Chapter Summaries

Lu Li rescued Ace at Marineford, then took a combined attack from Kizaru and Aokiji while protecting Ace and Luffy. His wound healed almost immediately, and Raphael decided the Rune Adventure Group would have to act before Lu Li and Whitebeard overwhelmed the Marines.

• Lu Li freed Ace, and Luffy reached the execution platform as the pirates celebrated the rescue.
• Buggy accidentally broadcast Lu Li’s battle to the world, while the Supernovas watching reacted to his strength and Bonney wept at the sight of Kuma.
• Lu Li kicked Ace and Luffy away from the Admirals, but Kizaru’s attack pierced his abdomen while Aokiji backed him up.
• Whitebeard charged to protect Lu Li as Kizaru relentlessly attacked, but Lu Li slashed Kizaru in half and revealed that his wound had already healed.
• Raphael concluded that the Marines could not defeat Lu Li without help and decided the Rune Adventure Group should act.

Lu Li killed Koby while defending the retreating pirates, then used his Shadow Clones to clear a path for Whitebeard’s forces as he continued fighting Aokiji and Kizaru. With Raphael and Monet preparing a Demon Subduing Incantation to stop him, Lu Li’s clone negotiated future business with Doflamingo, while Lu Li’s main body cut Kizaru across the chest.

• Aokiji and Kizaru attacked Lu Li as Garp and Sengoku kept Whitebeard from joining the fight, while Marine morale collapsed and deserters fled.
• Koby tried to stop the fighting, but Lu Li recognized his World Core and killed him with lightning, taking the Core; Garp charged Lu Li in fury.
• Lu Li met Garp’s punch with a Haki-coated strike, then taunted him about valuing Koby’s life over the lives of other Marines; Whitebeard defeated Sengoku and attacked Garp and Aokiji.
• Sengoku ordered the Seven Warlords and Marine Vice Admirals to stop Ace’s escape, so Lu Li created more than a dozen Shadow Clones to block them and open a retreat route for Whitebeard’s forces.
• Raphael urged Monet to finish activating the Demon Subduing Incantation, while Lu Li’s Shadow Clone spoke with Doflamingo about future business in Dressrosa.
• Lu Li’s main body predicted Kizaru’s landing point and slashed across his chest.

Lu Li was weakened by Raphael’s Demon Subduing Incantation, but he killed Blackbeard and his crew before Aokiji, Kizaru, and the Rune Adventure Group could finish him. Yamato, King, Fujitora, and the others arrived to protect him, led by a burly man who confronted the Marines.

• Raphael cast the Demon Subduing Incantation, lowering Lu Li’s attributes and restraining him.
• Blackbeard charged Lu Li, but Lu Li killed Van Augur, Doc Q, and Blackbeard, then took the Dark-Dark Fruit.
• Aokiji, Kizaru, and the Rune Adventure Group’s Explorers attacked Lu Li as Shadowless remained on cooldown.
• Yamato struck Aokiji and Kizaru with Thunder Bagua, while Fujitora and King attacked the Explorers and Marine elites.
• Yamato, King, Fujitora, Queen, Jack, Page One, and the Flying Six gathered around Lu Li as their burly leader challenged the Marines.

The Beasts Pirates arrived at Marineford to rescue Lu Li, turning the battle against the Marines into a fight against two Emperor crews. Kaido attacked the Admirals while Sengoku ordered a retreat to the defensive walls, and the chapter ended with Kaido effortlessly crushing Moria as Luffy and Crocodile watched.

• Yamato, King, and the Beasts Pirates reunited with Lu Li and saw his graying hair, while Lu Li wondered why they were so concerned.
• Kaido led the Beasts Pirates into battle, struck at Aokiji and Kizaru, and Lu Li killed the fallen Rune Adventure Group Explorers.
• Sengoku tried to stop Kaido, but Kaido declared the Marines had been at war with his crew since they hunted his people on Sky Island.
• Whitebeard refused to withdraw after Ace's rescue and fought alongside Kaido, while Sengoku ordered the Marines to retreat behind the remaining Encircling Wall.
• Moria charged at Kaido seeking revenge, but Kaido knocked him into the ground with one swing and did not recognize him.

Lu Li convinced Kaido and Whitebeard to withdraw from Marineford before the Marines’ hidden weapons or the Explorers of Arcane Space could devastate their forces. As the pirates departed, Kuma was taken aboard with Ivankov, Luffy resolved to train, and Lu Li invited Crocodile to join the Beasts Pirates.

• Raphael ordered the Explorers of Arcane Space to prepare Divine Judgment, but Lu Li recognized the danger and urged Kaido to end the battle.
• Lu Li disabled Kuma’s mechanical components and sent him to Ivankov, who discovered that Kuma was still alive.
• Kaido and Whitebeard ordered their crews to retreat, and Whitebeard split Marineford to mark the boundary between the armies.
• Bonney hurried toward the harbor after seeing Kuma with Ivankov, while Luffy said goodbye to Ace and decided to train before setting out again.
• Lu Li asked Ivankov to bring Kuma aboard the Beasts Pirates’ ship and invited Crocodile to come with them.

After the Marines and pirates ended the Battle of Marineford, Lu Li left with the Beasts Pirates and Luffy, who planned to train before entering the New World. During a feast aboard Kaido’s ship, the group learned how powerful Lu Li had become, and the chapter ended with Kuma recognizing Bonney’s ship on the horizon.

• Sengoku and the surviving Marines watched the pirate crews withdraw, while Raphael realized Lu Li’s Warp-Warp Fruit had foiled his planned attack.
• Lu Li invited Luffy aboard the Beasts Pirates’ ship, and Luffy agreed to join him before seeking training from Rayleigh.
• Red Hair arrived after the fighting had ended and returned to sea with his crew as the pirates sailed away.
• Kaido held a feast aboard the flagship, where Luffy revealed that Lu Li had killed two Admirals and the Beasts Pirates praised Lu Li’s strength.
• Kuma struggled to the stern railing, saw Bonney approaching in a small ship, and heard her call him Dad.

Bonney reunited with Kuma aboard the Beasts Pirates’ ship and learned that his consciousness might be impossible to restore. Lu Li offered to cure him, then began dismantling Kuma to rebuild his body.

• Bonney reached the Beasts Pirates’ ship, embraced Kuma, and thanked Lu Li and the crew for taking her father aboard.
• Bonney declared that she would find Vegapunk and make him cure Kuma, while Queen said Kuma’s recovery would be difficult.
• Lu Li promised to restore Kuma’s body and consciousness, though Kuma might lose many memories of Bonney.
• When Ivankov offered to devote his life to the Beasts Pirates in exchange for Kuma’s treatment, Lu Li asked for only a personal favor.
• Lu Li pulled off Kuma’s mechanical arm and began dismantling him, then used Healing Kidō and Reverse Cursed Technique to rebuild his limbs and restore his bear-paw pads.

Lu Li restored Kuma’s body and reunited him with Bonney before the crew celebrated their survival. As news of the Summit War spread, Dragon sent Sabo to Wano, the scattered Straw Hats learned of Luffy’s new regrouping plan, and Lu Li and Yamato received enormous new bounties.

• Lu Li rebuilt Kuma’s body and brain, and Kuma recognized and embraced Bonney.
• Big Mom decided to continue expanding Totto Land despite the shifting balance of power after the Summit War.
• Dragon read that Ivankov and Kuma had joined the Beasts Pirates and ordered Sabo to go to Wano Country.
• Nami decoded Luffy’s message and realized the Straw Hats were to regroup in Wano Country, while the scattered crew members struggled to reach it.
• Lu Li received a 4.236-billion-Beli bounty, Yamato received a 2.69-billion-Beli bounty, and Luffy learned his bounty had risen to 400 million.

Lu Li planned to train Luffy and his crew in Wano Country while reviewing the Beasts Pirates’ growing power and their unfinished Ancient Weapon, Uranus. After learning that Uranus required a special Bloodline and more expertise, he decided to take a team to Egghead Island to bring Vegapunk into the project.

• Lu Li persuaded Luffy to train in Wano Country instead of studying under Rayleigh and told him to summon his companions for the Beasts Pirates’ training program.
• After several days at sea, Lu Li’s group neared Wano Country, and King gave Lu Li the Beasts Pirates’ ten-year financial reports.
• Lu Li learned that the Beasts Pirates had grown wealthy and controlled seven large nations, then asked Queen about Uranus’s progress.
• Queen explained that Uranus’s control device required a specific Bloodline and that its energy demands remained unsolved.
• Lu Li concluded that Vegapunk could overcome the technical problems and announced that he would lead a team to Egghead Island.

After returning to Wano Country, Lu Li discussed deciphering Poneglyphs and opening the country with Kaido, then learned Ashura Doji had rebelled and attacked Udon Prison. The chapter ended with Lu Li confronting Kaido over having spared Ashura Doji for years.

• Lu Li asked to prepare an expedition to Egghead Island, but Kaido refused and told him to tour Wano Country with Yamato first.
• Luffy revealed that Robin could decipher ancient writing, and he agreed to ask her to help the Beasts Pirates read their Poneglyphs.
• Lu Li proposed that Wano Country be physically opened to uncover the Ancient Weapon Pluton, and Kaido agreed they needed to assess the risks before acting.
• Speed reported that Ashura Doji had gathered companions, started unrest in Kuri, and attacked Udon Prison.
• Lu Li reminded Kaido that he had advised killing Ashura Doji, an enemy Kaido had spared for years in hopes of recruiting him.

Lu Li, Yamato, and Luffy went to Udon Prison to confront the Kozuki rebels, where Luffy became furious after seeing Wano Country soldiers killed by the uprising. Lu Li challenged the Nine Red Scabbards over their claim to rule, as armed local soldiers gathered around the battlefield.

• Speed reported that Momonosuke, apparently still a child despite the passage of eighteen years, had appeared at Udon Prison with the Nine Red Scabbards, and Queen learned the prisoners had stolen his red bean soup.
• Lu Li took Yamato and Luffy to Udon Prison while Kaido and the others went to stabilize Wano Country; they found Beasts Pirates guards and local soldiers dead along the road.
• Luffy helped a mortally wounded local soldier, and Lu Li used Healing Kidō to preserve his life, leaving Luffy enraged by the rebels' violence.
• Lu Li and Queen faced the freed prisoners and Nine Red Scabbards; Denjiro demanded that Lu Li move aside, while Kin'emon declared Momonosuke the rightful ruler.
• Lu Li questioned whether Kozuki blood made Momonosuke Wano Country's rightful ruler and challenged Ashura Doji over the deaths of local soldiers, as Ashura called them traitors who deserved to die.

Lu Li and Luffy confronted Ashura Doji after he condemned Wano’s people, and Lu Li overwhelmed the Nine Red Scabbards and Momonosuke’s rebels. With Momonosuke captured and begging for his life, Lu Li challenged the rebels’ loyalty to him.

• Ashura Doji called Wano’s people traitors and said those who accepted Kaido’s rule deserved to die, prompting Luffy to punch him and denounce his cruelty.
• Lu Li blocked Ashura Doji’s sword with one finger and struck him down, then stopped Denjiro’s killing blow with his bare hand.
• Yamato knocked Kin'emon and Kawamatsu into Udon Prison’s wall, while Luffy punched Momonosuke for trying to flee.
• Lu Li unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki, incapacitating the charging rebels, and punched Denjiro into the prison wall.
• Lu Li lifted the terrified Momonosuke by his hairpin and asked the rebels if he was the person they wanted to pledge loyalty to.

Lu Li crushed the rebellion by killing Momonosuke and the Nine Red Scabbards, then stopped Duke Inuarashi and Nekomamushi from fighting by warning that Zou would be drawn into war with the Beasts Pirates. Duke Inuarashi lowered his weapon, accepting that the rebellion was over.

• Momonosuke begged Lu Li for mercy, and the former Udon Prisoners lost their resolve and returned to prison.
• Lu Li killed Momonosuke with lightning, prompting Kin'emon and the Nine Red Scabbards to attack him in grief and rage.
• Lu Li killed Kin'emon, Kawamatsu, Denjiro, and Kikunojo, then killed Kanjuro Kurozumi after he revealed himself as Orochi's spy.
• Lu Li warned Duke Inuarashi and Nekomamushi that attacking him would make Zou an enemy of the Beasts Pirates.
• Duke Inuarashi lowered his weapon and stopped Nekomamushi, deciding that the rebellion was over.

Lu Li ended Momonosuke’s rebellion by accepting Shimotsuki Kanjia’s plea and persuading the Mink Tribe leaders to surrender and pay compensation. He then studied Yamato’s awakened Zoan form, grasped the principle of Awakening, but still could not use it.

• Shimotsuki Kanjia persuaded Duke Inuarashi and Nekomamushi that honoring Kozuki Oden meant protecting Wano Country’s prosperity, and Lu Li let the Mink leaders live if they paid compensation for the fallen soldiers.
• Duke Inuarashi and Nekomamushi collected the Nine Red Scabbards’ bodies, ending Momonosuke’s campaign to restore his country.
• Lu Li stopped Queen from terrorizing the prisoners at Udon Prison, though his own bloodlust frightened one prisoner unconscious.
• Lu Li asked Yamato to teach him about Fruit Awakening because he suspected the Thunder God Fruit’s true power remained incomplete before Awakening.
• Yamato demonstrated her awakened Great Mouth True God form, and Lu Li studied it closely as she transformed back and forth seven times.
• Lu Li said he had understood the principle of Awakening but still could not use it.

Lu Li concluded that his Thunder God Fruit might awaken like Luffy’s Nika Fruit, then tested Luffy’s Haki by knocking him unconscious and sending him back to Udon Prison for more training. He secured a way to open Wano Country safely with the Island-Island Fruit, then revealed to Crocodile that he had figured out Ivankov’s secret and intended to turn him into a woman.

• Lu Li reasoned that his Thunder God Fruit was difficult to awaken but might gain reality-altering abilities, and decided to study Luffy’s Nika Fruit.
• Luffy asked Lu Li to teach him stronger Haki techniques, but Lu Li struck him down with Supreme Conqueror’s Coating and ordered him returned to Udon Prison for further training.
• Lu Li told the Beasts Pirates that Pluton lay beneath Wano Country and proposed opening the country, while Queen warned that doing so could destabilize it.
• Lu Li produced the Island-Island Fruit, and Queen explained that its user could merge with Wano Country and keep its foundation stable.
• Crocodile confronted Lu Li about his promise to make him stronger, and Lu Li led him to Ivankov and revealed that he had deduced Crocodile’s secret.

Lu Li and Ivankov exposed Crocodile’s secret and restored her female body, allowing her to use her Haki and full strength again. Crocodile joined the Beasts Pirates under a fabricated identity, then fought Lu Li at the training ground and was defeated.

• Lu Li deduced that Crocodile had once been a woman and explained that restoring her body would let her use Haki freely.
• Ivankov injected Crocodile with female hormones, changing her back into a woman despite her anger and threats.
• Crocodile felt her restored strength and agreed to join the Beasts Pirates as an unnamed Shinuchi, while warning Lu Li and Ivankov to keep her past secret.
• Crocodile challenged Lu Li for his Calamity title, and Lu Li pinned her to the training ground with Prison Demon.
• Kaido praised Crocodile’s strength as King wondered whether he could beat her, while the crew accepted her implausible cover identity.

Crocodile joined the Beasts Pirates as the sixth All-Star while Lu Li reviewed the Marines’ leadership upheaval and met with Revolutionary Army officer Sabo. At the banquet in Wano Country, Luffy reunited with Sabo, who revealed that Dragon had saved him.

• Kaido named Crocodile the Beasts Pirates’ sixth All-Star, the Sand Calamity.
• Lu Li read that Raphael had become Fleet Admiral after defeating Aokiji, who later escaped with Kizaru’s help.
• Ulti told Lu Li that Sabo had arrived, and Lu Li invited him to discuss a deal with the Revolutionary Army.
• Sabo asked Lu Li to release Ivankov, Kuma, and Bonney, then asked whether Luffy was in Wano Country; Lu Li explained that they could meet at the banquet and asked Robin to help decipher a Poneglyph.
• At the Flower Capital banquet, Luffy greeted Robin and then recognized Sabo, who told him that Dragon had saved him.

Luffy reunited with Sabo and Zoro in Wano, where Zoro asked Lu Li to train him after witnessing his swordsmanship. Lu Li and Hawkeye wagered on a sword-only duel: if Lu Li won, Hawkeye would join the Beasts Pirates; if Hawkeye won, the crew would owe him a task.

• Luffy joyfully reunited with Sabo, who told him that Ace had returned to Whitebeard.
• Hawkeye arrived in Wano with Zoro, and the reunited Straw Hats gathered at Lu Li’s banquet.
• Zoro asked to train with Hawkeye, but Hawkeye said he had only agreed to bring him to Wano; Luffy then asked Lu Li to teach him.
• Lu Li demonstrated his sword intent to Zoro, who recognized Lu Li as a great swordsman and asked him for guidance.
• Hawkeye explained the realms of swordsmanship and challenged Lu Li to settle who was stronger in a fight.
• Lu Li proposed a sword-only wager: the Beasts Pirates would perform a task for Hawkeye if Lu Li lost, while Hawkeye would join the crew if Lu Li won; Hawkeye accepted.

Lu Li and Hawkeye fought a swordsmanship duel in Wano, revealing their Haki and contrasting approaches to combat. As the battle intensified, Hawkeye recognized how freely Lu Li adapted, and asked to witness the ultimate realm of swordsmanship.

• Lu Li and Hawkeye began their duel at a training ground while Zoro, Sabo, Ivankov, Yamato, Luffy, and Robin watched.
• Hawkeye opened with a swift strike, and he and Lu Li exchanged powerful attacks that tore up the training ground.
• Hawkeye revealed Supreme Conqueror's Coating, shocking Ivankov, while Zoro welcomed the challenge of surpassing him.
• Lu Li told Hawkeye that his Conqueror's Haki had regressed, prompting Hawkeye to reflect on how retirement had stalled his ambition.
• Lu Li unleashed a shifting, aggressive sword style that steadily pressured Hawkeye, who then asked to see the ultimate realm of swordsmanship.

Lu Li defeated Hawkeye in a devastating sword clash, and Kaido opened Wano Country to reveal the Ancient Weapon Pluton. Kaido declared his intent to overthrow the Celestial Dragons, while Lu Li began planning a mission to Egghead Island and left Kaido to guard Wano.

• Lu Li overcame Hawkeye’s sword momentum and won their duel without striking him directly, though their clash destroyed the training ground and sank it into the sea.
• Kaido rescued the spectators, then opened Wano Country by blasting apart its surrounding mountain walls.
• The receding seawater exposed Pluton beneath Wano, and Kaido announced that he wanted to use it to overthrow the Celestial Dragons.
• Lu Li asked Queen to research how to operate Pluton and planned the next stage of the mission to Egghead Island.
• Kaido agreed to remain in Wano and guard Pluton after King warned that the World Government might send the Five Elders against Lu Li’s team.