Chapter Summaries

Leiyin unleashed Susanoo’s Silver Blade Flash and defeated the Mustached Five Elder’s Three-Headed Dog form, splitting Sreni Island with their clash. Shanks, Benn Beckman, Kaido, and Whitebeard watched in shock as Leiyin’s strength left the battlefield changed.

• Leiyin countered the Three-Headed Dog’s fire attack with Susanoo’s Great Flame Bullet, halting Shanks and Kong’s battle as they watched.
• The Mustached Five Elder gathered ice, fire, lightning, and venom for Hell—Judgment, while Leiyin prepared Susanoo’s Silver Blade Flash.
• Leiyin’s Silver Blade Flash overwhelmed the Five Elder’s attack, split Sreni Island in two, and sent the Three-Headed Dog back to its original form.
• The Mustached Five Elder spat blood and weakened, while Shanks stopped fighting and questioned how powerful Leiyin had become.
• Benn Beckman, Kaido, and Whitebeard each watched Leiyin’s victory and reflected on his overwhelming strength.

The Marines retreated after Leiyin’s forces overwhelmed them in the battle, which had lasted nine days. The battered survivors sailed away, leaving the ruined island and a defeated World Government behind.

• The Sword-wielding Five Elder saw the Mustached Five Elder fall, routed Whitebeard Pirates crew members with Sword Qi, and ordered the Marines to retreat.
• The Marines withdrew toward their warships as pirates and commanders fought them, while exhausted Kaido and Leiyin did not pursue the retreating enemies.
• The Sword-wielding Five Elder carried the wounded Mustached Five Elder to the coast, and Shanks, Ace, Darius, Marco, and others watched their opponents withdraw.
• Pirates killed Marines who failed to escape and damaged some warships as the surviving Marines sailed away from the shattered island.

After the Marines withdrew, Leiyin thanked Shanks and Whitebeard for helping him, and the Four Emperors agreed to recover rather than resume their rivalries. Ace arrived and reunited with Leiyin, revealing they had met years earlier in Alabasta.

• Leiyin thanked Shanks and Whitebeard for joining the battle, and Whitebeard credited Leiyin with bringing them together.
• Shanks and Kaido exchanged taunts, then Whitebeard challenged Kaido over the Moby Dick, but Leiyin persuaded them to postpone their fight while their crews healed.
• Ace arrived in a burst of flame, and Leiyin embraced him in front of the other Emperors.
• Ace told Whitebeard that he had met Leiyin in Alabasta, where Leiyin had defeated and captured him before revealing Garp was Ace's grandfather and letting him go.

Leiyin reunited with Ace and Whitebeard before confronting Beasts Kaido after Jack was killed by someone in Leiyin's crew. The fight left Kaido reeling, and Leiyin revealed he knew Kaido possessed a red Road Poneglyph.

• Ace and Leiyin reunited, and Whitebeard invited Leiyin to become his son.
• Baldy A-San reported that a swordsman from the Leiyin Pirate Crew had killed Jack the Drought.
• Beasts Kaido attacked Leiyin over Jack's death, but Leiyin punched him back and then kicked him flying.
• Leiyin told Beasts Kaido that they still had unfinished business and asked about his red Road Poneglyph.

Leiyin challenged Kaido to a one-man fight against the Beasts Pirates in thirty days, wagering their Road Poneglyphs and potentially their lives. After the others left, Leiyin headed for Totto Land, having revealed his ambition to become the Pirate King.

• Leiyin proposed that he face the Beasts Pirates alone in thirty days, with the winner taking the other's Road Poneglyph.
• Kaido accepted the bet and asked Leiyin to kill him if he lost; Leiyin promised him a spectacular funeral if possible.
• Whitebeard remarked that the era no longer belonged to him and explained why he had never pursued the Pirate King title.
• Kaido and the Beasts Pirates departed, while Whitebeard and Shanks returned to their bases with their wounded.
• Ace told Leiyin he would always be welcome with them, and Leiyin then set off for Totto Land.

After the Battle of Sreni Island devastated the Navy and left Leiyin’s forces with fewer than 800 survivors, Leiyin learned that Bolen-Liuma had killed Jack the Drought. Leiyin returned to Totto Land, where Baby-5 welcomed him back in tears.

• The Battle of Sreni Island ended with the Navy, Leiyin, and Kaido suffering heavy losses, and Jack the Drought among the dead.
• Leiyin asked his exhausted crew who had killed Jack the Drought, and a First Division member credited Bolen-Liuma.
• Leiyin remembered how Bolen-Liuma had once been defeated by Doflamingo and Cracker before becoming a powerful swordsman in his service.
• Leiyin and his surviving men arrived in Totto Land several hours later.
• Baby-5 threw herself into Leiyin’s arms and cried with relief that he had returned.

After returning home, Leiyin reunited with baby-5, Hancock, and their newborn son, Leiming, and found the two women had grown close while worrying about him. He told them he planned to find Laugh Tale and become Pirate King, which meant he still had to fight Kaido.

• Leiyin reunited with baby-5 and Hancock, who had become close while caring for Leiming and watching for news of him.
• Leiyin held his sleeping son and shared dinner with his family, apologizing for making the women worry.
• Hancock asked about Leiyin's plans, and he said he wanted to find Laugh Tale and become Pirate King.
• Leiyin explained that they had only one of the four Road Poneglyphs and identified Kaido and Zou as two places holding the others.
• Leiyin told baby-5 that he would have to fight Kaido to obtain the Road Poneglyph in his possession.

After recovering from the battle with Kaido, Leiyin set out for Zou to find its Road Poneglyph, using his powerful Observation Haki to locate the moving elephant. He reached the Whale Forest but was surrounded by blood-drinking Sky Flyers.

• The World Government announced new bounties for Leiyin and Darius, and Leiyin's bounty rose to 6.2 billion Beli.
• After making arrangements with Baby-5 and Hancock, Leiyin flew into the New World to find Zou.
• Leiyin used his Observation Haki to locate the giant elephant carrying Zou and landed on its back.
• Leiyin walked toward the Whale Forest, where the Road Poneglyph stood beneath the Whale Tree.
• A swarm of Sky Flyers surrounded Leiyin, and he challenged the creatures to attack him.

Leiyin reached the Whale Forest in Zou Kingdom and fought the Mink Tribe's Musket Team after they challenged him as an intruder. He held off their attack and revealed that the first body they struck was only his Shadow Clone.

• Leiyin burned the Sky Flyers that swarmed him with his Great Fireball Technique and continued toward the Whale Forest.
• A black monkey Mink confronted Leiyin, attacked him with a rapier, and was thrown aside when Leiyin caught the blade between two fingers.
• The Musket Team appeared and charged Leiyin after he said he had come to take something.
• Leiyin swept the Kusanagi Sword at the charging Minks, then let them strike his Shadow Clone while his real body stood behind them.
• The Minks charged again, and Leiyin calmly met their rapier attacks with the Kusanagi Sword.

Leiyin fought his way through the Musket Team and challenged Duke Inuarashi after defeating Sicilian. Their evenly matched duel continued as Inuarashi sensed Leiyin’s sword power growing, while a group approached through the forest.

• The Minks charged Leiyin with lightning-wreathed rapiers, but he resisted their attacks and scattered them with a wind technique.
• Sicilian, captain of Duke Inuarashi’s Musket Team, confronted Leiyin and lost after dozens of exchanges.
• Duke Inuarashi arrived and demanded to know why Leiyin had come, and Leiyin said he was there to take something.
• Leiyin and Inuarashi clashed swords with enough force to crack the ground, and Inuarashi grew increasingly astonished as Leiyin’s sword power intensified.
• At 5:56 p.m., a group of figures slowly made its way toward the duel through the forest.

Leiyin battled the Mink Tribe’s strongest warriors on Zou, forcing Duke Inuarashi and Master Nekomamushi to join forces against him. He unleashed a powerful sword technique that defeated the assembled fighters and stirred Zunesha.

• Leiyin gradually overpowered Duke Inuarashi, who warned that he could not defeat the intruder alone.
• At six in the evening, Master Nekomamushi arrived and blocked Leiyin’s sword as his reign over Zou began.
• Inuarashi asked Nekomamushi to join forces, and Nekomamushi led the Vagabond Corps into battle while Inuarashi and the Musket Team joined them.
• Leiyin fought the assembled Mink warriors to a standstill as lightning coiled around their weapons.
• Leiyin unleashed Silver Blade Flash—Soaring to the Heavens, defeating the surrounding Mink warriors and causing Zunesha to react to his power.

Leiyin fought the Minks without intending to kill them, but their battle was interrupted when Raizo of the Mist arrived and revealed that he had been searching for Leiyin. Raizo explained that the shogun had allied with Beasts Kaido, who might attack the Land of Wano in two months, leaving the Minks wondering why Leiyin was involved.

• Leiyin used his new Silver Blade Flash—Soaring to the Heavens technique to overwhelm the Minks without seriously harming them.
• Master Nekomamushi rallied the defeated Mink warriors, and Leiyin created hundreds of clones to fight them while he faced Master Nekomamushi and Duke Inuarashi.
• Master Nekomamushi and Duke Inuarashi asked Leiyin whether he was from the Land of Wano or knew Raizo, and Leiyin denied both.
• Raizo of the Mist arrived, recognized Leiyin as the man he had been looking for, and said they had never met.
• Raizo told the Minks that the shogun had betrayed Daimyo Kozuki Oden and allied with Beasts Kaido, who might attack the Land of Wano in two months.
• Master Nekomamushi and Duke Inuarashi prepared to return to Wano to help Oden, while Duke Inuarashi asked Raizo why he had been searching for Leiyin.

Leiyin arrived on Zou, where Raizo and the Mink rulers asked him to stop Kaido from aiding Wano’s shogun. Leiyin agreed to do his best against Kaido and asked to make a rubbing of Zou’s Poneglyph, which the Minks led him toward beneath the Whale Tree.

• Nekomamushi and Inuarashi recognized Leiyin and were shocked by his arrival on Zou.
• Raizo, Nekomamushi, Inuarashi, and the Minks knelt and asked Leiyin to stop Kaido from helping Wano’s shogun.
• Leiyin agreed to try to stop Kaido but warned that he could not promise to kill him.
• Leiyin asked to make a rubbing of Zou’s Poneglyph, and Nekomamushi and Inuarashi agreed to take him to it.
• Leiyin and his guides descended the spiral staircase beneath the Whale Tree, where a blood-red beam of light appeared.

Leiyin made a rubbing of the Road Poneglyph on Zou and left to focus on fighting Kaido. The story then shifted to Saik Island, where Kizaru confronted his former teacher Zephyr as the Neo Navy battled the Navy over Zephyr’s plan to destroy the last End Point.

• Leiyin reached the Road Poneglyph with Duke Inuarashi, Cat Viper, and Raizo, then copied its inscription onto rubbing paper.
• Leiyin and the Mink Tribe agreed to oppose Kaido, but Leiyin declined their offer to join the fight and flew away after saying goodbye.
• On Saik Island, Kizaru faced former Navy Admiral Zephyr amid a battle between the Navy and the Neo Navy.
• The chapter explained that Zephyr had stolen the Explosion Rock and destroyed two End Points, leaving Saik Island as the last target in his plan to unleash magma across the New World.

Ain and Binz defeated Navy rear admirals while Zephyr fought Kizaru on Saik Island. Kizaru wounded Zephyr, who took a pill and charged back into the fight as Kizaru prepared another golden-light attack.

• Ain used her Return-Return Fruit powers to shrink a rear admiral into a teenager and knock him down.
• Binz grew vines that bound another rear admiral and wrapped him up.
• Kizaru attacked Zephyr with his Light Speed Kick and Yata no Kagami, forcing Zephyr backward and striking him in the chest.
• Zephyr fell, spat blood, took a pale yellow pill, and launched another assault on Kizaru.
• Kizaru avoided Zephyr's charge and prepared another attack with golden light.

Kizaru defeated and killed Zephyr, causing the Neo Navy to collapse as the Marines slaughtered its remaining forces. When Ain and Binz were close to death, Leiyin arrived, and the terrified Marines fled toward their warships.

• Kizaru overwhelmed Zephyr with Yasakani no Magatama and stabbed him through the heart with the Cloud Gathering Sword.
• The Neo Navy retreated after Zephyr's death, and the Marines pursued and slaughtered its remaining troops.
• Doberman blocked Binz from reaching Zephyr's body and urged him and Ain to escape.
• Kizaru ordered the army to withdraw as Ain, wounded and losing blood, struggled against the Marines surrounding her.
• Leiyin landed in front of Ain, and the Marines and Kizaru fled toward their warships in fear.

After defeating the Navy, Leiyin found Ain and learned that Kizaru had killed Zephyr. He brought Ain and Binz with him to Totto Land to recover, but Ain remained devastated by her teacher’s death.

• Leiyin found the wounded Ain after the Navy retreated and learned from Binz that Kizaru had killed Zephyr.
• Ain and Binz mourned Zephyr and buried him on the island.
• Leiyin treated Ain’s wounds, argued with Binz about coping with Zephyr’s death, and invited them to recuperate with him.
• Ain and Binz silently agreed to follow Leiyin to Totto Land.
• During the voyage, Ain remarked on Leiyin’s strength, then fell silent when he asked about her years with Zephyr’s unit.

Leiyin reunited with Ain and Binz on Totto Land and learned that Nico Robin, an Ohara survivor, might help decipher the Road Poneglyphs. As Ain grieved over Zephyr’s death, Leiyin urged her to build a life of her own, and their tender moment left him uncertain about their relationship.

• Leiyin introduced Ain and Binz to Baby-5 and Hancock and explained their history with Zephyr’s guerrilla force.
• Leiyin showed his officers the two Road Poneglyph rubbings, and Ain revealed that Nico Robin had survived Ohara and was last reported on an island in the West Sea.
• Leiyin thanked Ain for the information and began making secret plans to find Robin.
• Ain told Leiyin she had lost her purpose after Zephyr’s death, and he invited her to stay and join the journey to Laugh Tale.
• Ain rested her head against Leiyin’s chest before running off, leaving him unsure what their relationship meant.

Leiyin searched the West Sea for Robin and finally found her on Locke Island, where he overwhelmed her with Shadow Clones. He told Robin he was not going to rob her, but his vague intentions left her frightened.

• Leiyin searched islands near Ohara but found no trace of Robin.
• Leiyin detected Robin nearly six hundred nautical miles from Ohara and entered a tavern on Locke Island.
• Robin recognized Leiyin, and the other patrons fled when they realized the Four Emperor was there.
• Leiyin said he had come to find Robin, and she attacked him with her Flower-Flower Fruit before discovering he had used Shadow Clones.
• Leiyin told Robin he was not robbing her, but his teasing questions made her retreat in fear.

Leiyin invited Nico Robin to join him, promising to help her uncover the hidden history as they pursued Laugh Tale, and she accepted. Their new partnership was interrupted when Fister and his pirates stormed into the tavern to seize Robin, and Leiyin confronted them.

• Leiyin asked Nico Robin to decipher the Poneglyphs and invited her to become his partner, promising to protect her and help her achieve her dream.
• Nico Robin accepted Leiyin’s invitation, and the two officially became partners.
• Fister, a West Sea pirate with a 285 million Beli bounty, burst into the tavern with his crew to capture Nico Robin and use her to decipher his Poneglyph rubbings.
• Fister’s crew mocked Robin and threatened Leiyin, who called them trash and scum.