Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan gathered his crew and rescued civilians from Hachinosu before Garp and Rocks reached the northern front. They returned safely to Hachinosu, where Lin Yuan and Kaido headed to the warehouse to deal with the Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon.

• Lin Yuan opened a door for Kaido to leave the western front, then brought Bullet and Kuma back from the southern front.
• Kuma sent the remaining civilians across the sea to Hachinosu, rescuing all 437 people.
• Lin Yuan led Kaido, Bullet, King, Moria, and Kuma through a door as Garp and Rocks approached; Garp and Rocks saw each other but went their separate ways.
• The crew arrived on Hachinosu, where Ginny confirmed all 437 civilians were safe and began arranging shelter for them.
• Lin Yuan took Kaido to the warehouse to address the Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon, while King helped Moria to the infirmary and Bullet went to train.

Lin Yuan’s group settled the rescued civilians on Hachinosu while Kaido ate the Azure Dragon fruit, and the remaining Devil Fruits were claimed as the forces left God Valley. The God Valley Incident ended with Sengoku gaining the Buddha fruit, the Rocks Pirates sailing away, and Roger predicting that Lin Yuan would become another madman of the seas.

• Kaido ate the Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon, began transforming, and passed out as his body adjusted to its power.
• Ginny told Lin Yuan that 437 civilians had been accounted for and that a little over 200 wanted to stay, while Lin Yuan said it was time to wrap things up at God Valley.
• Garp and Rocks D. Xebec each took a fruit from the prize warehouse: Garp took the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Daibutsu, and Rocks took the Phoenix fruit for Marco.
• Sengoku ate the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Daibutsu, and transformed as a golden Buddha before the Navy soldiers.
• Rocks gave Whitebeard the Phoenix fruit for Marco, and the Rocks Pirates sailed away from God Valley.
• Roger told Rayleigh that Lin Yuan would become another madman on the seas as the fighting at God Valley ended.

A month after the God Valley Incident, Lin Yuan and his allies rebuilt Hachinosu, trained, and laid down rules for their growing settlement. As they prepared for Kaido’s first real battle using his Azure Dragon fruit, Lin Yuan considered whether to turn next toward Impel Down or Wano Country.

• Ginny and the civilians built houses and expanded the port while Lin Yuan, Kaido, Bullet, and King supplied and moved construction materials.
• Bullet and Kaido trained against Seastone, Kuma practiced palm strikes, King watched for ships, and Moria improved his Shadow Horn Spear in darkness.
• Ginny’s intelligence network spread, and Morgans’s reports made Lin Yuan known as the “Space Demon” while new wanted posters listed the group’s bounties.
• Lin Yuan set rules against theft, killing, and bullying, ordered Kaido to find a target at sea next week, and put Ginny in charge of screening recruits.
• Lin Yuan declared that Hachinosu would protect those seeking refuge, charge those doing business, and kill those who caused trouble.
• Lin Yuan agreed to accompany Kaido on his voyage and wondered whether Impel Down or Wano Country should be his next destination.

Lin Yuan infiltrated Vegapunk’s laboratory on Punk Hazard and learned that the World Government was pursuing Artificial Devil Fruits and the Pacifista project. He returned to Hachinosu with new Seastone transport routes and a stimulant, deciding to wait until the Government’s weapons advanced further.

• Lin Yuan learned from Ginny that Vegapunk was researching the Lineage Factor and took King to investigate his laboratory on Punk Hazard.
• Vegapunk explained that he had discovered the Lineage Factor but had failed to copy Zoan abilities, and warned that the World Government wanted to weaponize his research.
• Vegapunk gave Lin Yuan new Seastone transport routes, told him about the Pacifista project, and offered a stimulant that doubled physical strength for ten minutes at the cost of three days of paralysis.
• Lin Yuan promised to protect Vegapunk if the World Government tried to kill him, then returned to Hachinosu with King.
• Lin Yuan told Ginny about the Government’s projects and decided to wait until the Artificial Devil Fruits and Pacifista prototype were ready.

Lin Yuan took Kaido to fight the Bison Pirates so he could test his Azure Dragon powers, and Kaido destroyed their three ships with Dragon Breath. After returning to Hachinosu, Lin Yuan assessed Kaido’s abilities and planned to find him a stronger opponent.

• Ginny found the Bison Pirates on Bison Island as a target, and Lin Yuan brought Kaido and Bullet there through a door.
• Kaido transformed into an azure dragon, and his Conqueror's Haki knocked out over half the pirates before Dragon Breath set all three ships ablaze.
• The Bison captain attacked Kaido, but his blade broke against Kaido’s scales, and Kaido sent him flying into the sea while leaving him alive.
• Lin Yuan called Kaido back, and the three returned to Hachinosu after Kaido unleashed another Dragon Breath over the sea.
• Ginny confirmed Kaido had avoided harming civilians and asked him to tell her before his next voyage so she could prepare backup.
• Lin Yuan dictated an assessment of Kaido’s combat abilities to Ginny and asked her to find a tougher target for next time.

Lin Yuan visited Ivankov in Impel Down, where Ivankov revealed secrets about the World Government and agreed to join Lin Yuan in a year. Lin Yuan returned to Hachinosu and told Ginny he intended to change the world.

• Ginny gave Lin Yuan Ivankov's fifth message, and Lin Yuan went alone to visit him at Impel Down.
• Lin Yuan brought Ivankov whiskey, and Ivankov said the World Government was researching an ancient, island-destroying National Treasure while the Celestial Dragons fought over power.
• Ivankov said he wanted to leave prison but needed to become stronger first, so Lin Yuan offered to help him train.
• Ivankov agreed to join Lin Yuan if Lin Yuan returned in one year, and Lin Yuan noticed powerful presences elsewhere on Level 5 before leaving.
• Back on Hachinosu, Lin Yuan told Ginny about the Ancient Weapon and said he wanted to survive and change the world.

Lin Yuan negotiated a priority Seastone supply deal with Du Feld and learned that the Rocks Pirates were fracturing as its strongest members pursued their own ambitions. When Big Mom invited him to Whole Cake Island, he countered by asking her to meet on Hachinosu and prepared to host her with desserts.

• Lin Yuan rejected Du Feld's exclusive Seastone offer and agreed to supply him with eighty tons a year at twenty-five percent above market price.
• Du Feld compared Lin Yuan to Rocks, and Lin Yuan insisted that he was a businessman rather than a madman.
• Morgans told Lin Yuan that Whitebeard was forming his own crew, Golden Lion was expanding into Rocks's territory, and Big Mom was building an army of Homies.
• Lin Yuan decided to stay out of the Rocks Pirates' conflicts and wait to collect the spoils when the crew fell apart.
• Perospero delivered Big Mom's invitation to Whole Cake Island, but Lin Yuan asked her to come to Hachinosu instead.
• Lin Yuan told Ginny to prepare a cake and other desserts in case Big Mom accepted his invitation.

Lin Yuan and his allies rescued Inazuma and six other prisoners from a Marine transport, then brought them to Hachinosu. Inazuma agreed to stay and train for a year until Ivankov’s release, while Lin Yuan planned to put his abilities to work.

• Ginny told Lin Yuan that Inazuma was being transported to Impel Down, and Lin Yuan set out with Bullet and Kuma to rescue him.
• Bullet freed the seven prisoners from the transport’s lower hold, and Lin Yuan opened a passage to Hachinosu for their escape.
• Lin Yuan sent the two CP0 agents into the sea through doors, then escaped as Rear Admiral Strawberry recognized him.
• Lin Yuan told Inazuma that Ivankov was alive in Impel Down and needed him to maintain his contacts and intelligence; Inazuma agreed to stay on Hachinosu.
• Ginny charged Inazuma three million Beli for the intelligence, and Inazuma began training his Snip-Snip Fruit ability while Lin Yuan planned to have him help process materials.

Seven months after the God Valley Incident, Lin Yuan’s crew strengthened Hachinosu as the Rocks Pirates began to fragment. Big Mom agreed to visit next month, and Lin Yuan prepared the crew for the high-stakes meeting.

• Lin Yuan and his crew expanded Hachinosu’s harbor, castle, storehouse, and training ground while developing their abilities.
• Ginny displayed the crew’s increased bounties, and Lin Yuan noted that Whitebeard, Golden Lion, and Big Mom were worth more than the crew combined.
• Lin Yuan read that Whitebeard had left the Rocks Pirates, Golden Lion was expanding his territory, and Big Mom had built a Homie army, then told Ginny to prepare to claim people and territory when the crew split apart.
• A flying cake Homie delivered Big Mom’s message that she would visit Hachinosu next month and expected desserts.
• Lin Yuan assigned King to track Big Mom, told Bullet, Kaido, and Kuma how to behave during her visit, and kept Moria and Inazuma away from the reception.

Lin Yuan and Ginny traveled to Dressrosa to obtain the Glint-Glint Fruit, which Ginny had discovered in the Riku Royal Family’s treasury. After trading supplies and money for it, Ginny ate the fruit and gained the ability to observe events and thoughts across a four-thousand-kilometer radius.

• Ginny found evidence that the Glint-Glint Fruit was in the Dressrosa treasury, and Lin Yuan decided to acquire it for her.
• Lin Yuan and Ginny entered King Riku’s study through a spatial door and offered grain, weapons, and Beli for the fruit.
• King Riku accepted the deal, and Lin Yuan delivered the supplies to the palace square.
• Ginny ate the Glint-Glint Fruit and discovered she could control its vast range of vision and perceive people’s thoughts.
• Lin Yuan and Ginny returned to Hachinosu, leaving King Riku to consider Lin Yuan’s claim that he was someone who did not want to die.

Ginny used her Glint-Glint Fruit to spy across the New World and uncovered Rocks’s plans, Big Mom’s intentions, and the Five Elders’ response to Lin Yuan. Her reports revealed that Big Mom would arrive at Hachinosu in seven days, and Lin Yuan ordered King to prepare for her.

• Ginny tested her clairvoyance on a map, heard Rocks discuss the fracturing of his crew, and spotted a mysterious old man with a slow heartbeat aboard his ship.
• Ginny looked in on Big Mom, who said she would visit Hachinosu next month and threatened to turn the island into cake if Lin Yuan played tricks.
• Over the next few days, Ginny trained her ability and saw the Five Elders discussing a plan to deal with Lin Yuan, though she could not hear their meeting clearly.
• Ginny’s notes recorded Whitebeard’s departure, Golden Lion’s dispute with Rocks, Big Mom’s fleet preparing to leave in seven days, and the Five Elders’ decision to watch Lin Yuan while treating Rocks as the greater threat.
• Lin Yuan read Ginny’s reports and told King to prepare to welcome Big Mom’s party.

Lin Yuan negotiated a Seastone deal, Devil Fruit sales, and an information exchange with Big Mom, then accepted her challenge to settle part of their terms through three fights. The chapter ended as Gecko Moria and Perospero faced each other for the first match.

• Ginny spotted Big Mom's fleet approaching Hachinosu, and Lin Yuan prepared to meet her with his allies.
• Big Mom asked Lin Yuan for Seastone, rare Devil Fruits, and intelligence, and they agreed on Seastone and fruit prices as well as an information exchange.
• Big Mom proposed three one-on-one fights, with Seastone pricing at stake, and Lin Yuan accepted while setting rules for the matches.
• Ginny secretly used her ability to memorize the Big Mom Pirates officers' abilities, weaknesses, and physical condition.
• Lin Yuan chose Moria to fight first, and Big Mom sent Perospero to face him.
• Lin Yuan started the first match between Moria and Perospero.

Lin Yuan’s officers defeated Big Mom’s three challengers, and he finalized a trade deal with her before her fleet left. He told Ginny that their money would go toward building their own strength and that they would survive on their own island.

• Moria defeated Perospero with his shadow powers, and Perospero conceded.
• Kuma shattered Cracker’s Biscuit Soldiers with his Paw-Paw Fruit and made Cracker concede.
• King defeated Smoothie with his Haki and flames, giving Lin Yuan’s side three victories.
• Lin Yuan agreed to sell Big Mom Seastone and Fruits for 1.7 billion Beli, and Big Mom accepted the deal.
• After Big Mom’s fleet sailed away, Lin Yuan told Ginny he would invest in people, equipment, and intelligence so they could survive on their own island.

Ginny’s Hive Eye detected Rocks’s plan to rob a Wano Country Seastone transport fleet and the Marines’ move to intercept him. Lin Yuan identified an unguarded stretch of the route where the forces would meet in three days and decided to take the spoils left behind.

• Ginny’s Hive Eye improved enough to survey the New World, and she monitored Rocks’s crew, Big Mom, Marine Headquarters, and Mary Geoise for Lin Yuan.
• Ginny discovered that Sengoku was mobilizing Marines and that the World Government was researching Vegapunk’s Lineage Factor, though she could not read the protected documents.
• Ginny saw Rocks’s fleet head south toward Wano Country and learned that Rocks planned to steal Seastone from a transport fleet in three days.
• Ginny spotted Sengoku and Garp leading twenty warships toward Rocks’s fleet, and Slow Heartbeat noticed her watching before Lin Yuan ordered her to withdraw her gaze.
• Lin Yuan studied the routes through the Ghost Sea and marked an unguarded stretch of the safe channel where he could take the leftovers after Rocks and the Marines clashed.

Lin Yuan sent six allies to defeat the Iron Hook Pirates and collect compensation for the merchants they had robbed, establishing Hachinosu's authority in the waters. After the pirates paid and left, Ginny identified the Black Hyena Pirates as a threat to Zephyr's daughter, and Lin Yuan ordered her to watch them closely so he could repay Zephyr's favor.

• Ginny reported that the Iron Hook Pirates had raided five merchant ships and challenged Lin Yuan's authority, so Lin Yuan sent Kaido, Bullet, Kuma, King, Moria, and Inazuma to Iron Hook Island.
• Inazuma demanded 600 million Beli and ordered Drake's crew to leave the waters; Drake's pirates attacked, and the six allies overwhelmed them, destroying two ships and setting two others ablaze.
• Kaido defeated Drake, who surrendered and agreed to pay the compensation; Lin Yuan held two ships until payment arrived.
• Three days later, Drake's people delivered 600 million Beli, which Ginny distributed to the merchant shipowners, and the Iron Hook Pirates left the area.
• Ginny told Lin Yuan that the Black Hyena Pirates were targeting Zephyr's thirteen-year-old daughter, and Lin Yuan ordered Ginny to monitor them so he could repay Zephyr's favor.

Lin Yuan learned that the Black Hyena Pirates planned to kidnap Zephyr’s daughter, Aqi, and traced their funding to Mary Geoise. When the pirates began moving toward Marine Headquarters, Lin Yuan and his allies set out to intercept them.

• Ginny told Lin Yuan that the Black Hyena Pirates were targeting Zephyr’s daughter, Aqi, and had identified their base on an unnamed island.
• Lin Yuan asked Ginny to track the pirates, investigate their backers, and anonymously send intelligence to Marine Headquarters through Morgans.
• Ginny found that a complicated transfer funding the Black Hyena Pirates ultimately led to Mary Geoise.
• Ginny reported that the Black Hyena Pirates had set out for Marine Headquarters, while its defenses around Zephyr’s family remained unchanged.
• Lin Yuan gathered Kaido, Bullet, Kuma, and King to intercept the pirates before they reached Marine Headquarters.

Lin Yuan and his allies rescued Zephyr’s daughter Aqi from the Black Hyena Pirates and escaped before the Marines arrived. Back on Hachinosu, Lin Yuan learned that an Underworld merchant named Xebec had handled the suspicious money, while Zephyr approached the island alone.

• Lin Yuan coordinated with Ginny and brought Kaido, Bullet, Kuma, and King to intercept the Black Hyena Pirates near Marine Headquarters.
• Black Hyena’s men abducted Aqi on her way to school, but Kuma, Kaido, Bullet, and King defeated the attackers and rescued her.
• Lin Yuan told Aqi he had come to repay Zephyr’s help, then sent King to take her back to school and left as Zephyr arrived.
• Ginny reported that the Black Hyena Pirates had fled and identified Xebec, an Underworld merchant who laundered money for people in Mary Geoise, as a lead in Lin Yuan’s investigation.
• Zephyr arrived alone by boat at Hachinosu while Lin Yuan watched the sunset.

Zephyr visited Hachinosu after resigning from the Marines, and Lin Yuan invited him to train his people. As a three-way battle approached in the Ghost Sea, Lin Yuan’s group entered a hidden channel to watch for the transport convoy’s escape route.

• Zephyr thanked Lin Yuan for saving Aqi and explained that he had resigned from the Marines and sent his family to safety.
• Lin Yuan offered Zephyr a place at Hachinosu as a trainer, and Zephyr left to consider the offer.
• Ginny reported that Rocks’s fleet, the Marines, and the transport convoy would converge in the Ghost Sea at noon the next day.
• Lin Yuan assigned Ginny and Inazuma to monitor events from Hachinosu, then took Kaido, Bullet, Kuma, King, and Moria through a door to the Ghost Sea’s eastern safe channel.
• Ginny activated Hive Eye and reported the forces’ positions; she also warned Lin Yuan that Slow Heartbeat was watching in his direction.

Lin Yuan and Kaido ambushed a Marine transport convoy in the Ghost Sea and moved its cargo to Hachinosu while Kaido fought Rocks pirates. They escaped as Rocks and the Marines approached, but a mysterious fighter called Slow Heartbeat discovered Lin Yuan before leaving him alone.

• Lin Yuan waited for the Marine convoy to enter the Safe Waterway while the Marine and Rocks fleets began fighting nearby.
• Ochoku and Silver Axe attacked the convoy at the eastern exit, sinking one transport and damaging its escorts.
• Lin Yuan sent Kaido to hold off Ochoku and Silver Axe, then moved all the cargo from the three transports to a warehouse on Hachinosu.
• Slow Heartbeat found Lin Yuan hiding in a transport's hold, warned that Rocks would be angry, and then walked away.
• Lin Yuan and Kaido escaped through a door as Rocks's fleet and the Marine fleet closed in, leaving Ochoku and Silver Axe to report that the transports had been emptied.

Lin Yuan’s group stole the Seastone cargo from Rocks’s transport ships while Rocks and Sengoku fought in the Ghost Sea. Slow Heartbeat appeared near Hachinosu to assess Lin Yuan’s forces, then left without attacking, and Lin Yuan prepared for his return.

• Lin Yuan and his companions carried 120 tons of Seastone and other supplies to Hachinosu, and he decided to keep the Seastone as a strategic resource.
• Rocks learned Lin Yuan had stolen the cargo and turned to face Sengoku’s Marine fleet instead of pursuing him.
• Sengoku transformed with the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Daibutsu, and clashed with Rocks in a Conqueror’s Haki battle.
• Ginny located Slow Heartbeat in a small boat near Hachinosu, and Lin Yuan gathered Kaido, Bullet, Kuma, King, Moria, and Inazuma to watch for him.
• After waiting all day, Slow Heartbeat looked toward Hachinosu and sailed away toward the Ghost Sea without attacking.
• Lin Yuan concluded Slow Heartbeat had assessed their strength and warned Ginny to prepare for his return.