Recaps

Fanxin defeated Aluo by destroying his boat and fighting him underwater, taking his mountain-cleaving blade before returning to his crew. While Little Black Cat repaired the ship, Fanxin and the others gathered fruit trees for Wolf Valley and continued caring for the sleeping sea serpent.

• Fanxin drove Aluo onto his boat, then lured him into the water and destroyed the boat with Diamond Spikes.
• Fanxin disarmed Aluo, took his mountain-cleaving blade, and left him badly wounded; Aluo survived and vowed to recover the weapon.
• Fanxin rejoined the ship, where Little Black Cat said repairs would take three or four days.
• Fanxin and Ren Fang led the crew in digging up the island’s fruit trees and transplanting them to Wolf Valley.
• The crew returned to help repair the ship, while Langyue caught fish and Fanxin checked on the sleeping sea serpent.

Fanxin confronted Hawk-Eye, who came aboard peacefully and discussed Fanxin’s Soul Clan heritage and the Navy’s threat. After Hawk-Eye left, Fanxin ordered the ship repaired and its engine powered in case Akainu came after him.

• Little Black Cat spotted Hawk-Eye approaching, and Fanxin prepared for a possible fight while telling the others to stay out of danger.
• Hawk-Eye said he had come for the scenery, accepted Fanxin’s invitation to eat and drink, and asked about Fanxin’s wanted poster and fighting style.
• Fanxin revealed that he was a surviving member of the Soul Clan, and Hawk-Eye warned that the Navy and Akainu might target him.
• Hawk-Eye declined to fight Fanxin until he grew stronger, then finished his meal and sailed away.
• Fanxin told Little Black Cat to hurry the repairs and fill the engine with energy because Akainu might already be coming to capture him.

Fanxin’s bounty exposed him on Twin Island, where he defeated the bounty hunters and Marines sent to capture him. The Marine commander then sent a second lieutenant to provoke retired vice admiral Senior Black Man into confronting Fanxin.

• Fanxin and his crew trained hard while sailing toward Marine Headquarters, then reached Twin Island to buy supplies.
• Fanxin split from Ren Fang and the others, and bounty hunters recognized him and attacked; he emerged unharmed, and they fled to report him to the Marines.
• Marine commander Mengtian confronted Fanxin at a noodle shop, but Fanxin defeated his troops and wounded Mengtian with Diamond Spikes before leaving.
• Mengtian ordered a second lieutenant to summon Senior Black Man by telling him that a powerful newcomer had called him a coward.
• The second lieutenant found Senior Black Man sleeping outside his wooden house on West Island and tried to wake him.

Senior Black Man confronted Fanxin after the Navy lured him into a fight, and Fanxin realized his opponent was powerful enough to have fought Garp to a draw. Fanxin began battling him, using Soul Perception to evade a devastating strike, but Senior Black Man remained far faster and stronger.

• A Navy ensign tricked Senior Black Man into pursuing Fanxin by claiming Fanxin had insulted him, then organized the search for Fanxin.
• Fanxin agreed to wait for the Navy's expert and contacted Little Black Cat and the others to prepare to set sail in case he needed to escape.
• Senior Black Man arrived, dismissed the Navy men who had falsely attributed the one-punch boast to Fanxin, and insisted that Fanxin fight him.
• Senior Black Man said he had fought Garp to a draw, and Fanxin recognized that he was facing an Admiral-level opponent.
• Fanxin attacked with Diamond Spikes, but Senior Black Man vanished and struck from above; Fanxin sensed him with Soul Perception and dodged the blow that split the ground.

Fanxin fought the retired senior Black Man, whose Haki overwhelmed him until Diamond Beast spikes managed to hurt the old man. After learning Fanxin belonged to the Soul Clan, the senior Black Man stopped fighting and insisted he stay on the island to train, leaving Fanxin and his crew to prepare for a forced period of training.

• The senior Black Man covered himself in Haki and dodged Fanxin’s sword attacks before overpowering him and slamming him into the ground.
• Fanxin had the Diamond Beast fire Haki-coated spikes from his body, and the spikes caused the senior Black Man pain without piercing his defenses.
• Fanxin revealed that he was from the Soul Clan by separating his soul from his body, and the senior Black Man demanded that he remain on the island.
• The senior Black Man told Fanxin he could leave only after defeating him, then promised to protect him and left.
• Fanxin contacted Little Black Cat and the others and told them to return to the island, where Ren Fang agreed that staying to train could help them survive a future encounter with Akainu.

Ren Fang settled the group inside Wolf Valley while Fanxin learned why the senior Black Man felt responsible for the Soul Clan’s destruction and accepted his offer to teach him Haki. The senior Black Man also ordered Fanxin to drive the Marines from the island, and Fanxin led his crew toward the Marine branch as Major Mengtian prepared to defend it and call for reinforcements.

• Ren Fang moved everyone into Wolf Valley and had Langyue create wolf packs to guard it while Fanxin went to speak with the senior Black Man.
• The senior Black Man explained that his friendship with the Soul Clan had exposed them to the Celestial Dragons, who later destroyed their settlement, and offered to train Fanxin in Haki.
• Fanxin agreed to the training and accepted the senior Black Man’s challenge to destroy the Marine branch, with the old man promising to handle anyone above Vice Admiral rank.
• Fanxin asked for his crew to join the training, then told them to prepare for a grueling regimen and led them to attack the Marine branch.
• After learning Fanxin was approaching, Major Mengtian ordered reinforcements requested and soldiers to defend the branch; Fanxin told his crew to avoid killing Marines if possible and sent them forward.

Fanxin defeated the Marines at Twin Island and forced them to abandon the island, then began organizing its defense and daily life. At Marine Headquarters, Sengoku learned that Fanxin might be the surviving Soul Clan child from a past operation, and Akainu urged a Buster Call to eliminate him before he grew stronger.

• Fanxin defeated Luo Qi and the Marines at the branch, then ordered Mengtian to evacuate Twin Island within an hour.
• Mengtian sent the wounded Marines and doctors aboard a warship, and the Marines left as the islanders watched.
• Fanxin told Little Black Cat to deploy robots and robot soldiers, directed Langyue to send Little Wolves among the people, and moved his crew into the branch.
• Mengtian reported Fanxin’s takeover to Marine Headquarters, prompting Ouyang Zan to bring the news to Sengoku.
• Sengoku summoned Aokiji and Akainu and explained that Black Man Li Kecheng might be protecting Fanxin because he knew Fanxin’s identity.
• Akainu identified Fanxin as the infant who survived the past Soul Clan operation and proposed a Buster Call on Twin Island.

Akainu proposed destroying Twin Island with a Buster Call to kill Fanxin, but Sengoku hesitated over the civilians and the risk of provoking Li Kecheng. He sent Garp toward Twin Island while Fanxin and his companions began training under Senior Black Man.

• Akainu urged Sengoku to order a Buster Call on Twin Island, while Aokiji opposed killing its civilians.
• Sengoku weighed the danger of Li Kecheng surviving and retaliating, then ordered Garp to go to Twin Island and deal with Fanxin.
• Garp reluctantly put on his uniform, boarded a warship, and set sail for Twin Island.
• Fanxin brought his companions to Senior Black Man's home at dawn and waited while he slept.
• Senior Black Man sent Little Black Cat to buy breakfast for separate training and ordered the others to run around Twin Island carrying sandbags without using their special abilities.

Fanxin and his crew trained under Black Man Li Kecheng, who tested Little Black Cat’s abilities and urged it to develop Haki and fight for itself. He then moved their combat practice to Wolf Valley’s vast sixth level, where he overwhelmed the crew and deliberately battered Fanxin to provoke the others.

• Fanxin led the crew on a weighted run around Twin Island while Li Kecheng monitored them and Little Black Cat brought him breakfast.
• Li Kecheng tested Little Black Cat, advised it to fight through a large robot body, and dodged its dangerous brown flame before teaching it to awaken Haki through personal combat.
• After Fanxin brought Li Kecheng to Wolf Valley’s sixth level, Li Kecheng began training the crew to dodge and quickly knocked them down.
• Li Kecheng singled out Fanxin, overwhelmed him with speed, and struck him repeatedly while warning that slowness could be fatal.
• Ren Fang and the others rushed to help Fanxin, while Li Kecheng revealed through his actions that he meant to enrage them and awaken their potential.

Li Kecheng pushed Fanxin through a brutal training fight, using his injured companions to provoke him and urging him to rely on his own strength. After Fanxin used the Diamond Beasts to buy time and then returned to fight alone, he resolved to learn Haki, and Li Kecheng began attacking him with full force.

• Li Kecheng beat Fanxin and then injured Ren Fang and the others to enrage him.
• Fanxin ordered his companions to fight Li Kecheng, but Li Kecheng defeated them and left them unable to get up.
• Fanxin charged Li Kecheng with his sabers and decided he would no longer trust the old man or rely on his mercy.
• Fanxin released the Diamond Beasts to hold Li Kecheng off, rested briefly, then recalled them and fought Li Kecheng alone.
• Fanxin said he had to protect his friends and was determined to learn Haki, so Li Kecheng launched his fiercest attack.

Li Kecheng put Fanxin and the others through brutal training, then joined their group and urged them to leave Twin Island before the Marines could attack. The group began preparing to sail, while Li Kecheng warned Fanxin that the Marines had a hidden force powerful enough to devastate the island.

• Li Kecheng defeated Fanxin and injured the others, then treated them with medicinal baths and told them to continue training.
• Ren Fang joined Fanxin in his room, and they became intimate before falling asleep together.
• Li Kecheng moved into Wolf Valley and explained that he wanted to travel after years of Marine surveillance and guilt over his friend's clan.
• Li Kecheng agreed to serve as the group's ship's doctor and announced that they would leave Twin Island that afternoon.
• Fanxin sent Little Black Cat to recall the robots while Ren Fang and the others gathered supplies and Langyue summoned its wolves.
• Li Kecheng warned Fanxin that the Marines had a hidden force and might destroy Twin Island, so they had to keep moving.

Li Kecheng explained that Fanxin had to leave Twin Island to prevent the Navy from launching a Buster Call, and joined him to train him in Conqueror’s Haki. After Fanxin’s group set sail, Li Kecheng told Sengoku that they had left the island and warned him not to attack it.

• Li Kecheng told Fanxin that the Navy might destroy Twin Island with a Buster Call if they stayed, so they needed to leave and draw the Navy’s attention away from its residents.
• Li Kecheng said he would train Fanxin to master Conqueror’s Haki, while Fanxin promised to grow stronger.
• Fanxin, Ren Fang, and their companions finished storing their supplies and left Twin Island aboard their ship, while Li Kecheng initially remained in Wolf Valley.
• After the ship departed, Li Kecheng called Sengoku and warned him not to attack Twin Island, revealing that he had joined Fanxin and was training him.
• Sengoku demanded that Fanxin be handed over and grew angry when Li Kecheng’s departure complicated the Navy’s plans.

Li Kecheng joined Fanxin’s crew and arranged for the Marines to pursue Fanxin so he could grow stronger through combat. After Garp was assigned to hunt them, Fanxin began traveling alone by day and encountered a pirate ship whose captain was the fighter Cook.

• Li Kecheng told Sengoku he would protect Fanxin if the Marines sent an Admiral, then divided the crew’s training and arranged for Fanxin to face Marine pursuers alone during the day.
• Sengoku ordered Garp to pursue Fanxin and Li Kecheng, and Garp changed course after choosing that mission over hunting his grandson Luffy.
• Fanxin returned to Wolf Valley, had Little Black Cat dismantle the large ship, and set out the next morning in a small boat while cultivating his soul.
• Fanxin attacked a pirate ship that refused to yield, boarded it, and withstood the crew’s weapons without injury.
• The pirates fetched their captain, Cook, after Fanxin demanded to fight him.

Fanxin fought Captain Cook after refusing to pay for the damage to Cook’s ship and crew, overcoming Cook’s grip with Diamond Spikes. Fanxin left Cook alive and returned to his small boat to continue his journey.

• Captain Cook demanded compensation from Fanxin, who refused and fought him.
• Cook trapped Fanxin’s hand with a special adhesive substance and battered him, but stopped to avoid destroying the ship.
• Fanxin unleashed Diamond Spikes at close range, badly injuring Cook.
• Fanxin spared Cook and explained that he had come for a challenge, not to kill anyone.
• Fanxin waved goodbye and returned to his small boat, saying he still had to eat.

Fanxin evaded Garp for fifteen days, then used a storm to destroy Garp’s warship and escape underwater. He reached an island to shelter from the rain, where an unseen woman ordered him to leave her territory.

• Fanxin warned Cook that Garp’s warship was approaching, and Cook’s crew faked their deaths with red paint; Garp saw through the ruse, questioned them about Fanxin, and continued the pursuit.
• Fanxin and Garp chased each other for fifteen days until a fierce storm forced Fanxin to send his boat back to Wolf Valley and swim toward Garp’s ship.
• Fanxin attacked the bottom of Garp’s warship with Diamond Spikes, tore open its hull, and swam away while the Marines struggled in the storm.
• Fanxin spotted an island, climbed ashore for shelter, and was confronted by a woman who claimed the island as her territory and ordered him to leave.

Fanxin endured the weather master’s lightning attack, then persuaded a young girl to leave her isolated island by bringing her and her mother’s grave into Wolf Valley. The girl explained that her parents had fled an evil force, and that both had died after her father created the storm that sank their pursuers.

• Fanxin refused to leave the island and was attacked by a lightning net for an hour before the weather master withdrew it.
• The weather master revealed that she had created the storm and could control the weather, and Fanxin asked her to join his pirate crew as navigator.
• Fanxin found the weather master was a young girl standing beside her mother’s grave, and he brought her into Wolf Valley.
• The girl agreed to leave after Fanxin offered to move her mother’s grave, and he moved the coffin and tombstone into Wolf Valley.
• The girl told Fanxin that her father had created the storm to sink the evil force pursuing their family, then died at sea, while her mother later died from illness.

Fanxin brought Chen Yuning to Wolf Valley, where Li Kecheng and the others welcomed her and arranged for her to train. After escaping Garp and resuming his voyage, Fanxin stopped at a banquet aboard Buggy’s ship to eat, then left with a map to guide his journey.

• Fanxin comforted Chen Yuning, brought her to Wolf Valley, and introduced her to Li Kecheng, who decided she would train with the group.
• Fanxin left Chen Yuning in the others’ care, then fled Garp’s Marines and escaped Garp by flying away.
• Fanxin returned to Wolf Valley that night, sparred with Li Kecheng, and set out again the next morning without knowing where he was.
• Fanxin encountered the Buggy Pirates, landed on their ship, and ate at their banquet while Buggy and his crew cautiously joined him.
• Fanxin spoke with Alvida, asked Buggy for a map, and left the ship to continue sailing.

Fanxin reached Onigashima to buy supplies for Wolf Valley, attracting Marines and bounty hunters as soon as he went ashore. After the bounty hunters confronted him at a restaurant, he defeated their challenge and forced them to pay before settling down to eat.

• Fanxin arrived at Onigashima after five days of travel and went to the market with his robot to buy supplies in bulk.
• Marines and bounty hunters tracked Fanxin, and the robot warned him that both groups were following them.
• At a restaurant, Fanxin demanded five thousand gold coins from each bounty hunter and used Diamond Armor to withstand the red-haired man's sword attacks.
• Fanxin struck down bounty hunters who tried to flee, then let the others leave after they paid him.
• Fanxin gave the restaurant staff the collected money, began eating, and asked the owner if he had time to answer a question.

Fanxin investigated the strange apparitions that appeared on Onigashima and traced them to a mountain, where a hidden voice attacked him and the robot with shifting terrain, meteors, and heavenly fire. Fanxin was still dodging the assault as the danger closed in.

• A shopkeeper told Fanxin that bloody apparitions appeared on the fifteenth of every month and that investigators who pursued them had vanished or gone mad.
• After learning that it was the fourteenth, Fanxin decided to investigate that night, rested, and then skipped training with Li Kecheng to head into the mist with the robot.
• Fanxin and the robot found that some apparitions were intangible while others briefly became solid, and Fanxin suspected someone was controlling them.
• Following the apparitions to a mountain on Onigashima's eastern side, Fanxin and the robot were warned by a hidden voice to stay away, but Fanxin continued inside.
• The mountain shifted beneath Fanxin and the robot, sending them back to its foot, and the hidden attacker unleashed countless meteors and then heavenly fire.
• Fanxin put on his Flight Armor and dodged the meteors with the robot, but the falling fire forced him downward as the attack continued.

Fanxin escaped the mysterious islander’s territory by flying away, then discovered the islander was Qiangwei, a wheelchair-bound girl who used spatial tricks to hide from people hunting her for offending the Celestial Dragons. He recruited her into the Heavenly Soul Pirates and learned that Celestial Dragons would visit the Prague Kingdom in a month, making it his next destination.

• Fanxin and Xiao Ning fled horizontally from the mountain, realized the islander’s meteors and heavenly fire were illusions created by manipulating space, and returned to confront him.
• Fanxin persuaded the islander to join his crew, promising a bodyguard, and met Qiangwei, who explained that she had frightened the islanders to keep herself hidden from the Celestial Dragons’ hunters.
• Qiangwei warned Fanxin that recruiting her would bring the Celestial Dragons’ wrath, but he revealed his own grudge against them and said he intended to fight them.
• Qiangwei told Fanxin the Celestial Dragons would inspect the Prague Kingdom in one month, and Xiao Ning identified its location west of Onigashima.
• Fanxin brought Qiangwei to Wolf Valley, introduced himself as captain of the Heavenly Soul Pirates, and reassured her that Li Kecheng could protect the crew with strength comparable to an Admiral.

Fanxin brought Qiangwei to Wolf Valley as a new companion and asked Li Kecheng to examine her legs. He then left with Xiao Ning to draw the islanders out of hiding.

• Fanxin settled Qiangwei in a room and told Ren Fang that she would be joining them as a companion.
• Fanxin introduced Qiangwei to the others, and she showed them her ghost ability, frightening Chen Yuning and the Su sisters.
• Fanxin comforted Chen Yuning and asked Li Kecheng whether Qiangwei's legs could be healed.
• Li Kecheng agreed to examine Qiangwei and urged Fanxin to leave Wolf Valley to gain experience.
• Fanxin left with Xiao Ning, found the islanders still hiding, and told Xiao Ning to use a loudspeaker to call them out.

Fanxin left Onigashima for the Prague Kingdom and met Fire Fist Ace, who was traveling to execute a former crewmate for killing someone to steal a mysterious Devil Fruit. The two fought at sea, and Fanxin used attacks from beneath the water to threaten Ace’s boat.

• Xiao Ning announced that the evil spirits were gone, and the islanders emerged to celebrate while Fanxin cooked and ate before setting out for the Prague Kingdom.
• Fanxin recognized Fire Fist Ace as a Whitebeard pirate and offered him liquor; Ace explained he was hunting a former crewmate who had killed another pirate to steal a black Devil Fruit.
• Fanxin told Ace he planned to attack the Celestial Dragons visiting the Prague Kingdom and later challenge Whitebeard, prompting Ace and Fanxin to begin fighting.
• Fanxin’s attacks passed through Ace because Ace was a Logia, but his Diamond Spikes pierced Ace’s boat and forced him to flee.
• Fanxin jumped into the sea and attacked Ace’s boat from below, but Ace anticipated the ambush and sped away from the spikes.

Fire Fist Ace fled Fanxin’s pursuit and boarded a Marine warship to find a safer place to fight. After the Marines resisted his demand to leave, Ace attacked them and damaged the ship, then faced its commander, Pound.

• Fanxin pursued Ace across the sea while Ace searched for a location that favored him in battle.
• Ace spotted Marine warships and headed for them, but their crew began firing at him with Prison Bullets.
• Ace abandoned his boat and boarded a warship, asking the Marines to leave so he could use it to fight Fanxin.
• When the Marines refused, Ace attacked them with Pistol and Fire Fist, knocking many overboard and damaging the rear of the ship.
• Pound charged Ace with his saber, and Ace counterattacked rather than risk standing still against him.

Ace and Fanxin battled the Marines, then agreed to settle their own fight on a deserted island. Fanxin wounded Ace with a Seastone sword, but Ace’s Great Flame Commandment forced Fanxin into the air, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Ace crippled Pound’s warship and escaped by boat after Pound’s other ships moved beyond his reach.
• Fanxin appeared, destroyed the damaged warship and tore holes in the bottoms of the four remaining warships, forcing the Marines to abandon them.
• Ace and Fanxin stopped fighting at sea and sailed together to a deserted island for a proper duel.
• Fanxin wounded Ace with his Seastone-inlaid diamond sword, revealing that he could bypass Ace’s Logia defenses.
• Ace unleashed Great Flame Commandment, and Fanxin used his Flight Armor to rise above the spreading flames.

Fanxin and Ace called their inconclusive fight a draw and agreed to battle again when Fanxin had grown stronger. Fanxin stayed overnight in Wolf Valley, where he found his companions training late and decided to support them by making dinner.

• Fanxin realized he could neither reach Ace through his flames nor use the sealed Dragon-Slaying Sword, so he and Ace agreed to a draw.
• Fanxin and Ace promised to fight again and warned each other about the traitor they were pursuing before Ace left by boat.
• Fanxin placed Wolf Valley in a secluded spot and entered it for the night.
• Fanxin found his companions still training after Li Kecheng had ended the session, and learned they were pushing themselves to keep up with him.
• Fanxin bathed, changed, and made dinner while his companions continued training, then vowed that they would grow strong enough to stop hiding.