Chapter Summaries

The First Legion prepared a decisive battle with the Impel Down Garrison while the Mist Pirate Group’s attacks plunged the East Blue into chaos. As Uchiha Shiina’s force joined the conflict and Garp rallied the Navy, both sides moved toward a major confrontation.

• Uchiha Runbu withdrew after attacking the Puppet Government Navy, and Hanzō of the Salamander ordered the fleet to begin Overlord Operation and intercept the enemy’s return route.
• Biwa Juzo learned that the Navy planned a Buster Call against the Mist Pirate Group and launched widespread attacks across the East Blue.
• Kirigakure forces cut off sea routes, raided ports, and sabotaged captured ships to prevent the Navy from learning their propulsion secrets.
• Uchiha Shiina arrived in the East Blue and ordered his cruiser groups to begin privateering while watching for the Puppet Government Navy’s main force.
• Vice Admiral Garp rallied the Navy fleet as it advanced against the rampaging Mist Pirate Groups.

Hanzō of the Salamander led the Dynasty Navy into battle against the Puppet Government Navy and destroyed its fleet with overwhelming long-range firepower. As the surviving Marines charged rather than surrender, Hanzō ordered the fleet to attack them and prepare to advance on Impel Down.

• Hanzō ordered the Dynasty Navy to locate the enemy fleet, and its cruisers encircled the Puppet Government ships as scouts confirmed their guns had far shorter range.
• The three Naval Major Generals saw the Dynasty Navy’s battleships and cruisers surround them, then reported their situation and prepared a final charge.
• Hanzō split his battleships and cruisers across the enemy’s flanks and ordered volleys that sank twenty-two of the twenty-four Navy Warships without losses to his fleet.
• The elderly Naval Major General reported the defeat to Navy leadership and recommended mass steelmaking and shipbuilding before leading his surviving forces into a final charge.
• When the surviving Marines refused to surrender and swam or water-walked toward the battleships, Hanzō ordered the secondary guns and launch tubes to attack and prepared to advance on Impel Down.

Hanzō of the Salamander’s fleet began bombarding Impel Down while the World Government rushed to organize reinforcements, unaware that the First Legion had already prepared to intercept them. Meanwhile, Uchiha Tokimitsu began using the Nine Phantom Dragon Sealing Formation to absorb the Tailed Beasts’ Chakra, and the chapter ended with Hanzō celebrating the power of heavy artillery.

• After reporting the fleet’s victory, Hanzō of the Salamander assigned Uchiha Runbu twelve ironclad ships, five cruisers, and a submarine for the second-phase interception operation.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu learned that the Navy had destroyed the Impel Down fleet, then entered the underground Secret Room to begin the Nine Phantom Dragon Sealing Formation with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Tailed Beasts.
• Jaygarcia Saturn ordered Admiral Sengoku to hold Impel Down at any cost, while the Navy sent Kuzan, Vice Admiral Tsuru, and a large force to reinforce it.
• Uchiha Nobutora and the Intelligence Ninja used the weakened Sabaody Archipelago garrison to monitor the Navy’s preparations and transmit intelligence to the First Legion.
• Five battleships and twenty cruisers arrived outside Impel Down, and Magellan ordered the coastal guns to fire before Hanzō of the Salamander’s fleet began its heavy artillery bombardment.
• Hanzō of the Salamander watched the bombardment and wrote, “Bigger is better, more is beautiful!”

Hanzō of the Salamander changed the assault on Impel Down into a prolonged siege after its defenders proved able to intercept the fleet’s bombardment. After Uchiha Tokimitsu advised him to prepare for a long siege, Hanzō flattened the main gate with concentrated fire and sent Orochimaru to reinforce Lord Lumb.

• Hanzō of the Salamander and Orochimaru assessed why Impel Down’s stone fortress and tireless defenders resisted the fleet’s shelling, then discussed three possible strategies.
• Hanzō rejected sinking the island or immediately landing troops and instead ordered concentrated fire on the main gate while considering the approaching Navy reinforcements.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu’s dispatch urged Hanzō to prepare for a prolonged siege, and Hanzō interpreted the plan as a way to weaken the World Government by keeping Impel Down under threat.
• Hanzō discarded his wine, learned that Karatachi Yagura had killed one Giant King Squid, and resumed observing the bombardment.
• The concentrated barrage overwhelmed the defenders and destroyed Impel Down’s main gate, but Hanzō ordered the fleet to keep firing until the surface structures were flattened.
• Hanzō assigned twenty cruisers to reinforce Lord Lumb and agreed with Orochimaru’s plan to let incoming Navy reinforcements enter Impel Down after inflicting heavy casualties.

Vice Admiral Garp struggled to balance Admiral Sengoku’s cautious orders with pressure from Young Faction officers and East Blue’s growing unrest, while Uchiha Shiina’s Vanguard Fleet fueled rebellions by distributing seized food and money and executing corrupt elites. As the unrest forced Garp to take action, Biwa Juzo’s Mist Fleet challenged his assembled Naval Fleet, which prepared a secret flanking maneuver and close-range attack.

• Vice Admiral Garp agreed to conduct a steady mopping-up operation without splitting his fleet, despite conflicting demands from Admiral Sengoku and the Young Faction officers.
• Uchiha Shiina’s Navy Ninja seized kingdom capitals, distributed their grain and Beli to commoners, and executed nobles and criminals, inspiring uprisings across East Blue.
• After learning of the spreading revolts, Vice Admiral Garp received an order from Holy Land Mary Geoise to assemble the Naval Fleet and target the pirates’ most active areas.
• Biwa Juzo’s Mist Fleet captured three Navy outposts, abandoned its original goal, and prepared six Ironclad Ships to confront Garp’s fleet.
• Vice Admiral Garp deployed an apparent Invincible Fleet as a decoy while elite Navy forces secretly circled toward the battle area, preparing to close with the Mist Fleet.

Orochimaru and Uchiha Runbu’s forces ambushed Admiral Kuzan’s reinforcement fleet, while Biwa Juzo’s Kirigakure fleet fought Vice Admiral Garp in the East Blue. Garp’s fleet forced the Mist ships to sacrifice two ironclads to escape, but Garp was struck into the sea and Biwa Juzo ordered the retreating fleet to keep firing.

• Orochimaru altered Hanzō of the Salamander’s orders to prioritize damaging Kuzan’s fleet while avoiding losses, and Uchiha Runbu agreed to continue harassing it.
• Kuzan’s fleet encountered the Mist forces, whose ironclads and cruisers attacked from different directions; Kuzan blocked shells with an ice barrier and extinguished fires aboard the ships.
• Biwa Juzo’s ironclads battered Garp’s fleet until Garp’s reinforcements appeared and attempted to encircle them.
• Garp pursued the Mist fleet, damaged two ironclads, and punched through one ship, prompting Biwa Juzo to order the Rainbow Plan and abandon the two rear vessels.
• Garp was blasted from a warship, hit by the Great Toad Sage’s sound genjutsu, and knocked into the sea by Biwa Juzo’s water dragon.
• Biwa Juzo retreated with four ironclads and ordered his fleet to keep firing, while battered Kirigakure shinobi surfaced behind them.

Vice Admiral Garp failed to capture the Mist Fleet, while Biwa Juzo and Sage Fukasaku decided to retreat to the South Blue and rebuild their strength. Meanwhile, Uchiha Runbu and Orochimaru’s fleet suffered heavy damage from Admiral Kuzan’s Ice Age and withdrew, leaving Orochimaru to reconsider the balance between warships and individual ninja strength.

• Vice Admiral Garp berated the Navy officers whose rescue attempt disrupted the pursuit, then ordered them to recover pirate and Giant Frog remains for the Science Unit.
• Biwa Juzo agreed with Sage Fukasaku to avoid another direct fight with the Navy and lead the Mist Fleet to the South Blue using a Log Pose to Water 7.
• Sage Fukasaku reported that a Sharingan user had been seen among pirates attacking an affiliated kingdom, and Biwa Juzo resolved to find a kingdom to influence and rebuild the Alliance’s strength.
• Uchiha Runbu and Orochimaru coordinated a smoke-screened barrage that badly damaged Admiral Kuzan’s reinforcement fleet, but Kuzan counterattacked with Ice Age and froze the sea beside them.
• Uchiha Runbu ordered a withdrawal and sent a report to Commander Hanzo, while Orochimaru concluded that the ninja needed to maintain individual combat strength alongside advanced technology.

The First Legion’s torpedo and artillery assault sank several Navy warships, but Admiral Kuzan protected the remaining fleet and the campaign stalled. Uchiha Tokimitsu then freed seven Tailed Beasts and secured their agreement to serve the Dynasty in territories in the New World.

• Hanzō of the Salamander, Uchiha Runbu, and Orochimaru planned another strike on Impel Down, and Runbu ordered submarines to fire torpedoes at the port before the fleet opened fire.
• The torpedoes sank nine Navy warships, while Admiral Kuzan used Ice Age to shield the remaining ships from the First Legion’s bombardment.
• After receiving the battle report, Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the Second Legion to assemble within three days and went to the shore to release the Tailed Beasts.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu revealed that the Ten-Tails no longer existed but that the God Tree had been revived halfway, and he offered the Tailed Beasts territories in the New World in exchange for protecting it.
• The Tailed Beasts agreed to serve as vassals, and Uchiha Tokimitsu imposed Summoning Contracts on them after hearing their private plans through their mental communication.

Uchiha Tokimitsu revised the Ninja World’s strategy for conquering the Pirate World and reissued the Unlimited Privateer’s License to support small-unit raids without weakening the standing army. The license sparked a rush of privateering ventures, backed by the newly established Four Seas Company.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu convened an Imperial Conference, where officials agreed the Pirate World remained essential but the expedition needed to prepare for a prolonged war after the Impel Down setback.
• The ministers discussed using small raiding units while protecting the Ninja World’s advanced equipment and limiting losses among its scarce combat-ready ninja.
• Mizuki Chiyono proposed reinstating the Unlimited Privateer’s License, and Uchiha Tokimitsu approved forming raiding units outside the active standing army, including clan ninja, rogue ninja, samurai, merchants, and dismissed troops.
• Uzumaki Ashina proposed adapting the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal to prevent privateers from leaking secrets, and the senior ministers approved the plan.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu issued the privateering decree, prompting merchants and recruits across the Ninja World to prepare expeditions to the New World.
• Three days later, the Ninja World Government established the Four Seas Company to recruit privateers, sell equipment, supply charts and intelligence, repair ships, and fence stolen goods.

Uchiha Tokimitsu assigned territories and monthly salaries to the six Tailed Beasts, then led them across the World Gate to establish a defensive perimeter around the Ninja World Government’s occupied waters. After ordering Uchiha Fugaku to guard the overseas frontier, Fugaku reflected on his ambitions for his branch and his son, Itachi.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu granted the six Tailed Beasts suitable island fiefs that they could expand after answering battle summons, and told them a major campaign would begin in about half a year.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu refused Black Zetsu’s request to contact the Rabbit Goddess until after his next victorious campaign, and ordered him to help Minato-kun find the remaining White Zetsu.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu led the Second Legion through the World Gate to deliver the Tailed Beasts to their fiefs, while Uchiha Fugaku questioned the risk of placing them around the occupied waters.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu gave One-Tail Shukaku Red Sand Island and arranged for ninjas to build an underground palace and support facilities there.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu derived new cultivation techniques from the Haki manual, then assigned Uchiha Fugaku to defend the overseas frontier after delivering the Tailed Beasts.
• Uchiha Fugaku accepted the assignment and thought about his ambitions for his branch and the future he wanted for Itachi.

Uchiha Tokimitsu summoned Sage Katsuyu and the White Snake Sage to secure the sage locations’ support for the war against the Pirate World. He offered them new sage locations and the title of Pillar State Demon Sage, and both sages accepted his terms.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu sent Tsunade to deliver Sage Katsuyu a sealed letter containing bark from the Ancient Divine Tree and summoned the White Snake Sage to an imperial audience.
• Sage Katsuyu agreed to visit Konoha early after recognizing the bark, while Tsunade learned it came from the God Tree.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu welcomed the two sages at the palace, where the White Snake Sage used Sage Art Eye and saw the Ten-Tails’ presence in the God Tree trunk.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu explained the Pirate World’s resources and powerful fighters, and Sage Katsuyu offered to heal wounded or crippled ninja rather than join the fighting.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu offered the sages new locations in the Pirate World and the title of Pillar State Demon Sage in exchange for supporting the campaign.
• The White Snake Sage bowed first to accept Tokimitsu’s terms, and Sage Katsuyu followed.

Uchiha Tokimitsu planted a modified Divine Tree Seed in the Pirate World, using a blood sacrifice to connect it to the world’s energy and draw the Rabbit Goddess’s attention. The sapling took root, and Tokimitsu estimated that rooting would take about five more days.

• High Priestess Risa received an Imperial Decree enshrining Katsuyu and White Snake as demon sages at Tokimitsu Grand Shrine.
• Uchiha Fugaku ordered the Second Legion to gather prisoners and Sea Kings for a blood sacrifice on a deserted island in the Pirate World.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu arrived on the island with two Great Sage clones and used the ritual to contact the Rabbit Goddess through the Statue of the Goddess of the Rabbit.
• Tokimitsu offered the Rabbit Goddess a place in the Pirate World if she abandoned her plan to massacre living beings, but refused to give her the God Tree’s fruit.
• Tokimitsu dropped the Divine Tree Seed into the blood pool and used Sage Art: Art of Inorganic Reincarnation to grow a sapling whose roots spread into the sea abyss.
• White Snake Sage and Sage Katsuyu sensed the sapling’s unusual Natural Energy as Tokimitsu made a clone to oversee its rooting.

Sengoku and Sakazuki warned the Five Elders that anomalies in the Calm Belt, Triangle Current, and Log Pose navigation were destabilizing the world, while Uchiha Tokimitsu investigated related changes around Divine Tree Planting Island. The chapter left Tokimitsu considering how the God Tree’s effects might reshape both the Pirate World and the Ninja World.

• Sakazuki and Sengoku informed the Five Elders that the Calm Belt, Triangle Current, and Magnetic Fields were changing, and Sengoku requested a covert CIPHER POL investigation.
• The Five Elders ended the meeting without promising funding for shipbuilding or recruitment, and Sakazuki confronted Sengoku about his leadership and justice.
• Pirate crews and Garp’s Navy fleet discovered that ships were crossing between the Grand Line and East Blue as Log Poses malfunctioned and Calm Belt ripples offered a route to safety.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered Uchiha Fugaku to contact Hanzō’s First Legion and assigned the Six Tailed Beasts to hunt Sea Kings as the God Tree’s growth altered nearby waters.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Sage Katsuyu discussed the God Tree’s environmental effects, the limits of restoring the Ninja World’s Wilderness, and the construction of new holy lands.

Uchiha Tokimitsu assigned Namikaze Minato and Asura missions in the Pirate World, seeking Seastone and influence over the Revolutionary Army. Asura exposed Black Zetsu’s secret prayers, captured it in the Amber Purifying Pot, and brought it to Tokimitsu, who sent them to infiltrate the Revolutionary Army.

• Asura caught Black Zetsu praying to the Mother Goddess beneath the moon and revealed that his earlier accusations had been a bluff.
• Asura captured Black Zetsu in the Amber Purifying Pot and returned with it to Konoha.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered Namikaze Minato to lead an intelligence mission to the Land of Wano to investigate Seastone and seek possible pirate alliances.
• Tokimitsu told Minato that allies could claim the territories they occupied and promised, “He who enters Mary Geoise first shall be King of the World.”
• Tokimitsu tasked Asura and Black Zetsu with infiltrating the Revolutionary Army, gaining influence, and pursuing an alliance under the promise that whoever entered Mary Geoise first would be king.

As the Calm Belt and magnetic fields began to fail, Admiral Kuzan and Magellan faced a worsening siege at Impel Down, while Uchiha Shiina’s fleet exploited chaos in the East Blue to evade Garp’s Marines. Asura was sent with Black Zetsu toward the Revolutionary Army’s supposed headquarters, with permission to create a replacement organization if necessary.

• Admiral Kuzan and Magellan discussed the spreading magnetic disruptions, the weakening Calm Belt, and the First Legion fleet’s slaughter of Sea Kings around Impel Down.
• Uchiha Shiina’s fleet took advantage of malfunctioning Log Poses and copycat Mist pirates to deepen East Blue’s turmoil, while Garp’s fleet struggled to pursue them and satisfy its affiliated kingdoms.
• Garp’s officers passed off recently marked pirate corpses as Mist pirates to impress a Headquarters Commissioner, who left without finding prisoners to interrogate.
• Asura proposed uniting East Blue’s pirate groups and using locals as spies, but Uchiha Shiina prioritized sending him and Black Zetsu toward the Revolutionary Army’s secret headquarters.
• After seeing the scant intelligence on the Revolutionary Army, Asura asked whether he could establish a similar organization, and Uchiha Shiina said that any group capable of stirring uprisings or succeeding the kingdoms would suffice.

Asura entered the Goa Kingdom to test his ideals in a world he considered more oppressive than the Ninja World, then attacked its capital and opened the way for the outcasts to revolt. He left the outcasts rushing into High Town as violence spread through the kingdom.

• Asura surveyed the stark divide between the Goa Kingdom’s wealthy capital and the outcasts forced to live beyond its walls.
• Asura used Earth Release to sink the kingdom into a swamp, destroyed the royal palace with magma, and fought the kingdom’s defenders.
• Asura sent Shadow Clones against the guards, broke open the capital’s gate, and urged the outcasts to join the revolution.
• Asura threatened the outcasts, ordered them into High Town, and watched them charge inside to loot as cries of slaughter rose.

Asura manipulated Black Zetsu into scouting the island while deciding to launch a revolution against the Goa Kingdom’s royal family. He declared the Goa Republic and laid out an elected government, leaving the residents cheering as the new order began.

• Asura questioned Black Zetsu about its origins, concluded it was a descendant of the Rabbit Goddess rather than Madara’s Will Incarnation, and ordered it to map the island.
• After Black Zetsu left, Asura wrote The Glorious Path and chose the royal family as the common enemy for his planned uprising.
• Asura gathered the plunderers and Capital City residents and declared the royal family must be overthrown, promising freedom and equality across social classes.
• Asura abolished the old laws and identities, renamed the nation the Goa Republic, and proposed elections for a Consul, Chief Tribune, and Chief Military Officer, with a National Assembly able to remove officials by a two-thirds no-confidence vote.
• Minor nobles, merchants, and other residents rallied behind Asura’s announcement and shouted for the Goa Republic.

Asura established the Goa Republic, oversaw its first election, and then founded twelve more republics across the East Blue. As the Navy debated how to respond, Dragon’s Revolutionary Army founded a fourteenth republic, prompting Garp to decide he could no longer remain uninvolved.

• Asura recruited former lesser nobles as Affairs Officers, organized a National Guard and a limited Guard Army, and advised freemen to unite behind their own candidates.
• The Goa Republic held its first election on April 10th, Year 2 of Kaihuang; lesser nobles and merchants took most offices, while freemen and commoners won mainly Tribunes and Assembly seats.
• The National Assembly passed a Foreign Expansion Act, and Asura accepted an honorary position as Head of State while leaving the republic’s future to its citizens.
• Asura traveled across the East Blue and established twelve more republics, whose expansion plans and influx of ambitious pirates intensified regional conflict.
• Garp and Tsuru discussed the growing republics and Asura’s influence, then learned that Dragon had founded a fourteenth republic under the name Revolutionary Army.
• Garp decided he could no longer stand aside, while Tsuru said she would report the development to Navy headquarters in seven days.

Namikaze Minato’s squad escaped into the New World after killing a Celestial Dragon, while the Navy struggled to contain the East Blue uprising and its worsening Sea King crisis. Uchiha Tokimitsu inspected the rapidly growing God Tree on Divine Tree Island and continued preparing the Ninja World’s larger offensive.

• Nagato questioned why the powerless Celestial Dragons commanded loyalty, and Namikaze Minato compared their rule to the old daimyo and noble clans of the Ninja World.
• Vice Admiral Tsuru struggled to manage the Buster Call fleet, conceal Garp’s absence, and respond to Headquarters’ order that Admiral Borsalino inspect the fleet.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu found that the God Tree had grown toward the form of the Ten-Tails, but its surrounding waters still lacked enough Natural Energy for Sage Art.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu infused the God Tree with Sage Mode Five Elemental Chakra, strengthening his connection to the Pirate World’s power while judging the preparations too slow.

Monkey D. Dragon rejected Vice Admiral Garp’s attempt to dissuade him from revolution, and Garp ultimately accepted his son’s choice before returning to Marine Headquarters. Meanwhile, Asura prepared the Thirteen Republic Alliance for its first campaign in the Four Leaf Island waters, leaving its inexperienced forces to fight with Ironclad Ships held in reserve.

• Dragon argued that the World Government and Celestial Dragons had to be overthrown, while Garp warned that revolution would bring chaos and cost many lives.
• Dragon cited the Goa Republic’s independence and Ohara’s destruction as reasons to oppose the World Government, and he refused to abandon his chosen path.
• Garp accepted Dragon’s decision, urged him to start a family, then answered a Marine Headquarters call and warned that admirals would soon lead an operation against the Mist Pirate Group.
• Asura planned to unite forces from the Thirteen Republics for an offensive across the Four Leaf Island waters, while Uzumaki Ichiraku criticized the alliance’s poorly equipped troops.
• Asura agreed to keep two Ironclad Ships in reserve and assigned Ichiraku to train and reorganize the Republic Alliance force.