Chapter Summaries

The Reincarnators debated which One Piece faction to approach, but Chen Yi stopped their argument and proposed creating their own faction to search for the Heart of the World. Meanwhile, rumors spread about a treasure worth four billion Beli, drawing the attention of pirates including One-Eyed Tachikawa Sankichi.

• Thousand Cups Unfallen suggested contacting Whitebeard before the Marineford War, while Little Student warned against rashly approaching any organization; Explosive Head and Ge Feifei proposed Doflamingo and Dragon instead.
• Chen Yi filled the cave with controlled flames to stop the Reincarnators from fighting and suggested they form another faction rather than contact an existing one.
• Pirates in a tavern discussed major factions searching for a treasure with a four-billion-Beli bounty, and One-Eyed Tachikawa Sankichi declared that he would claim it.
• A pirate challenged Tachikawa Sankichi's claim to greatness, noting that his two-million-Beli bounty made him a low-tier pirate outside the East Blue.

Tachikawa Sankichi fought a young man who borrowed flame power from Letter Paper, while Vice Admiral Tsuru and Borsalino reported that similar powers were spreading across the world. Sengoku discovered that Sea Prism Stone did not affect the Letter Paper, then received a call from the World Government as Ace’s execution drew closer.

• Tachikawa Sankichi beat a young man in a tavern, but the young man used a Silver Fireball borrowed from Letter Paper to burn him.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru told Sengoku that dozens of new organizations could control flames that caused brain death, and Borsalino brought him a sheet of Letter Paper.
• Borsalino explained that a child whose village had been slaughtered gave him the paper after questioning why the Marines had not arrived sooner.
• Sengoku learned that writing a name in blood on the Letter Paper granted flame power, and Garp annoyed him by eating donuts in his office.
• Sengoku tested the Letter Paper with Sea Prism Stone and found that it had no effect.
• Sengoku received a call on his private line from the World Government.

Chen Yi’s group used contracts and Heart Fire to protect civilians and distract their enemies while gathering Sea Kings as fuel. As Marines and angels killed contract signers, Kuzan questioned his justice, and Chen Yi’s group learned that the available Haki training methods offered little practical help.

• Little Student reported that 500 contracts had been distributed and that Marines and angels were killing people who signed them.
• Kuzan froze an angel’s feather to protect a little girl, but the angel killed her anyway, deepening Kuzan’s doubts about justice.
• Thousand Cups Unfallen reported that the group had captured 1,200 Sea Kings, and Chen Yi revealed that their corpses fueled Heart Fire.
• Sima Yurén showed the group a sparse Haki training book, which described being beaten as training and offered little useful guidance.
• After the intelligence exchange, the group members departed while privately pursuing their own plans.

Chen Yi studied Armament Haki by hiring players to test it, then concluded that Haki might restrict growth and could be connected to Spirit Body. When Tonight Eat What unexpectedly obtained a Devil Fruit, Chen Yi asked him to search for the World Heart.

• Chen Yi returned to the island residence and read copied training records for Armament Haki and Observation Haki.
• Chen Yi hired six players and tested their Haki, recording how Armament Haki formed a protective layer around the cells.
• Over three days, Chen Yi added Seal Magic Arrays to his experiments and concluded that Armament Haki combined the body with will and could become a cage after a person's Talent manifested.
• Chen Yi compared the three types of Haki with Spirit Body and decided to collect more data on Observation Haki and Conqueror's Haki.
• Tonight Eat What found a fruit that transformed into a patterned Devil Fruit, and Chen Yi told him to try searching for the World Heart.

Chen Yi recorded the aftermath of a village massacre and traveled on to collect the other Recording Stones. Meanwhile, Thousand Cups Unfallen joined the Whitebeard Pirates, the Reincarnators negotiated with Doflamingo, and Chen Yi’s divination about Marineford produced the character “will.”

• Villagers signed a letter paper with their blood to borrow divine power and killed the pirates in Silver Flame, while Chen Yi recorded the events on a Recording Stone.
• Angel arrived with the Marines, and Chen Yi collected the Recording Stone after they left before flying toward the next location on Fire Dragon.
• Thousand Cups Unfallen accepted Whitebeard’s offer to join his crew, and she suggested the healer girl treat his injuries.
• The Reincarnators met Doflamingo, and Elementary School Student offered him letter paper that could lend power in exchange for signing his name.
• Chen Yi used divination to ask whether believers and players would gather at Marineford, and the cracked turtle shell formed the character “will.”

Chen Yi infiltrated Doflamingo’s secret Devil Fruit research base while Reg Eva’s faction searched for the enemy and tensions between the believers and the Marines escalated. The Marines withdrew, and Chen Yi directed the Rōnin Players to stop distributing Letter Paper and avoid the Marineford War while he continued studying Devil Fruit production.

• Chen Yi entered Doflamingo’s secret base under the name Luowen Yi and joined the researchers studying artificial Devil Fruits.
• Reg Eva divined an island from the Letter Paper, but the Marines found the island empty after overwhelming waves struck it.
• A Marine soldier challenged Aros Boronat over hunting people solely for opposing the Deity, and Kuzan, Sakazuki, and Borsalino backed the Marines as tensions flared.
• Lai Sanbian intervened, and the troops returned after a rift opened between the Marines and the believers.
• Chen Yi warned the Rōnin Players about the Marines’ route, ordered them to stop distributing Letter Paper, and told them not to go to the Marineford War.

As Ace’s execution began at Marineford, Morgans broadcast footage exposing a Navy massacre of civilians, threatening the Navy’s public standing. The Whitebeard Pirates arrived as the footage played, leaving Sengoku and the Navy unable to stop the scandal from spreading.

• Sengoku brought Garp and Ace to the execution platform as the Navy prepared to face Whitebeard’s fleet.
• Whitebeard surfaced before Marineford with his division commanders, including Thousand Cups Unfallen, while Rōnin Players gathered nearby to watch.
• Morgans distributed a newspaper reporting the Navy’s massacre of civilians, and Garp warned Sengoku that the Navy had a problem.
• Sengoku ordered Borsalino to stop the broadcast, but Borsalino’s attempt to move was delayed as Chen Yi’s footage began playing through Den Den Mushi across the world.
• The footage showed Navy soldiers killing civilians, prompting Doflamingo to mock the Navy and leaving the soldiers unable to defend their claim to justice.

At Marineford, Lai Sanbian tried to contain the conflict with the Marines, but Whitebeard’s attack sparked the battle. Meanwhile, the Reincarnators discussed the Heart of the World’s possible location and wondered why Chen Yi had disappeared.

• Lai Sanbian destroyed the News Coo and Den Den Mushi, then tried to persuade the Marines that their enemies were the real devils.
• Whitebeard rejected Lai Sanbian’s claims, shattered his golden attack with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and clashed with him as pirates charged to rescue Ace.
• Thousand Cups Unfallen secretly killed a Marine and slacked off because killing Marines brought no War Merit.
• Elementary School Student told Ge Feifei that their plan to sow discord had partly succeeded and considered whether the Heart of the World might be underwater.
• Explosive Head suggested involving the Blood Kill Guild in the search, while Sima Yurén said they should first finish searching the land.
• The Reincarnators said they had neither seen nor heard from Chen Yi, who seemed to have vanished.

Chen Yi studied the flawed Artificial Devil Fruit SMILE process and proposed testing Sea King material, earning Aishar’s admiration and a private laboratory offer. He learned that researchers could spend Research Points on goods and chose to exchange his points for a great-grade blade.

• Chen Yi reviewed the Artificial Devil Fruit records and found that one test subject had been killed by a conscious lion’s head that grew from its abdomen.
• Chen Yi requested a Sea King corpse, prompting Aishar to recognize a possible new research direction and award Chen Yi 100 Research Points and a private laboratory.
• Aishar explained that Research Points could buy supplies, genuine Devil Fruits, and even an opportunity to leave the base.
• Chen Yi browsed the exchange list and chose a great-grade blade.

Chen Yi received the Great Fast Blade and used surveillance equipment to watch the men who delivered it while searching for the base treasury. Meanwhile, Lai Sanbian arranged a 10 billion Berry bounty for the World Heart, sending pirates across the world to search for it as the prospect of another battle loomed.

• Chen Yi accepted the Great Fast Blade, convinced its deliverymen he was only a sword collector, and returned to his laboratory while monitoring them with a surveillance device.
• Researchers discussed the frequent earthquakes shaking the base as Chen Yi continued his work.
• Sengoku refused to use the Marines to search for treasures, and Lai Sanbian worried that his allies could not safely search without them.
• Reg Eva explained that she could not use prophecy to locate the World Heart, so Lai Sanbian contacted Sang Wuliang and asked him to issue a bounty.
• Sang Wuliang issued a 10 billion Berry bounty for the World Heart, and rumors spread that the treasure was One Piece or could grant immense power.
• Pirates returned to land to search for the treasure, while Lai Sanbian considered how a battle could be forced despite the balance that had helped Chen Yi and the others.

The players and Reincarnators agreed to seize the World Heart and hide it in the Mirror World, following Chen Yi’s proposal. Chen Yi then escaped Doflamingo’s mountain base and reached its treasure vault, where Pica confronted him.

• Lai Sanbian decided to mobilize everyone to search for the World Heart and accept the risk of fighting over it directly.
• Sima Yurén, Ge Feifei, and Explosive Head argued over whether taking the World Heart was worth the difficulty of defending it.
• Chen Yi proposed hiding the World Heart in the Mirror World, then retrieving it after weakening the enemy.
• Chen Yi burned through the base, killed its defenders, and reflected a barrage of bullets back at several thousand guards.
• Chen Yi emptied the treasure vault and encountered Pica, who identified himself as a Donquixote Family officer and ordered Chen Yi to leave.

Chen Yi defeated Pica and Gladius, then raided their base for money, weapons, and Devil Fruits. He left questioning how Devil Fruits were transferred and curious about the hidden force behind the world's power system.

• Pica transformed into a massive Rock Giant and attacked Chen Yi, but Chen Yi's blazing swords wounded him.
• Gladius joined the fight with explosive spheres, but Chen Yi stopped the attack and killed him with a sword strike.
• Chen Yi tried to seal a Devil Fruit's power into a Shuiguo, but the fruit showed no change, leading him to doubt his theory about Devil Fruits.
• Chen Yi restrained and burned Pica, then swallowed his corpse with a huge black mouth.
• Chen Yi broke into the base and collected its Beli, gold, firearms, ammunition, bladed weapons, and five Devil Fruits before leaving.

Chen Yi revealed that his real plan was to use Heart Fire to burn the entire planet, rather than defend the World Heart or hunt his enemies. After reinforcing the fire deep beneath the East Blue, he left to continue the plan as his growing disturbance threatened to draw attention.

• Chen Yi descended into an abnormal abyss beneath the East Blue, where a Fire Clone had been burning the seafloor and turning rock and soil into Heart Fire.
• The Fire Clone used up its remaining Mana to strengthen the flames, then vanished as Chen Yi received its memories.
• Chen Yi revealed that he had planned from the start to burn the entire planet, using the mission and the destruction as a gift for the Ashen Tree fruit.
• Chen Yi rescued Chuka's clone from the seawater and agreed with her that the growing disturbance would soon be difficult to conceal.
• Chen Yi concluded that the enemy's attention would be diverted, formed another Fire Clone to maintain the planet-burning, and left the Sea Domain.

Fire Dragon and What to Eat Tonight searched casually for the World Heart, while Luffy's crew discovered it in a golden fish. Luffy tried to get rid of it, but a stranger appeared before he could throw it away.

• What to Eat Tonight was struck by a coconut that turned into a Devil Fruit, which he gave to Fire Dragon.
• Fire Dragon knocked several fish out of the sea, and What to Eat Tonight spotted a golden fish before agreeing to leave it and go eat.
• Luffy caught a huge golden fish, and Sanji prepared it as a feast for the crew.
• Luffy broke his teeth on a gemstone inside the fish, and Nami identified it as the World Heart and contacted the Marines about the bounty.
• Luffy sensed danger and urged Nami to throw the World Heart away, but a stranger stepped in front of them as he prepared to do so.

The Straw Hat Pirates fought the Earth Goddess's follower over the Heart of the World until Borsalino intervened and took the treasure. Lai Sanbian then attacked Borsalino with enchanted Gold Coins, while Borsalino disrupted their effects and prepared to leave with the Heart of the World.

• The Earth Goddess's follower attacked the Straw Hat Pirates with gigantic earthworms and earth-based powers, trapping Luffy and Zoro and breaking Sanji's leg.
• Borsalino stopped the follower's stone spear, took the Heart of the World from Luffy, and kicked the follower away.
• Lai Sanbian attacked Borsalino with a gold ingot, but Borsalino evaded the explosion using Elementalization and Observation Haki.
• Lai Sanbian threw Gold Coins whose sound weakened Borsalino's fighting spirit and left Luffy and Zoro listless.
• Borsalino countered with Yasakani no Magatama, using the explosions to disrupt the coins' sound, then prepared to leave with the Heart of the World.

Lai Sanbian trapped Borsalino with Gold Coins and black hands, while Sima Yuxie fought the Swordsman. Watching the battle, Zoro renewed his resolve to continue his adventure and improve his swordsmanship, and Luffy agreed to go with him.

• Lai Sanbian used Gold Coins and emotional attacks to weaken Borsalino and prevent his escape.
• Borsalino tried to break through with his light techniques, but Lai Sanbian used a spatial ability to evade his laser.
• Sima Yuxie arrived and attacked Lai Sanbian, but the Swordsman intervened and engaged him in a fierce duel.
• Lai Sanbian's black hands dragged Borsalino into a Gold Coin hole and brought him before Lai Sanbian.
• Zoro watched Sima Yuxie and the Swordsman clash, then told Luffy he would not let their adventure or his swordsmanship end there.
• Luffy agreed to continue the adventure with Zoro, while Borsalino smiled at the young men's resolve.

Lai Sanbian killed Borsalino but was nearly overwhelmed by Ge Feifei’s sniper fire before Aros Boronat arrived to fight him. Fleets from several factions gathered around the island, while Elementary School Student noted that Mr. Ashes had not yet appeared.

• Borsalino returned the World Heart to Luffy and helped him and Zoro escape, but Lai Sanbian killed him with Gold Coins.
• Ge Feifei struck Lai Sanbian with specialized sniper bullets, destroying much of his body, but one of Lai Sanbian’s rings restored him.
• Aros Boronat arrived as a missile and clashed with Ge Feifei, who wounded him and managed to break free.
• Marine-style ships carrying followers and other groups surrounded the island, followed by the Whitebeard Pirates and ships carrying players, Reincarnators, and pirates.
• The Revolutionary Army watched from farther away while the Marines remained en route, and Elementary School Student observed that Mr. Ashes had not arrived.

Whitebeard joined the struggle for the Heart of the World, while Thousand Cups Unfallen revealed that the Rose Guild had infiltrated the Whitebeard Pirates and poisoned him. Whitebeard survived her attack and ordered Marco and Ace to bring her back as the battle erupted.

• Whitebeard arrived to claim the Heart of the World, and Thousand Cups Unfallen realized he was a hidden System Host.
• Angels attacked Luffy and Zoro, but Gloomy Man interrupted them and sparked a wider battle.
• Thousand Cups Unfallen stabbed Whitebeard with a Poison Barb and struck at him with her whip.
• Whitebeard grabbed the whip and blasted Thousand Cups Unfallen into the sea with a vibration-powered punch.
• Whitebeard drank a potion, condemned Thousand Cups Unfallen for attacking his family, and sent Marco and Ace to capture her.

The God of the Sea’s followers unleashed towering waves against the island, but Whitebeard and Kuzan helped blunt the assault. After Bruno was killed, the battle for the Heart of the World in Luffy’s hand erupted into chaos, leaving Aros Boronat and Fire Dragon clashing above the sea.

• Little Student detonated a massive blast, while the God of the Sea’s followers summoned enormous waves and the Angels’ hymns drove them toward the island.
• Whitebeard used Air Shock to protect the Whitebeard Pirates, and the Reincarnators tried to send Little Student against the waves, but the Door-Door Fruit teleported him away.
• The Reincarnators and players broke apart the first wave, and Kuzan used Ice Age to freeze the island and weaken the remaining waves.
• Tonight Eat What emerged from space and severed Bruno’s head, then Shadow Soul Cat pulled him into the shadows.
• Both sides launched a second battle around the Heart of the World in Luffy’s hand as pirates, Marines, players, Reincarnators, and the Whitebeard Pirates attacked across the island.
• Aros Boronat charged through the battlefield before Fire Dragon met him above the sea, and their exchanged punches drove the water back.

Fire Dragon battled Aros Boronat over the sea while Chen Yi arrived at the battlefield and approached Luffy, who was holding the World Heart. Lai Sanbian’s followers targeted Chen Yi with a curse, striking his mind and leaving him bleeding as the curse scissors shattered.

• Fire Dragon attacked Aros Boronat with claws, kicks, and fire, countering his attempts to use divine techniques and evade through space.
• Aros Boronat used a Water Pillar, spatial movement, and divinely granted wings to keep fighting Fire Dragon in midair.
• Chen Yi silently landed beside Luffy, but Luffy shouted that someone was stealing the treasure and exposed him.
• Lai Sanbian ordered seventy-five followers of the Goddess of Vengeance to perform a curse against Chen Yi, while Devil Fruit users prepared to attack him.
• The curse scissors bypassed Chen Yi’s Protective Shield and struck his mind, causing blood to flow from his eyes, nose, and ears before the scissors shattered and the followers spat blood.