecting seastone.
  • Bingfeng, Wang Yan, and the others arrived and attacked the marines while the Vice Admirals waited for reinforcements.

Ch. 457Heavenly Heart Island (2)

Fanxin stole the seastone from Heavenly Heart Island, escaped the marines by threatening the island with a falling planet, and then gathered more seastone from the seabed. When he surfaced, warships had surrounded him, leaving him facing another attempt at capture.

  • Bingfeng and the others kept the vice admirals and marines occupied while Fanxin collected all the seastone on Heavenly Heart Island.
  • When the marines attacked as Fanxin lowered the Birdcage, he summoned a planet with the Seven Star Sword and forced them to flee, secretly cutting it into pieces to prevent casualties.
  • The long-bearded vice admiral split the marines between restarting production and pursuing Fanxin with reinforcements.
  • Fanxin's companions sailed away while he gathered more seastone from the seabed and drove off marines who tried to attack him.
  • After nearly three hours underwater, Fanxin surfaced and found himself surrounded by warships, then challenged the people trying to capture him.

Ch. 458Heavenly Heart Island (3)

Fanxin escaped the marines with Bingfeng and Little Black Cat, then reached Silver Snake Island to rest and replenish supplies. While catching fish underwater, he sensed a hidden presence, and a silver ribbon suddenly wrapped around his feet and dragged him into the depths.

  • Fanxin bit through the Vice Admiral’s Haki-coated hammer, then escaped the marines by entering Diamond Space and swimming away underwater.
  • Fanxin reunited with the Heavenly Soul Pirates, and Bingfeng froze the surrounding sea while Little Black Cat transformed the ship so they could flee beneath the water.
  • After evading pursuit, Fanxin led the crew onward and stopped at Silver Snake Island to rest and gather food.
  • Fanxin caught fish on the seabed and sent his companions back to the surface after sensing that something was watching him.
  • A silver ribbon shot from the darkness, wrapped around Fanxin’s feet, and pulled him downward.

Ch. 459Silver Snake (1)

Fanxin discovered that a silver snake had attacked him, then returned to find a silvery-gray light had immobilized most of the ship’s crew. After Fanxin and the robots freed them, he sent the ship away and led Bingfeng, Sun Zhijian, and Little Black Cat toward the island that had emitted the light.

  • Fanxin caught the silver snake after it attacked him, but released it because he had nowhere safe to keep it.
  • Fanxin warned the crew about the snake, then ate with Ren Fang and agreed to take her and their daughters to a doctor at the next island.
  • Fanxin found the ship and most of its crew coated in silvery gray, while Bingfeng sheltered a few people inside an ice bowl.
  • Fanxin scraped the substance off the immobilized crew, and Little Black Cat suspected it paralyzed nerves and solidified blood.
  • Fanxin learned the silvery-gray light had come from the island and ordered Sun Zhijian to send the injured crew and ship away.
  • Fanxin, Bingfeng, Sun Zhijian, and Little Black Cat formed a cautious formation and prepared to investigate the island.

Ch. 460Silver Snake (2)

Fanxin and his companions fought their way into the island’s central estate to investigate the silver-light weapons and learn how to protect their brothers. At the castle, Fanxin resisted the strongest silver light, but its towering master revealed that it could also restore destroyed objects.

  • Fanxin led Bingfeng, Sun Zhijian, and Little Black Cat toward the island’s center, where armed residents tried to stop them from entering their estate.
  • Fanxin and his companions fought the residents, while Sun Zhijian seized weapons for Little Black Cat to study; Little Black Cat’s robots found that something had been injected into them.
  • Fanxin’s group reached the castle, where a powerful burst of silver light pierced Bingfeng’s shield, so Fanxin sent his companions into the Diamond Space and faced the attack alone.
  • The towering, silvery-gray figure emerged and was surprised that the light had not immobilized Fanxin, whose diamond body resisted it.
  • Fanxin demanded to learn the secret of the silver light and split the castle with a sword strike, but the figure restored it with silver light and warned that he could repair anything Fanxin destroyed.

Ch. 461Silver Snakes (3)

Fanxin obtained a silver snake and learned that the Silver Snake Clan was threatened by a man who captured them for weapon materials. He moved the clan into Diamond Space and called his allies to attack the island, leaving the fight about to begin.

  • Fanxin forced the towering figure to hand over a small silver snake, then intimidated it with Conqueror's Haki and sent it into Diamond Space for Little Black Cat to study.
  • Fanxin searched the sea for the larger silver snake, let it drag him to its underwater cavern, and followed it to a silver-gray sphere that shrank after absorbing his blood.
  • Little Black Cat translated the silver snake's plea: the clan wanted Fanxin to save them and their captured companions from being used as weapon materials.
  • Fanxin moved the silver snakes into Diamond Space and agreed to rescue their captured companions.
  • Fanxin returned to shore and told Little Black Cat to summon everyone for an attack on the island.

Ch. 462The Siege (1)

Fanxin sent Wang Yan and the others to rescue the silver snakes after giving them a remedy against the silver light. Wang Yan’s forces defeated the tall figure’s subordinates, but he escaped detection with a strange ability and was repeatedly driven back when he tried to reach their ship.

  • Fanxin told Wang Yan that the silver snakes had been forced to attack and gave her a remedy that made their silver light harmless to the group.
  • Wang Yan led several thousand robots and several dozen companions onto the island while Little Black Cat surrounded it with robots, and they defeated the tall figure’s subordinates and rescued the silver snakes.
  • Wang Yan confronted the tall figure, who refused to surrender the snakes, and their fight began after she turned his house and the surrounding ground into magma.
  • The tall figure’s silver light failed to harm Wang Yan, and he vanished from her Haki before reappearing to attack; Wang Yan dodged and turned the island into magma to deny him cover.
  • The tall figure tried twice to reach the ship, but an unseen force struck him and sent him back onto the island, convincing him that Fanxin’s group could detect him.

Ch. 463Under Siege (2)

Fanxin forced the tall man to surrender the Silver Snake King, then returned to the ship with the silver snakes. When an invisible attacker began targeting the ship, Fanxin identified him as the same man and coordinated defenses that kept his attacks from landing.

  • The tall man attacked Fanxin but was beaten back by Little Fox and Wang Yan, while Fanxin used Soul Clan perception to locate him even when he turned invisible.
  • Fanxin and his companions surrounded the tall man, who handed over the silver snake and left after threatening to hunt Fanxin.
  • Fanxin stored the silver snake with the Silver Snake King in Diamond Space, where the king told Little Black Cat that the harsh surroundings suited the snakes and they ate ordinary snake food.
  • Wang Yan told Fanxin that an invisible assailant had attacked the ship while he was inside Diamond Space, so Fanxin took over the watch and ordered everyone to prepare for combat.
  • Fanxin detected the attacker approaching with a bomb and coordinated repeated counterattacks, forcing him to flee; he confirmed to Little Black Cat that the attacker was the tall man.

Ch. 464Surrounded (3)

Fanxin confronted the tall man, who returned to reclaim the silver snakes, and defeated him inside a Birdcage before letting him go. After the man left, Fanxin arranged to station a Soul Clone outside the ship to detect future intruders.

  • Little Black Cat and Fanxin decided to attack the concealed man themselves and alert the others as they had chances.
  • Fanxin confronted the tall man, who said he had returned for revenge and wanted the silver snakes back.
  • Fanxin transformed the ship into a flat platform, trapped the tall man in a Birdcage, and cornered him with smaller cages during their fight.
  • Fanxin stopped attacking and let the defeated tall man leave, warning him that he could not escape Fanxin's detection.
  • Fanxin had Little Black Cat restore the ship and decided to leave a Soul Clone outside to sense approaching threats.

Ch. 465The Lost City (1)

Fanxin and his companions reached Lost Island to search for the vanished Lost City, while Fanxin chose to spend time with Ren Fang and their children in a local village. After hearing the Lost City’s history, he suspected it lay beneath the forest at the island’s center and planned to search there if the others found nothing.

  • Fanxin placed a piece of his soul in a heavily defended robot so it could detect approaching souls and warn Little Black Cat.
  • Fanxin and his crew traveled to Lost Island, where he ordered them to search for the Lost City for a month without disturbing the locals.
  • Fanxin stayed behind with Ren Fang and their children, rented a village home, and spent time with them while the crew searched.
  • A gray-haired villager told Fanxin that the Lost City had been an imperial capital that vanished after its tyrannical ruler activated a mechanism during a siege.
  • Fanxin reasoned that the Lost City might lie beneath the forest at the island’s center and decided to search there if the crew found no clues elsewhere.

Ch. 466Lost City (2)

Fanxin discovered a masked man threatening an old villager for information about the Lost City, then witnessed the old man effortlessly stop the attacker and realized he was a hidden master. Fanxin introduced himself, left the old man some wine, and arranged to visit again.

  • Fanxin told Ren Fang that the Lost City was believed to be in the forest and agreed to wait before searching deeper.
  • Ren Fang went to the village market while Fanxin stayed with their daughters and later followed a masked man into the village.
  • The masked man demanded that the old villager reveal the Lost City's location and attacked him when he refused.
  • The old man stopped the masked man's saber between two fingers, frightening him into fleeing.
  • Fanxin praised the old man, left him fine wine, and said he would visit again the next day.

Ch. 467Lost City (3)

Fanxin visited the mysterious old man, who refused to leave his home but invited Fanxin to a terrifying place where a monster threatened to break free. Fanxin evacuated most of his crew from the island and prepared his companions for the battle planned for the next day.

  • Fanxin returned home and told Ren Fang about the powerful old man, then visited him with Ren Fang and their daughters the next morning.
  • The old man discussed the turmoil in the New World, praised Fanxin's strength, and invited him to a terrifying place where they might face a monster.
  • The old man warned that the island could become a battlefield and told Fanxin to send the weaker members of his crew away before they met at noon the next day.
  • Fanxin ordered Bingfeng to recall the crew and told everyone except Bingfeng, Wang Yan, Little Fox, Sun Zhijian, Lin Haicheng, and Langyue to leave the island and hide fifty li away.
  • Little Black Cat took the ship out to sea while Fanxin told the remaining companions to rest, avoid fighting the monster head-on, and stay in the Diamond Space overnight.

Ch. 468Monster (1)

Fanxin and his companions set out with the old man to find a powerful monster in the forest, fighting their way through dangerous beasts. After a day of travel, they rested before reaching the forest’s deepest part.

  • Fanxin prepared food for the group while the old man arranged for the villagers to leave the island and frightened them into taking the warning seriously.
  • The next morning, Fanxin sent Ren Fang and the children into the Diamond Space, then led Bingfeng, Wang Yan, Langyue, Little Fox, Sun Zhijian, Lin Chenghai, and the others to meet the old man.
  • The old man led Fanxin’s group into the forest, where Fanxin punched away a giant tail that threatened them.
  • Fanxin and his companions defeated giant elephants by attacking their unusual hides with blades, then burned away a swarm of giant poisonous spiders with Bingfeng and Wang Yan’s abilities.
  • The group fought off more fierce beasts as they traveled deeper into the forest, then rested after a day on the road and shared their provisions and wine.

Ch. 469Monsters (II)

Fanxin led his group deeper into the forest, using Conqueror's Haki to subdue flying monstrous fish and learning that the old man wanted to rescue people trapped in the Lost City. When seven drugged monsters attacked, Fanxin discovered that he could throw them into the stream for the fish to devour and ordered his companions to move ahead.

  • Fanxin kept watch through the night, then led the group toward the forest's center after breakfast.
  • At a stream crossing, flying monstrous fish attacked Fanxin, but he knocked them unconscious with Conqueror's Haki so everyone could cross.
  • The old man revealed that he came from the Lost City and sought help rescuing his clansmen and suffering commoners from the forest.
  • Fanxin and his companions continued into the forest and encountered seven enormous, pain-insensitive monsters injected with a drug.
  • After his punches bounced off a rhinoceros monster, Fanxin trapped it with his String-String Fruit ability and hurled it into the stream, where monstrous fish devoured it.
  • Fanxin realized the fish could kill the monsters and ordered his companions to move forward while he dealt with them.

Ch. 470Monsters (3)

Fanxin and the others fought through monsters and poisonous insects to reach the Lost City, where they discovered enslaved people beneath a protective shield. After Fanxin broke the shield without letting his falling planets crush the basin, the city’s inhabitants sent fighters to confront the group.

  • Fanxin trapped the pursuing monsters in a Birdcage and fed them to the monstrous fish, then caught up with the group as Wang Yan trapped a blade-resistant giant snake in magma.
  • Fanxin pinned the snake beneath falling planets, then led the group through poisonous insects using his defenses and Conqueror's Haki.
  • Fanxin and the others reached a cliff overlooking the Lost City, where Fanxin sensed that many residents were slaves and learned the old man did not know how to enter.
  • After failing to find an entrance, Fanxin attacked the basin’s enormous shield with sword energy and then summoned planets until the shield cracked and broke.
  • Fanxin used the String-String Fruit to pull the falling planets away, while Wang Yan melted them and Bingfeng contained the magma.
  • The people of the Lost City learned of the outsiders’ arrival and dispatched fighters, so Fanxin and the others readied their weapons.

Ch. 471Execute Them All (1)

Fanxin and his companions fought their way into the Lost City, where a hidden enemy trapped them with a sinking city, toxic ground, and a descending shield. Fanxin ordered Wang Yan to melt the island and continued searching for a way out, while the enemy threatened and began killing millions of enslaved people.

  • Fanxin assigned his companions into teams, then used his String-String Fruit power to bind the Iron Armor Guards and throw them into the basin.
  • Fanxin used Conqueror's Haki to knock down attacking guards and led his companions to the sealed gates of the Lost City.
  • A voice from the gate tower questioned Fanxin about how he had found the city, then refused to let the group enter and threatened them.
  • The Lost City sank underground, and its ground turned into a dizzying, sticky substance, so Fanxin ordered everyone to fly upward.
  • When the protective shield reappeared and descended, Fanxin told Wang Yan to melt the island; in response, the hidden enemy threatened to kill millions of slaves.
  • Fanxin refused to stop the attack, and the hidden enemy began killing the slaves as Fanxin listened to their screams and grew furious.

Ch. 472Execute Them All (2)

Fanxin and his allies tried to stop the massacre and force the hidden enemy out of the Lost City. After weakening the city’s slime defenses and bringing it to the surface, they revealed the prisoners and corpses inside, leaving the old man enraged.

  • The old man grieved over the civilians being killed, while Fanxin urged him to stay composed and attack the barrier with him.
  • Fanxin tried to frighten the enemy into stopping the killings, but the enemy continued slaughtering civilians as Wang Yan covered the island in magma.
  • Wang Yan carried the group beneath the magma and beyond the barrier, while Fanxin tracked the enemy to the Lost City and found its heat-resistant slime covering.
  • Fanxin summoned the Silver Snake King to harden the slime, then used his Birdcage to cut it away and brought the Lost City to the surface.
  • Bingfeng froze the island after Wang Yan withdrew her magma, and Fanxin placed the exposed Lost City on the ground.
  • The old man saw prisoners kneeling before executioners and headless corpses, then shouted that he would never forgive the enemy.

Ch. 473Execute Them All (3)

Fanxin and his companions broke into the Lost City and fought its iron-armored guards while the hidden owner threatened them. Fanxin focused on rescuing the injured, leaving the battle underway as the owner remained concealed.

  • The owner of the voice sent out iron-armored Devil Fruit users, and Little Fox knocked many of them off the island while Fanxin's Birdcage kept them from returning.
  • Fanxin used Haki and Wang Yan's magma to defeat the remaining guards outside, then shattered the Lost City's defenses with three strikes of the Dragon-Slaying Sword.
  • Fanxin and his companions entered the city, where the old man found fresh corpses and vowed revenge as Fanxin sent surviving injured people into the Diamond Space.
  • Wang Yan, Bingfeng, Little Fox, Lin Haicheng, Sun Zhijian, and the old man attacked the iron-armored guards while Fanxin continued rescuing people.
  • The hidden owner threatened the group as his guards fell, and Fanxin challenged him to emerge and fight once the others had finished.

Ch. 474The City Lord (1)

Fanxin and his allies destroyed the Lost City and searched for its hidden city lord, but he survived inside a concealed golden sphere buried in the lava. Fanxin decided to wait him out, while guessing that the sphere was a separate space shielding him from their senses.

  • Fanxin ordered Sun Zhijian and Lin Haicheng to find the city lord while Little Fox, Bingfeng, and Wang Yan held back the iron-armored men.
  • Fanxin rescued the injured civilians, and he and the old man agreed to track down the city lord; the old man insisted on confronting him himself.
  • When their search failed, Fanxin had Wang Yan burn the ground and Bingfeng freeze the sky, destroying the Lost City without forcing the city lord out.
  • The city lord hid in a golden sphere deep within the lava and resolved to wait until Fanxin gave up searching.
  • Bingfeng asked Fanxin how the city lord could evade their senses, and Fanxin reasoned that he was hiding inside a separate space.

Ch. 475The City Lord (2)

Fanxin and his companions lured the city lord out of his golden sphere and captured him, then Fanxin took the sphere in exchange for sparing his life. After the old man dealt with the city lord, Fanxin gave him the sphere so the rescued people could recover safely inside it, and the group prepared to leave by ship.

  • Wang Yan proposed withdrawing so the city lord would leave his hiding place, while Fanxin monitored the area from Diamond Space and cared for the injured survivors.
  • After waiting five days, the city lord emerged from his golden sphere, and Little Fox sensed him and pulled him into Fanxin's grasp.
  • Fanxin demanded the golden sphere in exchange for the city lord's life, and the city lord reluctantly handed it over.
  • Fanxin left the city lord to the old man and later decided to give the golden sphere to him as shelter for the homeless survivors.
  • Wang Yan contacted Little Black Cat, who brought the ship two days later, and Fanxin handed the golden sphere to the old man aboard.
Arc 19 of 25
Arc 19 of 25