Chapter Summaries

As Ace and Rayleigh were brought to the execution platform, Sengoku prepared to reveal Ace’s parentage to the world while the Marines assembled their forces for the coming battle. The chapter ended as Sengoku asked Ace to name his father, leaving the crowd unaware that Ace was Roger’s son.

• Kaido seized Whitebeard Pirates’ territories, while Charlotte Linlin moved against Fish-Man Island as the other pirates awaited the war’s outcome.
• Squirrel Monkey escorted Ace and Rayleigh to the execution platform, where Rayleigh praised Ace’s resemblance to Roger and Ace insisted Whitebeard was his father.
• The Marines assembled a hundred thousand soldiers, fifty warships, the Warlords, giant Vice Admirals, three Admirals, Magellan, and other elite officers at Marinford.
• Sengoku addressed the Marines and the broadcast audience, then asked Ace to state his father’s name.
• Garp grew uneasy at Sengoku’s announcement, while Tsuru reassured him.

Sengoku revealed that Ace was Gol D. Roger’s son, then the Whitebeard Pirates arrived at Marine Headquarters to rescue him. Whitebeard emerged aboard the Moby Dick and unleashed a seaquake, leaving a tsunami rising around the harbor.

• Sengoku announced that Ace’s mother was Portgas D. Rouge and that his father was Gol D. Roger, shocking the Marines and reporters.
• Marine scouts spotted forty-three pirate ships under Whitebeard’s command approaching Marine Headquarters, and Vice Admiral Tsuru urged the Marines to stay calm.
• Whitebeard’s coated ships surfaced inside the harbor, revealing the Moby Dick and the Whitebeard Pirates’ division commanders.
• Whitebeard greeted Sengoku and told Ace he had come to take him home, while Ace blamed himself for the situation.
• Whitebeard struck the air with both fists, causing a seaquake that raised the waters around Marine Headquarters.

The Marineford War began as the Marines and Whitebeard Pirates clashed, while Xiao Xie watched from above and waited for the right moment to intervene. Hawkeye and Kizaru attacked Whitebeard, but Jozu and Marco blocked them, and Xiao Xie coveted their Devil Fruit abilities.

• Aokiji froze Whitebeard's tsunamis, and the Marines opened fire as the Whitebeard Pirates charged across the ice.
• Hawkeye launched a powerful slash at Whitebeard, but Diamond Jozu caught it with his diamond body.
• Xiao Xie watched the battle invisibly and considered the gathered fighters and their Devil Fruits targets for his plans.
• Kizaru attacked Whitebeard with Yasakani no Magatama, but Marco protected him and regenerated from the light bullets.

Little Oars broke through the Marines’ defenses but died after Doflamingo struck him down, leaving a path for Whitebeard’s pirates to enter the plaza. Xiao Xie arrived to collect treasure chests from the fallen and drew the attention of Sengoku, Hancock, and Hawkeye as the Red Hair Pirates approached.

• Little Oars charged into the bay despite Whitebeard’s warning and was gravely wounded by Tyrant Kuma before Doflamingo killed him.
• Whitebeard urged his pirates to step over Oars’s body and continue into the plaza, while Ace cried out in grief and guilt.
• Xiao Xie sensed the approaching Red Hair Pirates, Luffy’s Thousand Sunny, and the Marine ship carrying Ivankov and Buggy the Clown.
• Xiao Xie appeared beside Oars’s corpse, retrieved a treasure chest, and darted around the battlefield collecting more from the recently fallen.
• Sengoku asked Xiao Xie why he had come, and people watching from the Sabaody Archipelago recognized the bounty hunter who had captured Rayleigh.
• Hawkeye sensed Xiao Xie’s strength and wanted to fight him, while Hancock disliked him for capturing Rayleigh and for appearing to ignore her beauty.

Xiao Xie claimed he had come to Marineford to collect pirates’ bounties, then chose Jozu as his target. After testing Jozu’s diamond defense with a rapid sword strike, Xiao Xie launched a massive sword aura at him.

• Xiao Xie told Doflamingo and Sengoku that he had come to capture pirates for their bounties, drawing laughter from Rayleigh and Whitebeard.
• Xiao Xie surveyed the battlefield and selected Jozu as his target.
• Jozu turned his body into diamond as Xiao Xie used lightning speed to slash him, chipping off only a few fragments.
• Xiao Xie warned that Jozu’s full-body diamond form would drain his stamina, then mocked him for getting nervous.
• Xiao Xie swung the Magic Sword and sent a nearly hundred-meter-long azure sword aura toward Jozu.

Xiao Xie killed Jozu with his sword technique, then attacked Marco, whose Phoenix Fruit let him recover from being cut in two. The chapter ended with Xiao Xie trapping Marco in a barrage of spinning Beli that repeatedly pierced his body.

• Xiao Xie killed Jozu with an Azure Intent Slash, shocking the battlefield and drawing Hawkeye’s eager interest.
• Sengoku accepted Xiao Xie’s claim to a bounty, while Whitebeard watched and held back from joining the fight.
• Marco transformed into an Azure Fire Phoenix and charged Xiao Xie, who cut him in two with another slash.
• Marco’s Phoenix flames restored his body, and he warned himself not to underestimate Xiao Xie’s attacks.
• Xiao Xie used his Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability to surround Marco with hundreds of Beli and repeatedly pierce him with his Money Domain.

Xiao Xie killed Marco with a surprise Sea Stone Handcuff trick, then confronted Whitebeard after the pirate captain attacked him. Whitebeard shattered Xiao Xie's thunder dragons and challenged him to stop fleeing, while Sengoku realized his plan had failed.

• Marco burned away the Beli piercing him and attacked Xiao Xie, but Xiao Xie cuffed his ankle with Sea Stone Handcuffs and cut off his head.
• Whitebeard launched a surprise attack at Xiao Xie, who dodged and confronted him at the Moby Dick.
• Xiao Xie taunted Whitebeard about his age and illness, prompting Whitebeard to declare he would kill him.
• Xiao Xie summoned nine thunder dragons, but Whitebeard shattered all of them with one punch.
• Sengoku recognized that Whitebeard's early entry had ruined the plan to trick Squard into attacking him, and Whitebeard challenged Xiao Xie to stop running away.

Xiao Xie fought Whitebeard head-on and wounded him with his lightning-powered One-Finger Spear, while Whitebeard praised the attack. As they faced off, Luffy, Shanks, Buggy, and Rayleigh arrived at Marine Headquarters, and Ace angrily told Luffy to stay out of his path.

• Xiao Xie charged Whitebeard with Hell Stab: Four-Finger Spear, then concentrated the attack into a One-Finger Spear and wounded Whitebeard despite Whitebeard's counterattack.
• Whitebeard admired Xiao Xie's strength, and Xiao Xie admitted that he had only recently developed the move and could not yet control it well.
• Doflamingo, Hancock, and Hawkeye reacted to Xiao Xie's clash with Whitebeard, while Hawkeye held back from challenging him.
• Luffy arrived with Shanks, Buggy, and Rayleigh, prompting Sengoku and Garp to react to the newcomers.
• Ace called Luffy a fool and told him not to interfere with his path.

Luffy arrived at Marineford to save Ace, revealing his ties to both Ace and Dragon as the Marines marked him for elimination. Shanks joined the battle and fought Xiao Xie, while Sengoku transformed and confronted Whitebeard; the war continued with the strongest fighters occupied.

• Luffy told Ace he had come to save him, and the crowd learned he was Ace’s younger brother and Dragon’s son.
• Akainu and Sengoku declared that Luffy had to be eliminated because of his lineage and future threat.
• Shanks confronted Xiao Xie over his capture of Rayleigh, and the two clashed with their swords.
• Xiao Xie attacked Shanks with rapid lightning-charged thrusts, while Ben Beckman and the other commanders engaged Marine fighters.
• Sengoku transformed into his golden Buddha form and struck at Whitebeard, who countered with a vibration punch that blasted nearby fighters away.

Xiao Xie seized the spotlight at Marine Headquarters by killing Shanks and Hawkeye, then challenged Whitebeard. He pierced Whitebeard’s chest with a hundredfold Hell Thrust, leaving the outcome of the attack unresolved.

• Xiao Xie used a hundredfold Hell Thrust to pierce Shanks’s sword and chest, killing him in front of the watching crowd.
• Hawkeye attacked Xiao Xie in revenge, but Xiao Xie’s Magic Sword passed through Black Sword Night and cut Hawkeye in half.
• Xiao Xie collected Shanks’s and Hawkeye’s treasure chests and took Black Sword Night, then turned his attention to Doflamingo and Whitebeard.
• Kizaru tried to ambush the unguarded Whitebeard, but Xiao Xie kicked him away and warned him not to interfere with his prey.
• Whitebeard welcomed Xiao Xie’s challenge, and Xiao Xie pierced through Whitebeard’s chest with a hundredfold Hell Thrust.

Whitebeard sacrificed himself to kill Xiao Xie, but Xiao Xie regenerated and survived. Xiao Xie killed Blackbeard and left Marineford, while the remaining Blackbeard Pirates were spared.

• Whitebeard grabbed Xiao Xie after taking his piercing attack and used his full strength to blast half of Xiao Xie's head away.
• Blackbeard arrived with prisoners freed from Impel Down and revealed that he had engineered the war to take Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
• Xiao Xie regenerated his head, pulled his hand from Whitebeard's chest, and confirmed that Whitebeard had died.
• Xiao Xie killed Blackbeard with a single sword strike and collected a treasure chest from his corpse.
• Xiao Xie left the surviving Blackbeard Pirates alive, and they breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Xie ordered the Marines to continue their attack on the leaderless pirates, while Uchiha Madara appeared and demanded that Sengoku end the battle. Madara killed Kizaru when the Admiral attacked him, leaving both sides shaken.

• Xiao Xie took a seat beneath the execution platform, and Sengoku ordered the Marines to attack the pirates.
• Ace urged the pirates to flee, while Rayleigh told Buggy to retreat without him.
• Uchiha Madara appeared and told Sengoku to stop the battle, but Sengoku refused.
• Kizaru attacked Madara, who pulled him in with All-Pervading Heavenly Attraction and killed him with a Black Rod.
• Madara collected Kizaru's treasure chest and discarded his body as the Marines' morale faltered.

Uchiha Madara protected Ace and let Luffy reach the execution platform, but Akainu killed Ace and nearly killed Luffy. Madara killed Akainu and freed Rayleigh, who fled with Luffy and Ace’s corpse.

• Uchiha Madara declared that Ace was under his protection and collected Whitebeard and other powerful figures’ corpses into Kamui Space.
• Luffy confronted Xiao Xie, but Xiao Xie stepped aside and let him go after Ace.
• Luffy rescued Ace from the execution platform, but Akainu pierced Ace’s chest with a magma-covered fist.
• Rayleigh shoved Luffy out of Akainu’s follow-up attack, while Sengoku restrained Garp from attacking Sakazuki.
• Uchiha Madara killed Akainu, stored his corpse in Kamui Space, and cut Rayleigh’s Sea Stone Handcuffs.
• Rayleigh took Luffy and Ace’s corpse and hurried toward the harbor.

After the pirates withdrew, Uchiha Madara challenged Xiao Xie at Marine Headquarters and unleashed his giant golden Susanoo. The chapter ended as Madara began Heavenly Obstacle Tremor Star, leaving the Marines and spectators staring at the threat descending from the sky.

• Rayleigh and the remaining pirates retreated with Ace’s body while Uchiha Madara blocked the Marines and let them escape.
• Sengoku asked Xiao Xie to help capture Madara, but Xiao Xie refused and said Madara’s strength warranted a ten-billion-Beli bounty.
• Madara and Xiao Xie released their Dragon’s Might Haki, knocking tens of thousands of Marines unconscious and overwhelming those who remained.
• Madara formed a three-hundred-meter golden giant and challenged Xiao Xie to withstand one attack.
• Madara announced Heavenly Obstacle Tremor Star as the sky darkened, and the Marine elites lost their will to fight.

Uchiha Madara summoned a gigantic meteor toward Marineford, forcing Sengoku and the Navy elites to fight desperately to protect the unconscious Marines. Xiao Xie destroyed the meteor with a Kamehameha, and the chapter ended with Madara recognizing him as his greatest opponent.

• A thousand-meter meteor appeared above Marineford, and Sengoku urged the terrified Marines to keep fighting.
• Sengoku, Aokiji, Tyrant Kuma, and the other Marines attacked the meteor, but they only reduced it to eight hundred meters.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru and Sengoku continued trying to stop the meteor because tens of thousands of unconscious Marines could not escape.
• As the meteor neared Marineford, Xiao Xie fired a Kamehameha that shattered it and vaporized the clouds overhead.
• Uchiha Madara praised Xiao Xie as his greatest opponent as the onlookers sensed that a new era had begun.

Xiao Xie and Uchiha Madara ended their battle after their attacks devastated Marine Headquarters, leaving the world to witness their overwhelming power. News of the Marineford War spread, and people began to revere Xiao Xie and Uchiha Madara as opposing forces that kept the world in balance.

• Xiao Xie and Uchiha Madara exchanged massive attacks, and a rebounded sword aura cut Marine Headquarters in half and killed Magellan.
• Uchiha Madara ended the fight and vanished after his Shadow Clone nearly ran out of Chakra, while Xiao Xie collected Magellan's treasure chest and demanded his bounty from Sengoku.
• Xiao Xie left Marineford, and Sengoku reflected that Xiao Xie was the only one who could oppose Uchiha Madara.
• Reporters at Sabaody watched the battle and decided that Xiao Xie and Uchiha Madara's clash would overshadow the rest of the Marineford War.
• Newspapers and videos of the war spread worldwide, leading civilians and Navy soldiers to worship Xiao Xie and pirates and criminals to worship Uchiha Madara.
• People concluded that Xiao Xie and Uchiha Madara formed a balance, since either one alone could dominate the world.

After recruiting the surviving Whitebeard and Red Hair Pirates into the Nether Emperor Pirates, Xiao Xie opened his treasure chests, gained powerful new abilities, and consumed the Flame-Flame Fruit. He strengthened his undead forces and prepared to leave the One Piece world soon.

• Xiao Xie used a Shadow Clone disguised as Uchiha Madara to recruit the surviving Whitebeard and Red Hair Pirates into the Nether Emperor Pirates, and Sengoku paid him ten billion Beli.
• Xiao Xie opened his treasure chests and consumed Majin Essence, a Great Swordsman's Sword Intent Crystal, and Sword Heart, greatly improving his physique and swordsmanship.
• Xiao Xie upgraded the Devil Fruits from his treasure chests and ate the Flame-Flame Fruit, gaining the power to transform into his seven Heavenly Flames and safely use the ninth transformation of the Nine Transformations of Skyfire.
• Xiao Xie used the Bone Summoning Art on Whitebeard, Shanks, Hawkeye, Akainu, and other corpses, creating powerful Skeleton Warriors and a Half-Saint Skeleton Swordsman.
• The author said the One Piece world would end in fewer than ten more chapters and the story would return to the world of Battle Through the Heavens.

Xiao Xie fused Shanks’s and Hawkeye’s swordsmanship into his own Seven Slashes of Ghost God and arrived at Fish-Man Island after strengthening the Nether Emperor Pirates. He entered the island through its bubble defenses and explored its sunlit underwater landscape.

• Xiao Xie absorbed Bone Shanks’s and Bone Hawkeye’s shadows and comprehended Seven Slashes of Ghost God by combining their swordsmanship with Dou Qi and Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Xie’s Worship Points surpassed one hundred million as the Marineford War and his staged battle with Uchiha Madara continued to draw attention.
• Xiao Xie, disguised as Uchiha Madara, reclaimed Whitebeard’s former territories and gathered surviving Whitebeard and Red Hair Pirates into the Nether Emperor Pirates.
• Xiao Xie reached Fish-Man Island, which Charlotte Linlin had occupied after Whitebeard’s death, and passed through its protective double-layered bubbles.
• Xiao Xie looked around Fish-Man Island and saw its coral islands, sunlight from the Sun Tree Eve, and bubble-based transportation.

Xiao Xie explored Mermaid Bay on Fish-Man Island, where curious mermaids gathered around him. The Dragon Palace Kingdom’s princes escorted him to Dragon Palace City, where Neptune welcomed him to a banquet.

• Xiao Xie arrived at Mermaid Bay and observed the mermaids and fish-men of Fish-Man Island.
• A group of mermaids surrounded Xiao Xie and excitedly asked about humans.
• Shark Star arrived with Royal Star and Somersault Star and invited Xiao Xie to Dragon Palace City on Neptune’s behalf.
• Xiao Xie rode the Phoenix Tail Carriage to Dragon Palace City with Shark Star and his brothers.
• Neptune, accompanied by the Left Minister and Right Minister, welcomed Xiao Xie and invited him to take his place at the banquet.

Xiao Xie announced that Fish-Man Island would come under the Nether Emperor Pirates’ protection and promised to defeat Charlotte Linlin, Kaido, and Vander Decken IX. He met Shirahoshi in Hard Shell Tower, reassured her that she could soon leave, and gave her a White Bone Pearl.

• Xiao Xie told Neptune that he would take Fish-Man Island back from Charlotte Linlin and eliminate Charlotte Linlin and Kaido.
• Xiao Xie asked Neptune to take him to Shirahoshi and offered to deal with Vander Decken IX.
• Neptune explained that Vander Decken IX’s attacks had kept Shirahoshi inside Hard Shell Tower for ten years, and a giant axe struck the tower as they approached.
• Xiao Xie entered Hard Shell Tower and met Shirahoshi, promising that she would no longer have to stay inside once Vander Decken IX was captured.
• Xiao Xie asked Shirahoshi to call him big brother and gave her a White Bone Pearl.