Recaps

Barrett, Kaido, Sakazuki, Blackbeard, and Whitebeard’s forces clashed with the Richest Group’s fighters while the silent ten-colored haze remained on the throne. The chapter left the Gold Emperor’s identity uncertain as Kuma’s mirror copy challenged Blackbeard and Enel stopped Whitebeard’s punch.

• Barrett attacked the throne, but Crocodile intercepted him and sent him crashing into a golden building before leaving the fight to others.
• Kaido and Borsalino exchanged blows, while Sakazuki and Archino began fighting with magma and heat-based attacks.
• Blackbeard attacked the silent haze, but Kuma appeared and created a Mirror Image that copied Blackbeard’s movements and Devil Fruit ability.
• Kuma teleported to attack Blackbeard, and Van Augur, Doc Q, and the others joined in to hold him off.
• Enel blocked Whitebeard’s punch with his lightning-wreathed foot and taunted him for having grown old.

Betty attacked the former Rocks Pirates members Ochoku and Silver Axe, while the Richest Group’s powerful Homies revealed their Conqueror’s Haki. The battle intensified as Geb and Poseidon charged Silver Axe and Betty prepared to face Ochoku.

• Dragon held back the Revolutionary Army and waited to see whether the Richest Group would act.
• Ochoku appeared and attacked, but Betty struck him down with help from a ghost’s ability.
• Silver Axe arrived and blocked Betty’s finishing blow against Ochoku.
• Pirates identified Ochoku and Silver Axe as former members of the Rocks Pirates, alongside Golden Lion, Whitebeard, Kaido, and Charlotte Linlin.
• Betty transformed Geb and Poseidon, empowered them with her Inspiration-Inspiration Fruit, and revealed that they could wield Conqueror’s Haki.
• Geb and Poseidon charged Silver Axe as Betty powered up to fight Ochoku.

Dancing Queen, Ivankov, and Baccarat revealed the power of the Richest Group’s queens and their Homies as the battle spread across the field. Sengoku held the Navy back while pirates charged toward the golden platform and were intercepted by the Richest Group’s officers.

• Dancing Queen and her Homies, Geb and Poseidon, fought Ochoku and Silver Axe, shocking onlookers with their strength.
• Sengoku advised the Navy to wait, as Sakazuki was already fighting the Sun King and someone else would make the next move.
• Ace and Jozu charged toward the golden platform, but Ivankov stopped them with the magma Homie Kutapa and sandstorm Homie Set.
• Baccarat intercepted Katakuri and Cracker, using Napoleon and Hades (Kinetic Rock) while Katakuri answered their Conqueror’s Haki.
• Bonis faced Vista and Smoothie, while Caesar prepared to fight King and Jack with a deadly poison Homie that also wielded Conqueror’s Haki.

Chaos revealed that he was the resurrected Golden Emperor and declared the era of Gaia, killing most of those gathered in Gold City with his Conqueror's Haki. He used the collected souls to give life to Gold City and the White White Sea, which began rising as a colossal living entity.

• Predator Axios attacked the ten-colored haze, but Chaos destroyed him with a single palm strike, confirming that the Golden Emperor was alive.
• Chaos declared that the world would submit to the Emperor's will and named the era Gaia.
• Chaos unleashed his Conqueror's Haki, killing nine-tenths of the people in Gold City as figures from the various factions struggled to resist.
• Chaos gathered the dead people's souls into a mass of light and split them between Gold City and the White White Sea.
• Gold City came to life, and enormous hands rose from the White White Sea to lift it into the sky.

Chaos arrived at Gold City and used his godlike power to force the fleet captains to kill themselves or die, while Golden Lion fought to stop him. Chaos killed Golden Lion and extracted his soul, leaving the city under his control.

• Chaos offered Golden Lion a position in the Richest Group, then commanded the fleet captains to kill themselves; Spand, Roria, Christos, Jessica, and Iris died.
• Golden Lion attacked Chaos, but Chaos blasted him away and impaled Jelly Queen Annie, Charming Idol Groot, Strong Man Paster, Empress Kehila, and Narwhal King Rubit.
• Golden Lion sent islands crashing toward Gold City, but a Goddess of the Heavens destroyed them with Thunder Bagua.
• Golden Lion used Lion's Majestic World of Secrecy to summon golden lions from Gold City, but Chaos crushed them and overwhelmed him.
• Chaos pierced Golden Lion through the heart with a Golden Longsword, turned his body to gold dust, and pulled out his soul.

After Gaia returned as a god and annihilated the Flying Pirates, the remaining forces realized he had trapped them in the Golden City. Gaia exposed the Revolutionary Army, then sent the Golden City’s Homies against the Whitebeard Pirates and Big Mom Pirates.

• Gaia’s ten-colored haze appeared after he wiped out the Flying Pirates, leaving Sengoku, Tsuru, and the other fighters shaken by his newfound power.
• Blackbeard proposed that the pirates and Marines unite, but Sakazuki refused; Kaido allied with Blackbeard while Whitebeard and the Marines stayed in separate camps.
• Gaia warped the Golden City around the Revolutionary Army, forcing Dragon and Garp to escape while some officers were fused into the gold.
• The battlefield recognized Garp among the Revolutionary Army, and Sakazuki and the other Marines reacted to seeing him again since the Summit War.
• Gaia ignored the other factions and targeted the Whitebeard Pirates, sending the Golden City Homies after them as the White White Sea carried the city toward the Calm Belt.
• The Whitebeard Pirates and Big Mom Pirates counterattacked, using their strength and awakened Devil Fruit domains to resist the Golden City’s giant golden hands.

Chaos used Almighty Push to hold off Whitebeard and Bullet as the battle around Gold City grew more destructive. The surviving Supernovas and other forces began retreating, while Weevil charged Chaos to avenge Miss Bakkin.

• Chaos unleashed Almighty Push against the Whitebeard Pirates and Big Mom Pirates, and Whitebeard and Bullet joined forces to resist it.
• Kidd and Killer withdrew with the last survivors of the Kidd Pirates, while other Supernovas and underground forces also fled.
• Mihawk abandoned his plan to avenge Red-Hair, and Doflamingo led the remaining Shichibukai away.
• Weevil realized Miss Bakkin was dead, grabbed his sword, and charged toward Chaos in grief and rage.
• Chaos kept Whitebeard and Bullet at bay while golden weapons appeared before the approaching Weevil.

Buffalo Aquit intervened to fight Weevil, honoring Kairos for sparing him more than twenty years earlier, while Kairos continued battling Whitebeard and Bullet. Prometheus and Zeus then confronted Ace and Katakuri as Enel and the others watched from the sidelines.

• Aquit struck Weevil with the golden spiked club Kairos had given him, sending him flying.
• Aquit told Kairos he had come to repay his debt and avenge his friends, who had died in Gold City.
• Kairos let Aquit fight Weevil and sent the golden weapons he controlled against Whitebeard and Bullet.
• Ace and Katakuri attacked Kairos, but Prometheus and Zeus blocked them and challenged the pair.
• Enel and the others continued watching without joining the battle.

Chaos overwhelmed Whitebeard and Bullet with his godlike power, leaving Whitebeard gravely wounded. Whitebeard rallied for one final attack, declaring that the era belonged to Gaia.

• Chaos unleashed Golden Divine Fire, and Whitebeard and Bullet barely survived the blast by combining their defenses and powers.
• Bullet awakened his Combine Fruit across Gold City and formed a colossal armored demon, but the White White Sea Homie appeared to meet his attack.
• As Whitebeard struck at the White White Sea Homie, Chaos appeared behind him and stabbed him through with a Golden Longsword.
• Whitebeard counterattacked despite his wounds, but Chaos’s golden spikes pierced him from within and left him kneeling and coughing blood.
• Whitebeard recalled how weak Chaos had been when they first met, then said Roger had foreseen that the rejected man would break the world’s 800-year balance.
• Whitebeard boiled his blood and summoned black-and-red lightning for a final rally, vowing to hurt Chaos even if he died.

Whitebeard burned through the last of his life to battle Chaos, but Chaos overwhelmed him and pinned him down. Chaos agreed to spare Whitebeard’s crew, but Ace, Marco, Jozu, and Vista rushed in and attacked him.

• Whitebeard unleashed devastating attacks that injured Chaos but failed to threaten his life.
• Chaos pushed back Whitebeard’s assault, erased the deserted islands, and struck him until his right arm was destroyed and he was left kneeling.
• Chaos kicked Whitebeard away and pinned him to the ground with three Golden Longspears.
• Chaos asked Whitebeard for his last words and agreed to spare Ace, Marco, Jozu, and the others if they did not come seeking death.
• Ace, Marco, Jozu, and Vista broke away from the battle inside Gold City and attacked Chaos with four powerful moves.

Chaos defeated Ace, Marco, Vista, and Jozu with a single attack, then captured Whitebeard’s soul. As the three commanders burned through their lives to fight him, Marco urged Ace to escape and inherit Whitebeard’s will.

• Chaos repelled Ace, Marco, Vista, and Jozu, then took Whitebeard’s soul after confirming he was dead.
• Jozu charged Chaos as a diamond giant, and Chaos stopped him with Almighty Push.
• Jozu and Vista began burning their lives to strengthen their attacks, but Chaos held them off.
• Marco also used the life-burning technique and told Ace to escape because the Whitebeard Pirates needed him to inherit Whitebeard’s will.
• Ace refused to leave his family behind, but Marco held him back and pleaded that he was their only hope.

Ace fled the battlefield after choosing to survive, while Marco, Jozu, and Vista stayed behind to face Chaos. Chaos killed Jozu and Vista, then pinned Marco as he gave up on living.

• Ace remembered his promises to Whitebeard and the crew, then chose to flee so he could survive.
• Marco, Jozu, and Vista surrounded Chaos and fought to buy Ace time to escape.
• Chaos overwhelmed the three men with golden weapons, then killed Jozu with a single punch and claimed his soul.
• Vista attacked Chaos with his strongest sword technique, but Chaos shattered his swords, killed him, and claimed his soul.
• Marco lost hope after seeing Jozu and Vista die, and Chaos pinned him to the ground with a golden spear as Marco made no attempt to resist.

The Marines and the Richest Group launched into battle at Gold City after Sakazuki ordered an attack on the golden platform. Sakazuki began fighting Kuma as the other factions prepared for the clash.

• Lafitte urged Blackbeard to leave, but Blackbeard and the other factions feared Enel and the Richest Group would attack if they retreated.
• Dragon considered joining forces with Kaido and Blackbeard, while Sakazuki ordered the Marines to attack.
• Sakazuki unleashed Great Eruption at the golden platform, and Archino stopped the magma fist with a single punch.
• Betty empowered the Richest Group's fighters, who vanished to engage the Marines, while Homies remained behind to guard against the other factions.
• Kuma appeared beside Sakazuki and attacked, but she struck him back and spread lava across the battlefield.
• Kuma created a mirror image of Sakazuki, and Sakazuki dismissed it as a cheap trick.

Kuma fought Sakazuki with his Mirror-Mirror Fruit while Archino overwhelmed Aokiji and Bonis battled Fujitora in Gold City. The fights remained unresolved, with Bonis’s awakened Slice-Slice Fruit and Fujitora’s intensified gravity shaping the final exchange.

• Kuma used a mirror image of Sakazuki to interrupt her attacks, then struck her with Paw Impact; Sakazuki avoided most of the blast but suffered a minor injury.
• Sakazuki attacked Kuma with Hell Hound, but he reflected the molten strike and escaped while she gathered power for another attack.
• Aokiji tried to freeze half of Gold City, but Archino melted the ice and pressed his advantage with the More-More Fruit and Garuda.
• Fujitora attacked Bonis with gravity and a meteor, but Bonis split the meteor apart and awakened his Slice-Slice Fruit, filling the area with blades.
• Fujitora increased gravity to sixfold, stopping Bonis’s flying blades and slowing his slash.

Caesar, Tsar, Betty, Ivankov, Enel, Borsalino, and Baccarat fought World Government forces across Gold City. The battles continued as the three Army Admirals faced their opponents.

• Caesar trapped Ryokugyu in a gas field and repeatedly blasted him with explosions until Ryokugyu was left bloodied and bewildered.
• Tsar overpowered Sengoku in a series of heavy clashes, forcing the Buddha-form Marine to retreat and bleed.
• Betty and Tsuru fought cautiously as their abilities countered one another, with both women tiring from the struggle.
• Ivankov evaded attacks from Chaton, Onigumo, and Momonga by using Future Prediction, taunting them as they failed to land a hit.
• Enel, Borsalino, and Baccarat fought the Army Admirals Andre, Charlose, and Shalulia, while Andre used his Sabi-Sabi Fruit to erase energy attacks.

The Beasts Pirates, Blackbeard Pirates, and Revolutionary Army joined the Navy in attacking the Richest Group, overwhelming its representatives. Gaia broke free and killed several fighters, leaving Tsuru facing him as the battle continued.

• Kaido and Blackbeard ordered their crews to attack the Richest Group, while the Homies and fighters from both crews clashed.
• Dragon led the Revolutionary Army into the battle as Enel and the other representatives fought off numerous enemies and gradually faltered.
• Aokiji froze the sea to create a battlefield, and Gaia arrived after breaking free from the Whitebeard Pirates.
• Gaia killed Ryokugyu, Drake, a Revolutionary Army officer, Great Barrel, and Hawkins, overcoming Hawkins's attempts to evade death.
• Tsuru remained before Gaia, recognizing that she had no chance to escape.

Chaos killed Tsuru and defeated Garp’s desperate assault, then proclaimed himself Gaia Great Emperor. His overwhelming Conqueror’s Haki halted the other battles and left everyone wondering whether they could defeat him together.

• Tsuru fought Chaos with all her strength, but he pierced her heart with a golden trident and killed her.
• Garp rushed to Tsuru’s defense, then unleashed his life force and attacked Chaos in grief and rage.
• Chaos endured Garp’s strongest attack, took a serious wound, and quickly healed while dismissing the damage.
• Chaos proclaimed himself Gaia Great Emperor and released a Conqueror’s Haki that stopped the other battles.
• Garp and the others felt the force of Chaos’s power and questioned whether they could defeat him together.

Garp, Sengoku, Kaido, and Dragon joined forces against Chaos, but his overwhelming power turned the battle into a struggle for survival. Chaos unleashed a vast ten-colored attack that forced his allies and enemies alike to brace for annihilation as the sun descended.

• Garp, Sengoku, Kaido, and Dragon surrounded Chaos and attacked together while Blackbeard, Bullet, Ochoku, Silver Axe, Sakazuki, and the others kept Crocodile and his group away.
• Chaos transformed into a six-armed, three-headed form and blocked the four fighters’ attacks while counterattacking them.
• Garp, Sengoku, Kaido, and Dragon briefly suppressed Chaos, but Chaos unleashed Super Almighty Push and then wounded Garp with Golden Divine Fire.
• Chaos gathered power into a gigantic ten-colored sun, and Kuma evacuated the others and the Homies through the Mirror World, taking Luo with them.
• Chaos used Taiyi: Emperor’s Wrath to send the ten-colored sun crashing down as everyone desperately tried to resist it.

Chaos joined forces with D to face Im after the combined attacks of the world’s factions failed to stop Chaos’s explosive assault. Im appeared with the Five Elders and ordered the surviving fighters taken away, leaving the conflict poised to begin again.

• The Blackbeard Pirates, Beasts Pirates, Navy, Revolutionary Army, and other fighters combined their strongest attacks against Chaos, but his ten-colored sun exploded and devastated the battlefield.
• D appeared before Chaos, welcomed him to the God Domain, and offered cooperation against Im; Chaos agreed and received D’s information about their enemy.
• D took the Revolutionary Army, Beasts Pirates, and Blackbeard Pirates away, while Chaos considered finishing off the remaining fighters but sensed Im’s arrival.
• Im appeared and remarked on Chaos’s return and ascension to the God Domain, then the Five Elders arrived and Im withdrew.
• The Oni-giri Five Elder ordered the battlefield cleaned up, while the Long Haired Five Elder ordered Bullet, Katakuri, and the other surviving fighters taken back.

Newspapers and battle footage spread news of Gaia Chaos’s rise to godhood, shifting the world’s balance toward the World Government, Revolutionary Army, and Richest Group. Meanwhile, D revealed that Kaido and Blackbeard were his creations, then effortlessly stopped them when they attacked.

• Two days after the battle, newspapers and footage of Gold City’s destruction circulated worldwide, and people focused on Gaia Chaos becoming a god.
• The world came to see the World Government, Revolutionary Army, and Richest Group as the three great powers, each backed by a god.
• D brought survivors from the Beasts Pirates, Blackbeard Pirates, and Revolutionary Army to an island and told Kaido and Blackbeard that he had created them as test subjects.
• Memories resurfaced for Kaido, Ulti, King, and the others, confirming D’s claim and revealing that their Devil Fruits had awakened after they woke up before.
• Kaido and Blackbeard charged D with Lafitte and King, but D stopped them and left their bodies unable to move.

D erased the thoughts of Blackbeard, Kaido, and their crews, and Dragon took command of the merged pirate forces. Im prepared to confront D and Gaia while the Richest Group considered how to reach the God Domain before the coming war.

• D turned Blackbeard, Kaido, and their followers into obedient puppets, then ordered Dragon to merge the Beasts Pirates and Blackbeard Pirates with the Revolutionary Army and reconnect with the Richest Group.
• At Mary Geoise, Im told the Five Elders, Kong, Sakazuki, and the admirals to destroy D and Gaia’s subordinates while Im dealt with D and Gaia.
• Chaos restored Gold City and told Enel and the others that he had not fought D, because he had instead formed an alliance with him.
• At the Gaia Building, Chaos said there was no rush to attack the World Government and urged the group to get stronger and seek entry into the God Domain.
• Chaos identified Archino’s More-More Fruit and Betty’s Inspiration-Inspiration Fruit as possible ways to approach the God Domain, but said they would still need strength beyond their Devil Fruits.

Chaos advised the Richest Group to strengthen their fundamentals and considered ways they might reach God Domain, then began reviewing the history D had shared with him. The history described humanity’s rise from enslavement and the split between Imu’s hegemonists and D’s peaceful faction, ending as the War of the Future began.

• Chaos told the group to improve their fundamentals and suggested they might try dying and being revived or turning Seastar into a Homie to overcome their limits.
• Chaos told Borsalino to choose a second Devil Fruit and ordered the captured Op-Op Fruit user to be rehabilitated for a future Perennial Youth Operation.
• Chaos began studying the memories and images D had given him while Baccarat and Betty handled administrative work.
• Chaos learned that an ancient hero brought back two Devil Fruits, which were eaten by Imu and D, and that more fruits appeared afterward.
• Imu and D led humanity in opposing directions: Imu sought vengeance and human supremacy, while D favored coexistence with other races.
• The other races backed D’s peaceful faction and proposed a Great Kingdom, prompting a war between them and Imu’s hegemonists that became known as the War of the Future.

Chaos learned the history of the wars between D’s peace faction and Imu’s hegemonists, but decided he would keep working with D while ultimately seeking to kill both D and Imu. After news of the Golden Emperor’s apotheosis reached the New World, Luffy and his crew set course to find Ace, while the fall of the Four Emperors left the pirate world without its former ambitions.

• Chaos read the history of the two Wars of the Future and judged Imu’s defense of humanity more sympathetically than D’s ideals, though he planned to kill them both.
• Chaos learned that D had created the Heavenly King, left technology on the moon, and studied Devil Fruits without uncovering their ultimate origin.
• Luffy read that the Whitebeard Pirates had been wiped out and Ace was the sole survivor, and he decided to go see his brother.
• Nami, Zoro, Jinbe, and the others supported Luffy as Jinbe turned the ship toward Ace.
• People across the seas called the Gold City disaster the Gaia Great Emperor’s Apotheosis or the Third God Incident, while the fall of the major pirate crews made the Four Emperors and Pirate King titles seem nearly worthless.

After Aquite lost to Chaos, he joined the Richest Group and spent three years under Crocodile’s reform program. As the Marines struggled to recover, Sakazuki appointed Gion and Chaton as the new Admirals, and they accepted their Devil Fruits.

• Aquite challenged Chaos, lost to his overwhelming power, and was assigned to Kuma and Crocodile for training in the Richest Group’s principles.
• Three years passed as pirate crews fought over the vacant Four Emperor positions, while the Marines remained with only Aokiji and Fujitora as Admirals.
• Sakazuki summoned Gion and Chaton and offered them the Wash-Wash Fruit and Cube-Cube Fruit to make them Admirals.
• Chaton ate the Cube-Cube Fruit, and Gion tearfully ate the Wash-Wash Fruit to carry on Tsuru’s will.

Momousagi and Chaton began their new Admiralty careers as Ace parted from Luffy and returned to Impel Down to rescue his imprisoned allies. Ace freed Katakuri and reached Bullet, leaving their escape still underway.

• Momousagi and Chaton set sail with their crews to prove themselves as Admirals by hunting pirates.
• Ace told Luffy he would keep the Whitebeard flag alive, then left the Thousand Sunny to pursue his own goals.
• The Beasts Pirates and Blackbeard Pirates reclaimed territory while the Richest Group held its lands, and the New World grew tense.
• Ace used the Voice of All Things to enter Impel Down unseen, found Katakuri, and freed him from his cell and Seastone shackles.
• Ace and Katakuri headed to free Cracker, Smoker, and Daifuku, and Bullet greeted Ace from his cell.