Recaps

Grandpa Nick explained his land-controlling ability and the dangers of Devil Fruits as he led Fanxin and the others between the islands. He revealed that Fanxin’s parents had left him with Grandpa Nick as a newborn and that a fox’s soul had begun unlocking memories, prompting him to train Fanxin for the dangerous path ahead.

• Grandpa Nick raised a road from the seabed and land to connect the islands, then told Fanxin that his power came from himself, not a Devil Fruit.
• Grandpa Nick explained Devil Fruit users could not swim and warned Fanxin not to eat one while Little Black Cat, who had eaten one, was his only protector.
• Grandpa Nick told Fanxin he would begin training him harshly because Fanxin’s parents had asked him to raise their son safely.
• Fanxin learned his parents had arrived bleeding and near death shortly after his birth, had not returned in over ten years, and might have died.
• Grandpa Nick explained that a fox’s soul had entered Fanxin’s brain and was causing sealed memories to surface, which could lead Fanxin to seek his parents and face danger.

Fanxin accepted Grandpa Nick’s cruel training so he could become strong enough to find and rescue his parents. Ren Fang also chose to face the deadly test for a chance to become stronger, and she jumped from the bridge toward the crocodiles.

• Fanxin told Grandpa Nick he would accept the training, and Grandpa Nick agreed to begin the next day.
• Fanxin asked what his parents looked like, but Grandpa Nick said he knew only their distinctive scent and told Fanxin he might see them in a dream.
• Ren Fang asked to join the training, and Grandpa Nick warned her that it could leave her disfigured or dead.
• Ren Fang insisted she was willing, explaining that she wanted strength to protect herself from further suffering.
• Grandpa Nick challenged Ren Fang to jump into the sea among the crocodiles, and despite Fanxin and Little Black Cat urging caution, she jumped.

Ren Fang passed Grandpa Nick’s test and was promised training, while Fanxin brought her home to recover. After finding that Grandpa Nick had turned his cave into a house, Fanxin cooked a meal for Ren Fang and Little Black Cat, and Grandpa Nick arrived as they ate.

• Fanxin and Little Black Cat drove back the crocodiles so Fanxin could rescue Ren Fang from the water.
• Grandpa Nick pulled Fanxin and Ren Fang to safety and agreed to train Ren Fang after she passed his test.
• Ren Fang fainted from fear and malnutrition, so Fanxin carried her to the island and Grandpa Nick said food would help her recover.
• Fanxin found that Grandpa Nick had transformed his cave into a furnished house, then put Ren Fang in bed to rest.
• Little Black Cat brought back pheasants and mushrooms, and Fanxin cooked stew for Ren Fang and Little Black Cat.
• Grandpa Nick arrived while they were eating and complained that Fanxin had not invited him.

Fanxin reassured Ren Fang after Grandpa Nick’s sudden appearance reminded her of her beheaded family, and she vowed to avenge them. The next morning, the group went to begin her training and found Grandpa Nick waiting in a human-shaped body.

• Grandpa Nick startled Ren Fang by popping out of the ground as a head, and Little Black Cat suggested he make himself a body so she would feel less afraid.
• Ren Fang told Fanxin that seeing Grandpa Nick reminded her of her family, whom bad people had beheaded, and she vowed to kill their murderer once she was strong enough.
• Fanxin comforted Ren Fang, urged her to eat and train, and asked Little Black Cat to keep her company overnight.
• Fanxin prepared breakfast the next morning, then took Ren Fang and Little Black Cat to the training site.
• Grandpa Nick arrived at the training site in the form of a complete person.

Grandpa Nick assessed the group’s strengths, gave Ren Fang the ability to control soil, and paired her with Little Black Cat. He began their training by hunting them through the forest so they could learn to escape powerful enemies.

• Grandpa Nick told Fanxin to develop his close-combat strength, advised Ren Fang to train as a sniper, and paired her with Little Black Cat for weapons and reconnaissance.
• Grandpa Nick transferred his soil-control ability to Ren Fang, who used it to raise a hard earthen wall and learned that she needed soil nearby to use the power.
• Grandpa Nick announced that the first part of training would be escaping from him, and the group agreed to learn how to flee from stronger enemies.
• Grandpa Nick told the group to run while he hunted them, and they entered the forest to prepare.

Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black faced Grandpa Nick’s overwhelming test as hundreds of earth wolves chased and surrounded them. Their weapons could not pierce the wolves, leaving the three backed together and searching for another way to survive.

• Grandpa Nick explained that he had made the attacking beasts from dirt and warned Fanxin and Ren Fang that their bites could kill.
• Fanxin led Ren Fang into dense woods while Little Black distracted the pursuing wolves, but more wolves blocked their route out.
• Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black split up to fight the wolves, with Ren Fang using a barrier and Little Black firing bullets.
• Ren Fang and Little Black discovered their bullets did little harm, while Fanxin found that his spear could not pierce the wolves’ iron-hard bodies.
• Fanxin abandoned his futile attacks and joined Ren Fang and Little Black, and the three stood back to back as the wolves surrounded them.

Fanxin and Ren Fang used the towering trees to stall Grandpa Nick’s giant wolves while Little Black Cat finished their flying armor. The armor was ready, but Grandpa Nick planned to give the wolves wings and pursue them into the sky.

• Fanxin realized he and Ren Fang could not outrun the giant wolves on the ground, so he planned to escape by flying once Little Black Cat finished the armor.
• Little Black Cat entered the Mechanical Space to assemble the armor while Fanxin and Ren Fang lured the wolves into crashing into towering trees.
• Grandpa Nick watched Fanxin’s strategy and decided to add wings to the giant wolves so they could chase the pair into the air.
• After half an hour, Little Black Cat gave Fanxin and Ren Fang palm-sized devices that unfolded into flying armor when they pressed the red button.
• Fanxin activated his device, and the armor covered his body in gleaming steel plates.

Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black Cat fled from the giant wolves using their new flying armor, but discovered Grandpa Nick had enclosed the area with an impenetrable barrier. Trapped with the wolves closing in, Fanxin remained confident they could survive as long as Grandpa Nick did not intervene himself.

• Ren Fang activated the circular device and received a suit of armor, then she and Fanxin used their gear to fly away with Little Black Cat.
• Little Black Cat warned them that hundreds of winged giant wolves were pursuing them, and Fanxin urged the group to fly higher and farther to escape Grandpa Nick's reach.
• Little Black Cat spotted a transparent, indestructible curtain of light ahead, and Fanxin asked the cat to check whether barriers blocked other areas.
• Little Black Cat returned and confirmed that barriers surrounded them, revealing that Grandpa Nick had trapped them and that the wolves were following without haste.
• Ren Fang worried that they could not escape, but Fanxin said they still had a chance if Grandpa Nick did not act personally.

Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black Cat used flying armor to keep Grandpa Nick’s giant wolves occupied until he ended the chase. Grandpa Nick announced that Flying Demon Scorpions would be their next training challenge, leaving Fanxin and Little Black Cat uneasy but determined to face them.

• Fanxin proposed alternating between flying and running to evade the giant wolves, and Ren Fang agreed.
• Fanxin and Ren Fang ran and flew through the forest for four or five hours without being caught, until Grandpa Nick withdrew the wolves.
• Grandpa Nick praised their solution but announced that their next sparring partners would be Flying Demon Scorpions.
• Fanxin and Little Black Cat recalled how the scorpions had bitten and tormented them before, while Grandpa Nick insisted they attend training the next day.
• Fanxin reassured Little Black Cat that they were stronger now and asked her and Ren Fang to find food while he prepared to return.

Fanxin examined strange images in his brain domain and discovered that they showed his parents fleeing with him as a newborn from masked pursuers. The images ended with Grandpa Nick taking him in, while Fanxin was left wondering what the Soul Clan was.

• Fanxin left Ren Fang and the Little Black Cat, went deep into the forest, and focused on the images in his brain domain.
• Fanxin saw masked attackers destroy a settlement where people in black training clothes lived, until his infant cry felled more than half the pursuers.
• The surviving people in black fought to protect Fanxin’s parents and help them escape with him, but they died in the battle.
• Fanxin saw his parents flee with him and receive help from an old man, who later sacrificed the lower half of his body to help them escape underground.
• The old man brought Fanxin’s parents to a deserted island, where they eventually entrusted their child to him before leaving.
• Fanxin realized the old man was Grandpa Nick and the couple were his parents, then wondered what the Soul Clan was.

Fanxin learned that the Soul Clan had powerful souls and could survive the destruction of their bodies, but becoming a true member required awakening his soul by devouring another soul. Little Fox gave him half of his own soul, awakening Fanxin’s soul, then fell into a deep sleep while Fanxin found he could not yet use any abilities.

• Little Fox explained the Soul Clan’s powerful souls, soul attacks, and ability to survive without their bodies, while warning Fanxin that the latter had serious aftereffects.
• Little Fox told Fanxin that he needed to devour a soul to activate his own and offered half of his soul, assuring Fanxin that he would survive.
• Fanxin accepted Little Fox’s half-soul and absorbed it, causing his mindscape to glow and his soul to grow powerful enough to leave his body.
• Little Fox returned to the mindscape to rest, leaving Fanxin to figure out the new abilities on his own.
• Fanxin tried a soul attack but discovered that his soul was too weak to use any abilities.

Fanxin learned that his Soul Clan soul body needed to devour souls to grow, while Grandpa Nick warned him to hide his clan identity and become as strong as a Marine Admiral before seeking revenge. The chapter ended with Fanxin suspecting Grandpa Nick knew something about the attacker and heading home to make dinner.

• Grandpa Nick told Fanxin that his soul body was too weak to use its new ability and needed to devour souls to grow stronger.
• Fanxin thanked Grandpa Nick for saving him and his parents, and Grandpa Nick explained that the Soul Clan had once rescued him from a storm.
• Fanxin described a masked attacker who could turn his body into magma, and Grandpa Nick reacted with alarm but denied knowing anything.
• Grandpa Nick told Fanxin to conceal his Soul Clan identity and wait until he had Marine Admiral strength before seeking revenge.
• Fanxin suspected Grandpa Nick was hiding information about the attacker, but Grandpa Nick urged him to focus on training, and Fanxin went home to make dinner.

Fanxin learned that a Marine Admiral may have taken part in the Soul Clan’s destruction and resolved to grow strong enough to uncover the truth and take revenge. Grandpa Nick trained Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black Cat relentlessly, and after two years all three had grown much stronger.

• Grandpa Nick worried that Fanxin would seek out a Marine Admiral before he was strong enough, then decided to focus on training him.
• Fanxin concluded that a Marine Admiral had attacked the Soul Clan and vowed to find those responsible once he had enough strength.
• Fanxin returned home, where Little Black Cat and Ren Fang had cooked dinner, and the four of them ate together.
• The next day, Grandpa Nick began training Fanxin, Little Black Cat, and Ren Fang without mercy, healing them after he injured them.
• After two years of training, Fanxin was eighteen and could control his soul body in battle, Ren Fang was nineteen and had become a formidable fighter, and Little Black Cat had developed sixty percent of her Devil Fruit ability.

Grandpa Nick warned Fanxin about the dangers beyond their refuge and returned the Wind and Sand Tower his parents had left for him. Fanxin prepared to leave with Ren Fang and the Little Black Cat by building a steel boat.

• Grandpa Nick cautioned Fanxin to avoid reckless fights but never abandon a captured friend, and Fanxin said he understood.
• Grandpa Nick gave Fanxin the 108-level Wind and Sand Tower, explaining how to bind and use it to create sandstorms.
• Fanxin bound the tower, tested its weakest level, and learned that its sandstorm could last for hours after activation.
• Grandpa Nick told Fanxin to use the tower to drive enemies away rather than kill them, then vanished underground instead of seeing him off.
• Fanxin returned to his residence and began building a steel boat with Ren Fang and the Little Black Cat.

Fanxin and his companions finished building a boat and set out to sea so he could search for his parents and investigate the attack on the Soul Clan. After saying goodbye to Grandpa Nick, Fanxin left the island with Ren Fang and Little Black Cat.

• Little Black Cat estimated that building the boat would take a week, but agreed to finish it in four days for Fanxin.
• Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black Cat completed the black boat and planned to depart the next day after gathering supplies.
• Fanxin packed their belongings into the Wind and Sand Tower, which held clothes he suspected his mother had prepared for him.
• The three gathered food, loaded the boat, and headed out to sea.
• Fanxin stopped the boat near the island, thanked Grandpa Nick, and waited for him to appear.
• When Grandpa Nick did not come out, Fanxin ordered Little Black Cat to sail away so he could search for his parents and pursue answers about the Soul Clan's attackers.

Fanxin and his companions left Grandpa Nick behind and began searching for Fanxin’s parents, who had been missing for eighteen years. They reached an inhabited island and left their boat safely submerged under Little Black’s control as they headed ashore.

• Fanxin worried that he might never see Grandpa Nick again, and he and his companions agreed to avoid fights unless they had to defend themselves.
• Fanxin drew what he remembered of his parents, and Little Black copied the image into its mechanical eyes so it could screen people for similar appearances.
• Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black sailed for three days before reaching an inhabited island.
• At the port, Little Black ordered Number One to transform and sink to the seabed, surprising Fanxin with the boat’s ability to move on its own.
• Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black headed onto the island to begin searching for Fanxin’s parents.

Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black split up on the island to buy supplies and search for someone. After Fanxin gathered food from the deserted market, he learned that two giant wolves had appeared near Ren Fang and told him to drive them back if they attacked anyone.

• Fanxin and Ren Fang divided their tasks, with Fanxin going to buy supplies while Ren Fang and Little Black searched for someone.
• Fanxin discovered that his money could cover only half the supplies and worried about how to earn more.
• A panicked crowd fled from a wolf, leaving the market deserted, and Fanxin collected the items on his list without paying.
• Fanxin stored the food and two refrigerators in the Wind and Sand Tower, then called Ren Fang on a Den Den Mushi.
• Ren Fang told Fanxin that two giant wolves, a male and a female, were nearby and looking for food but had not attacked anyone.
• Fanxin told Ren Fang to drive the wolves back if they hurt anyone.

Fanxin met Ren Fang after the giant wolves vanished, then learned from an islander that the wolves appeared once a year and caused damage for three days. He sent Little Black Cat to scan the gathered residents for anyone resembling his parents while he and Ren Fang explored the deserted town and searched for the wolves.

• Fanxin flew to Ren Fang, but the two giant wolves had shrunk and disappeared before he arrived.
• Fanxin asked an elderly islander about the wolves and learned they supposedly appeared once a year, avoided harming people, and vanished after three days.
• Fanxin asked Little Black Cat whether he had checked the islanders for people resembling Fanxin's parents, and Little Black Cat said the wolves had interrupted his scan.
• Fanxin told Little Black Cat to scan everyone gathered by the harbor before they left for another island.
• Fanxin and Ren Fang explored the deserted town and looked for the wolves, deciding to avoid fighting them if possible.

Fanxin and Ren Fang found no traces of the giant wolves and waited for Little Black, while Fanxin offered to help Ren Fang with her family’s killer. A little wolf appeared beside them, revealed its power to turn their surroundings into wolves, and forced them to follow it as Fanxin planned to call Little Black.

• Fanxin and Ren Fang searched the town for clues about the giant wolves but found nothing, so they waited for Little Black before setting sail.
• Fanxin offered to help Ren Fang find the murderer who had killed her family, but she said she would tell him about the enemy once she found him.
• A little wolf appeared beside Fanxin and Ren Fang without making a sound and confirmed that it was the giant wolf in its transformed form.
• The little wolf demanded that Fanxin and Ren Fang follow it, then turned the ground, buildings, trees, metal, and air into wolves that surrounded them.
• Fanxin told Ren Fang to contact Little Black, and they agreed to follow the little wolf.

Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black followed a little wolf into an underground wolf settlement and met its golden wolf king, who demanded Fanxin’s help with a task. The wolf king warned that Fanxin would not be allowed to leave if he failed.

• Ren Fang called Little Black to join Fanxin, and the little wolf led them toward the island’s tallest mountain.
• The little wolf opened a deep pit, and Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black descended through it with the help of a buoyant force.
• They reached an underground chamber filled with wolves, which backed down after the little wolf told them the wolf king wanted to see Fanxin.
• The little wolf brought them through several rooms to a nine-story tower, where they met the golden wolf king.
• The wolf king said Fanxin had to complete a task or die, since the wolves could not risk him revealing their hidden settlement.

Fanxin confronted the giant golden wolf king over being ordered to help, then heard that the Tower of Vicious Wolves held dangerous beasts threatening the surviving wolves. He learned the wolf king wanted him to guard the tower door, but with Fanxin needing to find his parents, Ren Fang suggested he might move the tower into his Wind and Sand Tower.

• Fanxin shielded himself, Ren Fang, and Little Black with wind and sand and demanded that the giant golden wolf treat him as a helper rather than a subordinate.
• The giant golden wolf apologized and explained that the Tower of Vicious Wolves imprisoned vicious wolves, who had killed most of the wolf king’s kin.
• Fanxin agreed to help after hearing what had happened, but the wolf king asked him to guard the tower door so the survivors could leave safely.
• Fanxin refused to stay because he needed to find his parents, and the wolf king insisted that he had already promised to help.
• Ren Fang suggested that Fanxin could take the giant tower into his Wind and Sand Tower, though she doubted it would fit.

Fanxin and Ren Fang found a way to remove the Tower of Vicious Wolves and free the giant wolves from its attacks. After the wolves saw them off, Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black sailed toward the next island.

• Fanxin proposed storing the Tower of Vicious Wolves inside the Wind and Sand Tower, and asked the giant golden wolf how to move it.
• The giant golden wolf shrank the Tower of Vicious Wolves by pressing its gate and handed it to Fanxin.
• Fanxin placed the tower inside the Wind and Sand Tower, freeing the giant wolves from its attacks.
• Fanxin, Ren Fang, and Little Black left the island and returned to their ship.
• The giant wolves waved goodbye as Little Black sped the ship toward the next island.

After Fanxin's ship disappeared, the golden Wolf King planned to rebuild the wolf tribe and eventually reclaim the island or coexist with its human inhabitants. When Langyue went missing, the wolves suspected Langyue had secretly joined Fanxin to pursue a dream of becoming the strongest wolf, and the Wolf King accepted the choice.

• The golden Wolf King told the remaining wolves to grow their pack before attempting to reclaim the island from humans.
• The Wolf King said the wolves would prefer peaceful coexistence but would defend their homeland if humans tried to drive them out.
• The silver-gray giant wolf searched the underground chamber for Langyue and, finding no trace, reported the disappearance to the Wolf King.
• The silver-gray giant wolf suggested Langyue might have secretly boarded Fanxin's ship to explore the world and become the strongest wolf.
• The golden Wolf King accepted Langyue's decision and returned to the underground chamber with the silver-gray giant wolf to strengthen the tribe.

Fanxin discovered that Langyue had secretly boarded his ship and agreed to let the little wolf join his journey under strict rules against starting fights. As the ship sailed onward, Ren Fang asked Little Black about his dream, and he declared that he would build and captain a powerful warship.

• Fanxin found Langyue sleeping under the covers in his room and asked why he had followed the ship.
• Langyue explained that he wanted adventure and challenges, and Fanxin agreed to let him stay if he did not provoke people without cause.
• Fanxin went to sleep beside Langyue, and Langyue eventually settled down to sleep too.
• Ren Fang and Little Black relaxed at the bow while the ship moved slowly under sail to conserve power.
• Ren Fang asked Little Black about his dream, and Little Black said he wanted to build a powerful warship and become its captain.

Little Wolf Langyue joined Ren Fang, Fanxin, and Little Black Cat aboard their ship, where he explained the Tower of Vicious Wolves’ deadly history and warned Fanxin against entering it. As the ship continued onward, Fanxin spotted a huge pirate vessel and called everyone to prepare for battle.

• Little Black Cat said he would build his dream warship inside his Mechanical Space and keep it hidden to avoid attracting the navy.
• Fanxin and Ren Fang urged Little Black Cat to accept Little Wolf Langyue as a companion, and Langyue agreed to catch fish for the group.
• Little Wolf Langyue told Fanxin how his clan had gained his powers, suffered heavy losses in the Tower of Vicious Wolves, and finally escaped with his help.
• Fanxin decided to postpone exploring the Tower of Vicious Wolves until he was stronger.
• Fanxin spotted a massive pirate ship and warned Ren Fang, Little Black, and Langyue to prepare for battle.