Arc 20Escape from Big Mom’s Territory

Fanxin and the Heavenly Soul Pirates fought off assassins and successive forces sent against them as they sailed through Big Mom’s territory. After Bingfeng and the crew defeated several attackers, Sun Zhijian and Little Fox helped the ship escape, but the enemy squad resumed pursuit after locating them near the territory’s edge.

  • Fanxin settled the old man and his clansmen on Northern Darkness Island, then resumed the voyage as a pursuing pirate crew ordered its men to kill him and destroy his ship.
  • Longquan and Big Mom’s assassins trapped Fanxin’s companions on an island, but the crew defeated the attackers and escaped after Wang Yan turned the island to magma.
  • Fanxin’s group visited Clear Mirror Island, where Fanxin entrusted the white-clad woman with the Silver Light Snakes before they sailed onward toward Big Mom’s territory.
  • Lord Bito sent increasingly powerful fighters against the ship, and Qiangwei and Fanxin defeated the attackers while sparing two Fish-Men.
  • Bingfeng fought Big Mom’s swordsmen and the suited man, capturing the latter before the crew escaped a pursuit led by a spiked-club fighter.
  • Wang Yan and Little Fox drove off another group of pursuers, then Sun Zhijian trapped and scattered the bald man’s squad with his black-fog ability.
  • Bingfeng and Sun Zhijian coordinated the crew’s escape as Little Fox blasted away most of an airborne squad, and Sun Zhijian teleported the ship after Little Black Cat increased its speed.
  • The defeated squad reported its setback, then pursued the Fanxin Pirates again after headquarters located their ship near the edge of Big Mom’s territory.
Chapters 476–500 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 476The City Lord (3)

Fanxin brought the rescued villagers and the old man's clansmen to Northern Darkness Island, where the old man settled them and planned to teach them martial arts. After Fanxin resumed his voyage, he killed a giant horned snake, then learned that an enemy pirate crew was pursuing him and the Heavenly Soul Pirates.

  • Fanxin gave the old man a small world and took him and the villagers aboard, promising to find them a place to settle.
  • After a month at sea, the old man disembarked at Northern Darkness Island, bought land with Fanxin's money, and began settling his clansmen.
  • Fanxin returned to the Heavenly Soul Pirates' original course, and the crew prepared to resume their adventure without the villagers aboard.
  • A giant horned snake attacked Fanxin's ship, and Fanxin severed its head with his diamond saber while Little Fox knocked it away from the vessel.
  • Fanxin warned his crew to prioritize survival as they sailed onward, while a pursuing pirate crew ordered its members to kill Fanxin and destroy the Heavenly Soul Pirates.

Ch. 477Cornered Beast (1)

Fanxin's crew landed on an island and discovered that Big Mom's agents and the freelance assassin Longquan had prepared an ambush for them. After Bingfeng rescued the hostages, Fanxin sent Little Fox to fight Longquan, who still had hidden companions nearby.

  • Fanxin landed on an inhabited island with his crew and sensed watchers hiding in the forest.
  • A bearded man revealed that Big Mom had sent his disguised group to target Fanxin, and Longquan appeared with several of Fanxin's companions held hostage.
  • The bearded man's men threatened the hostages, but Bingfeng froze them, and Wang Yan brought the companions back to safety.
  • Fanxin confronted Longquan, who said he was a freelance assassin and claimed his companions would join the fight when needed.
  • Fanxin sent Little Fox to fight Longquan, who dismissed the fox as a pet.

Ch. 478A Trapped Beast (2)

Fanxin and Little Fox defeated Longquan’s cheetah, but Longquan refused to back down and trapped the island beneath a dome of light. Fanxin sent most of his crew into the Diamond Space and prepared the remaining companions to hunt the assassins.

  • Little Fox knocked Longquan’s cheetah flying, then grew to its size and beat it into a bloody, barely living state.
  • Longquan rejected Fanxin’s chance to end the confrontation and declared that he intended to wipe out the Heavenly Soul Pirates.
  • A dome of light sealed the island, preventing Fanxin’s companions from leaving, while Longquan disappeared with his injured cheetah.
  • Fanxin sent most of his companions into the Diamond Space and kept Bingfeng, Wang Yan, Little Fox, Little Black Cat, Lin Haicheng, Sun Zhijian, Jesse, Langyue, and others outside.
  • Fanxin gave the remaining companions Soul Clones to help locate concealed assassins and ordered them to form teams and hunt their enemies.

Ch. 479Trapped beasts (3)

Fanxin waited for an assassin and killed a Longarm Tribe man after trapping him in a Birdcage. Little Fox and Little Black Cat then sensed another attacker following them, leaving them on guard.

  • Fanxin caught a bullet fired by an unseen assassin and forced the attacker to face him openly.
  • A Longarm Tribe man charged Fanxin, who trapped them both in a Birdcage and killed him after wearing him down.
  • Fanxin buried the man and continued waiting, while Little Fox and Little Black Cat discussed the failed assassination.
  • A man dressed in black followed Little Fox and Little Black Cat, and Little Fox sensed the danger and warned his companion.

Ch. 480The Battle Begins (1)

Little Fox and Little Black Cat killed an assassin who attacked them, then continued toward their next opponents. Meanwhile, Wang Yan and Bingfeng encountered Nana; after Wang Yan recovered from their first clash, Nana revealed she had been holding back and prepared to fight seriously.

  • The man in black attacked Little Fox and Little Black Cat with an ability that compressed space and caused explosions, but they countered together.
  • Little Fox pulled the man in close and used wind blades to disrupt his ability, while Little Black Cat killed him with a laser cannon.
  • Little Fox and Little Black Cat resumed their journey, while Bingfeng and Wang Yan set a concealed trap and waited for an assassin.
  • Nana approached Wang Yan and Bingfeng, then fought Wang Yan in close combat while Bingfeng maintained her ice world to prevent escape.
  • Wang Yan transformed into magma and healed her wounds, leaving the injured Nana at a disadvantage.
  • Nana refused to surrender, said she had not yet shown her real strength, and prepared to attack after wrapping herself in Haki.

Ch. 481The Battle Begins (2)

Wang Yan and Bingfeng fought Nana after she attacked them, and Bingfeng trapped Nana in her Ice and Snow World. As Bingfeng slowly froze her, Nana finally agreed to reveal who had hired her.

  • Nana struck Wang Yan with a Haki-coated punch, but Wang Yan disappeared and spoke from hiding.
  • Nana charged Bingfeng, who chilled the area and injured her with Haki-coated ice spikes.
  • Bingfeng created Ice and Snow World, and Nana discovered she could not escape without confronting Bingfeng.
  • Bingfeng surrounded Nana with ice spikes that pierced and began freezing her body.
  • Bingfeng demanded the identity of Nana's employer, and Nana refused until the ice nearly covered her eyes, when she agreed to tell.

Ch. 482The Battle Begins (3)

Bingfeng learned that Blackbeard had sent Nana and restrained her while Wang Yan prepared to draw the other killers out. Langyue encountered a masked swordsman and poisoned him after trapping him in darkness, leaving the man unable to fight.

  • Nana told Bingfeng that Blackbeard had sent her, and Bingfeng put Seastone Handcuffs on her.
  • Wang Yan emerged with a new body, and she and Bingfeng enclosed the area in an ice barrier to lure the remaining killers out.
  • Langyue encountered a masked swordsman who said he had come to kill members of the Heavenly Soul Pirates.
  • Langyue spread darkness across a ten-li radius, blocking the swordsman's sight and making it harder for him to sense Langyue.
  • Langyue poisoned the swordsman with wolf poison, and the man collapsed and struggled to breathe.

Ch. 483Counterattack (1)

Langyue fought a poison-resistant assassin who could track him by scent, then faced the assassin’s suited reinforcer after their battle stalled. As the newcomer attacked, Langyue prepared to reveal his trump card, and watched the man’s Haki-coated fist approach his head.

  • Langyue’s wolf poison stopped affecting the longsword-wielding assassin, who explained that he had adapted to poisons and could track Langyue by scent.
  • Langyue and the assassin fought for an hour without either defeating the other, then rejected each other’s offers to stop fighting.
  • A man in a suit entered the dark area to assist the assassin, who decided to leave after the newcomer insulted him.
  • Langyue refused to let either man escape and decided to use his trump card against the suited man.
  • The suited man rushed Langyue and swung a Haki-coated fist at his head, while Langyue watched the strike appear to slow.

Ch. 484Counterattack (2)

Langyue battled the suited man and the longsword-wielding man, using wolf poison, summoned wolves, and barriers to keep them from fighting effectively or escaping. The two men fled into the air, and after the suited man recovered, they prepared to resist the poison and face Langyue again.

  • Langyue stopped the suited man's attacks, tried to bite him with wolf poison, and pursued him when he retreated.
  • Langyue shrank the battlefield to force the suited man to fight, but the man with the longsword returned and joined the battle.
  • Langyue summoned a hundred wolves and spread wolf poison, trapping the suited man while fighting the longsword-wielding man with help from the pack.
  • The longsword-wielding man escaped with the poisoned suited man, and Langyue released five hundred wolves before pursuing them through the air.
  • After half an hour, the suited man recovered and used coral to create an air bubble that kept him from breathing wolf poison, while the longsword-wielding man said he had adapted to it.

Ch. 485Counterattack (3)

Langyue fought two assassins whose wolf poison, summoned wolves, and enhanced strength made them difficult to defeat. Little Fox pulled the fleeing men back, and Langyue agreed to split the opponents with Little Black Cat and Little Fox.

  • Langyue summoned wolves and spread wolf poison while the two men divided their efforts, with the longsword wielder holding off the pack and the suited man attacking Langyue.
  • The suited man transformed by consuming his blood and struck Langyue hard, but Langyue escaped using a substitute and clones until the man's power began to run out.
  • The suited man grabbed the longsword wielder and fled, but Little Fox used an invisible force to pull both men back toward Langyue.
  • Langyue objected to Little Fox's interference, then agreed to give one opponent to Little Black Cat and Little Fox.
  • Little Black Cat switched targets after the longsword wielder called it small, leaving Langyue to face the other man.

Ch. 486Tears Without Weeping (1)

Little Black Cat and Little Fox defeated and restrained two attackers while Langyue waited out another man’s secret technique. As the group prepared to hunt for more assassins, four men in a forest house reviewed the battles and discussed how to kill Fanxin and his companions.

  • Little Black Cat fought the longsword-wielding man with a combat unit, but his unit was damaged, so Little Fox took over.
  • Little Fox overpowered the man with his nine tails and gravity and repulsion abilities, and Little Black Cat restrained him with diamond cuffs.
  • Langyue outlasted the suited man’s secret technique, and Little Black Cat cuffed him after he fell.
  • Little Fox told Little Black Cat to send flying robots to search the island for assassins while the group waited.
  • Four men watched recordings of the battles and discussed changing their strategy because Fanxin and his companions were difficult to defeat.

Ch. 487Wanting to Cry but Having No Tears (2)

Fanxin’s group escaped the island after Wang Yan covered it in magma while Little Fox and the others rescued its animals. The Blackbeard Pirates’ men fled without using their poison gas, and Little Fox blasted them and their captured accomplices away before Fanxin’s group sailed on.

  • The Blackbeard Pirates’ remaining men decided to release poison gas across the island to kill Fanxin’s group.
  • Fanxin ordered Wang Yan to turn the island into magma and Little Fox to rescue the animals into Plane Space.
  • As the magma spread, the Blackbeard Pirates’ men abandoned their plan, left the poison gas bombs behind, and escaped by boat.
  • The island was engulfed in magma, its dome shattered, and Bingfeng led Fanxin’s group off the island along an ice road.
  • Little Fox spotted the fleeing attackers and blasted them away, then sent their captured accomplices after them.
  • Fanxin’s group boarded their ship and continued their journey.

Ch. 488Tears Wouldn't Come (3)

Fanxin and his companions arrived at Clear Mirror Island, where an unknown guardian kept the local people safe from pirates. After learning the guardian was a woman raising a little girl, Fanxin visited her at the island’s summit and gave her robots to help care for the child.

  • Fanxin anchored offshore because pirate ships filled the harbor, then went ashore with Ren Fang and the others to buy supplies.
  • Little Black Cat spotted a Blackbeard Pirates ship, and Fanxin sent it to attack at sea with Little Fox while avoiding harm to the locals.
  • Fanxin learned from a restaurant proprietor that a powerful guardian had protected Clear Mirror Island for decades and agreed to deliver the guardian’s evening meal.
  • Fanxin and Ren Fang climbed to the summit, where Fanxin met the woman in white and her young daughter.
  • Fanxin gave the woman in white several smart robots, and the little girl eagerly played with them while they helped feed her.

Ch. 489Battle (1)

Fanxin tested the white-clad woman’s abilities and left the Silver Light Snakes in her care before continuing his journey. After sailing toward Big Mom’s territory through a storm, his ship came under attack, and the crew fought off the first wave of assailants.

  • Fanxin learned that the white-clad woman could suppress evil thoughts and use a shadow ability to attack anyone who targeted her.
  • Fanxin released the Silver Light Snakes, showed the woman the snake king’s powers, and entrusted the snakes to her protection.
  • Fanxin and Ren Fang left, and three days later Fanxin’s group sailed away from the island after finishing their shopping.
  • Outside the island, Little Black Cat said the island’s power had stopped it from attacking Blackbeard’s crew, and Fanxin’s group continued toward Big Mom’s territory.
  • As a storm approached, Fanxin’s group activated the ship’s protective shield and sailed onward, but unknown attackers fired cannonballs at them.
  • Little Black Cat sent out the robots to counterattack, and after an hour the crew shook off their attackers.

Ch. 490Battle (2)

Fanxin prepared his crew for an attack in Big Mom’s territory, then his enemies sent five powerful fighters to destroy the Heavenly Soul Pirates’ ship. The attackers reached the ship and began their assault from above and below.

  • Fanxin assigned his crew to guard the ship’s surface while he watched for underwater attacks, and Little Black Cat organized the robots at their stations.
  • Qiangwei and the robots prepared food while the crew stood ready for combat.
  • After an earlier assault failed, Lord Bito ordered stronger fighters to attack Fanxin and warned them that Fanxin was at Admiral level.
  • The man in combat attire traveled to a remote island and recruited five powerful fighters, including two Fish-Men, to attack Fanxin’s crew.
  • The two Fish-Men went underwater as the other three used Geppo to approach from above, and they began attacking the ship.

Ch. 491Battle (3)

Qiangwei used her prepared battlefield aboard the ship to trap and kill the three attackers, while Little Fox guarded her. The shipboard threat was gone, leaving Fanxin to face the two Fish-Men beneath the ship.

  • Bingfeng and Little Fox let Qiangwei confront the three attackers aboard the ship while the others retreated inside.
  • Qiangwei shrank the three men and trapped them in a diamond cylinder, then filled it with fire and seawater as Little Fox protected her.
  • After the three men died, Little Fox dumped their bodies into the sea.
  • Fanxin confronted the two Fish-Men beneath the ship and said he would keep them there.

Ch. 492Total Annihilation (I)

Fanxin defeated Big Mom’s Fish-Man attackers and continued onward, while their superiors learned of the failed mission. Their boss decided to confront Fanxin personally, risking Big Mom’s wrath if he lost.

  • Fanxin told the whale Fish-Man that their three companions had died, then overpowered and badly wounded the whale and shark Fish-Men.
  • Fanxin spared the injured attackers and left to get his group out of Big Mom’s territory as quickly as possible.
  • The whale and shark Fish-Men found their three dead companions and brought the bodies back to headquarters.
  • The man in the fitted outfit reported the mission’s failure to his boss, the man in the black suit.
  • The man in the black suit ordered a ship prepared and announced that he would challenge Fanxin himself.

Ch. 493Total Annihilation (II)

Fanxin’s crew fought their way through Big Mom’s territory while preparing to outrun her forces, but a swordsman blocked their path. The chapter ended with him attacking Bingfeng as she defended the ship.

  • The suited man and the man in fighting clothes set out with their subordinates to confront Fanxin.
  • Fanxin said he had injured, but spared, the two men who attacked his ship, while Little Black Cat warned that stronger enemies waited deeper in Big Mom’s territory.
  • Fanxin asked Little Black Cat to modify the ship for greater speed, then ordered Little Fox to attack any ships flying Big Mom’s flag; he went to cultivate.
  • Wang Yan attacked the blockade with magma, while Little Fox and Little Black Cat neutralized the enemy cannon fire.
  • A powerful sword attack came toward the ship, and Bingfeng blocked it with her ice sword before the man in fighting clothes challenged her.
  • The man in fighting clothes unleashed a barrage of sword qi, and Bingfeng raised ice walls to stop it.

Ch. 494Total Annihilation (3)

Bingfeng fought a longsword-wielding man sent to stop Fanxin, using her World of Ice to overwhelm him while he refused to surrender. After he was gravely injured, she judged him unworthy of further combat and threw him out of her icy domain.

  • Bingfeng and the man clashed swords, and neither weapon damaged the other.
  • Bingfeng activated her World of Ice and hid within it while the man searched for her with Haki.
  • Bingfeng attacked with waves of ice dragons, and the man destroyed them despite growing exhausted and badly injured.
  • Bingfeng urged the man to stop serving Big Mom, but he said he had to prevent her group from advancing or face punishment.
  • Bingfeng spared the defeated man and threw him out of the World of Ice, telling him to return when he dared resist Big Mom.

Ch. 495The Man in a Suit (1)

Bingfeng fought the man in the suit after he rescued his younger brother and declared his intention to leave Big Mom. She trapped him inside the World of Ice, then returned to the Fanxin Pirates’ ship as the crew sailed onward.

  • The man in the suit rescued the exhausted man in combat attire and told him he planned to leave Big Mom after the battle.
  • The man in the suit returned his younger brother to the ship, then confronted Bingfeng and challenged her to fight.
  • Bingfeng drew the man in the suit into her World of Ice, where he failed to locate her and smashed through her ice dragons.
  • Bingfeng trapped the man in the suit inside a massive ice cone and gave him three minutes to escape before she would detonate the World of Ice.
  • Bingfeng returned to the ship, told Wang Yan that the man had been captured, and the Fanxin Pirates set sail.

Ch. 496The Man in the Suit (2)

Bingfeng defeated the man in the suit and then fought Big Mom’s forces, escaping after freezing most of a pursuing crew. As the Fanxin Pirates sailed deeper into Big Mom’s territory, the spiked-club man caught up with reinforcements and the crew prepared for another fight.

  • Bingfeng shattered the ice trapping the man in the suit, and his fleet rescued him before he ordered them to flee Big Mom’s territory.
  • Little Black Cat detected a Big Mom ship approaching, and Bingfeng confronted its spiked-club captain.
  • Bingfeng’s World of Ice froze most of the enemy crew, but the spiked-club man cracked the frozen realm with his strength.
  • Wang Yan told Bingfeng to keep the ship moving, and Little Fox held off the spiked-club man while the Fanxin Pirates escaped.
  • The spiked-club man contacted Big Mom, received orders to pursue the pirates, and chased them with several powerful companions.
  • Little Black Cat detected the pursuers, and the Fanxin Pirates prepared to fight.

Ch. 497The Man in a Suit (3)

Bingfeng, Little Fox, and Wang Yan drove off one group pursuing the Fanxin Pirates, but another force under Big Mom mobilized to intercept them. As the next attack approached, the crew prepared for battle while Qiangwei and Little Black stayed aboard to defend the ship.

  • Bingfeng froze the sea to block a pursuing speedboat, but a mustached Devil Fruit User broke the ice with glowing feathers.
  • Little Fox drove the mustached man away, and Wang Yan melted the ice and heated the sea until the pursuers fled underwater.
  • Wang Yan returned to the ship, and the battered mustached man chose not to continue pursuing the Fanxin Pirates.
  • Bingfeng warned that Big Mom would send more opponents, so Little Black Cat sped up the ship.
  • A sunglasses-wearing man gathered his subordinates on a deserted island and sent them after the Fanxin Pirates.
  • Little Black Cat spotted the new force, and Wang Yan ordered the crew and robots to prepare for battle while Qiangwei and Little Black stayed aboard with Little Fox to defend the ship.

Ch. 498Flying Squad (1)

Wang Yan’s Fanxin Pirates confronted a bald pirate leader, and Sun Zhijian fought him using black fog and spatial abilities. After the bald man called for reinforcements, the two continued battling, with Sun Zhijian waiting for a chance to use the wind blades he had trapped.

  • Wang Yan left Qiangwei and Little Fox aboard the ship while she and the crew prepared to meet an approaching speedboat.
  • The bald man demanded that the Fanxin Pirates surrender, and Wang Yan refused and assigned Sun Zhijian to stop his attack on the ship.
  • Sun Zhijian used black fog to swallow the bald man’s wind blades, then trapped him inside a maze where his Haki could not sense the surroundings.
  • The bald man called his companions for help, then fought Sun Zhijian for more than twenty minutes without gaining an advantage.
  • Sun Zhijian continued attacking to distract the bald man while waiting for an opening to unleash the stored wind blades.

Ch. 499Flying Squad (2)

Sun Zhijian defeated the bald man’s attempt to escape, then boarded the enemy ship and used his ability to scatter its wounded crew and send the ship away. He returned to his own ship with Bingfeng as the battlefield shifted and the enemy’s retreat was cut off.

  • The bald man tried to escape through the black fog, but Sun Zhijian drove him into his own wind blades and badly injured him.
  • Sun Zhijian pursued the bald man back to his ship, then left to confront the stubbled man guarding the opposing ship.
  • The stubbled man revealed that his Flying Squad could move through the air, but Sun Zhijian redirected his attacks and transported him away when he charged.
  • Sun Zhijian boarded the enemy ship, found the bald man and other wounded men, and sent them to separate locations with his ability.
  • Sun Zhijian sent the enemy ship away, then returned to his own ship and exchanged smiles with Bingfeng.

Ch. 500Flying Squad (3)

Bingfeng’s crew escaped the airborne Big Mom squad’s blockade after Little Fox used her repulsive force to send most of the attackers away. The squad regrouped and learned Fanxin’s ship was nearing the edge of their territory, then set out to pursue it with reinforcements.

  • Bingfeng had Sun Zhijian call the crew back to their ship, and the Fanxin Pirates sailed away while the enemy squad debated whether to pursue them despite the trap aboard.
  • The tall man with loose hair ordered his men to charge the Fanxin Pirates’ ship, and Bingfeng had Sun Zhijian bring Little Fox out to attack them.
  • Little Fox blasted away most of the airborne attackers with repulsive force, then expanded her attacks to cover the space around them; only a little over ten remained.
  • Little Fox urged the crew to flee before reinforcements arrived, and Sun Zhijian used his ability to teleport the ship away after Little Black Cat sped it up.
  • The tall man with loose hair ordered his squad to report the setback and find the Fanxin Pirates, then sent everyone after them when headquarters located their ship near the edge of Big Mom’s territory.
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